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The remaining superhero MMORPGs just had a big week — or perhaps an unsettling week, depending on your point of view. Daybreak’s DC Universe Online announced a cadence shift from quarterly to monthly, while Champions Online was split off from Cryptic North and sent home to Cryptic’s home base in California. Whether these decisions will be good for the games in the long run is anybody’s guess.
Read on for a look at the rest of this week’s top MMO stories from Massively OP.
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Skyforge’s beta is surprisingly satisfying - I can safely say that what I got when I first fired up Skyforge was not, in fact, what I had been hoping I would get. At the same time, I can't say that I'm necessarily…
NCsoft West lays off Austin support staff - NCsoft West has laid off a number of support staff and is moving its customer service operation to a third-party provider, according to Polygon. Today's layoffs are apparently the final phase of a corporate restructuring announced in…
WildStar shows off its next raid, Initialization Core Y-83 - WildStar is bringing a new raid into the game, Initialization Core Y-83, and it's pretty different from its previous raids. Not fond of attunement processes? There's none of that for this one. Tired of huge things…
Elder Scrolls Online sends out console transfer offer for older accounts - For a limited time, Elder Scrolls Online is offering a deal to allow PC players to copy (not move) their accounts to the upcoming Xbox One or PlayStation 4 version of the game for $20. Emails…
WoW Token prices fall on the first day of operation - Have you been holding on to your hat during the first day of WoW Token sales? Did you think that 30,000 gold was a bit too low or too high for a month of World of…
Chaos Theory: Six tips for new Secret World players - Now that Blingzilla is no longer roaming the lands tempting everyone with goodies galore (or turning movement into a stroll through a mire of molasses), players can get back to the business of experiencing all that…
Beta players are welcomed back to a freebie Elder Scrolls Online weekend - The Elder Scrolls Online would like beta players who never bought the game to come back and see the game in its new buy-to-play state. That's pretty darn cool. But it seems as if whoever was…
EVE Evolved: Four lessons sandbox MMOs can learn from EVE - The past few years have seen a resurgence of support for sandbox MMOs, both of the trying-to-be-minecraft creative kind and the hardcore nuke-it-from orbit PvP variety. We've partly got games like DayZ to thank for the…
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you turn real money into MMO money - Two days ago, World of Warcraft launched the WoW Token service, which will kill the game forever. It thus joins the list of every expansion and change to the game since launch as a herald of…
Sanctions force World of Warcraft, Diablo III ban in Crimea - When gamers are caught in the crossfire of international politics, bad things can happen. Due to US sanctions against Russia, World of Warcraft and Diablo III service to the Crimea region was suspended yesterday. Blizzard said…
Previewing Path of Exile’s mind-blowing Act IV - [AL:POE]If you thought Path of Exile's previous three content updates would be hard acts to follow, you clearly haven't heard enough about the upcoming Act IV The Awakening. Slated for a June release, this expansion makes…
Crowfall unveils the badass lady Champion - Crowfall unveiled the concept art for the female Champion today, and... well, it's pretty great. She's huge, she's visibly powerful, and she's intended to be threatening. You should really look at the full thing even if…
Report: Whales make up majority of mobile F2P sales - Whether or not developers like the term "whales," the truth is that big spenders are still very big business for free-to-play games. Gamasutra points to a report that says that the top 10% of spenders in…
Wurm Online player deified, founds a religion - What have you done with your online life lately? We bet you haven't ascended to godhood and convinced other players to follow a new religion devoted to worshipping you. One Wurm Online player has done this,…
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online sucked me in with werewolves - A couple of weeks ago in Massively Overthinking, we talked about making a game sticky without vertical progression. Although the question was a bit loaded because it kind of assumed that a game couldn't be sticky…
Black Desert fans are troubled about game changes - When the primary beta process for an upcoming MMO is taking place in another region and language, it's often difficult to understand how the game is shaping up. One Black Desert fansite understands this, which is…
Guild Wars 2 memorializes a fallen mother - Last September, a Guild Wars 2 player shared a story about his departed wife. She died from complications during the birth of the couple's son, and she had been a fellow GW2 player who enjoyed picking…
THIS WEEK’S STREAMS
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