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Working As Intended: A guide to City of Heroes Homecoming’s best player-crafted portal bases
A few years ago, I was wandering around in City of Heroes when someone advertised a cool base in chat. All I had to...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever lost a house in an MMO?
Last week, fellow MMO blogger Belghast wrote a blog post that sent a shot of panic through my own heart: He tells the tale...
Think gamemaster-delivered content is dead? Multiplayer Helldivers 2 is trying it anyway
Approximately a thousand years ago in the lost age of 1997, I remember inching my way across an isometric Ultima Online screen, fighting insane...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best book and paper features?
A while back, I casually mentioned that I make paper journals for fun. I am an extremely online person, mind you. I work online....
The Daily Grind: What’s some weird or forgotten terminology or concept from an MMO of yore?
Way, way back in the day - and for only a relatively brief run - Ultima Online had a system that came to be...
Massively Overthinking: The slowest and fastest combat in MMORPGs
During a recent podcast discussion about City of Heroes' official revival, the MOP writers were talking about its combat, which - let's be honest...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0
Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...
Shroud of the Avatar marks 10 years with portals to the chicken room and previews a ‘sneak scene’
It just ain't a party unless you step into a dungeon crawl where you get to slaughter legions of chickens! Or that's apparently the...
End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2024 and beyond
We've said it before, but this time we really mean it: The future of MMORPGs looks amazing. Contrary to years when we've seen only...
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: Weirdest MMO celebrity insert
Today we're kicking off our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year, that year being 2023!
Coming in at #5 on our...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023
Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we - well, I - keep tabs on all of...
The Soapbox: The ‘problem’ with MMO hoarding
I remember a number of years ago, in an article for a game I can't recall, an MMO developer discussed how an early build...
The MOP Up: Valheim’s Christmas surprise
As the nights turn frosty in Valheim, a strange wintry cheer spreads through the land. Could it be... could it be a plum pudding...
Ultima Online preps Christmas and nerfs your old too-long character names
How angry would you be if you logged into your favorite old MMORPG account and found that your name, which you'd used for over...
Project Gorgon dev says it’s catering to older players who remember the golden age of MMOs
Last night's Project Gorgon patch brought cheers to the game's Discord as what was represented as a bug-fixing patch also heavily revamped a skill...
Shroud of the Avatar prepares to celebrate 10 years of monthly updates in December
It's been almost 10 years since Shroud of the Avatar started making monthly updates - since December 2013 by Catnip Games' reckoning, which is...
Vague Patch Notes: The myth of the ‘first’ MMORPG
One of the things I like to joke about every so often is various myths about the history of MMOs, and a lot of...
Massively Overthinking: Pervasive old MMO ideas that aren’t really true
A while back, Eliot and I were discussing one of his columns, in which he noted that in the eldest of the elder MMOs,...
Perfect Ten: Classic video games that would make terrible MMORPGs
There was a time when MMORPGs were all based on existing storied single-player RPG franchises, and that time was when Ultima Online launched and...
The MOP Up: Fallout 76 turns five years old
Fallout 76 is celebrating its fifth anniversary loud and proud this week with a birthday party on Tuesday, a special challenge event, and a...
