MMO Week in Review: Third quarter layoff week

    
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If there’s one constant for September in the games industry, it’s the layoffs as companies juice their numbers at the end of the third quarter. So was was this past week, as we saw corporate layoffs for Blizzard’s Hearthstone team, Roblox, and Epic Games – the last of which saw over a thousand workers either let go or dispatched to new spin-off companies. Sigh.

Meanwhile, we scoped out the future of New World, said farewell to The Cycle, considered the impact of Lord of the Rings Online’s canceled remaster, and pondered the World of Warcraft expansion leak.

Read on to catch up with the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions today as every Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!

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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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