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Make My MMO: The Fractured fiasco
Welcome to the 2023 edition of Make My MMO, MOP's long-running MMO crowdfunding column. We've already rounded up all the big MMO crowdfunding news...
Korean MMO Project TS scored a global publisher – but it’s a blockchain purveyor
As we recently demonstrated in our lengthy list of in-development MMOs, there's a whole lot coming down the pike. Now we can add another...
Square-Enix’s Yosuke Matsuda is still all-in on blockchain and NFTs even after 2022
You might think that after watching the steady erosion and collapse of blockchain and NFTs in general and in the gaming space after 2022,...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best value MMOs going into 2023
Every year when I do this post, I muse about what "value" actually means for MMOs because it's actually a tricky proposition and that...
World of Warcraft is granting subscribers limited-time access to Dragonflight’s first chapter
If the whiff of desperation in World of Warcraft's earlier offer of subscription time for gifting Dragonflight hit your nose, that conclusion is probably...
Project Gorgon rings in Ri-Shin for the winter holiday
Christmas has come to Project Gorgon this month as the game's Ri-Shin celebration is underway in its most recent content patch. Players can help...
Ethyrial Echoes of Yore announces the sale of founder’s packs through a ‘founder crowdfunding program’
What do you call a sale of founder's packs without actually using those words? You call it the "founder crowdfunding program" if you're old-school...
Vitae Aeternum: The uncomfortable truth of New World’s lax monetization
I have a pretty laid back approach to monetization in online games. Bar mandatory subscriptions and a few egregious outliers, I am generally fine...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2022
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's column keeping track of all the crowdfunding MMOs in our genre. Last year, the...
World of Warcraft offers an extra 30 days of subscription time for Dragonflight gift purchases through December
Blizzard: So it turns out that after releasing two terrible World of Warcraft expansions back-to-back, we've ensured nobody actually trusts us to release another...
The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMO trend of 2022?
Earlier this week, we dished out our "best MMO trend." Today, I want to talk about the worst trend, and really there are a...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2023
Nobody can see the future, but it sure is fun guessing, and that's exactly what we're going to do for (to?) the MMO genre...
Ryzom takes players on a flythrough its classic vistas in latest video
Ryzom: It's Still Around!™ That's the cheerful takeaway for the game's most recent video, which grants veterans and potential players a flythrough several of...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s sunset and Elite’s update 14
Crowfall went offline this week, possibly for the last time, as new owner Monumental pulled the game back into development without a clear plan,...
From the Depths: ‘Free-to-play’ World of Warships is an expensive journey
When I first started playing MMO’s back in 2012, the hot debate of the time was subscription vs. free-to-play business models. Over the last...
Albion Online continues to ramp up Mists rewards, preps per-character sub fee hike
Are you ready for even more rewards from doing things in the Mists of Albion Online? Then the sandbox MMORPG's latest hotfix is right...
Perfect Ten: 10 things we’re thankful for in MMO gaming
In my experience, people who invest heavily into being grateful and thankful for blessings don't have a lot of excess room for negativity and...
EVE Online begins testing a new default overview UI
The overview window of EVE Online is the most important part of the game's UI, as it effectively is the tool players use to...
Here’s what to expect from Star Citizen’s IAE free fly promo starting tomorrow
Try before you buy, whether it's a new shiny spaceship (with in-game or real world currency) or a starter pack! That's the primary thrust...
EVE Online hits its second highest daily user count for November thanks to Uprising and promotional offers
Last week saw EVE Online release its much ballyhooed Uprising update, bringing along with it new ship variants, the frontlines mode, and more to...
