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The MOP Up: Fae Farm launches a free demo

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Was Fae Farm too rich for you blood? Now you can check it out for free on Nintendo Switch or PC thanks to a...

Blizzard’s maintenance-moded Heroes of the Storm is getting another patch – with hero buffs

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Back in autumn of last year, Blizzard created a minor stir by launching several small patches for its maintenance-moded MOBA Heroes of the Storm....

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2024

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It's time once again for the MOP staff and readers to engage in our favorite end-of-the-year MMO: collectively guessing what's going to happen next...

Don’t look now but Blizzard has been quietly patching up Heroes of the Storm

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When it comes to Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard is putting the "maintenance" back in "maintenance mode" as November 16th saw a new patch...
Hoof

BlizzCon’s schedule highlights World of Warcraft but ditches Q&As

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With a week to go before this year's BlizzCon, the curiosity, hope, and cynicism are running strong toward the house that Warcraft built. While...

Massively Overthinking: Are there any MMOs for which a spin-off mode would be welcome?

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Pantheon's announcement that its developers are working on spinning out a monetized "247" extraction mode hasn't engendered a whole lot of hope for the...
In an unbroken line.

Vague Patch Notes: The shell game of MMO subscriber numbers and player counts

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Here is a very reasonable question: How many subscribers does Star Wars: The Old Republic have? Not how many players, but how many subscribers....

Not So Massively: Despite everything, Overwatch 2’s story missions deliver an epic experience

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After a long wait, a tortured development, a great deal of cutting back on features, and endless controversy, the PvE update for Overwatch 2...

Not So Massively: Revisiting Heroes of the Storm in 2023

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Social media algorithms are a dangerous thing. A few weeks back, Reddit began recommending me the sub for Heroes of the Storm. Although I...

Gloria Victis’ massive roadmap includes a complete rethink of guild castles

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Black Eye Games dropped a massive roadmap for Gloria Victis this week, capping off its first four months of post-launch during which it's managed...
aw hell

Vague Patch Notes: The three kinds of sunset in the MMO space

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Not all sunsets are the same, no matter how much you may like a given game. This is one of the things that tends...

Choose My Adventure: Guild Wars delivers a shock to the system after months in the sequel

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We're starting the new year of Choose My Adventure by hopping in to an older game, the original Guild Wars. I'm honestly not too...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: The MMO studios that keep whiffing on new projects

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Everyone makes mistakes, and that's all right. That's not necessarily a big deal. Yes, this is true when it comes to MMO studios too....
It is also not the same as a box in which a lady shows a great deal of skin. No idea how Dr. Skinner would have felt about that.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 380: A TERAble way to go

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Justin and Bree discuss TERA's sunset, Secret World's maintenance mode, Red Dead Online's maintenance mode, Heroes of the Storm's maintenance mode, Skull and Bones' November launch, Elder Scrolls Online's Lost Depths DLC, EverQuest II's prison server, Blizzard's Proletariat buyout, WoW's crafting overhaul, and the return of BlizzCon in 2023, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallout 76, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag lightning round.
HELLO FROM THE OTHER SIIIIIIIIIIDE

Blizzard shifts Heroes of the Storm into maintenance mode, gives lizards to all

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Quick: What's the one live service Blizzard game that nobody ever talks about, thinks about, or apparently plays? The correct answer is, of course,...

GDC 2022: Control, revenue, scarcity, ethics, and the human challenges of the gaming ‘metaverse’

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While some panels at GDC 2022 have been deeply disappointing, the panel titled "A Brave New (Virtual) World: Ethics and Governance of XR and...
Sulking.

Vague Patch Notes: Blizzard may live on, but it will never be Blizzard again

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If you want to chart the moment when Blizzard stopped being Blizzard, you got a really nice data point when J. Allen Brack stepped...

Massively on the Go: Pokemon Unite is genuinely fun – for new and casual MOBA players

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When Pokemon Unite was first announced, I had severe doubts I'd even give it a shot. I know I'm the local Pokemon guy, but there are many games in the...

Four Winds: Everything you need to know about Amazon’s Lost Ark

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Raise your hands if you've been eagerly waiting for Lost Ark. Now give me a high five because as announced earlier today, it's finally...

Overwatch celebrates five years as Heroes of the Storm finally releases a hero-rework update

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Blizzard's had its hands full with WoW Classic this week, but not so full that it hasn't been able to crank out content for...

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