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Armored Warfare reorients its business model to ‘improve overall ecosystem health’

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If you were one of the folks who suspected the Cloud Pirates sunset was intended to divert resources to My.com's other games, well, today's...

Guild Wars 2 is now selling waypoint unlocks in the cash shop

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With today's update, ArenaNet has begun selling waypoint unlocks in the Guild Wars 2 cash shop. "You know the drill. You’re trying to reach East...

Rumor: Blizzard is buffing Battlenet with chat channels, offline mode

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The dataminers at MMO-Champion may have just figured out one of the big reveals Blizzard has cooking for BlizzCon next month. It revolves around...
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Blizzard is hiring for a production director for the Diablo franchise

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Remember last week's announcement that there would be no news for Diablo III or any other part of the Diablo franchise at this year's...

Farewell to My.com MOBA Cloud Pirates, which sunsetted over the weekend

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If you blinked, you missed it: Cloud Pirates shut down over the weekend. My.com announced that it was giving up on its Allods-themed Cloud Pirates...

SWTOR’s United Forces update includes a massive server merge

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BioWare has just announced Star Wars: The Old Republic's United Forces update, a massive merge of the game's 17 servers down to five in...

Chinese players review bomb PUBG on Steam over in-game VPN ads

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Remember a couple of weeks ago when Valve said it was continuing to seek ways to crack down on review bombing, the practice of...

Hawken will sunset its PC Steam servers in January 2018, but not console servers

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Free-to-play online shooter Hawken is sunsetting its Steam servers for PC users, Reloaded Games announced today, causing reviews of the game to tank. "After 3...

This is how MMO lockboxes manipulate your mind

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It is not going to shock you to hear that lockboxes are kind of evil. We here at Massively OP have been beating on...
You either didn't like the last answer or you didn't care then or now.

Riot apologizes for League of Legends dev who joked about streamer’s hypothetical death

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Over the weekend, a Riot Games developer made a Terrible Mistake: Lead Experience Designer Aaron "RiotSanjuro" Rutledge insulted a banned streamer in League of Legends' public...

Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan on how toxic gamers try to intimidate Blizzard devs

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As the discussion and response to Overwatch's legendary toxicity problem continues, even the development team isn't spared from the impact of this, ahem, "passionate"...

EVE Evolved: What to expect from EVE Vegas 2017

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CCP Games' annual EVE Vegas event kicks off in less than a week on October 6th, and once again MassivelyOP will be on the...
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Make My MMO: The Thargoids should win Elite Dangerous (September 30, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Elite has finally begun to sound "dangerous" indeed. After just a few days of owning players, the alien race that "returned"...

Crowfall’s Raph Koster explains why MMO systems stagnate and die

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The man who pretty much wrote the book on many MMORPG systems shared another piece of keen insight about a pitfall in many competitive...
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Betawatch: Final alpha is go for Legends of Aria (September 29, 2017)

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Well, Legends of Aria fans, it's the final... alpha? That doesn't sound like a 1980s power ballad line at all, someone should get on...

Games business roundup: VR, Project Alloy, Pearl Abyss, pay-to-dress-up, Goldman Sachs, lockboxes, and Bluehole

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By chance, a whole bunch of industry-related posts landed in our newsroom this week. Well, not entirely by chance; our tipsters showered us in...
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Brad McQuaid: MMO devs are ‘making the very, very early foundations of the Holodeck’

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Pantheon and MMOs like it are bringing our dream future one step closer (or at least, Lt. Barclay's dream future), Brad McQuaid suggests in a new interview...
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Raph Koster on how Ultima Online pushed the MMO industry forward

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Game Designer Raph Koster continues to ponder the significance of Ultima Online on this, the 20th anniversary of the MMORPG's historic release. In a...

Crowfall clarifies Kickstarter ‘proof-of-concept’ statements

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The folks at Procedural Worlds have a new interview-slash-testimonial from Crowfall Lead Environment Artist Jon O'Neal, in which he talks up that company's enviromental...

SkySaga locks down official site following development halt, posts ‘nothing can be said for certain’

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Just in case you were wondering, it's still a puddle of sadness and despair over at SkySaga. Following the online game's abrupt development halt...

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