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Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends celebrates seventh anniversary with today’s patch
February's been a whirlwind for Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends, with major downtime, a big hardware upgrade, and a patch. Now, the...
The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA
Sharp minds will recall that back in 2012, EA Mythic attempted to turn its declining MMO fortunes by repackaging Warhammer Online into a MOBA...
Jukebox Heroes: Six great EverQuest II expansion tunes
When's the last time you stepped back and realized just how big and expansive some of your MMORPGs have become over the decades of...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t
A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 410: Cyberpunk meets gaslamp
Justin and Bree discuss Corepunk, Diablo IV, Palia, Nightingale, Blizzard, NCsoft, Pearl Abyss, and EG7/Daybreak, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online, and SWG Legends.
EG7 Q4 2022: Revenues are up thanks to mobile as LOTRO sees ‘mainstream resurgence’
Enad Global 7's Q4 2022 investor report dropped over the weekend, with a recap of the year for Swedish games corp EG7 and its...
SWG Legends just patched in a bunch of long-running player requests
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has had a wild couple of weeks, first with downtime, then with new server hardware, and then...
Perfect Ten: Ranking 10 MMORPG map designs from worst to best
When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...
SWG Legends’ Ewok Festival of Love is the most cursed Valentine’s Day event in MMOs
Friends, if you've read MassivelyOP a long time, you know that Star Wars Galaxies is top o' my MMORPG list, and I happily inhabit...
Magic The Gathering Online releases Phyrexia All Will Be One expansion, says there’s been no data breach
Daybreak is promoting new acquisition Magic: The Gathering Online and its latest update, which rolled out last week and includes Phyrexia: All Will Be...
EverQuest Online Adventures fans toast the console MMO’s 20th anniversary
EverQuest Online Adventures might well be one of the oddest spin-offs from the rather expansive EverQuest franchise. And while this late, great PlayStation 2...
DC Universe Online swoons for Valentine’s Day feats and activities
Even superheroes (and supervillains) crave some affection and snuggles from time to time. Or so we assume, since DC Universe Online is taking a...
EverQuest II kicks off its Valentine’s Day celebration with new achievements and items
The season of love has once more swept across the entirety of EverQuest II as this week sees the return of Erollisi Day to...
The Daily Grind: Are you the fashion police in your MMO of choice?
Since the dawn of the genre, MMOs have allowed players to "snoop" each other and check out what their fellow players were wearing and...
Massively Overthinking: That moment when you realize an MMO is truly something special
MOP commenter Bruno tweeted something the other that that I thought would make a fun topic. Here's what he said, printed with permission:
"Wanna know...
PlanetSide 2’s Love Letter update kicks off Valentine’s Day content for the weekend
As promised, Daybreak rolled out the "love letter" update to PlanetSide 2 last night. The patch buffs anti-cheat measures, adds Nvidia DLSS and AMD...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 408: FFXIV on one side, mods on the other
Justin and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV's great mode debate, WoW's trading post issues, NCsoft's layoffs, Square's and Blizzard's financials, The Crew 3, Quinfall, and Elder Scrolls Online, with adventures in LOTRO and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on MMO beards.
SWG Legends rogue server is finally back online after four-day outage
Over the weekend, Star Wars Galaxies players on the SWG Legends rogue server were left temporarily homeless as the core server suffered a major...
The Daily Grind: Why (and how) do you use your MMO house?
This is a serious question. I am well aware that lots of MMOs provide lots of reasons and methods to own housing, and I...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends suffers weekend crash and downtime caused by a software vulnerability
The rogue server Star Wars Galaxies Legends has had a very rough weekend. This past Friday saw the main Omega server suddenly go dark...
