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Massively OP Podcast Episode 134: You are my… Destiny

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Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, DDO, Guild Wars 2, Wander, ARK, Funcom, Destiny 2, Cloud Pirates, Perpetuum, EVE Lifeblood, Villagers & Heroes, and helping out with Harvey, with mailbag questions on favorite MMO moments and finding a good guild.
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Shroud of the Avatar rolls out R45, in spite of losing a week of work due to a software bug

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Shroud of the Avatar rolled out another release on Thursday, imbuing the game's 45th update with what it's calling a huge amount of work...

The Daily Grind: What MMOs do you wish would come to Steam?

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I was poking through my Steam library this weekend hunting for an old game I wanted to install to see whether it still worked...

Ultima Online suspends housing decay, placement during 20th anniversary month due to Harvey

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During this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I wondered whether any MMORPGs with ongoing in-game costs and timers might disable them because of...
Like a bridge over pointless waters.

Shroud of the Avatar Update 45 polishes several areas, adds Discord integration

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Like clockwork, the end of the month heralds another patch release for Shroud of the Avatar. "Polish" is the keyword for this update, as...
Mired.

Choose My Adventure: The why behind Shroud of the Avatar

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Finding the fun, I'm sorry to say, was a bit on the fleeting side. The problem isn't that Shroud of the Avatar suddenly stopped having...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: The 10 saddest MMORPG stories

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Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...

Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida on Stormblood’s release, AI issues, and MMO history

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After all this time, I'm sure some of you forgot that my original E3 2017 interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida was supposed to...

Shroud of the Avatar’s R45 launches Thursday, Oktoberfest-themed fundraiser begins next week

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Shroud of the Avatar is gearing up for one of its like-clockwork monthly releases: 45 on Thursday. In preparation, this week's newsletter features a...

The Game Archaeologist: Furcadia

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Let's face it: There isn't really a huge pool of MMORPGs from the 1990s to explore in this column. By now I have done...
It delivers something very much like what it promises.

Choose My Adventure: Finding the fun in Shroud of the Avatar

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One of the things that I believe is utterly vital to writing about games in general and MMOs in particular is finding the fun....
No one weekend should have all that power.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 132: Filth TV

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Justin and MJ discuss Secret World, LOTRO, Warframe, Path of Exile, Otherland, WoW, Ultima Online, ARK, Just Survive, EverQuest II, and West of Loathing.

Shroud of the Avatar works on replacing placeholder scenes

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With the broad outline of the game now completed, Shroud of the Avatar's team is turning to placeholder locations and revising them with hand-crafted...

The MOP Up: Black Desert shows pet love (August 20, 2017)

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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: Alone together vs. forced grouping in MMORPGs

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that everyone has at some point seen the xkcd called Isolation, but if not, there...
It was just how things were done then.

Ultima Online begins epic 20th anniversary event, warns of harassment threat

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Is there any shame in throwing a birthday party for yourself? Not if you invite everyone and make it hecka fun, we say! Ultima...
So... this is a thing.

Choose My Adventure: Finding my way in Shroud of the Avatar

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Heading into Shroud of the Avatar for the first time was a bit of a strange experience for me, right from the start. Usually,...
Into the unknown.

Perfect Ten: MMOs obsessed with the floating islands trope

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One of the fun things about this hobby is that certain tropes repeat themselves constantly. And they're usually weirdly specific tropes, too. Poop quests,...
Beware, beware, beware.

Shroud of the Avatar is playable for free right now

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If you haven't been aware of it, Shroud of the Avatar is currently running yet another extended trial for the remainder of the month. That...

Ultima Online is giving away six ‘grandfathered’ castles for its 20th anniversary

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While Ultima Online these days allows players to own only a single house on a production shard per account, that rule will be broken...

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