70% of Lineage M’s launch players were over 30 years old
The Lineage franchise continues its unstoppable runaway train force in South Korea -- this time with Lineage M.
Korea's Pulse News reports that Lineage M...
PSA: Today is your last chance to buy a Kritika Online founder’s pack
Been on the fence about buying in to Kritika Online? It's time to make a decision now, because the game's founder's packs are going...
Star Citizen’s latest concept ship isn’t a ship, and it’s pushed the game to $155M funding
Star Citizen's latest concept ship isn't a ship -- it's a freakin' rover. Dubbed The Tumbril Cyclone, the vehicle's multiple variants will run up...
RuneScape is a massive hit on Twitch
Time and again, we here at Massively OP have noted how RuneScape seems to be incredibly underestimated by the larger MMO community. For how...
SuperData June 2017: ROBLOX, GTAV, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds are making bank
SuperData's global digital games revenue summary for June 2017 is out, and it's a strange melange of huge shifts and no changes at all.
On the...
Final Fantasy XIV sees a price hike for Brazilian and Russian players
Shock! Dismay! The prices for Brazilian and Russian players have risen for Final Fantasy XIV! But to confuse the issue a little further, they've...
Make My MMO: Albion Online joins the list of launched crowdfunded MMORPGs (July 22, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, indie sandbox Albion Online -- whose 250,000 founders reportedly crowdfunded the game for almost $10,000,000 -- formally launched. The...
Betawatch: Dark and Light shines a light on early access (July 21, 2017)
For everything, there is a season, turn turn turn. We've bid farewell to Albion Online this week, as it has launched properly and thus...
No, exploitative gacha mechanics are not a good idea for western devs
We've been talking about exploitative gacha games and related business models on Massively OP for a long time, most recently and notably in depth earlier...
Blizzard adds a Diablo III senior designer, lays off audio director, and ends XP and Vista support
From zombies to demons, game designer Harrison G. Pink is no stranger to bizarre apocalypses. Pink formerly worked on Telltale Games' hit Walking Dead...
Massively Overthinking: Building a better MMORPG economy
We are on a roll with the epic questions for Overthinking lately! "The recent article about monetization got me thinking about just how much most...
SuperData’s new report suggests multiplayer console gamers are more susceptible to DLC and RMT than ever
Gamers talk a big talk about horse armor DLC and pay-to-win and the evils of cash shops, but y'all keep buying anyway.
That's according to...
Shroud of the Avatar’s Richard Garriott backs Neverdie’s ‘etherium blockchain gaming’ venture
I often joke with our readers that Massively OP is not an MMO uptime monitor, but darn if we don't feel like a Richard...
Albion Online is hitting login queues as Veteran players get to log in
Launch is here for Albion Online and it's popular enough that there are queues. Yes, login queues are being login queues. According to the...
Analyst Michael Pachter’s Overwatch League skepticism and other business tidbits
Everyone's favorite gaming industry analyst Michael Pachter announced that his firm Wedbush is "skeptical that the Overwatch League will achieve much success," noting that...
Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid elaborates on designing for an audience
Did you know that Brad McQuaid's Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is not meant to be for everyone? Probably, because the game sort of...
Bless Online is being heavily overhauled by Neowiz before coming west
Back in June, Neowiz and Aeria Games/Gamigo confirmed that they'd mutually ended their partnership to make Aeria the western Bless Online publisher. While initially the studios stated the MMO...
RIFT brings on a new community manager
ArcheAge isn't the only game at Trion Worlds that's shuffling around its community team these days. RIFT announced last Friday that it brought on board...
SuperData weighs in on Oculus Rift’s price drop and rumored mid-end ‘Pacific’ device
If the Oculus Rift's pricedrop to $400 last week wasn't enough to get your hands reaching for your wallet, point your eyeballs at this...
RuneScape and Old School RuneScape are adding cross-platform mobile play
Attention, RuneScape and Old School RuneScape players who have hitherto been chained to your desktops or laptops to play: Set yourselves free! Jagex just announced...
