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Leaderboard: What was the best new MMO of 2018?
Last week, we announced our award for MMO of the Year; it once again went to Final Fantasy XIV. You might notice that XIV...
Leaderboard: Will you be playing PlanetSide Arena?
Last month, Daybreak officially revealed its first truly new game in several years: PlanetSide Arena, a large-scale battle royale title set in the venerable...
Leaderboard: What’s the best classic MMORPG still running at the end of 2018?
Longtime MOP readers know that many our writers have a fondness for old MMORPGs, either because that's how we got into the hobby and...
Leaderboard: What was the best mobile MMO of 2018?
While 2017 was a big year for mobile, 2018 was even bigger, as more and more MMORPG companies, from CCP Games and NCsoft to...
Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2018?
Every year for the last many years, we've done some sort of award for the most underrated MMO, or even the year's sleeper hit....
Leaderboard: What do you think about Steam’s new revenue sharing plan?
At the tail end of last week, Valve announced a new revenue sharing plan for publishers on Steam that simmered all weekend. In a...
Leaderboard: How much does an MMO’s IP influence your interest in it?
Here's a fun thought exercise: What if standard assumptions about IPs and games is wrong? To hear some people tell it, games like Star...
Leaderboard: Is a ‘WoW Immortal’ a very real possibility?
During this week's podcast, Justin made a joke about the potential for a "WoW Immortal" that... doesn't seem like such a joke, especially given...
Leaderboard: Are you playing on Lord of the Rings Online’s progression server?
So many people showed up to play on Lord of the Rings Online's progression server Anor yesterday that SSG had to rush to put up...
Leaderboard: Are you playing Fallout 76, Red Dead Redemption 2, or neither?
I have to wonder whether Bethsoft is having some regrets right now. It seems to me that Fallout 76's beta is being completely overshadowed...
Leaderboard: Are you giving Bless Online a second chance?
Bless Online officially launched, went free-to-play, left beta, and left early access all in one fell swoop yesterday, bringing to an end - or...
Leaderboard: Are you buying a BlizzCon virtual ticket this year, and is WoW Classic the reason?
Oof, some people really, really do not like jokes about BlizzCon, as I found out Sunday when my throwaway headline about paying Blizzard 50...
Leaderboard: Does an MMORPG’s publisher factor into whether you’ll play it?
I was genuinely surprised to see so many people flip out over August's reveal that Ashes of Creation will be using My.com as its...
Leaderboard: Must MMORPGs revolve around grouping to be MMORPGs?
It would be easy to dismiss Saga of Lucimia's pervasive "group-based or go home" ideas as mere rhetoric, but the reality is, there exists...
Leaderboard: How much input do you expect to have into a developing game you’ve paid for?
Last week, a developer from Parisian developer Dreamz Studio posted about how early access was the best thing that happened to his game, specifically...
Leaderboard: What’s the ideal way for an MMO studio to handle toxicity?
MOP reader BulletTeeth pointed us to a piece on The Verge this week about an incident in online shooter Battalion 1944. A highly placed...
Leaderboard: How do you decide whether to refund an MMO or wait it out?
I'll be happy if I never have to type the phrase "Steam refunds" ever again, after this week of Bless Online coverage. Nevertheless, the...
Leaderboard: What type of multiplayer do you think Fallout 76 will have?
After what was nearly an interminable teaser stream, Bethsoft finally announced this morning that it's working on Fallout 76, another entry in a beloved...
Leaderboard: How much time should you put in to become a great player in the typical MMO?
Earlier this week, GIbiz put out a piece on the Shanghai Dragons, the Overwatch League e-sports team representing China. In a letter to fans,...
Leaderboard: Does the Daybreak fiasco affect whether you play its MMOs?
Over the last couple of days, we've been covering the Daybreak scandal - specifically, how concerns over the impact of government sanctions on Daybreak's...
