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Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Player Housing
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Player Housing, which was awarded to The Elder Scrolls Online last...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2021
So... 2020 didn't go exactly as anyone planned. Our predictions for this past year were pretty janked up by that whole pandemic thing and...
The Stream Team: A launch-day look at EverQuest II’s Reign of Shadows
See you on the dark side of the moon! So says Massively OP's MJ, who is jumping into EQII's Reign of Shadows expansion that...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 301: Hurtling into Oblivion
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online's Gates of Oblivion, Crimson Desert, Elite Odyssey, Ark 2, Black Desert, WoW Shadowlands, PSO2, LOTRO, EverQuest, and FFXIV, with adventures in WoW, SWTOR, and CoH, and a mailbag topic on CoH Brutes that spirals into meta and endgame discussion.
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v4.0
By far, my favorite column to write here at Massively OP (and the one that always takes the longest) is The Game Archaeologist. I've...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2020 predictions
Last December, when we sat down to write out our annual MMO predictions for 2020, I don't think anyone had "biggest global pandemic in...
EverQuest 27th expansion, Claws of Veeshan, is set to go live this afternoon
Happy expansion day, EverQuest! Yes, the newly purchased Daybreak is delivering Claws of Veeshan to one of its apparently still much-loved classic MMOs today....
LOTRO Legendarium: What Daybreak’s sale revealed about LOTRO
Just when I thought we were getting to a quieter point in the year where I could engage in a leisurely wrap-up of the...
Console LOTRO and DCUO’s huge playerbase: Everything we just learned about Daybreak thanks to EG7
MMO twitter has been ablaze since yesterday's announcement that Daybreak is being bought up in its entirety by Swedish games company Enad Global 7,...
LOTRO, DDO, EverQuest, DCUO, and PlanetSide 2 studio heads reassure players about Daybreak sale
Following yesterday's revelation that Daybreak has been sold to Swedish company Enad Global 7 for $300M, the bosses at Daybreak's substudio have all now...
The Stream Team: EverQuest II’s Ruins of Ssraeshza
Shadow veins of dark power appear to converge in the ruins of an EQII shissar temple on Luclin, and Massively OP's MJ needs to...
Daybreak has been sold – again – this time to EG7 Global for $300M
Who had this on the end-of-the-year bingo card? Apparently, Daybreak has been bought out - again.
The company holding the hot potato this round is...
The MOP Up: Shadow Arena pings instead of pongs
Pearl Abyss' Shadow Arena got a lot more friendly this past month thanks to an improved ping system and the addition of login rewards.
"The...
EverQuest’s Claws of Veeshan expansion gets a December launch date (and a $250 edition)
Pull your excited face out of long-term storage, boys and girls, because EverQuest's latest expansion is coming sooner than you'd think. In fact, Daybreak...
The Daily Grind: Are you sick of being a tankmage in MMOs?
One of the very first gaming terms I ever learned in an online game was bestowed upon me as a teenager in Ultima Online,...
Massively Overthinking: No-thank-you bites in MMO gaming
One of the things I always try to have my kids do is take a no-thank-you bite of new foods. They have to at...
The Stream Team: Cruising to complete EverQuest II’s Blood of Luclin
Massively OP's MJ anticipates that the Reign of Shadows expansion will launch sometime next month, so she wants to finish the Blood of Luclin...
EverQuest II wrangles with login issues for nearly a week, extends Heroes’ Festival to November 19
If you're an EverQuest II player, then you've likely been having a rough time logging in to the game over the last week. A...
Global Chat: Don’t look, but Fallout 76 is actually good now
Even the most jaded opponent of Fallout 76 has to admit that Bethesda has been making progress in bringing the online RPG up to...
The Daily Grind: What’s the ideal MMO raid length?
If you've been around in the MMO genre long enough, you know that the idea of raiding has changed a lot. In Ultima Online,...
