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Global Chat: Dipping back into MMO underwater combat
Guild Wars 2's recent renovation of underwater combat has brought back some interest to this oft-neglected sphere of gameplay. Inventory Full's Bhagpuss used this...
Trove’s exploration-centric Geode expansion is launching June 26
Remember last week when Trion Worlds announced that its popular voxelbox Trove is getting a battle royale mode called Bomber Royale? The studio is on...
Trove hauls out a small patch while the community goes crazy over gem rumors
Trove's May update is here and threatens to undo the very foundations of the game, starting with the change from cube voxels to geodesic...
RIFT hotfix brings soul changes, dragons, and events to the servers
While its rollout has been rocky today, RIFT's "lucky" 13th hotfix brought a lot of content and changes to both the regular and Prime...
Defiance 2050 records over 3 million dead hellbugs from its closed beta
If you were taking part in the closed beta for Defiance 2050, you were probably killing Hellbugs. Just from a statistical standpoint. There are...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 170: Mild West Online
Justin and Bree discuss Conan Exiles, Wild West Online, LOTRO, NCsoft's financials, Gamersfirst's acquisition, H1Z1, the Guild Wars franchise, WoW, DDO, and Trove, with mailbag topics on offensive in-game titles and too-fast MMO combat.
ArcheAge holds back the next phase of its Fresh Start server
Hope you didn't take off any time this week for the next phase of ArcheAge's fresh start server, because Trion Worlds informed its players...
Global Chat: The MMO expansion lifecycle
With the ever-developing, ever-growing nature of MMORPGs, the expansion truly has a life of its own. By now we are well acquainted with the...
The Daily Grind: Is it possible for an MMORPG to offer an optional sub that isn’t pay-to-win?
Last week, in the comments under the Bless optional subscription brouhaha article, I made an offhand comment that apparently got MOP commenter Sally's gears...
Hands-on with Bless Reborn at Neowiz’s San Francisco media reveal
As you probably have heard, there was a Bless influencer event this week, with a couple of media and a smattering of MMO streamers...
The Daily Grind: Do your MMORPG characters primarily wear in-game armor or cash-shop cosmetics?
Take a look at your main character in your main MMORPG right now. What is he or she wearing? And did you get it...
Even Trove is getting a battle royale mode – it’s called Bomber Royale
Trion's voxelbox Trove is getting its very own battle royale mode, after a fashion. It's called Bomber Royale, and its plain aim is to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 169: Farscape and RuneScape
Justin and Bree discuss WoW, Trove, Secret World Legends, RuneScape and Jagex, Amazon's New World, PWE MMO sunsets, Star Trek Online's new business model, SWTOR, and ESO, plus mailbag topics on the Guild Wars 1 graphics update and crafting MMOs. And yes, we talk Farscape too!
Global Chat: MMOs need to do ‘difficulty’ right
A thinkpiece that we had back in April about the difficulty levels (or lack thereof) in MMORPGs sparked some interesting discussion among gaming bloggers...
Defiance 2050 wraps up its second beta test and promotes its classes
With a multi-platform launch coming sometime this summer, Defiance 2050 has a lot resting on its new free-to-play format and additional refinements. To help...
One Shots: All giant spiders, all the time
Sometimes I am just so proud of our One Shots crowd here at Massively OP. I keep coming up with ludicrous screenshot challenges and...
RIFT datamining uncovers new decorations, items, and damage values for Prime
Datamining: the time-honored practice of digging things out from the client files for a game that hasn't yet been put into the game. RIFT...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 168: MMOs all higgledy-piggledy
Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, EVE Online, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Ragnarok, Elite, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, Trove, and City of Heroes' Paragon Chat, with mailbag questions on free-to-play entitlement and whether expansions need new classes.
The Stream Team: A day in the life of Trove
What's it like to just level in Trove? Massively OP's MJ has no idea! She has hopped from holiday to event to new content...
RIFT opens a progression test server
What's better and more useful than one test server? If you're Trion Worlds, it's two test servers! No, the studio hasn't gone loco just...
