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Secret World Legends allows players to convert Funcom points into Aurum

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If you were sitting on a Scrooge McDuck pile of Funcom Points back when The Secret World announced its switchover to Secret World Legends...

Massively Overthinking: Alone together vs. forced grouping in MMORPGs

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that everyone has at some point seen the xkcd called Isolation, but if not, there...

Blade and Soul’s Dark Origins patch is live with new raids and evolved stone economy fixes

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Blade & Soul's Dark Origins patch is live this week, bringing with it two more chapters of Act 7, the heroic 6-man Ebondrake Lair dungeon,...
hey, you guys wanna have a fight

EVE Online pushes back its August patch until August 16

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There was supposed to be an EVE Online patch here. It's not here now, though; instead, it's being pushed back by a day until...

Interview: Daybreak’s Just Survive drops H1Z1 branding for massive revamp and relaunch today

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Remember the survival version of H1Z1? If not, we can't say that we blame you: Since Daybreak split the game in two, the bulk...

Ubisoft on Skull and Bones’ business model, ‘treasure chest’ lootboxes, and live events

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If you thought that Ubisoft's Skull and Bones pirate MMO wasn't going to have lootboxes, seriously, what rock are you living under? (And is...
Slower than a ray of light.

Investors pour $3.7M into MMO sandbox Dual Universe

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Dual Universe just snagged a positively massive cash injection. According to a press release posted today, private investors have poured $3.7 million in funding...

Perfect Ten: Fresh approaches for familiar MMORPGs

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Short of taking a blow to the head, there's very little I can suggest in the way of experiencing a familiar MMORPG for the...

Elite Dangerous: A ground-pounding newbie’s perspective

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Earlier this summer I wrote that Elite Dangerous' community events were something the MMO community should watch. Watch. I never said play, and I never ended...

Kritika Online releases first open beta patch

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Have any of you given Kritika Online a try? This action MMORPG may be slipping under a lot of people's radars during this shockingly...

Massively Overthinking: Building a better MMORPG economy

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We are on a roll with the epic questions for Overthinking lately! "The recent article about monetization got me thinking about just how much most...

Albion Online raised almost $10M, officially launches today

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If it seems as if you've been hearing about Albion Online for a long time, you're not wrong. In fact, the game has delayed...

Armored Warfare announces Eye of the Storm expansion

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This morning we had a lively discussion in the Massively OP office over whether or not Armored Warfare had ever actually launched. We thought...

Monetization expert: MMOs are dying because of clueless design, not insufficient demand

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MMORPG players just love it when somebody declares the MMORPG dead, right? All those games you're playing, all the games we're writing about and...
eff boys get money

Black Desert ups the in-game prices on cash shop items in the auction market

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Players are making more in-game money in Black Desert than they were a year ago. Part of that is just, you know, a year...

Life is Feudal tests economy, battle system during fourth closed beta

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Life is Feudal's MMO version is kicking off a fourth round of closed beta today for those of you lucky enough to snag an...
It lurks.

League of Legends increases prices in the UK over Brexit currency woes

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Your pounds won't carry you quite as far in League of Legends at this point. The game's prices for Riot Points (i.e., the currency...

With R43 behind it, Shroud of the Avatar looks ahead to Q3

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Shroud of the Avatar's 43rd release dropped over the weekend, boasting tweaks to the Path of the Oracle, performance updates, a balancing pass for...

Shroud of the Avatar vastly increases game performance with Release 43

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One of the big complaints about Shroud of the Avatar during its lengthy testing process has concerned poor optimization and clunky, laggy gameplay. These issues...

Massively Overthinking: Forced socializing in MMORPGs

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Massively OP Patron Jackybah has a question for this week's Massively Overthinking that's probably going to kick up some dust. He wonders whether MMO...

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