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The Daily Grind: Do MMORPGs still need traditional guilds?

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In the game's design docs and our interviews, Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs is positively adamant that multiguilding (that is, being able to join more than...

Massively Overthinking: Epic Tavern-style player-generated content in MMORPGs

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Ever played Epic Tavern? Massively OP reader Uli though it would make an interesting point of comparison for MMO content. "Epic Tavern is a...

Global Chat: The MMO community’s Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire impressions

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It is kind of impossible to stroll around the MMO blogging community as of late and not trip and fall into a pool of...

The MOP Up: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds hits record concurrency (October 1, 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...
Cramping!

Raph Koster on how Ultima Online pushed the MMO industry forward

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Game Designer Raph Koster continues to ponder the significance of Ultima Online on this, the 20th anniversary of the MMORPG's historic release. In a...

Legends of Aria begins final alpha

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Rest time's over, boys and girls, so dust yourself off and get back into the thick of the alpha. In this case, it's Legends...
EN FUEGO!

Ultima Online’s F2P mode launches spring 2018, limits housing, boats, and banks

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Two decades after launch, Ultima Online is still going strong, and as we reported over the weekend, soon - spring 2018, to be exact...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 137: Hotfooting down the Path of Fire

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Justin, Bree, and Tina discuss Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire, Guardians of Ember, the EverQuest franchise, Villagers & Heroes' Starfall, Secret World Legends, Star Trek Online, and Ultima Online F2P, with mailbag questions on the best time to join a guild and deal-breaker MMO features.

Happy 20th birthday, Ultima Online! Here’s how to get caught up on the OG MMORPG

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Just about 20 years ago, my boyfriend and I were wandering through Media Play (heh) when he picked up this box for some new...

The Daily Grind: Should MMOs get rid of levels?

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I would like to say that when I was a kid playing my first MMORPGs, I was impervious to the grind, that I embraced...

20-year-old Ultima Online is going free-to-play (kinda) and getting player-generated quests

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In preparing tomorrow's birthday piece for Ultima Online, I confidently wrote that Ultima Online was not going free-to-play because that's what the devs always...

Happy birthday to Fallen Earth, Aion, World of Warships, and Warhammer Online

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This particular part of September is loaded with MMORPG and MMO birthdays. In addition to ArcheAge, whose corgipocalypse we've been covering already, and Ultima...
Plus ce change choses, &c.

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs will make to to 20 years?

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Unless it mysteriously shutters between now and Monday, Ultima Online is turning 20 next week. Our Game Archaeologist will surely object to an assertion...
Ultima Online

Ultima Online preps for 20th anniversary bash, updates players on enhanced client fixes

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Ultima Online isn't considered the progenitor of the MMORPG genre for nothing: It's closing in on 20 years of operation next week, to be...
And we shoot the varmint.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 136: Westward ho!

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Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, Star Citizen, EVE Online, Black Desert, Phantasy Star Online 2, FFXIV, DDO, Neverwinter, Ultima Online, and of course Guild Wars 2, with mailbag entries on Star Citizen's monetization and solid free-to-play side MMOs.

EVE Evolved: How much toxic, antisocial behaviour should MMOs tolerate?

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The EVE Online community is aflame this week after alliance leader gigX was permanently banned for making threats of real-life violence against another player...
How do I start to say goodbye.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 135: PAX in the P.M.

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Justin, Bree, and MJ discuss PAX West, Secret World Legends, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, EverQuest II, Destiny 2, WoW, ArcheAge, and WildStar, plus a mailbag question on Destiny and raiding.

Valiance Online puts out a call for hurricane heroes for charity event

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When real-life tragedy occurs, it's perfectly OK to give priority to assistance over interest in video games. But what if you could do both? Valiance...
We could have planned better.

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.

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...

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