flagshipped

A reference to the sorry state of Hellgate: London as originally released by Flagship. “To have been flagshipped” is to have been screwed over by the studio in some way.

New Hellgate game for PC and console, codenamed Hellgate Redemption, is in the works

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Hellgate: London is mostly known nowadays as the IP that just won't die despite resurrections continuing to prove to be increasingly shambolic - a...

Hostile NCsoft shareholder meeting reveals ArenaNet is working on Guild Wars 3

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The topic of Guild Wars 3 has been a common one over the last few years; when I dredged our articles, the first one...
City again.

Perfect Ten: MMOs that experienced a surprising comeback

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It's hard to pass up a really good comeback story. We love it when a beloved something or someone is counted down and out......

Blizzard’s Diablo IV gets a visual glow-up this week

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While nobody's ever described Diablo IV as a "beautiful" game, it's certainly visually striking in some regards. Yet Blizzard isn't content with the graphical...
Well, points for effort.

Vague Patch Notes: Why in the world do you want the Riot MMO to be a thing?

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Let's make something clear right up front: If you came into this column eager to head for the comments section to say, "Well, I...

Black Desert launches the Scholar on console as it celebrates four years of crossplay

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Now listen, I've been married to a real-life scholar for a long time, and the only hammer I've ever seen him pick up is...
Something fell.

The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0

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Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...
There are problems with this art, but we're going to overlook that.

End-of-year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2023

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When it comes to making a judgment call about the "healthiest" MMORPGs on the market at any given time, there are always plenty of...

Albion Online’s latest Wild Blood patch casts a wide combat balance net

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Albion Online is barreling forward with fresh updates to its Wild Blood update this week as patch 2 has arrived, though it's not the...

Global Chat: Reactions to BlizzCon’s World of Warcraft announcements

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Even as BlizzCon 2023 recedes into the distance, the reverberations of its announcements for World of Warcraft and WoW Classic continue to be felt....
So many colors in the rainbow.

Perfect Ten: Classic video games that would make terrible MMORPGs

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There was a time when MMORPGs were all based on existing storied single-player RPG franchises, and that time was when Ultima Online launched and...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Wild Card Football, Bish Bash Bots, Silica, Zombie Within

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Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer titles you've (probably) never heard of! This edition is mostly smaller-scale multiplayer, but...

One Shots: Secret underwater garden

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I don't know much about plants, as evidenced by all of my vegetable projects that withered and died this past summer, but I've heard...
honsing around

Equestrian MMO Star Stable counts 25M registered users as it finally lands on Android

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I know it's 2023, and the trend of launching a mobile client for a game for iOS but not Android seems like a distant...
Bad plans.

Perfect Ten: 10 of the worst launches in MMO history

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Launch time is a difficult time for every MMO, and honestly, I have nothing but sympathy for the teams launching a new game at...

Diablo IV’s head start launches this evening – Blizz warns it might be ‘a little bumpy’

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A little over 11 years after the release of Diablo III, this is the day that Diablo IV hath wrought... for pricey edition pre-orders,...

LOTRO Legendarium: Is the Burglar LOTRO’s least-loved class?

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In most MMOs that I play, I confess a certain attraction -- if not affinity -- for seeking out the least-played and -loved class...
how

NCsoft is taking Kakao’s ArcheAge War to court over alleged plagiarism of Lineage 2M

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ArcheAge War isn't just a delayed blockchain mess: It's also the subject of a new lawsuit. According to The Korea Times, NCsoft has filed a...
Actually developing a title to not be a boring slog is a skill some developers have yet to master.

Perfect Ten: 10 franchises that deserve another shot at an MMO

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Some experiments are attempted once and fail, and it's not hard to figure out why that didn't work. We don't really need to take...

The Daily Grind: Are lifetime MMO subs ever worth it?

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I've more than once told the story about my guildie who bought a lifetime sub to Hellgate London (oh no). And I've personally never...

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