massively overthinking

A few weeks ago, two lovely gamers I follow on Bluesky were discussing how let down they felt by Diablo IV, less because Diablo...

This week's Massively Overthinking is fully inspired by the unicorn backpack meme, which Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss tweeted out last week with the caption "stats over looks any day." You know we have to talk about this.

During last week's press event ahead of the Gold Road announcement, Elder Scrolls Online's Rich Lambert said something I thought would turn out to...

During a recent podcast discussion about City of Heroes' official revival, the MOP writers were talking about its combat, which - let's be honest...

This might be one of the most important Massively Overthinkings we do all year, and it's a pretty salty one. We always come away...

For our first Massively Overthinking of the year, we're drawing a hard line between what we think will happen, what we mean to make...

Stop right there. I know you're about to object and say that you don't do resolutions, let alone MMO resolutions. That's fine. A lot...

Every year, we pick out a bunch of narrative arcs and stories that dominated the headlines and emotions of the MMORPG genre, and it...

It's time once again for the MOP staff and readers to engage in our favorite end-of-the-year MMO: collectively guessing what's going to happen next...

I have to thank all the MMO developers and industry veterans out there for talking long past the time when they should stop talking....

MMOs generally have one big obvious penalty for failure, right? You die. Oh, usually not forever, not unless it's some niche hardcore realm, and...

Earlier this month, following the news that Project Gorgon was in dire financial straits as the MMO wasn't making enough for full development and...

A while back, Eliot and I were discussing one of his columns, in which he noted that in the eldest of the elder MMOs,...

Given the last couple of years, which have been inarguably rocky for both the company and its games, Blizzard needed a big win at...

MOP reader Nibbana recently posed us a fun question: "As I play my Scrapper in Guild Wars 2, I thought to myself, man, I...

Pantheon's announcement that its developers are working on spinning out a monetized "247" extraction mode hasn't engendered a whole lot of hope for the...

So the Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard is basically a done deal. Oh, sure, the FTC is still fumbling around with hapless appeals, but look,...

I was surfing the comments of another gaming site's article earlier this week when I stumbled upon a scathing note about games industry QA...

A week or two ago, I found myself discussing Ultima Online by way of trying to convince our work chat that players often do...

Over the summer, an MMO did something I've never seen an MMO do before: It stopped taking my money for no discernable reason and...