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Traditional ‘tier’ sets are not planned for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

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If you've never played World of Warcraft, you may be unfamiliar with the concept if not the visuals of tier sets. Tiered armor is...
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World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth will have no personal boats, no big class overhauls, and no lockboxes

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It's hard to imagine that anyone is going to be upset about the idea of no lockboxes in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth....

MMO biz roundup: The voice actor strike, e-sports crime, CCP VR, Crowfall, and new acquisitions for Tencent, EA, and Nexon

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Let's end the week talking about money. What could go wrong? The year-long video game voice actor strike is finally fully over, as more...
THE BACK OF MY HAND!

Naoki Yoshida confirms that housing purchase changes are coming to Final Fantasy XIV

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There is definitely a problem with how housing is handled in Final Fantasy XIV. The good news is that something is definitely being done...
The elf is superfluous in this scenario.

Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan on WoW Classic and the Overwatch toxicity ‘strike team’

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Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan gave an interview on Reddit this week that provides an interesting perspective from an original World of Warcraft developer who defected to...

BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft’s classic server will be a ‘massive effort’

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In the process of picking yourself up off of the floor following Friday's announcement of World of Warcraft Classic at BlizzCon 2017? As your...

Here’s what you missed from last weekend’s Star Citizen’s CitizenCon 2017

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While it surely won't comfort anyone angrily counting down the days until alpha 3.0's eventual release to all backers, Star Citizen's CitizenCon 2017 delivered an...

Daybreak would like you to consider becoming an unpaid volunteer

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Volunteer work is all well and good when it's for a worthy cause, but what about when it comes to donating your time to...
See, this is why no one likes you. It's because of this.

Cliffy B on LawBreakers: ‘As far as I’m concerned, [the press] can fuck off’

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Here at Massively Overpowered, we generally try to avoid cursing, but there really are no two ways to put the Cliff Bleszinski quote from...

The MOP Up: Warface celebrates its birthday in Chernobyl (October 22, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Jukebox Heroes: Elder Scrolls Online’s Morrowind soundtrack

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Lately I've felt the need to get into gear and cover a lot of the more recent MMO soundtracks that have released alongside their...

IGN has apparently bought up the Humble Bundle company

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IGN has just announced that it's scooped up a pretty sweet acquisition: It now owns the company behind Humble Bundle, known best for its...

Legends of Aria awakens something nasty during its final alpha

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Something evil and sinister has awakened in Legends of Aria, but that is actually pretty exciting news for alpha testers seeking new challenges and...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 139: Catching up with Legends of Aria

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Justin and Bree are joined by Legends of Aria's Derek Brinkmann to chat about alpha; then they discuss Guild Wars 2's waypoint sales, SWTOR's merges, the WoW expansion, and Shroud of the Avatar's delay, with a mailbag question on lockbox gambling.

Riot employee fired over toxic chat comments says he deserved it

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Last week, news that Riot Games Lead Experience Designer Aaron "RiotSanjuro" Rutledge had insulted a banned League of Legends streamer in a public chat...

The Daily Grind: Do MMORPGs still need traditional guilds?

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In the game's design docs and our interviews, Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs is positively adamant that multiguilding (that is, being able to join more than...

Exclusive Guild Wars 2 interview on Path of Fire’s launch and philosophy

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Spurred on by my excitement for Guild Wars 2's second expansion, Path of Fire, I reached out to ArenaNet shortly before release to secure a post-launch...

Indie space sandbox MMO Dual Universe launches pre-alpha with a fresh trailer

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Happy pre-alpha, Dual Universe! The ambitious indie space sandbox MMORPG kicked off the pre-alpha over the weekend, bringing 2500 backers in to test. You'll...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 138: Mystery MMOs and the mobile revolution

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, the mobile MMO avalanche, in-development MMOs from AAA studios, Black Desert's Kamasylvia, and Camelot Unchained, with mailbag questions on the MMO industry going backwards and the small touches in MMOs.
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Brad McQuaid: MMO devs are ‘making the very, very early foundations of the Holodeck’

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Pantheon and MMOs like it are bringing our dream future one step closer (or at least, Lt. Barclay's dream future), Brad McQuaid suggests in a new interview...

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