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The Daily Grind: Are special MMO servers worth a subscription?

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With all of the special legacy and progression servers being started up across the MMORPG genre, I've noticed that there's an interesting factor that...

Torchlight Frontiers’ free-to-play model rejects pay-to-win and gambling schemes

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Given that Torchlight Frontiers is being published under Perfect World Entertainment, you're probably not going to be shocked to hear that the MMO will...

The MOP Up: Pagan Online slams ARPGs and MOBAs together

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Tack this on your list of action-RPGs to watch. Mad Head Games announced that it is developing a blend of ARPG and MOBA with...

Make My MMO: Space sim 3001SQ is put on hold, Star Citizen rolls out 3.3.5 to the Evocati

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, we've got some sad news from MMO space colonization sim 3001SQ: Development on the game has been halted...
THE BOX OF LOCKS

MMO Business Roundup: Japanese lockboxes, POGO and Square Enix financials, and Prima’s end

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"The Good Times Are Over for Japan’s Loot-Box-Style Gaming Bonanza" - that's the brutal headline plonked onto this week's Bloomberg report on Japanese lockboxes....
The string of capitalized names is an affront.

Gamigo promises ‘new content on a regular basis’ for ArcheAge, RIFT, Trove, Defiance, Atlas Reactor

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Players still awaiting more details on what's happening to their MMORPGs following Gamigo's buyout of Trion Worlds' assets have finally received a blanket announcement,...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: MMOs that aimed at the future… and missed

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The future is a weird place. It's similar to the present, but it has a very different outlook on the world, and it wants...
Uh...huh.

Netease talks up Diablo Immortal to Chinese fans and onlookers

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While American fans at this weekend's BlizzCon went into full-on meltdown mode, NetEase was also telling Chinese fans about the upcoming Diablo Immortal. It...
Knives out.

BlizzCon 2018: Diablo Immortal lore, zone, class, and Q&A recap

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Blizzard's Wyatt Cheng and Matthew Burger took the stage for the Diablo Immortal Q&A panel at BlizzCon tonight, clearly aware of the drama swirling...
I can stop any time I want.

BlizzCon 2018: World of Warcraft gets a new charity pet and a new cinematic

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The opening ceremonies are over, and we didn't get a whole lot of news about World of Warcraft just yet, but we did get...

BlizzCon 2018: World of Warcraft Classic is releasing next summer

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We all knew that World of Warcraft Classic -- the legacy server that will take players back to the vanilla version of the MMO...

The Daily Grind: Are you planning to give LOTRO’s new progression server a try?

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When Lord of the Rings Online announced its new progression server plan earlier this week, the LOTRO community immediately went into a state of...

Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous’ exploration reveal, Star Citizen’s $1650 ship

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Frontier has been showing off what's coming in Elite Dangerous' Beyond - Chapter Four, specifically the exploration bits...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s dazzling CitizenCon

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen wowed audiences in Austin and at home with its annual CitizenCon event, plus CIG rolled out...
Happiness is a warm car.

APB Reloaded is turning its premium fee into a recurring subscription

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Well here's an odd one to be writing in 2018: APB Reloaded is getting a subscription. Technically, it already had a premium upgrade that...
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Perfect Ten: The big book of MMORPG death mechanics

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Video games will kill your characters. It's inevitable. I still faintly remember my younger brother's first video game death, when he ran full-tilt into...

MapleStory 2 answers questions about the head start and monetization

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With only a couple of weeks to go before MapleStory 2 makes its big debut in the west, it is all hands on deck...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained works on Mages, the WoW Diary is about to Kickstart

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Camelot Unchained has been working on everything from earrings to pathfinding, though the effort on Mages is probably going...

LOTRO Legendarium: Future classes, business models, and direction

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For any MMORPG fan, the future often weighs heavily upon the mind. We get excited about what secrets might be in development. We wonder...

You can safely ignore those weird Lord of the Rings Online subscription messages

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If you got a cryptic letter from Lord of the Rings Online payment processing company Xsolla in the last day, you can safely ignore...

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