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.
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Exclusive: Explore Bless Online’s Hieron races, including elves and werewolves
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Massively Overthinking: The war on MMO chat toxicity
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ARK Survival Evolved is coming to mobile in full, with a beta beginning today
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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...
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Go on a first-person tour of War of Rights’ Civil War battlefields
What would it have been to fight -- and perhaps die -- on one of the famous Civil War battlefields? The multiplayer War of...
Wisdom of Nym: How Final Fantasy XIV’s latest housing war was won and where it got us
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The MOP Up: Closers chooses its next character (March 4, 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...
Global Chat: Elder Scrolls Online’s disguised gameplay
It seems as though some players' attention has shifted back to Elder Scrolls Online this spring, especially with the recent Dragon Bones DLC drop. Telwyn...
WoW Factor: Examining the composition of the Alliance
Watching as speculation and mining swirls around the Mag'har as a future allied race, I can't help but start thinking about the bigger picture...
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The votes are in, and I'm heading to the world of Warframe. Or worlds. I am honestly not altogether clear about how much of...
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WoW Factor: Why can’t Blizzard stop messing with everything?
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