business model
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Worst MMORPG Business Model of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Worst MMORPG Business Model of 2016, which is another new consideration for us this year...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG stories of the year
Earlier this week, we posted our award for the biggest MMORPG story of the year -- the one we thought had the biggest impact...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Business Model of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Business Model of 2016, which is a new award we're doling out...
Blade & Soul has gone free-to-play in Korea
Back during November's G-Star in Seoul, NCsoft announced that Blade & Soul's Korean version would be joining the Western and Taiwanese servers in their free-to-play...
The Daily Grind: Should gamers be able to make money off MMORPGs?
Last week, newly unveiled MMORPG Ashes of Creation explained that one of its seemingly unique features: the chance to make money from the game...
Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation aims for Kickstarter, Elite Dangeous aims for PS4 (December 10, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news -- or future crowdfunding news, as the case may be -- we learned all about Ashes of Creation,...
Ask Mo: Scoring last year’s Massively OP MMORPG predictions
As we do every year, today we're going to squint back a year, into the depths of a Massively Overthinking from the tail end...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online juggles making money and making content with Crown Crates
I think it's fair to say that the $15 subscription model just isn't cutting it for MMORPGs anymore. I understand that. The $15 pricetag...
Exclusive interview with Ashes of Creation’s Jeffrey Bard, formerly of Daybreak
Yesterday we covered a tip about a new MMORPG in the making: Ashes of Creation. Apparently we caught wind of this title before it was...
Make My MMO: Crowfall’s big world playtest, Star Citizen’s alpha 2.6 (December 3, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, ArtCraft says over 9000 gamers have been invited to try to break the three alpha servers active during Crowfall's "Big...
The Game Archaeologist: A talk with the man behind EQOA’s revival project
This past week we reported on an ongoing attempt by a small group of faithful EverQuest Online Adventure fans to bring back the MMO...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG stories of 2016
As we start to come to grips with the fact that we will be turning over the calendar into 2017 in one short month,...
Hyperspace Beacon: What to expect from SWTOR’s Knight of the Eternal Throne
After some of the major flaws with Knights of the Fallen Empire, I wasn't expecting much from Star Wars: The Old Republic's latest expansion...
RuneScape offers new subscription packages with ‘Premier Club’
The folks at Guinness World Records may have once counted RuneScape as the world's most popular free MMORPG, but it's had an optional subscription,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most bothersome part of MMORPG monetization?
A recent GIbiz interview on Ubisoft's monetization reveals that studios, at least the type making online shooters, have come full circle again to the...
EVE Evolved: Getting started with EVE’s free-to-play
Just under two weeks ago, EVE Online launched its new free to play account option with the introduction of clone states. Subscribers are now given the...
The Game Archaeologist: EA’s Majestic
"This is not a game. Or is it?"
Conspiracy theories and paranoia were hot with pop culture in the 1990s, largely thanks to movies like...
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMO internet spaceships fanatic
While some of us are toiling away on the ground in plate armor while fighting furry monstrosities, there's a whole world of internet spaceships...
Programming MMORTS Screeps leaves early access
If you cast your mind back to the wilder era of 2015, you might recall (or not) that MOP reported on an unusual MMORTS...
Global Chat: Recapturing the MMO magic
I suspect that much of the willingness of players to pour money into MMO Kickstarters is out of a strong desire to see games...
