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The Daily Grind: Which MMO suffers the most from powercreep?
Last month, an MOP reader named Swifty replied to our Daily Grind about the last MMO he’d quit by calling out EverQuest II – a game “broken by massive powercreep.” That startled me – I hadn’t ever...
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The Stream Team: Fighting decisional paralysis in EverQuest II
Massively OP’s MJ still has so much to do in EverQuest II that she freezes up trying to decide! So for this EverQuest Two-sday, you get to help her make a selection. Will she continue with the Heritage...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 231: EverQuest and Secret World prognostications
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online, Pagan Online, EverQuest 3, Guild Wars 2, and Worlds Adrift, with adventures in WoW, SWG, and Villagers & Heroes, plus mailbag topics on The Secret...
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The Survivalist: Astroneer’s moon landing update is a time-limited online...
I could definitely write a Why I Play on Astroneer (and maybe I still will!) because there are so many reasons this game just captivates me and brings me back. But right now I want to extol the virtues...
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The MOP Up: The Division 2 takes everyone to the zoo
Everyone likes free stuff, right? And anyone with a soul loves the zoo, too! It is probably a smart marketing tactic, then, that The Division 2 decided to hand out all of its zoo-themed Episode 1...
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EverQuest II is launching a new fabled zone in August’s GU111
EverQuest II would surely like you to stop fretting about the future of the franchise and focus on the immediate future of the game, thanks very much: Last night Daybreak announced a new fabled zone...
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Battle Bards Episode 150: The great plains
It may not be the most sexy or exotic of biomes, but plains tend to pop up in pretty much every MMORPG — and they always have music to adventure by! In this episode of the Battle Bards, the crew...
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Global Chat: What would World of Warcraft 2 look like?
It’s a pretty common exercise in our circles to speculate on what a sequel to World of Warcraft would look like. Oh, it’ll never, ever happen, but can you imagine it? MMO blogger Kaylriene certainly...
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EverQuest II drops GU111 next week, EverQuest gets an ice shader, and...
Daybreak’s updated the EverQuest and EverQuest II communities this week with what’s next for both games. EverQuest II, for example, is preparing for GU111 Carnage in Kael, and it’s coming sooner than...
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One Shots: My other car is a ravenous dragon
Sure, in your normal, mundane life you drive a Prius hatchback, but in your virtual existence, you enjoy a ride that’s a bit more flashy, impractical, and… hungry. Finding the best mount for you in an...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 235: The one about WoW Classic
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, Legends of Aria, LOTRO, Black Desert, Astellia Online, Elite Dangerous, and EverQuest II, with mailbag topics on progression servers and stream etiquette.
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The Stream Team: Cornering Captain Greymast in EverQuest II
Massively OP’s MJ has tracked him across islands and through dizzying avenues of pirates’ hideouts, but she has yet to corner EverQuest II’s Captain Greymast. She won’t give up: She is hot on his...
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Leaderboard: Do you buy the ‘Grand Daybreak Unification’ theory?
Yesterday, MMO blogger Wilhelm Arcturus of The Ancient Gaming Noob dropped a fun conspiracy theory in the comments of our piece on EVE Online covering how CCP is rather inexplicably moving EVE Vegas to...
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The Stream Team: Doing EverQuest II’s Days of Summer event
As promised last time, Massively OP’s MJ won’t be trudging all around the dino island this EverQuest II-sday. Instead, she’s going to explore the new GU111 that launched last week, with its new fabled...
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Perfect Ten: MMORPGs made by tiny teams
I don’t really have to tell you this, but creating an MMORPG is a huge undertaking. These are some of the most complex games in terms of design and technology to create, and the amount of resources...
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EverQuest II kicks off prelude events for its unannounced 2019 expansion
With GU111 Carnage in Kael behind us, we’re heading into expansion season for EverQuest II. The expansion hasn’t officially been announced yet, so we don’t know a whole lot about it, save that it’s...
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The Daily Grind: Did you ever skip any great MMOs to play something more...
With WoW Classic in the news so much lately, I’ve been thinking back to 2004 when the original World of Warcraft launched. We’ve spent what feels like the last 15 years talking about the aftermath of...
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EverQuesting: Live in EverQuest II’s Baubleshire and Oakmyst Forest again –...
What the what?!? How did I miss this?! I just went to browse the new things in EverQuest II’s marketplace (honestly, I wanted to read what that new training monkey thing was that I could only glimpse...
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The Game Archaeologist: The day Dungeons and Dragons Online dropped the...
By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription — usually $15 per month — was the only way the players could access a title...
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The MOP Up: KurtzPel is getting a dash of Lime
KurtzPel is getting its newest hero, Lime, very soon, and to lead up to her release the game is winging a CP and AP boost to players through October 8th. Today also marks the end of the final Eltheca...
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