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Global Chat: When you can’t ignore the MMO meta
As we kick off another column on recent MMO blog essays, Galactic Antics uses a recent situation in Star Wars: The Old Republic as...
The Stream Team: Back to Balmorra for more SWTOR Republic Galactic Loremaster tasks
Are you ready for Massively OP's Larry and MJ to return to the Empire in SWTOR? Well, sadly that's not happening today; the two...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that took aim at World of Warcraft
The fact that we currently have a Big Five in the MMO space is a big change from not so long ago, when the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 385: Dungeons & Delays
Justin and Bree discuss NCsoft, Aion 2, Guild Wars 2, Throne & Liberty, Nightingale, Path of Exile 2, and DDO, with adventures in SWG Legends, LOTRO, and RIFT, plus mailbag topics on playable pandas and MMO housekeeping.
The Daily Grind: Is the MMO genre thriving in scarcity?
I want to talk about the MMO genre in the meta sense for a sec this morning. Every time I see another game pivot...
Whatever happened to The Repopulation? (2022 Edition)
A few weeks back, I was working on a column that includes a reference to The Repopulation, and I realized I hadn't heard anything...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends teases pilot and player city updates, counts almost 20K new player houses in 2022
It's been a relatively quiet summer for the Star Wars Galaxies rogue servers, but that's only because devs are heads-down working on fall updates....
Massively Overthinking: What’s so bad about comfort zones in MMOs?
If you've been following the MMORPG meta for a long time, particularly in World of Warcraft, you know there's corner of the industry convinced...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming’s exposé on SWG crafting and decoration
In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 384: The World of Warcraft we’ll never see
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard's financials, the canceled WoW mobile MMO, LOTRO remastered, the Riot MMO, and Legends of Aria's monetization, with adventures in RIFT, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and Fallout 76, plus a voicemail wishing for an MMO amnesia button.
Global Chat: Is Phantasy Star Online 2 a shallow MMO?
In a recent post on trying out Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, blogger Virtual Bastion made the observation that the MMO offered "slick...
The Daily Grind: Do you like it when MMO quests follow up with you afterward?
One neat little feature that I always appreciated about Star Wars: The Old Republic is that sometimes you would get these little codas to...
Star Wars The Old Republic shares a short story of Sa’har’s search for her missing brother
Since the most recent patch of Star Wars: The Old Republic zeroing in on Sa'har Kateen, it would make sense that a newly shared...
Massively Overthinking: What endgame content keeps you in an MMORPG long-term?
A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, Justin and I were trying to sort through why New World's endgame hasn't had staying power with...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 383: New World strikes up the band
Justin and Bree discuss New World, Diablo Immortal, SWTOR, NCsoft Q1, and Guild Wars 3, with adventures in RIFT, LOTRO, and Glitch, plus a mailbag topic on better terms for MMOs.
SWTOR releases Update 7.1 Digging Deeper today with more story and a new raid
After a long wait, Star Wars: The Old Republic fans have their first content drop following the release of Legacy of the Sith this...
Massively Uplifting: WoW players break barriers, Bungie and ZeniMax raise money to help children
Summer sweetness is not just for corn and watermelon! No, it's for all the kind and generous gestures of of our fellow gamers and...
Star Wars: The Old Republic previews next month’s ‘short story’ update, gives out free decorations
Following the anemic content offerings and reception of this past spring's Legacy of the Sith, Star Wars: The Old Republic is under a lot...
Star Wars: The Old Republic brings its bounty hunting event around once more
So there's only one class in Star Wars: The Old Republic that hunts bounties for a living. It's called Bounty Hunter; you may have...
Fan site compiles a list of every MMORPG rogue server and emulator still running
Not every emulator project is as popular or as well known as Star Wars Galaxies Legends or City of Heroes Homecoming. To help bring...
