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Realm of the Mad God lays out a roadmap for 2021, including a mega-patch in August
Everyone's favorite permadeath roguelike MMO has big plans for this year. Realm of the Mad God recently posted a quick overview of what's to...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v4.0
By far, my favorite column to write here at Massively OP (and the one that always takes the longest) is The Game Archaeologist. I've...
Massively Overthinking: Doing crimes and getting punished in MMORPGs
A couple of weeks before Dual Universe's snafu banning beta players for taking advantage of a developer's poorly permissioned structure, I saw the game's...
Dungeons and Dragons Online shares the leaderboards for its third season of Hardcore League
The race to the top of the Dungeons and Dragons Online Hardcore League that kicked off in June has ended, and now it's time...
Massively Overthinking: MMO voids that haven’t been filled
I swear, so many of the posts I bookmark on Reddit to muse on later wind up deleted, and today I've got another one,...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons WoW Classic is still fun in 2020
WoW Classic just celebrated its first year of operation, and what a year it's been! Back in the summer of 2019, I was rediscovering...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 285: Exit En Masse
Justin and Bree discuss En Masse's closure, Amazon's Lost Ark, LOTRO, WoW Classic, Wurm Online, Population Zero, and Torchlight III, with adventures in SWTOR, WoW, SWG Legends, and The Sims, plus reader mail on MMO customer service and MMO talent trees.
WoW Classic’s permadeath community is absolutely hardcore
World of Warcraft Classic isn't exactly a walk around the block, especially if you're coming at it from modern MMOs. Of course, that's part...
The Game Archaeologist: Clone Wars Adventures, the Star Wars MMO everyone kinda forgot
Whenever the topic -- the argument -- of Star Wars MMOs arises, the debate is usually between the merits of the sandboxy Star Wars...
Perfect Ten: Classic alt challenges for MMOs
When you start up your first character in a new MMO, it's all fresh and novel. But if you're the sort of tedious weirdo...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 278: Patchy McPatchface
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, DDO, Pantheon, SWTOR, BDO, and Blade & Soul, with adventures in SWG Legends, LOTRO, and WoW, plus mailbag topics on ship combat and inventory annoyances.
Dungeons and Dragons Online kicks off third hardcore league, previews Update 47
Dungeons and Dragons Online's popular permadeath temporary server is coming back at noon today with a third trip through this brutal gauntlet. This time...
Dungeons and Dragons Online gives everyone 46 free quest packs, posts hardcore season leaderboard
Just in case you missed seeing this the other day, Dungeons and Dragons Online is making a huge bulk of its content completely free...
Dungeons & Dragons Online looks ahead to its next hardcore season, Barbarian class, and new Warlock trees
In the latest episode of DDOCast, the Dungeons and Dragons Online team showed up to talk about a whole host of content, features, and...
Dungeons and Dragons Online winds down its second permadeath server
With piles of corpses heaped in its virtual graveyard, Dungeons and Dragons Online's second "hardcore" server has ended its run. The limited-duration permadeath shard...
RuneScape talks about what’s next after Archaeology, Old School kicks off the Deadman Mode Tournament
Now that the Arcaheology skill is out in the wilds of RuneScape (as well as the subject of several weekly tune-ups), Jagex has decided...
Population Zero hypes its impending early access launch and talks about PvP and PvE modes
Just in case you forgot that the multiplayer survival sandbox Population Zero is launching on Steam Early Access on May 5th, there's a sizzle-filled...
Age of Conan’s Onslaught is live, the Funcom MMO’s ‘biggest update in years’
Back in 2018 and 2019, Funcom's Age of Conan MMORPG - soon turning 12 years old, if you can believe it - ran the...
The Daily Grind: What MMO is the most hardcore and brutal?
A few months ago, there was a post on the MMORPG subreddit about the MMO that was the "most intense brutal hardcore" MMO -...
Realm of the Mad God’s remastered Unity edition, Exalt, is now in open beta
Realm of the Mad God is one of those MMOs that are hard to quantify, being part retro-pixel shooter and part permadeath MMO in...