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Crowfall plans to replace stat-building passive skills with active skills in...
Players unfamiliar with Crowfall’s terminology should know that “passive skills” in the game mean they allow players to accrue stats over time whether they play or not and were even needed in some...
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Crowfall’s December ACE Q&A talks up active skills, shows off a new castle,...
The beginning of December for Crowfall means yet another ACE Q&A livestream video featuring J. Todd Coleman and Thomas the Beard. This month, both directors talked up the overall positive work with...
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Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2020 predictions
Last December, when we sat down to write out our annual MMO predictions for 2020, I don’t think anyone had “biggest global pandemic in a century disrupts everything and makes gaming really weird.” So...
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Crowfall’s Convergence update introduces active skills and a castle siege...
A lot of hay has been made by Crowfall about the system changes being made to the MMO, but now it’s time for beta players to try it out for themselves. Yesterday marked the release of Convergence, the...
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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2021
So… 2020 didn’t go exactly as anyone planned. Our predictions for this past year were pretty janked up by that whole pandemic thing and the whole games industry going way off course. And we don’t have...
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Crowfall recaps an eventful 2020 as it pushes forward to launch in 2021
At one point we used to joke about how many times Crowfall had delayed its full alpha and its beta testing… but no more, as the game is now humming happily along in testing. A new letter from J. Todd...
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Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2020
Earlier this week, we named our biggest MMO story of the year and gave it an award, though we imagine it’s hard for a narrative to put a trophy on the wall. But there were gobs of stories this year,...
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Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: MMO with the Stormiest Future
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for the MMO (or Studio) with the Stormiest Future, which was awarded to Daybreak last year. Years ago, we called this award...
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Crowfall has kicked off another Decapathon event until January 5
‘Tis the season to hunt heads and collect skulls in Crowfall. Yes, it’s time once again for Decapathon, a special PvP event which tasks players with lopping off the heads of their slain targets and...
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Fight or Kite: The stand-out PvP MMOs and games of 2020
I mixed it up and played more MMOs this year than in the last several years combined, and one of the best things about playing so many games isn’t just the act of playing and sharing that with you all;...
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Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Most Anticipated MMO
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Most Anticipated MMO, which was awarded to Book of Travels and Torchlight Frontiers last year. (Obviously, Frontiers lost...
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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO resolutions for 2021
Really, there’s only one valid resolution for 2021: make it suck less than 2020. That aside, it’s customary to ask the Massively OP writers to offer up their gaming and MMO-specific resolutions for the...
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Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2020
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP’s weekly and sometimes biweekly recap of the big news in crowdfunded MMOs. If you’re on of those goes who is always down in the comments...
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Perfect Ten: The top MMOs to watch in 2021
“MMOs are dead!” “MMOs are dying!” “We didn’t get any good MMO releases this past year!” While I won’t argue with the last one there, I humbly submit today’s column as an exhibit for the immediate...
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Crowfall’s first beta patch of 2021 includes a revamped leveling system
As the crow flies into 2021, it sees a glorious feast before it — a feast full of downed players, beta testing, and… could that be? A launch? As ArtCraft gears up Crowfall for a 2021 release, the...
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Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2021
Welcome to 2021, folks. It’s not even going to have to try all that hard to be better than 2020! For our first official Massively Overthinking of the year, I’ve polled the Massively OP staff on all of...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 304: League of MMORPGs
Justin and Bree discuss Riot's new MMO, RuneScape, Neverwinter, Crowfall, and Path of Exile, with adventures in Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft, Torchlight II, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics...
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Massively Overthinking: What MMO were you hoping to hear much more about this...
So 2020 wasn’t exactly the year a lot of us probably thought it was going to be in early January. Every bit of our lives was altered by the pandemic, and the MMORPG genre was no different: Many...
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Crowfall seeks to make attributes more meaningful and customizable in its...
Strength. Dexterity. Constitution. We all know attributes like these are the hallmarks of RPG characters. Most of the time they’re just numbers with varying but arguably mediocre effects on gameplay,...
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Massively Overthinking: Do MMO players secretly just want ‘another WoW’?
Last week, there was a provocative discussion on the MMORPG subreddit about the genre. I don’t want to get tangled up in the whole argument about failed MMOs and why people play the successful MMOs...
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