MMO Week in Review: On The Secret World’s relaunch (March 5, 2017)

    
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Funcom’s latest financial report this week was bolstered by Conan Exiles’ success and the reveal that The Secret World isn’t getting an expansion as rumored after all; it’s getting a complete relaunch this spring with a fresh newbie experience, combat overhaul, and adjusted business model. Funcom’s been tight-lipped on details so far, meaning speculation (even from our own TSW columnist) is running wild.

There’s some sad news out of Funcom this week too: Anarchy Online and Age of Conan are basically headed for maintenance mode. “No further significant work is expected to be done on this project going forward,” Funcom says of both games.

Read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions.

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Every week, get caught up on the MMO genre’s latest news and Massively OP’s best content in our MMO Week in Review! Want more roundups of content? Try Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all the little bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.

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