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The Daily Grind: Will you sub to EA’s new ‘Origin Access Premier’ service?

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During EA Play this weekend, EA announced Origin Access Premier, its attempt at a subscription service on PC. For $100 a year, you'll basically...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s alpha 3.2 goes to the Evocati on the PTU, TemTem has already tripled its Kickstarter ask (June 9, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen continued inching its way toward alpha 3.2, as the latest build has hit the PTU for the early "Evocati"...
Oh dear.

E3 2018: EA confirms its open-world Star Wars game, Jedi Fallen Order

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At EA Play this afternoon, Electronic Arts confirmed that it is indeed working on a Star Wars game, previously rumored as an open-world game. The...

Valve elaborates on trolling policy amid moderation criticism

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This past week's announcement by Valve stating that the company would not moderate or vet games that it sold except for ones that were...
At this point it's debatable if anything will come out of here.

Betawatch: Ashes of Creation gears up for Alpha One (June 8, 2018)

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Names are fun! Ashes of Creation has already held an alpha test, but that alpha zero. This upcoming test will be alpha one. And...

Leaderboard: What’s the ideal way for an MMO studio to handle toxicity?

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MOP reader BulletTeeth pointed us to a piece on The Verge this week about an incident in online shooter Battalion 1944. A highly placed...

Massively Overthinking: Why is no one meeting the obvious player demand for big MMORPGs?

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Massively OP reader ichi_san has a burning question about the state of the industry. "Lots of people seem to be looking for an MMO they...
Let the wrong ones in.

Steam’s new moderation policy is even less of a moderation policy than before

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If you have learned nothing about Steam, you have probably noticed that Valve is actively disinterested in moderating, curating, or really interacting with the...

Little Orbit on Fallen Earth: ‘There is something special here worth rebuilding’

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Could the acquisition of GamersFirst -- including APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth -- be what actually saves these games? Players of these long-abandoned MMOs...

Wild Terra spinoff Corrupted hits Steam early access wearing Wild Terra’s favorite shirt

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Heading into Steam early access today is new isometric game called Corrupted, and if it looks familiar, that's because it's from Juvty Worlds, which...
Rewarding.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds plans longer embargos for its crates on the Steam market

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Getting a crate in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is meant to be a reward for the player, but it's also frequently meant something to resell on...
The Guitar Hero rush hit us all.

The Soapbox: Do MMOs still fall victim to the copycat curse?

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When Radical Heights launched, I was inspired to put together a whole Perfect Ten about why trend-chasing doesn't work for online games. Obviously, my...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 173: The Bless Mess

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Justin and Bree discuss Bless Online's launch, EVE Online's Into the Abyss, Fallout 76, Elder Scrolls Online's spyware issue, Path of Exile's Incursion, H1Z1, Star Trek Online, Trove, DDO, and UO, with mailbag questions on the Bless Mess and on open-world immersion.
Well... huh.

Wargaming cracks down on fansites with EULA changes

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Stealthy changes to Wargaming's North American end user license agreement has some of its games' fansites worried that the company may be overstepping its...

Apple’s OpenGL deprecation could spell trouble for some MMOs on Mac

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Get all the "haha people game on Macs?" out of your system right off the bat because this one isn't funny. MOP tipster Apparition...

Champions Online puts subscription switch on hold in light of player disapproval

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So, as we reported Friday, Champions Online was on deck to lose its subscriptions just like Star Trek Online. Except that as many, many players...

Hi-Rez is basically maintenance-moding Hand of the Gods

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Back in May, we covered the bizarre silence surrounding Hi-Rez's SMITE-infused free-to-play online card game Hand of the Gods. At the time, the information...

CCP Games announces EVE Online mobile game called Project Galaxy

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CCP has just announced a brand-new mobile MMO, being built in conjunction with NetEase. It's called Project Galaxy, and yes, it's intended as the...
Monsters.

Pokemon-inspired ‘massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure’ Temtem is about to break $100K on Kickstarter

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In this past weekend's Make My MMO, we noted we were keeping a close eye on Temtem, a clearly Pokemon-inspired "massively multiplayer creature-collection adventure."...

Get caught up on the Darkfall spinoffs as ex-Aventurine devs explain what happened to the original (and throw shade)

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Unless you're a hardcore Darkfall player from way back in the day as MOP's Andrew was, you probably look at the sequels and spinoffs...

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