World of Warcraft pulled out all the stops this week, announcing stuff you might have thought would be saved for BlizzCon, including the Tides of Vengeance patch, complete with raids, new story content, and quality-of-life fixes. Of course, it also slipped in a massive bribe for those who agree to stay subbed, so there was that too.
Plus, Guild Wars 2 released the (rather well-received) S4E4, A Star To Guide Us, and Red Dead Redemption 2 is getting that teased online mode, Red Dead Online. Read on to catch up with the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions today as every Sunday in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
World of Warcraft guild Method nets world-first Mythic Uldir clear, Blizzard introduces $75 mount-and-subscription bundle - Just over one week after Blizzard opened the gates to World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth's mythic Uldir raid, the raid has been cleared and the final boss, G'huun, has…
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s A Star to Guide Us - We've had just enough time to digest that epic trailer, and now A Star to Guide Us is live. This is the fourth episode of Guild Wars 2's fourth season,…
World of Warcraft announces Tides of Vengeance with new content and account-wide rep tweaks - If you're enjoying World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth, you're probably OK with more of the same, as long as it's shiny and new. And that's just what you're getting. As…
Red Dead Redemption 2’s multiplayer version, Red Dead Online, hits beta this November - When I mentioned I was writing this piece, one of my colleages politely asked why the heck we were covering Red Dead Redemption 2 at all. "Does it have a…
Perfect Ten: My favorite WildStar memories - As I grow older, I start to worry about the loss of memories that are precious to me. I already joke that I'm pretty much a human goldfish that can't…
Fortnite player arrested for threatening to kill an 11-year-old opponent - This week in why we can't have nice things, a grown man apparently threatened to kill a little kid who beat him in Fortnite. Yesterday, New York's News 12 reported…
LOTRO Legendarium: Future classes, business models, and direction - For any MMORPG fan, the future often weighs heavily upon the mind. We get excited about what secrets might be in development. We wonder about how the game will grow.…
Chaos Theory: The rosy side of the Secret World Legends’ less-than-ideal scenario situation - Do you know that feeling of anticipation? That's what I'd felt when I was given the heads-up at DragonCon that Secret World Legends was finally adding not just a new scenario…
World of Warcraft cracks open a cold one with this year’s Brewfest, WoW player multiboxes with 26 accounts - October is just around the corner, and World of Warcraft players know what that means: Brewfest! Yes, everyone's favorite booze-centric celebration returns for another year, bringing with it a slew…
Vague Patch Notes: Trickle-down metagames in MMORPGs - A while back, there was an interesting set of data coming out of a discussion about Overwatch. The discussion was about the concept of trickle-down meta, and the takeaway was…
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG, living or dead, offers the all-time best crafting experience? - Over the last couple of weeks, when I was putting in sometimes 18-hour days working on the site, I didn't really have much time for big blocks of gaming -…
WildStar is probably not sunsetting until at least the end of the year - When NCsoft announced it was closing Carbine and sunsetting WildStar, it didn't include one key detail: when that sunset will occur. In fact, it so panicked us that MJ raced…
A now-deleted tweet states that a Diablo animated series is in the works - It's honestly difficult to imagine a world wherein Blizzard's promise of multiple new Diablo projects includes an animated series, but that appears to be the case. Andy Cosby, the writer…
Star Control Origins releases with multiplayer fun - The latest in the beloved Star Control series is finally live with today's release of Star Control Origins. Stardock's alternate universe reboot (yes, it's confusing) aims to capture the goofy…
Old School RuneScape boots employee for in-game cheating, police are involved - Jagex has apparently fired a member of the Old School RuneScape mod team for "gross misuse of moderator privileges." "During our rigorous routine system checks, irregular activity was identified on…
France fines Valve and Ubisoft over consumer protection laws - Valve's been fined in yet another consumer protection case, this time in France, and this time with Ubisoft in tow. Gamers will recall that Valve spent several years fighting the…
Amazon is apparently batch-sending fresh New World alpha invites - It looks as if a new round of alpha invites are going to some folks signed up for Amazon's New World. Our tipster says he signed up through the Amazon…
Interview: Bless Online on early access, pay-to-win, and its western refuge on Steam - Last night's bombshell that Bless Online is closing down its final Korean servers, leaving the game's Steam version in the west as the only one still running, surely has the…
Valve has finally decided to start moderating its Steam forums cesspool - Steam's forums are notorious throughout the gaming industry for being truly awful. Journalists across the industry have been pestering Valve for almost a year on the subject of Steam's player…
Bless Online’s last remaining Korean servers are shutting down - Bad news for players of Bless Online in Korea: Neowiz announced today that the game is shutting down in that region as its last remaining servers are sunsetting. November 19th…
Hyperspace Beacon: What will we see on SWTOR’s ‘ancient Jedi world’? - Producer Keith Kanneg wrote, "[T]he next phase of the SWTOR storyline will kick off with a bang on the ancient Jedi world." Let's look at the clues that let us…
Age of Conan formally announces Saga of Blood PvP server and event - Things are about to get bloody (or bloodier than usual, I suppose) in Funcom's Age of Conan with the release of a brand-new Saga Server, this time boasting a PvP…
Wargaming is building a new ‘free-to-play multiplatform MMO’ in the UK - [AL:WOT]It looks as if Wargaming is planning to push even further into the MMO market. According to GIbiz, the company known best for World of Tanks has opened up a…
There’s a new class coming to Lord of the Rings Online, but what will it be? - There's a new class on its way to Lord of the Rings Online according to one of the weekly streams from Standing Stone Games. And that is all we know…
Fallen Earth is planning on a fresh start server for the future - The long road to revamp and repackage Fallen Earth stretches ahead of new owner Little Orbit, but to the company's credit, it's making efforts to whip the post-apocalyptic MMORPG into…
Guild Wars 2 narrative: ‘It’s like working on a television show’ - [AL:GW2]Just ahead of the launch of Guild Wars 2's next living story episode, GIbiz has a fun interview with multiple members of the current narrative team, which MMO players will…
MMOARPG Lost Ark will finally launch in South Korea on November 7 - Lost Ark is finally hitting open beta, MMO Culture reports. Smilegate's media conference this morning revealed that its soft launch open beta will land for South Koreans on November 7th.…
EVE Evolved: Two ways that EVE Online’s monetisation could be expanded under Pearl Abyss - [AL:EVE]When Pearl Abyss bought out CCP Games last week, the overwhelming message to EVE Online players was that it would be business as usual for the foreseeable future. Many players were…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
Massively OP Podcast Episode 187: The raid in our stars
The Stream Team: Aion celebrates 9 years of PvPvE
The Stream Team: A first look at MUD Lusternia
The Stream Team: See the new Secret World Legends Scenario
The Stream Team: Be a pirate in AQ3D for Talk like a Pirate day
The Stream Team: Flirting with SWTOR Iokath cliffhangers
The Stream Team: What’s in the cards for Elder Scrolls Legends?
The Stream Team: World of Warships celebrates 3rd anniversary
The Stream Team: Happy 4th birthday ArcheAge
AND FROM OUR FRIENDS AT BLIZZARD WATCH
How to steal candy from children and buy a dead cat in Battle for Azeroth
Tyrande’s new model and the Night Elf’s Night Warrior cosmetic
Wrathion: His history and new hints in Battle for Azeroth
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 bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.
