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Massively Uplifting: Spring and summer philanthropy and farewells in MMOs

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'Tis the season! What season? Why, spring and summer! Spring is a time of growth, and our gaming-verse certainly saw growth of the generous...

EverQuest II burns it up with the Scorched Sky Celebration

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It's always interesting to see how MMORPGs attempt to fill up the summer season with a variety of events. And here to take our...

The Realm Online’s corporate buyer surfaces with a bizarre website and studio partner

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Over the course of June, we learned the sad news that player-led developer Realm Worlds would be shutting down the current version of The...
Never mind, I'm not real!

Battle Bards Episode 226: Echoes of MMOs that never were

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It’s always highly bittersweet when MMO fans sit back and consider the games that never were — the projects that got far along in...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best ‘shopping’ experience?

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We're talking about in-game shopping, mind you, not photoshop or cash-shop or workshops or whatever. I've joked before - not entirely facetiously - that one...
It's a NICE DOOR.

Massively Overthinking: Why don’t MMOs try harder to foster great guilds?

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MOP reader Mahaf1089 posed an interesting question beneath a WoW Factor column earlier this month, one that clearly resonated with our readers because it...

PlanetSide 2 PC tests some new implants, patches in UI updates and bug fixes

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Last week saw PlanetSide 2 open up its PTS so players could kick the tires of seven new implants, all of which are being...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: The most regrettable MMO studio names

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The name of a studio has no bearing on the game's quality. You might disagree and point to a game you were more inclined...
Robot!

Massively OP Podcast Episode 427: The promise of Palia

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Justin and Bree discuss Palia, SWTOR, Fractured, The Realm Online, Star Wars Galaxies, and Second Life, with adventures in LOTRO, Diablo IV, and SWTOR, plus mailbag topics on the future of WoW post-Dragonflight and over-the-top characters in MMOs.

The Stream Team: Soaking up Star Wars Galaxies on its 20th anniversary

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It's a bit ironic that Massively OP's MJ is celebrating (and streaming) both of her favorite games' anniversaries today, and both non-original iterations are...

Working As Intended: My 20 years of Star Wars Galaxies

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Last year, when Ultima Online turned 25 years old, I did a piece reminiscing on those early days and marveling that so much of...

One Shots: Dragons don’t like to be in the dark

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Just because dragons are big and scaly and can nuke cities from orbit doesn't mean that they lack insecurities. In fact, it's a little-known...
Shovels!

Massively Overthinking: Which MMOs are memorable but not actually fun?

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Earlier this week, we ran a Daily Grind on MMOs that are fun but not especially memorable, throwing it back to a quote from...

Claws of Veeshan joins EverQuest’s free expansion roster

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To the patient gamer who waits long enough, most everything becomes free. It's a hard but thrifty strategy for the budget-minded among us, and...

EverQuest II adjusts ability procs, item effects, and various instances in its latest patch

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Last week's EverQuest II patch is a big one for those who use items and abilities that engage when there's a damage proc. A...

SWGEmu’s Finalizer rogue server is apparently struggling to make its monthly budget

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One of the topics that doesn't get talked about all that much in the MMORPG rogue server space is how old-school emulators get paid...

Lord of the Rings Online and Magic Online teams up to give you potato frames

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Hey, did you all forget that Magic Online got snarfed up by Daybreak last year? Probably, it was kind of forgettable in the larger...

SWG Legends launches Empire Day, plus check out this player’s amazing Star Wars Galaxies swag collection

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As promised, Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has kicked off its summer-anniversary-4th-of-July combo event this week, sending players to Theed or Coronet,...

Into the Super-Verse: What made Marvel Heroes so special?

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This month we mark a particularly sad anniversary in the MMO space: The 10th anniversary of the launch of Marvel Heroes. By all rights,...
Ox in, free.

The MOP Up: Neverwinter buffs its companion healing factor by up to 100%

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Neverwinter's medically minded companions received a massive infusion of green numbers this past week, as Cryptic buffed those particular pets by a significant amount. "We...

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