Massively Overthinking is a weekly feature in which the Massively Overpowered writers take turns weighing in on a particular MMO-related topic before turning the discussion over to the readership. [Follow this feature’s RSS feed]
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Massively Overthinking: What’s your first reaction to meeting someone in your main MMORPG?
In the MOP comments a few weeks back, a group of our readers debated how MMO gamers would react to seeing other groups in...
Massively Overthinking: Under what conditions, if any, would you accept AI use in an MMORPG?
Earlier this month, market data analyst Ross Burton (via PC Gamer) wrote a blog about the correlation between Steam reviews and AI disclosures, and...
Massively Overthinking: Is the era of the themepark MMORPG over?
Earlier this week, MMOPRPG veteran Raph Koster - who is known for his past and upcoming sandboxes - suggested that themepark MMORPG are in...
Massively Overthinking: Slightly chilled takes about the future of Guild Wars
Now that we've had some time to digest the confirmation that Guild Wars 3 is happening - something we knew, but there's knowing and then...
Massively Overthinking: How much effort do you put into your MMO characters’ backstories?
This week's Massively Overthinking discussion topic was pitched by our Not So Massively columnist Tyler, who definitely doesn't just want an excuse to talk...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the biggest obstacle to your enjoyment of MMORPG PvP?
Back in March, when Funcom finally admitted defeat and announced that it would split up Dune Awakening's PvE and PvP scenes to align with...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG tutorials are actually effective – vs. functionally useless?
Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street dropped a random thoughtful Twitter thread this past weekend, remarking on how people learn in school - and how that translates...
Massively Overthinking: What should MMOs do about ‘rush-to-endgame’ players?
Last week, GamesRadar did a tactful piece on the backlash toward Diablo IV's endgame coming from competitive players specifically. One particular streamer finished a...
Massively Overthinking: Should MMOs reward players for content they were gonna do anyway?
Last weekend, I was watching a video from YouTuber Berrohn that is, in a nutshell, about the perils of overgamification in life. He discusses...
Massively Overthinking: Do you try to deinfluence fellow gamers from any MMOs?
Last weekend, a big old dramabomb went off in a specific MMORPG community. I'm not gonna rehash it, but in the course of my...
Massively Overthinking: What kind of cozy content is missing in MMORPGs?
The days when "MMORPG sandbox" was synonymous with "life skilling virtual world" have been dwindling as the terms are slowly shifting, in my estimation,...
Massively Overthinking: Are you looking for a ‘forever game’ in your MMORPGs?
Back at the end of March, PC Gamer got a quote from a dev who basically blasted the idea of forever games. "For a long...
Massively Overthinking: So how panicked are we about the state of the games industry?
This past week, games industry royalty Brenda and John Romero spoke to GIbiz in an interview that honestly set my heart pounding - and...
Massively Overthinking: Should gamers shut up about MMOs they don’t play?
Former World of Warcraft and Overwatch developer Jeff Kaplan apparently has zero floops left to give because he's been on the warpath ever since...
Massively Overthinking: The nine games portrait of you
A few weeks back, there was a viral tier list-esque site called my9games.com going around Bluesky and probably elsewhere; the idea is that you...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the most important takeaway from the last MMORPG you quit?
So often when we leave an MMORPG, it's either in anger or in apathy. Either we're just fed up with something like a bug,...
Massively Overthinking: Do you regret your hastily created MMORPG characters?
A few weekends ago, I bought $6 copies of Nightingale for the rest of my family so we could all play together, and I...
Massively Overthinking: If you could delete one class or skill from your favorite MMORPG…
This week's Massively Overthinking is inspired by a tweet I saw from SMITE, of all games, where the Hi-Rez devs asked players to propose...
Massively Overthinking: Is the MMO guild dead?
Almost 11 years ago, when we were still setting up our indie version over here on MOP, we did a Massively Overthinking about the...
Massively Overthinking: Takeaways from the Ashes of Creation bonfire
This past weekend's shocking revelation that there was something rotten in the state of Ashes of Creation sent the MMORPG community into a froth,...
