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Massively Overthinking: Is Dune Awakening an MMO, MMORPG, survivalbox, or something else?
In this week's Massively Overthinking, we have a very simple question on deck in honor of Dune Awakening's headstart: What the heck is it?...
Massively Overthinking: Who really buys MMORPG lockboxes – and why?
For this week's Massively Overthinking, we're going full Inception because we're talking about last week's Massively Overthinking and some of the spillover our team...
Massively Overthinking: The spectrum of lockboxes in the MMO genre
A while back, I came across a Lord of the Rings Online discussion that leaped out at me because of its unusual turn. The...
Massively Overthinking: What will the MMORPG genre look like in 2030?
If you had asked me in 2020 what the MMO genre would look like in 2025, I'm not sure how I would've answered. It...
Massively Overthinking: Are you a random reward disliker in MMOs?
This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us via a phrase MOP's Eliot dropped back in April that leaped out at me. He was discussing...
Massively Overthinking: The unforgivable sins of MMORPG quest design
Last week, I was continuing my first trip through Lord of the Rings Online's Gundabad (yes, I am behind), and I bumped into some...
Massively Overthinking: The eternal granular squabbles in our pet MMORPGs
So if you don't play a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server - and chances are that you don't - you probably have no idea...
Massively Overthinking: Putting the Elder Scrolls Online cadence into perspective
Last week, far and away the biggest MMORPG news was the fact that Elder Scrolls Online finally revealed its new cadence - and its...
Massively Overthinking: The one about open-world randos in MMOs
MOP's Chris is fast becoming my muse: It was his remark about Marvel Heroes that inspired this week's Massively Overthinking.
"Some of the best fun...
Massively Overthinking: The things that broke us from old beloved MMORPGs
Last week, MOP's Chris and I were discussing his husband's obsession with Sea of Thieves; he runs with a set crew that generally leaves...
Massively Overthinking: Do you multibox in MMORPGs?
Last week on Twitter, I saw someone refer disparagingly to EVE Online as "the multiboxing game." I want to talk about the concept of...
Massively Overthinking: Are you tired of survival gameplay in MMORPGs?
When we were deep-diving Aloft earlier this year, MOP commenter Jon Wax said something that caught my attention. He thought the game looked neat,...
Massively Overthinking: Toxic positivity in the land of MMORPGs
As I type this, we've been watching the Lord of the Rings Online transfer situation unfold for over a week now, and I've personally...
Massively Overthinking: What should MMO corpse runs look like in 2025?
A couple of years ago - yeah, I save weird things in my "ideas bin" folder - MMO designer Damion Schubert tweeted about a...
Massively Overthinking: The things we wish we didn’t know about the MMO industry
A few weeks ago, the MOP writers were sitting around in Discord avoiding work when the subject of a certain industry website's known pay-for-play...
Massively Overthinking: Reminiscing on 10 years of MassivelyOP
We're celebrating our Independence Day - our 10th birthday since launching as an indie site after the demise of OG Massively - so this...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs that suck in interesting ways
This week's Massively Overthinking is entirely inspired by a fantastic argument made by YouTuber on Bluesky. Iron Pineapple declared that "a good game can...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs where suddenly you’re a different character now
I was recently thumbing through my Lord of the Rings Online screenshots when I stumbled into one I'd taken of a player's extremely smart...
Massively Overthinking: Has an MMO cadence switch-up ever actually worked out for the best?
When I was going through our historical awards for the debrief earlier this month, I had a little chuckle looking at the awards for...
Massively Overthinking: What will be your three most played MMOs in 2025?
So here we are at the top of another year, looking ahead at what we think we're going to play. Consider this week's Massively...
