E3 2018 positively dominated this week, with big reveals for MMO and multiplayer online fans for the first time in years. Fallout 76 has MMO gamers alternately concerned and hyped, Elder Scrolls Online revealed its next two DLC, and hey, we even got some news on WoW Classic. Meanwhile, among the big crowdfunded games, Camelot Unchained posted good news, Crowfall posted not-so-good news, and Star Citizen was all over the place. We’ve rounded up every single post we’ve done from the con so far right here, but if you just want the highlights, then read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions from E3 and everywhere else.
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
World of Warcraft Classic is still under development, will begin with patch 1.12 - If it seems like World of Warcraft Classic would be an easy project, you may not have spent as much time thinking about it as the developers. Heck, according to…
Camelot Unchained doubles down on development in the beta home stretch - Saying that it needs to "double down" and push hard to get the beta build finished for next month's launch, the Camelot Unchained team noticeably increased its output this week…
E3 2018: Deep-diving Trion’s kid-friendly voxelbox Trove and its upcoming Geode expansion - [AL:Trove]One thing Trion Senior Producer James Karras drove home during my meeting with the team at this year's E3 is that with Trove's Geode update, the team is experimenting. Yes,…
Crowfall delays again: ‘Soft launch is not going to happen by the end of this year’ - Here's a slight damper for your weekend: Crowfall has decided to delay its soft launch into 2019 due to the additional work that the studio believes should to be done.…
World of Warcraft Q&A explains why you’re not getting your Mark of the Wild back - Remember when everyone was very excited about how World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth was bringing back class buffs like Mark of the Wild? Yeah, that's not happening any more,…
The Game Archaeologist: The tangled legal history of Interplay’s canceled Fallout Online - With the recent revelation that Bethesda's Fallout 76 is going to be an online multiplayer survival game, players who have been hoping for a Fallout MMO finally have something to…
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse covers character concepts and the Vulture, while CCP throws shade - Set aside the many Star Citizen dramas of the week and feast your eyeballs on the game's latest edition of Around the Verse, which couldn't possibly be controversial, right? Oh.…
E3 2018: Hands-on with Bethsoft’s Elder Scrolls: Blades (yes, in portrait mode) - Out of all the announcements Bethesda had at its pre-E3 presser, The Elder Scrolls: Blades was the last title I thought we'd be offered. Oh, we had asked about others, but they…
Warframe releases its third cinematic quest, The Sacrifice, and beats its concurrency record once again - [AL:WarF]Update 23 isn't just your regular run-of-the-mill patch for Digital Extremes or any Warframe fans who have been anticipating this release for over a year now. The Sacrifice brings the…
Players petition BioWare for a console port of SWTOR - [AL:TOR]Here's the burning question of the hour: Would you like to see Star Wars: The Old Republic join its single-player predecessors on the console? Do you see this as improving…
E3 2018: Nintendo thinks lockboxes are unfairly maligned, help ‘drive engagement’ - You know how sometimes, when nosy press asks you a question with no good answer, you're better off shutting up? And when they don't ask you about a tricky subject,…
E3 2018: hands-on with The Division 2 – a major upgrade over the original game - At this year's E3, Ubisoft creative director Julian Gerighty said team behind The Division 2 tried to learn "everything" from The Division to help make the sequel better. As he reminded me, the…
‘Magic through serendipity’: Raph Koster on the glorious mess that was Ultima Online - I was a wide-eyed, naive kid when I first stepped into Ultima Online in 1997, and as it turns out, the developers were too. That's my takeaway from reading through…
Star Citizen and EVE Online players unite to call out lookalike concept ship - Fancy staring at some pixel spaceships this morning to weigh in on the latest Star Citizen drama? 'Course you do. The ship on display today is Star Citizen's Vulture, the…
E3 2018: Sony blocks Fortnite crossplay with rival consoles, waffles on a response - This week's showing at E3 should have been a victory lap for one of gaming's hottest titles, but Sony seems bound and determined to rain on Fortnite's parade. The problem…
Fortnite on Nintendo Switch doesn’t include Save the World - You remember Save the World, right? The mode of Fortnite wherein you build a base and defend against zombies? The one that was supposed to be the entire focus of…
Steam’s new chat system just hit beta – will it pull you away from Discord? - Steam's new chat client has gone into testing this week, with major overhauls to the friends list and group chat system. I gave it a spin last night after my…
Tamriel Infinium: Unpacking the Elder Scrolls Online presentation at E3 - [AL:ESO]Elder Scrolls Online is obviously a huge draw for MMORPG players, but it's far from an exciting title for the vast majority of gamers attending E3, so I was surprised to…
Perfect Ten: Ten things you need to understand about MMORPG Rogues - Sometimes I know that I may be a bit too old-school because there's a little twitch in my eye whenever I have to refer to a given class as a…
You can now ‘date’ some non-player characters in Black Desert - [AL:BDO]Way back in April, Pearl Abyss rolled out patch notes for the Korean version of Black Desert that included a dating system - dating as in romance options, not carbon…
E3 2018: Pearl Abyss’ CEO on Black Desert’s Xbox port, Switch considerations, and PvP - [AL:BDO]Pearl Abyss' Kyungin "Robin" Jung isn't just a CEO. He's also got a background in engineering. He may not have developed any game-saving tech for Black Desert, but at least he's…
Here’s everything you want to know about Fallout 76, including the making-of documentary - With players compiling a massive amount of useful information and Noclip releasing a making-of documentary for Fallout 76, we're starting to arrive at a much better understanding of what this…
E3 2018: Cyberpunk 2077 is going to be a first-person-shooter and RPG both - The bad news, Cyberpunk 2077 hopefuls, is that there's still no word on the alleged multiplayer elements for the game. The good news, or at least the news, is that…
E3 2018: Perfect World is paving the way to bring Steam to China - If you want to go somewhere to escape Steam's spreading influence, you might be tempted to head to China, where the country has officially operated free of Valve's platform to…
Flameseeker Chronicles: Discussing Guild Wars 2 content voids and cadence disruption - [AL:GW2]Waiting for a Living World release you know is coming eventually is one of the more frustrating parts of playing Guild Wars 2 for the chronically impatient like me, but when…
E3 2018: Defiance 2050 reboot launches on PC and console July 10th - We've got an official launch date for the new Defiance, folks: Trion announced this morning that Defiance 2050 will hit all three major platforms on July 10th, pursuant to an…
E3 2018: En Masse on TERA’s lootboxes, console port, PvE vs. PvP, and the June 26 Gunner class launch - [AL:TERA]It's E3 2018, and you know what that means: covering hot new mobile games of IPs you wanted for PC/console! No? Oh, well, that's probably for the best, as En Masse…
E3 2018: Fallout 76 confirms private servers, mod support, and no living NPCs - As players continue to try to wrap their heads around Bethesda's vision for Fallout 76 (and fear a gaming apocalypse in which their previous single-player game is "ruined" by MMO…
E3 2018: Star Citizen’s ‘alpha 3.2 teaser’ trailer is gorgeous, and it’s not alpha 3.2 - During last night's PC Gaming Show at E3, Cloud Imperium showed a nifty video of Star Citizen that has the community abuzz. Considered out of context, it's an in-engine video…
The Daily Grind: Will Fallout 76 be a griefer’s paradise or a gamer’s dream? - On Sunday night, the Massively OP staff gathered in our virtual office to watch and discuss the Bethesda conference. There really was a little something for all of us, including…
The Star Citizen subreddit is in the middle of a massive flamewar as a big backer loses faith - Star Citizen drama on the internet - who'd have seen that coming, right? If you run a search for Star Citizen drama just on the current version of Massively OP,…
EVE Online player disqualified from CSM elections due to racist comments - [AL:EVE]They say that the internet never forgets, so if you are planning to run for a player council in a popular online game, you should check to see if you…
E3 2018: Cyberpunk 2077 debuts its trailer, but multiplayer is nowhere to be found - Let's start with the good news because you're going to need it: CD Projekt Red did indeed bring Cyberpunk 2077 to E3 2018, and its trailer is a glorious introduction…
E3 2018: ‘Fallout 76 is entirely online’ - You've seen the teaser. You've heard the rumors. You've watched the E3 trailer. And now it's time to find out, exactly, what Fallout 76 is. On Sunday night, Bethesda took…
E3 2018: Elder Scrolls Online announces Wolfhunter and Murkmire DLC (oh yeah, and Elder Scrolls VI is coming!) - [AL:ESO]At Bethesda's E3 presentation this evening, ZeniMax's Matt Firor announced that The Elder Scrolls Online's next DLC is called Wolfhunter, complete with werewolf theme. And even later this year, we can…
E3 2018: Fallout 76 is absolutely massive — and here’s the trailer - Right now, every Fallout fan in the world has been singing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" nonstop for the past week or so. That's probably not going to change after…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
Massively OP Podcast Episode 174: Fallout vs. Elder Scrolls
Battle Bards Episode 122: Happy town
The Stream Team: Building a bigger boat in Trove’s latest event
The Stream Team: Digging some ARKaeology
The Stream Team: Excitement builds for Warframe’s TennoCon
The Stream Team: Life’s a beach in AdventureQuest 3D
The Stream Team: Sifting through more Secret World Legends sand
The Stream Team: Has it come to SWTOR’s End Times?
The Stream Team: An otterly fun EverQuest II festival
The Stream Team: Doing The Death of Superman, Part 2 in DCUO
The Stream Team: Celebrating a Massiversary in Aion
AND FROM OUR FRIENDS AT BLIZZARD WATCH
Toxicity via addons is about to get a smackdown in Battle for Azeroth
Which classes do you want to see in Diablo 4?
Every week, get caught up on the MMO genre’s latest news and Massively OP’s best content in our MMO Week in Review! Want more roundups of content? Try Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all the little bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.
