player housing
Massively OP Podcast Episode 506: MMO housing, jet packs, and money
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.
One Shots: The picture of patience
What makes for the perfect portrait? Great lighting and costuming certainly helps, as does the serene pose of the subject. And as George Washington...
Lord of the Rings Online dev Q&A talks about class revamps, kinship refresh, and the next roadmap
When two chatty Lord of the Rings Online veteran developers get together for a livestream to talk shop, everything and anything is on the...
Revived 2-D cozy browser MMO Lasuni renames and revamps as Ticuto
Back in January 2024 we chronicled the upcoming return of Lasuni, a browser-based 2-D MMORPG brought back to life after a sunset caused by...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s housing design is exactly what we need
I haven't weighed in on this tiny little insignificant World of Warcraft housing news since it dropped last November, mostly because I've been waiting to...
Working As Intended: Playing house – er, apartment – in SWG Legends
This week, I'm starting up a new miniseries called Playing House here in the Working As Intended column, and it's entirely the fault of...
Guild Wars 2 readies today’s balance update, followed by next Janthir Wilds chapter March 11
Readers might remember that the Guild Wars 2's roadmap has been a little off-kilter ever since the balance update was moved out of January...
EverQuest II swoons for Erollisi Day’s valentine charms
This month, why not light a few candles, soak in an aromatic tub, and grind all of the love that you can in EverQuest...
‘We are designing it to last for decades’: Stars Reach is hoping for ‘a few hundred thousand players’
Are you feeling the hype yet from the approach of the Stars Reach Kickstarter? Because Playable Worlds is kinda going all out with blogs...
Blizzard lays out the design pillars for World of Warcraft’s accessible neighborhood housing
The news that World of Warcraft is getting housing with its next expansion, Midnight, shocked the whole MMORPG genre - and us too, as...
World of Warcraft’s state of the game vows an improved new player experience and social initiatives
World of Warcraft is surprisingly chatty this Wednesday, with an article on Patch 11.1's cartels earlier today and a housing preview (!) in a...
The Stream Team: Slithering into Guild Wars 2’s Year of the Snake celebrations
It's the year of the snek! All snekkies, all the time! Ahem, OK maybe it's really the Year of the Snake, but Massively OP's...
Here’s (almost) everything you need to know about transferring to Lord of the Rings Online’s upcoming 64-bit servers
Are you hungry for 64 bits of mega power? Then you're probably itching to hop in to the upcoming 64-bit servers in Lord of...
Sandbox MMO Pax Dei is razing inactive housing plots again as it launches on GeForce Now and EGS
With the early access boom firmly in its rearview mirror, Pax Dei is turning its attention to the necessary work of clearing out long-abandoned...
New World’s Siege of Sulfur event returns February 4 with a chance at new high-level rewards
They're coming baaaaaack! "They" here meaning the dour-faced sulfur elementals that are hangry) for sandworm eggs when the Siege of Sulfur event returns to...
LOTRO community fansite creates a housing transfer FAQ while it waits for the official version
With the big launch of Lord of the Rings Online's four new 64-bit servers -- two in the US and two in Europe --...
World of Warcraft slips a possible player housing preview into Patch 11.1
With the promise and potential of World of Warcraft player housing on the docket for later this year, players are understandably hungry for more...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 502: Chronicling all the non-combat content in MMOs
Justin and Bree host the first MMO theme show of 2025 with a deep-dive into the wide range of non-combat content in our genre, plus adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, Stars Reach, and Aloft.
Soul’s Remnant is an upcoming free-to-play 2-D MMORPG that emphasizes social gameplay and exploration
If an MMORPG that says it focuses on social gameplay and exploration with a cute-looking 2-D sprite style is your kind of thing, then...
Multiplayer life sim RPG Spellfarers adds flying brooms and housing overhauls ahead of launch this year
The middle of last year brought fans of cozy multiplayer life sim RPGs a new early access title in the form of Spellfarers, which...
