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World of Warcraft increases Brazil and Russia sub prices, defends Classic drums changes
If you're a World of Warcraft player in Russia or Brazil, you have our sympathies when you look at your bill next month. Blizzard...
Genshin Impact has made a billion dollars in its first six months of operation
For a while there it seemed like no one would stop with the Genshin Impact memes, huh? But six months out from launch, it seems...
World of Warcraft is altering the deal on game time purchases, settling on just 60-day increments
Players who obtain their World of Warcraft game time through Blizzard's shop have fewer options this week, as the studio announced that it has...
Whatever happened to Mark Kern’s crowdfunded Firefall-successor Em-8er?
We're taking a trip back to the halcyon days of Firefall to set the stage for this piece, so hop aboard the esports bus...
Perfect Ten: 10 ways that MMOs kind of used to be worse
Believe you me, I know quite well the arguments that have been rehashed over the years about how the MMORPG genre and these online...
Make My MMO: Saga of Lucimia development pushes onward after founder begins new game
Welcome back to another Make My MMO, the long-running MMORPG crowdfunding column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs be they launched or lingering,...
Magic Legends lays out its ZEN market, broker system, and battlepass tracks
Anyone who has played a Cryptic game probably is well-acquainted with its slightly convoluted business model. Basically, the studio has a cash shop (the...
Vague Patch Notes: The sneering elitism of the MMO term ‘welfare epics’
A few weeks ago, I saw an MMO player unironically complaining about "welfare epics" here in 2021. This is basically the equivalent of saying,...
Dauntless changes course on vault cosmetics with rotating reward cache and Slayers Club
Goodbye vaults, hello reward caches: Dauntless is changing how it offers items from seasonal passes to players. Instead of the traditional "vault" format, whereby...
LOTRO Legendarium: How much value does a VIP subscription offer these days?
Probably the biggest question any Lord of the Rings Online player has to ask him or herself is whether to go subscription or free-to-play...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 311: The day the MMOs died
Justin and Bree discuss Anthem Next's demise, Defiance and Gamigo's MMO purge, DDO's big news, Black Desert's free-play, Riot's MMO, and mobile Warcraft, with adventures in LOTRO, City of Heroes, WoW Classic, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus mailbag topics on post subs, Valheim, and MMOs as they used to be.
Choose My Adventure: The combat is the sauce in Wizard101
It’s only been a little bit of time, but I am already mightily impressed with Wizard101.
The game has a pretty rich and involved following,...
The Game Archaeologist: EA’s Motor City Online
When we use the shorthand "MMO" for online games, it's always assumed that we're talking about swords-and-sorcery or sci-fi RPGs. However, the massively multiplayer...
Make My MMO: Roadmaps for Camelot Unchained and Chronicles of Elyria
This week in MMORPG crowdfunding was all about roadmaps for Kickstarted MMORPGs. Camelot Unchained posted its latest 90-day plan with work on RvR zones,...
Perfect Ten: MMOs of the ‘internet spaceships’ genre
It's at once the most important and most underserved genre in MMOs, aside from gigantic robots - it's the valuable genre of internet spaceships. They're...
Preserving Worlds documentary chronicles the histories and communities of ancient MMOs
While most of the writers at MOP support online games preservation through responsible methods, the ideal situation would be the ability to visit shutdown...
Gamigo is merging down ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained’s servers, and yes there will be new land rushes
ArcheAge's misery just compounds lately: Gamigo has announced that it's merging many of the gamers servers servers under the "server evolution" catchphrase. Across both...
Allods Online opens up pre-orders for collector’s editions of its upcoming Desert Dreams update
Why wait for an update to arrive when you can pre-order a collector's edition of an update before it even lands? This is the...
Elite Dangerous arrives to Xbox players as part of Game Pass on February 25
Is your Xbox Game Pass subscription missing some internet spaceship sandbox gaming? Not for long, friend, because the next batch of games coming to...
The Daily Grind: What MMORPG would’ve performed better had it launched in a different year?
I was chit-chatting with longtime MOP reader Bruno the other day when we starting yawing about RIFT and EverQuest II and which one was...
