wow classic
Massively OP Podcast Episode 307: Blackwood barges into town
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online Blackwood, Fallout 76, Star Trek Online, Magic Legends, the GameStop stock thing, and Amazon Game Studios' mess, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, SWG Legends, and ESO, plus a mailbag topic on questing vs. grinding.
Massively OP Podcast Episode 306: Money makes the MMOs go ’round
Justin and Bree discuss Pantheon, the KingsIsle and Jagex buyouts, World of Warcraft, Star Trek Online, and Guild Wars 2, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, and SWG Legends, plus mailbox topics on underwater combat and choosing between MMO subs.
World of Warcraft gamers move 21B gold through the player economy every day
IT-centric Splunk's .conf is not generally an event we cover here on MOP, but the .conf20 edition held back in October had a presentation of...
WoW Classic starts testing a significant spell batch change
While WoW Classic players continue to hold their breath as to what Blizzard has planned for the legacy version of the game, they are...
Leaderboard: What’s the best classic MMORPG still running at the end of 2020?
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,...
MassivelyOP’s 2020 Golden Yachties: Best inappropriately sexy MMO post
MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for best inappropriately sexy MMO post. (If you’re wondering what the heck a Golden Yachtie...
Rumor: The Burning Crusade expansion is arriving to WoW Classic in early May, beta in mid-February
Got your grains of salt at the ready? Tinfoil tricorns fashionably formed and atop your heads? Very good, then let's hop into the rumor...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: MMO Expansion of the Year
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for MMO Expansion of the Year, which was awarded to Final Fantasy XIV's Shadowbringers...
The Daily Grind: What MMO has the brightest future right now heading into 2021?
A Massively Overthinking roundtable about MMOs with bright future that we did a few years ago was so popular that we decided to make...
World of Warcraft: Classic is surveying players about rolling out The Burning Crusade
The rumors about The Burning Crusade coming to World of Warcraft: Classic were at once rather obvious and also seem all but certain at this point....
Global Chat: Is RIFT the Volvo of MMOs?
If you're not familiar with the blog 24 Hours In, you really should be. The author takes on 24-hour challenges (not consecutively) to investigate...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Business Model
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Business Model, which we could not reach a staff consensus on...
End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs going into 2021
It is only natural that, when you are shopping around for a different MMORPG to play, to consider the health of potential play candidates....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 300: It’s beginning to feel a lot like Daybreak
Justin and Bree discuss the Daybreak sale, World of Warcraft, SWTOR, City of Heroes, Skyforge, and min-maxing in MMOs in this live-recorded 300th podcast.
WoW Factor: The five paths forward for WoW Classic
Throughout its lifespan, WoW Classic has had an interesting relationship with the future. Not just because it is and always was an explicitly back-looking piece...
New World of Warcraft trailers drop for WoW Classic’s Naxxramas and Shadowlands
Today is a momentous day for WoW Classic, as Blizzard is triggering the ultimate patch for the vanilla-era edition of the game. That's right,...
World of Warcraft dev posts exit manifesto: ‘I was unhappy with the state of the game’
While people are hired, fired, and leave Blizzard all the time, it's certainly not very often that we get a lengthy manifesto on the...
WoW Classic starts Naxxramas raid attument while World of Warcraft nerfs gear
World of Warcraft Classic is certainly feeling the pinch of Shadowlands attention deficit disorder, so the opening of Naxxramas in early December can't come...
WoW Classic explains its Sapphiron tuning, Blizzard raises sub price for Aussies
With Naxxramas' release coming very soon here to World of Warcraft Classic, the devs are fine-tuning the boss encounters -- including a slightly controversial...
Perfect Ten: 10 things to genuinely like about modern World of Warcraft
Over the past year, it's been an interesting and illuminating experience to ping-pong back and forth between retail World of Warcraft and WoW Classic....
