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Why I Play(ed): World of Warcraft was home until it...

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2025/12/19

It has happened. After years of waiting for it, World of Warcraft has housing. I can log in right now and make myself a house in the game, a proper home. Not just a roleplaying home. I can make a home. A home that’s worthy of a game I have been playing since launch. That’s a […]

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ARK Survival Ascended launches Lost Colony DLC, casts...

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2025/12/19

Yes, that headline is definitely something else, but then if anyone’s been following the development track of Studio Wildcard’s games in general and ARK: Survival Ascended in specific, you’re probably better braced for impact than most. All the same, there are a lot of things to cover for the survival sandbox, so let’s dive right […]

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MassivelyOP’s 2025 Awards: Most Underrated MMORPG

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2025/12/19

Welcome to MassivelyOP’s annual MMORPG awards for 2025, our traditional celebration of all the best MMORPGs of the year (and also some of the worst). Every year, we poll our writers on the best and worst MMOs, stories, studios, and trends and assign awards to the winners. For the last dozen years now, we’ve been splitting our awards to give each […]

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Elder Scrolls Online announces a shift from content...

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2025/12/19

When ZeniMax Online Studios announced that the content pass for The Elder Scrolls Online was getting discounted for Black Friday after suggesting that wasn’t going to be the case when the monetization model was first announced, it raised some eyebrows – as well as presumptions that maybe the shift was having a pretty big impact […]

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Winter holiday events around the MMORPG genre, 2025...

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2025/12/19

I joked on the podcast this week that 2025 marks at least the 28th Christmas in MMORPGs since the first one rolled out in Ultima Online in 1997, and if you remember that one as I do, here’s a toast to all of us staying alive. But if this is your first MMORPG holiday season, […]

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‘A large audience is waiting for the right MMORPG to...

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2025/12/19

There’s no doubt that the MMORPG industry is in a much different place than it was in the 2000s and early 2010s, especially following this year’s public collapse of many promising titles such as New World, Blackbird, and Project Ghost. With many of the bigger upcoming projects now coming out of the east or the […]

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Legends of Aria is back, again, in a new buy-to-play...

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2025/12/19

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Legends of Aria is getting a reboot. If you haven’t heard this one, you definitely aren’t sufficiently Online, so let me recap. Way back in 2014, gamers Kickstarted a Citadel Studios MMORPG called Shards Online, which by the time of its controversial and messy 2020 launch was called […]

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The Daily Grind: Does your Steam Replay 2025 actually...

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2025/12/19

When Valve released its Steam Replay feature for the year, I honestly almost didn’t bother clicking on it because in past years, it just hasn’t been representative of my MMORPG play. I typically play a lot of older MMOs like Guild Wars 2, SWG Legends, City of Heroes, and LOTRO off Steam, for example, and […]

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The Stream Team: Silencing The Unquiet Graves in...

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2025/12/19

A simple name can convey a lot of information. Take for instance, Dungeons & Dragons Online’s quest in tonight’s adventure: The Unquiet Graves. That just screams that there will be undead involved! And sure enough, the marauding army includes Drow necromancers from House Szind that keep raising corpses even in the midst of battle. Massively […]

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Massively Overthinking: Our 2026 MMORPG predictions

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2025/12/19

Every year here on MassivelyOP for as long as I can remember – and we’ve been doing this a very long time now! – we have gathered up our predictions for the genre in the coming year. Sometimes we score big! Sometimes we see stuff like Dune Awakening and Tarisland coming a mile away, as […]

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Neverwinter opens its winter festival, improves the...

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2025/12/18

It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that Neverwinter’s designers – now re-ensconced as members of House Cryptic – have continued to tweak the Endless Experiment, seeing as how that’s right in the name. It’s not called the ending experiment. Named Encounters should no reward players 5 Thayan Research Tokens no matter whether you helped out or […]

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Sony and Tencent’s Light of Motiram lawsuit ends with...

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2025/12/18

If you were daydreaming about what Tencent’s survival sandbox Light of Motiram might have ended up being like, we’re sorry to report that you’re going to have to continue to dream, as the lawsuit filed by Sony against Tencent over the game’s close resemblance to the Horizon series has been officially settled, and part of […]

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Final Fantasy XIV shares the lyrics and guitar tabs...

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2025/12/18

You might say that it’s a bit early to be officially revealing quite so much about the final boss track from Final Fantasy XIV’s Arcadion when the patch hasn’t been out for very long at all, but when your final boss track is a collaboration with Tom Morello (of Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine) and […]

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World of Warcraft’s Midnight prepatch rolls out...

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2025/12/18

World of Warcraft’s Midnight expansion is launching on March 2nd of next year, and WoW players only just got the housing part of it a few weeks ago, so you had to figure the actual formal prepatch wasn’t all that far away. In fact, if you guessed January 20th, you guessed correctly, per Blizzard’s announcement this […]

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War Thunder hosts the craziest Christmas event with...

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2025/12/18

There are normal Christmas events, and then there’s War Thunder’s idea of holiday jollies. The military PvP battler announced that it’s kicking off its Winter Concert event on Friday through January 8th — and it’s going to give you an earful while you participate. “Wrap up warm and head over to the concert,” the studio […]

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Path of Exile 2 outlines planned updates for its Fate...

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2025/12/18

While most of what Path of Exile 2 has been doing recently is patching up technical problems and bug fixes for its Last of the Druids update, the devs at Grinding Gear Games have also been looking at feedback for the related Fate of the Vaal league that launched, and now it looks as if […]

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The MMOs of Steam’s holiday sale, winter 2025 edition

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2025/12/18

Come one, come all, to the big games industry blowout sale of the year, anchored by the video game mall known as Steam. Yes, the Steam winter sale has kicked off this afternoon, and per tradition, we are rounding up a few (a few!) of the more interesting sales relating to MMOs and multiplayer games. […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Blue Protocol and the curse of...

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2025/12/18

There is a game that really disappointed the living heck out of me this year to the point that I feel actual bile rise in the back of my throat when I consider it again, and that game is Blue Protocol: Star Resonance. Upon concluding my time in it, I immediately said to MOP’s Carlo that […]

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Star Citizen heralds the Dawn of Engineering with the...

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2025/12/18

Well well well, it looks like Star Citizen hit its proposed end-of-December release target for the sandbox’s latest build. That’s right, alpha 4.5 has officially come online this week, and it introduces the long-delayed yet central gameplay loop of engineering… hence why the patch is called Dawn of Engineering. The patch officially introduces an engineering […]

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MMO Hype Train: The year of hype and hope in the...

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2025/12/18

When I first pitched the idea for this column, it was with an eye on the fact that discussing the Next Big Thing is endlessly fascinating. We use the word “hype” as a catch-all, but within that there’s anticipation, hope, dread, analyzing, comparison, and imagination. It’s that weird ball of emotions and discussion that powers […]

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