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The Stream Team: Chilling out with friends in the Final Fantasy XIV roulette

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MOP's Chris and his family and friends are coming together yet again for their time-honored, weekly Final Fantasy XIV pastime: the duty roulette. There...

One Shots: …and that’s how I became hoarse

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While you may be completely freaked out when confronting an enemy six times your size, it's important not to show fear. In fact, one...

LOTRO Legendarium: 27 practical benefits of LOTRO’s player housing

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There's this ongoing common perception in MMOs like Lord of the Rings Online that player housing is good for one and only one purpose:...
Dudes

The Daily Grind: What’s the 2024 expansion that has you the most excited?

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While the launch dates for upcoming MMORPGs are a tricky and uncertain affair, what's more assured is an array of expansions that are on...

The Stream Team: Towards The Wandering Light in AQ3D’s cemetery

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Not much has happened in AQ3D's cemetery (wait, isn't that a good thing?!?). Until now. The latest update brings in Lady Phimion, who is...

MapleStory gears up for its 19th anniversary, launches MapleStory Worlds in Korea

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While MapleStory 2 has become a distant memory for many of us, the MapleStory franchise is still going strong in 2024. In fact, Nexon...
Forever and ever.

Into the Super-verse: Why the resurrection of 20-year-old City of Heroes is worth celebrating, even if you don’t play

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There's a certain poetry to the fact that this year, on the 20th anniversary of City of Heroes, we can all play the game...
Would you like to see something unsettling?

WoW Factor: Exit BlizzCon, for good this time?

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Back in 2021, we learned that there was not going to be a BlizzCon 2022. This did not surprise me, and I penned a...

LOTRO continues Update 40 testing with underground side quests and bog-guardian shrinkage

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Now that Lord of the Rings Online players have spent a half-year getting to know the alleyways and warrens of Umbar Baharbêl, the studio...

The Stream Team: Searching for Strahd’s story in Dungeons & Dragons Online

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Last week, Massively OP's MJ searched for the diary pages of Ireena in DDO's Ravenloft. This time, she's seeking those of Strahd himself! She...

Massively Overthinking: Is there a feature or item in MMORPGs you won’t play without?

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I was jolted into a near panic earlier this past weekend when I saw a tweet from Lord of the Rings Online in which...

V Rising details gameplay waiting in the Ruins of Mortium, Valheim continues its Ashlands test

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This is either a tale of two games that start with the letter V, two games that are working on new zones, or two...
don't you have phones

World of Warcraft is retiring the Companion App as it looks forward to the Cataclysm Classic conversion

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If you're still salty about being asked this ages ago, don't worry, World of Warcraft fans. Blizzard no longer cares if you have a...

Lost Ark disqualified and punished Thaemine The First race cheaters

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File this one under "this is why we can't have nice things": Apparently, some Lost Ark players thought they'd faff around with cheating the...
See, not all things are the same.

As Warcraft turns 30, Blizzard has preemptively canceled BlizzCon for 2024

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Well, you can read the headline: There's no BlizzCon this year after all, in spite of the fact that this is Warcraft's 30th anniversary...
WRONG!

Vague Patch Notes: When MMO designers build traps for players

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So last week, I spent a whole lot of words talking about what "the meta" actually means when it comes to MMOs. Put very...
happy birthday to me

ArenaNet shifts more resources to Classic Guild Wars as it turns 19 years old

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Just a few weeks ago, the MassivelyOP team gathered round to speculate on what the Classic Guild Wars anniversaries might look like (and what...

Here’s how EverQuest and EverQuest II 2024 progression servers – Anashti Sul, Teek, and Tormax – will work

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When Daybreak dropped producer letters for EverQuest and EverQuest II earlier this month, the MMORPG fanbase immediately started buzzing about the new progression servers...

New World elaborates on the design of the eight artifacts added with Season of the Guardian

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Amazon's latest New World dev blog isn't going to shake any foundations with breaking news, but it does deep-dive the new artifacts added in...

Lost Ark maps out new raids, continent, and progression systems coming through July 2024

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If you can believe it, we're almost a third of the way into 2024, which means we're due for more roadmaps out of Amazon...

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