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H1Z1 patch optimizes client and tamps down on overenthusiastic celebrants

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For those playing the now-free H1Z1 battle royale, a small Thursday patch might hold a few changes to improve your game experience. It seems as...

Lord of the Rings Online talks Update 23, Mordor’s difficulty, lag, and more

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Now that Lord of the Rings Online has emerged from Mordor, it's preparing to go back in the future. SSG's Rob Ciccolini and Jerry...

Global Chat: Giving Project Gorgon a try

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With Project Gorgon now out on Steam early access, many first-time visitors to this strange game are feeling out the world and its systems....
What you are chasing and will not get.

Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games

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Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...

The Stream Team: The final days of EverQuest II’s Bristlebane festival

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It may not be the Highest of Silly Days, but Bristlebane is still going in EverQuest II. And that means plenty of silliness for...

Amazon Game Studios picks up former Daybreak CM Greg Henninger

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Daybreak's loss is Amazon's gain -- again. Former H1Z1 Community Manager Greg Henninger revealed that he has jumped ship from Daybreak over to Amazon Games...

The MOP Up: Crossout brings out the big raids (April 1, 2018)

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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...

Global Chat: RIFT Prime numbers

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RIFT's new Prime progression server certainly has recaptured or recruited many MMO bloggers to the game as of late, and it is all anyone...

EverQuesting: EverQuest II breaks into spring with Beast’r eggs and Bristlebane

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Spring has sprung! And for EverQuest II, that means a return of Beast'r Eggs and Bristlebane. Norrathians get to celebrate the season by immersing...

Battle Bards Episode 118: More starting zone themes

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What are your favorite memories of those first few days in a brand-new MMORPG? Chances are that those memories are inextricably connected to the...
A journey into complexity.

Perfect Ten: More anthropomorphic MMO studio conversations

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A while back, you may recall that I posted some of my conversations with anthropomorphized concepts of MMO studios. If you don't remember this,...

GDC 2018: Ultima Online post-mortem with Richard Garriott, Starr Long, Raph Koster, and Rich Vogel

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Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 163: Expansions ‘Я’ Us

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Justin and Bree talk expansions for Elder Scrolls Online, Star Trek Online, and Skyforge, with news on Bless, GDC, Ship of Heroes, SWTOR, a new Star Wars title, Project Gorgon, RIFT, WoW, and Trove, with mailbag questions on whether Gorgon vs EverQuest and our Steam Team.

H1Z1 adds duos to auto royale, sees playerbase surge since free-to-play

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It may be way down in players since last summer's peak, but Daybreak isn't giving up on H1Z1. The newly rebranded, newly launched, and...

GDC 2018: Hands-on with Trion’s ‘reimagined’ Defiance 2050

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Before my GDC interview with Producer Matt “Destromathe” Pettit last week, I was really frustrated with the news about Defiance 2050. I wasn't a huge fan...
Yes, yes it is.

The gaming community rallies around EverQuest Next AI developer Dave Mark

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A renowned game AI designer who worked on EverQuest Next and John Smedley's Hero's Song is the focal point of concern following an accident...

One Shots: At least we have pie

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What's the last thing you've ever done in an MMORPG before it was shut down? If you have ever found yourself in this unfortunate...
bang

Massively Overthinking: Paying for MMORPG emulators, legal or otherwise

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MassivelyOp reader Bryan recently wrote to us with a fun question about emulators, a topic that will simply never die as long as MMORPGs...

EverQuest II teases a change to its monthly moonlight enchantments event

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Fey mushroom rings are sprouting all over EverQuest II, marking the return of the monthly Moonlight Enchantments event. This one-day-only event comes and goes...

Perfect Ten: Why MMO progression servers are a brilliant idea

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Over the past couple of weeks, I have been enjoying the journey through RIFT Prime, the game's first progression server. Trion Worlds surprised and...

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