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Throne and Liberty addresses pain points of overwhelming dailies and janky combat
It's not just the end of the year for Throne and Liberty; it's also the end of the MMO's launch year here in the...
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2’s community shows off amazing player housing creations
It's no surprise that Guild Wars 2 players are thrilled to be interior decorators, thanks to this year's player housing system. And in a...
One Shots: Striding boldly through fields of sunflowers
With the chill of winter and color leeching out of nature during this month, it's certainly nice to be able to visit warmer seasons...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best new zone or map of 2024?
The last couple of years, I've come full circle back to being a hardcore explorer in MMORPGs, and it's led me to some games...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Aion NA and Aion Classic EU host holiday events full of trees, free gifts, and Shugos
Ah, Christmas in Aion. It means snow, seasonal gifts, Solorius trees, and ambulatory weasel people saying "nyerk" a lot. All of these festive traditions...
Vague Patch Notes: MMORPG accelerationism is a stupid sucker’s game
The most recent Warframe update starts with a solid chunk of story, and the story that it tells is that of a time loop....
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
The Stream Team: The cat’s heist in Guild Wars 2
While on a quest for a frog in a top hat in Guild Wars 2, Massively OP's MJ was introduced to a fairly famous...
MMO studio NCsoft inks deals to publish ‘time survival’ shooter and medieval strategy RPG
The growth of Korean developer and publisher NCsoft seemingly knows no bounds, especially at the tail end of 2024 as additional deals have surfaced...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 498: Pantheon’s power play
Justin, Bree, and Chris discuss Pantheon's early access, Ship of Heroes' launch window, Warframe 1999's release, World of Warcraft's Siren Isle, Elder Scrolls Online's outage and union, and Old School RuneScape's sailing, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, Palworld, Dauntless, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus mailbag topics on midcore MMO players and abilities we wish were in every MMORPG.
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best event of 2024?
I'm well aware that this is going to be a hard Daily Grind to answer because it used to be an award, and it...
One Shots: Fully furnished and in need of a yard sale
Hey look, everyone, it's RimaHadley! Welcome back to the big leagues, AKA "that goofy Sunday column where we get to stream our games, one...
Design Mockument: What should Guild Wars 3 look like?
We know that Guild Wars 3 is happening... probably. I mean, we have no specific details about Guild Wars 3, other than the fact...
Guild Wars 2 shows off all of the things players have created with Homesteads
Some people with limited imaginations do not personally wish to use housing in MMORPGs and thus do not see the value of it. "So...
Eight-year-old indie superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes sets a Q2 2025 launch window
Just a few weeks ago, we noted that it appeared Ship of Heroes' release plans had continued shifting around (at one point, it was...
Throne and Liberty launches the Startree Solstice event today alongside a cooking revamp
It's patch day for Throne and Liberty as Amazon and NCsoft roll out the planned holiday content, the first Christmas ever for the global...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2024
I have not had a good 2024. I have, in fact, had the absolute opposite of that. I feel like I exist now through...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 497: Walking down the Path of Exile 2
Justin and Bree discuss Path of Exile 2's early access, Elder Scrolls Online weird event snafu, EverQuest's The Outer Brood, and ArcheAge's second sunset of the year, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on the normalization of bad MMO monetization and why some gamers melt down over every bit of MMO news.
