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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO hopes and wishes for 2018
One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It’s way too easy...
Leaderboard: What’s the best classic MMORPG still running in 2017?
Those of you who've been following Massively OP for a while know that many our writers have a fondness for old MMORPGs - that's...
MMO Year in Review: Expansion 2 for Guild Wars 2 (September 2017)
We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
Legends of Aria faces down closed beta testing
Ultima Online spiritual successor Legends of Aria is preparing to go through a major transition over the new year as it winds down its...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Rogalia, Lazarus, Dead Maze, We Ride, and SOS
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you you’ve never heard of! Let's run down five more floating to the...
Perfect Ten: 20 upcoming MMOs to watch in 2018
It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list...
Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs
Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...
Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas state-of-the-game dev diary
It's been a hot minute since we heard from El Somni Quas, the indie sandbox from a Czech studio that cut its teeth on Ultima Online...
