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.

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...

Avalon is the latest blockchain metaverse project from old-school MMO devs

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I know, I know, another one of these metaverse-blockchain-Web3 startups, but this one is one that MMORPG fans will want to at least take...

Microsoft wonders if y’all are done playing Halo Infinite just yet

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Things aren't looking too hot for the online entry of Microsoft's flagship FPS franchise. A new survey sent out to gamers from the tech...
Crucial.

Vague Patch Notes: Stop taking your released MMOs back to the drawing board

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This is not a column about Kingshunt, but it is. It's not a column about Crowfall or Deathverse: Let it Die or even Crucible....

The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v6.0

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And that's a wrap on this year in history! While everyone says farewell to 2022, here at TGA we're always looking way back at...

Massively Uplifting: A season of gains and losses in the MMO world

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Where has the year gone? Fall has wrapped up, winter is beginning, and the end of the year draws nigh. Today, many will be...

Flagship’s dead MMO Mythos is back as a single-player RPG from Hellgate owner Hanbitsoft

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A few weeks ago on the MassivelyOP Podcast, Justin and I were trying to come up with MMOs that had centaur-like races, and we...
Come on, my dudes.

Albion Online’s latest patch introduces some zesty new victory emotes

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Sometimes it's just not enough to win a PvP battle; you've got to make the person you take down feel humiliated, and while the...
Effing OOPS

Perfect Ten: An MMO sunset tour for 2022 to date

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MMO sunsets can be weird. I am never happy when a game that people love goes away. It always represents a lot of lost...

Sea of Thieves balances and disables some milestones, teases Heart of Fire novel

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Sea of Thieves' seventh season continues to chug along as Rare drops update 2.6.0.1 today. The highlight of the patch is a new time-limited...

Trove’s Sunrise update is live today with the new Solarion class and Sundered Uplands biome

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Gamigo announced a big update for its flagship MMORPG Trove last week, and as of today, it's already here. Lead time is overrated! Sunrise is...

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