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The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO that people are sleeping on?
I would like to think that most of our readers are familiar with lots of MMORPGs, seeing as they read about them here. But...
Wisdom of Nym: What if Final Fantasy XIV stops adding new jobs?
One of the constants that underpins the speculation that lots of players, including me, have about Final Fantasy XIV's future expansions - beyond the...
The Daily Grind: How do you manage your MMORPG alts?
You might not know this about me, but I'm a bit of a spreadsheet junkie. I have spreadsheets for literally everything, especially for my...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite toy in an MMORPG?
When the first expansion for World of Warcraft introduced flight form for Druids, people discovered a number of "bombing" techniques in which Druids could fly...
LOTRO Legendarium: How music binds the LOTRO community together
Whenever I'm reading through JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth novels, one thing that absolutely pops out at me is the Professor's love of song. Music isn't...
The Daily Grind: How do you best like to contribute to an MMO group?
When I was in fifth grade, we had a huge "war" of freeze tag that went on every recess break for a couple months....
Not So Massively: Immortal Gates of Pyre’s latest demo adds new immortal and more PvE content
The recent Steam Next Fest included the latest demo from StarCraft II inspired multiplayer RTS Immortal: Gates of Pyre. This demo included several pieces...
MMO Hype Train: What’s the ideal path to promoting and hyping an MMO?
As much as there's a great deal to master when creating an MMORPG, there's also quite the learning experience when it comes to promoting...
Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness
Over the past three weeks of the Gachapwned column, we've talked about the three main prongs that keep people invested in gacha games in...
Project Ghost’s Greg Street defends building an MMO: ‘When they work, it’s magic’
It's slightly sad that in this day and age, a game studio feels that it needs to defend why it's pouring efforts into crafting...
The Daily Grind: Does your MMORPG friend list look like a graveyard?
A throwaway comment on Reddit the other day made me vicariously sad: A player named IVRYN posted about "those dudes you have on your...
Progress Bar: We demo’d eight Steam Next Fest games that multiplayer fans should check out
Ah, Steam Next Fest. A smorgasbord of sketchy titles and hentai games. I kid (mostly), it's also a great way to experience some all-new,...
First Impressions: Chrono Odyssey feels like a jankier New World
Ahead of its publicly available beta on June 20th, MassivelyOP was granted an early peak at Chrono Odyssey's current by the folks Kakao Games,...
Vague Patch Notes: MMORPG development is a guessing game
So the next update for Warframe is a couple of weeks away, and I have to say, the promise of Duviri but with my Warframe...
The Daily Grind: Which older MMORPG do you think has aged the worst?
I have openly never been a big fan of EverQuest, but I also have to say that as MMORPGs go, it's one that has aged really...
Perfect Ten: Awful things I don’t miss about 2000s-era MMO gaming
Nostalgia is a tricky beast to ride. It can unlock all sorts of blissful memories, bring us back to old favorites, and reclaim a...
The Daily Grind: If you had only 15 minutes to play your MMO, what would you do?
Time is a precious commodity for all of us -- and there never seems to be enough for all we want to do. This...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 521: Switching it up
Justin and Bree discuss Dune Awakening, New World's season servers, Chrono Odyssey, the Switch 2, and all the MMOs of Summer Game Fest, with adventures in World of Warcraft, LOTRO, and Palia, plus a mailbag topic on raids and storytelling in MMOs.
Choose My Adventure: Some quick co-op refreshment in Elite Dangerous
Aaaah yes, it is good to be back in this saddle again.
Now any of you fine readers who also watch my streams on OPTV...
Not So Massively: Vindictus Defying Fate’s alpha promises a highly polished Soulslike
Right now, Nexon is offering a free Steam demo of its upcoming solo/co-op action RPG Vindictus: Defying Fate, but before the devs opened the...