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MMO Hype Train: Is there any hope – or hype – left for Camelot Unchained?
If there's any developer alive who knows realm-vs-realm MMO design better than Mark Jacobs, I haven't met him or her. Jacobs and Mythic Entertainment...
Final Fantasy XI looks forward to balance adjustments in a very behind-the-scenes April update
The past several updates to Final Fantasy XI have definitely been calmer and smaller, but that's a trend that the upcoming April version update...
Project Gorgon’s latest update includes a balancing pass for weather witching and animal handling
Project Gorgon's latest update isn't a major content update like February's - you can add vampirism only once, after all - but it does...
World of Warcraft is changing the guild name service to charge gold rather than real money
Your World of Warcraft guild is probably named something mildly offensive that seemed like a funny joke when you named it but now feels...
Corepunk pushes its Prison Island update to April 4 with a ‘completely different vibe’
Delays? In Corepunk? Get out of here! No, wait, come back, because there's more to say. So yes, Corepunk announced that it's slightly pushing...
Battle Bards: The Final Refrain
It’s been a very long while, but the Battle Bards haven’t fully abandoned you — at least not without a goodbye! In the grand...
Black Desert Console confirms native support for Xbox X|S and PS5 – and a sunset on Xbox One and PS4
If you're still playing Black Desert on a PlayStation 4 or an Xbox One, you'll soon have to shift over to the current crop...
The Daily Grind: Would you rather an MMO be over or underpopulated?
I was hanging out in Lord of the Rings Online this past weekend and saw an interesting conversation: While some folks are lamenting the...
The Stream Team: Best Laid Plans in Dungeons & Dragons Online
Massively OP's MJ is more than a little disgusted with the antics of Lucian Vaunt, the idiot/villain who is causing all the problems in...
Massively Overthinking: Do you multibox in MMORPGs?
Last week on Twitter, I saw someone refer disparagingly to EVE Online as "the multiboxing game." I want to talk about the concept of...
Path of Exile 2’s Dawn of the Hunt introduces the Huntress, rogue exiles, a mount, and heaps of support gems
With Path of Exile 2 being in early access beta instead of launched, I was unsure whether Grinding Gear Games would be keeping to...
Lord of the Rings Online will begin reactivating housing next week – in phases, so don’t panic yet
Our long national nightmare will soon be over: Lord of the Rings Online is finally turning back on the housing system starting next week.
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Chronicles of Elyria dev addresses fumbled deadlines, the missing website, and press coverage
Updates on Chronicles of Elyria, the Kickstarted MMORPG that was canceled and then brought back even as backers attempted to sue for relief, have...
WoW Factor: Evaluating World of Warcraft’s allied races seven years later
At the tail end of an exciting expansion cycle, World of Warcraft: Legion saved one last big surprise for the community. In 2018's Patch...
Black Desert adds a five-player boss fight to Orzekea on PC and a solo arena on mobile
Oh, did you think that last week's addition of Atoraxxion: Orzekea for the PC version of Black Desert was all that the instance had...
Vague Patch Notes: The MMO you play isn’t always the MMO that was designed
There was, for a brief period of time, a window when World of Warcraft was moving toward a more deterministic gear structure that de-emphasized...
Final Fantasy XIV fan claims to have reverse-engineered the same ID info used in the blacklisted doxxing mod
Among the many other changes made to Final Fantasy XIV with the launch of patch 7.2, one of the subtler ones was meant to...
Lord of the Rings Online plans for two additional 64-bit realms, indicates housing reactivation is coming soon
While Lord of the Rings Online's new 64-bit servers were touted as being capable of holding a substantially greater amount of players, SSG is...
Aion Classic EU will merge its servers into one on April 9
The Great Ensmooshening is on the not-too-distant horizon for players of Aion Classic EU, as Gameforge has announced that it will be condensing the...
Perfect Ten: The challenges of running challenge servers in MMOs
So there has been a bit of a kerfuffle over in the World of Warcraft world, which is a bit like saying that the...
