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GDC 2021: Star Wars Galaxies was a complex game of corporate greed and fan love
It was an MMO built in about three years, with a miserable launch, a depressing churn rate, and the most infamous patch in all...
MassivelyOP interview: Talking ship design with Star Trek Online’s Donny Versiga
If you play Star Trek Online, you know that ship collecting is one of the major pastimes of captains all over the Federation and...
Massively Overthinking: Load-bearing playerbases in MMORPGs
Game developer Damion Schubert is known to MMO players for his work on everything from Ultima Online to SWTOR, but as it turns out,...
Star Citizen addresses alpha 3.13, stability, delays, bugs, and communication
As is tradition with CIG, the devs are looking back at the release of alpha 3.13 and the Invictus Launch Week event of Star...
Dual Universe details the tracking, mining, and fighting to be done for asteroids
Asteroids in Dual Universe! You know how to play this; you just rotate your ship a little bit and shoot at the asteroids while...
PlanetSide 2 adjusts infantry weapons, tweaks Javelins, and squashes bugs in today’s update
Now that the NSO faction has been retooled, it stands to reason that PlanetSide 2 would need to adjust things a bit post-patch. That's...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 331: The transparency episode
Justin and Bree discuss Crowfall, Chronicles of Elyria, Camelot Unchained, Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy XIV, Swords of Legends Online, Elyon, Warframe, and Path of Exile, with adventures in FFXIV, WoW Classic, LOTRO, and Albion Online, plus mailbag topics on Crowfall's marketing and its roleplay problem.
EVE Online’s bank vault-breaking Grand Heist update arrives to the Singularity test server
Of all of the occupations a player can pursue in EVE Online, "bank robber" might not be one of the first things that spring...
Dual Universe shares update plans for summer and fall, brings the Apollo patch to PTS
Evidently, Novaquark Studios was so excited to share the latest developments for Dual Universe that it broke tradition and kicked out its next newsletter...
The Daily Grind: What’s the single best way an MMO can keep a newbie playing?
A while back, MOP's own Ben tweeted that during his recent foray into EVE Online, a gamemaster messaged him out of the blue. The...
Destiny 2 outlines changes coming to ritual activity ranks and reputations in Season 15
Season 15 of Destiny 2 is going to be doing something a little different for its variety of regular activity reputation grinds. According to...
The Daily Grind: What do you do when you have gobs of money in an MMO and nothing to spend it on?
The other day, I was tooling around Star Wars Galaxies on the Legends server and feeling a bit despondent, not because I had too...
TennoCon 2021: Waframe introduces cross-platform play, shows off mobile
For five TennoCons, Warframe players have asked about cross-platform play. They want it. They need it. Well, it turns out the sixth time's the...
Elite Dangerous attempts to explain its balancing act between sharing details and communicating too much
A common refrain among players of Elite: Dangerous is that developer Frontier Developments isn't communicative enough - a pain point that the studio says...
Star Citizen discusses balancing for shields, energy weapons, ships, and thrusters coming in alpha 3.14
While the upcoming alpha 3.14 build of Star Citizen has a number of headline features of its own like the Orison landing area, there...
Massively Overthinking: The curious cycle of MMO refunds, tutorials, and reviews
MOP reader Steve recently posed us an intriguing question about the state of tutorials in MMOs and other games - and how those tutorials'...
Elite Dangerous deploys a fix to weapons engineering in an effort to alleviate material grinds
The materials required to engineer weapons in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey are pretty high right now, all things considered. With a recent small patch applied...
EVE Online announces the return of the 10v10 Alliance Tournament PvP event
After a two year-long hiatus, fans of official PvP tournament action in EVE Online as CCP Games announced the return of the Alliance Tournament...
Black Desert sets Atoraxxion launch for July 21 as console counts 3M players
I'm sorry to report that Cursed, the Netflix TV show that Black Desert collaborated with on a whole patch last year, has been canceled....
The Stream Team: Mission running in Elite Dangerous Odyssey
Last time MOP's Chris took to the stars of Elite: Dangerous, he was in the final leg of Odyssey's alpha test, and in spite...
