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LOTRO Legendarium: Revisiting Riders of Rohan in Lord of the Rings Online
It's finally time: We're heading back to Rohan. On Lord of the Rings Online's progression servers, at least -- the live servers have hosted...
The Daily Grind: What makes for a good MMO boss fight?
Thanks to the DikuMUD model, MMO players have fought many, many bosses in their gaming careers. New dungeons primarily are introduced by how many...
Lawful Neutral: Examining the infamous MMO lockbox, 2020 edition
I have a soft spot for paranormal horror. I love movies about demons, ghosts, hauntings, possessions. There's one particular movie from the early aughts...
WoW Factor: How could World of Warcraft restore confidence ahead of Shadowlands?
The last opportunity that Blizzard had to really restore player confidence was Warcraft III: Reforged. And...
Yes, that's very good, please stop laughing. I know. It's...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO for duoing in 2020?
Appropriate topic for Valentine's Day, right? I mean, sure, you could go get reservations and pay through the nose for expensive dinner along with...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG do you wish got a glow-up?
No matter how much we love mechanics, even our most cerebral writers and readers still admit to being graphics snobs. It's human: We like...
Warframe of Mind: The creepy charm of Chains of Harrow
Slowly but surely, I have been making my way through Warframe's story missions. And while understandably story and lore may not be the first...
Vague Patch Notes: How to read games industry investor reports as a player
The old adage goes that diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. By extension, marketing is the...
The Daily Grind: Do survival sandboxes and/or battle royale games have a future?
We saw the end of REND. I'm sad about that. I liked REND, I thought it had neat ideas, but it had a problem wherein it...
Desert Oasis: Finding the plot in Black Desert’s story
In our preview of Black Desert's new Guardian class, one of the more surprising conversations to come out of the comments was the opinion...
Perfect Ten: MMOs I’m optimistic about in 2020
I didn't actually plan to make this an annual feature or anything; I thought of it last year as a fun list, and then...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO puts on the best Valentine’s Day?
Valentine's Day tends to be one of the stranger holidays for MMO developers to try to shoehorn into their game worlds. It can be...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 259: Once upon a Phantasy Star
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard, PSO2, WoW Classic, Camelot, the site's 5th anniversary, adventures in STO and SWGL, and mailbag topics on Daybreak, the podcast, and gaming ambassadors.
The Stream Team: MOP’s 5th birthday party, afternoon edition
Happy birthday Mo! Today marks the 5th year that Massively OP has been news-ing, opinion-ing, and streaming right here at our very own overpowered...
Albion Online now counts 350K monthly active players, plans major alliance changes
We just got some fun numbers on Albion Online, buried in a forum post: Sandbox Interactive says that its massive Queen update in January...
Choose My Adventure: Nearing a point of Lahn mastery in Black Desert
In the last Choose My Adventure column, I mentioned how the Lahn in Black Desert felt an awful lot like a fighting game character...
Massively Overthinking: MassivelyOP, five years in
Five years ago, we flipped a switch, let the site go live, and published our first article as Massively OP. It was from Justin,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG endgame for people who like to PUG?
A few months ago on Reddit, a player popped up with a neat question about MMO endgames. Essentially, Redditor TooEarlyForMe wanted to participate in...
Wisdom of Nym: Our last preview of Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.2
For a lot of people, patch 5.1 felt sort of like a breather. Obviously, it had a bunch of new stuff in it, but...
Fight or Kite: Examining the state of Guild Wars 2 PvP ahead of the big balance patch
About two weeks ago, ArenaNet dropped one of the largest - maybe the largest - balance patch previews for Guild Wars 2 to date....
