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Massively Overthinking: What endgame content keeps you in an MMORPG long-term?
A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, Justin and I were trying to sort through why New World's endgame hasn't had staying power with...
Global Chat: The virtue of smaller shared worlds
With the rise of online sandboxes and other mini-MMOs (if that oxymoron can exist), several long-time MMO bloggers are praising the virtues and benefits...
Raph Koster talks about the ‘mission’ of Playable Worlds, his vision of the metaverse, and player ownership
Raph Koster is no stranger to talking about the concept of the metaverse - he's done it a couple of times already, trying to...
MMO Business Roundup: Blizzard Albany’s union, BioWare Pride, Sony’s antitrust lawsuit, and the P2E ‘hustle’
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Activision-Blizzard: Another group of QA testers within Activision-Blizzard have announced they're...
Massively Overthinking: Solved problems in MMOs
One of the most annoying pet peeves this genre seems to spin up frequently is some companies' tendency to treat solved problems as unsolved...
Colony sandbox MMO SEED raises another $41M in investment, partly from a blockchain company
Way back in 2017, we learned about a then-new SpatialOS MMORPG called SEED from Klang Games. SEED was supposed to be a colony-centered sandbox...
Tamriel Infinium: Big-name voice actors you didn’t know were in Elder Scrolls Online
When Elder Scrolls Online players dived into the High Isle expansion this past week, among the many new delights was the addition of Billy...
The Game Archaeologist: Six cancelled MMOs that I wish had launched
In my lengthy tenure writing The Game Archaeologist -- which dates back to May 2010, if you can believe it -- I've covered MMOs...
Massively Overthinking: Bots in MMOs – but not the bad bots
A while back on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a provocative thread about bots - no, not those bots. Essentially, the Redditor asked whether...
GDC 2022: Control, revenue, scarcity, ethics, and the human challenges of the gaming ‘metaverse’
While some panels at GDC 2022 have been deeply disappointing, the panel titled "A Brave New (Virtual) World: Ethics and Governance of XR and...
The MOP Up: Uncharted Waters Online decodes the secrets of human heritage
Uncharted Waters Online's "greatest challenge yet" arrived last week with its Olympia patch. This update added a new legacy theme to decode, a fight...
Massively Overthinking: What else could Blizzard do to fix World of Warcraft?
Last time in Massively Overthinking, our writers and readers sure did have a lot of good ideas to fix New World that Amazon won't...
Second Life’s original founder rejoins the project to create the ultimate metaverse
I swear, every time I have to write the word "metaverse" these days, a part of my soul dies and my eyes get a...
Red Dead Online’s shabby first update of 2022 sparks community movement to save the game
At the end of last week, Red Dead Online kicked out an update that ended up being nothing more than a series of boosts...
WoW Factor: Is World of Warcraft a good value for the money?
There are a lot of reasons to not be subscribed to World of Warcraft at the moment, although "the current state of the game...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go actually nerfed its own support rather than help players
This article is part three of a four-piece series on safety in Pokemon Go as well as other Niantic games. You can read all...
Massively on the Go: How Pokemon Go support fails MMOARG stalking victims
This article is part two of a four-piece series on safety in Pokemon Go as well as other Niantic games. You can read all...
Fight or Kite: Was 2021 the death of large-scale group PvP MMOs?
Here we are on the cusp of the end to another year: 2021 is almost completely in the rear-view mirror. As I look back...
Massively on the Go: How Niantic evades handling stalking and harassment in Pokemon Go and other ARGs
This article is part one of a four-piece series on safety in Pokemon Go as well as other Niantic games. You can read all...
Kickstarted MMO Legends of Aria and its studio just got bought out by an NFT metaverse games company
Time to add another game to the acquisition heap this week: Blue Monster Games has apparently purchased Citadel Studios and Legends of Aria, along...
