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Massively OP Podcast Episode 156: Downfalls and uprisings
Justin and Bree discuss MMO and MOBA sunsets, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Alganon, DDO, Star Citizen, and Blade & Soul, plus a bit about Ultima Online and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on Guild Wars 2's classes and the state of MMO communities.
Shroud of the Avatar’s most secret area appears only during certain planetary conjunctions
With $12.64 million raised to date (including a recent injection of $50,000 from a telethon) in crowdfunding, Shroud of the Avatar's certainly had enough...
Wisdom of Nym: Looking at Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 4.2
A lot of times, I spread out my time with Final Fantasy XIV patches, unlocking and finishing up content at a reasonably sedate pace....
Linkrealms is sunsetting today
Sad news this morning: Linkrealms is sunsetting, today if our read of the letter sent to players yesterday is correct, since today is the...
Re-examining Asheron’s Call’s Shard of the Herald event on its first deathiversary
Although the Asheron's Call series has now been dead for exactly one year today, it's far from forgotten by fans. It was admittedly a cult classic, and...
Shroud of the Avatar plans launch celebration while Reddit community debate sub’s existence
A rather unique shindig is being planned for Shroud of the Avatar's launch this March. Portalarium announced that it will be holding a release...
Massively Overthinking: Considering pay-to-win MMO peripherals
MOP reader and commenter Sally Bowls recently sent along a link to an insanely awesome 34" monitor that costs more than a lot of...
Shroud of the Avatar delivers Release 50 with balance, polish, and optimizations
Focusing on its top launch priorities for Shroud of the Avatar, Portalarium pushed out Release 50 today with tons of balance tweaks, optimization improvements,...
Perfect Ten: Major MMO expansions and updates to expect in 2018
Now that we're almost 1/12th of the way through 2018, it's probably about time to stop anticipating the year and start experiencing it. We...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 154: A Prime experiment
Justin and Bree discuss Trion's big RIFT and Devilian news, Camelot Unchained's $7.5M investment, Darkfall New Dawn's launch, and layoffs for Albion and Elyria, with a mailbag question on what went wrong with WildStar.
Ultima Online says it has ‘no plans to introduce legacy rulesets’
Seems as if everyone wants to talk legacy servers lately, what with RIFT and World of Warcraft getting on board the vanilla train. Even...
Shroud of the Avatar cries wolf (upgrades), attends emulator anniversary party
Not satisfied with Shroud of the Avatar's storebought wolves (seriously), Portalarium decided to breed, er, rebuild its own creatures from the ground-up. The new and...
Massively Overthinking: Tackling our hoarding problem in MMORPGs
By coincidence, two articles in my feeds this past week both centered on video game hoarding - not hoarding the actual games but hoarding...
Shroud of the Avatar draws inspiration from Yellowstone, Hawaii, and Mongolia
Don't have enough money to go on a huge vacation this year? You might be able to save a lot of dough and still...
The MOP Up: Monster Hunter World merch (January 14, 2018)
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...
The Daily Grind: What MMO will be the next to change up its business model dramatically?
You may not like it, but the vast majority of MMORPGs are free-to-play or buy-to-play as of 2018. EVE Online went free-to-play at the...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the smallest MMO you’re willing to play?
A comment on Reddit about the current size and viability of Kritika Online got me thinking about MMO playerbases in general lately. We all...
Shroud of the Avatar goes nuts for log cabins
With such a strong emphasis on player housing, Shroud of the Avatar has fans guessing as to what other interesting abodes the team is...
Raph Koster on MMO ecosystems, the balance of power, and tennis
Most MMORPGs have the core sandbox problem: Whoever gets there first, controls all the toys and has the power to drive everyone else away....
Richard Garriott on how players ‘destroyed’ Ultima Online’s ecology
With a couple of months to go before its official launch, Shroud of the Avatar has more than a few challenges to overcome to...
