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RuneScape is a massive hit on Twitch
Time and again, we here at Massively OP have noted how RuneScape seems to be incredibly underestimated by the larger MMO community. For how...
EVE Evolved: The Agency could become a great daily reward system in EVE Online
A new event named The Agency kicked off this week in EVE Online, and it looks a bit like the daily quest systems you...
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...
EverQuest II’s Tinkerfest offers new quests, achievements, pets, and craftables
Tinkerfest is live in EverQuest II once again as it always is in summer -- "like clockwork," Daybreak dad-jokes.
"Take up your favorite wrench and...
DC Universe Online looks forward to a new powerset and two new stories
Ah, summer, the time of year when everyone inevitably starts thinking about the fall. It is what comes next, after all. So DC Universe...
The Daily Grind: What’s your ideal ‘retirement’ MMORPG?
Wednesday, my husband and I were chatting about the big stories of the day, including the Star Citizen piece that racked up a bajillion...
Massively Overthinking: Building a better MMORPG economy
We are on a roll with the epic questions for Overthinking lately! "The recent article about monetization got me thinking about just how much most...
Choose My Adventure: Two approaches to whining about DC Universe Online
Dear readers, today I am going to try something different for all of you. And it's predicated on the fact that I'm not just...
Chaos Theory: Are levels good for Secret World Legends?
We'd heard about (and stressed over!) various Secret World Legends changes for a while, but you just can't know how those changes will affect...
Raph Koster would put action combat in Star Wars Galaxies if made today
Recently, one of game designer Raph Koster's fans wrote in to pose him an interesting hypothetical question. If he were to remake Star Wars...
The Stream Team: Kicking butt with an EverQuest II butt-kicking mount
Thanks to EverQuest II's newest progression server, Fallen Gate, Massively OP's MJ has earned the amusing Pedipowered Posterior Punter. And she can't wait to...
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...
DC Universe Online is releasing its stat rebalance with its next major patch
No one likes seeing numbers go down in an MMO. You work really hard to make sure your attack power goes as high as...
The MOP Up: Crash Force offers arena fun at a discount (July 16, 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...
One Shots: Man of Tungsten
Look there! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... Mysecretid!
Who among us hasn't played a video game at some point and...
Global Chat: Learning from Master X Master
We've certainly remarked several times on Massively OP how much like an MMO Master X Master is, even though it firmly checks the "MOBA"...
Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid on skill memorization, mana management, and combat prep
When an MMO is deep in development, it's natural for players to want to know the answers to everything, down to the tiniest detail,...
Choose My Adventure: Starting out fresh in DC Universe Online
Last week was supposed to be when I kicked off playing DC Universe Online, but thanks to various real-life time obligations, I just didn't have...
Perfect Ten: EverQuest’s EverExpanding franchise
When Daybreak announced last year that it was cancelling the highly anticipated EverQuest Next project, the series' forward momentum lurched to a halt. This wasn't...
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...
