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Mad World shares the rest of its 2023 roadmap with tribal wars and Halloween
Poor Mad World: This splatterpunk horror MMO was birthed into this world in about the most messy fashion possible while still surviving. And as...
Star Anvil’s Secret World TTRPG is about to start delivering draft digital rulebooks to backers
The progress for Star Anvil Studios' tabletop RPG rendition of The Secret World continues to make forward movement. The latest announcement post from Kickstarter...
Following Final Fantasy XIV Fanfest COVID outbreak, one fan admits guilt – in a comic
An apparent COVID-19 outbreak at Final Fantasy XIV's Fanfest in Las Vegas a week and a half ago has been punctuated by one fan...
LOTRO Legendarium: Ranking LOTRO’s forests from maddening to awesome
J.R.R. Tolkien famously loved nature, and that passion seeps into his creation of Middle-earth. To him, the great outdoors was not something to be...
Lord of the Rings Online players are putting on a ‘summer musical review’ this weekend
Back in March, we covered the fabulous effort of a player-run theater troupe in Lord of the Rings Online to adapt Sondheim and Lapine's...
Wizard101’s latest patch delivers the Crying Sky raid, plus name- and gender-swapping
Wizard101's latest patch has arrived to punch up the summer for the little kids and big kids and yes grown-ass adults too (more power...
The Daily Grind: Do you have MMOs you play for the story rather than progression?
I've recently been musing about how we create categories for MMOs in our own minds. There are those "home games," for example, that we...
The MOP Up: Gamescom and QuakeCon prepare to storm August
As the end of summer approaches (ack! how?), gaming conventions rev up again - and that includes big industry galas like GamesCom and in-house...
The Soapbox: Why The Secret World really failed
We're back with part two of my long-overdue post-mortem of The Secret World, my favourite MMORPG of all time. In the first part I...
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s second season improves on the first
New World's first attempt at seasonal content didn't exactly impress, but in typical New World fashion, the developers at Amazon Games have already made...
Localized tooltips appear to have leaked New World’s next weapon
The recent season two patch for New World also brought with it a bit of a spoiler for the fall season: The next weapon...
Vague Patch Notes: The power of the middle bit in MMOs
I knew that Tales of Arise wasn't really working for me like its immediate predecessor when I started kind of avoiding combat.
Now, to a...
The Soapbox: A belated The Secret World post-mortem
This weeks marks the eleventh anniversary of the launch of The Secret World. While the game is still playable (for those with existing accounts),...
Massively Overthinking: Why don’t MMOs try harder to foster great guilds?
MOP reader Mahaf1089 posed an interesting question beneath a WoW Factor column earlier this month, one that clearly resonated with our readers because it...
Choose My Adventure: Age of Conan engages my barbarian rage
Let me be honest with you all: This week saw me ragequit out of Age of Conan, though not quite to the point that...
The Stream Team: Sauntering through Secret World Legends for its 6th anniversary
To this day, if you were to ask Massively OP's MJ what her favorite game is, she'd answer The Secret World as one of...
Lord of the Rings Online rethinks its approach to the Lore-master class
A friendly heads-up for those who play Lord of the Rings Online's Lore-master: Your class is under review by the dev team for some...
Vague Patch Notes: Examining the MMO tiers, from the Big Five to maintenance mode
I've mentioned many a time that one of the ideas behind the Vague Patch Notes column here on MOP is to have a place...
Vitae Aeternum: Touring New World’s housing system
Whenever I've talked about player housing in New World, my coworkers have requested tours of my in-game homes. Being a lazy worker looking to...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs as Jell-O flavors
During last year's April Fools' Day, I wrote about the important topic of MMO NPCs as muffins. At the time, I felt my work...
