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Massively Overthinking: The curious cycle of MMO refunds, tutorials, and reviews
MOP reader Steve recently posed us an intriguing question about the state of tutorials in MMOs and other games - and how those tutorials'...
Overwatch seeks an entry-level narrative designer, Hearthstone adjusts cards and fixes bugs
We have a fresh little list of smaller news snippets from Blizzard games that aren't WoW, so once again we'll be bundling these smaller...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with the noisiest fanbases
In my particular neck of the woods, there are a lot of big fans of the Boston Red Sox. There's also something of a...
WoW Factor: The Blizzard ‘leak’ is probably fake, but it’s still valuable
So right now it doesn't need to be said that stuff with World of Warcraft is kind of a mess. Shadowlands might have been...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 330: Swords of Crows Online
Justin and Bree discuss the launches of Crowfall and Swords of Legends Online, Fallout 76, WoW's story mess, and Elite Dangerous, with adventures in Albion Online, LOTRO, SWG Legends, Crowfall, WoW Classic, and FFXIV, plus a quick mailbag topic on Albion crafting.
Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s Burning Crusade entry ditch
With this year's Burning Crusade Classic, the dynamics of leveling in WoW Classic shifted just as they did originally. Before Burning Crusade came along...
WoW Classic shares insights on same-faction battleground testing, plans more tests soon
Last week Blizzard raised more than a couple of eyebrows with its plan to test same-faction battlegrounds in World of Warcraft: Classic. Now that...
One Shots: Fight for your right to party
When a Star Wars: The Old Republic player wants to party -- and with an expansion on the way, it's as good an excuse...
The Game Archaeologist: Why 2008 was one of the wildest years for MMORPGs
In the relatively short history of MMORPGs so far, there have been a few years that I would say were watershed moments for the...
World of Warcraft deploys hotfixes and plans for improving the zone bonuses of Shards of Domination
Hotfixes! Do you like them? They've arrived in World of Warcraft for patch 9.1. They're hot and they're fixing things. For example, your packaged...
Vague Patch Notes: Playerbase size doesn’t have to be everything in MMOs
I'm already worried about Crowfall. Not because of personal experiences, mind you; I haven't yet played it or anything, and all I have to...
Black Desert talks up a rather vague 300% increase in daily players
Fair warning: The information in this article is going to frustrate you. That's because Pearl Abyss has released relative numbers for Black Desert, claiming...
Blizzard teams up with Z-Man Games for a Pandemic-style World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King game
We all know that if there's one thing people still love about World of Warcraft, it's Wrath of the Lich King. It makes a...
World of Warcraft’s finale for the Sanctum of Domination raid reveals a major character’s fate
We try really hard to avoid spoilers here when we're talking about story stuff on Massively Overpowered. It's possible, for example, that you are...
The Daily Grind: Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever played an MMO?
A few weeks ago, I logged into WoW Classic and was chatting with my guild when one of our community made a startling confession:...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 329: Sith happens
Justin and Eliot discuss Magic Legends and the Cryptic layoffs, SWTOR's Legacy of the Sith, Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons delay, with adventures in FFXIV and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on FFXIV as the potential WoW killer.
Blizzard retools World of Warcraft’s Mythic Dungeon International, offers $380K prize pool
Scoff all you want at MMORPG esports, but Blizzard has a nice chunk of change on offer for World of Warcaft's Mythic Dungeon International....
Final Fantasy XIV breaks its Steam concurrency record
Odds are pretty good that even if you're a Final Fantasy XIV fan, you don't devote a whole lot of your brainmeat to the...
The Daily Grind: Do you plan your MMO play around bonus experience mechanics?
Rested experience mechanics are actually one of my favorite systems in online games. They've taken many forms over the years, from Ultima Online's power...
Blizzard announces next Hearthstone expansion, sells a WoW 6-month sub bundle in its summer sale
There's quite the little bundle of news updates coming out of Blizzard's games, so we've elected to tie them all together into a nice...
