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Massively Overthinking: How much would you pay for an MMO sub in 2021?
A few weeks back, MMO YouTuber Napyet tweeted that he liked Fallout 76's private servers but that compared to MMORPGs, the subscription for the...
The Stream Team: Facing more xenomorphs with a friend in Aliens Fireteam Elite
If you're about to go into an alien-infested hell with only a bunch of weapons and your wits, it's probably wise to bring a...
City of Titans’ senior gameplay engineer talks about creating super-powers
Crafting perfect powers is essential for any superhero MMORPG. If they don't look, feel, or function in the impressive way that players expect, it...
The Stream Team: Firing up the Unreal Engine 4 update and swinging two swords around in Blade and Soul
Last week saw Blade & Soul unleash its new-and-improved Unreal Engine 4 version and its new Dual Blade class on the world, and MOP's...
Twitch unleashes a lawsuit against two alleged hate raid organizers
In August we reported on efforts by streamers to call attention to hate raiding and other forms of harassment targeting Black, POC, and LGBT+...
Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire and Heart of Thorns expansion bundle is half off through Amazon right now
A few weeks back on the MOP Podcast, I suggested to our listeners that if they were thinking about getting into Guild Wars 2...
Massively Overthinking: Overcoming barriers-to-exit in MMOs
About a thousand years ago, I wrote an article on Old Massively called "but I already have that game" about barriers-to-exit: the difficulty of...
The Stream Team: Reloading the repeaters for a dive into Dauntless
The most recent update to Dauntless brought on a few new things to the game, but one of the bigger additions is a change...
Blade & Soul’s Unreal Engine 4 update goes live today — here are the patch notes
We've been covering this update's arrival for a long while, and now it's finally arriving. It's Blade & Soul's big Unreal Engine 4 upgrade...
The Soapbox: #DayOffTwitch illustrates how good intentions break under bad planning
Those of you reading this probably know me as someone who wears one of three hats here at MOP: a news writer, the Choose...
The Stream Team: Romping around the new build of multiplayer RPG Swords ‘n Magic and Stuff
It's time yet again for another run around in something a bit different. Specifically, the adorable multiplayer RPG Swords 'n Magic and Stuff, which...
Massively Overthinking: MMO ideas that were ahead of their time
I'm gonna say something wild right now: In some ways, CliffyB was ahead of his time. My husband and I came to this realization...
The Stream Team: Opening fire on facehuggers and zapping xenomorphs in Aliens Fireteam Elite
The time has come to join the fireteam and try to battle back the xenomorph menace as MOP's Chris heads into Aliens: Fireteam Elite...
The Stream Team: Watch a bard beginning and win a Neverwinter mount and companion bundle
Music is one of the greatest things in the universe -- so says Massively OP's MJ. So it is understandable that a new music-making...
GDC 2021: War stories from World of Warcraft
Just before the news about the state litigation against Activision-Blizzard broke last month, Senior Software Engineer Joseph Cochron and Principal Software Engineer Kurtis McCathern...
Massively Overthinking: The worst chat in the MMORPG genre
The first rule of MMORPGs is turn off global chat. Think about that for a sec. This is a genre that is expressly multiplayer...
Stardew Valley’s lone developer announces a $40K speedrunning competition on September 4
Yes, the words "speedrunning," "competition," and "Stardew Valley" are being used together in a headline. That's because Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone, the farming/life sim RPG's...
Multiplayer co-op shooter Aliens Fireteam Elite officially launches
It's been a very weird and winding road to get to this point, but Cold Iron Studios' long-teased co-op shooter Aliens: Fireteam Elite has...
Final Fantasy XI offers players a shot at the Shadowlord’s swords
Is it fair that the Shadowlord in Final Fantasy XI gets to have cool swords you don't have immediate access to? No. It is...
The Stream Team: Playing games in the multiplayer ‘virtual party world’ of Tower Unite
Today, we're doing a little something different for our OPTV viewers. MOP's Chris will be firing up Tower Unite, an early access game that,...
