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Massively OP Podcast Episode 506: MMO housing, jet packs, and money

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW housing, Stars Reach's plans, Pantheon's weird controversy, Star Trek Online's Unveiled, Black Desert's flying mounts, and Q4 financial reports from Daybreak, NCsoft, Pearl Abyss, Square Enix, Kakao, and Nexon, plus adventures in LOTRO, Stars Reach, SWG Legends, LOTRO, WoW, and The Sims 4.

Black Desert is literally launching flying mounts for Valentine’s Day

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Pearl Abyss may be up to shenanigans with its latest financial report, but Black Desert's patch is deadly serious, as the global PC version...

Pearl Abyss Q4 2024: PA is obscuring EVE Online and Black Desert revenues in its best quarter all year

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Pearl Abyss ended its 2024 financial year on a high-ish note - a welcome surprise after a year of muddling-through - but also a...

Black Desert adjusts sailing content on PC, refines workers on console, and tweaks classes on mobile

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This week's updates in Black Desert can be best summarized as adjustments for everything, as all three versions of the sandbox MMORPG has seen...

Black Desert marks the Lunar New Year across all platforms with coupon codes, events, and video messages

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The Lunar New Year is draping its way across Black Desert, but it's less a time of major in-game celebration and more like a...

Black Desert starts new arena season on PC and new high-tier content on mobile as players raise $70K for charity

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This week once again has a bunch of good news for players of Black Desert, with all three editions seeing something new added in...

One Shots: Someone go get the vacuum cleaner

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Stop! Nobody move an inch or you'll get cut! Go get your mom and tell her that we need the vacuum cleaner ASAP. Someone...

Black Desert adds a spicy new horse on PC and beefs up Land of the Sherekhan on mobile

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We have to admit that hopping on to the back of a horse that's crackling with golden electricity sounds like a really bad idea,...

Interview: NCsoft America’s new CEO, Jeonghee Jin, on awakening the ‘sleeping giant in the West’

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A few years ago, I attended Black Desert Online's Heidel Ball, one of the yearly events that Pearl Abyss holds to make major announcements for...

One Shots: Saddle up and play, pardner!

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If and when you're hungry to saddle up and play a western online RPG, where do you go? The pickin's are a little slim,...

Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2024?

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It's pretty much a given that every year when we announce our MMO of the year, someone's going to hop into the comments and...

Black Desert adds new accessories on PC, hands out mythical horses on console, and tweaks PvP on mobile

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This week sees yet another gaggle of updates for every version of Black Desert, yet they're a little bit all over the map in...

The Stream Team: Taking the new Deadeye class out for a quick spin in Black Desert

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Yeeehaaaaw! It's time for some rootin', tootin', and shootin' as MOP's Chris hops in to Black Desert and tries out the newly released Deadeye...
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End-of-year Eleven: The best value MMOs at the top of 2025

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So here we are again, at the transition for another year, and let me tell you that I am glad this column went a...

Black Desert observes seven days of mourning after Korean airline crash, postponing New Year’s events

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One of the truly horrifying and sad events over the holidays happened when a South Korean airline crashed upon landing in Muan, killing 179...

End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMO expansions of 2024

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Around the Massively OP office, the common consensus is that 2024 ended up being the Year of the MMO Expansion. After all, we got...
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The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2’s community shows off amazing player housing creations

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It's no surprise that Guild Wars 2 players are thrilled to be interior decorators, thanks to this year's player housing system. And in a...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025

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This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...

Black Desert celebrates Deadeye class and Christmas on PC, adds new boss monster on mobile

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It's time to celebrate whiskey! And Christmas! Yes, those two things can come together in real life, but they're also being celebrated in Black...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best event of 2024?

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I'm well aware that this is going to be a hard Daily Grind to answer because it used to be an award, and it...

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