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Massively Overthinking: How hard should MMOs be?
This past summer, MMO dev Damion Schubert posted an epic tweet-thread about MMOs; in fact, we've already dipped into the part on "load-bearing" playerbases,...
Perfect Ten: How MMOs explain away our infinite resurrections
Why? Why do we die in MMOs and keep coming back to life? Are we in a type of hell defined by endless combat...
Daybreak’s Jack Emmert is geeking out over DC Universe Online’s December Legion of Doom
Jack Emmert, CEO of Daybreak sub-studio Dimensional Ink, is geeking out over DC Universe Online's upcoming Legion of Doom episode in December. His excitement...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 346: Endwalker, ArcheAge, Lost Ark, and New World
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's Endwalker delay, WoW's financials and player council, ArcheAge's new publisher, Gamigo's new MMORPG, Lost Ark's beta, New World's state, DDO update 51, Elder Scrolls Online's Deadlands, Harry Potter Wizard Unite's sunset, and Crowfall's freemium update, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallen Earth, City of Heroes, and Star Wars Galaxies, plus a mailbag topic on worry about the future of the genre.
The Stream Team: Taking a peek at the new Seismic Blast powerset in City of Heroes Homecoming’s beta
Isn't it wild that we're talking about a beta test for City of Heroes content in 2021? Here we are doing just that as...
City of Heroes Homecoming’s Issue 27: Second Chances, Page 3 hits the test server
On Wednesday, we noted in our big roundup of MMORPG studios running Extra Life 2021 charity streams this weekend that City of Heroes rogue...
DC Universe Online makes ally purchases account-wide, updates early endgame scaling and buffs
There's been a patching applied to DC Universe Online, and while it's a bit thin in terms of content, it does have a number...
Massively Overthinking: What are your most on-brand MMORPG class archetypes?
A while back in MOP's work chat, we were chatting about Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons and how its elite specs line up...
How to support Extra Life 2021, from Guild Wars 2 and EverQuest to LOTRO and City of Heroes
If you caught MJ's latest Massively Uplifting, you probably noticed that Extra Life is ramping up across the gaming industry, and particularly among MMORPG...
Perfect Ten: 10 enemies we need to fight more in MMORPGs
When I wrote up the contents of every MMORPG bestiary, I stuck mostly with concepts rather than specifics, aside from dragons and slimes. There...
City of Titans’ latest internal interview is full of costume designs, a blimp, and spooky ambient music
I'm going to be honest, this latest internal interview piece from City of Titans is kind of all over the place. That's probably appropriate,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 345: The rise of Fallen Earth
Justin and Bree discuss Fallen Earth Classic, New World's messes, Blizzard's outlook, Magic Legends, Riders Republic, and Pikmin Bloom, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on how forum comments affect our opinions of MMOs.
Ship of Heroes showcases trick or treat event ahead of December beta
As the Halloween season draws to a close in MMO land, the devs working on Ship of Heroes would like to take followers out...
The Daily Grind: Which dead MMOs do you hope will come back some day?
Last week, Fallen Earth returned to service, which delighted me to no end. When you have favorite MMOs that end up being shuttered or...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPGs of all time, 2021 edition
Five years ago this week - back in 2016 - the MOP team and readers did an epic Massively Overthinking picking out their top...
Champions Online’s official costume contest invites players to bring their best squad look
Having an iconic singular look in Champions Online is pretty good, but if you've got several friends that dress up in a squad look...
City of Heroes Homecoming gets all Halloween happy
The other day on the podcast, we were trying to recall what the name of City of Heroes' haunted house was. That served as...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMORPGs you’ve already forgotten about
Not every MMORPG can remain in the spotlight forever. Time has a nasty habit of making us forget titles that used to rile up...
DC Universe Online is handing out free goodies for Wonder Woman Day
As of last week, Wonder Woman has been in comics for 80 years, which seems like the perfect reason for DC Universe Online to...
The Daily Grind: Does New World need mounts?
Earlier this week, we ran a Daily Grind on walking in MMOs, and I happened to mention New World as a game where walking...
