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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...
EverQuesting: Falling for EverQuest II’s new progression server, Fallen Gate
A new time-locked expansion server got rolling last week in EverQuest II -- are you on board? I wasn't initially planning to participate; 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...
DCUO’s summer event is nothing short of an Atlantean civil war
Aquaman might still be dealing with the shameful vestiges of his poor Superfriends cartoon showing in the 1970s, but the underwater superhero is getting...
The Stream Team: Earning an EverQuest II kick in the pants on the new progression server
EverQuest II is offering a unique event for the opening of its newest progression server, Fallen Gate. Everyone who reaches level 10 before July...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 125: Secrets, Mordor, and Argus
Justin and Bree discuss Secret World Legends, Elder Scrolls Online, WoW, LOTRO, RIFT, Kritika, and Master X Master, with mailbag topics on MMOs like Star Wars Galaxies and following the MMO crowd.
Daybreak Game Company holds job fair, appetizers presumably delicious
Next month, big things are happening over at Daybreak: Daybreak is holding a job fair in which the studio will seek potential candidates for hire.
While the games...
Choose My Adventure: Launching new in DC Universe Online
Looking at the the three big triple-A superhero titles, DC Universe Online has always felt like the odd one out. City of Heroes was...
EverQuest II kicks off new progression server after short delay
Following a brief delay yesterday, EverQuest II's newest progression server is up and running.
The time-locked expansion server will start subscribers over at the earliest...
The Stream Team: Lavastorm Heritage Quests in EverQuest II
Massively OP's MJ has been slowly streaming through all of EverQuest II's Heritage Quests (slowly, because there are more than you can shake an...
The Stream Team: Celebrating Star Wars Galaxies’ birthday
Star Wars Galaxies was the game that sucked Massively OP's MJ into MMORPsGs, so how could she not celebrate its birthday? The official game...
Leaderboard: Do you play Star Wars Galaxies’ emulator?
Welp, here we are: Star Wars Galaxies would be turning 14 years old today, had it been allowed to live.
SWG is much beloved around...