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The Daily Grind: Would you keep playing an MMO if it deleted your favorite class?
Last week, Nexon announced the unthinkable: It told players it was immediately locking creation of one of the game's playable character classes, Jett, and...
Star Citizen casts another spotlight on alpha 3.19’s updates to Lorville
Changes to Lorville have been a repeated topic for Star Citizen as it runs up to alpha 3.19's release, but apparently that horse has...
Neverwinter releases a patch early to the Xbox version thanks to problems with the servers
"A strange and unforeseen spell has affected the Xbox servers," reads an announcement from Neverwinter, which means that players on that console are getting...
Choose My Adventure: Endgame in Neverwinter nearly rocks my Bard’s face apart
So as that headline suggests, I made it to level 20 in Neverwinter. That's not really too surprising to regular players, I imagine -...
Star Citizen discusses design, development, and plans for mission content in latest livestream
If you're not answering beacons in Star Citizen, you're probably running the missions that are available. If that's the case, then you might be...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO studios manipulate their playerbases with trolling and tribalism?
A few weeks ago, MOP Chris and I were discussing Star Citizen's antics - remember the video with the coffee? - and it was...
Star Citizen releases alpha 3.18.2 as players express surprise at a partial wipe and outline several build bugs
Yesterday saw another Star Citizen patch go live as alpha 3.18.2 hit the PU with nothing more in its notes beyond "general stability and...
Global Chat: Black Desert is the MMO sandbox to beat
Those who wrote off or skipped by Black Desert on the way to other MMOs may be missing one of the best sandboxes on...
Massively Overthinking: What should MMOs do when guild leaders vanish?
Last week, we covered that wild story about a "heist" in EVE Online that allowed the perpetrators to make off with trillions of ISK...
CCP Games is already sunsetting EVE Anywhere after just a year in the wild
Back in 2021, CCP Games made a big to-do over a browser client for EVE Online called EVE Anywhere - essentially a cloud-hosted version...
Star Trek Online’s recent patch brings back its First Contact Day and Delta Recruit events
Last week was a pretty big one for Star Trek Online players, particularly those who like previous events in the spacefaring MMO, as PC,...
The Stream Team: The Klingon life in Star Trek Online
So far in his Star Trek Online career, MOP's Chris has managed to get to max level as a Starfleet character and gotten some...
Elite Dangerous joins a host of science fiction-focused events at the London Science Museum on May 4
May the 4th celebrations are usually aimed at the Star Wars fandom, but this year the London Science Museum will expand them to include...
EVE Online players commandeered a dormant guild and made off with $22K in plunder
As most longtime MMO players know, leaders going AFK for extended periods can result in all kinds of shenanigans in player organizations behind their...
Star Citizen releases alpha 3.18.1, prepares for a free fly event, and recounts March’s dev progress
After nearly a full month since its initial 3.18 launch, Star Citizen is considering itself fully operational once again with the launch of alpha...
EVE Online is putting its new launcher and graphical upgrades to the test today
MMO launchers follow a very basic principle: Nobody ever notices a good one, but a bad one can sully the whole game. Which one...
Star Citizen continues to promise alpha 3.18.1 fixes ‘shortly’ while more testing tools are developed
The alpha 3.18 release of Star Citizen continues to look like a gamedev engineering nightmare as the partial outage state of the persistent universe...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 417: Happy Compensation Day!
Justin and Bree discuss World of Warcraft, New World, Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, Amazon Games' layoffs, and Ghostcrawler's new MMO studio, with adventures in LOTRO and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on problematic MMO speedrunning.
EVE Online’s month-long battle at X47L-Q concludes with a destroyed keepstar and trillions of ISK in losses
Over the past few weeks, a battle has been unfolding in EVE Online in X47L-Q, which drew in some impressive numbers in terms of...
Earth and Beyond rogue server project may be the space MMO you crave
Just the other day, the MOP staff was bemoaning the fact that the pickings for space sim MMOs are slim and lacking. But instead...
