Bree Royce

Bree Royce
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Bree is an unrepentant escapist with a predilection for MMOs. When not compulsively proofreading cereal boxes and newspapers, she can be found modding, PvPing on the auction hall, and touring the Next Big Thing with her guild on a quest for the elusive perfect game.

Working As Intended and Ask Mo are her pet op-ed columns, but she also pens Daily Grinds and compiles Massively Overthinking, the Week in Review, and Make My MMO. You can hear her ramble about MMOs every week on the Massively OP podcast. If you're nice, she'll even talk about something other than Star Wars Galaxies.

Personal blog: Skycandy
Twitter: @nbrianna
Favorite MMOs: Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes, Lord of the Rings Online, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Ultima Online
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Elder Scrolls Online drops Murkmire, Wolfhunter trailers, buffs subscriber benefits

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ZeniMax is dropping some good stuff at QuakeCon for players of The Elder Scrolls Online. If you're a dedicated subscriber, you're in for some...

Greed Monger delays refunds again because of crypto market dips

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There's been another update in the long-running saga that is Greed Monger. Greed Monger is easily the most infamous MMORPG Kickstarter failure to date, having raised...

Discord has launched its own video game storefront into beta, and it kinda looks like a Steam-GOG mashup

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We all rolled our eyes when Valve's new Steam chat client borrowed heavily from Discord's proven best practices for chat, but most people didn't...

Massively Overthinking: Should MMORPGs incentivize exploration – and how?

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Our Daily Grind on exploration last week sparked an intriguing follow-up from MOP reader Miol. "When asking about sightseeing and exploration in MMORPGs, you also...
If this went away, I would be pissed.

Trove is back online after major economy exploit; Trion to offer compensation, ban perpetrators

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Trion's voxelbox Trove was down most of yesterday thanks to what screenshots clearly identified as a massive duping exploit that positively trashed the game's economy...

The Daily Grind: Is it time to move on from PvP ‘factions’ in MMORPGs?

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I'm think I'm over factions in MMOs. I get why RvR games need them, and I'll grudgingly concede that the average player is far better...

Runewaker’s Guardians of Ember is getting a relaunch in the west thanks to Gameforge

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It's been a weird 2018 for Guardians of Ember. Back in February, Valve booted its publisher, Insel Games, off Steam, citing review manipulation in...

Endless Trials seeks $66K on Kickstarter to build a semi-hardcore endgame PvE MMO that omits grind

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Here's a new one for us, and if you like it, you can throw money at it right now: It's called Endless Trials, and...

Trove has been down since the crack of dawn thanks to an economy-breaking dupe exploit

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Bad stuff is happening in Trove. Or was happening. Right now, nothing's happening at all because the servers came down early this morning, and...

PUBG developers embark on three-month ‘FIX PUBG’ campaign in which they are doing the fixing

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Make no mistake: PUBG Corp. and Bluehole really do understand the flaws in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and the studios are focusing on fixing them. That's...
Back to the same.

Blizzard teases ‘multiple Diablo projects in the works,’ with reveals ‘later this year’

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It's not exactly a secret that Blizzard has been working on something Diablo-related for a while as we've been tracking the company as it...

Ashes of Creation lays out its phased alpha roadmap, plans more hires this month

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Ashes of Creation's latest newsletter has a few bits of interest for those watching the game from afar. For starters, Intrepid says it's now...

Interviewing the Bless team on the Assassin, merges, PvP, and concurrency as the patch goes live today

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Bless Online is rolling out a hefty content update today as promised, including the Siege of Castra PvP battleground, the faction-based open-world Capital War,...

Revelation Online has officially launched on Steam with free welcome packs

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Happy Steam launch, Revelation Online! Yep, as promised, My.com has ported the free-to-play game to Valve's popular platform all official-like as of today. And...

Hearthstone’s Boomsday Project expansion has launched – log in for your freebie card packs

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Hearthstone's Boomsday Project expansion is live today with its typical goofy scenario, this one revolving around World of Warcraft's Netherstorm zone and a gobbo...

Black Desert and Ascent Infinite Realm publisher Kakao is investing in esports

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Kakao is a massive South Korean company, and as most MMO fans reading blogs probably know, video games are just one element of that...
baby why you gotta play me like that, i didn't meeeeeeeeean to give you rabies

H1Z1 has officially launched on the PlayStation 4 as Jace Hall joins the H1Z1 PC team

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Daybreak's battle royale game H1Z1 has been through more ups and downs and ups again in the last few years than most games see...

SWTOR’s Rishi stronghold and PvP tweaks are live today with the 5.9.2 update

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Multiple goodies are coming to Star Wars The Old Republic today via its previously delayed but now launching 5.9.2 update. The headliner content is...

The Daily Grind: How do you define ‘hardcore’ gaming?

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Quantic Foundry's latest report from its gamer motivation study is well worth your time to read, but for this morning's Daily Grind, I want...

Check out the winningest EVE Online propaganda from CCP’s latest contest

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Against the backdrop of yet another massive, hyped-up in-game gang war, EVE Online's propaganda machine is constantly churning, sowing chaos not just for players...

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