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Massively OP Podcast Episode 206: This is our Anthem
Justin and Bree discuss MMO character creation systems, the Anthem demo mess, Ragnarok 2's abrupt development end, WoW's new raid, Daybreak's EverQuest franchise plans, Last Oasis, and Fallout 76, with mailbag questions on needlessly complicated MMOs and subs for maintenance mode games.
Fallout 76 patches in nerfs for explosions, hard carry weight limits, and a ton of bug fixes
If you can set aside the fuss over the incoming March Survival mode, Fallout 76 has a patch for you right now with stuff...
Bethsoft says it’s listening to player feedback on Fallout 76’s planned Survival mode
Last week, Bethsoft stirred consternation over its plans for Fallout 76's Survival mode ahead of its March beta. The mode will essentially add pure...
Fallout 76 previews new Survival mode, triggering community commotion
Apparently, some people thought that wandering around an devastated, irradiated wasteland full of vicious mutant creatures wasn't dangerous enough, which is exactly why Fallout...
SuperData December 2018: World of Warcraft returns to the rankings, Fortnite takes the year
Back in December, hearts skipped beats over the realization that not a single Blizzard game made it into SuperData's top global revenue rankings for...
Leaderboard: Do you think Bethsoft is going to take Fallout 76 free-to-play?
One of the claims floating around Reddit and YouTube is the claim that stores across the globe, from the UK to Australia to even...
Elder Scrolls Online is not launching a swag-stuffed physical collector’s edition of Elsweyr
One of the announcements oddly missing from the Elder Scrolls Online's Elsweyr hoopla earlier this week was one about physical swag for the collector's...
Bethsoft is banning more Fallout 76 exploiters and teasing its free-for-all PvP mode
Even before Fallout 76 launched last year, the game was becoming well known for bugs of the exploitable sort. The most recent to make...
Fallout 76 players are finding ways to glitch into a secret developer room with unreleased items
We would like to preface today's story of Fallout 76 having all the integrity of tissue paper in a hurricane by saying that you should...
For Science: The psychology of online gaming toxicity, fanpersonism, and gamer identity
Over the holidays, I bumped into some great video material from author and YouTuber Caleb Ross that seems useful for online gamers in particular....
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2019
With nearly all of our end-of-2018 content finally and blissfully behind us - seriously, I always breathe a huge sigh of relief when it's...
Fallout 76 is getting a patch full of fixes on January 14
It's a brand new year, and Fallout 76 is encouraging everyone to party like it's 2077, which would make the title a bit of a...
A look back at the MMO industry’s law dramas of 2018
Last year, we started a new end-of-the-year tradition: a recap of all the legal and political dramas that have affected the MMO genre over...
Fallout 76 nuke silos afflicted with debilitating bug at the start of the new year
Even though they managed to survive the apocalypse, the end of times, the wholesale destruction of humanity as we know it, it would appear...
The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2018
We can't do an accurate "most popular MMORPG articles of 2018 by pageviews" list as we usually do thanks to skewed data from MOP's extensive...
Global Chat: How do we fight early access disasters?
With the year in MMOs ending on a sour note due to the botched rollouts of both Fallout 76 and Atlas, blogger Endgame Variable...
Bethsoft promises player vending for Fallout 76 players in its 2019 resolutions
If you're exhausted of watching Fallout 76 flail around, maybe point your eyeballs at Bethesda's clear attempt to turn the corner here in the...
Massively OP’s 2018 Blooper Awards: Schlag meme of the year
Massively OP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards conclude today with our blooper award for Schlag meme of the year. This is one of my favorite awards of the year. As our our regulars surely know, Schlag Sweetleaf is our resident comment section Master of the Meme, who crafts everything from weird to gross to hilarious gifs for big stories. He's amazing. Giving him his own award every year is the least we can do!
Fallout 76 asks banned players to submit a 500-word essay on why cheating is wrong
So we all know that Fallout 76 is a buggy mess by this point, which means that until it becomes not a buggy mess,...
Massively OP’s 2018 Blooper Awards: Biggest resource crisis averted
Massively OP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for biggest resource crisis averted. And the winner is...
