MMO Week in Review: City of Heroes necromancy (March 26, 2017)

    
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Much-loved 2004 MMORPG City of Heroes, which sunsetted prematurely in 2012, dominated the headlines this week as NCsoft announced it was resurrecting a piece of the game’s legacy by adding CoH NPC Statesman into its upcoming MOBA, Master x Master, leading gamers and bloggers alike to opine on the subject, even after one NCsoft employee stepped forward to claim the decision as his own personal “passion project.”

Speaking of necromancy, I had a desert-themed necro/thermal Mastermind who was a ton of fun.

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

THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
See real life through the lens of an MMORPG - Have you ever heard of this YouTube channel called Casually Explained? It's been growing in popularity thanks to the creator's deadpan wit and his awkward, dry jokes. As much as…
TERA sweetens its subscription package - [AL:TERA]Just because an MMORPG is free-to-play doesn't mean that the studio really wants you to, y'know, play for free. Over the past year or so, we've seen several MMO studios…
How to farm 570 LOTRO points in under three hours - [AL:LOTRO]One of the interesting quirks of Lord of the Rings Online's free-to-play setup is that players can earn premium currency -- LOTRO points, or LP -- through various in-game activities.…
Star Citizen will drop DX11, avoid DX12 support - Over the weekend, Cloud Imperium fielded questions from players on some of the more technical elements on display in Star Citizen's last Around the Verse. Turns out that some major…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
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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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