Yikes, Blizzard didn’t have a great week: Its first quarter financials dropped, and they were brutal indeed, revealing that Blizzard’s small stable of games has lost six million monthly active users in the last year alone.
Meanwhile, Star Wars MMOs honored Chewbacca, we got a first peek at EVE Online’s next expansion, Star Citizen was suffered a media barrage, and the City of Heroes community kept the rogue servers coming.
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
Forbes characterizes Star Citizen’s development as ‘incompetence and mismanagement on a galactic scale’ - If you have only the faintest idea what has gone on with Star Citizen since its initial Kickstarter, a new Forbes piece on the game and its creator Chris Roberts is…
Star Wars MMOs pay tribute to the life of Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew - Star Wars fans are in mourning tonight as the original actor behind everyone's favorite walking carpet Chewbacca, Peter Mayhew, is now one with the Force. He was 74. "The family…
City of Heroes’ rogue servers nerf AE farms, boost XP, but can’t do character transfers - [Updates to this piece are at the end!] If you were planning to abuse the Architect Entertainment system on City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue servers, we hope you already got…
City of Heroes now has a fifth rogue server live as Homecoming buffs up and work on i24 continues - The 4chan-backed group /coxg/ now has an alternative City of Heroes rogue server up for those who don't want to play on the existing Homecoming servers. The current build is…
EVE Online: Invasion expansion lands May 28th - The virtual universe of EVE Online is bracing itself for an invasion, and it looks like things will be kicking off much sooner than expected on May 28th. The Invasion…
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 needs real housing - There is no shortage of things to do in Guild Wars 2. Wandering around the world and exploring is a joy, and players are rewarded for doing so. Fractals and…
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2019: Revenue has dropped by nearly a quarter since last quarter - It's now pretty clear that Activision-Blizzard's days of limitless growth and endless record-setting are over, at least for now, as the company's now-released financials indicate revenues down slightly (about 7%)…
Wandering Wraeclast: Path of Exile studio Grinding Gear Games earns respect by showing respect - This is Grinding Gear Games. Grinding Gear Games recently acknowledged that some Path of Exile players were unhappy about a few topics and accepted responsibility, apologized for not addressing them…
Shroud of the Avatar developers address Kickstarter reward novel fulfillment, SEC filings - Over the last few days, we've had a rash of tipsters reaching out to us with concerns about Shroud of the Avatar, and now we've spoken to Portalarium to allow…
Anthem appears to have lost several prominent upper staff members - When Anthem players wanted some more news, what they probably wanted was good news, not hearing that several bits of senior leadership were no longer working on the game. Lead producer Michael…
Lawful Neutral: The war over Star Citizen in Crytek v. Cloud Imperium Games - Hello citizens! Today, I'm going to talk about a little game that's been flying under the radar and I think deserves some air time: Star Citizen. I'm obviously being a…
WoW Factor: Why Legion 2 wouldn’t win back the World of Warcraft crowd - Let's talk about fan expectations and naked fanservice for a bit. In fact, let's start with the Power Nine from Magic: the Gathering, and perhaps the greatest of the batch,…
World of Warcraft Classic will allow up to 50 characters, regardless of your existing character count - Imagine for a moment that you have 50 max-level characters in World of Warcraft right now. However, you also need to have 50 alts in World of Warcraft Classic. What are you supposed…
BioWare swears it’s still working on Anthem following key staff departures - Yesterday we reported on the unsettling news that multiple senior developers and producers were no longer attached to Anthem, including lead producer Michael Gamble, executive producer Mark Darrah, and director…
Massively Overthinking: Super wrong snap judgments of MMORPGs - The year was 2004, and the month was May. My guild was growing increasingly frustrated with Star Wars Galaxies' slow development pace, so we hopped to this new superhero MMO…
Vague Patch Notes: MMOs are not the same as your single-player games with servers - Recently, I've been trying to get into Bloodborne. This isn't a result of my disliking the Souls franchise as a whole, just that it's never quite overlapped with my particular interests.…
The Daily Grind: What do you think about ‘gear peacocks’ in MMOs? - Every so often, usually when it comes to World of Warcraft, I hear what I've always thought of as the Peacock Defense for making raid gear so much better than everything…
Classic Guild Wars just got another update for its 14th anniversary - Happy birthday, Guild Wars! Yep, the classic MMO-but-don't-call-it-an-MMO that captivated hearts when it launched back in 2005 is officially celebrating its 14th anniversary of life as of last week. To…
Tamriel Infinium: ‘Dying’ to know more about Necromancers in The Elder Scrolls Online - One of the most exciting features included in The Elder Scrolls Online's Elsweyr chapter update is the addition of a new playable class, the Necromancer. But what are Necromancers and…
Perfect Ten: Tips for fighting an MMORPG boss for the first time - Ahh! That header scared me, and I'm the one who picked it! But that's where adventure leads you, right into the maw of something angry, something with multiple phases, and…
Blizzard decides to skip Gamescom 2019 as part of cost-cutting efforts - The con circuit has always been a sort of expected course for games companies to run, like the Tour de France except with less bicycles and more people trying to…
Matchmaking problems plague Anthem as its playerbase dwindles - Poor, poor Anthem. Even as BioWare continues scrambling to perform triage on the ailing online shooter, it appears that the game is continuing to hemorrhage players at an alarming rate,…
Choose My Adventure: The simple joys of RuneScape and duo gameplay - I've often wondered to myself why there seem to be so many in-development MMORPGs that stubbornly and desperately cling to the idea of the old guard doing it the best,…
Guild Wars 2’s War Eternal is definitely dropping in May – here’s the features trailer - It's the closest thing we've got to a date on Guild Wars 2's next living world episode so far: ArenaNet just announced that War Eternal, the final episode for the…
Star Wars Galaxies Legends rogue server teases upcoming Cloud City and Bespin content - Back in February, we covered Star Wars Galaxies Legends' intent to include Bespin - that'd be the gas giant where Lando's Cloud City is located in Empire Strikes Back, obviously…
The Daily Grind: Are you a murderhobo in MMORPGs? - I am not sure who first coined the term murderhobo, but I know I personally picked it up from Massively and MOP alum Jef Reahard, having heard it probably seven…
Riot Games acknowledges employees planning walkout over company culture - Over the weekend, we once again covered the continuing fiasco that is League of Legends' Riot Games, when as Kotaku first reported, two of the Riot employees who had a…
Not So Massively: Yearning for an MMO future free of loot - Throughout all of the Drama over Anthem's loot issues, I've just been rolling my eyes. Not because I think Bioware screwed up -- arguably it has, but that's beside the…
Two weeks in, City of Heroes has four rogue servers and heartwarmingly massive queues - Two weeks after we first broke the story confirming the City of Heroes secret private server leak, the game has turned 15 years old and over 31,000 people showed up…
Lord of the Rings Online devs tease an ‘ambitious’ year ahead - Strap yourself in to the ride that is Lord of the Rings Online, because 2019 is only getting started with this MMO. In the 12th anniversary livestream, the developers teased…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
The Stream Team: Finishing LOTRO’s anniversary missions
The Stream Team: Celebrating seven years of TERA
The Stream Team: SWTOR’s Makeb datacron torture, take two
The Stream Team: Saying so long to Kritika Online
The Stream Team: Celebrating Guild Wars’ anniversary in Guild Wars 2
The Stream Team: Exploring Astroneer space
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.
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