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Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness
Over the past three weeks of the Gachapwned column, we've talked about the three main prongs that keep people invested in gacha games in...
Genshin Impact readies more story and two more gacha characters for June 18 patch
Next week is patch week for gacha multiplayer RPG Genshin Impact, as players can look forward to more story, more characters to gamble for,...
Sea of Remnants takes a stroll through the main hub city of Orbtopia in latest trailer
It's been just under a week since we first got a look at NetEase's Sea of Remnants, and we're still not sure what the...
SGF 2025: Action MMO Crystal of Atlan unveils One Punch Man crossover arriving June 26
It was one of those trailers that kind of skated on by during the two-hour marathon that was Summer Game Fest, so that's kind...
ESRB posts parent’s guide to free-to-play: ‘Few things are truly free’
While it may be a touch late to the free-to-play revolution, the industry-run Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) recently posted a parent's guide about...
SGF 2025: Blade & Soul Heroes is a ‘collectible action MMORPG’ arriving in September
Among the trailers coming out of NCsoft during this year's Summer Game Fest opening presentation was what appears to be a new gacha title,...
Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs attract players with the secret of volume
There is a strange phenomenon that is true for perhaps not every human being, but the vast majority I've met and dealt with over...
NetEase’s new multiplayer RPG Sea of Remnants is gorgeously weird and punk (and probably a gacha game)
NetEase is still cranking out new multiplayer games for the western market: Last night at the PlayStation State of Play event, it announced that...
Wuthering Waves preps more story content, new characters, a new region, and more for June 12
Mark your calendars, Waveheads! The next content update for the multiplayer gacha RPG Wuthering Waves known as Lightly We Toss the Crown has a...
Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs attract players with gameplay that’s calculated to be mid
This week in our Gachapwned column, we're examining the three-pronged approach that gacha games use to attract players in the first place. Last week,...
F2P action MMO Crystal of Atlan hits PC, PS5, and mobile today, reiterating that it’s not a gacha game
As promised, Crystal of Atlan - which kinda came out of nowhere back in March - has officially launched today on PC, PS5, and...
Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs attract players with narrative (even players who know better)
The first two installments of the Gachapwned column were all about the ways in which the gacha business model is predatory, and more specifically...
Massively Overthinking: The spectrum of lockboxes in the MMO genre
A while back, I came across a Lord of the Rings Online discussion that leaped out at me because of its unusual turn. The...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO fans create divisions that do not exist
There is a constant debate in the World of Warcraft fan space that you have no doubt seen at this point, but it is...
Project Ghost’s Greg Street unwittingly ignites debate on Eastern vs. Western MMO design
Fantastic Pixel Castle's Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street has swung by Twitter with an offhand remark about Project Ghost's development that ignited a debate among some...
First Impressions: How well does Odin: Valhalla Rising represent Norse myth?
I've heard some people say there are too many games these days based on Norse mythology. As MassivelyOP's resident Norse myth nerd, I disagree;...
MMO Week in Review: Blue Protocol, Warborne, and Equinox Homecoming
The MMO whose untimely demise we called the biggest disappointment of 2024 is getting another chance: This week, we learned that the revised version...
Gachapwned: How gacha mechanics use pity and free content to encourage spending money
In the first Gachapwned column here on MassivelyOP, I outlined the history of the term "gacha" while establishing the rules that have to be...
Hotta’s new multiplayer gacha RPG, Neverness to Everness, opens global beta signups
Not quite a year ago, Perfect World's Hotta Studios announced yet another multiplayer gacha game, this one with an even more ridiculous name than...
Vague Patch Notes: What makes MMO monetization predatory?
I am really, really excited to be writing our limited series over in Gachapwned because I feel it's going to be an interesting deep-dive...