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Interview: Legends of Aria’s dungeon expansion, early access, ganking, housing, and cash shop philosophy

Bree Royce - February 7, 2019 22

Indie old-school sandbox MMORPG Legends of Aria has become a household name among MMO players over the last few months, first rolling into early...

EVE Online cracks down on cheaters, again, and contemplates more free-to-play gates

Bree Royce - January 22, 2019 10

You'd think that people might think twice about cheating in EVE Online, given that in 2018 alone, the company banned tens of thousands of...

Gamigo is expanding ArcheAge’s team, reducing lockboxes, and evaluating the Gazillion assets

Bree Royce - January 17, 2019 18

MMOBomb has an interview up with Gamigo's top brass today that has some interesting nuggets for MMO players wondering about the current state of...

Interview: Astellia’s western team on pay-to-win, themeparks, and dodging early access and battle royale

Bree Royce - January 15, 2019 33

Yesterday we covered the news that South Korean born MMORPG Astellia is heading westward in 2019, with its holy trinity classes, solid PvE and...

Crowfall devs dig into optimization issues, campaign balance, and more in new interview

Matt Daniel - January 13, 2019 0

Are you a Crowfall fan who loves Artcraft's regular Q&A videos but finds that they always leave you wanting more? Then boy are you...

MapleStory 2 interview: The Soul Binder, PvP, music, the western front, and battling pay-to-win

Bree Royce - January 7, 2019 2

MapleStory 2 charmed our previewer, our podcasters, even our writers when it came time for picking out the underdog MMO of 2018, thanks in...

Interview: New World’s Rich Lawrence on solving PvP problems and defining the sandbox

Bree Royce - December 20, 2018 80

I think it's fair to say that New World is the biggest MMO currently under production in the west, at least among those games...

Pirate MMO Atlas is trying to psych you up for tomorrow’s early access launch

Justin Olivetti - December 17, 2018 32

We here at Massively OP don't know everything there is about sailing, but we're guessing that in about thirty seconds, that giraffe up there...

Anthem doesn’t need whales to succeed, says BioWare’s Mike Gamble

Matt Daniel - December 8, 2018 62

It's fairly common knowledge that many games with microtransactions tend to rely heavily on big-spending "whales" to keep their finances in the black and...

Legends of Aria AMA covers sandbox endgame, difficulty, balancing, and future content

Bree Royce - December 6, 2018 10

Yesterday, devs from Citadel Studios zipped over to Reddit for an AMA all about Legends of Aria, which MMO players will recall just recently hit early access off-steam. Studio boss Derek "Supreem" Brinkmann and lead game designer Jeffrey "Miphon" Edwards sat for questions from the MMORPG sub. While the AMA continues today, here are some of the notable answers posted yesterday: