Eliot Lefebvre

4 days ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

A lot of us talk about how long we have been playing MMORPGs with a certain amount of editing. For example, it would be broadly accurate to say that I have been playing World of Warcraft since the game launched… but y’know, there have been breaks in there. And it’s hardly unique in that regard. Oh, sure, I have been playing Final Fantasy XIV since the 1.0 launch, but I am not going to pretend that I have been active in the game during 1.0 as a continual spend-hours-every-day sort of thing.

5 days ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

A post that just screams at you: Apparently putting an auto-playing audio file that just screams at top volume for two hours incoherently is off-putting to our readers. Which is reasonable, I guess. Pictures of gazelle blood: Prompted comments of “that’s really disturbing” and “why do you have that in your apartment” and “what do you mean that’s fresh.”Pictures of gazelles still full of their blood: This one was suggested to me, but I rejected it because how is that shocking?

6 days ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

After the most recent delays to Dune Awakening, you will have to wait a little longer to make the spice flow officially. Or prevent the spice from flowing. I think the latter is the one you’re supposed to make happen, but either way your spice adventures can at begin this weekend thanks to the open-ish beta that kicked off this morning. Even if Funcom is being very Funcom about its status as an MMORPG.

6 days ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

It’s been 23 years since Final Fantasy XI launched (slightly less time in North America, but who’s counting?) – and if you took some time away from the game, Vana’diel wants you back. No, really; the Return Home to Vana’diel campaign kicks off on May 16th, offering former subscribers a chance to jump back into the game and enjoy everything that the title has to offer.

6 days ago | massivelyop.com | Eliot Lefebvre

There’s always going to be a degree of controversy around a new Dragon Age game, it seems, but Dragon Age: Veilguard earned perhaps more than its fair share, owing largely to how it felt like a total reboot rather than the fourth entry in the series. And according to a new video from former series executive producer Mark Darrah, that’s mostly because that’s exactly what happened.