roundtable

Massively Overthinking: How accountable should MMOs hold players for out-of-game toxicity?

Bree Royce - April 27, 2018 65

Brendan's discussion with CCP Falcon at EVE Fanfest last week included an interesting chat about out-of-game harassment and whether gaming companies had an obligation...

Massively Overthinking: The best of PAX East and GDC in 2018

Bree Royce - April 13, 2018 4

The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...

Massively Overthinking: How do you maintain your health while binging MMORPGs?

Bree Royce - April 6, 2018 32

Kotaku put out a piece this week on how to game without wrecking your body, something that's probably bound to come up in the...

Massively Overthinking: How much money spent makes you an MMO whale?

Bree Royce - March 30, 2018 72

Several conversations I saw after our report on the new RMT mounts in Guild Wars 2 got me thinking about how the MMO community...

Massively Overthinking: Paying for MMORPG emulators, legal or otherwise

Bree Royce - March 22, 2018 41

MassivelyOp reader Bryan recently wrote to us with a fun question about emulators, a topic that will simply never die as long as MMORPGs...

Massively Overthinking: MMOs belong in a museum!

Bree Royce - March 1, 2018 26

Let's talk game preservation. We've been covering MADE's attempt to convince the government to tweak its interpretation of the DMCA to basically allow museums,...

I'm going to write that MMO about the snarky robot I always wanted to!

Massively Overthinking: Could bots save dying MMORPGs?

Bree Royce - February 15, 2018 37

Last week, a reader named Chris, who is writing a paper on the MMO industry and revivifying sunsetted games, dropped an intriguing question into...

Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPGs should stay away from legacy servers?

Bree Royce - February 8, 2018 45

Legacy, vanilla, classic, progression - call them what you like, but alternative server rulesets, particularly of the nostalgia-driven kind, are all the rage in...

Massively Overthinking: What are your criteria for recommending MMOs?

Bree Royce - February 2, 2018 26

Last week, we got a well-intentioned email from a reader named Rick, who proposed a column in which readers tell us what they are...

Massively Overthinking: Considering pay-to-win MMO peripherals

Bree Royce - January 27, 2018 57

MOP reader and commenter Sally Bowls recently sent along a link to an insanely awesome 34" monitor that costs more than a lot of...

Massively Overthinking: Tackling our hoarding problem in MMORPGs

Bree Royce - January 19, 2018 45

By coincidence, two articles in my feeds this past week both centered on video game hoarding - not hoarding the actual games but hoarding...

Massively Overthinking: What’s the smallest MMO you’re willing to play?

Bree Royce - January 11, 2018 43

A comment on Reddit about the current size and viability of Kritika Online got me thinking about MMO playerbases in general lately. We all...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO hopes and wishes for 2018

Bree Royce - January 4, 2018 54

One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It’s way too easy...