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Massively OP Podcast Episode 149: Bringing back the MMO magic
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, WoW, MMO holiday events, ArcheAge, the site awards, EverQuest, Pantheon, Ashes of Creation, RIFT, the Star Citizen lawsuit, and Funcom, with mailbag topics on horror MMOs and "iterating the magic away."
The MOP Up: Wakfu climbs the Mineral Tower (December 17, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG articles of 2017
For this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked the writers to do something most of them hate: brag! We've tried to isolate our favorite personal...
RIFT course-corrects on $100 mount pack while Trion gets into the holiday spirit
Well, that didn't last long. RIFT has already yanked its controversial $100 random mount packs from the game store following strong opposition from the...
RIFT would like to sell you a random mount for $100
We were talking on the podcast this week about how Trion Worlds tends to aggressively pursue different revenue streams in its MMOs -- and...
Tamriel Infinium: Our 2017 report card for Elder Scrolls Online
All in all, 2017 has been a fabulous year for the Elder Scrolls Online, and although I have been light on talking about the...
Trion deals with DDOS attacks while ArcheAge dives into its Maelstrom update
Trion Worlds is reporting "intermittent" attacks on its Dallas hub over the last day that are causing connectivity issues for some of its online...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 148: Vampires, kobolds, and pirates
Justin and Bree discuss MOP's December awards, DDO, Secret World Legends, Path of Exile, Hearthstone, Sea of Thieves, RIFT, and Blade and Soul, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs and love for Champs Online.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s Hall of Chains raid wing first impressions
I promised you at the end of last week's rundown of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living World season's launch episode that I'd return this week...
Interview: ArcheAge’s 4.0 Maelstrom launches December 13 with changes to lunagems, raid finder, and more
Batten down the hatches because a big storm hits tomorrow! ArcheAge's Maelstrom, with its cross-server navel arena, launches on December 13th. We got to...
Trion is trying to bring Defiance up to date on modern consoles
Most of you probably think of Defiance as "that game that used to tie into a TV show and is probably on borrowed time."...
ArcheAge’s remastering isn’t coming westward, final Maelstrom build hits the PTS soon
If you don't have time to sit through 46 minutes of Trion's latest ArcheAge stream, you might want to check out two minutes of...
RIFT pulls pay-to-win packs out of the store — for now
Reacting to massive community pushback over what is perceived to be pay-to-win packs in the RIFT store, Trion Worlds announced that it is pulling...
LOTRO Legendarium: Fixing Lord of the Rings Online’s grouping problem
One of the quirks -- and frustrations -- of MMORPGs is that there never seems to be one game that truly has it all....
RIFT puts an endgame currency out for real-money sales
Look, we can all agree that "pay-to-win" is, at the very least, a difficult concept to be certain about. Right? There's a lot of...
A ‘remastered’ version of ArcheAge is due out in Korea in 2018
Would it be fair to say that XLGAMES has "mastered" ArcheAge? The developer behind it has been working on the live version for five...
The Daily Grind: What feature from another game would you import into your favorite MMO?
One of the everlasting points of contention between me and the MMO industry is that no game gets everything right. Gah! Can't you mold...
Trion ‘still in active discussions’ with Bluehole over Devilian
With the explosive success of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in 2017, Bluehole Studio is rolling in media coverage, money, and popularity. But some of the studio's...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 146: World of Warcraft’s fun police
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes' death, Darkfall New Dawn, LOTRO 2018, Neverwinter Nights, WoW's fun police, DDO, Hearthstone, and Trove, with mailbag discussions on Disney the lockbox villain and the max we'd pay for MMO subscriptions.
Trove continues to fine-tune its Adventures update
As any game developer knows, a new content update is not only an opportunity for players to have more fun but for the game...
