Welcome to Massively's third year!

by Shawn Schuster Nov 2nd 2009 at 6:30PM

Filed under: Events, real-world, News items, Massively meta, Massively Event Coverage

Massively.com officially turns two years old today, and while that may be quite young for an MMO news site, we'd like to think we've really made a name for ourselves in that time. Starting out as the secret love child of Second Life Insider, WoW Insider (now WoW.com) and the rest of the Joystiq network, we've come a long way in our 730 days.

As we fondly reminisce about the good times we've had, we thought it would be best to not only compile our own favorite content, but also reach out to our readers for their own favorites. After all, without you, we would be nothing. Literally. No, seriously, we love you all. Even Graill and Mr. Angry!

So we reached out to our Twitter followers earlier today to grab a few opinions and combine them with our own. Follow along in the gallery below for our showcase of best content, and feel free to add your favorites in the comments below.

Gallery: Two years of Massively features

Tags: anniversary, birthday, featured, two-year-anniversary

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Andy said on 6:47PM 11-02-2009

Happy birthday!

phobic99 said on 6:52PM 11-02-2009

Wow 3 years already? Feels like you guys just launched yesterday. :)

Congrats!

barb dybwad said on 6:57PM 11-02-2009

Happy anniversary, Massively! woooooot!

Seraphina Brennan said on 6:58PM 11-02-2009

Yaaaaaaayyyy!!! Thanks Barb! ^_^ We miss you!

Graill said on 6:59PM 11-02-2009

Thats ok, my students loved me........i think.......

Happy b-day massively.

Seraphina Brennan said on 10:23PM 11-02-2009

*hugs Graill* We have differences of opinion, but doesn't mean we can't love our readers. ^_^

Darthkirby707 said on 7:06PM 11-02-2009

P-p-p-peaaanutttss!!!!

With that out of the way... congratulations!

Vulturion said on 7:12PM 11-02-2009

Congrats on the landmark!

max said on 7:22PM 11-02-2009

Grats to Massively! Ever since I got more into MMOs in January I've been reading the site several times today. Here's to many more years of great blogging and news!

Mr Angry said on 8:02PM 11-02-2009

Thank you all for massively for giving me so much to moan about, for so long!

Hope you go from strength to strength and grow the site (did you ever consider forums?), and I think the time for poorly executed, sub-par MMO's has passed/is passing now, so brighter things on the horizon, I think the industry needed to be shaken up a little, a wake up call, and for consumers to see value when they pay their subscriptions and demand excellence.

I think next year will be the battle royale of subscription based models. I can see at least two major MMO's converting to free to play (echoing DDO's 40% increase in revenue), more offering cash shops, and others trying to capitalize every which way they can, sadly.

I also think that games like Darkfall and Mortal Online are steps towards a more life like genre of sand box experience that EVE has helped pioneer and grow.

In another three years time, people will have far greater levels of interaction with game worlds both physically and on screen, the experience will persist outside of the games themselves and the trend for the IP's to extend outside into social networking will increase steadily..... and then, the next big thing (tm) will come along and turn the whole industry on it's head. I read that the 'game changers' in industry happen every 7 years or so, I think we are due one soon!

Anyway thank you for always being on hand to offer news, views and feedback on MMO's, I realize it's not easy putting some of this stuff together sometimes and to everyone else who visits Massively, we all may disagree from time to time, but it's a nice community of like minded individuals and right or wrong, it's great that more and more people are getting involved.

Happy Birthday Massively

P.S. usual service resumes tomorrow, please publish a AoC for me to get my teeth into...

P.P.S Hit Cryptic up for Star Trek Beta keys to celebrate, they owe you after pushing Champions Online so hard :)

Seraphina Brennan said on 10:25PM 11-02-2009

Lol, Mr. Angry, hi-five for the last comment.

Oh, and you'll like this week's Anti-Aliased. It's a Champions Online post. XD Shawn gave me the idea, and it's a good thing to talk about. :3 And it's not like the last column at all either.

Enfield said on 8:21PM 11-02-2009

Woo, happy birthday to the best MMO site out there!

cpuser said on 9:07PM 11-02-2009

Ding! Grats Guys! Keep up the good work and thanks. :)

K1LLSWITCH said on 9:45PM 11-02-2009

I'm new to Massively.com, please hold throwing tomato's at the noob 'till I'm done please. And so far, from what I've seen, this is one of the most entertaining websites floating around on the net. More so than Joystiq, shhhh don't tell them I said that. lol

Congrats and happy birthday!

monkeystick said on 10:27PM 11-02-2009

happy birthday!

Brendan Drain said on 11:16PM 11-02-2009

I'd like to take this opportunity to say how awesome it's been writing for Massively. I started here in April 2008 and since then I've come to believe that applying for that job listing was the single best decision I have ever made. Originally I just wanted a better platform to voice my thoughts on topics relating to EVE Online. But over this past year and a half I've come to know every individual here at Massively as part of an MMO-crazy family of writers. I've seen what we can achieve when we work together and I'm genuinely proud to be part of it. I think we're all starting to realise just how awesome we can be as a cohesive group.

There's definitely some good stuff on the horizon, for MMOs and for Massively. Happy birthday Massively :D

Jay said on 12:34AM 11-03-2009

Caption on the photo

"And Mrs Smith, I am sorry but I ran over your dog in the car park"
Guy behind: "Hmmm, pork rinds, wonder if anyone will notice if i steal them?"