A major global studio based in South Korea, known in the west for games like WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, among many others.
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Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Business Model
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Business Model, which we could not reach a staff consensus on...
Vague Patch Notes: The verbs of MMOs
Even if you don't like crafting, you should care if your MMO of choice has meaningful crafting. And you should especially care if it...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Biggest MMO Disappointment of 2020
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Disappointment of 2020, which was awarded jointly to the cancellation of...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2020
Here's a fun question for you: What's the difference between the biggest surprises of a year and the biggest stories of the year? The answer,...
Blade & Soul offers special Blade Dancer bundles and its Christmas event with tomorrow’s Grim Tidings patch
The next patch for Blade & Soul adds a third specialization for Blade Dancer, and if you're enticed by the prospect of the Grim Blade...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 301: Hurtling into Oblivion
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online's Gates of Oblivion, Crimson Desert, Elite Odyssey, Ark 2, Black Desert, WoW Shadowlands, PSO2, LOTRO, EverQuest, and FFXIV, with adventures in WoW, SWTOR, and CoH, and a mailbag topic on CoH Brutes that spirals into meta and endgame discussion.
Guild Wars 2’s Wintersday is now upon us as the game goes on sale for half off
The festive season has returned to Tyria this week as Guild Wars 2's Wintersday has just rolled out. ArenaNet says it'll run through January...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Character Customization
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with... what's this? A brand-new award? Yep! This year we're debuting a new formal award for Best...
Blade & Soul previews the item upgrade changes for its next update
With the next Blade & Soul update arriving on Wednesday players will have access to a new legendary ring and gloves. That means you should...
The Daily Grind: What was the best MMO emulator or rogue server in 2020?
Fun fact: We came up with "rogue server" last year in an attempt to disambiguate the word "emulator" and remove some of the whitewash...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v4.0
By far, my favorite column to write here at Massively OP (and the one that always takes the longest) is The Game Archaeologist. I've...
Guild Wars 2 on server performance: ‘We’re seeing more success’
If your Guild Wars 2 experience has seemed smoother and less fraught with performance issues as of late, that's not your optimistic mind deluding...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Most Improved MMO
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Most Improved MMO, which was awarded to Black Desert last year. All live...
One Shots: Gaming in the Before Times
The beginning of 2020 seems so, so very long ago now, doesn't it? It's strange to think back to a time when we could...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Event of 2020
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Event of 2020, which was awarded last year to AdventureQuest 3D...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2020 predictions
Last December, when we sat down to write out our annual MMO predictions for 2020, I don't think anyone had "biggest global pandemic in...
Blade & Soul’s final major update of the year includes a new specialization and heroic dungeon
The last update for Blade & Soul this year arrives on December 16th, and it brings with it a third specialization for Blade Dancer. The...
Vague Patch Notes: Defining the vague mass that is the MMO community
The community is important when it comes to talking about an MMO. This is an established fact; I wrote an entire column about how...
MMO Business Roundup: Twitch’s anti-hate policies, Cyberpunk’s concurrency, and the CASE Act
Welcome back to our irregular roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Twitch: This week, Twitch introduced yet another round of policy changes in regard...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Most Underrated MMO
Welcome to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year 2020 awards!
Every year, we poll our writers on the best and worst MMOs, stories, studios, and trends and...