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MassivelyOP’s 2025 Awards: Worst MMO Business Model

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2026/01/03

Welcome back to MassivelyOP’s annual MMORPG awards for 2025! Today’s award is for the Worst MMO Business Model, which was awarded to EVE Frontier last year. This award is intended to recognize a live MMORPG of any age that has demonstrated an abysmal, terrible, no-good business model specifically in 2025, regardless of its past performance. Don’t […]

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WRUP: Here are some new characters I have planned for...

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2026/01/03

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about non-gaming resolutions...

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The Daily Grind: What does your average MMO gameplay...

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2026/01/03

We’re nothing if not creatures of routine, and MMOs certainly condition us to become more so as we settle into their gameplay loops. My general routine for any given MMO is to log in, chip away at my quest log, perhaps run a dungeon or delve, sell extra loot on the auction house, and then […]

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The Stream Team: Partying like it’s 2026 in Party...

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2026/01/03

It’s time to party like it’s 2026. Because it is! And Party Animals is the perfect place to do that. Massively OP’s MJ is starting the new year with her plushy fists swinging; she might even grab a lollipop or a frying pan or two. Dare to take her on? Or maybe team up with […]

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Betawatch: So you may have noticed Camelot Unchained...

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2026/01/03

Can you believe that Camelot Unchained is not going to make an early access deadline in 2025? I mean, of course you can believe that. It’s 2026. You may, of course, charitably note that the announcement of that delay came on December 26th, 2025 and not in 2026. To that, we would raise the question of […]

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MMO Year in Review: The death of lockboxes (November...

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2026/01/02

We’re continuing our tour back through 2025, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP’s MMO Year in Review today. In November, the MMO community witnessed the end of Tarisland, the likely end of Project Ghost, the end of the Jackalyptic Warhammer MMO, the end of lockboxes in RuneScape… wait, that one was good. Real good, […]

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Titan Quest II invites players to take ‘centaur...

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2026/01/02

We’re going to assume that someone at THQ Nordic or Grimlore Games (or both) sipped on that silly juice when they released the presser for the next Titan Quest II update because it’s got some A+ dad jokes interwoven through the announcement of its Chapter 3 update, which will bring on a new enemy faction […]

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MassivelyOP’s 2025 Golden Yachties: Most accidentally...

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2026/01/02

The Golden Yachties series is MassivelyOP’s annual set of fauxwards, named in honor of some guy who was convinced we are all making bank writing about MMORPGs and that it is so lucrative that we’re typing MMO blog posts from a gold-plated yacht. Did Poe’s Law apply? Nobody knows. We’re enjoying the view from the […]

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Genshin Impact brings more characters, a story...

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2026/01/02

The series of Luna patches that have been applied over the past few months in Genshin Impact appear to be reaching their climax, as Luna IV: A Traveler on a Winter’s Night is set to arrive to the gacha RPG on Wednesday, January 14th, bringing with it the next major part of the archon story, […]

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The Stream Team: Finishing the fight in co-op Halo...

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2026/01/02

It’s time for MOP’s Chris and his best friend Britarnya to hopefully wrap up their tour through Halo: Combat Evolved together! After beating the level that stopped him last time, our fearless FPS fighter and his battle buddy are nearly at the end of the campaign. Join them today at 2:00 p.m. EST as the […]

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The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2025

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2026/01/02

By our count, the MOP team is up to 6636 Daily Grinds since the first one was published on Old Massively way back in 2007, and it’s a tradition we have kept going every morning since, to provide an opening conversation about the genre for our readers before the news deluge begins. Yeah, we know […]

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Storyboard: The myth of the story bible for MMOs

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2026/01/02

A while back, one of our regular commenters proposed the idea that the thing that World of Warcraft needs – or at least one of them – was a story bible. It’s not exactly a secret that the game’s storytelling suffers from the fact that on Monday Illidan died during The Burning Crusade and was a villain […]

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Hytale shows off ‘very early’ PvP gameplay prior to...

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2026/01/02

Hey, who’s psyched and primed for rescued and redeemed Hytale’s early access launch in less than two weeks? The generally quiet nature of January in the industry might actually help provide more of a spotlight for this Minecraft-derived MMO-and-platform, especially if players like what they see. And while the Day One scene in Hytale’s PvP dueling […]

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MassivelyOP’s 2025 Awards: Best MMO Business Model

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2026/01/02

Welcome back to MassivelyOP’s annual MMORPG awards for 2025! Today’s award is for the Best MMO Business Model, which was awarded to Guild Wars 2 last year. The award is intended to recognize a live MMORPG of any age that has demonstrated an exemplary business model specifically in 2025, regardless of its past performance. Don’t […]

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Superhero MMO City of Titans aims to patch in quest...

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2026/01/02

While last year’s early access launch of Ship of Heroes proved to be a disappointment for the superhero MMO — to put it gently — it’s easy to forget that it wasn’t the only upcoming City of Heroes spiritual successor in town. City of Titans is still plugging away at its vision of caped crusaders […]

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Final Fantasy XIV’s Yoshi-P promises ‘new experiences...

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2026/01/02

At the turn of the year, fans of Final Fantasy XIV often look forward to the annual address from the MMORPG’s producer and director Naoki Yoshida, but this year’s kind of hits a bit different as 2026 will herald the start of Fan Festivals for the game and its inevitable next expansion announcement. Unsurprisingly, looking […]

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Corepunk swaps out its rune system and makes sweeping...

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2026/01/02

Some significant changes are happening to MMOARPG Corepunk lately: Artificial Core dropped a new patch that revised the rune system and activated new Tier 3 artifacts to give players more options for their builds. “With the new system, all previous runes have been removed from the game,” the studio explained. “You can now equip up […]

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Tower of Fantasy’s MMOsy warp server introduces new...

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2026/01/02

While original flavor Tower of Fantasy is launching new story and characters this week, the MMO-like warp server is piling on more things for players to do together – and they’re new modes unique to the server. The two new features are bundled under the United Stand mode: There’s Trench Pursuit, a team-based PvP battlefield […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s the most expensive MMO at the...

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2026/01/02

I realize this annual Daily Grind is a challenge because many popular MMORPGs could be expensive if you decided to swipe a credit card and rack up thousands of dollars in debt on lockboxes or whatever. Don’t look at me like that; it’s happened in games like Star Citizen, MapleStory, and RuneScape. Some of y’all […]

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The Stream Team: Starting the New Year with The Lost...

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2026/01/02

Massively OP’s MJ is starting the new year with dragons! Dungeons & Dragons, to be exact. It’s a great way to set the tone for the year, don’t you think? Dungeons & Dragons Online will kick off 2026 as MJ continues the adventures in the Forgotten Realms, trying to discover the truth about the Thread […]

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