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Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2023
If preserving MMORPGs is your jam, 2023 was not a great year. The one nice thing I can say about it is that we...
Casually Classic: Analyzing WoW Classic’s 2024 roadmap
With another year debuting this week, Blizzard was more on the ball than some MMO studios by already publishing its roadmap for 2024. Two...
Vague Patch Notes: MMOs are still just games you rent
When I was a teenager, I accidentally stole a few games from a video rental place. You might wonder how you accidentally steal something,...
MMO Year in Review: Angry Earth, hungry Microsoft (October 2023)
New World opened the gates of its Rise of the Angry Earth expansion this month, driving its servers and queues to capacity all over...
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: Weirdest Use of AI in MMOs
We're continuing our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year!
Coming in at #4 on our list is…
NetDragon's AI CEO
This piece is...
Well Fed: An introduction to our MMO kitchen and MOP’s new Well Fed column
Hello fellow MMORPG lovers and food enjoyers alike! Welcome to Well Fed! If you listened to the end-of-year podcast from Bree and Justin, you...
End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2024 and beyond
We've said it before, but this time we really mean it: The future of MMORPGs looks amazing. Contrary to years when we've seen only...
Progress Bar: Another go-round with cozy ‘MMO’ Palia, this time on the Switch
I'm not much of a console player in general. The controller has always felt limiting to me, especially when compared with the precision of...
MMO Year in Review: The next EverQuest Next (September 2023)
Daybreak parent company EG7 attempted to woo investors in September with nebulous plans for a new EverQuest MMORPG, perhaps the long-rumored EverQuest III -...
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: Weirdest MMO celebrity insert
Today we're kicking off our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year, that year being 2023!
Coming in at #5 on our...
Choose My Adventure: Villagers & Heroes starts off feeling like a different game
I admit that it's been a very long time since I had played Villagers & Heroes - since 2020, to be exact - but...
Wisdom of Nym: What Final Fantasy XIV’s fan festival needs to accomplish
In just a few days, the last fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV's upcoming Dawntrail expansion will kick off, and on paper it looks...
MMO Year in Review: The mage’s tower (August 2023)
August hasn't always been a month for major MMO launches, but 2023 certainly didn't disappoint, with Guild Wars 2's expansion Secrets of the Obscure...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Best Worst MMO Post
We're wrapping up MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards today as we present our award for Best Worst MMO Post. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series,...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: The Everyone Saw That Coming award
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present the Everyone Saw That Coming award. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series, named in...
MMO Year in Review: Dawn of the Entrails (July 2023)
Final Fantasy XIV unveiled its next expansion, Dawntrail, in July of this year, setting in motion what we expect will be a full year...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023
Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we - well, I - keep tabs on all of...
MMO Year in Review: Returning to Morrowind (June 2023)
Elder Scrolls Online launched its Necrom expansion in June, sending players both to mainland Morrowind and to the spooky realm of Hermaeus Mora.
Meanwhile, Swords...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Golden Yachties: Most Deserving MMO Steam Ban
Welcome back to MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards as we present our award for Most Deserving MMO Steam Ban. Yes, it's the Golden Yachties series,...
Massively on the Go: A slow New Year start for Pokemon GO events
Pokemon Go is still not bringing its A-game. After a buggy end of the year complete with utterly breaking Beware and accidentally releasing-and-taking-back unreleased...
