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Not So Massively: StarCraft II has quietly become Blizzard’s best-managed property

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While I do think the studio's actions at BlizzCon are encouraging, it still feels weird heaping praise on Blizzard right now. But I also...

MassivelyOP’s first look at Elder Scrolls Online’s Greymoor chapter and Antiquities system

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With the release date of The Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor chapter just a few months away, work on the update is progressing even with...

LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s Hytbold experiment

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The landscape of any long-running MMORPG is bound to be littered with various developer experiments that were tried and later abandoned. Lord of the...
Herp to the derp.

WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft expansion tour – Legion

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Ah, good. This one is more fun than last week. As much as the latter half of World of Warcraft expansions heads into more...

The Stream Team: Never leaving Neverwinter’s Neverdeath Graveyard

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Massively OP's MJ is a big fan of cemeteries, so there is a chance she may never leave Neverwinter's Neverdeath Graveyard. Of course, she...
Never over.

Perfect Ten: The stages of the MMO life cycle

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To this day, no one has a quote as useful on the subject of life and death as E. B. White: "We're born, we...
That was a real laugh!

Vague Patch Notes: Ambition is not delivery in MMOs

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So Chronicles of Elyria is dead in the water. Or... wait, that's not actually accurate; let me start again. Chronicles of Elyria has admitted...
That'll cost you money.

Massively on the Go: Why MMO players will love Animal Crossing New Horizons

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Some of you may have noticed that several staffers and fellow MassivelyOP readers noted that they were playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons last weekend....

Fight or Kite: Hackmud is more than a MUD – it’s a living cyberpunk world

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As these words loaded into your browser, sending bits and bytes across a vast array of interconnected wires and tubes, someone is typing away...

The Survivalist: Last Oasis virtual dev tour highlights nomadic life and offline safety

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At this stage of the survival genre game, you need more than just a novel idea for the setting. You need unique features to...
Whee!

Wisdom of Nym: Expected expansion features still unseen in Final Fantasy XIV

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We're still not into the period of time in which we'll learn about patch 5.3 for Final Fantasy XIV. Indeed, there's a lot of life left...

Jukebox Heroes: Warframe’s soundtrack

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I'm always keeping an ear out for recommended soundtracks from our readers here at Massively OP, and one that seems to get pushed my...

Into the Super-verse: Getting started with Champions Online in 2020

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The sharp rise and fall of Champions Online back in 2009 resulted in a game that's made for an easy target of jokes ever...

The Game Archaeologist: Shenmue Online

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If you ever stumble across a Dreamcast enthusiast -- and believe me, they are everywhere -- on the forefront of their diatribe about how...
Do you really want to hurt me?

WoW Factor: The World of Warcraft expansion tour – Warlords of Draenor

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Oh barf. Yes, folks, it... it had to happen. We had to get to this expansion. I know, none of us really want to. World of Warcraft...
There are about nine million more pressing questions about why you're this way, of course.

Vague Patch Notes: Complaining about MMOs you don’t play

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All right, folks, it's time to talk. And we're going to start by talking about Guild Wars 2, a game I used to play regularly...

Working As Intended: Deep-diving Star Wars Galaxies’ endgame crafting

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When I leaped back into Star Wars Galaxies via the SWG Legends rogue server mid-2018, I didn't really truly think I'd stay all that...

Desert Oasis: How Pearl Abyss can guarantee Shadow Arena succeeds

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Hands down, Shadow Arena is my favorite battle royale. But just because I've written so many glowing words of accolades for the game does...

Perfect Ten: Original MMOs that never came to be

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"What could have been" is a path that I travel frequently, especially when I write The Game Archaeologist column. It genuinely haunts me that...

Choose My Adventure: The end of the breadcrumb trail in Albion Online

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Well, that didn’t take long. This week was all about following the rest of the breadcrumb trail in Albion Online to see where it led,...

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