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Massively Overthinking: Reminiscing on 10 years of MassivelyOP
We're celebrating our Independence Day - our 10th birthday since launching as an indie site after the demise of OG Massively - so this...
NCsoft Q4 2024: Guild Wars 2 and Blade & Soul are doing great, with Aion 2 waiting in the wings
The MMO company financial news just keeps coming this week as now we've got NCsoft's Q4 2024 financial report, and no, this one isn't...
Working As Intended: Playing house – er, apartment – in SWG Legends
This week, I'm starting up a new miniseries called Playing House here in the Working As Intended column, and it's entirely the fault of...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO games, events, and ideas hitting the decade mark in 2025
A decade is a long time. It's kind of weird that we don't think much about games or shows or whatever hitting the decade...
The Stream Team: A Guild Wars 2 Trip to the Circus
There are times when a quest or story chapter name taken out of context can really lead one's imagination in a very different direction....
The Elder Scrolls Online previews Fallen Banners’ Lep Seclusa dungeon, opens guild summit signups
When Elder Scrolls Online's update 45 launches March 10th, it'll be accompanied by a paid DLC, Fallen Banners, with its pair of group dungeons....
Guild Wars 2 readies today’s balance update, followed by next Janthir Wilds chapter March 11
Readers might remember that the Guild Wars 2's roadmap has been a little off-kilter ever since the balance update was moved out of January...
You can predownload Blade & Soul NEO today: Here’s everything we learned at the press event
NCsoft isn't calling Blade & Soul NEO this, but "B&S Classic Plus" is the fastest way I can communicate to core MMORPG players just...
RuneScape goes on a self-improvement tour with relic presets and combat mastery achievements
Who's ready for some FOOTBALL? Oh, that's done for now? OK, well, how about this: Who's ready for some QUALITY-OF-LIFE IMPROOOOOVEMENTS? RuneScape hopes you...
Pantheon’s CEO takes responsibility for problematically chummy staff-community relationship
Last week, we covered Visionary Realms' investigation into one of its own developers after Pantheon players accused said developer of guild favoritism. According to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you wish ran on a potato? (Not a literal potato)
Not quite a year ago, I asked the MOP readers about the best MMOs for playing on a potato - you know, a crap...
Pantheon’s Visionary Realms is investigating after players accuse a dev of enriching his guild
We've updated the end of this story with Visionary Realm's investigatory conclusion; in short, it does not believe the dev was guilty but has...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs that suck in interesting ways
This week's Massively Overthinking is entirely inspired by a fantastic argument made by YouTuber on Bluesky. Iron Pineapple declared that "a good game can...
Blizzard lays out the design pillars for World of Warcraft’s accessible neighborhood housing
The news that World of Warcraft is getting housing with its next expansion, Midnight, shocked the whole MMORPG genre - and us too, as...
The Stream Team: Slithering into Guild Wars 2’s Year of the Snake celebrations
It's the year of the snek! All snekkies, all the time! Ahem, OK maybe it's really the Year of the Snake, but Massively OP's...
Fight or Kite: Dark and Darker Mobile brings the multiplayer extraction RPG gameloop to your pocket
I guess I left the room when developers all agreed that extraction shooters, RPGs, and their ilk were going to be the next focus...
Waven promises progression rework, more game modes, and improvements to existing content in 2025
Waven, the follow-up to Dofus and Wakfu that entered early access in 2023, is taking a look back at last year and a look...
Classic MMO-inspired web series The Guild is getting the musical treatment with a live reading February 23
Gamers of a certain vintage are probably going to be familiar with a classic comedy web series known as The Guild, but even then...
Here’s (almost) everything you need to know about transferring to Lord of the Rings Online’s upcoming 64-bit servers
Are you hungry for 64 bits of mega power? Then you're probably itching to hop in to the upcoming 64-bit servers in Lord of...
Guild Wars 2, Overwatch 2 compensate players for recent tech and sale bungles
This is a tale of two MMO studios and how they handled recent fiascos competently. Happy Friday!
First, ArenaNet announced last night that it is...