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One Shots: The Reaper comes for all MMOs

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In light of this past week's sad Landmark news, it's perhaps too on-the-nose that I asked for players to send in pictures of defunct...
Anyway here's Wonderwall.

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and wishes for MMORPGs in the new year

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One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It's way...

Massively OP’s 2016 Blooper Awards: Most-Covered Defunct MMO

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for Most-Covered Defunct MMO, as proposed by BryanCo. And the winner is... Star Wars Galaxies Although City of...

The Game Archaeologist: Wing Commander Online and Privateer Online

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In late 2012, former Wing Commander developer-slash-movie director Chris Roberts emerged from a decade of obscurity to ask for help to fund his vision...

Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Player Housing of 2016

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Player Housing of 2016, which is a new award for MOP and one proposed...
No, saying that you don't care is not actually an answer.

Take a look back at the end of Star Wars Galaxies

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There's a new Star Wars movie out now; you may have heard about it. Heck, you might have gone to see it already. But...

Ask Mo: Scoring last year’s Massively OP MMORPG predictions

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As we do every year, today we're going to squint back a year, into the depths of a Massively Overthinking from the tail end...
A long time ago, in a galaxy... oh, you know.

Star Wars Galaxies players can ‘come home’ to a new NGE emulator

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The underground rebels of the Star Wars Galaxies community continue to fight to keep the MMO alive any way that they can. One group...

Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMORPG bookworm

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Hey you! Yeah, the player who actually reads quest text and lore entries when all of the other hooting madmen are furiously clicking past...

Massively Overthinking: The many ‘NGE’ moments across MMORPG history

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Eleven years ago this week, the New Game Enhancements patch descended on Star Wars Galaxies, forever changing the trajectory of the game, SOE, and...

Massively Overthinking: Nickel-and-diming in MMORPGs

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Massively OP reader and listener Suikoden79 recently wrote in to the podcast with a gem of a question I thought would be more fun...

Global Chat: How SWTOR could fix its expansion missteps

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Debate and discussion continue in the MMO blogosphere over SWTOR's Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion, with many writers criticizing the expansion's format and...

The Game Archaeologist: Six Halloween holidays from buried MMOs

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There are two things to know about Halloween and MMOs. The first is that just about every online game in the known universe puts...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO doesn’t have mounts — and needs them?

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Let's talk mounts and MMOs. When Star Wars Galaxies launched, it did not have vehicles. It had neither speederbikes nor or ridable tauntauns. For almost six...

Hyperspace Beacon: Outside-the-box Star Wars The Old Republic gameplay

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For some reason, this time of year always seems to be a down time in the activity of large-scale MMORPG development. Although Star Wars:...

Divergence Online survival sandbox prequel Divergence: Year Zero hits Steam early access

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Stained Glass Llama, the studio behind indie sci-fi sandbox Divergence Online, has put that game's infrastructure to work in a brand-new game that launched...

Global Chat: Stormblood, One Tamriel, New World, and the ‘antisocial epidemic’

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The announcement of Final Fantasy XIV's second expansion, Stormblood, is sure to inject more life and excitement into this beloved MMORPG. A couple of...
Revival

The Daily Grind: Have you ever been propositioned in an MMO for loot?

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Get your grimaces and side-eyes on: Kotaku put a piece out last week about "sugar daddies" in MMOs, proving once again that this genre is...
Well, I'll take it, but I won't pay much for it.

Crowfall on its player-driven economy as inspired by classic MMORPGs

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If you've been keeping an eye on Crowfall's recent crafting updates and are wondering how exactly everything fits together in the PvP-centric MMORPG, then...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 87: Rise of Stormblood Rising

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Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss FFXIV Stormblood, WoW, SWGEmu, The Secret World, Daybreak, SHSO, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on replacing SWG and retiring with MMORPGs.

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