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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Massively OP Podcast Episode 109: We are all Dragonborn
Justin and Bree discuss our PAX awards, Guild Wars 2, Wizard101, WoW, LOTRO, DDO, The Repopulation, EverQuest, Eternal Crusade, and Pathfinder, with mailbag questions on Funcom's mystery game and Landmark-like sandboxes.
Castles get an upgrade in Gloria Victis
If players or guilds are going to put the effort in purchasing and building up a castle in Gloria Victis, they are going to...
SMITE throws a week of birthday festivities
Touting proudly (and weirdly) that SMITE is almost out of its "toddler years," Hi-Rez Studios is throwing a week of celebration for the MOBA's...
South Korea’s Netmarble to launch ambitious IPO
South Korean Tencent affiliate Netmarble announced today that it will launch an initial public offering to the tune of $2.35 billion US. That works...
EVE Evolved: What’s the deal with EVE’s PLEX changes?
This week CCP Games announced that some big changes are on the way for PLEX in EVE Online. The PLEX or "30-day Pilot's License...
One Shots: The Candy Man
If you have a sweet tooth or diabetes, you may want to avoid the temptation that we're about to put in your path with...
Camelot Unchained shows off its weapon stances
While it's certainly tempting to focus on Camelot Unchained's progress in creating weeds (or as the devs put it, "the unsung heroes of the...
Pathfinder Online has a roadmap forward and a plan for completion
If you'd lost hope in Pathfinder Online ever making any forward motion again, you should be happy to see that there's a new letter...
You’ll need to put in about 20 hours in Albion Online to become competitive in PvP
As Albion Online barrels toward a summer release, the crew took to Reddit yesterday for a marathon AMA session to tackle any pressing community...
League of Legends on LGBT representation and pro team mistreatment allegations
League of Legends will probably introduce non-straight characters eventually, a new interview on Polygon with Riot Games' Greg Street suggests. The publication asked Street...
Massively OP’s PAX East 2017 awards and best-in-show reader vote
We've finished rolling out all of our PAX East content this year, and we've put our MMORPG-addled noggins together to try to choose our...
War Thunder’s Assault patch adds new vehicles and maps, with Assault mode on the way
War Thunder has pushed out another big update today, this one dubbed simply, "Assault!" -- exclamation point required! "The update introduces almost twenty new...
Eternal Crusade prepares for its free-to-play shift
It is important to note that the official Eternal Crusade line is that the upcoming free-to-play option is not a full conversion to free-to-play,...
EVE Online overhauls PLEX currency system, ending tales of PLEX-stuffed ship destruction
CCP announced this morning that it's overhauling PLEX in EVE Online. As the currency works now, players buy the 30-day sub token known as PLEX...
The Elder Scrolls Online deep-dives Morrowind’s Ald Carac battleground
The launch of the Morrowind expansion will bring three separate battleground maps to The Elder Scrolls Online, and while all three feature the same...
Hi-Rez puts SMITE Rivals development ‘on hold’
Bad news for those who were looking forward to another SMITE spinoff game; it appears that the digital card game version of the game, SMITE...
The Stream Team: Xsyon survives six years
Long before survival games became all the rage, there was Xsyon. In fact, it may very well be what started Massively OP's MJ on...
Crowfall’s community tries its hand at building for the first time
Crowfall's campaign worlds won't exist merely to be shot, burned, and sliced to ribbons. There's going to be a healthy building component as well,...
Albion Online AMA on pay-to-win, free trials, and global servers
Sandbox Interactive ran an AMA for its in-development indie MMO Albion Online on Reddit last night, covering everything from the game's business model to...
How Frostkeep’s Rend compares to other MMOs and survival sandboxes
I was pretty well taken by multiplayer survival sandbox Rend as soon as I saw it at this year's PAX East 2017, as I wrote...