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Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2024?

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Every year when it comes time to update this poll for January, I consider tossing it out. But the last few years of Daybreak...

Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2023?

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It's no secret that whenever somebody declares a GOTY, somebody else is going to say that game is overrated. Heck, we cover some major...

Leaderboard: What was the best *new* MMO of 2023?

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So I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we have a lot of MMORPGs coming in 2024!...

Leaderboard: What was the best *new* MMO of 2022?

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The downside of making both old and new games be eligible for MMO of the Year is that it can be pretty hard for...

Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2022?

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A funny and incredibly predictable thing happens in the comments of our Most Underrated award every year: Somebody, usually several somebodies, informs us that...

Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2023?

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Picture this: It's 2015. Sony just sold off SOE, and it reformed as Daybreak and began purging games, hard - around 20 to date,...
Bees, bees, they're everywhere.

Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2022?

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It's time for another annual tradition: examining Daybreak's prospects. We started back in 2015, when Sony cast off SOE and it was reshaped as...

Leaderboard: What was the best *new* MMO of 2021?

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The downside of letting both old and new games be eligible for MMO of the Year is that it's so hard for brand-new MMOs...

Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2021?

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As our veteran readership will remember, one of our core MMORPG awards every year is our award for the most underrated MMO - an...

Leaderboard: Are you hyped for WoW Burning Crusade Classic?

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I don't think I've ever seen people fight over the details of a classic server as hard as they do for WoW Classic. Dipping...
Smoke on the water

Leaderboard: So, is RIFT next?

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Gamigo, which just bought the studio behind Wizard101 and Pirate101, cleaned house yesterday, purging multiple MMORPGs that it acquired during its past acquisitions of...

Leaderboard: What’s more important in an MMO – character visuals or world visuals?

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When I first got to Massively-that-was, well over 10 years ago now, one of my tasks became front-page editing, meaning I had to keep...

Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2021?

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Yep, it's that time of year again: We've been doing this recap for the last several years, although this one is going to be...

Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2020?

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Longtime readers will know we've been granting an official end-of-the-year award for the most underrated MMO for several years now. But it comes along...

Leaderboard: What was the best new MMO or online game of 2020?

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It's been a long time since a brand-new MMORPG really deserved a GOTY award - in fact, my my reckoning, it was was 2016,...

The best Massively OP community leaderboard polls, 2020 edition

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We didn't do quite as many Leaderboard polls this year as in previous years, largely because... well, we've already asked a lot of the...
glargh and suchlike

Leaderboard: What’s the best classic MMORPG still running at the end of 2020?

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It's been a longstanding problem that end-of-the-year awards for MMORPGs aren't ideal for honoring "classic" MMOs, especially the really old games, really small games,...

Leaderboard: To which WoW expansion era will you send your Shadowlands alts first?

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One of the more intriguing things about World of Warcraft Shadowlands, at least for me, is the game's new leveling system. While brand-new accounts...

Leaderboard: Are you tempted by Ultima Online’s New Legacy server?

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So here's a fun fact for you: While vanilla, legacy, and progression servers have been all the rage for the last five years or...

Leaderboard: Why do you ‘work’ in MMORPGs?

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A while back, WAPO put up a piece called Why do we enjoy games that make us work? Proficiency, control, fairness, escape. This is a topic...

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