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Massively OP Podcast Episode 389: Grinding out them dailies
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge 2, WoW Classic Cataclysm, Fractured Online, LOTRO's 2023 ocean expansion, and the Wizard101 hack, with adventures in Guild Wars 2 and WoW Classic, plus meta discussion on how The Daily Grind works and how game studios handle pesky journos like us.
Four Winds: What made Lost Ark so successful where Elyon failed?
I'm sad about it, but I have to eat my words about Elyon and its place in this decade's pantheon of MMOs. I honestly...
Grab an ArcheAge Witchcraft Disciple outfit to wear on the new Unchained fresh start servers launching today
ArcheAge is having one helluva week: Not only is the franchise celebrating its eighth anniversary and welcoming a new sibling, but Kakao is opening...
Kakao and XLGAMES reconfirm that ArcheAge 2 is launching in 2024
If you follow MOP, you already know that ArcheAge 2 has been in the works for quite a while; XLGAMES quietly confirmed it was...
Perfect Ten: An MMO sunset tour for 2022 to date
MMO sunsets can be weird. I am never happy when a game that people love goes away. It always represents a lot of lost...
ArcheAge Unchained’s upcoming fresh start servers will no longer be available to trial accounts
We're just a day away from ArcheAge: Unchained launching its new fresh start servers, but player concerns about exploitation of these servers have reached...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 388: Elyon descends through finite care
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic's Wrath pre-patch, New World's new servers, Elyon's sunset, Bless Unleashed's sunset, EVE Online Uprising, Star Trek Online's Wil Wheaton, and Temtem's launch, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and SWG Legends, with a lightning round of MMO questions from the mailbag.
ArcheAge launches the Feastival and previews an upcoming PvPvE instance arriving this month
I'm going to share something with you fine folks that probably won't surprise those who know me: I like to eat. I like to...
Vague Patch Notes: The MMORPG industry shockwaves that still reverberate
A thought occurred to me the other day regarding World of Warcraft and the way that it deformed the MMO industry: People who are...
Elyon, once hotly anticipated as Ascent Infinite Realm, is sunsetting in December
I wish I could say nobody saw this coming, but unfortunately, that's not the case: Kakao is closing down Elyon.
"Kakao Games Europe, following lengthy...
Fight or Kite: First impressions of Dysterra, a cybernetic post-apoc survival sandbox
In the future, our home Earth is beset by a host of economic and environmental disasters. It got so bad that people with resources...
The MOP Up: Witness the creation of a Dauntless behemoth
Dauntless shared a neat video of a collaboration between its players and artists: "Back in April, many of you joined us for a community...
ArcheAge Unchained’s new fresh start server won’t time-gate progression
We're just two weeks out from the launch of ArcheAge Unchained's new fresh start server now, and Kakao is finally explaining just what to...
ArcheAge launches a sky race event and adds more preservation bag collectors in latest patch
There's not too much going on in the latest patch update for ArcheAge as far as content goes unless you count the Mirage Sky...
Vague Patch Notes: Novelty is a contradiction in an MMORPG genre that discourages it
The newest member of the Big Five in the MMO space released in the west back in 2015, which was seven years ago now....
XLGames ties down another ArcheAge trademark, this time for ArcheAge WAR
XLGames' ArcheAge is once again pinging the trademark radar, with Redditors reporting yet another new filing made by the developer last week for something...
ArcheAge nerfs hero respawn points, further tweaks location features, and boosts XP for the end of summer
ArcheAge has put out another patch that primarily focuses in on some very specific content tweaks, which will likely mean more to players who...
Massively Overthinking: The real-world value of MMOs
A while back on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a wildly contentious - one might even say transparently provocative - thread declaring that "f...
ArcheAge’s September fresh start server features faster progression to catch players up
If you're a new arrival to ArcheAge, you probably feel woefully behind when it comes to character progression compared to others, which might have...
Elyon announces the arrival of the Soulbringer class on September 7
Despite the name, the new class being added to Elyon is not really known primarily for bringing souls to a fight. The most obvious...
