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RvR stands for “realm vs. realm,” usually a reference to faction-based player-vs.-player warfare, and frequently (though not always) in the context of more than two realms.

Grab a MU Online, MU Legend, C9, Flyff, or Rappelz in Webzen’s summer giveaway

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Webzen is winding down the summer with a bang: a massive round of bonus events across its whole catalogue of MMOs, including including MU...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 183: Battle for Battle for Azeroth

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Eliot, Justin, and Bree discuss WoW Battle for Azeroth, Fallout 76, WildStar, NCsoft, Ashes of Creation, MMO Kickstarters, FFXIV, and SWG, with more haiku and mailbag entry on rating WoW for kids.

EverQuesting: The history of the EverQuest franchise

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Back in 2013, I took a walk through the annals of the EverQuest franchise's history. What started as one title not only blossomed into...

Camelot Unchained works on a 64-bit client and lovely new lighting

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All this month, Camelot Unchained has been in the thick of its Beta 1 test, and so far, it doesn't look like the devs...
Baby were born to run from the other side.

Rend’s Jeremy Wood on how Frostkeep borrows from Blizzard, Dark Age of Camelot, and PlanetSide

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GameDaily has an interview with Rend's Jeremy Wood this week that covers a bunch of meta topics of interest to MMO players and watchers...
Going nowhere, going nowhere.

First impressions of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, part 2: Content

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Part two covers expansion content: the storyline, the new zones, the War Campaign, questing, rewards, Inscription, professions, dungeons, and environments.
Dead in the water.

First impressions of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, part 1: Mechanics

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Part one covers chiefly the expansion's mechanics: the basics of leveling, the Heart of Azeroth, level scaling, Azerite powers, combat, spec changes, War Mode, and the campaign.

Global Chat: Everybody’s burning up about that Sylvanas thing

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Yes, just about every MMO blogger was sharing heated opinions about last week's World of WarCraft WarCrime. "It’s such a sad event and I’m particularly...

Leaderboard: Must MMORPGs revolve around grouping to be MMORPGs?

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It would be easy to dismiss Saga of Lucimia's pervasive "group-based or go home" ideas as mere rhetoric, but the reality is, there exists...

EVE Online delays its August release a week, citing the need for ‘additional testing’

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If you were hoping to hop into EVE Online with its August release tomorrow, then I'm sorry to tell you that the patch has...
Catching up, caching out.

Camelot Unchained’s latest beta build patches up the UI, fixes superpowered rocks

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Camelot Unchained's beta one is rolling on, and we're assuming City State's Mark Jacobs is napping on a beach somewhere enjoying his long-delayed vacay...

The MOP Up: Worlds Adrift makes room for PvE servers (August 12, 2018)

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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...

Bless compensates for downtime, is 67% off this weekend

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Neowiz is decompressing from the rollout of this past week's Assassin update in Bless, which went... more or less OK. The studio said that...
You may be my old favorite, but you don't get a free pass.

WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s market saturation and the pull of vague memories

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Here's something a little different: Usually, before I write a World of Warcraft column (or any column), my assumptions and data are pretty firm...
This seems like more of a half-move.

World of Warcraft makes some big last-minute class adjustments before Battle for Azeroth

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As the final few days count down before Battle for Azeroth drops, World of Warcraft's developers are making some significant last-minute class adjustments to...

The Daily Grind: Is it time to move on from PvP ‘factions’ in MMORPGs?

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I'm think I'm over factions in MMOs. I get why RvR games need them, and I'll grudgingly concede that the average player is far better...
Who wants to help me do something annoying?!

RIFT datamining discovers a new companion system

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A brand-new feature has been datamined on RIFT's test server, with players trying to figure out what this system entails. It's called Planar Disciples, perhaps...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO features that deserve widespread adaptation

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You know what gets me excited about upcoming MMOs? It's certainly not the list of expected systems and features that have since become standard...

Interviewing the Bless team on the Assassin, merges, PvP, and concurrency as the patch goes live today

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Bless Online is rolling out a hefty content update today as promised, including the Siege of Castra PvP battleground, the faction-based open-world Capital War,...
Opposition.

World of Warcraft opens up the Siege of Lordaeron

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So, to the surprise of absolutely no one, burning down an Alliance capital city did not actually demoralize anyone other than players and now...

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