https://massivelyop.com MMORPG news and opinions Sat, 04 Nov 2023 00:09:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/03/design-mockument-can-an-open-pvp-full-loot-system-for-mmos-be-designed-fairly/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/03/design-mockument-can-an-open-pvp-full-loot-system-for-mmos-be-designed-fairly/#comments Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=465152 I have an interesting relationship to open PvP design in MMORPGs, or at least I find it interesting. I don’t think this kind of game design is good; it almost always turns into a playground for cruelty and awful players, and I generally prefer to stay as far away from it as possible. However, at […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/11/03/design-mockument-can-an-open-pvp-full-loot-system-for-mmos-be-designed-fairly/feed/ 27 https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/04/design-mockument-what-would-a-transformers-mmorpg-even-look-like/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/04/design-mockument-what-would-a-transformers-mmorpg-even-look-like/#comments Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=451817 Everyone who has read my work here for a while knows that a Transformers MMORPG is a longstanding element of my pie-in-the-sky wishlist. This is not altogether surprising; I’ve been a Transformers fan more or less since I was old enough to understand that you could have a robot that turns into a car. My […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/08/04/design-mockument-what-would-a-transformers-mmorpg-even-look-like/feed/ 13 https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/12/design-mockument-lets-bring-back-wildstar-only-good-this-time/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/12/design-mockument-lets-bring-back-wildstar-only-good-this-time/#comments Fri, 12 May 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=439623 The other night, a couple of us were talking in work chat about missing WildStar. I also miss WildStar… or more accurately, I miss some of WildStar. I miss a version of WildStar where running a dungeon was not the most miserable experience I’ve had running any dungeon ever, which is more adjacent to WildStar […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/05/12/design-mockument-lets-bring-back-wildstar-only-good-this-time/feed/ 20 https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/17/design-mockument-in-which-we-do-not-design-world-of-warcraft-2/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/17/design-mockument-in-which-we-do-not-design-world-of-warcraft-2/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=427154 Over the course of my professional writing career on this site and that site we used to run before AOL screwed us all over, I think I have designed World of Warcraft 2 at least half a dozen times. One of my friends and I have a little cottage industry wherein we do thought experiments […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/17/design-mockument-in-which-we-do-not-design-world-of-warcraft-2/feed/ 12 https://massivelyop.com/2022/06/08/design-mockument-mocking-up-final-fantasy-xi-2/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/06/08/design-mockument-mocking-up-final-fantasy-xi-2/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=391255 “Wait just one cotton-picking minute,” you say. “Square-Enix is not hurting for another MMO after Final Fantasy XI. It has one. It’s called Final Fantasy XIV, and I know you are very familiar with it, Mr. Column Author. This is supposed to be a column about plausible sequels or new projects, isn’t it?” For one thing? […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/06/08/design-mockument-mocking-up-final-fantasy-xi-2/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2021/09/17/design-mockument-fresh-ideas-for-city-of-heroes-2-in-2021/ https://massivelyop.com/2021/09/17/design-mockument-fresh-ideas-for-city-of-heroes-2-in-2021/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=353949 Back in 2019, I had the idea to make Design Mockument semi-regular column because I like doing this sort of thing. I put out one installment of it out talking about a hypothetical sequel to The Matrix Online, and then, uh… 2020 happened, and then most of 2021 happened, and I actually totally forgot this […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2021/09/17/design-mockument-fresh-ideas-for-city-of-heroes-2-in-2021/feed/ 17 https://massivelyop.com/2019/08/29/design-mockument-plausible-ideas-for-the-matrix-online-2/ https://massivelyop.com/2019/08/29/design-mockument-plausible-ideas-for-the-matrix-online-2/#comments Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=241165 When Bree found out that I’m a fan of the Matrix franchise of films, she said it’d be fun to see me take on the idea of a hypothetical sequel for The Matrix Online. She probably was not expecting my suggestion for the following for The Matrix Online 2: Don’t. Don’t do this. Do not […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2019/08/29/design-mockument-plausible-ideas-for-the-matrix-online-2/feed/ 6