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The Daily Grind: Does FFA PvP reflect badly on players?
Today's Daily Grind question comes from Luxxicon, a donor to our Kickstarter campaign. Luxxicon just wants to talk about open-world PvP. In fact, his...
Massively Overthinking: Crowd control in MMORPGs
Today's Kickstarter-begotten Massively Overthinking question arrives from donor Ravenwynd, who writes,
I love control type characters in mmos. City of Heroes' Mind Controller could lock down...
ArcheAge producer examines the Archon class
Trion's latest ArcheAge PR push centers around "underplayed off-meta PvP builds that synergize exceptionally well with the introduction of Secrets of Ayanad." The first...
The Daily Grind: What’s the last non-combat activity you did in an MMO?
It's no secret that today's MMOs focus almost exclusively on combat. Oh sure, some of them have rudimentary crafting, trading, and housing minigames, but...
Ask Mo: Jobs in the MMO industry, jobs in MMOs
Today, we're reintroducing our general MMO advice column, here named Ask Mo: the column where you ask Mo questions, and he... lets me answer them for...
The Daily Grind: Would you play a stripped-down mobile version of your favorite MMO?
The (as of yet unspecified) plans to create a mobile version of Final Fantasy XI touches on a sore subject for me: the lack...
The Daily Grind: Have you tried Infinite Crisis?
Infinite Crisis came out on Steam last week, which was bad timing for me. I left town for the weekend and I didn't get to...
The Daily Grind: What stupid mistake do you keep making in an MMO?
In a lot of games, the E key defaults to use/interact/whatever. Get near a thing, press E, you do what you need to do....
MMO Week in Review: March 29, 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: Wedded bliss
Have you ever gotten married? In game, I mean. Well, if you haven't screenshotted it, it didn't happen. Fortunately this Final Fantasy XIV couple...
The Daily Grind: Do MMORPGs need VR?
Video game developers have been positively obsessing about virtual reality for the last few years, but barring an exception here and there, few MMOs seem...
Make My MMO: March 28, 2015
This week's crowdfunding news was all about Crowfall. Seriously, we must've written about Crowfall like 76 times or something. In the end, the most relevant...
WRUP: How to fry and eat your motorcycle edition
There comes a time in every woman's life, as well as the lives of most men and the occasional CGI humanoid monster, when you...
Betawatch: March 27, 2015
If you had told me that one of the big bits of news this week would be the release of Dungeon Fighter Online into...
The Daily Grind: What MMO conceits would you port into real life?
This morning's Daily Grind is a fun one straight from Kickstarter donor Wesley Hendriks. Wesley proposes we all ponder the following question:
If you could choose...
Massively Overthinking: The true value of free-to-play players
Today's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter backer and prolific commenter Omedon, who wrote us a really long question. It's long. But it's a...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most game-breaking cash shop item you’ve ever seen?
I don't have a lot of experience with MMO cash shops. I've used a couple of them to spend Turbine points or Funcom funny...
Leaderboard: Did you back Crowfall?
Crowfall's Kickstarter ends this week. In fact, it ends tomorrow. By all accounts it's been enormously successful, both in terms of the funds received...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a love/hate relationship with an MMO?
For the most part, my MMO gaming world is pretty black and white. If I enjoy a game, then I'm playing it. If I'm...
Global Chat: Tripping over colors in MMO play
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to play an MMO while affected by colorblindness? A guest writer over at Epic...
