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EVE Evolved: Is the EVE Online community a force for good in the world?
When we write or talk about MMO communities, we often focus on the practicalities of guilds or in-game events, the drama of forums, and...
Fight or Kite: Guild Wars 2 PvP – where good intentions and stubbornness meet
Earlier this month, Guild Wars 2Â Game Director Mike Zadorojny had an interview with PCGamesN in which he discussed a number of items - most...
The Daily Grind: Has a class spec or overhaul ever saved an MMO character for you?
Thieves and rogues and backstabby stealthy types don't usually do much for me in MMORPGs. Oh sure, I play a stealth thief in literally...
Battle Bards Episode 153: Elder Scrolls Online Summerset
Gryphons, Elves, and gobs and gobs of singing people — that’s Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset for ya! The Battle Bards return to Tamriel to...
One Shots: Tossing virgin gamers into volcanoes
The great volcano god Kenny is angry (again). Kenny's got a temper like you wouldn't believe, and he goes off on every perceived insult...
The Game Archaeologist: The day Dungeons and Dragons Online dropped the free-to-play bomb
By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription -- usually $15...
WRUP: Has the whole world gone crazy checklist edition
STEP 1: Assessing the world
Does the world appear to have gone crazy?
If YES, go to Step 2
If NO, CHECKLIST COMPLETE
STEP 2: Assessing the cause...
The Daily Grind: When was your ‘MMO birthday?’
We often note birthdays and anniversaries for online games here on Massively OP, but today it's not about the game -- it's about you!...
Dota 2 issues decades-long bans against bad actors and account violators
As I understand it, most MOBAs are unfriendly places, especially the larger ones like Dota 2. In an announcement made by Valve in a...
Path of Exile’s devs say its performance issues are down to ‘calculation complexity,’ not the engine
The word "performance" is being kicked around the Path of Exile community kind of a lot lately, but lest you think Grinding Gear Games...
Legends of Aria implements optional premium sub, drops base game price permanently
If you remember the beginning of 2019 - yes, it's been like 100 years this year, but try - you'll recall that the Legends...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on wiki-reliant MMORPGs?
MOP reader Alex recently wrote to us about MMOs that seem to be built around their wikis - and why that's not necessarily a...
Sea of Thieves celebrates talk like a pirate day with sweet Twitch loot
Dang, I almost forgot it was talk like a pirate day! If you aren't into LOTRO and World of Warcraft's take on the second-most...
No Man’s Sky kicks off a new community research event and fixes numerous bugs in Update 2.12
There's a fresh update for the (now) multiplayer sci-fi survival sandbox No Man's Sky that provides a reason for more people to come together...
Someone in RuneScape spent $62K on microtrans according to UK Parliament report
Remember last year when we polled our readers on how much money they'd spent on their Steam accounts? Most people seemed to track under...
City of Heroes Homecoming is now banning accounts for… real-money trading
If you thought you could get away with a bit of gold-selling or gold-buying on the side while participating in City of Heroes' rogue...
Lord of the Rings Online begins testing the new Stout-Axe Dwarves
Ever since we got word that a new Dwarf racial variant was on the way to Lord of the Rings Online, we've been curious...
Steam’s new features are now available in open beta
The Steam library's beta version of its shiny new feature are now up and running, so those who are champing at the bit to...
Perfect Ten: Why Fallen Earth was a flawed gem of an MMO
Even though I half-expected it for a while now, the news of Fallen Earth's demise earlier this month made my heart sink. Way back...
Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 just lost another great dev in Bill Freist
Not a week ago, we reported on the loss of two developers from Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet, a lead game designer and a...