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Perfect Ten: Ten MMOs to be thankful for by type
It’s been a while since I wrote a column that comes out on Thursdays, which means that it’s also been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to do my usual holiday nonsense on Thanksgiving. Time was,...
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Crowfall addresses victory conditions, Malekai lore
When it launches, Crowfall is going to have to deal with the problem of winning. The most recent Ask Me Anything event for the game on Reddit touched upon the reasons why PvP games have tended to have...
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Crowfall’s latest vid diary talks UI customization and more
Crowfall’s latest dev video addresses UI customization, and it features UX Designer Billy Garretsen. “The grand vision,” Garretsen says, “is to really let people completely customize their layouts by...
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Crowfall discusses the true meaning of ‘pre-alpha’
What is an alpha, really? What’s the dividing line between an alpha and a pre-alpha when both are playable? If a game has had a functional cash shop since the prior presidential administration but is...
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Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for the MMO hipster
I say this with nothing but love in my heart: Some of you guys are serious MMO hipsters. Heck, some of you guys were MMOs hipsters before the word hipster was popular again. World of Warcraft was the...
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Crowfall explains the design of its skill trees
How do you get better at things in Crowfall? Obviously, there’s personal practice, but in the more abstract sense, there are the game’s skill trees. Skill trees are how characters train up to improve...
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ArtCraft starts teasing Crowfall comic book
Crowfall: The Comic Book? It’s happening, although the full recipients of this colorful treat will be limited to those who snag a collector’s edition of the game. ArtCraft posted its first glimpse of...
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Crowfall aims siege warfare at February
If you’re enjoying the current round of testing for Crowfall, we have both good news and bad news for you. The bad news is that it’s coming to an end on December 18th, and further bad news is that the...
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Crowfall goes into depth about designing advancement systems
There’s a new goofy (yet informative) video series happening over at Crowfall called Systems Chat. In it, the devs take time to explain how different systems are created and why they’re important to...
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Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Anticipated for 2016 and Beyond
Massively OP’s end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for most anticipated MMO for 2016 and beyond. In 2013 and 2014, EverQuest Next and Landmark took home this award. In fact, it was a...
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Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG news stories of 2015
For as long as Massively Overpowered exists, this will be one of the most memorable years in our site’s history. It was the year that, after seven year of operation, old Massively got abruptly...
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Crowfall comic continues to tease ‘big reveal’
Back in November, ArtCraft promised that it would soon be revealing a significant design element for Crowfall that would “require a shift in the way you are thinking, and tie together some of the...
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MMO Year in Review: Daybreak’s downslide (February 2015)
December’s many article roundups and awards always remind me that it’s hard to remember what happened last month, let alone what happened way back at the beginning of the year, so this year, I wanted...
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Crowfall’s state-of-the-game address and Siege Perilous delay
Let’s start today with the bad news for Crowfall fans: While the Siege Perilous implementation was planned for February, at this point it looks as if it’s going to be delayed until March. The reason...
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MMO Year in Review: Crowfall’s Kickstarter (March 2015)
This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into 2016. March 2015 was a great month for Massively...
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The best MMORPG polls of 2015
Every week for the last few years, we’ve expanded on our “Daily Grind” theme with a Leaderboard poll. On the one hand, seeing the numbers and bar graphs is a quantitative sort of magic that we don’t...
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Crowfall updates founders on test stats while teasing more lore
The first major test for Crowfall had just shy of 5,000 people eligible to take part in the test antics, but only 59% of those potential testers turned into actual testers. Those aren’t terrible...
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Crowfall’s comic reveals continue
“Nothing is left of the man I was. There is only the scavenger, the warrior, and the oath he took. Some words cannot be unspoken.” This is the quote from the latest Crowfall comic panel reveals, in...
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Crowfall details the system of crows and vessels
Let’s be real here – the name Crowfall has never made a whole lot of sense. What’s so special about a crow, after all? It turns out that crows are special because you’re playing one. Rather than...
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Crowfall testing resumes on January 6th
There’s a new video from the development team behind Crowfall taking a look at the game’s past year of development while thanking players who have been along for the ride. But when will you get to...
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