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A major global studio based in South Korea, known in the west for games like WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, among many others.

Massively Overthinking: The last great year of the MMO genre

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I was randomly reading an article about shitposting when I came across a phrase that haunts me. The author referred to 2015 as "what...

Working As Intended: 10 City of Heroes Homecoming base builds you need to see

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This winter, I've been obsessed with City of Heroes Homecoming's supergroup base builds, which as we've previously discussed here in Working As Intended are...
gun?

Guild Wars 2 previews pre-launch updates to its class weapons proliferation

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Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet dropped a fresh dev blog last night on V-day to herald the impending launch of the game's new weapon...

The Stream Team: The final steps for a Guild Wars 2 Skyscale

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It has been a long road, but Massively OP's MJ is finally on the last steps to getting her very own skyscale in Guild...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 457: Sailing into February with cannons blazing

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Justin and Bree discuss Skull & Bones, FFXIV on Xbox, WoW Classic, New World, and Nightingale, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on day and night cycles and getting out of MMO gaming ruts.

Throne and Liberty reasserts a 2024 global launch as NCsoft releases a siege video

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Here's a fun fact: Throne and Liberty is now over two months old on Korean servers. We'll absorb that information as we continue to...

NCsoft Q4 2023: Guild Wars 2 is a bright spot for NCsoft as Throne & Liberty stumbles

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NCsoft's Q4 2023 financials weren't the perk-up that investors surely wanted to see: The Korean gaming giant reported a 31% drop in revenues in...

The Daily Grind: Do any old MMORPGs provoke trauma for you?

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A while back I fell down a rabbit hole digging into Blade and Soul NEO Classic (trying to figure out whether the NEO was...

NCsoft updates EULAs for Lineage II, Aion, and Blade & Soul as part of move to Purple

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At the top of February we reported on NCsoft's decision to migrate many of its MMOs to its bespoke Purple platform, specifically affecting Blade...

The MOP Up: Fae Farm launches a free demo

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Was Fae Farm too rich for you blood? Now you can check it out for free on Nintendo Switch or PC thanks to a...
I HAVE TO RENEW MY HOUSE COME ON

Vague Patch Notes: MMORPGs and the PC gaming market

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I find myself thinking a lot about the MMORPG industry lately and the ways in which the gaming industry as a whole has changed...

Working As Intended: A guide to City of Heroes Homecoming’s best player-crafted portal bases

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A few years ago, I was wandering around in City of Heroes when someone advertised a cool base in chat. All I had to...

Massively Overthinking: When the original MMO is better than the sequel

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A few weeks ago, two lovely gamers I follow on Bluesky were discussing how let down they felt by Diablo IV, less because Diablo...
hit me

Into the Super-Verse: What’s wrong with City of Heroes’ Incarnate system?

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It hasn't been all that long since I said that what City of Heroes needs to focus on right now is not endgame content,...

Working As Intended: City of Heroes macros and popmenus for noobs

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In my first braindump on City of Heroes for this column, I tried to ease superhero fans into the world of modding the 20-year-old...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: The MMO franchises that can’t count past two

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Back in the day, there was a running joke about how Capcom had shown with Street Fighter that the company could not count higher...

The Stream Team: Going gangbusters on Guild Wars 2’s Skywatch meta event

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It's back to Skywatch for Massively OP's MJ. Specifically, she's heading to Guild Wars 2's meta event there. Why? Because she learned last time...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 456: The MMO housing show

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Justin and Bree tackle a theme proposed by the listeners, as this show is all about MMORPG housing, including why housing matters, post-launch housing patches, placement tools, prefab vs. custom houses, housing as part of the gameplay loop, apartments vs. instanced vs. open-world housing, incentivizing housing use, taxes and monetization, and integrating housing into MMO ecosystems.

Throne & Liberty KR holds its first PvP siege and explains the activity’s mechanics

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If you like laying siege to to a big castle with fantasy classes and big stomping rock golems, then you'll probably like what Throne...

Blade & Soul talks up NEO Classic’s updates to arena PvP combat skills and rewards

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Blade & Soul fans already know that the upcoming NEO Classic servers will feature faction PvP battles, but sometimes you just want to duke...

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