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Make My MMO: Boots, boats, and battles in Camelot Unchained (November 18, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained continued its ramp up to Saturday Night Sieges. "It’s been all hands on deck as we prepare our...

World of Warships sails into Steam’s port

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"You ain't anybody if you ain't on Steam," our momma told us when we were tykes. Of course, back then Steam had yet to...

The Netherlands joins Belgium in investigating lockboxes as games of chance

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Earlier this week, we reported on a move by the Belgian Gaming Commission to investigate lockboxes/lootboxes in games like Star Wars Battlefront 2 to...

Massively Overthinking: Are modern games too cheap?

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This week's Massively Overthinking topic is a submission from reader and commenter camelotcrusade, who takes the industry's current fight over monetization in a different...
Awesome. Very impressive. Great job.

EA disables all Star Wars Battlefront 2 microtransaction crud – for now

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Whenever you see a studio call fans "passionate," it's almost always shorthand for "rioting with pitchforks and torches." Guess what Star Wars Battlefront 2's...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you recommend to Marvel Heroes refugees?

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So Marvel Heroes has about six weeks to live thanks to the impending shutdown of the game following Disney's decision to drop Gazillion as...

NCsoft is already sunsetting MOBA Master X Master

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NCsoft announced this evening that it will sunset its relatively new MOBA Master X Master, explaining that the game just "wasn’t enough to take...

The Survivalist: ARK Survival Evolved’s sequel tease is an insult to its fans

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You know that moment when you just can't take it anymore? I am there, right on the cusp. I know many folks have gotten...
Oh dear.

Star Wars Battlefront 2: The AMA, Wall Street, and the Belgian gambling commission

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In case you ever wanted to sniff the distinct scent of internet dumpster fire, you probably should've gone to the Star Wars Battlefront II...
This has less dramatic impact than hoped.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth sets a world record for its diorama

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Turns out that World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is already setting records well before it releases. How? Well, it had a very nice...

Earth Eternal’s player-run emulator just patched in tons of new stuff

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Scroll back in your brain a decade to 2007, when Sparkplay announced it was building an MMORPG called Earth Eternal, a free-to-play, microtransaction-based MMO...

Disney has canceled Marvel Heroes, Marvel has ended its relationship with Gazillion

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We can now confirm this as real, following a statement made by a Marvel representative to Massively OP. We're updating below. According to Kotaku, Disney...
We never like these things.

Former SWTOR dev talks about designing ethical lockboxes

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An extensive Twitter thread from former Star Wars: The Old Republic lead systems designer Damion Schubert grappled with the timely and touchy topic of lockboxes and microtransactions...

Funcom continues its streak of profits thanks to Secret World Legends

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The money scene continues to progress generally well for Funcom, which reported a third consecutive quarter during which it made a tidy sum. Funcom...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 144: Harry Potter and the Deathly ARG

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Justin and Bree talk Guild Wars 2 mounts, the Harry Potter ARG, SWTOR's merge, WoW, LOTRO, Pocket Legends Adventures, Android games, and Bluehole's Ascent: Infinite Realm, with mailbag questions on GW2 marketing, visual effect shenanigans, and MMOs as escapism.

NCsoft Q3 2017: Lineage M drives record profits, Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire isn’t too shabby either

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NCsoft had an exceptionally good third financial quarter this year, reaching a record high in sales and operating profit for the company, and it's...
Look at you, hacker.

Warframe’s Digital Extremes named one of Canada’s top 100 employers

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Want to start a career in making video games? You could do worse than to sign up with Digital Extremes. The Canadian developer of Warframe...
Why Is Trion Like This, Just Kidding, We Actually Know

RIFT’s fall festival lockboxes rankle players

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The latest batch of lockboxes in RIFT isn't making friends among the playerbase. The current Autumn Harvest lockboxes seem to contain more exclusive items than...

EA claims Star Wars Battlefront II’s business model aims to ‘provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment’

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Some awards, you do not want to win. The Darwin award, for example. Or "worst business model of the year." Or "most downvoted comment...

Marvel Heroes’ update silence has stretched to four weeks; here are the latest developments

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I'm afraid we still can't say that Marvel Heroes is going to be OK, as we've now gone an entire month since the last...

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