PvE stands for player-vs.-environment, where environment is generally taken to mean the world, NPCs, and AI.
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Wurm Online introduces combat changes and achievements as players create an in-game social space
The latest newsletter from Wurm Online has a little bit of everything, whether you like to fight, like to chase achievements, or seek a...
Blade and Soul adds a new dungeon, new raid weapon, and renewed Soulstone Plains on March 17
While a lot of focus has understandably been about Blade and Soul's upgrade to Unreal Engine 4, that doesn't mean there won't be updates...
Massively Overthinking: Picking the ‘wrong’ MMORPG class
Last month, the MMORPG subreddit slept on a good thread about picking classes in MMOs. Let's wake this sucker up. "Am I the only...
Star Citizen XenoThreat postmortem talks co-op gameplay, performance issues, and PvP imbalance
Players of Star Citizen certainly have opinions about how the game's first dynamic event played out, but how do the devs at CIG think?...
Vague Patch Notes: The sneering elitism of the MMO term ‘welfare epics’
A few weeks ago, I saw an MMO player unironically complaining about "welfare epics" here in 2021. This is basically the equivalent of saying,...
Lord of the Rings Online’s 2021 roadmap includes Wildwood, Bilbo, Blood of Azog, Gundabad, and the LI revamp
Lord of the Rings Online's Rob "Severlin" Ciccolini just posted a new letter from producer for the community, through if you've been watching the...
Back under Naddic’s direction, Closers adds new dungeon and raid to defeat the Ocean King
So, how's Closers doing since transferring back from Krafton and En Masse to its original developer Naddic last fall? Not too shabbily: Naddic has...
Casually Classic: How Burning Crusade revolutionized WoW questing
While it's been a blast stepping back into an era where I can re-experience World of Warcraft as it once was, playing WoW Classic...
ArcheAge announces Akasch Invasion patch coming March 25 – with some paid content for Unchained
Over the weekend, Gamigo teased that "something's coming" for ArcheAge, prompting more trepidation than curiosity. Now we know what it is: a big update,...
Final Fantasy XIV brings around another iteration of the Moogle Treasure Trove
Need a little extra incentive to take on old content in Final Fantasy XIV? You'll get exactly that with the newest incarnation of the game's...
Fight or Kite: Crowfall’s Transformation added necessary polish to bring us closer to launch
The most recent patch to Crowfall brought a whole slew of improvements and enhancements to the game. Every update we’ve seen in the past...
One Shots: Never crowd surf over cats with claws
If you ever find yourself at a heavy metal concert where most of the crowd is made out of bestial cat-things, trust me: Don't...
WoW Factor: Will most WoW Classic players genuinely move on to The Burning Crusade?
So as much praise as I had for the WoW Classic side of the World of Warcraft equation last week, there's something that was interesting as...
Casually Classic: What’s the point of playing WoW Classic in 2021?
Welcome to Casually Classic, a new column here on Massively OP dedicated to examining World of Warcraft Classic from the vantage point of a...
Wurm Online tests a combat overhaul on PTS and discusses content update plans
It's an inevitability in Wurm Online that players are going to have to fight things, and the process of fighting is the focus of...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s Island Sanctuary and the descent of peace
If you look at it from an obvious thematic standpoint, the whole Island Sanctuary idea makes no sense for this particular expansion for Final...
One Shots: Hug a jellyfish today, why not?
Now personally, I don't do a whole lot of scuba diving or anything, mostly because I have a healthy fear of everything that lurks...
Dungeons and Dragons Online serenades you into its latest raid
It's been a fun week for Dungeons and Dragons Online players! Not only did they get a producer letter with details about upcoming content,...
Ashes of Creation discusses testing snags and world boss creation, showcases new alpha one gameplay
Ashes of Creation recently held yet another development update stream with some more looks at what the folks at Intrepid Studios has been up...
Perfect 10: Ten features I want to see in Splatoon 3
The announcement of Splatoon 3 has actually shown me that I know more Splat fans than I thought I did. Like, people who are still playing despite the lack of...