MMO Week in Review: MMO players, please do not punch the Christmas tree for logs

    
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Happy holidays, everyone! Bobby Kotick departs Activision-Blizzard this week, The Day Before announced an official sunset, Guild Wars 2 is plotting expansions into at least 2025, and a million MMOs are in the midst of holiday festivities and sales.

We’ve also continued doling out awards for biggest surprise, best classic MMO, best studio, biggest story, stormiest future, Not-So-Massively game of the year, and indie MMO of the year too. We’ve got five more coming this week, including our GOTY!

Read on to catch up with the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions today as every Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!

THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES

MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Indie MMO of the Year - Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Indie MMO of the Year, which was awarded to Zenith last year. All indie MMOs, crowdfunded or not,…
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: MMO Story of the Year - Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the MMO Story of the Year, which was awarded to the unfortunate rise of blockchain MMOs last year. This…
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: MMO Studio of the Year - Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the MMO Studio of the Year, which was awarded to ArenaNet last year. We asked our writers to consider…
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Best Classic MMO - Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best Classic MMO, which was awarded to Lord of the Rings Online last year. We've been running this…
Revelation Online will sunset on March 13, 2024 - The year 2023 has a few more things to take from the MMO industry, apparently: Revelation Online is heading to sunset. MY.GAMES and NetEase made the announcement this morning without…
MassivelyOP’s 2023 Awards: Biggest MMO Surprise - Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Biggest MMO Surprise, which was awarded to TERA's sunset last year. This category is meant to offer something…

THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS

Every week, get caught up on the MMO genre’s latest news and Massively OP’s best content in our MMO Week in Review! Want more roundups of content? Try Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all the bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.
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