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The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO ‘harbinger of failure’?
Earlier this year, blog Kill Ten Rats wrote about "Harbingers of Failure," a term coined by a quad of marketing researchers to describe people...
Wisdom of Nym: Looking back at Final Fantasy XIV’s 2015
I realize that this is arguably a little early. We've still got a couple of weeks left in 2015, after all, and patch 3.15...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Trend of the Year
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best MMO trend of 2015.
Last year, we chose sandbox and social gameplay as the awardee...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio maintains the best community presence?
Last week, when the Massively staff was debating internally which MMO company deserved our best MMO studio of 2015 award, I argued that overseas studios...
EVE Evolved: Operation Frostline patch and event guide
Practically every MMO does some kind of event for the holidays, but how do you bring the holiday cheer to a dystopian sci-fi universe...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Likely to Flop
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our most likely to flop in 2016 and beyond award.
Last year, Star Citizen took home this dishonor, leading to...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the best character hairstyles?
We talk a lot about systems for changing the look of what your character is wearing, but what we don't talk about nearly enough...
Jukebox Heroes: A very merry Christmas MMO mix
Now that we're into the thick of December, I've given myself permission to finally turn the radio station over to the all-Christmas-all-the-time channel for...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Pseudo-MMO of the Year
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best pseudo-MMO of the year.
The games that populate this category are games that we'd usually cover...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best wardrobe system?
I think about MMO fashion a lot because I'm a weird person who doesn't get invited to a lot of parties (or maybe it's...
Leaderboard: What’s the most overrated MMO?
In the comments of our award post for Most Underrated MMO of 2015, Massively OP commenter Tongle demanded an equivalent counterpart.
Can we get a...
Perfect Ten: The 10 best free-to-play MMORPGs
You know one of the reasons I like writing this column? Because one of these days I'm going to be able to make a...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Biggest Disappointment of 2015
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the biggest MMO disappointment of 2015.
Last year, we gave this "award" to WildStar and ArcheAge in...
The Daily Grind: Do you roll new characters when you return to an MMO?
It's been a really long time since I logged into Lord of the Rings Online to do anything other than pay up my hobbit...
Massively Overthinking: MMO predictions for 2016
Now that we've all had a good laugh at the things we got wrong and marveled at the things we got right in last...
Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for The Secret World and Funcom fan
It's the holidays, and in the spirit of giving, I am going I'm going to give you ideas -- for gifts! Instead of waxing...
EverQuest’s anti-multiboxing progression server is now live
Classic EverQuest's latest time-locked progression server, Phinigel, successfully launched last night. Nicknamed "the true box progression server," it metes out expansion content at a...
Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Studio of the Year
Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best MMO studio of the year.
Last year's award was won by SOE, you'll recall, a...
The Daily Grind: Will you try Epic’s Paragon MOBA?
I hadn't heard of Paragon before last weekend, but after watching the brief gameplay clip that Epic released to tease its upcoming MOBA, I'm...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s 2015 report card
I’ve never had a chance to do an annual "report card" like this for Elder Scrolls Online because I left the game by the time that...
