piracy
Sea of Thieves will make your character for you
As an online multiplayer RPG, Sea of Thieves is making its own playbook instead of copy-and-pasting features and structure directly from other games. One...
Sea of Thieves may have microtransactions, but it will never have lootboxes
In Sea of Thieves, your character is a pirate roaming the high seas for boxes of treasure, but in real life you won't need...
Sea of Thieves dips into the lore of the high seas
Believe it or not, there's more to Sea of Thieves' world story than "pirates going mental on each other." Rare has created a thought-out...
Sea of Thieves datamining hints at another faction and an open beta
The beta client for Sea of Thieves has been updated once again, but don't get your hopes up about playing it right way, as...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about the increased focus on PvP in upcoming MMOs?
Don't look now, but PvP is coming -- and it's coming to almost every new MMO in development. It only recently hit me just...
332,000 pirates board Sea of Thieves’ closed beta
It turns out that not only were players excited to jump into the role of pirates-to-be for Sea of Thieves' closed beta last month,...
One Shots: The jig is up
What will you when you embark on your pirate career in Sea of Thieves? I know that at least for me, the answer will...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 155: Pirates, progression, and patches
Justin and Bree discuss Age of Conan, FFXIV, SWTOR, Closers, EVE Online, Sea of Thieves, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, with mailbag questions on non-combat MMO options and playing MMOs with a newborn.
Sea of Thieves extends closed beta through January 31
As we've been documenting, Sea of Thieves' closed beta test has proved to be both incredibly popular and incredibly unreliable since starting earlier this...
Sea of Thieves’ closed beta is live but in choppy waters
Sea of Thieves' closed beta for PC and Xbox One kicked off earlier today, and it's not going that well. Or rather, it's going...
Sea of Thieves’ ‘bespoke experience’ closed beta begins Wednesday with Xbox Play Anywhere fully functional
Avast and so on, pirate MMO fiends: Sea of Thieves' closed beta is almost here. As Rare reminded us this morning, the closed beta...
Black Desert adds sailboat quest, drop rate tweaks, and way more polar bears
Pull out your ancient "I'm on a boat" and "you are a pirate" memes because Black Desert is about to give you reason to...
Sea of Thieves breaks down its skelly AI
How do you make a skeleton move, think, and attack?
Maybe you don't spend a lot of time thinking about such things, but rest assured,...
‘X’ marks Sea of Thieves’ closed beta on January 24
A bottle just washed up on the shore of Massively OP's treasure island, and tucked inside of it was a note that informed us...
EVE Online improves forward operating bases with today’s patch
The pirate factions of EVE Online have always been a threat. We're not talking about player pirates, mind you; we're talking about the NPC...
Sea of Thieves’ official controller is pure pirate gold
Excited about Sea of Thieves coming to Xbox One and PC this March? Excited enough that you're already putting together your pirate cosplay outfit...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s case for asymmetric and asynchronous gameplay
If there's one thing that EVE Online does better than any other MMO on the market today, it's persistent gameplay on massive scales. The now-famous...
EVE Evolved: 2017 EVE Online year in review
We've reached the end of another year, and it's certainly been a busy one for EVE Online. This year saw heavy gameplay iteration, with...
Perfect Ten: 20 multiplayer games to watch in 2018
A couple of weeks ago I covered 20(ish) MMORPGs that we are looking forward to seeing develop, test, and launch in 2018. But as...
The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives
When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...
