PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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World of Warcraft is bringing out the Winds of Wisdom buff ahead of playable Evokers
Do you want to level faster through World of Warcraft and especially Shadowlands content to get your alts ready for Dragonflight? Don't worry, fam,...
Ravendawn has a blockchain-linked version of itself that is now called RavenQuest
Regular readers are likely familiar with Ravendawn, the Open Tibia-built sandbox MMORPG that first unveiled itself in 2021 and more recently entered into closed...
The Daily Grind: Do you engage in ‘mapping’ in explorable MMORPGs?
A while back, we did a Daily Grind on "vestigial organ" design in MMOs, and I mentioned Guild Wars 2's leveling system as being...
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight gets a November 28 release date
Here we go: World of Warcraft: Dragonflight has a release date scheduled, and it's soon. Not "next week" soon, no, but "put in your...
Vague Patch Notes: Mandatory content and game design in MMOs
Let me tell you about my second roommate in college. He was named Kyle, and he was benefiting from the fact that I had...
World of Warcraft outlines mandatory group loot and new special items dropping from raid bosses in Dragonflight
Don't you love all of the drama and debating that can happen in a World of Warcraft raid when that raid uses group loot...
Lost Ark welcomes the Machinist class and new raid following server merges
Who's feeling like playing some Iron Man in an MMORPG? Lost Ark is giving you the opportunity to, ah, avenge yourself on some mobs...
Perfect Ten: 10 Final Fantasy XIV musical tracks that absolutely slap
Everyone knows that people who play Final Fantasy XIV will not shut up about the game's music. This includes me. I will not shut...
Massively on the Go: October brings new treats to Pokemon Go
Pokemon GO's Season of Light continues into October, and while a lot of the announced content looks as familiar as that candy corn you...
Here’s what to expect from Lost Ark’s September update, launching tomorrow
Lost Ark players, you've got 16 hours of downtime to burn before the MMOARPG's next update. What do you do with that time? Maybe...
Choose My Adventure: Temtem is just not for me
I'll open with a little personal opinion: I've never liked the baseline Pokemon games. It never appealed to me when it first released, the...
Casually Classic: The Death Knight starter experience is still the best WoW ever did
Recently, along with what seemed like half the population of the globe, I rolled up a brand-new Death Knight in WoW Classic to take...
Lost Ark plans 16 hours of downtime for its merging servers tomorrow
At the top of September, Amazon announced that it would be merging some of Lost Ark's servers and even began patching the infrastructure to...
Vitae Aeternum: The New Secret World
Comparisons between New World and The Secret World have existed pretty much since the earliest teases of NW. It's what put the game on...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs push players through different content types?
MOP reader Slava recently wrote to us with an interesting question about wildly different content types and the MMOs that either nudge or force...
The Stream Team: Roaming around AQ3D’s Red Monastery and the Crypts of Misery
Last week, Massively OP's MJ started the raid on AQ3D's Red Monastery in the Nulgath Saga Part II. There, she listened to the confessions...
Last Oasis adjusts walker weapons in latest patch and eyeballs its new map’s release for next week
If you're pretty much tired of playing on the one map in the current early access build of Last Oasis, then you might be...
Lord of the Rings Online details Before the Shadow’s challenge-raising delving system
High risk, high reward, or to paraphrase the IP, delving too greedily and too deeply. That's the line players will have to toe when...
WoW Factor: Just be honest about what WoW Classic is now
So here's something funny to consider: No matter what happens, Blizzard has collectively backed itself into a corner with World of Warcraft expansions over...
World of Warcraft is adding Heroic Plus dungeons to Wrath of the Lich King Classic when Ulduar arrives
If part of what you like about WoW Classic instead of World of Warcraft's retail side is that the upcoming Wrath of the Lich...