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The Stream Team: Soaking up Star Wars Galaxies on its 20th anniversary
It's a bit ironic that Massively OP's MJ is celebrating (and streaming) both of her favorite games' anniversaries today, and both non-original iterations are...
Star Trek Online’s summer event returns June 28 with medieval fantasy-styled ship and weapon rewards
The beaches of Risa are calling out to players of Star Trek Online once more as the MMORPG's Lohlunat Festival summer event is coming...
Working As Intended: My 20 years of Star Wars Galaxies
Last year, when Ultima Online turned 25 years old, I did a piece reminiscing on those early days and marveling that so much of...
Star Citizen runs down some of its upcoming new mission types and changes to ship trespassing
There was a time when most of the mission-based gameplay out of Star Citizen was focused on players answering others' beacons, but that was...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMOs are memorable but not actually fun?
Earlier this week, we ran a Daily Grind on MMOs that are fun but not especially memorable, throwing it back to a quote from...
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...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard of: Solarpunk, Hyperspace, and Dawnlands
Welcome back to another run-through of some new-to-us MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles that we (and presumably you) have never heard of. If you have,...
Perfect Ten: What good MMO logos say about their games
Back when I was taking a smattering of business classes in college, one of my favorite electives dealt with marketing. It wasn't that I...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 426: Axing Anarchy’s ARK and doubling down on Diablo IV
Justin, Bree, and Carlo discuss LOTRO's summer content, the end of Anarchy Online's volunteer program, Black Desert's Land of the Morning Light, and Star Citizen's crowdfunding, plus adventures in Diablo IV, LOTRO, and SWTOR, with mailbag questions on playing MMOs as a family.
Remember that EVE Online Excel integration? It’s actually fully live today
Last year at EVE Fanfest, CCP Games teased a partnership with Microsoft Excel that would literally integrate EVE Online with the spreadsheet tool. In...
SWGEmu’s Finalizer rogue server is apparently struggling to make its monthly budget
One of the topics that doesn't get talked about all that much in the MMORPG rogue server space is how old-school emulators get paid...
SWG Legends launches Empire Day, plus check out this player’s amazing Star Wars Galaxies swag collection
As promised, Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has kicked off its summer-anniversary-4th-of-July combo event this week, sending players to Theed or Coronet,...
Star Citizen checks in with progress on the San’Tok.yai and Hull-C as the Alien Week sales drive begins
It's time for another event in Star Citizen, only this one is less about letting people try the game for free and more about...
The Stream Team: Talking Star Trek Online’s Unraveled with devs
Star Trek Online's newest season, Unraveled, brings Massively OP's MJ face-to-face with the Tholians (and their webs) again -- with an interesting twist. While...
Vague Patch Notes: So why didn’t crowdfunded MMOs save the genre?
The past few weeks we've been following this freakin' thing because... well, obvious reasons. But that has me thinking about crowdfunding in general, because...
Star Citizen is creeping up on $600M in crowdfunding, outstripping many AAA titles’ budgets
It's time for our semi-annual (semi-monthly? semi-regular?) look at the funding page for Star Citizen, and once more we're seeing the cost of keeping...
Star Trek Online releases Unraveled, its new episode, and its new TFO for console
Console fans are finally joining their PC siblings in Star Trek Online's Unraveled season, which has kicked off on Xbox and PlayStation today. As...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 425: A disturbance in the Force of SWTOR
Justin and Bree discuss the SWTOR move to Broadsword, news from the Summer Game Fest, the Reddit blackout's impact on the MMO community, anniversaries for Neverwinter and Marvel Heroes, and patches for EVE Online and No Man's Sky, plus adventures in LOTRO and Diablo IV.
EVE Online launches its Viridian summer expansion today [Update: It’s live!]
EVE Online's big summer expansion is finally here, and CCP Games is hoping that players will embrace its theme of "Express Your Identity."
The Viridian...
Mainframe’s Pax Dei is trying to revitalize the classic MMORPG sandbox in a big way
At this past weekend's PC Gaming Show, Mainframe Infustries' gorgeous MMO Pax Dei was one of the major stars, even if you're not an...
