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LOTRO Legendarium: Ranking LOTRO’s expansions from worst to best
Every once in a while, it's a lot of fun to sit down and rank things in your favorite geeky franchises. A while back,...
PSA: OK procrastinators, you’re running out of time to get your free LOTRO and DDO stuff
Last spring, when the pandemic was ramping up here in the US and states were closing down everything in a panic, MMO studios around...
Global Chat: Is MMO crafting obsolete?
Tipa over at Chasing Dings recently posed an intriguing question to her friends and readers: Does crafting have any place in the modern MMO?...
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s getting shifty with the Shifter
Dungeons and Dragons Online's newest race is going through the paces on the test server right now, which means that before long, players will...
LOTRO extends summer festival while servers are still being fixed
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...
The Stream Team: Missing kids is the thing in Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Ravenloft
Being a kid is never easy, but it's downright life-threatening in DDO's Ravenloft. From scattered journal entries to a death house, Massively OP's MJ...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 285: Exit En Masse
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.
New week, old problems: LOTRO can’t seem to fix its servers
If you logged into Lord of the Rings Online this week hoping for an easy road to Mordor, think again. There are a whole...
The Daily Grind: Do you do side quests in your MMOs?
I realize this question doesn't apply to all MMOs: Some MMOs don't have quests at all, while in others, there's no way you're leveling...
Players petition for better servers as LOTRO’s second wave of instability continues
A second period of server instability in the past month is plaguing Lord of the Rings Online, even as Standing Stone Games said that...
The Stream Team: Daring to explore Dungeon and Dragons Online’s Death House
Massively OP's MJ is celebrating her first stream in her new house by exploring DDO's Death House, purely by coincidence! She certainly didn't move...
Don’t look now, but LOTRO is having issues again
I know we joke that Massively OP is not an uptime monitor, but when it comes to Lord of the Rings Online, we have...
Perfect Ten: 10 great tropical areas to visit in MMOs
Probably a lot of us aren't getting that fantastic summer beach vacation that we had hoped to get this year. But instead of getting...
Lord of the Rings Online’s merged Farmer’s Faire and Summer Festival are live today
With the addition of the Midsummer Festival a little while back, Lord of the Rings Online's summer season got more than a little full...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 284: Mommy, don’t let them take my Fortnite away
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.
Global Chat: Getting an early look at Crowfall’s beta
Now that Crowfall's beta is on the scene, plenty of curious gamers are streaming in to see what ArtCraft's ambitious PvP title has to...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most annoying travel system in an MMO?
A while back, I finally talked my husband into buying his Elf Warden a basic Hobbit house in Lord of the Rings Online. He...
Massively Overthinking: Jumping the shark in MMOs
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...
The Daily Grind: Do you play MMOs with ‘rested experience’ in mind?
Let's talk about rested experience in online games this morning. MMOs call them all sorts of things, but World of Warcraft's has stuck the...
DDO Wayfinder players are getting even more boosts and refunds following three-week rollback
Last week, Dungeons and Dragons Online players were dismayed to learn that they hadn't quite escaped all the horrors of the LOTRO downtime last...