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End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2021
As the year that was 2021 comes to a close -- raise a glass, give a toast, and perhaps think of a few fond...
Interview: ArcheAge studios on the move to Kakao, bans, land rushes, and the future of the game
One of the surprises the end of 2021 had in store for MMO players was the move of XLGAMES' ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained from...
ArcheAge delays fresh start progression, launches New Year’s festival, bans 21K alt accounts
What's new in the world of ArcheAge? As of last week, there's a Zodiac Festival that lets players ring in the new year with...
Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2021
It’s been quite a year of Choose My Adventure columns, hasn’t it? We did a pretty good random skip around of different games, in...
The Daily Grind: What was the most painful MMO sunset of 2021?
We saw multiple smaller MMORPGs close down in 2021, and in fact in the new year we'll be recapping all of them. But in...
The Stream Team: Trimming tree dungeons in Trove’s Snowfest
Christmas is almost upon us, but Massively OP's MJ can't wait any longer! This year, she's diving into Trove's Snowfest a couple of days...
ArcheAge begins swinging the banhammer against promotion and web inventory exploiters
Yesterday we reported on a massive exploit wave that swept over ArcheAge involving players taking advantage of a free mana crystal promotion as well...
ArcheAge’s free mana crystal Twitter promotion leads to a 24 hour-long exploitation spree
Back when Kakao was kicking off its relaunch of ArcheAge, it was running a Twitter promotion that promised mana crystals for players if a...
Fractured and Gamigo reps discuss publishing, refunds, IP ownership, and the possibility of a console launch
As we've been covering, Kickstarted MMORPG Fractured - now Fractured Online - announced that it's being supported and published by Gamigo, and the response...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2022
OK folks, it's that time of the year again: the time when we cast our eyes ahead and try to pinpoint what's going to...
Trove’s Snowfest includes new questline, dungeons, and a winter bomber royal mode
Snowfest is on in Gamigo's voxelbox Trove this week through December 28th, simultaneously on PC and console. Players can get to the Hub and...
The MOP Up: Trove’s polished paragon paradise
Trove is making sure that its players have plenty to do this season thanks to a Polished Paragon system. This patch came out on...
Global Chat: Fallout Worlds doesn’t justify its existence, one blogger argues
If you saw that Fallout 76 released a new mode with varied rulesets called Fallout Worlds a while back, you might've been tempted to...
Grab a key for the Moonfeather Griffin mount for ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained
In celebration of its recent relaunch of ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained in the west, Kakao has granted Massively OP a stack of keys for...
ArcheAge pushes back its land rush to December 18th and delays today’s patch ‘until further notice’
It would appear that ArcheAge is running into problems enough that updates and events are being pushed back by Kakao. The first major event...
Black Desert marks two years on mobile, tweaks a summon scroll on PC, adds Valencia Node and Conquest Wars on console
Once again, Black Desert is awash with news for the week across every version, so we'll cut this lede short and dive right in....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 350: The start of Endwalker
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV Endwalker, WoW 9.2, the Dune MMO, New World, Wizard101, Lineage2M, and ArcheAge, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, Hearthstone, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on the looter shooter fad and MMO quest logging systems.
ArcheAge players call out for a classic edition, but Kakao is noncomittal
With the change of ownership and relaunch of ArcheAge, some players are hoping that they might see a return to a simpler -- and...
Kakao tackles ArcheAge’s relatively minimal launch issues, opens Snowfang Isle
We are now past day one of Kakao's operation of ArcheAge, and by most accounts things appear to have gone generally pretty well, apart...
ArcheAge’s relaunch has been delayed again, this time by just a few hours
If for some reason you're not playing a certain other game today, then you were probably gearing up for Kakao's ArcheAge relaunch, which had...
