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The Daily Grind: Did you accomplish your MMO goals in 2023?
It feels as if we are light-years away from our January 2023 resolutions -- if, indeed, we actually made any. Perhaps you had a...
WoW Factor: The real reason World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm world revamp was awful
'Tis the season for all of us, once again, to talk about the deeply unpleasant and disappointing expansion that was World of Warcraft: Cataclysm,...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 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 SWTOR's Legacy of the Sith last...
The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMO trend of 2023?
Layoffs.
No, really, I suspect "thousands of game devs being laid off from nearly every major game studio and also some of the small ones"...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2024
It's time once again for the MOP staff and readers to engage in our favorite end-of-the-year MMO: collectively guessing what's going to happen next...
Elder Scrolls Online is planning a year-long series of 10th anniversary events in 12 countries
"The Elder Scrolls Online Celebrates 10-Years in The Netherlands," ZeniMax Online Studios' new press release declares. Don't worry it's celebrating 10 years everywhere else...
Palia has launched into free-to-play early access on the Nintendo Switch as of today
It's launch day for Singularity 6's cozy MMO Palia - a launch day of a sort, anyhow, as the early access title joins the...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 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 Guild Wars 2Â last year....
Casually Classic: The seven most important things that happened in WoW Classic this year
What did Blizzard assume would happen with WoW Classic when it rolled out this legacy version of the MMO in 2019? I honestly have...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2023
Some years, it's hard to really cut a distinction between the biggest stories of a year and the biggest surprises. There can be a...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Best MMO Trend
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Best MMO Trend, which was awarded to games industry unionization last year. This...
The Daily Grind: Should all MMOs offer an arachnophobia mode?
The other day my daughter was telling me about a game she was playing that had an "arachnophobia mode." She isn't scared of spiders,...
Warframe of Mind: The wonders of Whispers in the Walls, launching December 13
It's almost here! Warframe's anticipated Whispers in the Walls is launching tomorrow, and I'll finally get to delve in. After learning more about it...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s strange and fascinating journey through 2023
There's a shot right at the end of Empire Strikes Back that's always struck me as the most profound in the entire franchise. The...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Most Improved MMO
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Most Improved MMO, which was awarded to New World last year. All...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best fashion options as of 2023?
If you asked a group of MMO players why they play MMOs, I'm willing to bet that more than a few would admit that...
No Man’s Sky rounds out a busy 2023 with expedition and cartographer ‘remixes’
You can't take the sky from No Man's Sky because it's in the title and because that game owns outer space in a way...
World of Warcraft answers community council questions about the future of Season of Discovery
Apparently the lip service payment that is World of Warcraft's community council still exists, Blizzard is still fielding its questions, and the studio is...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Biggest MMO Blunder
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Biggest MMO Blunder, which was awarded to Blizzard's exit from China last year....
The Daily Grind: What was the best new zone added to an MMO in 2023?
Guild Wars 2's Skywatch Archipelago took a lot of flak early on for being a creative rehash of existing worlds and assets, but Amnytas...
