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Wisdom of Nym: Why Final Fantasy XIV’s role actions didn’t work

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Tucked away in the latest live letter was a bit of information that seems like it's more relevant than its rather humble placement would...

LOTRO Legendarium: Is Lord of the Rings Online aging well?

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By now, to me, Lord of the Rings Online is a comfortable, well-worn friend that always offers a very predictable and enjoyable experience whenever...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever had an MMORPG-related dream?

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A real dream, not just a dream to top the raid leaderboard. MOP reader CamelotCrusade submitted today's whimsical Daily Grind topic. "The other night I...

EVE Evolved: A furious supercapital war is raging in EVE Online

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This year kicked off with a bang for EVE Online as rumblings emerged of impending war on a scale that the gaming world had...

The MOP Up: PlanetSide 2 throws a summer rager (August 5, 2018)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

One Shots: Motion sickness

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Our headlining picture today comes with a request for some help, so we're calling all Warframe players to give their aid! "So I finally decided...
Shiny!

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite bragging rights reward in an MMO?

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The title I display most often in Final Fantasy XIV is "Sidestepper." It's not a flashy title, but it's a bragging rights reward because...

Chronicles of Elyria gets players to shape the world through a plague

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Chronicles of Elyria's biggest community event yet looks to change the very face of this developing MMO -- but there's a good chance that...
This is new, this is new, this is new.

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are the best for occasional play?

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As a longtime fan of MMOs, I struggle with one serious factor when it comes to playing them: time. It's not just finding time...

EverQuesting: Returning to EverQuest II’s Guk (for the first time)

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In my last EverQuesting, I mentioned that I had not participated in much -- if any -- of EverQuest II's The Shadow Odyssey content. I've...

The Daily Grind: When was the last time you went sightseeing in an MMORPG?

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Are you into stopping and smelling the flowers, literally or figuratively? I started thinking a bit about this thanks to a tweet ZeniMax sent out...
Nothing else has worked.

WoW Factor: There’s no fixing this Battle for Azeroth story

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Let's be totally clear about something: There is no twist waiting for this World of Warcraft story. It doesn't exist. There's no way that...
Oh, is this one my time? It keeps changing back and forth.

The Daily Grind: Have you ever run a ‘solo’ guild in an MMO?

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When housing first arrived in Final Fantasy XIV, a lot of people wanted personal houses but couldn't yet get them. So they did the...

Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR is testing huge changes for the Rishi stronghold

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I know I took more than a moment to explain why I liked the new Rishi stronghold coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic...

Global Chat: The ‘We Don’t Play World of Warcraft’ Club

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What do you do when you don't play World of Warcraft but everyone else all around you does and won't stop talking about it...
lol newb

The Daily Grind: Is Fallout 76 an MMO?

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We all know that the definition of "MMORPG" and "MMO" have been stretched, twisted, and interpreted in vastly different ways over the years based...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 180: Superstoked for heroic MMOs

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Justin and Bree discuss the influence of City of Heroes (Paragon Chat, SEGS, Valiance Online, Ship of Heroes, and City of Titans), plus WoW, No Man's Sky, SWGemu, Camelot Unchained, STO, CCP's new MMO, and Rend, with a mailbag entry on comments negativity.

Why I Play: Trove’s Geode changed me from a visitor to a player

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Trove's Geode expansion has been a game-changer - and I mean it in more ways than one. The latest update/expansion to the colorful voxel-based game...

The Daily Grind: Are you actually using Steam’s new chat and group features?

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Last week, Steam pushed live the changes to its social features it first announced back in June. As we wrote at the time, its...

Worlds Adrift announces its first player council, says the playerbase will pick the next round

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Longtime MMORPG fans will know that the concept of player councils and senates, liaisons between the playerbase and the developers, have long been a...

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