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Perfect Ten: How World of Warcraft is like professional wrestling
Professional wrestling is not my thing. I say that with absolutely no ill will or judgment; much like the Lord of the Rings, the...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that were ahead of their time
Timing is, as they say, everything. A good idea presented at the wrong time (and perhaps in the wrong way) might fizzle hard when...
Perfect Ten: The stages of the MMO life cycle
To this day, no one has a quote as useful on the subject of life and death as E. B. White: "We're born, we...
Perfect Ten: Original MMOs that never came to be
"What could have been" is a path that I travel frequently, especially when I write The Game Archaeologist column. It genuinely haunts me that...
Perfect Ten: Son of conversations with anthropomorphic MMO studios
It has been a while since I've had any more conversations with anthropomorphic representations of MMO studios. Why? Because it's not fun for me. Come...
Perfect Ten: Pet peeves of doing MMO journalism
In many ways, Massively Overpowered is a dream (side) job for us. We get to write about something we love and have it published...
Perfect Ten: Neat things that Star Trek Online did with Star Trek lore
I've been getting back into Star Trek Online recently, which really means that I've been scratching the surface of the game again for a bit...
Perfect Ten: Dead MMOs resurrected via rogue servers
Last December, the Massively OP 2019 Awards gave its "Best Trend" nod to the rise of rogue servers in the MMO genre. Preservation of...
Perfect Ten: MMOs I’m optimistic about in 2020
I didn't actually plan to make this an annual feature or anything; I thought of it last year as a fun list, and then...
Perfect Ten: When celebs crossed paths with MMOs
Even as the world continues to turn to and normalize gaming as a respectable hobby, there's still a lingering stigma of playing online titles...
Perfect Ten: Tabletop RPGs that would make fun MMOs
Sometimes you have a deep and current reason for writing a column, something that is actively happening in the world of MMOs that requires...
Perfect Ten: The best value MMOs in 2020
While there is nothing wrong with dropping some money on a worthy game, many of us are looking to be as frugal as possible...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020
This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...
Perfect Ten: Upcoming MMOs to watch in 2020
There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn't there? All that promise and potential spread out in...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2019
The down side of doing these columns at the end of the year every year is that there's a certain challenge of writing the...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2019
When we sit back to look at the biggest headlines of the year, we don't have to look far. These are the stories that...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2019
Everyone is healthy! Good news! Every game is super healthy and absolutely no one has a terminal playerbase disease that may result in the...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2019
After 10 years of covering MMORPG news, I can assure you that I am still fired up to keep doing this. One of the...
Perfect Ten: How to show and share gratitude for your favorite MMO
So you've found an MMO you like. You're thankful that it exists. It's fun, it caters to your personal tastes, and it may not...
Perfect Ten: When MMO lore is at odds with the game
Lore is made up. We all know that. People who write the lore for games are not doing research into the real story and...
