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Conan Exiles players were murdered nearly 10M times by werehyenas, according to Funcom’s 2024 stats
Whenever you're playing Conan Exiles, the obvious response to someone shouting, "Werehyena!" is to point and then say, "There hyena!" It's a laugh riot....
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best MMO Business Model
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Best MMO Business Model, which was awarded to Final Fantasy XIV last...
The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMORPG trend of 2024?
Layoffs.
OK, that one's a gimmie - and it hurts a lot more than MMORPGs. So let me pitch another one:
A bunch of MMOs either...
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2’s community shows off amazing player housing creations
It's no surprise that Guild Wars 2 players are thrilled to be interior decorators, thanks to this year's player housing system. And in a...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best PvP MMO
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Best PvP MMO, which was awarded to Albion Online last year. We halted...
One Shots: Striding boldly through fields of sunflowers
With the chill of winter and color leeching out of nature during this month, it's certainly nice to be able to visit warmer seasons...
Star Wars: The Old Republic touts 2024’s modernization efforts, updates, and Mac beta
Compared to some of the cadence of the big dogs in the MMO genre, Star Wars: The Old Republic might not be producing the...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: MMO with the Stormiest Future
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the MMO with the Stormiest Future, which was awarded to Pantheon: Rise of...
WRUP: Apparently these are the rules of the card game Mao edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about what we're getting (or hoping to get) for Christmas and related holidays.
The Daily Grind: Do you enjoy wearing winter outfits in MMOs during the holidays?
With winter setting in and Christmas right around the corner, there's no better time in my opinion to be wrapping up your virtual avatar...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: MMO Studio of the Year
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the MMO Studio of the Year, which was awarded to Standing Stone Games...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best new zone or map of 2024?
The last couple of years, I've come full circle back to being a hardcore explorer in MMORPGs, and it's led me to some games...
Casually Classic: Putting a cap on WoW Classic’s crazy 2024 run
While it got overshadowed by World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary this year, WoW Classic's fifth birthday was a thing that happened as well. It...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Biggest MMO Disappointment
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Biggest MMO Disappointment, which was awarded to Digital Extremes abandoning Wayfinder last year....
Ashes of Creation starts up the second phase of Alpha Two this weekend
So how glorious are you feeling these days? We know that Ashes of Creation loves to call its community glorious, and this glorious Friday...
Blizzard’s 2024 infographic is light on useful info, but gamers did play 8.34B hours in Blizz games this year
Blizzard president Johanna Faries penned a dev blog to the Blizzard community last night, with kind words for players and developers alongside one of...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best New MMO Class
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Best New MMO Class, which was awarded to Elder Scrolls Online's Arcanist...
The Daily Grind: Do you stick to a uniform naming convention in MMOs?
Names are always a contentious and personal topic for MMORPGs, as they are our "face" by which others know us. And there are really...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Elder Scrolls Online ends its chapter-based cadence in favor of a seasonal model in 2025
We've been speculating for the last few weeks on what would be in the Elder Scrolls Online end-of-the-year letter and whether it would portend...
