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The Daily Grind: When is an MMORPG rare drop too rare?
The new Anima Weapon quests have me started on that process over in Final Fantasy XIV. It's a slow process toward the high end,...
Global Chat: Being thankful in MMOs
Last month's Thanksgiving holiday in the US prompted several MMO bloggers to share their thanks for gaming and other geeky goodness. Stars of the...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Expansion of the Year
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for best MMO update or expansion of the year.
Last year was a bit heavier on MMO updates...
Grab a WildStar Proto-Present Turret key from Carbine and MOP
In celebration of WildStar's Winterfest events, which just so happen to begin today, Carbine Studios has granted MOP keys for 20000 WildStar toys: the Proto-Present Turrets...
The Daily Grind: Is early access creating gated MMO communities?
I'm not generally interested in early access programs these days. For one thing, there are so many fully fleshed-out MMOs on the market that...
Guild Wars 2 e-sports team ragequits over design meta, technical issues
Here's a bit of MMORPG e-sports drama for you: A major Guild Wars 2 e-sports team bailed from competition last night. Competing in the game's ESL Guild...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Biggest MMO Blunder of the Year
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for biggest MMO blunder of the year.
Last year, we called developer hubris and obstinance the biggest blunder...
The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO ‘harbinger of failure’?
Earlier this year, blog Kill Ten Rats wrote about "Harbingers of Failure," a term coined by a quad of marketing researchers to describe people...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Trend of the Year
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best MMO trend of 2015.
Last year, we chose sandbox and social gameplay as the awardee...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio maintains the best community presence?
Last week, when the Massively staff was debating internally which MMO company deserved our best MMO studio of 2015 award, I argued that overseas studios...
MMO Week in Review: Star Citizen’s ambitions (December 13, 2015)
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!
Star...
The MOP Up: GTA Online makes every bullet count (December 13, 2015)
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...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Likely to Flop
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our most likely to flop in 2016 and beyond award.
Last year, Star Citizen took home this dishonor, leading to...
One Shots: Underground wonders
Spelunking isn't just a fun word to say but an exciting activity in its own right. Players who take the time to explore under...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the best character hairstyles?
We talk a lot about systems for changing the look of what your character is wearing, but what we don't talk about nearly enough...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Pseudo-MMO of the Year
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best pseudo-MMO of the year.
The games that populate this category are games that we'd usually cover...
WRUP: On the shininess of skin edition
Let's cover something that I would think is... kind of obvious. Skin is not, by default, shiny. It is not reflective. It does not...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best wardrobe system?
I think about MMO fashion a lot because I'm a weird person who doesn't get invited to a lot of parties (or maybe it's...
Betawatch: Albion Online celebrates the season and its backers (December 11, 2015)
Who loves Albion Online? The game is clearly doing something right enough to celebrate 60,000 founders backing the game in its current beta test;...
Leaderboard: What’s the most overrated MMO?
In the comments of our award post for Most Underrated MMO of 2015, Massively OP commenter Tongle demanded an equivalent counterpart.
Can we get a...
