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MMO Year in Review: New World ghosted (October 2025)

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2026/01/01

We’re continuing our tour back through 2025, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP’s MMO Year in Review today. October was at one point shaping up to be a great month for the MMORPG industry, as we anticipated Guild Wars 2’s Visions of Eternity launch, the kick-off of the Elder Scrolls Online’s Writhing Wall event, […]

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MassivelyOP’s 2025 Golden Yachties: Best worst MMO...

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2026/01/01

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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Massively Overthinking: MMORPG hopes and fears for 2026

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2026/01/01

Happy New Year – let’s worry about things! Yes, it’s time for another annual roundtable, as we split apart our predictions and goals and zero in just on our positive hopes and our negative fears about MMORPGs. For this week’s Massively Overthinking, I’m asking our writers and readers to tell me what they’re eager to […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The dreaded specter of the ‘Win...

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2026/01/01

So after spending more time with its most recent update, I am sad to say that Warframe’s latest patch has a number of new abilities that are, lamentably, a group of Win More buttons. This is not great because the Win More button is always a bad thing, but it is good because it allows […]

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MassivelyOP’s 2025 Awards: Best New MMO Class

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2026/01/01

Welcome back to MassivelyOP’s annual MMORPG awards for 2025! Today’s award is for the Best New MMO Class, which was awarded to FFXIV Dawntrail’s Viper last year. The award is intended to highlight MMOs that are still focused on this quintessential MMO character content, and it’s open to all live MMOs that introduced a new […]

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The Daily Grind: How do you plan to start off the new...

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2026/01/01

It is now officially 2026, and that means that you are executing your new year plans. If one of your resolutions was not to smear your face with peanut better while wearing a Yankees hat, you should put down the Skippy right now, buckaroo. And it also means that whatever you had planned to do in […]

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Happy New Year to all the uplifting things in MMOs,...

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2026/01/01

As a counterpoint tradition to last night’s tossing of all the reasons we can’t have nice things into the metaphorical bonfire that ended 2025, we present you this morning the warm fuzzies list – that is, our list of all the stories we binned under the “warm fuzzies” category because they actually added something positive […]

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Goodbye to all the reasons we can’t have nice things...

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2026/01/01

We have a tradition here on MOP, and you’re looking at it. Years ago, we started collecting all of the really bad stuff we had to write about in a single tag – this is why we can’t have nice things – just so we could point to it anytime someone informed us everything was […]

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The Stream Team: Memories and mayhem, saying so long...

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2025/12/31

New Year’s Eve is a time to reflect, and for Massively OP’s MJ, many memories (and not a small amount of mayhem) were created in AdventureQuest 3D. That’s part of the reason she has a tradition of ending the year — and sometimes starting the new one — in the land of Lore. Perhaps she […]

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MMO Year in Review: Fifty-five billion (September 2025)

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2025/12/31

We’re continuing our tour back through 2025, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP’s MMO Year in Review today. Electronic Arts announced this month that it will indeed be bought out by a bizarre assemblage of Saudi corpos and political hacks that pretty much bring an end to EA’s run as one of the pillars […]

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Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of...

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2025/12/28

Welcome to the very last edition of Make My MMO of the year! This here is the MassivelyOP column where every couple of weeks, we check in on the crowdfunded MMORPGs and MMOs in our genre, be they on Kickstarter or elsewhere, whether they succeeded or not. While many of the Kickstarted games we monitor […]

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MMO Year in Review: Horse mystery MMO (May 2025)

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2025/12/27

We’re continuing our tour back through 2025, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP’s MMO Year in Review today. Craig Morrison’s “horse mystery MMO” Equinox Homecoming officially launched into early access in May, offering a supernatural spin on an equestrian MMORPG. Meanwhile, we learned the Blue Protocol spinoff Star Resonance would indeed be coming westward, […]

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MassivelyOP’s 2025 Golden Yachties: Best worst thing...

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2025/12/27

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 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 yacht’s deck, shown […]

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The Stream Team: Making mammals in Planet Crafter

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2025/12/27

While Planet Crafter’s alien paradise was a let-down, some looterific ship-scavenging saved the day. But that’s the past: Massively OP’s MJ focus is on the future. And that future is mammals! Her planet has just upgraded stages, unlocking both an animal shelter and a feeder to introduce mammals to the environment. The world is already […]

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WoW Factor: Walking the long road of World of...

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2025/12/27

Despite being a year between expansions, as it were, retail World of Warcraft’s 2025 was anything but quiet and dull. Blizzard kept things hopping from January through December, building up to housing and Midnight while giving us plenty — more than plenty — to do along the way. So let’s take a trip back through the […]

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MassivelyOP’s 2025 Awards: Most Important MMO Trend

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2025/12/27

Welcome back to MassivelyOP’s annual MMORPG awards for 2025! Today’s award is for the Most Important MMO Trend, which was awarded to the resurgence of MMORPG expansions last year. This award is meant to highlight a pervasive trend that we can identify and actually appreciate seeing in the industry. Don’t forget to cast your own […]

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WRUP: Normal output edition

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2025/12/27

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about what we're looking forward to in 2026 (doesn't have to be games!).

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The Daily Grind: Should MMO dungeons invest in...

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2025/12/27

This past week I’ve been running a lot of World of Warcraft dungeons to stock up on boss-dropped housing decor (gimme my ottoman, ya lunk!), and I noticed that Blizzard sporadically decorated some of these instances with holiday cheer. I thought that was a nice touch, as dungeons never seem to change that often, and it […]

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The Stream Team: Hot cocoa for Frostval in AQ3D’s...

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2025/12/27

Winter holidays just aren’t the same for Massively OP’s MJ without some Frostval fun in AQ3D! And this year, there’s a brand-new hot cocoa event in Winter’s Grasp. She doesn’t even need to know anything about it — just the fact it’s hot and chocolatey says it all. So bring a hot mug of something […]

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Betawatch: Corepunk maps out 1.0 as Star Citizen...

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2025/12/27

With very little time left in the year – seriously, this is the last Betawatch of the year, since it’s Friday – Corepunk would like everyone to remember that it exists as it maps out its path to 1.0 in 2026. If you never forgot that it existed and were eagerly awaiting exactly this news, congratulations! […]

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