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The Stream Team: EverQuest anniversary quest, take two

When Massively OP’s MJ tried to work her way through EverQuest’s new 27th anniversary quest, she failed. Face-first-in-the-snow kind of failure. After dying to the ambush and recollecting her corpse, she couldn’t get the mission to continue at all. Today, she’s hoping she can give it another go, whether it is continuing or dropping the […]
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EverQuest Legends details monetization, class switching, races, zones, and more in new FAQ

When EverQuest Legends was announced earlier this week, fans were talking about… well, a lot of other stuff, but there were also some regular questions that were raised among the lot. As such, Game Jawn has assembled an FAQ in Discord to provide a bit more granular detail about what to expect when the new-old MMORPG launches […]
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The Daily Grind: Be honest, how many of your MMO houses are just a box?

A few weeks back, there was an article on PC Gamer that actually made me laugh out loud. “I’m sick of the survival crafting ‘Cube’ and calling the gamer HOA on all of you,” author Andrea Shearon declared. I feel extremely called out because I literally have one of these in Palia; I bought a […]
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Massively Overthinking: Is there a specific year of MMOs you’re glad you lived through?

This week’s Massively Overthinking is inspired directly by something MOP reader Zulika said last month in comments about Smed’s new MMOFPS. “More and more I am just glad past me was around to experience MMOs starting in 2000.” OK, obviously Zulika was throwing deserved shade on some of 2025’s excesses, but let’s talk about more […]
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Astroneer spinoff Starseeker sounds like a cozy multiplayer extraction game

Way back in April, Astroneer studio System Era Softworks announced a spinoff of its OG multiplayer space sandbox, but still set in the Astroneer universe. Called Starseeker, the new game sounded even more multiplayer-oriented than its predecessor. Now, System Era has gone into more detail on what to expect, courtesy of this week’s gameplay reveal […]
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Palia’s latest patch added player profiles and old-school MMO player biographies too

It floors me to realize how very long MMORPG players have been snooping each others’ profiles in games. In Ultima Online, you had to be careful because a double-click could sometimes turn into an attack and not just a way to check out someone’s paperdoll drip. In EverQuest, it was even considered impolite to check […]
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