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Raph Koster’s new MMORPG will be more than ‘just hack and slashing your way through levels’
Yesterday, we reported on something pretty thrilling for long-time MMORPG fans: Raph Koster, one of the brains behind classic MMORPG sandboxes Ultima Online and...
Massively Overthinking: The one about MMO roleplay servers
An MOP reader named Thierry recently pointed us to a brewing storm in the World of Warcraft Classic community: In a nutshell, the server...
Vague Patch Notes: Copies, blatant copies, and plagiarism in MMOs
So... this was honestly not the story that I had expected to have wound up coming out of Eternal Magic. I'd been expecting that "beauty...
Raph Koster is making a new MMO and just raised $2.7M in seed funding to do it
So, who wants a new and well-funded MMORPG from the guy who literally wrote the book on virtual worlds? I knew you would. Raph...
Star Wars: The Old Republic reaches final phase of Onslaught testing, previews Mercenaries and Commandos
It's the final countdown over on the Star Wars: The Old Republic's test server, or more accurately, the final test phase. Yes, there's still more...
The Stream Team: Curse you, SWTOR Corellia datacrons!
Come to Corellia, they said. Get some datacrons, they said. It will be fun, they said. For the death counter! Yeah, that's the part...
Perfect Ten: Solo prequel games to MMORPGs
When studios go about making MMORPGs, risk comes along with the effect as a matter of course. The only question is how to reduce...
Star Wars: The Old Republic outlines rewards for Season 11 PvP and readies Season 12
The most recent ranked PvP season for Star Wars: The Old Republic is just about coming to a close, which means it's almost time...
Dark Age of Camelot’s free-to-play version is ‘just around the corner’
The dark age of mandatory subscriptions is almost over for one of the industry's most famous PvP MMORPGs.
Dark Age of Camelot announced that its...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs, challenge, and flow
A couple of weeks ago, MMO developer Mark Kern tweeted a controversial claim about how challenge and interactivity is the point of games (and...
Star Wars: The Old Republic adds progression for Sorcerers and Sages
It is always disappointing when an MMO expansion comes along and then gives your character nothing to show for those shiny new levels he...
Ultima Online turns 22 years old today, teases upcoming Jolly Roger update
It's a big day for the seminal game of our genre: Ultima Online is officially 22 years old.
"On this day in 1997 thousands of...
The Daily Grind: What constitutes a ‘classic’ MMO to you?
Earlier this week, a job posting on Blizzard's career site made it clear that the company considers Diablo III one of its "classic" games....
The Daily Grind: Do you appreciate MMOs and games that challenge you mentally?
MOP reader and backer Avaera proposed an interesting Daily Grind topic recently about challenges in MMORPGs - and no, "challenge" doesn't refer to boss...
The Game Archaeologist: The day Dungeons and Dragons Online dropped the free-to-play bomb
By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription -- usually $15...
Massively Overthinking: Is the age of the $15 subscription coming to an end?
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,...
Vague Patch Notes: Do video games really need trade shows anymore?
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,...
The Stream Team: Catching Corellia and Korriban datacons in SWTOR
There you viewers go, suggesting the next stop on the SWTOR datacron hunt again. Massively OP's MJ is even more skeptical now, but Larry...
Anthem launches Cataclysm’s final week, abandons Acts structure for future updates
Today marks the final week for the Cataclysm event in Anthem, so if you've among the few who have been playing along, you're entering...
Ultima Online’s publish 106, Forsaken Foes, is live on the eve of its 22nd birthday
Would you believe we're just a week away from the seminal game of the MMO genre's 22nd birthday? We are indeed, and Ultima Online...
