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The Daily Grind: What MMO had the best revision to an existing system?
There have been very few total relaunches in MMO history, so marking Final Fantasy XIV as having one of the best isn't exactly disputed....
The Daily Grind: What is your favorite memory from the EverQuest franchise?
It's interesting to note that the EverQuest video game franchise, as a whole, is quite large -- perhaps bigger than you realized. There's the...
Global Chat: What is Daybreak thinking with H1Z1?
Daybreak's announcement earlier this month that it will be splitting H1Z1 into two games triggered a flood of responses from the MMO blogging community,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the greatest MMO innovation of the last few years?
Last week on the Massively OP Podcast, we tried to answer a question from long-time listener Spagomat, who told us he keeps going back...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMORPG boss fight?
World of Warcraft's Burning Crusade was very definitely not my favorite WoW expansion, but it had some fantastic dungeons. Karazhan leaps to mind as...
MMO Week in Review: Black Desert and ArcheAge cash-shop rage (February 21, 2016)
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
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The MOP Up: PlanetSide 2 gets a promotion (February 21, 2016)
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...
One Shots: Taking a breather
While one might get a sense that MMOs are nonstop adventures, with players shuttling to and fro on various important (and not-so-important) tasks, every...
The Daily Grind: Would you be into an MMO with constant reboots?
As much as I love the current version of Final Fantasy XIV and want the programmers to be able to visit their families, part...
Make My MMO: Vampire MMO Shadow’s Kiss is on Patreon (February 20, 2016)
So here's a new one for the Make My MMO crowdfunding column: We have a game that's actually vying for Patreon donations rather than...
Leaderboard: Are you up in arms over Black Desert’s cash shop?
Since the Black Desert beta opened up, the cash shop has been at the center of a gathering storm. While the game is ostensibly...
WRUP: Pace out the halls of your lineage edition
Picture a moment in time, if you will. Imagine it as a place, as a thing with structure. That point is fixed in space...
The Daily Grind: What’s your most and least favorite MMO biomes?
While developers are, by virtue of the job, very creative folks, there are only so many types of environments that seem to crop up...
Betawatch: The Division opens up for beta testing (February 19, 2016)
It's that wonderful time again, ladies and gentlemen, when a long-awaited title goes into open beta. The Division has opened up its beta today...
The Daily Grind: How do you plot your gameplay in an open-world sandbox?
Quantic Foundry's series of blog posts in support of its Gamer Motivation Model continue with its most recent piece on open world games, which...
Massively Overthinking: The Star Citizen money machine
Massively OP reader Ichi has posed us an interesting question. At the end of 2015, a lot of gamers, including some of our own...
Exclusive: Crowfall’s world building pipeline video and interview
Are you a fan of Tetris but wish it were more free-form and connected to an MMO's world building tool kit? Yeah, neither am I,...
The Daily Grind: What MMOs have unexpectedly hooked you?
My roommate expected to like Star Trek Online because, well, she likes Star Trek. That was a given. What she didn't expect was to...
The Daily Grind: How do you handle MMO burnout?
We've all been there: You're playing your favorite MMO(s) continually until you log in one day and find that the joy of the game has...
The Daily Grind: Do cutscenes in MMORPGs annoy you?
The last few months, I've been playing a lot of Diablo III, and last week I jumped into Devilian. One thing both games do...
