maintenance mode

I've played nothing but the Black Desert season servers in the last month. It's such a fresh breath of air, and it's something I...

The Final Fantasy XI team has gotten its groove back, although in this case "groove" mostly means "development cadence." Yes, the team is back...

Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, “Whatever happened to that game?” With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...

As of this writing, the Final Fantasy XIV server that has made the most progress on Ishgard restoration is Tonberry on the Elemental data...

ROSE Online, a Korean MMO that first launched in 2005 and was shut down in its home country in February 2019 after three years...

Here's something we don't talk about much here on Massively OP: sports games. When we think of "MMOs," we tend to run right toward...

A while back in the Not So Massively column, I did a piece comparing the pros and cons of some of the biggest names...

Even if Gamigo has never stated it, it's widely known that RIFT has been in maintenance mode for a good while now. Active development...

Is there anything more on-brand for Final Fantasy XI than apologizing because this month's update is a bit smaller than usual? Probably not. According...

To this day, no one has a quote as useful on the subject of life and death as E. B. White: "We're born, we...

The sharp rise and fall of Champions Online back in 2009 resulted in a game that's made for an easy target of jokes ever...

Oh barf. Yes, folks, it... it had to happen. We had to get to this expansion. I know, none of us really want to. World of Warcraft...

In 2015, Final Fantasy XI waved farewell to major updates with the release of Rhapsodies of Vana'diel, a sweeping story encompassing all the expansion...

Hey, remember when we mentioned with every single post about Final Fantasy XI that the game was supposed to be in maintenance mode? It's still...

The world can be a weird place. Rend has won the 2019 International Film Music Critics Association award for Best Original Score for a Video...

Ugh. My heart hurts every time that my attention turns to RIFT. It's one of perhaps six or so MMORPGs that I've dearly, dearly...

Yesterday, we covered the news that Perfect World Entertainment is finally enabling account linking between Steam and Arc, its proprietary platform for distributing all...

So, apparently all the stories last week about how Anthem still hadn't taken down its Christmas decorations struck a nerve, and we've got an...

Last week on The Game Archaeologist, we examined the exciting beginnings of Guild Wars, thanks to a trio of ex-Blizzard developers who wanted to...

Every once in a while, I'll be tabbing through my feeds and see an update on the MechWarrior Online site. I get excited for...