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Fallout 76 dataminer is banned from the game after reporting an exploit
No good deed goes unpunished for one Fallout 76 player who found a significant exploit regarding legendary weapons, reported it, and got summarily banned...
Fallout 76 players discuss the current state of the game and the Fallout 1st subscription
If you want to take the temperature of a game's community, often you're left to some of the more acerbic places of discussion like...
The Daily Grind: Should World of Warcraft switch to annual expansions?
During last week's Activision-Blizzard investor call, Blizzard executives dodged hard on one analyst's question about WoW Classic retention - no great surprise there, really,...
Make My MMO: Destiny’s Sword is launching a Steam demo Monday
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we learned that Destiny's Sword is dropping a Steam demo on Monday as a tie-in with Veterans Day...
WAPO says Activision-Blizzard execs profited from dodgy but legal stock sale
Yesterday we covered Activision-Blizzard's third quarter financial results, which were... not good. While WoW Classic drove a subscription spike and saw Blizzard's MAUs finally...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2019: Revenues sink for the third quarter in a row
Activision-Blizzard has not had the best year. In February, the company saw record-high revenues and promptly laid off 800 employees, leading to widespread condemnation....
Fallout 1st subscribers have formed a clan of aristocrats to perpetrate Fallout 76 class warfare
Whether the reports of Fallout 1st players being harassed in Fallout 76 are highly fabricated or not, a large cluster of Fallout 1st subscribers...
Desert Oasis: Discerning the best purchases in Black Desert’s cash shop
I've always been someone who goes against the grain, and MMOs are no exception. Part of the reason I enjoy Black Desert so much is...
Global Chat: Fallout Last
Bethesda's busy digging another grave for Fallout 76, this time by saddling the troubled online title with a problematic subscription service that is broken...
Massively Overthinking: The problem with MMO ‘dailies’
Longtime MOP Patron and friend of the site Avaera recently posed us an intriguing questions about daily login rewards in MMORPGs.
"Recently my game of choice,...
Astellia Online is free to play again this weekend starting November 1
I always feel bad for games that run events on BlizzCon weekend because I always suspect they'll be underattended, but maybe this BlizzCon will...
The Daily Grind: Would you pay a sub to play Guild Wars 2?
Hear me out - not trolling here. I've been thinking about this all week, ever since the uproar over the pricing for Guild Wars...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 244: An Onslaught of news
Justin and Bree discuss Onslaught aka SWTOR's first expansion in three (!) years, Fallout 76's latest kerfuffle, the return of Kritika Online, ArcheAge's ArchePass confusion and rework, DDO's mounts, BlizzCon, and Halloween, with a mailbag topic on MMO toxicity.
Legends of Aria is going semi-free-to-play with sweeping New Dawn update
If you've been feeling a bit confused by all of Legends of Aria's recent changes, my friends, you are not alone. Back in August,...
EA is bringing an unspecified number of games back to Steam along with the EA Access plan
While it's not the death of Origin, this bit of news certainly sounds like the dull, wet thud of an axe ramming into its...
Make My MMO: Book of Travels has already doubled its Kickstarter ask
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we've got a new addition to the Make My MMO list: Book of Travels, the "tiny multiplayer online"...
Astellia Online runs a pair of free trial weekends
Do you have any pressing plans this weekend? Astellia Online hopes not because the team would really like to get you into this new...
Massively Overthinking: Niche MMOs vs. everythingboxes
Earlier this month, veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster announced that he's finally making a new MMORPG, with a suite of top devs and a...
‘Unique social roleplaying experience’ Book of Travels begins Kickstarter
If you've often promised that you would support online RPGs that broke from tropish traditions and took risks, well, it's time to put your...
The Fallout 76 community is storming over the Fallout 1st sub
Yesterday's announcement that Fallout 76 is getting a "Fallout 1st" subscription plan that locks private world ownership behind a paywall and grants very Elder...
