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The Daily Grind: Is it possible for an MMORPG to offer an optional sub that isn’t pay-to-win?
Last week, in the comments under the Bless optional subscription brouhaha article, I made an offhand comment that apparently got MOP commenter Sally's gears...
The Daily Grind: Do your MMORPG characters primarily wear in-game armor or cash-shop cosmetics?
Take a look at your main character in your main MMORPG right now. What is he or she wearing? And did you get it...
Wild Mage: Phantom Twilight mixes together Final Fantasy IX, Minecraft, and Fruit Ninja
Want to explore everything, destroy everything, and cut everything in half? Want to do all of that while riding around on a boss airship?...
Even Trove is getting a battle royale mode – it’s called Bomber Royale
Trion's voxelbox Trove is getting its very own battle royale mode, after a fashion. It's called Bomber Royale, and its plain aim is to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 169: Farscape and RuneScape
Justin and Bree discuss WoW, Trove, Secret World Legends, RuneScape and Jagex, Amazon's New World, PWE MMO sunsets, Star Trek Online's new business model, SWTOR, and ESO, plus mailbag topics on the Guild Wars 1 graphics update and crafting MMOs. And yes, we talk Farscape too!
Massively OP Podcast Episode 168: MMOs all higgledy-piggledy
Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, EVE Online, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Ragnarok, Elite, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, Trove, and City of Heroes' Paragon Chat, with mailbag questions on free-to-play entitlement and whether expansions need new classes.
The Stream Team: A day in the life of Trove
What's it like to just level in Trove? Massively OP's MJ has no idea! She has hopped from holiday to event to new content...
The Game Archaeologist: Red Planet’s Lost Colony vaporware
You know the story of Roanoke, right? That early American settlement that abruptly went missing with only the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree...
The Daily Grind: What has been the best MMO expansion or update of 2018 so far?
We are about to put four months of 2018 in the can, and during that time there has been quite a lot of movement...
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,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 166: Russia breaks the internet
Justin and Bree discuss DDO, Secret World Legends, Star Trek Online, Trove, Ultima Online, the Russian Telegram crisis' effect on MMOs, TERA, Kritika, RIFT Prime, and MapleStory 2, with mailbag topics on zoning out in MMOs and finding classic play niches in modern crowdfunded MMOs.
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 temporarily disables its Trove of Mounts with fake inventory alarms
Can we agree that MMO players, collectively, get very excited about having new mounts? It seems like a statement that's almost a tautology at...
The Game Archaeologist: Harry Potter Online
If all goes well, later this year we will finally be treated to an actual Harry Potter MMORPG in the form of Harry Potter:...
The MOP Up: Seal Online embraces a cartoony spirit (April 15, 2018)
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...
The Game Archaeologist: Lineage
If we judged MMOs by their numbers alone -- and I'm not suggesting we do so -- then the original Lineage would be the...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a ‘guilty pleasure’ MMO?
As comments and tweets and nastygrams in my inbox have repeatedly demonstrated over the years, it doesn't matter whether you've put in years of...
Dual Universe gives players all of the tools to build their own galaxy
Contrary to what you may have believed, Dual Universe isn't going to limit its sandbox features to the creation and flight of personal spacecraft....
Having given up on LawBreakers, Boss Key is launching battle royale game Radical Heights tomorrow
Last week, we wrote about the de facto maintenance-moding of LawBreakers, as Boss Key admitted the game wasn't making money, not even enough to...
The Daily Grind: Do you get grumpy over MMO events on repeat?
I'm a huge fan of Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box, even if I am not the best jumper in the world. My kid...
