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Massively Overthinking: If you were rich, would you buy an MMORPG you loved?

So heres a fun one. Over the weekend I was surfing YouTube trying to put together a Trove playlist because I think the Trove music is super fun and no

Bree Royce 2025-07-17 0
Desert Oasis: Black Desert just hits different these days

Ive been playing Black Desert Online for about 7 years now. Its been on and off the last few years. I started way back in 2018, when the Dark Knight h

Carlo Lacsina 2025-07-17 0
Vague Patch Notes: The real problem with generative AI in gaming is intent

I do not like DC Universe Online. I made a joke out of this in yesterdays Perfect Ten, but it was all true statements. Nearly every single element of

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-17 0
The Daily Grind: What MMORPG has benefited the most from a change in management?

Its weird to me how often the person who wants to make an MMORPG winds up being the worst person to actually manage that MMORPG. Turnover is real, and

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-17 0
Perfect Ten: MMOs that transitioned their business models successfully

It was 2009 when Dungeons and Dragons Online transitioned to a free-to-play model, and everything changed. That was our Fire Nation attacked moment. I

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-16 0
Casually Classic: Classic Plus can course-correct WoW Classic’s greatest mistake

Last night in WoW Classic, our guild got into a huge, rambling discussion about the expected path for the 20th Anniversary Servers and our desires for

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-16 0
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s season 10 looks promising, but the future remains uncertain

The next season for New World is looking to be yet another with little to nothing on offer for PvE players, but there is finally some hope on the hori

Tyler F.M. Edwards 2025-07-16 0
The Daily Grind: Do you suffer from ‘Grass is Greener’ syndrome with MMO classes?

Oh man, I am horrible at this. Being content with my class choice is so very hard when I encounter some other MMO class that dazzles with cool effects

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-16 0
Massively OP Podcast Episode 526: A whip, six katanas, and Black Desert love

On this week’s episode of the Massively OP Podcast, Bree, Carlo, and Justin talk about Black Desert developments, WoWs housing neighborhoods, Guild Wa

Justin Olivetti 2025-07-15 0
The Daily Grind: What constitutes an ‘attention tax’ in MMORPGs?

Earlier this summer, MOPs Tyler casually dropped a term that leaped out at me. In describing gameplay in World of Warcraft, he wrote,
It’s not like th

Bree Royce 2025-07-15 0
Choose My Adventure: Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s old school design choices rear their head

I have attempted to clear the same single quest five times.
I appreciate that on the face of it that statement sounds alarmist or like Im trying to hi

Chris Neal 2025-07-15 0
Make My MMO: Loftia plans ahead, Lionhearts fully funds

Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOPs long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and

Bree Royce 2025-07-19 0
Roblox adds a ‘safety feature’ to let an AI guess your age from a video selfie

This is not parody, we promise: Roblox that is introducing a new means of safeguarding children by requiring children ages 13 through 17 to upload a v

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-18 0
Ubisoft’s new spun-off franchise division is being led by… the son of one of UbisoftR

Oh, Ubisoft, when we think of quality, we think of you, if by quality we mean your former executives were convicted of crimes and doin the layoff danc

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-17 0
Faced with a breach of contract lawsuit from fired execs, Krafton is appeasing remaining Subnautica

Update: Weve summarized the main allegations of the now-unsealed complaint at the end of this post. The original article remains.
Subnautica 2 has bec

Bree Royce 2025-07-16 0
The Borderlands MMO resurrection team has finally revived a functioning build for the game

So lets recap. The Borderlands series had an MMO, briefly, that was only released in China. It shut down in 2015. Modder and dataminer EpicNNG was det

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-15 0
Zenimax Online Studios union reaffirms support for Blackbird devs as workers roast Xbox execs over A

The splash damage from Microsofts decision to gut its games division, especially the developers behind Zenimax Online Studios formerly in-development

Chris Neal 2025-07-15 0
Zenimax Online Studios union reaffirms support for Blackbird devs as workers roast Xbox execs over A

The splash damage from Microsofts decision to gut its games division, especially the developers behind Zenimax Online Studios formerly in-development

Chris Neal 2025-07-15 0
Nightingale is pivoting from official online servers to private dedicated servers

Back in June, we started getting pretty worried about Nightingale, whose developers hadnt really surfaced over the course of the couple of months sinc

Bree Royce 2025-07-15 0
World of Warcraft offers a full lander ahead of the Mists of Pandaria Classic launch July 21

Hopefully you didnt get all of your interest in Pandaria worn out last year when World of Warcraft invited you into its Mists of Pandaria Remix becaus

Eliot Lefebvre 2025-07-15 0