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The MOP Up: Ultima Online’s new home

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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...

Leaderboard: Which FFXIV crafting class is your favorite?

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Yesterday I mentioned that I've returned to Final Fantasy XIV, and while I've since settled on a job (or two) for my main, I'm...

Why I Play: Final Fantasy XIV

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We used to do a column called Why I Play on Massively-that-was, and while I didn't originally plan on rezzing it here today, I did return...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite Final Fantasy XIV job?

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I went back to Final Fantasy XIV this week, and apart from still not being able to create a character on my preferred server...

Yoshida celebrates one year of Final Fantasy XIV in China

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Final Fantasy XIV guru Naoki Yoshida headlined a one-year anniversary celebration for the game in China this week. He revealed that FFXIV version 3.0...
Build.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s crafting and gathering endgame in Heavensward

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Crafting and gathering has never been a primary goal of mine in Final Fantasy XIV so much as a secondary one. It's something extra...
We fought a bear.

Perfect Ten: The 10 MMO memories we all have

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I have been playing MMOs with varying degrees of intensity for the past 12 years. That is really weird to me. It also means that...

Jukebox Heroes: My top six favorite MMO soundtracks of all time

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In ranking MMO soundtracks, there are a lot of ways to do it. You can pull out individual tracks or praise a game for...
Ninja by mechanics, not by occupation.

Wisdom of Nym: The state of Final Fantasy XIV’s melee DPS

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I main melee DPS on my main character in Final Fantasy XIV, but it was never really by design. Originally I was quite happy...

The MOP Up: Another stab at Game of Thrones

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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...
That's not a doll, guy.

Final Fantasy XI releasing high-level remixes of classic battles with its next update

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The final update for Final Fantasy XI is due out in November, but there's life in the game yet before that happens, and there...

Global Chat: Returning to WildStar for F2P

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Many WildStar fans, past and present, are digging into the sumptuous buffet of the free-to-play patch on the test server for a better idea...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 27: SmedSoft

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Justin and Bree discuss Smed's new company, EQII's prison server, Champions Online, FFXIV, Trove, and Revival's housing, plus mailbag questions on NCsoft and terrible graphics.
Where you at?

Wisdom of Nym: Two years since Final Fantasy XIV’s relaunch

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I remember a couple of years ago, in February, getting ready to fly across the country for Final Fantasy XIV's big press event. I...
All options are temporary.

Final Fantasy XIV’s anniversary broadcast reveals plenty of content for patch 3.1

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Back on April 1st of this year, the developers behind Final Fantasy XIV made a joke about developing a strategy game in which you...

One Shots: Quiet grace

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When I take pictures of people in real life, I almost never ask them to pose. That feels so artificial to me; I'd rather...

Leaderboard: Have you gotten married in an MMO?

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TERA patched a wedding chapel into the lands of Arborea yesterday, and the occasion got me to wondering about holy matrimony in various other...
Goal: murder.

Final Fantasy XIV boasts 5 million registered accounts

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Let's start this news item with an important caveat - we don't know how many actual active subscribers Final Fantasy XIV has at the...

Perfect Ten: Mobile MMOs coming soon to a pocket near you

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It may be true that interest in playing and developing mobile games has peaked, although personally I very much like mobile gaming. On the...
AND THE ROCKET'S RED GLARE, ETC

Final Fantasy XIV previews its anniversary event

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It's been just about two years since Final Fantasy XIV relaunched and surprised more or less everyone by being an enormous success story. Not...

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