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Probably like many of you, I have gone through the initial zones in Lord of the Rings Online more times than I can count...

Last week, there was a provocative discussion on the MMORPG subreddit about the genre. I don't want to get tangled up in the whole...

Your mission today, should you choose to accept it, is to participate in an experiment. I want you to write up a nice long...

Clearly, your Tuesday schedule every week should have a big fat "LISTEN TO MASSIVELY OP PODCAST" written at 4:00 p.m. EST right on it....

If you're looking for an alternate vision of futuristic science fiction, you would do well to dive back into the worlds of 19th century...

One of the big changes that's hit World of Warcraft over the years is in regard to deterministic gear systems. In the original launch version...

If given the option, I would probably get a lifetime subscription to Final Fantasy XIV. But the key word there is probably, and this is a...

A shine of light, a sound effect, a screen graphic. Sometimes you get more fanfare than elsewhere. In Final Fantasy XIV, the game's victory fanfare...

Loot's not something that I see discussed much these days among MMO players. It's probably because loot's been around since the beginning of online...

I don't play video games to be challenged. I play them to have fun. This isn't to say that these are inherently separate propositions. People...

MMOs can be complicated things, as I am pretty sure we have discussed on multiple occasions now. There are no known means to prevent...

Its very name was a declaration of rebellion against the status quo. In an era that had yet to shift from a subscription-only model...

There is a particular comment we get on a semi-regular basis, and it is always wrong. It shows up on a wide variety of...

It's now become a long-running tradition on Massively OP to track science-related and science-adjacent stories that touch on the MMORPG world, but this past...

"MMOs are dead!" "MMOs are dying!" "We didn't get any good MMO releases this past year!" While I won't argue with the last one there,...

Every week, I have to think about betas. I have to think a lot about betas, in fact. More than I ever wanted to...

All right, let's do this one more time. Yes, it's that time when we look ahead to the next year and ask which games...

Elite: Dangerous was not on my radar when it appeared on the scene back in 2014. I had already spent my money buying a...

While we all know very well the story of Richard Garriott's $30 million ticket on board a rocket to visit the International Space Station...

To many veteran MMO players, the opening horns of EverQuest's score are enough to trigger vivid memories, violent hallucinations, and an unstoppable desire to...