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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Perfect Ten: The 10 saddest MMORPG stories
Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...
Tamriel Infinium: ZeniMax’s Rich Lambert on Elder Scrolls Online content development, past and future
Morrowind was very likely a great boon for The Elder Scrolls Online. Although ZeniMax Online Studios hasn't released any solid numbers, the staff has...
Lawbreakers seems to be doing very poorly on Steam
Lawbreakers seems to be turning into another one of those sad reminders that even renowned game designers have their failures from time to time.
The...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida on Stormblood’s release, AI issues, and MMO history
After all this time, I'm sure some of you forgot that my original E3 2017 interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida was supposed to...
World of Warcraft rockets to Argus in patch 7.3 today
At last year's BlizzCon, when Blizzard first announced World of Warcraft fans would someday be trekking to Argus, it seemed so distant to many...
The MOP Up: State of Decay 2’s multiplayer mayhem (August 27, 2017)
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 Stream Team: Burrowing deeper into Secret World Legends’ Blue Mountain
Secret World Legends' Blue Mountain adventures are coming to a close for Massively OP's MJ. She has a few more missions to complete (including...
Perfect Ten: MMO experiments in transmedia synergy
We're not going to argue that MMORPGs are the dominant form of media entertainment these days, but they do have endurance and a devoted...
EVE Evolved: The strategy and narrative of EVE’s revenge war
At the start of this month, we reported on a massive new war that was kicking off in the north of EVE Online. The...
LOTRO Legendarium: A trip back through LOTRO’s expansions
Now that we're in the thick of Lord of the Rings Online: Mordor (which I'm still enjoying very much), my mind has taken a...
Camelot Unchained’s player progression will be a ‘long-term investment’
Is that... is that Camelot Unchained's Beta 1 peeking over the horizon? From the tone of this week's newsletter, it certainly sounds as if...
Massively Overthinking: Alone together vs. forced grouping in MMORPGs
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that everyone has at some point seen the xkcd called Isolation, but if not, there...
Global Chat: The MMO blogosphere’s reaction to Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire
It seems like the entire MMO blogosphere wanted to chip in thoughts on the Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire announcement, whether or not...
Take a sneak peek at SWTOR’s planet of shadows
There are a billion planets out there in the Star Wars galaxy, and we have visited only a small fraction of them so far...
Camelot Unchained teases beta with a new ‘guiding principles’ doc
If it feels like we've been waiting for Camelot Unchained's beta forever, well, it hasn't - it's only been half of forever. And the...
EVE Online pushes back its August patch until August 16
There was supposed to be an EVE Online patch here. It's not here now, though; instead, it's being pushed back by a day until...
MMO Tree of Life has entered ‘final beta,’ counts 85K early access players
Korean sandbox import Tree of Life is officially in "final beta" ahead of its launch this week.
"NeoBricks is announcing Tree of Life, the sandbox MMORPG...
Johnny Depp will produce a TV show based on The Secret World
Your eyes aren't deceiving you, though I did a double-take too: Deadline is reporting that The Secret World aka Secret World Legends is getting a...
Camelot Unchained lays the groundwork for NPCs
Bot battles is the phrase on everyone's lips over at Camelot Unchained as of late. The team said in this week's newsletter that it...
Massively Overthinking: Is the popularity of small-scale co-op games hurting MMORPGs?
Gamasutra has an unusual piece from an Ubisoft developer this week arguing that co-op gameplay is the industry's rising midcore trend, one that he...
