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MMO Business Roundup: Blizzard Albany’s union, BioWare Pride, Sony’s antitrust lawsuit, and the P2E ‘hustle’

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business! Activision-Blizzard: Another group of QA testers within Activision-Blizzard have announced they're...

Blaugust returns for 2022 with achievements and prompts to encourage the MMO blogging community

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Blog writers of the internet - gaming related or otherwise - are being invited once again to join in on Blaugust 2022, the annual...

Camelot Unchained checks in with updates to siegecraft, animations, the Heavy Fighter, and the St’rm race

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Camelot Unchained has once again returned with its monthly newsletter and development blog - a bit later than usual this time around - offering...

New World says its Medleyfaire event ‘radiates summer fun’

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On the New World test server right now is a brand-new event that promises to inject some excitement and joy into the middle of...
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Massively Overthinking: Are you a cheater in MMOs or other games?

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We recently got a press release about a pair of studies on cheating, and I hesitated to run it as a news article because...

Conan Exiles deep-dives its planned battlepass monetization system

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When Age of Sorcery launches for Conan Exiles players later this year, it will completely upend the game's monetization model by switching from a...

Skull and Bones breaks down the different ways players can customize their ship

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Since Skull and Bones is all about being a pirate, there's obviously going to be ships in the game. However, the question of what...

Ashes of Creation answers player questions about scope creep, leveling speed, and PvP balance

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Whenever Ashes of Creation hosts a monthly developer livestream, it always has a player Q&A session at the end, and the nature of the...

Last Oasis explains design decisions for Season 5 while asking for more player feedback in a poll

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Last week saw the woodpunk survival sandbox Last Oasis hold its first beta test for Season 5 - the update that's intended to make...

Conan Exiles’ upcoming creative mode will let players build the castles of their dreams

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Building a base in Conan Exiles is something of a long-tail goal for the survival game, but what if you can't deal with all...

World of Warcraft takes players on a tour of Dragonflight’s overhauled crafting system

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Perhaps you thought it was curious -- or even exciting -- to see Blizzard flagging World of Warcraft's crafting for a huge update with...

Massively Overthinking: Solved problems in MMOs

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One of the most annoying pet peeves this genre seems to spin up frequently is some companies' tendency to treat solved problems as unsolved...

Global Chat: Changing opinions about WoW’s dungeon finder

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With the dungeon finder being left out of Wrath Classic, it's caused more than a few players to re-evaluate the pros and cons of...

Diablo Immortal shows off new Helliquary raid boss and second battlepass

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If for some reason you're still engaged with Diablo Immortal in spite of its being repeatedly exposed as a brutal cash grab with gameplay...

EVE Online takes a closer look at June’s visual and performance overhauls in a dev blog

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Sure, EVE Online players have already been experiencing the visual improvements made in June's patch, but have they truly appreciated all of the fine...

Last Oasis’ creator admits the game ‘sucks’ while talking up the Season 5 beta that’s launching today

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"Last Oasis Sucks." That's the title of the game's own dev blog, as written by the survivalbox's own creator - a direct admission that...

Redfall talks about what makes it stand out from other co-op FPS experiences

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If you've played one team-based co-op FPS title, you've played 'em all, right? Probably, and while Redfall certainly looks like it's wearing its whole...

Battle Bards Episode 214: Thieves and rogues

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You may never see them coming, but when the Battle Bards strike out of the shadows, you’ll either find your pocket picked, your fluffy...

Massively Overthinking: Is MMO class balance achievable – or even desirable?

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This past week, a chunk of the endgame-focused Guild Wars 2 community was up in arms over the profession balance update and the perception...

Fractured Online balances buffs and bolsters bosses in latest beta patch

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Dynamight's Fractured Online continues to plug along in closed beta this summer, and it's pushed out yet another patch for testers as of today....

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