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MMO Business Roundup: Embracer Q2 2024, Steam toxicity, and GOG’s game preservation program
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Embracer
Embracer - the failson megacorp we keep an eye on because...
US Copyright Office rules libraries can’t access old games remotely because of ‘market harm’ and recreational use ‘risk’
If you were hoping to research out-of-print video games and wanted to get access to a copy remotely, that's been made difficult thanks to...
Puzzle MMO Islands of Insight will sunset at the end of October – here’s how to keep playing offline
Back in July, we learned the sad news that Behaviour Interactive's puzzle MMO Islands of Insight, which had only just fully launched in February,...
Wizard battle royale Spellbreak survives as a free version after Blizzard buyout
When you're a game that's been served a death sentence, you'll take a win anywhere you can get it. Spellbreak was a wizard-themed battle...
Stop Killing Games Initiative stumps for signatures to pressure EU governments
This past April saw the formation of the Stop Killing Games initiative, a grass roots attempt by YouTuber Ross Scott to enact laws that...
Fans fill The Crew’s gas tank back up for a ride down Rogue Server Lane
Just because Ubisoft planted an "End of Road" sign for its open world racer The Crew doesn't mean that fans are content to turn...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO companies care about game preservation?
With game preservation back in the news thanks to Ubisoft's The Crew criming and the Stop Killing Games initiative, I thought it would be...
It’s 2024 and the ESA is still fighting game preservation, forecasting a depraved ‘online arcade’
If you're a longtime MOP reader, you might remember that back in the late teens, we followed the Electronic Frontier Foundation's efforts to petition...
‘If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing,’ say gamers reviewbombing the remaining The Crew games
Ubisoft's self-inflicted wounds continue their slow damage-over-time effects as the company that responded to the Stop Killing Games initiative by killing The Crew 1...
Ubisoft pulls The Crew 1 from player libraries, encourages them to ‘check the store to pursue your adventures’
Last March was the final bell tolling for multiplayer racer The Crew 1, as Ubisoft completed an announced sunsetting of its servers, effectively making...
Vague Patch Notes: Game preservation is way more complicated than it seems
Before I say anything with this week's article, I want to make something very, very clear right from the premise: As you have probably...
Stop Killing Games is a modern games preservation initiative prompted by The Crew’s cynical sunset
The words "game preservation" are holy words here on MOP and in the MMORPG genre beyond, as few gaming communities understand the pain of...
The first two Warcraft games and the original Diablo are now on Battle.net
For too long, you have had to live in a universe where your only access to the original Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, its sequel...
14-year-old golf MMO Sega Splash Golf is slowly being reassembled by one dedicated fan
Normally we open these kinds of stories by asking our readers if they remember an old game, but it's extremely likely that nobody outside...
Preserving Worlds is an indie TV docuseries about preserving classic MMORPGs
So here's something fun we just learned about thanks to a friendly tweet: Preserving Worlds is a 2021 indie TV show on Means TV...
EA is sunsetting another trio of online games from the Battlefield IP
Prepare to say farewell to a whole 'nother slew of online games and a whole 'nother reason to support widespread game preservation.
Though technically these...
Project Visitor, the emulator of Sega’s 10Six, is still going strong after six years
We're dipping deep into antiquity with this question: Who here remembers 10Six? If you don't, that's all right because we unearthed it back in...
Copyright lawsuit over Shin Megami Tensei MMO brings rogue server project to a halt
We're not sure how many of our readers recall that the RPG series Megami Tensei had an MMORPG, but it did. It was called...
MMO Business Roundup: Preservation, charity, modding, memes, and Microsoft’s merger
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business.
Microsoft ABK: It's not just the US digging into Microsoft's...
The Soapbox: Are modern games more disposable than ever?
Atlas Rogues went out not with a bang but a whimper. I forgot it even existed. And after it closes July 5th, it's gone....
