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Conan Exiles updates community on farming, PS4 development, and console/PC parity
Conan Exiles' latest community update is a great example of why excessive community updates might not really be necessary. The team spends a ton...
Flameseeker Chronicles: One week into Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire
I've had my hands on Guild Wars 2's second expansion for a week and some change now and have built up a more solid picture...
Jagex disqualifies botfarming winner of $20K Old School RuneScape tourney
Last weekend, Jagex held its annual RuneFest event in London, where the studio demoed its mobile edition and teased plenty of upcoming content for both...
Choose My Adventure: Into the desert of Guild Wars 2
My first week of playing Guild Wars 2 again was interesting, in no small part because it's rare for my playtime to be so...
MMO Mechanics: Material storage and the Guild Wars 2 economy
Guild Wars 2 launched its second expansion, Path of Fire, a few days ago, and as you might expect, a new expansion means some immediate...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs with playable fairies
Probably my greatest and most constant gripe about fantasy MMORPGs is that for all of the freedom and imagination that this genre supposedly boasts,...
PAX West 2017: Chronicles of Elyria’s monetization philosophy, tribe evolution, and the PvP sandbox stigma
What is Chronicles of Elyria? We first learned about the game and its goal to redefine the MMORPG genre back in 2015. Since then,...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is Mordor too difficult?
If there's one topic of discussion that I've been hearing a lot in world chat, on the forums, and among my kinship, it's about...
EVE Evolved: The strategy and narrative of EVE’s revenge war
At the start of this month, we reported on a massive new war that was kicking off in the north of EVE Online. The...
EVE Online revenge war update: The war machine stalls
Last week we brought you the news of a massive new war brewing in the north of EVE Online, and The Imperium's threat of revenge...
Arcfall delays PvP patch as it prepares to transition into alpha
Here's a little bit of bad news that's followed by a large dose of good news for Arcfall fans. The team announced that it...
Wisdom of Nym: Why does Final Fantasy XIV feel so much better now?
It took me a very long time to cap out everything in Final Fantasy XIV when Heavensward was current. Until the moogle questline was...
Perfect Ten: Fresh approaches for familiar MMORPGs
Short of taking a blow to the head, there's very little I can suggest in the way of experiencing a familiar MMORPG for the...
EVE Evolved: A massive war for revenge is brewing in EVE Online
Just over a year ago, the largest PvP conflict in gaming history kicked off in EVE Online as war erupted between the game's most prominent...
One Shots: The one where we mention Michael Bay
Warning: This column will contain GRAPHIC and EXPLICIT references to film auteur Michael Bay. You may find yourself cutting away in excitement every two...
EVE Evolved: The Agency could become a great daily reward system in EVE Online
A new event named The Agency kicked off this week in EVE Online, and it looks a bit like the daily quest systems you...
Global Chat: Learning from Master X Master
We've certainly remarked several times on Massively OP how much like an MMO Master X Master is, even though it firmly checks the "MOBA"...
Secret World Legends may be punishing groups for farming XP
Here's your public service announcement for Secret World Legends: You may want to avoid grouping up to farm mobs and XP on the map,...
Monetization expert: MMOs are dying because of clueless design, not insufficient demand
MMORPG players just love it when somebody declares the MMORPG dead, right? All those games you're playing, all the games we're writing about and...
EVE Evolved: Does EVE Online need more conflict-drivers?
Of all the terminology associated with EVE Online, the one thing that's always made me a bit uncomfortable is to hear players describe PvP as "generating...
