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XLGAMES and Gamigo say paid DLC will make up for ‘deficiencies’ in ArcheAge Unchained’s launch

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It would seem that XLGAMES and Gamigo are going with the "set off an explosion" approach to dousing community fires. As we reported last...

Bless Unleashed offers apologies and goodies for Estate bugs and erroneous account bans

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The devs of Bless Unleashed have written up a mea culpa regarding exploitation of the game's Estate system and the team's apparently overzealous wave...

Last Oasis tackles zerging mitigation, performance, and private servers

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The devs of survival sandbox Last Oasis are hard at work on the next update, which should be arriving later this week, but in...

MMO Business Roundup: Warcraft modding, Valve source code leaks, and Nvidia goes good

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news! Warcraft modding: Polygon has an interesting explainer up on Blizzard's recent changes to its...

Riot Games defends Valorant’s Vanguard security driver, offers a $100k bounty to exploit it

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Last week, Riot Games unveiled that their in-development competitive FPS Valorant runs an anti-cheat process in the background of player systems, which caused no...
Donkeys cannot use horse gear.

Black Desert’s guild event gets exploited all up in its face

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When there's a will, there's a way. And when the devs overlook something that can be abused, there's an exploit waiting to happen. Black Desert's...
Awesome toy banned.

PlanetSide 2 reboots its Outfit Wars qualifier after exploits

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The good news about PlanetSide 2's Outfit Wars revamp is that the qualifiers have produced lots of good data for the developers to use...
Huh. That... huh.

Shroud of the Avatar disables a big experience boost to get rid of shared experience pools

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There was a 10x quest experience bonus in Shroud of the Avatar, but it has been disabled now. But the reason is actually somewhat...

Old School RuneScape discusses buy-in fee removal and other changes to Last Man Standing

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For the PvP player of Old School RuneScape, there are perhaps fewer finer joys than the Last Man Standing competition. Or, at least, fewer...

Desert Oasis: How Pearl Abyss can guarantee Shadow Arena succeeds

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Hands down, Shadow Arena is my favorite battle royale. But just because I've written so many glowing words of accolades for the game does...
Good job, guy!

Players claim to be hitting rank 1000 in Red Dead Online

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Big numbers are impressive, and thus it's something of a milestone that a player in Red Dead Online has hit rank 1000 for what he...

Fallout 76 recaps the Wastelanders panel and answers player questions

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Bethesda seems awfully keen to point out its recent Wastelanders panel for Fallout 76. So keen, in fact, that it's recapped the entire panel...
Please come back.

WoW Classic offers another guide to starting out as the WoW Token rolls out to China’s version

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You there! Do you know about starting out new in WoW Classic? Probably yes, if you had an interest in it, but Blizzard has still...

Interview: Pearl Abyss on Shadow Arena’s Black Desert origins, esports, audience, and more

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Along with battle royale fans and Black Desert players, we've been keeping an eye on Pearl Abyss' Shadow Arena, the one-time battle royale mode...

The MOP Up: Outlaws of the Old West wipes its servers

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The survival sandbox that brought you Bigfoot (for some reason) is now triggering a region-wide apocalypse. OK, it's just a server wipe for Outlaws...

Temtem banned 900 cheaters, then changed its mind on granting appeals

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Apparently, Temtem has borrowed a bit more from Pokemon than just its overall vibe: It's also borrowing the elder franchise's reputation for attracting the...

Lawful Neutral: Examining DDoS attacks and their impact on MMOs

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When I was younger, used to play with LEGOs with my cousins all the time. We'd spend time creating huge houses and vehicles that...
Not the chess maneuver.

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG bugs ever

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This week's Massively Overthinking discussion topic is inspired by Crowfall's J Todd Coleman, who last fall tweeted about the time playable spiders almost became...

Sea of Thieves’ Legends of the Sea is live – check out the new trailer and infographic

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Happy patch day, me hearties. We're still doing that, right? The pirate thing? No? Awww. Welp, Legends of the Sea is live in Sea...

Destiny 2’s launching a charity campaign to help victims of the Australian brushfires

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Bungie is joining CCP Games on the short list (so far) of games studios using their titles to help with the Australian brushfire crisis....

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