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Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida espouses excitement and encouragement for the upcoming Blue Protocol
In the grand battle between the upcoming Blue Protocol and the current master of the Japanese MMORPG market, Final Fantasy XIV, producer and director...
Make My MMO: Elite’s delay, Zenith’s birthday, Repopulation’s death
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Kickstarted VR MMO Zenith rolled quietly into its first anniversary since...
Make My MMO: The Fractured fiasco
Welcome to the 2023 edition of Make My MMO, MOP's long-running MMO crowdfunding column. We've already rounded up all the big MMO crowdfunding news...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2022
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's column keeping track of all the crowdfunding MMOs in our genre. Last year, the...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s sunset and Elite’s update 14
Crowfall went offline this week, possibly for the last time, as new owner Monumental pulled the game back into development without a clear plan,...
Make My MMO: The Crowfall autopsy
Nobody in the MMORPG community was particularly surprised to learn this week that Crowfall's new - and very quiet - owners have decided to...
Make My MMO: Embers Adrift’s launch, The Secret World’s TTRPG, and gobs of crowdfund drama
Embers Adrift launched this past week with a surprisingly smooth rollout; while its design is going to suit most MMO gamers, it's still a...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s half billion dollar boondoggle
Star Citizen continues making history as this week it reached the lofty heights of $500,000,000 in crowdfunding from gamers, players, and donors. Of course,...
Make My MMO: A big September for Fractured, Temtem, Genfanad, Embers Adrift, and Dual Universe
A whole bunch of Kickstarted MMORPGs are launching or heading into their last legs of testing this month. A slew. A plethora. A lot!
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Make My MMO: Elite’s new CEO, Wagadu’s alpha, and Fractured’s conquest system
This week in crowdsfunded MMOs, Kickstarted sandbox Fractured Online dropped a new dev talk video this week, deep-diving the game's city conquest system and...
Make My MMO: Pantheon raises another $2.4M in investor funds
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen's Visionary Realms got a welcome blast of new funding this week with a haul of $2.4M in Series A...
Make My MMO: Genfanad’s Kickstarter, Dual Universe’s Mercury, Ashes of Creation’s melee
Indie MMORPG Genfanad became the latest MMORPG to fully fund on Kickstarter this week, pulling in almost $20,000 to finish the game and get...
Make My MMO: Indie MMO Genfanad already made its Kickstarter goal
Browser-based MMORPG Genfanad is having a great month, as it began its Kickstarter and almost immediately funded. Of course, it's asking for only $10,000,...
Make My MMO: Ethyrial Echoes of Yore canceled its Kickstarter
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ethyrial Echoes of Yore canceled its Kickstarter, unfortunately. As we'd noted, the game was a throwback indie sandbox seeking only...
Make My MMO: Embers Adrift is breaking the world
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Embers Adrift is trying to break the world - OK, not literally. As of this morning, the Kickstarted MMO...
Make My MMO: Fractured’s persistent closed beta, Wagadu Chronicles’ alpha trailer
This week in MMO crowdfunding, SpatialOS MMORPG sandbox Fractured Online pushed its way into closed beta under Gamigo's publishing banner, with Dynamight's Jacopo Gallelli...
Make My MMO: Elite Disappointing
It's been a relatively quiet couple of weeks in the MMO crowdfunding scene, and we're not entirely sorry to see it, given what a...
Make My MMO: SOTA, Legends of Aria, and TitanReach represent different hazards of MMO crowdfunding
This edition of MassivelyOP's MMO crowdfunding column is a tale of three MMOs that remind everyone why you should be extremely careful putting money...
The Daily Grind: Have publisher changes ever had good results for an MMO?
I may be the only person who cares - and I don't really care that much - but I don't have high hopes for...
Make My MMO: Zenith becomes the first Kickstarter MMO to launch in 2022
The last few weeks in MMO crowdfunding have been wild and punctuated by the release of Zenith, which Kickstarted several years ago - but...