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The Daily Grind: When’s the last time you rage quit an MMO gaming session?
The other night I did something I haven't done in a very long time: I got so frustrated with an MMO that I shut...
Choose My Adventure: The point of a community-guided MMO column
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Choose My Adventure programming for something of a meta discussion on what this column is meant to be and...
MassivelyOP’s guide to 13 MMORPGs that you can play on Macs
Until I got my first Macbook this past December, I admit that I never really paid attention to what MMOs could be played on...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst city in an MMORPG?
A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, I boldly declared that New Kaineng has surpassed Divinity's Reach and Dalaran as the greatest cities ever...
Massively Uplifting: How gamers are bringing humanitarian relief to Ukraine
It was a month that started in love but ended with war: Terrible, painful things keep happening in the world and in our communities....
The Game Archaeologist: When EverQuest players killed the unkillable Sleeper
In many CRPGs and MMORPGs, there are bosses designed to be so crazy tough that, for most people, these enemies are straight-out unkillable. Developers...
Wisdom of Nym: Catching up on Final Fantasy XIV’s second patch 6.1 letter
Ah, the second live letter about the patch, reliable as clockwork, confirming the date that we had already probably ascertained just based on the...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs focus more on the midgame?
Hey, midgame MMORPG players! I see you! Yeah, you. You don't really like playing baby toons or "finished" characters; you gets tons of characters...
The Daily Grind: What ‘major’ MMO patch was the biggest letdown for you?
Look, you can feel however you want about World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. You can feel that it's one of the most disappointing and limply handled...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are you hoping to play later this year?
I keep telling myself, there are never enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do -- including playing all of...
WoW Factor: Dissecting the Shadowlands story now that we’ve seen the end of it
Editor's note - Well, folks, it happened again: Eliot was unavailable to write his column again after falling into a reality-traversing portal. We'd ask...
The Perfect Ten: 10 MMO NPCs as muffins
You’ve all seen those memes or Twitter threads that try to link celebrities or people to food items or other inanimate objects, but I’m...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO April Fools’ Day gag from past years?
Yes, that subtitle is telling the truth! Massively Overpowered has been bought out by a blogging conglomerate and will be rebranding into Massively Overpawered,...
Stick and Rudder: Revisiting 12-year-old MMO Star Trek Online
Star Trek Online is an MMO released during the height of the “let’s grab an existing IP and make it into an MMO” craze...
Vague Patch Notes: Community workarounds don’t excuse broken pieces of MMOs
It's many years in the rear view now because these days it's someone else's show, but there was a time when Choose My Adventure...
The Daily Grind: What MMO lives rent-free in your head?
OK, real talk for a second here. Some of our commenters are right now, at this very moment, crawling through yesterday's articles looking for...
Desert Oasis: Hands-on with Black Desert’s Eternal Winter expansion, launching April 6
I needed to take a sabbatical. Not just from Black Desert, but the whole genre. The pandemic gave me a lot of computer time, and...
Perfect Ten: Conversations with anthropomorphic MMO studios IV: The Voyage Home
I swear before whatever deities you want to name, I cannot get away from this. I've done everything I can to avoid these anthropomorphic...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s open world is not the place for hardcore content
If you're paying any attention to Guild Wars 2, you have, by now, no doubt heard the debate over the Battle for the Jade...
The Daily Grind: What factors might get you to come back to an MMO you abandoned?
Unless this is, like, your first week playing MMORPGs, then you definitely have games that you've abandoned along the way. Maybe they weren't your...