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Make My MMO: A big September for Fractured, Temtem, Genfanad, Embers Adrift, and Dual Universe
A whole bunch of Kickstarted MMORPGs are launching or heading into their last legs of testing this month. A slew. A plethora. A lot!
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Massively Overthinking: Who’s really paying for MMOs?
Two years ago, we did a piece on dark patterns in MMO design, and in the comments, a reader named Shadex De'Marr penned a...
Microsoft elaborates on its mobile platform hunger, confirms Overwatch and Diablo’s arrival to Game Pass
The vast majority of our readers made the shocked pikachu face when Microsoft CEO Phil Spencer admitted that his company's buyout of Activision-Blizzard is...
Mortal Online 2 defends its decision to go subscription-only
Is it the height of foolishness to launch an MMORPG in 2022 as subscription-only -- or is it a shrewd financial tactic? Players will...
LOTRO Legendarium: Will Before the Shadow evade the mini-expansion stigma?
With the announcement this week at Gamescom's Devcom of Lord of the Rings Online's "mini-expansion," Before the Shadow, we now have a pretty good...
RuneScape’s fresh start worlds are being delayed to September 26 in order to adjust to player feedback
When RuneScape unveiled its fresh start worlds feature, it received a great deal of player feedback, prompting Jagex to write a follow-up that outlines...
Massively Overthinking: The most unusual subscriptions in the MMO space
A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, so long ago that I can't remember who or when, a listener asked us about unusual MMO...
Perfect Ten: My memories from the 2004 World of Warcraft launch
Back in November of 2004, I was a wide-eyed 28-year-old bachelor who had just met his future wife and was generally leery about MMOs...
Mortal Online 2 shares info about points of interest, sub model, assassination, carpentry, and new magic schools
Star Vault CEO Henrik Nystrom is looking ahead to the future of Mortal Online 2, which was the focus of the game's most recent...
Grimdark MMO Mad World confirms 2022 launch as ‘permanent open beta,’ aims for a primary male audience
Jandisoft's Mad World is looking more and more like a candidate for a 2022 release: Not only did we spot a new "winter 2022"...
Sci-fi MMO Dual Universe is officially launching next month, six years after its $630K Kickstarter
It's been a long strange trip for the Kickstarted sci-fi sandbox MMORPG Dual Universe, studded with unusual monetization and the ousting of its founder...
Guild Wars 2 is finally launching on Steam next week – just in time for its 10th birthday
So you folks remember when Guild Wars 2 was planning to launch on Steam, right? It was originally announced way back in 2020 and...
Make My MMO: Elite’s new CEO, Wagadu’s alpha, and Fractured’s conquest system
This week in crowdsfunded MMOs, Kickstarted sandbox Fractured Online dropped a new dev talk video this week, deep-diving the game's city conquest system and...
NCsoft Q2 2022: Throne and Liberty delayed to 2023, Aion 2 in dev, Guild Wars 2 booming
If you were skeptical about NCsoft's Q1 financial report and its confidence about still managing to get Throne and Liberty out the door in...
Project L is confirmed to be free-to-play with ‘respectful’ monetization
Riot Games was long known for making exactly one game (League of Legends) but it's lately been diversifying into other fields. That diversification is...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2022: More revenue dips for WoW, ABK, and Blizzard in spite of Diablo Immortal
Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials. As of this afternoon, we have Q2's results, comprising April, May, and June 2022; let's...
Vague Patch Notes: The many flavors of ‘boosting’ in the MMO genre
The other day MOP's Bree and I were having a discussion about boosting. This is not entirely unusual, but it was unusual insofar as...
The Soapbox: Why diversifying your MMO gaming is the smart thing to do
Allow me to indulge in some retrospection for a moment as I sit back on my rocker, squint into the fading afternoon light, and...
Make My MMO: Pantheon raises another $2.4M in investor funds
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen's Visionary Realms got a welcome blast of new funding this week with a haul of $2.4M in Series A...
Diablo IV goes up on PlayStation store, beta access guaranteed with tattoos
Some movement this week in Diablo IV's quarters, as the official PlayStation store page for the upcoming ARPG went live. While the page doesn't...
