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Stick and Rudder: Recapping everything Star Citizen showed at the latest CitizenCon
The digital CitizenCon event has, for all intents and purposes, come and gone, lining up a series of seven different video panels that were...
WoW Factor: What the Season of Mastery says about WoW Classic
The fracturing has begun. That's what sticks out to me when I look at WoW Classic's Season of Mastery limited-time experiment.
Obviously, this is not entirely...
Massively Overthinking: How long are you willing to wait in an MMO queue?
New World has made headlines since the moment it launched for its excessive queues, but it's hardly the only MMO ever - or even...
Classic WoW’s Season of Mastery attempts to boost the MMO’s challenge level
The testing for the new seasonal ruleset for WoW Classic is already underway, but what exactly is the Season of Mastery event meant to deliver...
WoW Classic begins testing fresh start servers as Blizzard yanks iffy joke and flirt soundbites
Blizzard giveth, and Blizzard taketh away. In this case, the studio is giving fresh start Classic servers while taking several character joke and flirt...
Global Chat: The good, the bad, and the ugly of New World
There is no shortage of opinions on the recently launched New World -- and no shortage of drama either. On top of all of...
Blizzard still hasn’t addressed some player questions on WoW Classic’s fresh servers
As it often goes, when one question is answered, a dozen more crop up in its place. And so it is with Blizzard's recent...
Bear witness to the confounding Coca-Cola ad that tries to appeal to esports fans, MMO gamers, and world peace
What do esports events, MMO gaming, and soda have in common? If you said "Maybe you drink the soda while participating in the other...
The Daily Grind: How many ‘mains’ can you juggle in MMOs?
I've been thinking about the concept of alts and mains a bit lately, inspired by Guild Wars 2. I've got 10 characters there, and...
Battle Bards Episode 201: Don’t stand in the fire!
Have you stood in the fire? Did you start the fire? Are you on fire at this very moment? Then stop, drop, and roll...
Here’s Blizzard’s rationale for changing some of World of Warcraft’s emotes, art, and names
In the wake of the ongoing investigations into and lawsuits over Activision-Blizzard's sexual harassment and discrimination scandal, the teams at Blizzard have said very...
WoW Factor: The disjointed state of World of Warcraft
Right now, it feels like World of Warcraft is kind of a mess. This is not exactly a surprise. It's also not exactly helped...
Working As Intended: Brute-forcing the MMO industry
If you're a music fan, and you probably are since you're a human, you've probably come to grips with the sense that somehow the...
Massively Overthinking: Initial impressions of New World
Amazon's Queue World - uh, I mean, New World - is finally upon us. In fact, I imagine that it's been hard to avoid...
Blizzard is launching new WoW Classic fresh-start servers for its ‘Season of Mastery’
On a previous MassivelyOP Podcast, we joked about whether WoW Classic needed its own Classic version. Apparently, that's not too far off from what...
Tamriel Infinium: Anatomy of Elder Scrolls Online’s quests
An amazing thing happened on my way to the MMO variety store: I got completely sucked back in to Elder Scrolls Online. It did...
World of Warcraft continues to cut abusive emotes in upcoming update
Even as World of Warcraft players grapple with the high drama that is PictureGate, there's another part of the game that's being phased out...
Perfect Ten: It’s time to end all dragons in MMORPGs
If a genie ever appeared to grant me three wishes, I would not hesitate. I would not be selfish by asking for more wishes...
Why I Play: Returning to Guild Wars 2 and exploring elite specs after nine years
I have a strange history with Guild Wars 2. I fell hard for the pre-launch hype, and when it finally arrived, I loved it...
WoW Classic allows some free character transfers on legacy shards
Player characters who decided to stay on WoW Classic's "Classic Era" realms after Burning Crusade Classic came out this past summer knew they had...