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Destiny 2’s Eververse cash shop begins to invade the game once again
There's just something about Destiny 2 repeating its own history. Think back to 2017, when the game's Dawning holiday event caused a furor over...
One Shots: Unlicensed fantasy motorists
I've been saying it for years, but just because these are fictional virtual worlds doesn't mean that MMOs should be free from regulations and...
Black Desert announces the arrival of the Kunoichi to the Xbox on January 8
Sure, the Ninja class in Black Desert on the Xbox is fun, but like all the classes in the game, it's gender-locked to males....
Into the Super-verse: What superhero MMOs offer that other games don’t
When I was in high school, the Console Wars were heating up between SEGA and Nintendo. I'm afraid to report that many of my...
Storyboard: The future of MMO roleplaying in the new decade
Here we are in a brand-new decade! (If you feel the urge to pedantically correct this, you are wrong, it's a new decade, hush...
Fun fact: Google search trends don’t tell you bupkis about MMO popularity
You know what the surest sign of an MMO's popularity is? Whether or not World of Warcraft fans are defensive about its popularity. That apparently...
SuperData says the premium games market took a ‘gap year’ in 2019
If you tire of all the end-of-the-year content and roundups on our site and many others, then you're not going to like SuperData's either,...
Neowiz takes another stab at the Bless IP with mobile MMO Bless Eternal
Will we ever find time to properly process our grief and mourn the late Bless Online? Not bloody likely, as the necromancy team at...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2020
All right, 2019. We're done with you. We're moving on. We're in a whole new decade. We've got a brand-new year full of new...
Elite Dangerous clarifies a misunderstanding regarding its Arx cash shop currency
Cash shop currency purchases are always a pretty sensitive thing, understandably, so when an Elite Dangerous player reported that deleting a character wiped out...
Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI offer new year’s greetings
The new year has arrived once again, and for fans of Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI that means letters from the producers of both...
Vague Patch Notes: How to make your corner of the MMO space more pleasant
It's 2020, people - let's do this. What do I mean by this? Unscrew our MMO living space. That one's a lot more fun...
Black Desert news: Mobile’s Node War pre-season, PS4’s Altar of Blood, and PC’s content update preview
Every edition of Black Desert has something new to show off heading into 2020, whether it's the start of the Node War in Black...
Final Fantasy XI’s January update includes an Ambuscade fight, Beastmaster adjustments, and Domain Invasion tweaks
Final Fantasy XI has a few things planned for the month of January according to a recent forum post from the devs. Players...
Leaderboard: Are you onboard with the online gaming industry’s new take on sequels?
Overwatch 2 and Path of Exile 2 being announced in such close proximity, plus rumors of an Anthem reboot in the weeks and the...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2019
The down side of doing these columns at the end of the year every year is that there's a certain challenge of writing the...
The best Massively OP community polls of 2019
Time for another annual tradition here on Massively OP: the counting of the polls! Yes, we run a bunch of polls in our irregular...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you want to play in 2020?
There's nothing like a new year -- and a new decade! -- to encourage one to make grand plans that may or may not...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the brightest future right now, at the end of 2019?
A few years back, we did an Overthinking on the MMO with the brightest future. It was so popular we started making it an...
Wisdom of Nym: Yes, Final Fantasy XIV’s Empire is just plain bad
All right, let's be totally clear about something that... feels like it should already be obvious, but seems to not be. The Garlean Empire...