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The Daily Grind: Do you complain about MMO buyables – and then buy them anyway?
During EG7's investor pitch video this week, Daybreak boss Ji Ham said something that leaped out at me. He was essentially trying to convince...
WoW Factor: So Blizzard backtracked on WoW Classic’s dungeon finder
So in April last year, I wrote a whole article about how World of Warcraft's development team was taking a gigantic misstep when it...
Unity’s leaked install fee concessions include a fee cap, self-reporting, and end to retroactivity
As we've been reporting, Unity upended the entire gaming industry last week by announcing crushing new per-game-install fees for developers, a decision that not...
Make My MMO: Star Citizen is nine years late, but sure, it’s the gamers who are wrong
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks!
Star Citizen, an alpha MMORPG Kickstarted in 2012 ahead of a planned...
Massively Overthinking: Do you sub to MMOs you’re no longer playing?
Over the summer, an MMO did something I've never seen an MMO do before: It stopped taking my money for no discernable reason and...
PvP MMO Abyss admits it began life as a crypto game selling ‘satirical poop’ NFTs
Back in August, we covered a seemingly new project from a new-to-MMOs team called Old World Labs. The so-called Abyss sounded interesting, with immersive...
Gamigo’s RIFT celebrates Steam’s 20th birthday with free subs, mounts, and boosts
If you've been on Steam since the early days, you're celebrating a 20th anniversary alongside Valve this week, and some games are jumping in...
Lost Ark issues a compensation package for its extended EU server merge maintenance
European fans of Lost Ark were effectively locked out from playing the MMOARPG earlier this week, when Amazon Games' big EU server merge ended...
RuneScape subbers are not happy about its new battlepass-style Hero Pass system
If you were desperately hoping that there was another way to give RuneScape your money on top of the game's existing subscription option, good...
Casually Classic: Hardcore realms are merely a Band-Aid for WoW Classic
Let's pause for a hot minute to absorb the fact that WoW Classic just hit its fourth anniversary. For the reheated leftovers of an...
Make My MMO: Loftia has generated $850K on Kickstarter so far
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks!
Loftia is on track to be the biggest MMO Kickstarter of the...
Sojo is a solo effort early access open world MMORPG promising all of the genre trimmings
With an open world, four classes, linear leveling, talent trees, item-based progression, hundreds of items, and a low-poly art style, Sojo is certainly hitting...
The Daily Grind: What’s a red flag for you for MMO cash shop customization?
Free-to-play games have to make money somehow, and character customization options are usually the option that developers pick just because it's possible to add...
Vague Patch Notes: The shell game of MMO subscriber numbers and player counts
Here is a very reasonable question: How many subscribers does Star Wars: The Old Republic have? Not how many players, but how many subscribers....
Nexon Q2 2023: Revenues perk up 12% QoQ thanks to multiple online games
While its competitors turned in disappointing financial quarters, Nexon has actually seen a surprising resurgence in Q2: Its quarterly revenues were 12% higher compared...
Vague Patch Notes: Almost nobody can save struggling mid-to-small MMOs
A week ago, we all sounded off on the best way to save a small-to-mid-size MMO that was struggling, as prompted by a discussion...
Indie time-travel MMO Into the Echo releases interactive lore website experience
If you've forgotten all about time-travel MMO Into the Echo, we'll totally forgive you because we had too. And that's because we haven't heard...
Survival MMO-lite Dawnlands launches to a righteous roasting on Steam
It's been barely more than a month since we even knew Dawnlands existed at all, but it's officially launched as of this week. Singapore-based...
Palia says closed beta feedback is a ‘tsunami engulfing’ the studio, vows clarity on pricing bundles
It's been almost a week since cozy life sim Palia triggered its soft launch via a persistent beta that finally dropped the NDA. Now...
Square-Enix Q1 2024: Overall profits and MMO sales drop as FFXVI underperforms
The latest earnings report for Square-Enix has been released for the period ending on June 30th, 2023, and it's good news for the company...
