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The Daily Grind: How many tries did it take you to get into your favorite MMOs?
I remember the first time I ever launched City of Heroes. I fired it up, made a character, started the early tutorial... got bored,...
Working As Intended: Two decades of Elder Scrolls housing
Massively OP explores Elder Scrolls housing through the ages -- starting with Daggerfall, running through Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim, and ending with Elder Scrolls Online's Homestead patch, live today.
EVE Evolved: Making stories with friends in EVE Online
It's one of the more peculiar laws of the universe that when enough EVE Online players meet in the real world, they absolutely must swap stories. You...
Zul’jin joins the cast of Heroes of the Storm
As the Horde pushed north following the destruction of Stormwind, the Alliance dogged their forces and conspired to push them back. But the Horde...
Don’t miss The Game Archaeologist’s histories of Asheron’s Call
The impending loss of Asheron's Call -- and Asheron's Call 2 again -- hit the MMORPG community pretty hard when the sunsets were announced...
Neverwinter Nights Diamond is free for the next 48 hours
Look, let's make this very easy: Click along to GOG.com and go download Neverwinter Nights Diamond right now unless you're reading this on December...
Star Wars: The Old Republic provides backstory fiction for Knights of the Eternal Throne
Look, we don't want to spoil the ending of Star Wars: The Old Republic's last expansion story arc for you if you're still working...
Wisdom of Nym: At the end of the world for Final Fantasy XIV
It's kind of weird to think about the fact that we just passed the four-year anniversary of the end of an era in Final...
BlizzCon 2016: Diablo’s 20th anniversary panel liveblog
Has it really been two decades since Diablo first showed up on the computer gaming scene? Apparently so because why else would BlizzCon 2016...
The Daily Grind: What MMO do you think is more important than people realize?
Here at Massively Overpowered, we talk a lot about MMOs. (Shocking, I know.) Some of that means covering games that other people just plain...
The Rising returns to Final Fantasy XIV for three years of operation
August 27th will mark three years since Final Fantasy XIV's successful relaunch, and it should come as no surprise that the game is celebrating...
Wisdom of Nym: Three years since Final Fantasy XIV’s relaunch
When the last anniversary rolled around, we were coming off of an expansion launch for Final Fantasy XIV, one of the smoothest launches I...
World of Warcraft drops more pre-Legion lore at SDCC ’16
There's going to be quite a bit of lore in World of Warcraft to lead up to the release of Legion, but not every...
The Daily Grind: What’s the biggest way MMOs have affected your real life?
I am not going to lie to you, dear readers: This is a question to which I have a really easy answer. I've been...
Wisdom of Nym: The missteps of Final Fantasy XIV’s main scenario through Heavensward
There are going to be spoilers in this column. Let's make this entirely clear. If you read this column without having finished up Final...
Habitat’s source code is available for everyone
When does the history of MMOs start? If you answer that the first MMO was Ultima Online, you're right enough. If you answer that...
The Daily Grind: How old were you when you got into MMOs?
When Ultima Online launched, the idea of having a computer capable of running it was a pipe dream for me, much less also having...
WoW Factor: The hope I have for Legion
Every week, in Final Fantasy XI, the three main player nations are competing in a form of passive PvP known as conquest. The nation...
Crash Course Gaming offers a quick primer on MMORPGs
What is an MMORPG? If you're reading this site, you probably have an answer ready to go, but you probably know more than a...
The Daily Grind: Who’s your oldest MMO character who still gets played?
My original two characters in World of Warcraft are no longer around; one of them was deleted and the other is never to be...
