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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite type of grind in an MMORPG?
Grind is not a thing people generally love in MMORPGs, but what's actually considered to be grind varies wildly from player to player. You...
The MOP Up: Setting a VR world record (May 8, 2016)
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...
Guild Chat: How to reacclimate when coming back to EVE Online
Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, the space in which I get together with the MOP commenters to help a reader in need...
The Daily Grind: Do you prefer smaller or larger servers?
I have joked, not entirely without seriousness, that part of what I like about being on an underpopulated server in Final Fantasy XI is...
The Game Archaeologist: Myst Online Uru Live
The impact of Myst's launch in 1993 was akin to an atomic bomb going off in the PC gaming world. The leap forward in graphical...
The Daily Grind: Is change in MMOs a blessing or a curse?
Lately I've been dwelling on the topic of change in MMORPGs. It's one of the foundational principles of the genre, that these titles aren't...
Marvel Heroes’ Captain America: Civil War promo is live (so get your free hero)
It's time to get your free Iron Man or Captain America in Marvel Heroes!
As part of its massive Captain America: Civil War promotion, Gazillion has...
WoW Factor: Content gaps, polish, and the Legion release date
The past few weeks have been pretty well packed, both in a personal and in a professional sense, so it's easy to sort of...
The Daily Grind: Should MMO studios be involved in modding their games’ subreddits?
Reddit is a complicated place with more than its fair share of drama, and that drama spills over into the gaming space from time...
Massively Overthinking: The sandbox MMORPG disconnect
This week's Massively Overthinking was inspired by a reader who decided to go by Sandboxless in Seattle when he penned this note of frustration to us.
I...
EverQuesting: The gaffe of gating EverQuest II’s content behind a sub
With last week's release of GU100 in EverQuest II, an interesting conversation reared its head again -- a not necessarily flattering one for Daybreak. While...
Perfect Ten: The final minutes of beloved MMORPGs
"This is how the world ends," T S Eliot wrote in his famous poem, "not with a bang, but with a whimper."
That might well...
The Daily Grind: What elements tend to endear classes to you in MMORPGs?
It's not difficult to find a unifying theme through my main classes in various games. I mainline Enhancement Shaman and Retribution Paladin in World...
The Stream Team: May the Fourth (and free cartel packs) be with you in SWTOR
What's better than spending May the fourth (be with you) in SWTOR? Spending it with MassivelyOP’s Larry and MJ in SWTOR! The duo continues...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Weighing in on the Guild Wars 2 WvW poll
The first WvW poll is about to close and the votes have been flying in during the last few days, driving home that Guild Wars...
The Daily Grind: Have you revisited an old MMO character lately?
The Gnome Warlock you see in the above header is the original Syp, created pre-Burning Crusade in October 2006. She's probably one of my...
Path of Exile patch adds nine new divination cards
While bug fixes are always a welcome part of patches, a little extra content is always appreciated! Path of Exile's patch 2.2.2c deployed today,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 63: Leisure suit Larry
Justin and Larry discuss pristine WoW servers, TSW, Trove, Champs Online, SWTOR, lockboxes, and birthdays in CoH, LOTRO, and Guild Wars.
Jukebox Heroes: City of Heroes’ soundtrack
In the history of MMORPGs, City of Heroes might well go down as having one of the most passionate communities in the genre. People didn't...
The Daily Grind: Do your MMO choices actually reflect your playstyle?
Massively OP reader Leiloni tipped us off to a great blog post by MMO blogger Ethan "Isarii" Macfie, in which the author questions his...
