Bree Royce

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Bree Royce |Eliot Lefebvre

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 Final Fantasy XIV’s Cosmic Exploration, and he mentioned that he is “generally a Random Reward Disliker,” which is why he wasn’t thrilled with the random draws. He called it a “[him] problem” and shrugged it off, but… is it? Because I’ve never been a random reward fan whatsoever. I don’t know anyone who is. Or do I? Let’s Overthink it.

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Bree Royce

There’s been kind of a lot of grumbling about Path of Exile 2 in the wake of the Dawn of the Hunt update a month ago. While we can’t see numbers on console as always, the game is currently in the “mostly negative” recent reviews tier over on Steam (compared to mostly positive in general) – and the chronology suggests it really is mostly Dawn of the Hunt’s fault, specifically all the nerfs, slow leveling, and mismatched combat – all stuff Grinding Gear has acknowledged.

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Bree Royce

Would you believe that Defiance has already been open for two whole weeks? I can’t, but that’s because April somehow felt like four months and four minutes to my brain. But it’s true, and Fawkes Games has posted a memo to players catching everybody up on the state of the game. “[W]e knew bringing back to life a game that closed almost 4 years ago wasn’t going to be an easy ride,” the team says.

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Bree Royce

A few months back, when MOP’s Chris was playing a specific MMO for his Choose My Adventure column, a player (who shall remain nameless because I like him and don’t want a pile-on) got very grumpy at us because Chris subscribed to the game. That sub came at a point when the studio (which has a history of shenanigans) had clearly designed specific paywalled content to be super desirable, specifically to get people to sub.

1 week ago | massivelyop.com | Bree Royce

MOP’s Brendan was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for EVE Fanfest this week, reporting on EVE Online’s upcoming expansion, which is named Legion – not to be confused with Project Legion, which was one of several failed do-overs for EVE spinoff DUST 514.