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Vague Patch Notes: If people aren’t raiding in an MMO, it’s not because it’s too hard
The start of the year, at least from my perspective, was dominated by Blizzard doing lots of dumb things. So it's kind of nice,...
The Daily Grind: Do you avoid MMORPG raiding – and why?
As part of the preview of upcoming Guild Wars 2 content for 2020 yesterday, ArenaNet's Andrew Gray made some comments on raiding I thought...
Guild Wars 2 just gave the most far-reaching core content preview we’ve seen in ages
ArenaNet heard you wanted more communication, and now, that's exactly what you're getting. Guild Wars 2's new-ish Content Design Lead, Andrew Gray, has chimed...
Diablo III’s live team discusses balance and nerfing animation cheesing classes ahead of 2.6.8 update
Gotta say, I was not expecting a Diablo III dev blog this week, or really ever, what with Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal waiting...
Neverwinter’s Feast of Lanterns brings you all the rats you could ever want
According to the Chinese zodiac, 2020 is the Year of the Rat. I feel this is a marketing challenge for the year, as rats...
Perfect Ten: The best value MMOs in 2020
While there is nothing wrong with dropping some money on a worthy game, many of us are looking to be as frugal as possible...
Neverwinter’s Infernal Descent tabletop-inspired adventure is live on PC today
PWE and Cryptic have dropped some pretties for PC MMO fans today with the arrival of the Infernal Descent update in Neverwinter, this one...
Neverwinter previews the infernal Avernus campaign
Looks like the HELL PIT was just the beginning for Neverwinter adventurers because it's just about time to start in on the Descent into...
Choose My Adventure: The juggling act of Black Desert Mobile’s many advancement systems
Last week’s edition of Choose My Adventure had me genuinely impressed by how much stuff I had to manage in Black Desert Mobile, so...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMOs of the decade
A few years back, we did a cheeky Massively Overthinking about our five favorite MMORPGs of all time. It was quite a potent list...
The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2019
Last year, I counted it up: The first Daily Grind on Massively was written on November 3rd, 2007, one day after Old Massively was...
Why I Play: How NCsoft’s Fafurion update saved Lineage 2 in 2019
I don't know what it is about Asian MMOs, but I'm inexplicably drawn to them. Maybe it has something to do with my background;...
WoW Factor: Where WoW Vanilla’s and WoW Classic’s communities diverge
I want to talk about the community in WoW Classic because I think it's interesting and it's been on my mind ever since the story we...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2019
When we sit back to look at the biggest headlines of the year, we don't have to look far. These are the stories that...
Path of Exile’s Conquerors of the Atlas and Metamorph League launch today
It's a big day for Path of Exile PC players as Conquerors of the Atlas arrives on the platform. If you heard MJ squeeing...
WoW Factor: How WoW’s Corruption system breaks the redeeming features of Titanforging
Last time around in WoW Factor, we took a nice healthy look back at how itemization has evolved in World of Warcraft over the years....
Final Fantasy XI unveils its revamped Domain Invasions
The Domain Invasion system has gotten a major overhaul for Final Fantasy XI, and it should allow more players to take part in the system....
Blizzard promises ‘deep and rewarding’ itemization in Diablo IV
When you dive through the gates of Hell once more for Diablo IV, you are not going to find the same-old itemization system that...
Final Fantasy XI introduces big shifts to Domain Invasions in December
Domain Invasions have been in Final Fantasy XI for a while, but the fact of the matter is that they just aren't as relevant...
The Stream Team: More Path of Exile map madness
Massively OP's MJ was able to try out Path of Exile's endgame map system for the first time last week, and now that she's...
