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The MOP Up: Wakfu climbs the Mineral Tower (December 17, 2017)

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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...

One Shots: Thumbs up for justice

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Even when humanity is on the brink of destruction, even when all hope is lost, it's good to know that people will still be...

Guild Wars 2 shares how it built its Hall of Chains raid

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If you've ever thought that creating MMO raids is easy, it would be educational to sit down with a developer and get a tall,...

The Game Archaeologist: Revisiting the first three months of World of Warcraft

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Were you there? Many of us were. Many weren't. Either way, November 23rd, 2004 was a watershed date for the MMORPG industry and one watched...

Destiny 2 takes pity on non-Curse of Osiris owners, challenges players to snowball fights

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Those who have elected not to pick up Destiny 2's first DLC might have felt like they were being shut out of more progression...

Tree of Savior adds four classes, increases level cap

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If Tree of Savior has been off of your radar for a while, perhaps it's time to give it a solid ping this week....
Why is this world.

Duke Nukem and Serious Sam headline Wild Buster’s early access

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Hack-and-slash Wild Buster is here to kick butt and chew gum -- and it's all out of gum. InselGames' MMOARPG entered Steam early access today,...

Trion deals with DDOS attacks while ArcheAge dives into its Maelstrom update

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Trion Worlds is reporting "intermittent" attacks on its Dallas hub over the last day that are causing connectivity issues for some of its online...

Classic EverQuest’s Ring of Scale expansion is live

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EverQuest II isn't alone in getting a big expansion this season: Classic EverQuest has gone live this week with Ring of Scale, an expansion...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s Hall of Chains raid wing first impressions

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I promised you at the end of last week's rundown of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living World season's launch episode that I'd return this week...
We could have planned better.

Destiny 2 is reversing some of its controversial player lockout DLC design

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So, remember when Destiny 2 players without Curse of Osiris were locked out of content that predated that DLC? That was pretty great. Also,...

Interview: ArcheAge’s 4.0 Maelstrom launches December 13 with changes to lunagems, raid finder, and more

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Batten down the hatches because a big storm hits tomorrow! ArcheAge's Maelstrom, with its cross-server navel arena, launches on December 13th. We got to...

Lord of the Rings Online’s big raid patch arrives sans raid

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Well, this is an awkward situation for all involved. Lord of the Rings Online released Update 21.3 on Monday, which was supposed to patch...

Secret World Legends patches in winter event, barbershop, and plastic surgeon

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Even with Tokyo completely reinstated into Secret World Legends, this reboot is still finding more content to add back in after starting over from...

Leaderboard: Which MMO gameplay type encourages the worst player behavior?

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One of the common tropes held by MMORPG players is that PvP, particularly free-for-all environments prone to ganks, generates the worst type of behavior....

LOTRO delays raid rollout while Middle-earth card game is announced for PC

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It's a not-so-happy patch day for Lord of the Rings Online. The studio said that it won't be activating the new raid with the...

The MOP Up: Heroes of the Storm mains Hanzo (December 10, 2017)

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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...

LOTRO Legendarium: Fixing Lord of the Rings Online’s grouping problem

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One of the quirks -- and frustrations -- of MMORPGs is that there never seems to be one game that truly has it all....
When leveling alts was already the plan...

WoW Factor: Reconsidering the next few months of World of Warcraft

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There's a lot of information coming out about patch 7.3.5 at this point. Not everything, of course, and a lot of it is based...
Damn you!

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2017

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Think of all the wacky things devs have said in public in front of gamers and journalists this year. Now imagine what gets said behind...

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