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The Daily Grind: What was your last encounter with an MMO gamemaster like?
MMORPG game masters may be the unsung heroes of the industry. While developers get all of the spotlight and community managers the attention, the...
Betawatch: July 10th, 2015
Star Citizen managed to seize everyone's attention this week. Was it the opening of a new office for the game's development studio? The latest...
Leaderboard: What Blade & Soul class will you play?
I'm getting pretty excited for Blade & Soul, but I really have no idea what class I'm going to play at this point. The...
The Daily Grind: Is the age of mobile over before mobile MMOs even got started?
In analyzing survey responses returned from more than 250 developers this year, the organizers of GDC Europe did everything but declare mobile dead. "PC...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO innovation we long for (or do we?)
This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes from Kickstarter donor BigMikeyOcho, who wants to talk innovation:
"Sometimes when I play MMOs, I get the feeling that I'm...
The Daily Grind: Do you recommend Destiny?
I've been eyeballing Destiny lately, even before that shiny PS4 announcement and even though I was underwhelmed when I played the game on one...
The Daily Grind: What keeps you from crafting in MMOs?
To this day, I've really only been a "crafter" in a small handful of MMOs: Fallen Earth, World of Warcraft, and Lord of the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best storyline in an MMO?
Story is a polarizing word to MMO players: Either you love it or hate it, or maybe you just think it stinks or isn't...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most addictive collection minigame you’ve played?
I've been playing a lot of Assassin's Creed: Rogue here lately, and while it's certainly no MMO, it has managed to remind me of...
MMO Week in Review: Playing devils, punching dinos (July 5, 2015)
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMOÂ news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review!
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One Shots: Impossible architecture
When you construct your buildings out of pixels and polygons, you don't necessarily have to worry about what's physically possible and what isn't, just...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst MMO grind you’ve experienced?
There was a certain level band in World of Warcraft where my wife and I just resigned ourselves to a lack of useful quests...
Make My MMO: July 4, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Pathfinder Online introduced mules. No, not your dual-boxed healer or the crafter avatar that you force your kid to...
WRUP: Cool guys don’t look at fireworks edition
As we all know, cool guys don't look at explosions (they blow things up and just walk away). This is true as few things...
Betawatch: July 3rd, 2015
I freely admit that I never actually played Glitch, but I was glad it existed and sad at the people who never even had...
The Daily Grind: Does knowing how the MMO sausage is made ruin it for you?
Ever have a day when a confluence of posts and quotes lead you to one big MMO-related question? This post is that question, and...
Massively Overthinking: On the doom of server-wide MMO communities
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes from KS donor Morreion, who asks,
Do you think that MMO server-wide communities will ever make a comeback?
I suppose...
Leaderboard: What’s your favorite online action RPG?
Online action RPGs aren't really MMOs per se, but Massively has been covering them for quite a while anyway. I've only played one of...
Global Chat: Are fellowship maneuvers due for a comeback?
Lord of the Rings Online hasn't been en vogue in MMO circles recently, but that doesn't mean that the game and its systems are...
The Daily Grind: Are levels in MMOs overrated?
Today's Daily Grind question comes from an anonymous Kickstarter donor who wanted to see just how many cans of worms he/she could open in...