Megacorp known to MMO gamers primarily for its ownership of BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. EA has previously been the steward of Mythic Entertainment (which in turn once controlled Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot) as well as The Sims Online, Warhammer Online, and Dawngate.
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The MOP Up: Revelation Online’s monthly challenges (June 4, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
MMO Mechanics: Making healing interesting in MMORPGs
I was reading a recent Daily Grind article on the topic of unique healing classes and it prompted me to think about the variety...
Perfect Ten: My favorite MMO dungeons
It's hard to look at an MMORPG and imagine them without dungeons. For some people, these instances are the core of their game experience,...
Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist
This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...
Choose My Adventure: Exploring the purpose and plan of this community column
You are no doubt staring at the title image above and thinking to yourself that it really does not look like a Neverwinter screenshot....
‘Summer of SWTOR’ brings back the MMORPG
Squeaking in just under the wire for the dev team's promised May delivery date, Star Wars: The Old Republic published its (remaining) 2017 roadmap yesterday. The...
Indie multiplayer VR ARPG Prevent the Fall lands on Steam early access
So here's a new one to our games list today: Indie developer D.W.S's "all the things" ARPG Prevent the Fall. It's one of those...
World of Warcraft briefs on its Tomb of Sargeras raid
World of Warcraft's elite players are waiting with bated breath for the release of the game's newest and perhaps most challenging experience yet: Tomb...
SWTOR’s development road map is coming this week
It's the end of May, and Star Wars: The Old Republic players are still waiting for that promised road map about the game's development...
One Shots: Action arrested
In tossing out a screenshot challenge last week revolving around combat action shots, you'd think that this would be a piece of cake. After...
The Game Archaeologist: How Sceptre of Goth shaped the MMO industry
When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs you think are just too late to start playing?
I've been playing a lot of Ultima Online the past few weeks, but so many times I'll be doing something that is objectively tedious...
Massively Overthinking: Disentangling MMO classes and races
Last week, a guildie of mine mentioned that he'd been interested in Crowfall until he realized he couldn't be a gerbil (Guineacean) of the...
The Stream Team: Dealings with SWTOR’s Dr Oggurobb
After meeting with the rest of the alliance and building up the base, Massively OP’s Larry and MJ are set to do some tasks for...
Tamriel Infinium: An alternative approach to playing Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind
href="/tag/elder-scrolls-online/">Elder Scrolls Online chapter of Morrowind started this week. Unlike other times that we've streamed together when most of what we did was questing,...
Perfect Ten: Understanding MMORPG Warriors
There is always a Warrior. Every game has a Warrior. No matter what other class options it has, a Warrior is in that list....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 118: Crowfall breaks up the band
Justin and Bree discuss ESO Morrowind, Crowfall, Wild West Online, Destiny 2, Funcom financials, Star Citizen, SWTOR, Dreamfall Chapters, and Ultima Online, with a mailbag question on dating in MMOs.
Global Chat: Saying goodbye to The Secret World
With the move to put The Secret World in maintenance mode and shift focus to the rebooted Secret World Legends, one MMO blogger decided...
Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs
Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...
Ultima Online fires employee over cheating scandal
You don't need to be a brand-new and modern MMORPG to suffer major cheating scandals, something the nearly 20-year-old Ultima Online has reminded us...
