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Fortnite touts sales figures while players lament pay-to-progress model
Epic Games' PvE multiplayer zombie tower defense survivalbox MMO thing Fortnite is doing well in its launch week, at least in terms of non-Steam...
Skyforge takes a first look at regional invasion
There are regions in Skyforge that are largely irrelevant to higher-level players. There are a lot of invasions in Skyforge. The two things have...
The MOP Up: SamuTale’s massive new world (July 23, 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...
Gigantic devs liken their graphics to candy and plastic toys
If you love to hate on brightly colored cartoony-stylized graphics of games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, and even Wildstar, know that...
The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest II East
Publishing a video game globally is a monumental task, more so if it is a live online game such as what you'd find with...
Skyforge celebrates its second anniversary with giveaways, trivia contest
While you weren't looking -- or maybe you were -- Skyforge tucked two years of live operation under its belt. The sci-fi action MMORPG...
RIFT brings on a new community manager
ArcheAge isn't the only game at Trion Worlds that's shuffling around its community team these days. RIFT announced last Friday that it brought on board...
Massively Overthinking: Consumer protections in the MMORPG industry
Veteran Massively OP reader Miol says he's exhausted by a recent string of stories in which MMO companies screw gamers over, one after another:...
‘Augmentgate’ rocks the Skyforge community
Calling it an "unbelievable story," the team at Pretty Good Gaming pulled back the curtain on a massive SNAFU regarding a particular Skyforge item.
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The Game Archaeologist: Where are all of the open-source MMOs?
Recently we had an interesting question come in from reader and Patron Rasmus Praestholm, who asked me to do a little investigating: "What (if...
Massively Overthinking: MMO ragequitting
Ragequitting. Most of us have probably done it once or twice from groups or single-player games or even MMO sessions in our time. My...
Perfect Ten: MMOs in limbo
The one thing that I thought we could all count on forever was that the MMO life cycle was pretty easy to understand. A...
The Daily Grind: What kind of MMO achiever are you?
Yesterday's post on Richard Bartle's new unplayer matrix got me thinking once again about my quibbles with the original Bartle quotient, which won't surprise...
Pantheon Wars return to Skyforge on July 1
When the deities in Skyforge aren't fighting one of the millions of invasions taking place on the planet on a regular basis, who do...
Perfect Ten: MMO zones I love to hate
Let's be frank: Not every MMO zone can be a masterpiece of art, design, quest flow, and navigability. I mean, they totally should be,...
Skyforge is looking for new players to become Elder Guardians
Do you want to be the face representing Skyforge to others? Then you might want to look into joining the game's Elder Guardian ranks....
Massively Overthinking: Forced socializing in MMORPGs
Massively OP Patron Jackybah has a question for this week's Massively Overthinking that's probably going to kick up some dust. He wonders whether MMO...
Skyforge adds a new Distortion and new Prestige ranking with its latest patch
Prestige is an important indicator of power in Skyforge, and it just keeps growing over time. The problem is that as it grows ever...
NCsoft MOBA Master X Master launches today
Master X Master is officially launching in the West today, bringing NCsoft's take on a multi-IP MOBA-with-a-twist to our shores. The twist is the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most pleasing aesthetics to you?
I've found that there are few areas that dwell almost completely with the realm of subjective judgment than the looks and art style of...
