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WoW Factor: The ‘tactical era’ of World of Warcraft dungeons kind of wasn’t
One of the things that I like to do, in both this column and elsewhere, is push back against myths that have grown up...
MassivelyOP’s complete MMO 2024 awards recap and debrief
As we did in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, today we're going to recap our annual awards and other articles from...
The Daily Grind: What was the biggest MMO trainwreck nobody noticed last year?
Every year, we elevate certain stories with awards - we pluck out the biggest surprise, the most exciting story, the story we wish we...
Whatever happened to crafting sandbox A Tale in the Desert?
It's been a couple trips around the sun since we last checked in with 2003's A Tale in the Desert, an old MMO that's...
Old School RuneScape adjusts run energy and seeks player opinions about its Final Dawn quest activities
With Old School RuneScape's Varlamore: The Final Dawn quest inching its way closer to its projected spring launch, Jagex is once again developing via...
The Daily Grind: When has an MMO developer ruined something silly and fun in the community?
I am honestly glad that World of Warcraft's developers no longer seem to remember Captain Placeholder. The thing about Captain Placeholder is that he...
Extraction RPG Seekers of Skyveil heads into open beta this week with a new trailer
March is bound to be an interesting when Seekers of Skyveil goes into early access and tries to prove its worth to the gamer...
Elder Scrolls Online will preview it next update and dungeon DLC this week as part of its new content cadence
Just ahead of the holidays, Elder Scrolls Online's ZeniMax Online Studios shocked the MMO fanbase by announcing a move to a seasonal model with...
End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2025 and beyond
As we turn the page on another fascinating year of MMORPG history, we cross into fresh territory. What lies ahead? Surprises, disappointments, and endless...
The Daily Grind: Did you get much MMO gaming time over the holidays?
As I write this, I'm on the final day of a sort-of-two-week vacation, after which I'll have to jump back into my regular routine...
World of Warcraft is adding a third tribute to Mats ‘Ibelin’ Steen in the form of an NPC in patch 11.1
There are already two memorials for the player Mats "Ibelin" Steen, a World of Warcraft player who suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, within the...
Choose My Adventure: Why I’m playing RuneScape this month (and not Pantheon)
Even though I do my best to follow the will of the polls for Choose My Adventure, there are some times when I have...
Casually Classic: What does WoW Classic’s future look like?
Welcome to 2025, WoW Classic fans! What began as a somewhat reluctant legacy version of this MMO a little over five years ago has...
The Daily Grind: What MMORPGs are you no longer anticipating in 2025?
I hate to say it, but the longer a game stays on my curiosity list, the more likely it is to fall off the...
World of Warcraft player records playing with every single addon loaded
MMO players know there are a lot of World of Warcraft mods after 20 years of live service. In fact, there are nearly 3700...
PlayerUnknown has aspirations of creating a metaverse over the course of three interlocked game releases
Yep, that word is being used by a big name developer again. But then that big name developer is Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene, the guy...
Valve’s maintenance-moded TCG Artifact saw a bizarre surge of thousands of players last week
When a game enters maintenance mode, there's always the brief hope that it will suddenly garner wider interest and see at least a small...
The Daily Grind: Which game or studio made the biggest contribution to killing the MMORPG genre in 2024?
So here's another fun annual Daily Grind that always gets people good and angry. And believe it or not, I'm not going to nominate...
One Shots: Pretty please give me those pretty spaceships
It's a new year of community screenshots here at One Shots Incorporated (that's right, we're now a soulless corporation with algorithms and AI and...
MassivelyOP’s 2024 MMO Lifetime Achievement Award
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards for one more special award. Readers will remember that a few years ago, we decided to institute...
