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The Game Archaeologist: Seven ways EverQuest reshaped MMO history
To many veteran MMO players, the opening horns of EverQuest's score are enough to trigger vivid memories, violent hallucinations, and an unstoppable desire to...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Crafting
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Crafting, which was awarded jointly to Final Fantasy XIV and EverQuest...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2020
Earlier this week, we named our biggest MMO story of the year and gave it an award, though we imagine it's hard for a...
Lost Ark KR shows off new classes, a new continent, and new raids coming in 2021
While we still don't have any firm word on what the hell Amazon is doing with the possible western launch of MMOARPG Lost Ark,...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Player Housing
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Player Housing, which was awarded to The Elder Scrolls Online last...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2021
So... 2020 didn't go exactly as anyone planned. Our predictions for this past year were pretty janked up by that whole pandemic thing and...
Grand Theft Auto Online releases the island-sized Cayo Perico Heist
Today is the day where players of Grand Theft Auto Online can enter an island paradise and rob it blind. The Cayo Perico Heist...
Wisdom of Nym: Impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.4 content
Here's something that I think no one, even me, really acknowledged heading into this particular patch: Final Fantasy XIV set itself up with a really difficult...
Guild Wars 2 on server performance: ‘We’re seeing more success’
If your Guild Wars 2 experience has seemed smoother and less fraught with performance issues as of late, that's not your optimistic mind deluding...
One Shots: Gaming in the Before Times
The beginning of 2020 seems so, so very long ago now, doesn't it? It's strange to think back to a time when we could...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Trend of 2020
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Trend of 2020, which last year went to the rise of...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2020
We have a fun end-of-the-year tradition on MOP to recap the best and worst MMO developer quotes of the year. In fact, I keep...
MMO Business Roundup: Twitch’s anti-hate policies, Cyberpunk’s concurrency, and the CASE Act
Welcome back to our irregular roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Twitch: This week, Twitch introduced yet another round of policy changes in regard...
Project-V is an upcoming multiplayer online co-op title that blends MOBA and MMO dungeon raid gameplay
First off, no, this isn't Pearl Abyss' Project V where the "V" is a Roman numeral; this is Project-V, an upcoming "MOCO" (that's "multiplayer...
Check out the World of Warcraft cinematic from the end of Castle Nathria
The first tier of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands raiding is out there now if you're playing on normal or heroic. If you're opting to go...
Destiny 2 promises to add a host of weapon-related improvements, transmog, and cross-play in 2021
If you have some strong feelings about how weapons and their associated Power levels are working right now in Destiny 2, then you might...
Flameseeker Chronicles: An honest second look at Guild Wars 2’s dragon response missions
As longtime readers surely know, Flameseeker Chronicles is an opinion column, one of many on Massively OP, though this one's about Guild Wars 2....
EverQuest 27th expansion, Claws of Veeshan, is set to go live this afternoon
Happy expansion day, EverQuest! Yes, the newly purchased Daybreak is delivering Claws of Veeshan to one of its apparently still much-loved classic MMOs today....
Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.4, Futures Rewritten, is live today
The time has arrived for players in Final Fantasy XIV to start forging a new future. The bleak outcome that had been predicted for the...
World of Warcraft opens up Castle Nathria with the first season of Shadowlands content
Blizzard politely hopes that you've gotten yourself up to the level cap by this point in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands because you've now run out...