Perfect Ten: 25 text-based MMOs and MUDs that are worth playing in 2023
Wanderlust hits even the most content MMO adventurer from time to time, and while there are worlds a-plenty to visit, sometimes it is easy...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s May lineup embraces Niantic’s bugs
As I noted in my last Massively on the Go column, for the entire month of May, this column will not be covering Pokemon Go, as Niantic...
Casually Classic: Eight legacy MMOs to satisfy that old school craving
It was just five years ago in 2018 that MassivelyOP formally recognized an interesting and heartening trend in the MMO space: the rise of...
Choose My Adventure: Endgame in Neverwinter nearly rocks my Bard’s face apart
So as that headline suggests, I made it to level 20 in Neverwinter. That's not really too surprising to regular players, I imagine -...
The Daily Grind: How could Blizzard make World of Warcraft more appealing to former players?
Eliot's column about World of Warcraft feeling like a dead mall struck a chord with our commenters, many of whom agreed with the feels...
Wisdom of Nym: We don’t need another Final Fantasy XIV – we already have one
First of all, this one's for Bruno. He usually doesn't read these, but maybe he'll like this one.
So we all know at this point...
Vitae Aeternum: Analyzing New World’s disappointing first season
It's now been a few weeks since the launch of New World's first season, Fellowship and Fire. I wanted to give it some time...
The Daily Grind: Do MMO studios manipulate their playerbases with trolling and tribalism?
A few weeks ago, MOP Chris and I were discussing Star Citizen's antics - remember the video with the coffee? - and it was...
One Shots: The spice must flow
Feeling antsy because Funcom's Dune Awakening isn't here yet? Utakata has a decent substitute for you in Tower of Fantasy, apparently. Nothing like a...
The Daily Grind: How often do you change guilds in your MMOs of choice?
Some people joined up with a guild years ago, and since then that has been The Guild I Am In. No changes. But today...
LOTRO Legendarium: Making sense of LOTRO’s virtue system
If you look at how your character gains power and progression in Lord of the Rings Online, you'll see four major categories. There are...
Global Chat: Black Desert is the MMO sandbox to beat
Those who wrote off or skipped by Black Desert on the way to other MMOs may be missing one of the best sandboxes on...
The Daily Grind: What are the best and worst horizontal progression systems in an MMORPG?
This morning, I want to talk about horizontal progression systems in MMOs, of which I am generally a fan! And I'm gonna start with...
Four Winds: The Artist has become my favorite support class in Lost Ark
Here's a thought experiment: How would have Anakin Skywalker turned out if he had grown up on planet covered in paint rather than coarse,...
Vague Patch Notes: If there’s any sort of metaverse, it’s already here – and it’s not what you think
We've had a lot of fun here having a good little giggle about the whole saga (if you want to call it that) of...
The Daily Grind: What’s your least favorite sort of thing to farm in an MMO?
Some MMOs, as we all know, have actual farms. Literally, just a place where you put farm goods and you farm things. But that's...
Perfect Ten: 10 ways World of Warcraft feels like a dead mall
There was a time that I lived next to a very small mall that's tucked kind of out-of-the-way in a part of my state....
Massively on the Go: Splatoon 3’s Eggstra Work could be fun if it entailed less social work
Splatoon 3 players recently got to experience the first weekend of Eggstra Work, and it's controversial to say the least. The very basics are...
Choose My Adventure: Rocking my way to max level Bard play in Neverwinter
The journey in Neverwinter continues with pure, unadulterated focus on my Bard, as suggested by the voting public. And I promise, I won't ask...
The Daily Grind: What are some demonstrably wrong things about old MMOs that people insist were true anyway?
A while back, there was a thread on the MMORPG subreddit arguing that "minmaxing an information abundance has ruined MMORPGs" and posited that devs...
