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Jumping into a new-to-me MMO can be a heady, nerve-wracking event. I think there's a reason why we find our "comfort" games and feel...

At the end of August 2015, the fledgling Shroud of the Avatar community gathered together for a massive PvP fight. This wasn't to be...

I'm not really on board with the trend of saying that big expansions are back. They never left. Sure, we have one coming out...

Whether you call them server transitions, evolutions, consolidations, megaservers, or connected realms, server merges are a thing that affects most MMORPGs at some point...

MMO economies are notoriously hard to balance, so most MMO players have seen the effects of stagnation and hyperinflation in an MMO economy for...

It's no secret that many of us in the Massively OP office have a little bit of a game crush on Project Gorgon. Personally,...

Massively OP Kickstarter donor xenaphex wants to hear about our dream MMOs. What really makes you tick? What would you build with a million-bajillion...

I have been playing MMOs with varying degrees of intensity for the past 12 years. That is really weird to me. It also means that...

It became one of the most infamous moments in MMO history -- and perhaps one of the most misunderstood. For all that the MMO community...

One of the things I spend a lot of time thinking about is Operation Unthinkable. For those of you who don't feel like clicking...

MMOs are built on the backs of many interlocking systems, some more crucial to the experience than others. While I have great appreciation for...

I love a good boss fight as much as the next MMO player, and I'm sure I'm not alone in favouring fights that really...

Today's Massively Overthinking question was sent via e-pigeon from Kickstarter donor Apollymi. No e-pigeons were hurt in the writing of this article. "Have you heard...

This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us from Kickstarter donor Dahui, who asks, "What do you think MMO developers can do to try to minimize...

Back in my World of Warcraft and RIFT days, I spent an awful lot of time in dungeon runs as a healer. I even...

This week's Massively Overthinking question comes from KS donor Morreion, who asks, Do you think that MMO server-wide communities will ever make a comeback? I suppose...

You know how you wince whenever you think of typing /played into your MMO and realize just how many hours you've given to a...

My original plan for this week - during the few moments that I was capable of coherent speech rather than just babbling about the...

In the ongoing, neverending sandbox-vs.-themepark MMO debate, the folks on the side of sandboxes want one thing: more. Actually they want a lot more. They want...

Virtually every MMO contains dangerous places that are filled with other players or NPCs that will attack characters on site, and many also feature...