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Wisdom of Nym: The Alliance Raids of Final Fantasy XIV
When the next major Final Fantasy XIV patch arrives later this month, we'll be staring down the games eighth alliance raid. That might not...
Generation 3 is basically Pokemon Go’s One Tamriel: How Niantic has actually improved POGO
A lot of critical things have been said about Pokemon Go and Niantic in the past. Professionals that tried to defend certain UI elements still had plenty...
One Shots: All giant spiders, all the time
Sometimes I am just so proud of our One Shots crowd here at Massively OP. I keep coming up with ludicrous screenshot challenges and...
Massively Overthinking: The state of modern MMORPG raiding
Massively OP reader Sorrior recently sent in a question about raiding, a topic we haven't discussed in a while.
"I have noticed raiding tends to...
Soulworker patches in new playable character Jin, new endgame raid
SoulWorker's getting a new toon today, marking the fifth playable character in the anime MMORPG. Who is he? Jin Seipatsu, a "courageous boy stricken...
Conan Exiles outlines its day-one patch plans as players grumble over preorder bonuses
With less than a week to go before launch, the Conan Exiles team is putting out one last newsletter with the plan for the...
Destiny 2 aims to impress with Warmind
Next week on May 8th, Destiny 2 is making a strong bid for players' attention with its Warmind DLC. It feels as though there...
Rumor: Daybreak may be building PlanetSide 3 and EverQuest 3, sunsetting Just Survive
While Daybreak producers are spelling out their games' future, a now-deleted post over at Reddit by an alleged former employee of Daybreak Games purports to...
Impressions of Sea of Thieves, one month in: Deep-diving retro world PvP
It's really hard for me to not to gush hard about Sea of Thieves. I know many out there won't agree, and it's easy to say why,...
WoW Factor: Things that actually worry me about Battle for Azeroth
The Battle for Azeroth beta is here, at long last, and it feels like it might have come a little early in the process....
Final Fantasy XIV previews the Ridorana Lighthouse of patch 4.3
South of Rabanastre, there is a lighthouse. It's not a very good lighthouse, because it's surrounded by a yawning chasm that gets worse every...
Guild Wars 2 tortures Dervish fans with an outfit but no class, denies excessive data collection in ‘spyware’ controversy
World polish and bug fixes are at the forefront of Guild Wars 2's latest patch, which went live yesterday.
Several nagging issues across the game...
RIFT gets ready for patch day while ArcheAge re-enables transfers and name changes
A couple of small notices swung our way from Trion Worlds' MMORPGs. Tomorrow, RIFT is going to be updating the game, and with the...
Impressions of Project Gorgon from an Asheron’s Call player
It's finally time for me talk about Project Gorgon as a released product. As you might have guessed, I was avoiding the game prior to launch....
RIFT Prime reintroduces 10-player slivers and LFR
The sliver-spooned mouths of RIFT Prime subscribers are being filled with all manner of endgame challenges this week. With the first step forward of...
Blade & Soul delays its Eternal Night update deeper into May
Blade & Soul players are going to have to chew on a bit of a sour grape today, as NCsoft announced that it made...
Massively Overthinking: What we really mean when we talk about ‘difficulty’ in MMORPGs
Massively OP reader Steve wants us to revisit the Daily Grind on making death more meaningful without making it more annoying. His letter was long, so...
RIFT progression server activates its first two raids
Yesterday RIFT's progression server took a step forward, pushing the line of content forward with some old endgame activities.
Two 10-player raids, Drowned Halls and...
Closers invites players to take part in new challenges at the planar gate
If you've got a need for some new challenges in Closers, possibly of the planar variety, you'll get plenty out of the new Planar...
NTales: Child of Destiny follows up its global launch with a ‘grand launch’
As a wise man once said, if at first you don't succeed, launch, launch again! Pocket MMO NTales: Child of Destiny has already enjoyed...