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End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2021
As the year that was 2021 comes to a close -- raise a glass, give a toast, and perhaps think of a few fond...
Interview: ArcheAge studios on the move to Kakao, bans, land rushes, and the future of the game
One of the surprises the end of 2021 had in store for MMO players was the move of XLGAMES' ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained from...
ArcheAge delays fresh start progression, launches New Year’s festival, bans 21K alt accounts
What's new in the world of ArcheAge? As of last week, there's a Zodiac Festival that lets players ring in the new year with...
End-of-year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures going into 2022
All right, so let's start with the disclaimer that I put right at the start of this article every single year, which at least...
Elyon plans to merge NA and EU servers into a single server for each region in February
Elyon is giving its players plenty of advance notice of some upcoming server merge plans as the devs seek to bring all current EU...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 353: Mailbag diving, part 2
Justin and Bree deliver part two of a two-part mailbag show, answering listener mail on New World's arrogance, nostalgic MMO music, stress-free MMOs, major player events, the 2021 MMO release aftermath, battle passes, accessibility, datamining, and empowering community kindness.
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2021
It’s been quite a year of Choose My Adventure columns, hasn’t it? We did a pretty good random skip around of different games, in...
ArcheAge begins swinging the banhammer against promotion and web inventory exploiters
Yesterday we reported on a massive exploit wave that swept over ArcheAge involving players taking advantage of a free mana crystal promotion as well...
ArcheAge’s free mana crystal Twitter promotion leads to a 24 hour-long exploitation spree
Back when Kakao was kicking off its relaunch of ArcheAge, it was running a Twitter promotion that promised mana crystals for players if a...
Elyon teases the Archer with bow and quiver promo as Santa puts out a help wanted sign
If you're already salivating for a chance to take Elyon's upcoming Archer out for a little killin' tour, you still can't do that today....
Fractured and Gamigo reps discuss publishing, refunds, IP ownership, and the possibility of a console launch
As we've been covering, Kickstarted MMORPG Fractured - now Fractured Online - announced that it's being supported and published by Gamigo, and the response...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2022
OK folks, it's that time of the year again: the time when we cast our eyes ahead and try to pinpoint what's going to...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2021 predictions
Last year's MMORPG predictions didn't exactly go to plan, since in 2019, we weren't really expecting 2020 to play out the way it did....
Grab a key for the Moonfeather Griffin mount for ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained
In celebration of its recent relaunch of ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained in the west, Kakao has granted Massively OP a stack of keys for...
ArcheAge pushes back its land rush to December 18th and delays today’s patch ‘until further notice’
It would appear that ArcheAge is running into problems enough that updates and events are being pushed back by Kakao. The first major event...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 350: The start of Endwalker
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV Endwalker, WoW 9.2, the Dune MMO, New World, Wizard101, Lineage2M, and ArcheAge, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, Hearthstone, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on the looter shooter fad and MMO quest logging systems.
Massively Uplifting: Thanks and giving with SMITE’s Finchmas, ARK’s Extra Life, WOW’s Classic Against Cancer, and USO’s Play it Forward
Thanks to a certain national holiday, November is a month when many in the USA focus on giving thanks. And all around the gaming-verse,...
ArcheAge players call out for a classic edition, but Kakao is noncomittal
With the change of ownership and relaunch of ArcheAge, some players are hoping that they might see a return to a simpler -- and...
Kakao tackles ArcheAge’s relatively minimal launch issues, opens Snowfang Isle
We are now past day one of Kakao's operation of ArcheAge, and by most accounts things appear to have gone generally pretty well, apart...
ArcheAge’s relaunch has been delayed again, this time by just a few hours
If for some reason you're not playing a certain other game today, then you were probably gearing up for Kakao's ArcheAge relaunch, which had...
