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The Daily Grind: Have your opinions on MMO PvP changed over the years?
One of the first columns I penned for MOP after we went indie was a column about what I wanted from serious MMO PvP. I cut my MMO teeth on an open-PvP sandbox at the dawn of the genre, and I’ve joked...
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Massively Overthinking: Massively Overwhelming content in MMORPGs
This past weekend, I picked up my first premium house in Lord of the Rings Online after much hemming and hawing. I didn’t expect much out of it; surely it’d just be like my boring ol’ basic hobbit hole...
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Cinderstone Online has apparently sunsetted after just two months as devs...
Over the last couple of years, we’ve kept an eye on Cinderstone Online aka Fioresia Online, a cutesy indie MMO that actually made it to early access launch in September; we even gave the game a spin on...
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Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions
We’ve been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the future (and also take some wild swings on the...
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Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MOP articles of 2023
Every year, we pick out a bunch of narrative arcs and stories that dominated the headlines and emotions of the MMORPG genre, and it gets an award. Actually a couple of awards, if you get creative about...
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Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023
Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we – well, I – keep tabs on all of the crowdfunded MMOs in our genre, as well as all the ones that attempted...
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Crowfall owner Monumental hit with layoffs while eyeing blockchain
The question of Crowfall’s existence has been an unanswered one for quite some time ever since the game was purchased by Mythgard publisher Monumental in 2021, followed by the game going offline in...
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Perfect Ten: MMOs that experienced a surprising comeback
It’s hard to pass up a really good comeback story. We love it when a beloved something or someone is counted down and out… and then returns in a surprising but welcome fashion. In today’s list, we’re...
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Stormgate studio Frost Giant opens equity crowdfunding campaign to make...
Back in February, we covered the eyebrow-raising story that Frost Giant, the studio behind multiplayer RTS Stormgate, was planning to make a push for an equity crowdfunding campaign. Unlike the...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 466: Elder Scrolls Offline
Justin and Bree discuss PlanetSide 2's new developer, Elder Scrolls Online's rollback situation, the revival of Life is Feudal, and the resurrection of Legends of Aria Classic, with adventures in...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 467: The end of an ArcheAge
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge's sunset, the cancellation of BlizzCon 2024, Escape from Tarkov's no good very bad day, Age of Water's early access launch, and the 20th anniversary of City of Heroes,...
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Unleashed’s MMORPG Haven is aimed at parents who grew up playing EverQuest...
Back in February, we covered an upcoming but low-key crossplatform MMORPG called Haven by an indie studio called Unleashed games, whose star-studded dev team includes (among many others) World of...
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Perfect Ten: 10 more MMOs you’ve already forgotten ever existed, from Elyon...
Last year, I assembled a list of 10 former MMOs that not only have ceased to exist but have ceased to be remembered (for the most part). With so many deceased projects littering the past, unfortunately...
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Whatever happened to RvR MMO Crowfall? (2024 edition)
In the annals of MMORPG history, Kickstarted MMORPG Crowfall seems destined to be remembered for its impressive crowdfunding totals, imaginative character designs, strong developer pedigree, and a...
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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It’s time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And as usual, we have to add a caveat here that just because we think...
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Vague Patch Notes: The unsettling optics of the Stars Reach Kickstarter
As soon as I saw the news that Stars Reach was going to be launching a Kickstarter, I immediately stood up, got dressed, and drove down to the nearest beach. It’s January, so it was cold, but it’s New...
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Vaultbreakers – fka Project F4E – is an upcoming co-op extraction OARPG that...
Anybody out there remember BetaDwarf’s upcoming MMO Project F4E? You’d be forgiven if you didn’t. It was first announced in 2021 as Project Haven, a co-op PvE MOBA focused on “friendshipping” gameplay,...
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Perfect Ten: 10 MMO games, events, and ideas hitting the decade mark in 2025
A decade is a long time. It’s kind of weird that we don’t think much about games or shows or whatever hitting the decade mark. It feels relatively automatic for something relatively successful, but 10...
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Fractured Online and its dev team have been bought out by a new studio – and...
Kickstarted MMORPG sandbox Fractured has been teasing something big coming for the last month, punctuated by a promise from Dynamight’s Jacopo Gallelli earlier this week that he’d just signed a “big...
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Perfect Ten: Short but mighty playable MMO races
I like short races in MMOs. Not exclusively, but if there is an option to go small or go home, you can bet that I’ll at least have one seriously played character who is hacking away at an ogre’s shins....
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