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Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online proves the worth of a small story arc
It was the other day in Elder Scrolls Online's Northern Elsweyr that I stumbled upon a disgraced rogue that used to run a pit...
The Daily Grind: How have your MMO play habits changed as you’ve gotten older?
The stereotypical progress of MMO players is to start out in college when you have the time to spend 19 hours of your day...
Desert Oasis: Black Desert has grown so much in its 3333 days of life
Black Desert is celebrating 3333 days of operation today. That's a little over nine years, with plenty more in store. The Scholar class just...
Perfect Ten: 10 problems that really hurt The Secret World
For whatever reason, The Secret World is one of those games that people keep going back over mentally, an MMO that still collectively has...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs stop making us heroes?
The other day I was watching a rather excellent 40-minute video of a RuneScape player who dived head-first into all of the versions of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 458: PlanetSide 2 in limbo
Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak selling PlanetSide, Nightingale's early access, Islands of Insight's launch, and NCsoft's financials with Guild Wars 2 and Throne & Liberty, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on features we want to see in features for Amazon's LOTR and ZeniMax's Star Wars MMOs.
Massively on the Go: Guide to preparing for Pokemon Go’s Global Sinnoh Tour
Pokemon GO's Sinnoh Tour is going global February 24th-25th. We've been heavily updating our Los Angeles guide as, Niantic's poor communication and history of...
Choose My Adventure: The Wagadu Chronicles is off to an extremely rough start
Early access games are one of those things where you pretty much are buying something broken. It's like antique shopping for video games except...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG’s graphics hold up long past their due?
When Dark Age of Camelot first hit beta a million years ago, I remember being super impressed with its graphics. Up until that point,...
The Soapbox: Why I’m OK with ‘missing’ attacks in City of Heroes
The other day in the MassivelyOP work chat, we were talking about City of Heroes. Shocking, I know. But I've mentioned before that I...
Wisdom of Nym: How long until Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion based on patch 6.57?
I wasn't really thinking about Final Fantasy XIV's patch 6.57 in any real detail because... of course I wasn't. There are some things I...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO provides the most opportunity for ‘worthy deaths’?
MMO designer Damion Schubert recently penned a lengthy thread on Bluesky all about death - death in MMOs, that is. He opined that game...
The MOP Up: Undecember creates one-player raids
Just because you're a social pariah doesn't mean that you can't raid in Undecember! The hack-and-slash multiplayer RPG pumped out a new patch that...
Global Chat: What are the top dragons in EverQuest?
If you were pressed to put together a top 10 list of the most famous and infamous dragons in EverQuest, which beasties would you...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO most consistently makes you laugh when it wants to?
It is probably not a surprise that AdventureQuest 3D is not my main game. I talk about the games that are my main game...
LOTRO Legendarium: Rethinking LOTRO’s landscape soldiers
In December 2009, Lord of the Rings Online added one of its most unique side systems with skirmishes. Not only were these instances flexible...
The Daily Grind: Do you participate in MMO lotteries or gambling?
Ever since I got back into Final Fantasy XIV, I've had to remember to take a daily trip up to the gold saucer to...
Four Winds: Phantasy Star Online 2 offers some of the best social features in MMORPGs
I don't know about everyone else, but a huge part of MMOs for me is the fashion. My characters need to absolutely slay the runway...
Into the Super-Verse: So what can Homecoming do with City of Heroes’ Incarnates?
Last week I talked about the major issues that City of Heroes' Incarnate system introduced to the game, and the fact of the matter...
The Daily Grind: Are there any quadruple-A MMOs?
Ubisoft made headlines earlier this week for claiming to investors that the high pricetag for Skull & Bones was justified because it's a vast,...
