daybreak game company

Daybreak Game Company, colloquially known as just Daybreak, is what remains of the formerly Sony-owned studio SOE. The company was renamed following its purchase by investment firm Columbus Nova in early 2015. It is known best for the EverQuest and PlanetSide franchises, as well as Star Wars Galaxies, DC Universe Online, H1Z1, Vanguard, Dragon’s Prophet, The Matrix Online, Free Realms, and Clone Wars Adventures.

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs are nearly different games with max settings or upgraded clients?

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MOP reader Nibbana has a great question for The Daily Grind today. "So I just picked up Shadow in order to run my favorite...

The Daily Grind: Should all MMORPGs have EVE-style player councils?

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A couple of weeks ago, Worlds Adrift announced that it was rolling up a player council, and I did one of those tilt my...

One Shots: Supporting characters

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When you look for famous characters in your MMO, you may be looking for someone complete different than the rest of the crowd. Lt. Commander Hikari...

H1Z1 fans are quibbling over whether Jace Hall can really save the game on PC

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The 12 million dudes and dudettes playing H1Z1 on PlayStation 4 this summer need to know two things this week. For one, the latest...
Baby were born to run from the other side.

Rend’s Jeremy Wood on how Frostkeep borrows from Blizzard, Dark Age of Camelot, and PlanetSide

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GameDaily has an interview with Rend's Jeremy Wood this week that covers a bunch of meta topics of interest to MMO players and watchers...
At last, good stuff.

EverQuest II is merging one of its progression servers into a regular server

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The residents of two of EverQuest II's servers are about to get really chummy with each other. Daybreak announced this week that on September 4th,...

Global Chat: Everybody’s burning up about that Sylvanas thing

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Yes, just about every MMO blogger was sharing heated opinions about last week's World of WarCraft WarCrime. "It’s such a sad event and I’m particularly...

Leaderboard: Must MMORPGs revolve around grouping to be MMORPGs?

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It would be easy to dismiss Saga of Lucimia's pervasive "group-based or go home" ideas as mere rhetoric, but the reality is, there exists...

One Shots: Selfie school

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I certainly did not have to twist readers' arms to get them to bring out a mountain of MMORPG character selfies set against interesting...

Take a peek at the development of Shroud of the Avatar’s player-designed dungeon system

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Drama seems to plague Shroud of the Avatar, but if you can look past it, there's some fun innovation going on inside Portalarium in...
Health deferred.

EVE Online overhauls a half-dozen ships and improves the starter experience

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You notice how other studios, rather than scrambling away from next Tuesday's World of Warcraft expansion release, seem to be trying to compete with...

Star Wars Galaxies fans are working on an emulator for the game’s TCG

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I haven't been making any secret of how much fun I'm having in the Star Wars Galaxies Legends emulator (and thanks so much to...

Massively Overthinking: Should MMORPGs incentivize exploration – and how?

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Our Daily Grind on exploration last week sparked an intriguing follow-up from MOP reader Miol. "When asking about sightseeing and exploration in MMORPGs, you also...

Runewaker’s Guardians of Ember is getting a relaunch in the west thanks to Gameforge

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It's been a weird 2018 for Guardians of Ember. Back in February, Valve booted its publisher, Insel Games, off Steam, citing review manipulation in...

Jace Hall confirms that he’s H1Z1’s new PC lead, promises the sky

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The rumors and hints are true: Monolith's Jace Hall has made the jump over to Daybreak to take on the position as PC lead...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO features that deserve widespread adaptation

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You know what gets me excited about upcoming MMOs? It's certainly not the list of expected systems and features that have since become standard...

Saga of Lucimia’s epic quests will take ‘time, effort, and teamwork’ to finish

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What defines an epic adventure? This is the burning question that Saga of Lucimia is tackling this week, starting with the derisive analysis of...

The Stream Team: Exploring EverQuest II’s GUK

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You've heard about her desire to explore EQII's Guk, now watch Massively OP's MJ experience it! She'll be taking a team down into the...
Mean elf.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 181: Some devs just want to watch the world tree burn

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Justin and Bree discuss World of Warcraft's lore drama, Star Citizen's stockpiling controversy, DDO's new expansion, Riot's MMO tease, Albion's Merlyn, and TESO's DLC, with mailbag entry on the Horde impact and SC's pay-to-win.
baby why you gotta play me like that, i didn't meeeeeeeeean to give you rabies

H1Z1 has officially launched on the PlayStation 4 as Jace Hall joins the H1Z1 PC team

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Daybreak's battle royale game H1Z1 has been through more ups and downs and ups again in the last few years than most games see...

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