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MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Best PvP MMO
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Today's award is for the Best PvP MMO, which was awarded to Albion Online last year. We halted...
LOTRO Legendarium: Recapping Lord of the Rings Online’s crazy-busy 2023
Sixteen pages. Sixteen pages is how far back I had to flip through Lord of the Rings Online's news feed here at Massively OP...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Worst MMO Business Model
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Today's award is for the Worst MMO Business Model, which was awarded to Diablo Immortal last year. This...
Massively on the Go: Palia’s Nintendo Switch version works on the go, but it’s still better at home
Let me start off by saying this isn't going to be yet another impressions piece on Palia. We've already had three of those, and...
WoW Factor: The real reason World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm world revamp was awful
'Tis the season for all of us, once again, to talk about the deeply unpleasant and disappointing expansion that was World of Warcraft: Cataclysm,...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Biggest MMO Disappointment
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Today's award is for the Biggest MMO Disappointment, which was awarded to SWTOR's Legacy of the Sith last...
Vague Patch Notes: What you can’t forget in MMOs
Years ago, I had a relationship with someone I met in Final Fantasy XI. It wasn't a good or solid relationship by any stretch...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Best MMO Business Model
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Best MMO Business Model, which was awarded to Guild Wars 2 last year....
The Survivalist: A toast to Conan Exiles’ new taverns, launching this week’s Age of War Chapter III
You know that feeling when you get something you really want? Something you've been waiting for? Conan Exiles is giving that to me --...
Casually Classic: The seven most important things that happened in WoW Classic this year
What did Blizzard assume would happen with WoW Classic when it rolled out this legacy version of the MMO in 2019? I honestly have...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2023
Some years, it's hard to really cut a distinction between the biggest stories of a year and the biggest surprises. There can be a...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Best MMO Trend
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Today's award is for the Best MMO Trend, which was awarded to games industry unionization last year. This...
Warframe of Mind: The wonders of Whispers in the Walls, launching December 13
It's almost here! Warframe's anticipated Whispers in the Walls is launching tomorrow, and I'll finally get to delve in. After learning more about it...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s strange and fascinating journey through 2023
There's a shot right at the end of Empire Strikes Back that's always struck me as the most profound in the entire franchise. The...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Most Improved MMO
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Today's award is for the Most Improved MMO, which was awarded to New World last year. All...
Wisdom of Nym: Still talking about Final Fantasy XIV after 13 years
This column's title is not a typo: I have been writing about Final Fantasy XIV in a weekly column for... at least 13 years...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Biggest MMO Blunder
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Today's award is for the Biggest MMO Blunder, which was awarded to Blizzard's exit from China last year....
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Best New MMO Class
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Today's award is for the Best New MMO Class, which was awarded to Guild Wars 2's Mechanist last...
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Best MMO Rogue Server
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Today's award is for the Best MMO Rogue Server, which was awarded to City of Heroes' Homecoming last...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions
We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...