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Perfect 10: Ten features I want to see in Splatoon 3
The announcement of Splatoon 3 has actually shown me that I know more Splat fans than I thought I did. Like, people who are still playing despite the lack of...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs to get you out of your gaming rut
We have all been there. You've been gaming in your standard comfort MMOs when one day you hit that wall of burnout. You feel...
Perfect Ten: The types of MMO guilds
Guilds! They're remarkably consistent features of MMOs because developers have long realized that they are an unparalleled engine for creating drama, arguments, and recriminations....
Perfect Ten: A guide to podcasts for your favorite MMOs
Clearly, your Tuesday schedule every week should have a big fat "LISTEN TO MASSIVELY OP PODCAST" written at 4:00 p.m. EST right on it....
End-of-Year Eleven: The best-value MMOs at the start of 2021
What exactly is value, especially when it comes to MMOs? We all know what the word means, but the thing about "best value" is that...
Perfect Ten: The 10 types of MMO loot I’m always thrilled to get
Loot's not something that I see discussed much these days among MMO players. It's probably because loot's been around since the beginning of online...
Perfect Ten: The 10 tiers of MMO system complexity
MMOs can be complicated things, as I am pretty sure we have discussed on multiple occasions now. There are no known means to prevent...
Perfect Ten: The top MMOs to watch in 2021
"MMOs are dead!" "MMOs are dying!" "We didn't get any good MMO releases this past year!"
While I won't argue with the last one there,...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2021
All right, let's do this one more time. Yes, it's that time when we look ahead to the next year and ask which games...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2020
With so many delays, it's a wonder that anything released this year at all! And while new patches and expansions trickled rather than flowed...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2020
Here's a fun question for you: What's the difference between the biggest surprises of a year and the biggest stories of the year? The answer,...
End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs going into 2021
It is only natural that, when you are shopping around for a different MMORPG to play, to consider the health of potential play candidates....
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2020
Whew. We're finally getting close to the end of 2020, and I think I speak for all of us when I say that it...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO blessings to be thankful for in 2020
There is no doubt that this has been a much more difficult year than most in many respects, almost to the point where it's...
Perfect Ten: The 10 qualities of MMO sandboxes
What is a sandbox MMO? At first glance, it seems like a pretty easy question to answer, especially if you're going by Kickstarter projects,...
Perfect Ten: 10 things to genuinely like about modern World of Warcraft
Over the past year, it's been an interesting and illuminating experience to ping-pong back and forth between retail World of Warcraft and WoW Classic....
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons MMOs struggle with underwater content
In Final Fantasy XIV, players could fly before they could swim. There's no joke there. The game's first expansion added the ability to fly through...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that you can play on the Nintendo Switch
Nintendo hasn't held the title of "serious gamer console" in a while, with specs that lack the sheer graphical and processing muscles of the...
Perfect Ten: A small sampling of literary offerings from MMOs
Salutations are in order once again for our most literate and eloquent readers of Massively Overpowered! I bid you welcome to our numerical column...
Perfect Ten: 10 notable MMO developers that shut their doors
When En Masse Entertainment announced that it would be closing its doors this fall, we here at Massively OP came to the realization that...