Vague Patch Notes: The negatives of MMORPG rogue servers
Last week, we began a discussion about the ups and downs of rogue servers in the MMO space, by which I actually mean we...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon preps Steam closed beta, ‘retires’ official forums
Five years after Darkfall: Rise of Agon launched, the PvP MMORPG is getting ready to go into closed beta once more. This time, however,...
MMO Business Roundup: ArenaNet’s pro-choice stance, Blizzard’s new VP, and Nexon’s new CEO
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news.
Human rights - ArenaNet and NCsoft have lent their voices - or at...
World of Warcraft discusses Dragonflight crafting and finally removes the School of Hard Knocks achievement
It's been more than a decade since players first began searching for the Violet Proto-Drake mount from World of Warcraft's holiday event meta-achievement, and in...
Gravity is apparently cracking down on Ragnarok’s rogue server community
The Ragnarok Online rogue server community is in uproar this week as Ragnarok's Korean developer and publisher, Gravity Co., has filed at least one...
EVE Fanfest 2022: EVE Online is getting a Spanish client
EVE Online has been an intensely international game throughout its lifetime, with significant audiences across the US, Europe, and Russia. Most players are stuck...
EVE Fanfest 2022: EVE Online puts spreadsheets in your spreadsheets
While EVE Online's nickname of "spreadsheets in space" was intended as a joke, the developers behind the game are really leaning into it. CEO...
The Daily Grind: Do you still try to make new friends in MMOs?
Today's Daily Grind was inspired by a Reddit thread from a user who said he was experiencing a bout of loneliness in MMOs, essentially...
The Stream Team: Doing tasks for a Neverwinter dragon
Massively OP's MJ has never been quiet about her love of dragons. And now, she gets to act as personal assistant and run a...
Massively Overthinking: The minimum requirements for MMO player housing
We've got housing on the brain lately, thanks to Ship of Heroes' housing beta, Final Fantasy XIV's botched housing lottos, Warframe's new housing, and...
ArcheAge tasks players with caring for eggs in the returning Daru Festival spring event
There's a little spring-themed event happening in ArcheAge starting today, and regular players of the MMORPG will likely be familiar with it: It's the...
Aion NA adds a wardrobe system, a normal version of Heart of Apsaranta, and several dungeon tweaks
Good news for Daevas with a passion for fashion: The NA version of Aion is bringing a wardrobe function in the 8.2 update, which...
Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore heads to Kickstarter with an ask just above $63,000 and an open test running concurrently
We've been keeping our eyes on Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore for a while now, as it's the latest in a long line of games advertising...
Black Desert launches new Path of Glory season on mobile, graduates season characters on PC, and shares some jazz tunes
Hey, gamers. Do you like jazz? How about jazzy tracks from Black Desert? If so, then you're in luck because members of the game's...
The Elder Scrolls Online introduces players to the High Isle chapter’s philanthropic Society of the Steadfast
Sure, fighting a war in the fiction of The Elder Scrolls Online can be fun from a gameplay standpoint, but the game's lore is...
Whatever happened to sandbox Bitcraft? It’s rewriting MMORPG progression
MOP readers will recall Bitcraft emerged only last autumn as a procedurally generated sandbox MMORPG from Clockwork Labs with the financial backing of a...
Ship of Heroes’ player housing beta begins today
As promised, City of Heroes-inspired indie MMORPG Ship of Heroes is throwing open its superhero doors for a fresh round of open beta beginning...
WoW Factor: Is dragon riding in World of Warcraft Dragonflight borrowed power?
So there's a whole lot of stuff to talk about right now when it comes to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight; that's not under debate....
Blade & Soul’s May 11 update crowns an empress, opens a new dungeon, and brings back Horde and Gourd
Next week sees a new chapter arrive to the Earthen Realm of Blade & Soul. The New Empires update launches on Wednesday, May 11th,...
LOTRO promises a ‘significant portion of engineering’ to address server performance
One of the unfortunate side effects of Lord of the Rings Online's population boom amid its 15th anniversary celebrations is that all of the...
