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WoW Factor: Blizzard didn’t reveal World of Warcraft sub numbers – it drew a Mystery Line

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It will not surprise anyone reading this to learn that there are things which upset me. This is just part of being a human...

Unsurprisingly, City of Heroes Homecoming saw a massive playerbase spike this past weekend

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On Friday, we asked our readers whether they planned to play City of Heroes Homecoming, newly crowned with a formal license by NCsoft. We...

Players caught Niantic’s Campfire app broadcasting private data in spite of security settings

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This won't surprise many readers, but Campfire, the social media messenger app built by Niantic for its games, is not working as promised and...
Not worth cheering over.

Activision-Blizzard releases its year-to-date diversity statistics showing an increase in underrepresented groups

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Activision-Blizzard's general issues with diversity and representation have prompted a number of changes within its corporate structure, and one of those is the company's...

EVE Online’s Fanfest data dump shows a surprisingly wide range of player types

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EVE Online is going full science fair mode with the release of a whole suite of fancy graphs and data collected and presented during...
Flap flap fire fire.

The Daily Grind: How much do you trust player-based analyses of MMO playerbases?

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There was a time when World of Warcraft would reliably tell press and players just how many people were playing the game at any...
lol

How video game player data collection processes have expanded outside of gaming

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The EULA - aka the wall o' text that we all blitz past in order to get to play the MMORPG or multiplayer title...

Lord of the Rings Online informal player survey highlights the least and most popular classes

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If you've ever wondered which class is the most popular in Lord of the Rings Online, Squirle over at LOTRO Players has your back....

Massively Overthinking: Retaking Quantic’s survey to determine our ‘gamer type’

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Five years ago - yes, it's been that long! - we did an Overthinking in which our staff all took Quantic's survey to see...

GDC Summer 2020: Quantic’s 400K-gamer motivation model

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Quantic Foundry's Nick Yee gave a lecture at GDC Summer 2020 yesterday showing how the analytics firm's massive amount of data can be used...

What’s the biggest MMO in the world? That’s OK – this video doesn’t know either

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Redditor u/SanctuaryZ attracted attention on several gaming subs this week for his visualization video attempting to track the most popular MMORPGs ever from the...

For Science: Steam just told on itself with its new games performance analysis

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Steam has long been regarded as a pit of doom, loaded with asset flips and scams, where where indies go to die and MMO...
Might as well jump.

Phantasy Star Online 2 looks back at its closed beta for some statistics

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The open beta for Phantasy Star Online 2 is just around the corner, but the game did have its first beta test already, and that...
Money talks, but what it says isn't engaging sometimes.

EVE Online releases its monthly economic report for April 2019

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It is possible that you are not the target audience for the EVE Online monthly economic report. If you aren't looking forward to frowning with...

Hey Alexa, where’s Blind Mary? Activision and Amazon put game advice on personal assistants

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Among hardcore MMORPG players, particularly vets of a certain age, there's a longstanding grudge against the shift toward being able to look up every...

EVE Fanfest 2018: CCP Games has big plans for data collection and machine learning

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Every day in the sandbox of New Eden, several hundred thousand EVE Online players perform millions of unseen actions. Every item manufactured, module activated,...

GDC 2018: Yokozuna, big game data, and the future of MMO monetization

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GDC isn't E3. It isn't PAX. It's not even what I think stereotypical gamers can appreciate. But I think the Massively OP crowd is...

EVE Online sunsets legacy APIs, delivers December economic report, and talks next week’s patch

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May 8th, 2018. This date is important for players and community developers who are using older versions of EVE Online's API, as those legacy...

SuperData predicts huge gains for virtual reality over the next four years

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SuperData was rather famously quoted all throughout the industry at the end of 2016 following its research-backed proclamation that virtual reality was the "biggest...
We were the kings and queens of promise.

Superdata’s July 2016 data show Guild Wars 2 surging, Pokemon Go on top

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Superdata's July report on online gaming revenues is in, and there are some predictable bits and some surprises. On the P2P MMO front, the...

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