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Seeing as how 'tis the season and all that, even the sound of MMOs is changing for the holidays. Christmas tunes are popping up...

There's a pretty strong opinion out there that Lord of the Rings Online's lifetime subscription was one of the best such subs in the...

It's become a tradition on Massively OP to include among our end-of-the-year roundups and editorials and retrospectives a run-down of our favorite - and least favorite - MMO dev quotes of the year, be they obscure, poignant, or just plain dumb. So once again, for this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked our staff to offer up those quotes and then reflect on what we from the year and reflect on just what we've learned from them.

We've got a little while until World of Warcraft actually drops its Classic server, but the nice thing is that those of us who have...

As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later? So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.

One of the memes I see repeated a lot when folks are waxing nostalgic about the old days of MMOs is this idea that...

I don't usually like to jump into the PvE-v-PvP debate because no one wins, but I have started to see an exodus of PvPers...

If you ever need to know why we'll happily cover Star Wars Galaxies emulators and not Ultima Online emulators here on Massively Overpowered, the reason is...

There is no point when I stop playing Final Fantasy XIV, but there are times when I'm not playing much. My interest wanes, I have...

Another year is coming to a close! That means we're doing all of our usual end-of-year recaps, and that also means that we're once...

Like some of you, I am really into decorating for the holidays. Not Clark Griswold-drain-the-Chicago-power-grid crazy, but I love transforming my environment into something...

Justin and Bree discuss delays and do-overs for Project Nova, Path of Exile, Fractured, and Blades, plus WildStar's sunset, Red Dead Online, and Fallout 76's many messes, with mailbag questions on keeping up with new MMOs and combat-free titles.

Star Citizen's recent free fly event, and in particular the time I spent with MJ and friends riding an extremely swanky ship, has gotten...

A couple of months ago, I did a Daily Grind asking folks to find something nice to say about MMOs they hate. It was...

At the tail end of last week, Valve announced a new revenue sharing plan for publishers on Steam that simmered all weekend. In a...

The first Final Fantasy XIV fan festival this year seem to have been an exercise in subverting player expectations, albeit with subtlety. Six prior festivals...

It's possible I've been doing this too long and have just seen a whole lot of casually delivered bad news on Twitter from gaming...

Back in the days of Final Fantasy XI, if I didn't have at least three hours to play the game I rarely would bother logging in....

One of the unexpected benefits of jumping onto Lord of the Rings Online new progression servers is that it's giving many of us a...

Every MMO player knows that a vast majority of NPCs that we encounter will be one-quest stands. We'll do something nice for them, they'll...