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The Daily Grind: Do MMORPGs still need traditional guilds?
In the game's design docs and our interviews, Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs is positively adamant that multiguilding (that is, being able to join more than...
Massively Overthinking: Epic Tavern-style player-generated content in MMORPGs
Ever played Epic Tavern? Massively OP reader Uli though it would make an interesting point of comparison for MMO content. "Epic Tavern is a...
Crowfall devs on why they don’t make their soft launch production checklist public
Happy October: It's time for another Crowfall Q&A. ArtCraft's Thomas Blair and Mark Halash and sit down to answer questions from high-end Crowfall backers....
League of Legends dev who insulted streamer is no longer with Riot Games
Two days ago, we reported that a League of Legends developer had landed himself in hot water after he went grossly overboard in insulting...
Crowfall goes over the history and perks of Humans and Elves
Even Crowfall, as progressive as it is with its racial choices, must bow to the ironclad law of MMOs that state, "Every fantasy game...
Square-Enix launches its new mobile MOBA Flame vs. Blaze
Some game titles don't make a whole lot of sense to us. The new MOBA from Square-Enix, Flame vs. Blaze, is one such title....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 138: Mystery MMOs and the mobile revolution
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, the mobile MMO avalanche, in-development MMOs from AAA studios, Black Desert's Kamasylvia, and Camelot Unchained, with mailbag questions on the MMO industry going backwards and the small touches in MMOs.
H1Z1: King of the Kill tunes weapons and loot while introducing a new skirmish
Weapons in H1Z1: King of the Kill are pretty important. Without weapons, how will you ventilate other players (and enemies on the off chance...
Dark Age of Camelot welcomes players back with a free month for its birthday
Happy birthday Dark Age of Camelot! This month, Mythic's (now Broadsword's) classic realm-vs.-realm MMORPG celebrates its 16th birthday following its 2001 launch.
The team raised...
Farewell to My.com MOBA Cloud Pirates, which sunsetted over the weekend
If you blinked, you missed it: Cloud Pirates shut down over the weekend.
My.com announced that it was giving up on its Allods-themed Cloud Pirates...
Wisdom of Nym: The last batch of revelations for Final Fantasy XIV 4.1
Well, time to get my running shoes on, Final Fantasy XIV's next patch is coming out on October 10th and I'm aiming for a...
Wild West Online shows off the old-timey guns coming with its beta
Here's a grand surprise for you: Wild West Online will feature old-timey weapons. It will, in fact, involve a fair amount of shooting things....
Riot apologizes for League of Legends dev who joked about streamer’s hypothetical death
Over the weekend, a Riot Games developer made a Terrible Mistake: Lead Experience Designer Aaron "RiotSanjuro" Rutledge insulted a banned streamer in League of Legends' public...
EVE Evolved: What to expect from EVE Vegas 2017
CCP Games' annual EVE Vegas event kicks off in less than a week on October 6th, and once again MassivelyOP will be on the...
Get an advance look at a few of Age of Wushu 2’s locations
While we continue the long, long wait for Age of Wushu 2 to make its way over to the western world, at least we...
One Shots: Starlight, starbright
As someone very much on the outside of this whole Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire thing, my observations is that this is some...
Crowfall’s Raph Koster explains why MMO systems stagnate and die
The man who pretty much wrote the book on many MMORPG systems shared another piece of keen insight about a pitfall in many competitive...
Camelot Unchained strives for a well-rounded experience as it focuses on siege gameplay
In making the transition from limited-focus tests to larger siege gameplay to the long-awaited beta, the team behind Camelot Unchained is "sprinting" as it...
Crowfall details the obdurate Stoneborn race
The Stoneborn of Crowfall are not dwarves. They sometimes get referred to as dwarves, but it's a ridiculous name because they're as large as...
Raph Koster on how Ultima Online pushed the MMO industry forward
Game Designer Raph Koster continues to ponder the significance of Ultima Online on this, the 20th anniversary of the MMORPG's historic release. In a...
