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Back in August, MOP's own Justin wrote a piece on his Bio Break blog about moderation in gaming that resonated with me. He described...

Back in 2012, I was almost a year deep into Lord of the Rings Online and enjoying my time both in the game and...

Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons, WoW Shadowlands, New World, Elder Scrolls Online, and Final Fantasy XIV, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, SWTOR, Wurm Online, SWG Legends, and Guild Wars 2, plus reader mail on reviving old zones, recovering from burnout, and Mo himself.

It's a weird year when rogue servers are getting more love than some live MMOs, but we're not sorry to see it. One of...

Massively OP's MJ has been waiting for the day she can finally take ya'll for a spin in the big Landmark-esque space sandbox Dual...

We are past 15 years on now, and World of Warcraft still lacks housing. This is, frankly, really dumb. And it comes up a...

A few weeks back, I read a Twitter thread about people who avoid specific games and types of games, and the folks chiming in...

Just a day or two ago I was chatting with an MOP commenter about how PlanetSide 2 really took off this year, getting more...

Are Lord of the Rings Online's servers getting better? From anecdotal evidence, it appears so, although the recent instability hasn't completely vanished from the...

Things are heating up in EverQuest II with the release of Game Update 115: Reignite the Flames. The patch comes equipped with many challenges...

Justin and Bree discuss En Masse's closure, Amazon's Lost Ark, LOTRO, WoW Classic, Wurm Online, Population Zero, and Torchlight III, with adventures in SWTOR, WoW, SWG Legends, and The Sims, plus reader mail on MMO customer service and MMO talent trees.

Longtime MOP reader Ken from Chicago recently asked us to talk about crafting - but he didn't want us to just list off the...

Despite what your game's general chat might argue, World of Warcraft wasn't the first MMO and online games didn't magically become a thing with...

So it became a bit of a running gag in the Massively OP office this week that we became obsessed with August's EverQuest patch....

Justin and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV 5.3, City of Heroes Homecoming, Daybreak buying Cold Iron, WoW Shadowlands' prepatch, EVE Echoes' launch, Epic's lawsuit, and the passing of Meridian 59's Brian Grene, with adventures in Valiance Online, LOTRO, and The Sims 4, plus a mailbag topic on industry stress for devs.

A few weeks back, a new SWG Legends chef was chatting me up on Discord, asking what were frankly very reasonable questions about some...

I'm sure those few people out there still bearing a grudge over the Rune-keeper would disagree with me, but one of the things that...

It's with a very heavy heart today that we report that Brian "Psychochild" Green has passed away at a relatively young age. Green was...

So, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there's a Dragon's Prophet emulator out there that's been...

We've updated the end of this post with the confirmation and press release; we've left the original reporting intact. For the last year, it seems...