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PvP stands for player-vs.-player. PvP can take the form of virtual combat, economic trade, political machinations, or other competition.

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Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen

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Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...

Spellsworn launches, goes free-to-play

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Watched the new Fantastic Beasts trailer and felt the deep pull of wizards and spells pull at you once more? You may be able...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 161: Project power

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Justin and Bree discuss RIFT Prime, Trove, Project C, Project Gorgon, H1Z1, The Division 2, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on mimicking Minecraft's business model and playing the good stuff while you still can.
And it's gone.

Dota 2 introduces a subscription option for players

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After a long time of being free-to-play, Dota 2 is exploring the possibility of letting you pay money for it on a regular basis....

Here’s how Netmarble’s fighting crunch after multiple developer deaths

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Last year, Netmarble came under fire from South Korean authorities following the death of a game developer under its banner. Korea Workers' Compensation and...
punch punch

Final Fantasy XIV kicks the latest Feast season with the promise of a well-known boss mount

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If you're taking part in the sequential seasons of the Feast in Final Fantasy XIV, you want a mount worthy of your willingness to...

Albion Online launches Lancelot with fishing and guild updates, grants everyone a week of sub play

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Albion Online's Lancelot update, its third major release since launch, is officially live this morning. The star of the update, as we've previously covered,...

The MOP Up: Dragonball Online kicks off beta testing (March 11, 2018)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
BUY MY BOOK!

Crowfall details its upcoming vendor system

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Here's the next big system coming to Crowfall: Vendors! No, wait, come back, stop muttering that every game have those. This is different, this...
IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR STREET

Massively Overthinking: Is battle royale a fad?

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This week in Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about something out on the fringes of our genre: battle royale games. We've been watching...
I HAVE COME AFLAME

H1Z1 is finally going free-to-play

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Remember way back in the long, long ago, before H1Z1 hit early access, split, reconstituted, renamed, didn't launch, aborted a console port, and all...

Wild West Online revamps its test build from top to bottom

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Following a drawn-out and somewhat inconsistent testing phase, Wild West Online is back with an important message: It's overhauling the game from top to...

Perfect Ten: A dozen MOBAs that didn’t make it

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With the insane success -- both in terms of popularity and finances -- that Dota and League of Legends spawned, you can easily understand...

Albion Online’s upcoming fishing system hopes to reel in casuals and hardcores alike

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Fishing has become a hot topic in MMOs this week, thanks to the likes of RuneScape and Albion Online. The latter will see the...

Gaijin’s space MMO Star Conflict rolls out Journey update tailored to newbies

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I was shocked to realize today just how long it's been since we covered Gaijin's Star Conflict - that's the rather well-loved but under-the-radar...

Crowfall March Q&A video feels the walls closing in all around

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You have questions and Crowfall's dev team has (some of the) answers. For example, "How are you going to keep me from getting killed...
HELLO FROM THE OTHER SIIIIIIIIIIDE

Blizzard: ‘Heroes of the Storm is not dying’

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Here's a message that Blizzard Entertainment wants to trumpet from the mountaintops: Heroes of the Storm is not, in fact, spiraling down to oblivion. So...

EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s March balance update has players excited

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The EVE Online community came down pretty hard on CCP Games at the start of the year, with podcasts, blogs, and the Council of...

The MOP Up: Closers chooses its next character (March 4, 2018)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Global Chat: Elder Scrolls Online’s disguised gameplay

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It seems as though some players' attention has shifted back to Elder Scrolls Online this spring, especially with the recent Dragon Bones DLC drop. Telwyn...

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