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Massively Overthinking: FOMO and time-limited events in MMORPGs

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Earlier this week, Daybreak told players it wanted to get back to time-limited events in DC Universe Online. "Events make logging in every day...

Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the people of the MMORPG genre

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It's Thanksgiving here in the US, and we wish you all a happy one, whether you're celebrating locally or not. For this week's Massively Overthinking...

Massively Overthinking: The many ‘NGE’ moments across MMORPG history

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Eleven years ago this week, the New Game Enhancements patch descended on Star Wars Galaxies, forever changing the trajectory of the game, SOE, and...

Massively Overthinking: Nickel-and-diming in MMORPGs

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Massively OP reader and listener Suikoden79 recently wrote in to the podcast with a gem of a question I thought would be more fun...

Massively Overthinking: The MMORPG board games connection

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MOP reader Kastaguro sent us an interesting question last month about MMORPGs, board games, and a possible playerbase shift. "I was wondering if any of...

EVE Evolved: Alpha Clone economics, bragging rights, and restrictions

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Yesterday at EVE Vegas 2016, developer CCP Rise held us spellbound with tales of his recent misadventures in EVE Online recently when pretending to...

Massively Overthinking: Our five favorite MMORPGs of all time

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Earlier this week, Redditor maxpower888 started an epic thread on the /r/mmorpg sub asking everyone to chime in and name his or her top five...
Losing in a way that's incidentally the same as not in fact losing at all.

Massively Overthinking: Real solutions to the MMO toxicity problem

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Toxicity. It's plagued online spaces since long before there were MMORPGs and other online video games, as any old school BBS user can attest....
SWTOR

Massively Overthinking: The classes MMORPGs never do

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No one wants to play Uncle Owen, a certain MMORPG exec famously said -- except, you know, for all the people who really, really...

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for Amazon’s New World

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The announcement of a new sandbox MMORPG last week -- New World, by none other than Amazon Game Studios itself -- has had both...

Massively Overthinking: Are you suffering from MMORPG burnout?

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In last week's Daily Grind about whether or not MMOs are better the second time you play them, the topic of burnout came up. "I find...

Massively Overthinking: Are MMORPG collector’s editions worth the money?

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I have a confession to make: I pretty much never buy collector's editions of anything, especially MMORPGs. Call me cheap, I guess, but there's...

Massively Overthinking: Prestige systems in MMORPGs

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Last week, an interesting question dropped into our team inbox. It was from a game developer -- I don't know for which game --...
TSW

Massively Overthinking: What’s the worst MMORPG for duos?

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Massively OP reader Styopa recently wrote in to us to propose that we write about the best MMORPGs for duoing. I was all set...

Massively Overthinking: Please complain about MMOs, loudly and insistently

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Last weekend, the blogosphere exploded over an article that essentially told the MMORPG community to shut up, sit down, and stop complaining about things...

Massively Overthinking: Guilty pleasures in MMORPGs

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This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Patron Duane, who asks, "Do you take simple joy in MMO mechanics that are often referred...
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Massively Overthinking: The best combat systems in MMORPGs

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One of the big problems in the MMORPG genre as I see it is game studios' inclination to prioritize combat above all else, turning...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG soundtracks

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MOP's Justin Olivetti created the music-centered Jukebox Heroes column back on Massively-that-was and brought it along to us here, and to this day it's...
Big empty.

No Man’s Sky launches today on console

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In this episode, Larry, Brendan, and Tina debate next-gen MMOs, unfinished games, and MMO buzzwords.

Massively Overthinking: One more chance for WoW Legion?

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The World of Warcraft subreddit went nuts this week over a response to a player who told Blizzard that it had "one more chance... again"...

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