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Ultima Online gets all doom and gloomy with its patch (and that’s a good thing)

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Doom! Doom everywhere! That's the message of Ultima Online as it pushed out Publish 96 this week. Much of the patch was focused on adjusting...

Skyforge seeks player representatives for ‘elder guardian’ team

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My.com announced today that it's once again seeking to fill out the ranks of Skyforge's Elder Guardians. The EGs are sort of a cross...

Massively OP Interview: Standing Stone on LOTRO, DDO, and Daybreak

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It's been quite a month since Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online announced that they were breaking off from Turbine as part...
There was something beautiful and wonderful and it destroyed itself.

Massively Overthinking: Tab-target vs. action combat in MMORPGs

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Massively OP patron Duane is kicking the new year off right: with a brawl over combat types in MMOs. "Tab-target, action, or hybrid combat, for...

Ultima Online preps wedding content, suffers two-day Oceania rollback

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It's wedding bells for Ultima Online. The classic fantasy MMO is putting together a housing package for its relatively new in-game cash shope that...

New Sims Online emulator shifts from open to closed beta following excessive player demand

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'Tis the season for emulators! Think back to 2002 MMORPG The Sims Online, what our own Justin Olivetti once called "an interesting failed experiment"...
If you forget the fact that it was during the day and there were only the two of us and it wasn't outside by a wooden table it was exactly like this.

Massively OP’s Weirdest MMORPG Stories of 2016: Richard Garriott’s Blood Art

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We're counting down Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2016! And the #1 weirdest MMORPG story of 2016 is... ... that time when Richard Garriott sold...

LOTRO Legendarium: A cautious hope for the future

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One of the threads that weaves the Lord of the Rings narrative together is that of hope. Holding onto faith in friends, perseverance against...

The Game Archaeologist: Wing Commander Online and Privateer Online

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In late 2012, former Wing Commander developer-slash-movie director Chris Roberts emerged from a decade of obscurity to ask for help to fund his vision...

The Soapbox: Asheron’s Call is dead, and Turbine killed it

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You'd think recent news about Asheron's Call 1 and AC2 would be easy to swallow. After all, we'd already been warned that Turbine was becoming a mobile...

Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas arena design dev diary

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Last week, we covered new info about El Somni Quas, an indie sandbox from Czech studio that actually cut its teeth on Ultima Online...

Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Player Housing of 2016

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Player Housing of 2016, which is a new award for MOP and one proposed...
Wow.

Ultima Online has combat changes and pet upgrades in the works

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Forget Dasher and Blitzen; Ultima Online has a beautiful unicorn called Lasher coming in January as the game's first vanity mount. Worried that it...

El Somni Quas is still in development — and here’s the proof

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Back in October, MOP posted a rundown of upcoming indie MMOs. Among those listed was El Somni Quas, an Ultima Online-like game that looked...

Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMORPG bookworm

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Hey you! Yeah, the player who actually reads quest text and lore entries when all of the other hooting madmen are furiously clicking past...

Ultima Online’s publish 95 introduces December crafting festival and holiday rewards

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Ultima Online's publish 95 is live this week in the 19-year-old MMORPG. The headline features are the Artisan Festival and holiday rewards, which aren't...

The Game Archaeologist: Mark Jacobs on Mythic’s early online games, part 2

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We're back with our second part of an interview retrospective of Mythic Entertainment's early online games with CSE's Mark Jacobs. Last week, we talked...

Massively Overthinking: The many ‘NGE’ moments across MMORPG history

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Eleven years ago this week, the New Game Enhancements patch descended on Star Wars Galaxies, forever changing the trajectory of the game, SOE, and...

The MOP Up: Amazon Game Studios’ community tools (November 6, 2016)

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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...

Ultima Online rolls out Halloween, with PU95’s artisan festival next week

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Halloween has arrived in Ultima Online, but the big news for the classic sandbox MMO is the patch arriving next week. Publish 95 is...

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