Skyforge's Hunters of Terra update is live now for PC players with imminent console rollouts
The latest update for Skyforge that unlocks the new Bounty Hunter class is here… sort of. There are a few caveats, you see. For one thing, it's only here for PC players, with Xbox players waiting until June 3rd, PlayStation players waiting until June 4th, and Switch players waiting for an as-yet-undetermined length of time. For […]
Book of Travels shares a preview of its tiny Omin spirits
The entire idea of Book of Travels is roaming a wide world, which would certainly leave some to look at wide vistas and potentially large dangers, but the latest Kickstarter dev blog invites players to think small as it previews the tiny spirits known as Omin. These little spirit beings take their inspiration from a […]
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Klothos and Klingon Personnel Package key and Bat'leth No Touch Tool
Star Trek Online fans are surely busy with their captains in the game's House United patch that just rolled out last week. But maybe we can tempt them away for a minute, as Cryptic and Perfect World have put together an epic set of giveaways for our readers in honor of the release. For our […]
Neverwinter's first new class since 2016 is the Bard, and it hits the test server tomorrow
Trove isn't the only MMORPG showing off its new Bard class this week: Apparently, Neverwinter's got one on deck too. According to IGN, the class will launch "later this year" as the first new class since 2016 (that was the Oathbound Paladin). "For players that choose the Bard class, they will become a stylish fighter […]
Champions Online holds a player Q&A session about serials, archery, and more
It's been a relatively busy period over in the world of Champions Online, with the game's first serial story, revamps to the archery powerset, and updates for Therakiel's Lair and Eidolon. As one might expect, there are some player questions that have come up after all of these updates, and the devs at Cryptic recently […]
NetEase launches new cross-platform sci-fi multiplayer online title Infinite Lagrange
NetEase is launching a new online game today: It's called Infinite Lagrange, and it's a multiplayer sci-fi strategy simulation title with a noticeable EVE Online-esque aesthetic. It game rolled out in Europe earlier this spring, but today's launch is for the Americas. The game boasts territorial expansion, ship unlocks, massive battles, exploration, and treasure hunting. […]
Eight major unannounced MMO projects that are in the works
There's nothing more tantalizing nor frustrating than knowing that an MMO or MMORPG is in the works but hasn't been formally announced yet. We see many of these cross our paths here at Massively OP and thought that today might be a good time to compile them together. What upcoming projects are still under wraps […]
The Division 2 puts a rerun of its third season back into rotation
Seasonal content is fun and all, but it does run into the small problem of being somewhat less fun when you miss out on the season and have to live without getting all of the fun perks and rewards associated with it. If you're in precisely that situation with The Division 2, you'll be happy to […]
Black Desert announces the upcoming co-op dungeon Atoraxxion
It's time to team up in Black Desert this summer. Players on both PC and console will be able to take part in exploring the game's new co-op dungeon, Atoraxxion. It's a dungeon nearly the size of a whole new region of the game, complete with puzzles to be solved, ancient weapons to be fought, and […]
No Man's Sky launches the Prisms update to make the whole game look prettier
There are times when No Man's Sky can be a remarkably beautiful game. It gets even prettier with the new Prisms update, which adds in a whole lot of visual enhancements to make the game even more lovely to behold. New shafts of light, fur technology, reflections, more details in various biomes, rain getting the surface […]
Albion Online mobile launches June 9 – here's how to get some free loot
Yesterday, our team was joking about how just about everything was happening on June 9th. Here's one more to add to the pile: Albion Online's mobile version. If you're currently thinking to yourself, hey didn't that game already have a mobile version, then you're right because it did and we've even played it. But it […]
Phantasy Star Online 2 introduces players to New Genesis, has Conan O'Brien preview the game
With Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis officially confirmed for a June 9th release, it's time for Sega to start winding up the hype for the open world multiplayer RPG with some new videos. First, there's an introductory video available in 4K 60 FPS resolution, talking up the game's story and features, including its character […]
WoW Classic Burning Crusade's launch successfully navigated queues and DDOS attacks
Were you prepared? Can we stop making are-you-prepared jokes now? I sure hope so since Blizzard pushed Burning Crusade live for WoW Classic fans yesterday afternoon as promised. And someone was apparently really mad about it since the service was almost immediately slammed with a DDOS attack. Just for old times' sake, I suppose. Likely […]
The Daily Grind: How long can you grind content in an MMO?
It might seem kind of odd, but part of my problem with playing Final Fantasy XI back in the day was just about the time spent grinding in any given zone. Now, I've mentioned before how a bit of grind can be a good thing in its own right, but the thing is that speaking personally […]
The Stream Team: Teaching a Guild Wars 2 skimmer to swim
Now that Massively OP's MJ has her griffon mount in Guild Wars 2, she only needs the warclaw, skyscale, and the roller beetle to complete her collection. She also needs to teach her skimmer to swim! Today's goal is to turn the skimmer into a swimmer, and if there is enough time, try and acquire […]
Shroud of the Avatar's Release 90 introduces stat-boosting Imbued Gems and Jewels
Do you like slotting watered-down Infinity Stones into your equipment as a means to incrementally adjust your character's stats by the barest of measurements, granting you the illusion of character build customization? Then you're going to love the Imbued Gems that were added to Shroud of the Avatar in Release 90. The latest update has […]
Final Fantasy XI ups equipment drops and brings back Sunshine Seeker
Dang, your gear in Final Fantasy XI leaves something to be desired. You should get some better gear. If only the game would run some sort of campaign in which you could get better gear more easily! Say, an event where various sources of gear from BCNM fights to Vagary to Voidwatch would have increased rewards, and […]
Blue Protocol debuts the new Heavy Smasher class, lets players hold hands, and adjusts to beta feedback
It's been a little bit of time since we'd heard much out of Blue Protocol. Up until now, we knew the game was going to feature a photo mode and a customizable radial menu, but otherwise the MMORPG from Bandai Namco has been in closed beta testing in Japan, starting as late as April of […]
Massively OP Podcast Episode 324: All-mail revue
Justin and Bree answer a whole ton of your mailbag questions on WoW retention, MMO disillusionment, MMO oldies, development hurdles, EG7 and Daybreak, MMO world exploration, guild perks, and underwater zones.
Crowfall cuts together a highlight reel for its recent Eternal Champions esports event
Who has time to watch an esporting event from start to finish? Some of us work during the weekends. Some of us have other things to do. And there are those who would just rather have the whole affair summarized for the sake of convenience. Whatever your reason, Crowfall has made it easier for fans […]
Final Fantasy XIV reveals patch 5.55's new items and goes on sale
Patch 5.55 for Final Fantasy XIV has been out for just about a week now, and that means players have had a chance to get a sense of what's in the patch by this point. (Relic weapons, for one thing.) Still, just in case you had been waiting on it, the official site has updated the […]
Jagex Interview: Everything you need to know about RuneScape's mobile edition
With the insane response to Old School RuneScape's mobile launch back in 2018, the pressure was on for Jagex to deliver an equally deserving product for RuneScape proper. It looks like those efforts are about to come to fruition with this summer as RuneScape Mobile's going through its beta paces on both Android and iOS […]
The Wagadu Chronicles recaps progress on biomes, UI, and tabletop RPG
Have you been keeping up with what's happening in The Wagadu Chronicles' development? No? Well that's OK because the devs at Twin Drums have put together a helpful Twitter thread and an update blog on Kickstarter that summarize the moves made in the studio and the game over the course of this past May. In […]
Choose My Adventure: The slow setup for adventure in Star Wars Galaxies Legends
This week's Choose My Adventure probably had more preliminary preparation than any other game I've had. Most of the time I tend to fly by the seat of my pants to varying levels of success (read: failure), but it was impressed upon me early on that my time in Star Wars Galaxies Legends would be […]
Elder Scrolls Online's Blackwood is officially live on PC, Mac, and Stadia – here's the launch trailer
As promised, The Elder Scrolls Online has gone live on PC, Mac, and Stadia with its Blackwood chapter and sideloading update 30. Console players will be waiting until June 8th to leap in and until June 14th for the Console Enhanced version. The highlight of Blackwood, of course, is the new companion system, which essentially […]
Stick and Rudder: Elite Dangerous Odyssey is not bad, but it is broken
All right. I get it. I understand. The Elite: Dangerous community is pretty rancorous right now, and I can't say that I blame them. The Odyssey expansion arrived with all of the grace of a comet's strike, and people absolutely have a right to be upset about that. I don't know that I'm in that […]
CD Projekt Red sees profits plummet in 2021 thanks to Cyberpunk 2077 woes
We reported yesterday that Cyberpunk 2077 had lost its top director, Adam Badowski, but as it happens, the latest news from the game is even grimmer: Apparently, while the game performed well in its launch quarter at the tail end of last year in spite of all its problems, sales have plummeted to the degree that […]
The Burning Crusade is live today for WoW Classic
No more preparation allowed for the WoW Classic crowd because it's time to once again dive headlong into the broken realm of Outland as The Burning Crusade releases today! Everything old is new again, indeed. Yes, there's even a helpful recap of global release times available for players who are already enjoying the pre-patch and are […]
Swords of Legends Online begins CBT 2 this week with faction PvP, English VO, and harder dungeons
As of 8:00 a.m. EDT today, the second closed beta test round for Swords of Legends Online kicked off, and there has been a wide swath of changes applied to this round. A number of new features are available for testing, while existing features have seen several tweaks. One of the bigger additions is the […]
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online's Rich Lambert on Blackwood, companions, lore, and more
Elder Scrolls Online PC fans are in for a treat today as the MMORPG is dropping its biggest content blast of the year in the form of the Blackwood chapter and update 30. The highlight, of course, is the new map and companion system, but there's loads more to the updates. We had a chance […]
Elite Dangerous Distant Worlds 3 postponed indefinitely as malaise over Odyssey sets in
It's no secret that the launch of Elite Dangerous Odyssey has been poorly handled, with a wide swath of errors and issues plaguing the initial launch and a whole lot of unhappy players bemoaning the update's changes to UI and planets among other things. In fact, part of one Elite podcast points to abyssmal community […]
Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis sets formal launch date for June 9
You knew Phantasy Star Online 2 was launching New Genesis in June. You knew this because SEGA said so. But you didn't know it was June 9th. Now you know that too, as SEGA announced bright and early this morning that June 9th is the magic day. "Due to the PSO2:NGS launch, the scheduled maintenance […]
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs you've dramatically changed your mind about?
I will never forget that when I first started playing City of Heroes back in 2004, my guild an I didn't last but a month or two. While I loved the idea of the game and spent hours obsessively planning out characters, in practice the game at launch was a slow, grindy, punishing mess, and […]
The Stream Team: Acquiring a first Ascendancy in Path of Exile
Of all the time Massively OP's MJ has played Path of Exile, she has never once acquired an Ascendancy class. Today she'll rectify that; she's starting down the path toward her first Ascendancy and all the power that affords. Can she finally get one before PoE 2 comes out? Join us live at 8:00 p.m. […]
Iron Harvest launches Operation Eagle expansion, goes on sale
Iron Harvest 1920's first expansion, Operation Eagle, arrived this past week, bringing with it the American Usonia faction, new flying units, and a new story campaign. Usonia sets itself apart from previous factions with a heavy emphasis on air units and area of effect attacks, with virtually all of their mechs dealing splash damage over […]
Is there a long future in Star Wars Galaxies server emulation?
With high profile news updates like the trainwreck launch of the hybrid CU/NGE rogue server and the addition of Bespin to the Legends rogue server, now seems like a pretty good time to reintroduce yourself to Star Wars Galaxies. But are these developments running on borrowed time? Is there a point where this much noise […]
Star Citizen grants a look at the process of creating AI behavior
As much as MMOs are about other players in a shared area doing things and lending a sense of ambience to a game world, NPCs also bring life to things as they mull about doing a variety of tasks. That NPC and AI behavior was the subject of last Friday's devstream from Star Citizen, which […]
The Soapbox: Reconsidering social media as an MMORPG
At GDC 2011, Raph Koster gave a talk in which he said, "Games are fundamentally social media and always have been." You can watch starting at around 58:18 in the video from back then, and it's admittedly a bit lofty. As a trained educator myself, I don't agree that simply sharing information and knowledge is […]
Fight or Kite: Chivalry 2 is a blood-soaked, action-packed experience of absolute mayhem
Grab your sword. Grab your board. Grab a pile of horse poop. Better yet, grab the head of your enemies rolling on the ground and lob that at your foes. Whatever, you do, grab something and get ready: Chivalry 2 is here! Like a wet fart when all you were expecting was a silent killer, […]
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV's last stretch of Bozja is pretty good, but a little annoying
For various reasons, it doesn't seen as if it's been only a week since the last Final Fantasy XIV patch. (All right, it's technically been just under a week if you want to be pedantic, but you know what I mean.) I attribute this almost entirely to Zadnor, which is… basically just Bozja but more, […]
ARK Survival Evolved releases an ultimate edition, confirms Genesis Part 2 launch date of June 2
The saga of ARK: Survival Evolved will be closing extremely soon — at least in a narrative sense — as Studio Wildcard has confirmed its Genesis Part 2 expansion will be arriving on Wednesday, June 2nd. The expansion, which stars Doctor Who's David Tennant and The Wheel of Time's Madeleine Madden, promises to be a […]
CD Projekt Red assigns a new game director to Cyberpunk 2077
There's some new leadership blood pumped into the veins of Cyberpunk 2077. The RPG's original director, Adam Badowski, has reportedly stepped down from his position in order to "focus on other leadership duties at the Polish company," leaving him to be replaced by Gabriel Amatangelo, who joined CDPR in 2020 and was formerly the game's […]
Do you hear what I hear? Trove is getting a Bard class!
One thing is for certain: Out of all of the MMOs that Gamigo bought off of the now-defunct Trion Games, Trove is the one getting the most love at present. Not only is the title coming to Nintendo Switch this summer, but it's also busting out a brand-new class for players to enjoy. In fact, […]
The Daily Grind: Have you ever given up sleep for MMOs?
There's a saying I always try to remind myself of when it comes to staying up late to do anything (but especially to play games): Don't stay up late to do anything you wouldn't get up early to do. And that rule of thumb works great right up until… you start getting up early to […]
MMO Week in Review: Daybreak, BlizzCon, and Ashes of Creation
It was a strange sort of businessy sort of week in MMO land, as Daybreak's games got a ticket to 4Game, Blizzard canceled BlizzCon again, New World tried to explain its monetization, and Ashes of Creation lost its lead designer. Meanwhile, we dipped our toe into Swords of Legends Online and learned NCsoft is go […]
Xsyon's ranged combat update is live, plans to leave early access after a month of updates
Specially engineered apparatuses meant to fire carefully fashioned sharpened sticks at enemies in order to engage in combat at great distances have been applied to Xsyon. Or to put it another way, ranged combat is live. Yes, now players of the sandbox MMORPG can use bows and arrows on one another. As was mentioned previously, […]
The MOP Up: Overwatch teases a huge new feature
Something big is coming to Overwatch — and no, we don't know what it is just yet. For the game's fifth anniversary, Blizzard teased an unnamed feature that's coming to the game: "One large feature will be announced somewhere in the timeframe between soon and really soon." Speculation ensues. This came as part of a […]
Path of Exile Ultimatum statistics and more game mechanic Q&A answers
Players of Path of Exile have been very busy indeed in the Ultimatum League according to some stats shared by the devs. The data provided shows that hundreds of thousands of Ultimatum encounters were started across all levels, with some pretty high completion rates overall except for the level 78+ bracket, which sees Wave 10 […]
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go's June events bring slowpoke days and poison pvp buffs
Ah yes, summer. Relaxing on beaches, letting shellfish pokemon bite your tail or head to cause evolution, maybe move to an England-inspired territory and gain a poison typing… sounds like a normal summer for the slowpoke family, but also just a bit of what's happening in June for Pokemon Go players. We're seeing shakeups for […]
Camelot Unchained details caravan mechanics and biomes, 'expects' a full game experience by summer's end
Camelot Unchained is has once more delivered its monthly newsletter, this one taking a deep dive into the game's caravan system, or vox rota, as it's referred to in-game. Rota are floating disc platforms that can follow a route placed by players on the ground to help ferry crates of goods from point A to […]
