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Massively OP Podcast Episode 162: The Morninglight wants you
Justin and Bree discuss Project Gorgon, RIFT, Trove, Secret World Legends' South Africa, ArcheAge's progression servers, Black Desert on Xbox One, World of Warcraft, and Bless, with mailbag entries on classic Guild Wars and RIFT Prime.
EVE Online pumps out quality-of-life patch, starts taking CSM applications
The skies are crowded with activity in EVE Online as of late. CCP came out this week to talk about many of the "little...
Final Fantasy XI challenges players to another alphabetical Easter event
If you've played Final Fantasy XI through any given Easter event, you probably have a vivid memory of hearing people shout for various eggs...
Leaderboard: Do you speculate on WoW Tokens or other legal MMO RMT currency?
Is Call of Duty the next Activision franchise to migrate to Battlenet? Very likely. As Eurogamer broke earlier this month, players are now able...
Camelot Unchained works on crafting and building prototypes
Building blocks and baby steps: This is the approach that Camelot Unchained is taking in developing some of its key systems for the upcoming...
Wisdom of Nym: A week after Final Fantasy XIV’s Eureka
It's been a little under a week since the Eureka launch in Final Fantasy XIV, and opinions about the content are pretty universally strong....
EVE Evolved: What pushes EVE Online players to breaking point?
How many times have you read the comments on an EVE Online article and found someone talking about an experience they had that turned...
The MOP Up: Enter the Phantom Halls — if you dare! (March 18, 2018)
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...
One Shots: Don’t you forget about me
I think that we can all agree that Hirku seems like he'd be a pretty fun-loving dude to hang out with in World of...
The Game Archaeologist: World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood pandemic
It began with an exploitable glitch. It exploded into an uncontained nightmare of death. It established a meme as strong as Leeroy Jenkins. It...
World of Warcraft confirms that Mag’har Orcs and Kul Tiran Humans are joining the allied races
The rumors and speculation are true, according to the most recent World of Warcraft live Q&A. Ion Hazzikostas revealed that both Mag'har and Kul...
Massively Overthinking: The war on MMO chat toxicity
This week, The Ancient Gaming Noob posted up an image of RIFT Prime, where Trion asks people to... play nice. "Just a neighborly reminder...
WoW Factor: The Kul Tiran Druid ‘problem’ in World of Warcraft
One of the important things to note about World of Warcraft lore is that it's never been static. It will retcon itself six ways...
Shroud of the Avatar releases co-op and world videos ahead of launch
Portalarium is going all out for Shroud of the Avatar's formal launch next week - March 27th, for those of you keeping count. Last...
EVE Online, Star Trek Online, and Elite Dangerous players memorialize physicist Stephen Hawking
Multiple MMORPG communities are celebrating the life of internationally renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who passed away earlier this week.
In EVE Online, players came together...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth opens up island expeditions for testing
One of the big features of World of Warcraft's next expansion is available for testing now, the island expeditions. If you've wondered what it'll...
Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen
Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...
Final Fantasy XI brings in new Dynamis and relic reforging
The newest update to Final Fantasy XI means the end of the game's Dynamis - Divergence areas with the addition of Jeuno, thus allowing...
SoulWorker Online begins selling subs, responds to outcry over energy system P2W
SoulWorker is technically in open beta on paper; it isn't supposed to truly launch until later this quarter. It hit Steam at the end...
Shroud of the Avatar’s housing is expensive, but not impossible to acquire without RMT
When we covered Shroud of the Avatar's newsletter yesterday, one of the tidbits we mentioned was the plan for craftable housing. In response to...
