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Massively Overthinking: The boring MMO development between bookends of hype

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If you watch MMOs being developed for long enough, one truth becomes evident: It's kinda boring. I started thinking a bit about this last week...
Theoretically there's a non-jerk version of this out there, but...

Battle Bards Episode 137: League of Legends’ hero themes

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What’s your hero’s theme? If you play League of Legends, you know the answer to that already, because every hero in that game has...
Hooray, no shouting LFG for hours, that's enticing.

Anthem outlines future plans and preps more server capacity ahead of tomorrow’s public demo

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So who's ready for round two of Anthem? BioWare is! The studio's Chad Robertson has penned a new dev blog prepping the playerbase for...

Elder Scrolls Online’s Wrathstone dives back into Oblivion for dungeon inspiration

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One of the dungeons launching in next month's Elder Scrolls Online Wrathstone DLC is Depths of Malatar, a four-man romp featured in ZeniMax's latest...

Exclusive: Survival MMO Population Zero deep-dives its unique perk system

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Population Zero caught out attention at the tail end of last year when developer Enplex announced the survival MMO was hitting pre-alpha and opening...
Sir.

Conan Exiles is replacing its messy old VOIP with Vivox

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Players have been asking Funcom to fix voice chat in Conan Exiles pretty much since the day that it went in as a feature....

Global Chat: When MMOs fail to communicate

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Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril addresses a point that I've been saying for years now: Many MMOs skew to information overload when it...
They're not attractive spaceships.

Massively Overthinking: Why aren’t you playing the MMO most like your favorite sunsetted game?

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This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from reader Smuggler-in-a-YT. "Star Wars Galaxies had its problems, but the sense of community, purpose, and story (through...

Kickstarted sci-fi MMOFPS Pantropy will hit early access on January 31

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Hey, remember Pantropy? We first began covering this sci-fi MMOFPS back in 2017; since then, it's run two Kickstarters, the first of which was...
Oh, boo-hoo.

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

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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...
In we go.

Global Chat: The big question mark of Anthem

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What's the biggest gaming unknown for you going into 2019? For MMO blogger Cary at Virtual Bastion, it's whether or not BioWare is going to...

The Daily Grind: Is player competition in MMOs healthy or harmful?

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Youngsters these days probably won't ever experience the real struggle of logging into an MMORPG and endlessly fretting that other players will get to...
Well, someone's having fun!

MapleStory 2 posts three-month feedback plan for gemstone, pet, and Meso improvements

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January always seems to be a time of regrouping for MMO communities and studios, and Nexon is joining the trend with MapleStory 2. Producer...

Stewart Chisam will replace Erez Goren as CEO of SMITE company Hi-Rez Studios

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Multiplayer online game company Hi-Rez Studios is seeing a leadership shuffle this week, as the man who's been CEO for 14 years is stepping...

Massively Overthinking: What would you want out of a World of Warcraft 2?

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Let's pretend for a moment that the reason Blizzard appears to be dropping the ball with World of Warcraft right now is that it's...
Build a little dark-house in your soul.

ArtCraft outlines Crowfall’s (surprisingly short) road to alpha 6.0

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Even as a Crowfall backer, I've been occasionally confused about the game's test status, especially after it missed two of its original planned soft-launch...

Battle Bards Episode 136: Overlooked MMO soundtracks

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Ever feel like the Battle Bards have covered every MMO soundtrack in existence? It’s actually far from true, and today’s episode is Exhibit A...

With the Improbable/Unity dispute lingering on, MMOs like Worlds Adrift are literally adrift

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Last week, Improbable and Unity stunned the gaming industry with their ugly spat over SpatialOS integration and licensing, as both companies issued statements about their...

Pantheon maps out 2019, promising new website, Faerthale development, and more

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Brad McQuaid's Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is kicking off 2019 with a new edition of its newsletter that recaps 2018 - including our...

Exclusive: Legends of Aria previews its first major content of 2019

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We've had our eye on Legends of Aria since, well, long before it was called Legends of Aria, meaning we've been watching the game...

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