Perfect Ten is a humorous list-themed feature column by Justin Olivetti and Eliot Lefebvre. [Follow this column’s RSS feed]
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Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with huge class rosters
After talking with Mark Jacobs the other week about the difficulty of balancing Camelot Unchained's 30 classes, it got my mind thinking of MMOs...
Perfect Ten: Most notable console MMORPGs to date
It used to be that hunting for a console MMORPG was one of the most fruitless endeavors known to gamers. The PC was where...
Perfect Ten: Why MMORPG studios don’t just reboot their games
Last Friday's WildStar news made me sad. I'm sad because there are two games at war within that title. One of them is a...
Perfect Ten: What your MMO racial pick says about you
In real life, we can't (usually) pick our race; we kind of get assigned one at birth, thanks to our parents, and we go...
Perfect Ten: Awesome (and unique) MMORPG classes
Class-based systems are one of those holdovers from tabletop RPGs that work surprisingly well in MMOs. I basically put up with class systems in...
Perfect Ten: Ten weapons that should be in more MMOs
Swords, spears, axes, maces, and bows for fighters. Wands and fancy-looking staves for mages. Wolverine-style claws and double daggers for thieves. Some useless trinket...
Perfect Ten: What you need to know before you play an older MMORPG
I cut my teeth on MMOs with the launch of Final Fantasy XI in America. My roommate in college was interested in the game,...
Perfect Ten: MMO problems we don’t really have these days
The weird thing about our perception of time is that we don't always realize just how much things are changing around us unless we...
Perfect Ten: How to play MMOs on a limited time budget
One of the most frequent questions I'm ever asked here at Massively OP or on my own blog is, "How do you do it?...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMO tropes we don’t need in 2016 (but clearly aren’t going anywhere)
All right, we've had just about a month of 2016 now, and I'm writing this on my birthday. Odds are good that I'm going...
Perfect Ten: Top 10 obscure MMORPGs
I've seen a lot of desperate requests in my day in which players are asking for games outside of the normal sphere of popularity...
Perfect Ten: Our favorite MMORPG articles from 2015
The first year of Massively Overpowered had its ups and downs, like anything does, but I think we had some pretty great content in...
Perfect Ten: The MMORPGs to watch in 2016
A long time ago on another website far, far away, I held a tradition of kicking off the new year by listing the top...
Perfect Ten: The 10 best MMORPG updates and expansions of 2015
There is no way we can list all of the great updates in a given year. It's not possible. We are always going to...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG news stories of 2015
For as long as Massively Overpowered exists, this will be one of the most memorable years in our site's history. It was the year...
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...
Perfect Ten: Where to get your MMO podcast fix
We'll assume since you're a savvy gamer reading Massively OP that you're already well aware of the world's best MMO podcast. But what do...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMOs to be thankful for by type
It's been a while since I wrote a column that comes out on Thursdays, which means that it's also been a while since I've...
Perfect Ten: MMOs you forgot existed (but are still running)
No MMO can be in the spotlight eternally. Even some of the biggest names out there -- your World of Warcrafts, your Guild Wars...
Perfect Ten: How playing MMOs can make you a better person
I like to think that I'm a better person now than I was when I first loaded up Final Fantasy XI. That's how long...
