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Wisdom of Nym: Actual mechanical issues for jobs in Final Fantasy XIV, part one
There are a lot of people who are quick to complain about issues with their personal favorite jobs in Final Fantasy XIV. No matter...
Whatever happened to Pirates of the Burning Sea, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, and Puzzle Pirates?
Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, “Whatever happened to that game?” With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...
World of Warcraft is using new damage formulas in the Battle for Azeroth alpha
It's going to be easy to ignore new formulas in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth for a little while. After all, you're dealing...
Trove’s Heroes expansion adds superhero-themed city and class this spring
Today is a positively massive day for fans of Trove - and fans of superheroes, for that matter - as Trion is announcing a...
SWTOR’s spring content: Cash shop overhaul, conquest revamp, new flashpoint – but probably not a ‘traditional expansion’
Star Wars: The Old Republic's had a couple of rocky months with the greater MMO community, following ominous rumors reportedly from inside BioWare that EA...
Massively Overthinking: Could bots save dying MMORPGs?
Last week, a reader named Chris, who is writing a paper on the MMO industry and revivifying sunsetted games, dropped an intriguing question into...
Black Desert’s Kakao Games enjoys $131.6 million in investment
It's all coming up Kakao Games these days.
The Korean studio received a large investment package recently that totals $131.6 million. The bundle comes from...
Path of Exile: Gotta catch ’em all in the new Bestiary League and update 3.2.0, coming March 2
With a new Path of Exile challenge league every three months, you might wonder whether Grinding Gear Games can keep coming up with new themes...
World of Warcraft explains hunter pets in Battle for Azeroth while datamining unearths more secrets
We're not going to blow anyone's mind by stating that pets are pretty central to the experience of playing a Hunter in World of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 157: Lunar Valentines
Justin and Bree discuss Valentine's Day and Lunar New Year in MMOs, Guild Wars 2's latest patch, Camelot Unchained's beta date, WoW's Battle for Azeroth alpha, Closers' launch, Black Desert's unification, and Final Fantasy XIV's population, with mailbag questions on multiple accounts (spoilers: Bree talks about SWG for like three hours) and variety in period MMOs.
Sea of Thieves may have microtransactions, but it will never have lootboxes
In Sea of Thieves, your character is a pirate roaming the high seas for boxes of treasure, but in real life you won't need...
The MOP Up: Black Desert’s Ninja arrives in Southeast Asia (February 11, 2018)
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...
Destiny 2 empowers players to set Nightfall strike challenge levels, prototypes raid features
Destiny 2's Nightfall strikes are in the wings, waiting for their turn to receive some love and adjustments. This should happen soon, as Bungie...
Jukebox Heroes: World of Warcraft’s best music, part 2
Probably the most challenging aspect of creating a "top 32" list of the best World of Warcraft music isn't coming up with a track...
The Stream Team: To the blue biome in ARK: Aberration
It's shiny! Also dangerous. But when has danger ever stopped Massively OP's MJ from seeking a shiny? ARK's blue biome in the Aberration expansion...
WoW Factor: First impressions of allied race leveling in World of Warcraft
Last week, I wrote about the addition of allied races without having actually gotten to play around with them much. You have to understand...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPGs should stay away from legacy servers?
Legacy, vanilla, classic, progression - call them what you like, but alternative server rulesets, particularly of the nostalgia-driven kind, are all the rage in...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth jacks up its system requirements from Legion
The old joke that World of Warcraft can run on just about anything including your toaster is no longer true. Let's just say that if...
Warframe’s Shrine of the Eidolon is launching this week with the warframe and weapons overhauls
Warframe has taken a break from rewriting the whole darn game to tease this week's launch. Called Shrine of the Eidolon, the patch introduces...
NCsoft Q4 2017: Guild Wars resurges as Blade & Soul and Lineage M drive profits
NCsoft has money to cheer about this past financial quarter, as it posted another year of solid growth. Revenue and operating profit were up...
