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Choose My Adventure: Torchlight, too
March is but a memory. April is here. And while a new month certainly brings new things to Choose My Adventure, we've got just...
Leaderboard: Have you talked someone out of buying a game you like?
So here's something that doesn't happen very often: I talked a friend out of buying Star Citizen's Vanguard LTI concept. In the past I've...
Ask Mo: Jobs in the MMO industry, jobs in MMOs
Today, we're reintroducing our general MMO advice column, here named Ask Mo: the column where you ask Mo questions, and he... lets me answer them for...
The Daily Grind: Would you play a stripped-down mobile version of your favorite MMO?
The (as of yet unspecified) plans to create a mobile version of Final Fantasy XI touches on a sore subject for me: the lack...
Jukebox Heroes: Seven MMOs with player music systems
A few weeks ago I asked the Massively Overpowered community if all MMOs should come with player music systems. In my opinion, at least,...
Massively OP Podcast: Episode 8
Justin and Bree discuss Crowfall, Skyforge, LOTRO, Dungeon Fighter Online, Pillars of Eternity, EverQuest's progression server, and wardrobe systems in WildStar, RIFT, and SWTOR, with mailbag questions on the MMORTS genre and how F2P cheapens gameplay.
Three Elder Scrolls Online mods you shouldn’t play without
If you have not jumped into Elder Scrolls Online yet, you should really give it a shot. With its latest update and B2P transition, it's...
The Daily Grind: Have you tried Infinite Crisis?
Infinite Crisis came out on Steam last week, which was bad timing for me. I left town for the weekend and I didn't get to...
Sword and Bored: Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof!
Realizing that open PvP servers are wretched hives of scum and villainy, Mo decides to reroll.
Wisdom of Nym: The fall in Final Fantasy XIV
There is a crack in the foundation of Eorzea's defenders, and it's been there for a while. For all of Final Fantasy XIV's operation, we've...
The Daily Grind: What stupid mistake do you keep making in an MMO?
In a lot of games, the E key defaults to use/interact/whatever. Get near a thing, press E, you do what you need to do....
Guild Chat: The top five ingredients in every great guild
Welcome to Guild Chat, my comfortable little corner of Massively Overpowered in which I dissect the inner workings and tricky politics associated with MMO...
The Daily Grind: Do MMORPGs need VR?
Video game developers have been positively obsessing about virtual reality for the last few years, but barring an exception here and there, few MMOs seem...
EverQuest’s new progression server could take you eight years to finish
Back in February, Daybreak announced plans for a new classic EverQuest progression server and allowed players to vote on the future server's ruleset. Yesterday,...
The Game Archaeologist: Middle-earth Online
Out of all of the MMOs that I've played over the years, I must have spent the most time in Lord of the Rings...
WRUP: How to fry and eat your motorcycle edition
There comes a time in every woman's life, as well as the lives of most men and the occasional CGI humanoid monster, when you...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a regular gaming group?
When you're on a time budget and can't always be in a game 24/7 to join spontaneous guild runs, it's a blessing to be...
WoW Factor: In praise of Warlords of Draenor
I've made no secret of the fact that I consider Warlords of Draenor to be a sub-par expansion. My opinion on that has not...
Lost Continent: ArcheAge’s dolphingate was much ado about nothing
I'd like to play devil's advocate about this whole ArcheAge dolphingate thing. First, though, let me start with a disclaimer. If you've read this...
The Daily Grind: What MMO conceits would you port into real life?
This morning's Daily Grind is a fun one straight from Kickstarter donor Wesley Hendriks. Wesley proposes we all ponder the following question:
If you could choose...
