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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offered the best console experience in 2018?
I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm primarily a PC gamer. When I was a kid, my family couldn't afford the endless parade of...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2018
We've got a lot of awards going out over the next couple of weeks about the "best" and "biggest" of this and that. But...
Vague Patch Notes: The taxonomy of corporate apologies in video games
Somehow, Bethesda managed to persevere after the Great Canvas Shortage of 2018 to replace the Fallout 76 CE bags that were essentially plastic shopping bags...
Hyperspace Beacon: First impressions of SWTOR 5.10 ‘Jedi Under Siege’
Faith in BioWare products has been waning as of late, but Star Wars: The Old Republic seemed to always maintain a core fan base....
Massively OP’s 2018 Awards: Best MMO Trend of 2018
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2018 awards continue today with our award for the Best MMO Trend of 2018, which was awarded to the trend of developer communication...
EverQuesting: It’s a cash shop Christmas in EverQuest II’s Frostfell
Abandon hope all ye who log in here. That is how I felt at the start of EverQuest II's Frostfell this past Tuesday. As...
Perfect Ten: MMOs to watch in 2019
The MMO genre is in a strange and uncertain place right now -- but also one that is quietly thrilling. We've long passed the...
Massively OP’s 2018 Awards: Best MMO Business Model of 2018
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2018 awards continue today with our award for the MMO with the Best Business Model, which was awarded jointly to World of Warcraft...
Choose My Adventure: Postcards from the Star Citizen universe
Your votes last week in my first Choose My Adventure gave me a great way to start looking around the environs of Star Citizen...
Massively OP’s 2018 Awards: Biggest MMO Surprise of 2018
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2018 awards continue today with our award for the Biggest MMO Surprise of 2018, which is a new meta-award for MOP this...
Wisdom of Nym: Other potential limited jobs for Final Fantasy XIV
I don't mind telling you that I'm looking forward to Blue Mage in Final Fantasy XIV. I've said before that it's almost a new form...
Massively OP’s 2018 Awards: Most Underrated MMO of 2018
Welcome everybody to Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2018 awards!
Every year, we poll our writers about the best and worst MMOs, stories, studios, and trends and...
EVE Evolved: How could Project Nova live up to its true potential?
I think it's fair to say that EVE Online developer CCP Games hasn't had much success when it comes to avatar-based gameplay. The studio's...
Jukebox Heroes: My ‘best’ FFXIV music picks
Recently, Square Enix invited Final Fantasy XIV fans to vote on their favorite music tracks from what has become a very expansive and acclaimed...
The Game Archaeologist: Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2
At the end of June 2014, dozens of online worlds flickered and vanished with the flip of a switch. It was a online apocalypse...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2018
It's become a tradition on Massively OP to include among our end-of-the-year roundups and editorials and retrospectives a run-down of our favorite - and least favorite - MMO dev quotes of the year, be they obscure, poignant, or just plain dumb. So once again, for this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked our staff to offer up those quotes and then reflect on what we from the year and reflect on just what we've learned from them.
WoW Factor: The zones that changed the most from Classic, Eastern Kingdoms edition
We've got a little while until World of Warcraft actually drops its Classic server, but the nice thing is that those of us who have...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of Massively OP’s 2018 predictions
As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later?
So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.
Hyperspace Beacon: Why PVPers are abandoning SWTOR – again
I don't usually like to jump into the PvE-v-PvP debate because no one wins, but I have started to see an exodus of PvPers...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO emulation as a paean for the dead vs. a mockery of the living
If you ever need to know why we'll happily cover Star Wars Galaxies emulators and not Ultima Online emulators here on Massively Overpowered, the reason is...