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Steam changes its guidelines on Season Pass DLC to emphasize compensation for players
When a developer sells a season pass DLC pack on Steam, they are selling you a bill of goods for future DLC. This is not exactly novel at this point, but the latest update to Steam guidance is actually taking aim at some of those season pass packs. Basically, the new guidelines make it clear that a developer cannot...
Ashes of Creation wipes away assets and eliminates over 100 characters over duping incident
One has to wonder exactly what sort of benefit someone would get from trying to use dupes to get ahead in a game that's in alpha testing. It's not like this is going to be permanent, you know? This is a test build. It's irrelevant. There's not a win condition right now. While we may never understand why, the...
Star Citizen aims to shift spaceship combat focus from time to kill to ‘time to disable’
As of right now, fighting against other ships in Star Citizen generally ends when a ship on either side of the conflict explodes in a blossom of fire. But sometime in the future, that metric is going to change according to the devs in the MMO's latest video digest, which is less about burning a ship down until it...
The Stream Team: Storm chasing in Astroneer’s Glitchwalkers
Last week, Massively OP's MJ realized she needed a bit more preparation to begin her Glitchwalkers adventures in Astroneer. And by preparation, she means knowing on which palnets her doggone vehicles are parked! Today, she's better situated for some serious storm chasing; she needs to catch the storms before they disperse in order to gather the data. Join us...
Perfect Ten: The allure of a fresh start MMO server
This week, WoW Classic activated another set of "fresh start" servers -- something that it's been doing pretty much annually since 2019. Yet even with the routine and familiarity of the event, a good subset of the playerbase (myself included!) got ridiculously excited about the prospect of going again.
So what is the allure of fresh start servers in MMORPGs?...
Corepunk resets servers to test account bank, skin collection, and an infinite reward system
Color us surprised: It turns out that Corepunk didn't have an unlimited cheat code for delays after all. The title is bound and determined to launch into early access next week on November 26th -- albeit in a limited format -- and has reset character progress while adding "several major account-related features."
Artificial Core even is asking some players to...
WRUP: Eliot is probably fine edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about our clutch gaming moments.
The Daily Grind: Do MMOs make our characters too powerful too quickly?
When I think back to all of the MMORPGs, CRPGs, and JRPGs I've played and the part of each game that I like the most, it typically is the very first section. I love starting out as a nobody -- weak, relatively unskilled, and wearing tissue paper armor. That means that every step forward in those opening hours and...
The Stream Team: Factions, reputations, and the Friday before Black Friday in AdventureQuest 3D
'Twas the week before Black Friday, when all throughout Lore
Massively OP's MJ was raking in deals galore;
Who cares if it's early, she must buy more bags,
Her backpack's so full, it makes the game lag!
For some reason this year, there's been a rush of treating other Fridays in November like Black Friday. Even AdventureQuest 3D has gotten in on the...
Betawatch: Path of Exile 2’s early access is almost here
It's almost time: On December 6th, Path of Exile 2 will enter the early access club. Classes: Six. Acts: Three. Endgame: Available. And hopefully it will not be forcibly removed from the club as a result of any of that. To be fair, the total number of classes will double by the time of full launch, but it is...
MapleStory adds an all-new Dark Ride event, revamps classes, and opens the Page of Memories in latest patch
Most of the time the events and updates applied to the global version of MapleStory are from the Korean version; this shouldn't come as a surprise to most players. However, our global version of the MMO forked away from Korea a while ago, and this week's newest update - subtitled The Dark Ride - continues that trend with an...
Temtem Swarm shows off its ‘living roadmap’ for future development
"The living roadmap" sounds like it's almost but not quite something that's been put together by Jack Kirby if you ignore certain basic facts (like Kirby being very dead and never having worked in game development). But in this case it's really about Temtem Swarm's ongoing development, with the "living" part being mostly about the fact that it can...
Old School RuneScape will sunset its Java client next year and revive Leagues V next week
If you can remember all the way back to 2020, then good for you. Would you care to tell me what sort of diet you're on that helps with that? Also, do you happen to recall when Old School RuneScape began working on replacing its old Java client as part of plans to deprecate it? Well if you didn't,...
Sea of Thieves’ community weekend event promises treats and tricks starting November 23
Now that the stormy seas of Season 14's launch are behind it, Sea of Thieves can get back to the proper business of celebrating its community and making mischief at the same time. Provided you're not one of those who have committed the crime of enjoying the game in PvE, anyway. That's because starting this Saturday, November 23rd, the...
Elite Dangerous makes changes to powerplay earnings and highlights the top five powers in-game
Many of Elite: Dangerous' players have been digging in to the newly updated powerplay mechancs, and now that a few weeks have passed by, Frontier Developments is ready to make a few tweaks to the system now that there's some data to act on.
The recent patch has applied what the studio calls significant reductions to the time and effort...
The Stream Team: Returning to Palia for the Season of Splendor – and pond plushies
MOP's Chris is once again coming back to the cozy multiplayer life RPG that is Palia for one thing and one thing only: pond plushies! OK, maybe there's more to his return than that considering the Season of Splendor update is live in the beta, but it's mostly about plushies! Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EST for some...
Multiplayer RTS titles ZeroSpace and Immortal Gates of Pyre plan public tests this weekend
This month, multiplayer RTS ZeroSpace moved from alpha to beta testing, and to celebrate, developer Starlance Studios will throw open the gates for a public demo from November 22nd (today) through 24th.
Of greatest interest to our readership will likely be the first draft of ZeroSpace's MMO-inspired Galactic War mode, in which players participate in co-op missions to contribute to...
Massively on the Go: Preparing for Pokemon Go’s Wild Area event
Pokemon Go's Wild Area event is being held November 23rd-24th, but despite being advertised as a new yearly event akin to Go Fest or the Go Tours, it really isn't exuding the usual pre-event hype, in spite of the fact that several people I know went to the recent live event. In fact, I'm going to frontload this by saying...
Diablo IV to test Patch 2.1’s armory and witchcraft systems in early December
The date is rapidly approaching for Diablo IV to begin testing its first big expansion update, as Patch 2.1 will go onto the public test realm from December 3rd through the 10th.
There is a lot to test here, too, starting with the new armory system that allows players to save, load, name, and swap builds on their characters. Players...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV Mobile might not be for you, and that’s fine
Ugh. Do I have to? Yes, apparently I have to. Let's talk about Final Fantasy XIV Mobile as a new thing related to Final Fantasy XIV, which is something I already don't want to do - but not because I hate this thing existing. I've already gotten a couple dozen people asking me what I think about this because,...
