Crowfall begins detailing specialization changes for each of the game’s classes

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When we first reported about Crowfall's plans to expand class specializations in update 6.2, we noted that there was an in-depth look at what's changing for the Ranger class. Little did we know, though, that every class in the game would be getting explanations of this depth, which have been posted on the game's news section over the...
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World of Warcraft: Shadowlands pre-patch check-in: Hotfixes, customization insight, and quest skips

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Now that the World of Warcraft: Shadowlands pre-patch is live, you might want to start your leveling experience in Warlords of Draenor but not want to do the horribly tedious start experience again. It's way too long. Fortunately, you have a new way to skip that! That's one of the undocumented changes with the latest patch; far more documented is the first...
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Vague Patch Notes: Managing the MMO message – and when to piss off your fans

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Remember at the beginning of this year when Mark Jacobs managed to basically enrage everyone with his announcement of another game his company was working on using the fundamentals laid down in Camelot Unchained? I know, it feels like that was four years ago, but it was January. People are still mad about it now, to the point that you can...
How are you this way.

Eight-year-old Pirate101 is essentially in maintenance mode with no new content planned for the next year

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We've got some unfortunate but not unexpected news from Pirate101 this week, as KingsIsle has admitted that its content drought will continue for the foreseeable future. "In the September 2019 producer letter, we discussed a bit about the future of our updates – specifically that we were not considering any new worlds but looking at other ways that we could...

Taking a look at World of Warcraft’s new starter experience, Exile’s Reach

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While we are still in a holding pattern to know the launch date of Shadowlands, the good news is that you don't have to wait a single moment to try out one of World of Warcraft's brand-new zones. With this week's patch 9.0, Blizzard added the fresh starting area of Exile's Reach, which is playable right now. Exile's Reach is...
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Pantheon restructures to allow ‘more rapid development,’ will start next alpha phase this month

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Acknowledging that there has been "a great deal of confusion" around the current state of Pantheon, Visionary Realms posted a new producer's letter to explain the history of the MMORPG's development and what's on the horizon. In a nutshell, the team acknowledged that it had "backed itself into a corner" with its hardcoding and was facing a future where the...

‘Welcome back Freelancers’: It looks like Gamigo might be reviving Atlas Reactor

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The date is June 28th, 2019. It's the crack of dawn. And Gamigo has just sunsetted Atlas Reactor, one of the multiple Trion Worlds games that Gamigo picked up when Trion went under two years ago. The game's got a weird sort of cult status in the genre, with elements of MMOs, MOBAs, shooters, and even strategy games that...

EverQuest announces its 27th expansion, Claws of Veeshan

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Perhaps EverQuest fans were a little concerned that Daybreak might not be able to put out its yearly expansion, what with COVID and all. Rest easy, fair Norrathans, because Claws of Veeshan is coming! The studio officially announced its 27th expansion for the MMO this week, saying that it will be taking pre-orders and putting the pack into beta next...
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We finally know who’s taking over TERA’s NA PC version: It’s Gameforge

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Two days ago, we wrote with some consternation over the fact that we knew when En Masse's TERA servers would be closing down and even when currency would transfer to the new publisher - but even two months later, we still didn't know who exactly was taking over the North American PC version of the game. As of this...
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The Daily Grind: How solid do you think your memory of your favorite MMO’s history is?

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Ages ago, I wrote a column in which I jokingly pointed out that in order to really get the WoW Classic experience, you should need add-ons to enable multiple action bars. People tried to counter that this was not the case, as the game already had the option... but it didn't at launch. Multiple action bars weren't added into the game...