A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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MMO Cartographer: Boldly going into Star Trek Online
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of your Massively OP cartographer into Star Trek Online, to explore a 10-year-old game developed by...
One Shots: Acrophobia immersion therapy
For those, like myself, who have a slight fear of heights, then boy does Star Citizen have the ship for you! It's the equivalent...
The Stream Team: Never leaving Neverwinter’s Neverdeath Graveyard
Massively OP's MJ is a big fan of cemeteries, so there is a chance she may never leave Neverwinter's Neverdeath Graveyard. Of course, she...
Champions Online surveys players, preps Serene Abyss, as Star Trek Online boosts mark acquisition
Would you like to take a survey? Champions Online would like you to take a survey. It's a survey about the future development of...
The Stream Team: Defending against dragons in The Siege of Neverwinter
What do you do when Neverwinter starts and ends an event in between the regular DnD nights? Massively OP's MJ sneaks in another night!...
Star Trek Online makes its lower-tier ships all available for purchase with dilithium
With the advent of scaling ships in Star Trek Online, the first four ship tiers in the game have become far less relevant. Sure,...
Star Trek Online discusses the making of its big anniversary episode, Measure of Morality
The big anniversary event of Star Trek Online was a real crowd-pleaser, with Abraham Lincoln helping you revisit iconic missions from the game and...
Into the Super-verse: Getting started with Champions Online in 2020
The sharp rise and fall of Champions Online back in 2009 resulted in a game that's made for an easy target of jokes ever...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best subscription or loyalty rewards?
A few weeks back on the Massively OP Podcast, Justin explained to me how Neverwinter's exponential subscription works. Basically, instead of just subbing for...
More and more MMOs are offering sales and events during the coronavirus pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, MMOs and other MMO-adjacent games and studios continue to react, bringing their staffs home and offering bonuses...
Daybreak, Cryptic, City State, Frontier, and more MMO studios affected by worldwide pandemic shutdowns
As the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to make itself felt, we've got another quick roundup of news relevant to MMO players.
First, we've...
Global Chat: Don’t mess with my GeForce Now
The titanic struggle going on right now between cloud-based game streaming platform GeForce Now and studios who are pulling their titles from it is...
The Stream Team: Managing traitorous mercs in Neverwinter
After last episode's focus on graveyard shenanigans and crypts, Massively OP's MJ is turning her eyes to helping manage some traitorous mercenaries in Neverwinter....
Guild Wars 2 just announced its third expansion, and it looks like Cantha
Not only did Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet just drop another preview of upcoming content, exactly what fans have been begging for, but it...
Star Trek Online invites players to take part in the design of the next summer event ship
The summer event ships in Star Trek Online are a long-standing tradition, but this year Cryptic Studios is doing something different. In prior years, players...
The Siege of Neverwinter event returns to Neverwinter March 12
Protector's Enclave needs your help! Along with the rest of the city of Neverwinter during the updated Siege of Neverwinter event, which will see...
Perfect Ten: Son of conversations with anthropomorphic MMO studios
It has been a while since I've had any more conversations with anthropomorphic representations of MMO studios. Why? Because it's not fun for me. Come...
Coronavirus leads to E3’s cancellation, plus SMITE and Pokemon Go postpone events
Update: The ESA has now made it official. We've included the press release at the end of this article.
If you thought it was strange...
The Daily Grind: Are you a stingy MMO spender?
I like to think of myself as a fairly thrifty guy. A bulk of my Kindle library was either free or purchased on discount,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 262: Holly Holly oxen free
Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak's Holly Longdale's departure, City of Heroes' Homecoming video ban, PlanetSide 2's Escalation, Black Desert's birthday, Cryptic's chat nuke, Guild Wars 2's next episode, changing MMO opinions, and MMO automation, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, and SWG Legends.
