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The 15th anniversary celebration lined up for MMORPG Dofus has begun with Dofus Retro, the game's own classic server for those who want to...

By Ember Sword's reckoning, the MMORPG genre is in decline thanks to insidious monetization practices like lootboxes and pay-to-win items. So what do you...

If Ashes of Creation Apocalypse thought it could avoid a review-bomb with a new Steam portal as Apocalypse hit early access this week, it...

The announcement of ArcheAge Unchained and its buy-to-play, no-pay-to-win ruleset has been one of the big surprises of the season for the five-year-old MMORPG...

Alright, all you armchair business analysts, it's time to look over SuperData's sales research report for August 2019. Get your best arguments ready and...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, MOP reader Winterskorn alerted us to the Kickstarter for Day of Dragons. It's not a pure MMO, but it's...

By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription -- usually $15...

The Union fédérale des consommateurs (Federal Union of Consumers or UFC Que Choisir), a French consumer group, has been pursuing litigation against Valve over...

If you picked up the Legendary Pack for Astellia Online, then launch day is tonight for you, as the headstart begins at 8 p.m....

If you remember the beginning of 2019 - yes, it's been like 100 years this year, but try - you'll recall that the Legends...

Massively OP's own Justin Olivetti penned a blog post this week in which he muses on the lifespan of the $15 MMO sub fee,...

The past few years have seen some really big seismic shifts in the game industry. In the time that I've been working here alone,...

Remember last year when we polled our readers on how much money they'd spent on their Steam accounts? Most people seemed to track under...

Is it ever too late to take a look back at old MMORPGs -- even ones that have passed away? Not when there are...

I have a really hard time taking anything seriously that refers to money as "bucks." You'll recall that I opened the Lawful Neutral column...

Nobody wants to think that a favourite MMO is losing popularity, but with EVE Online now being over 15 years old, it's a possibility...

While we usually convene here at Massively OP to discuss game launch anniversaries, today we have something slightly different: the launch of a business...

Here's a fun question I asked myself a lot back in the day: Why, exactly, did leveling take so long in Final Fantasy XI? The obvious mechanical...

So, who figured that the people playing World of Warcraft emulators would all jump ship in order to play on the official version of WoW Classic?...

Justin and Bree tackle Fallen Earth's sunset, WoW Classic, going back to Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Astellia Online's monetization, CCP's new MMO, City of Heroes, and a mailbag question on swatting.