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The Division 2 finally releases Season 11 with new manhunts, items, and PvP quality-of-life updates
After two particularly gnarly delays, the long-awaited Season 11 for The Division 2 has finally come online this week, introducing all of the seasonal...
Dragon Raja marks its third anniversary with a new class, new map, and cash prizes for referrals
Three years ago, the mobile (and now PC) MMO Dragon Raja released, and our initial impressions at launch found the game to be "solid"...
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends celebrates seventh anniversary with today’s patch
February's been a whirlwind for Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends, with major downtime, a big hardware upgrade, and a patch. Now, the...
City of Heroes’ Rebirth rogue server adds a new task force in today’s Issue 5: Clockstoppers
City of Heroes' Rebirth server may be small, but its patches are mighty, and so it is with today's release of Rebirth Issue 5:...
ArcheAge challenges players to rack up the most jail time for doing crime
Well, now I've seen everything: ArcheAge actually has an achievement for doing hard time.
OK, technically, it's a "record" you can set in the game's...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t
A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO events are not for the high-level playerbase
Let me start with a statement of fact: I actually really like limited-time events in MMORPGs. I don't like them as a means of...
Diablo III’s next season launches Friday with skill tree-granting altars
The end of January saw public testing of Diablo III's Season 28 get underway, but if you missed that testing window then you can...
SWG Legends just patched in a bunch of long-running player requests
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has had a wild couple of weeks, first with downtime, then with new server hardware, and then...
Vague Patch Notes: The three kinds of sunset in the MMO space
Not all sunsets are the same, no matter how much you may like a given game. This is one of the things that tends...
Embers Adrift’s QA server previews new dice-dueling game and Grimstone Canyon zone
Embers Adrift dropped a state of the game memo for its community last night, kicking it off with a thank-you note to the playerbase...
SWG Legends’ Ewok Festival of Love is the most cursed Valentine’s Day event in MMOs
Friends, if you've read MassivelyOP a long time, you know that Star Wars Galaxies is top o' my MMORPG list, and I happily inhabit...
Guild Wars 2’s patch adds WvW incentives, cosmetics randomizer, and class balancing
As promised, Guild Wars 2's class balancing update has arrived, and depending on which elite spec play you will love, hate, or love and...
Final Fantasy XI rolls out its newest patch complete with chat filters
The latest update for Final Fantasy XI arrived on Friday, and it brought with it the first pass on the game's chat filter functionality....
Open world mobile MMO Hero of Aethric leaves early access with its Towers of Olympia update
Last week we reported on the development of Hero of Aethric, the open world mobile MMORPG from Northern Forge, the studio behind the mobile...
PlanetSide 2’s Love Letter update kicks off Valentine’s Day content for the weekend
As promised, Daybreak rolled out the "love letter" update to PlanetSide 2 last night. The patch buffs anti-cheat measures, adds Nvidia DLSS and AMD...
Vague Patch Notes: Diversions are what makes the MMO
I am going to put forth a theory today in the Vague Patch Notes column. It is potentially an odd theory, and as sometimes...
Black Desert’s Valentine’s Day events have arrived ahead of the MMO’s 7th birthday
Valentine's Day has returned to the PC version of Black Desert this week as part of a marketing push that also heralds a major...
This morning’s New World patch added leaderboards and nerfed Brimstone Sands chests
As promised and after only a brief delay, New World's 1.8.2. update rolled out early this morning - and yes, this is the one...
Valheim applies Mistlands fixes, introduces a fishing hat, and adds ballista targeting tweaks
At the tail end of January, one of the devs of Valheim teased an upcoming update to the Viking survival sandbox that was described...
