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Meta: Patreon has rolled back plans to change fee structure
Hello MOP readerbase! As you are likely aware, Massively OP's funding is a hybrid, coming both from advertising and from reader donations, most of...
Perfect Ten: 20 upcoming MMOs to watch in 2018
It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list...
Pantheon begins pre-alpha testing for high-end backers
It's a big day for indie MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, as it's the first day the gates open to external pre-alpha testers...
Ship of Heroes recaps 2017, teases Christmas event, and looks ahead to 2018’s beta
Who says you have to have launched to have holiday events? Not Ship of Heroes. The City of Heroes-inspired indie superhero MMORPG has a...
Shadow’s Kiss ends Kickstarter with 300% funding and several stretch goals
Expect some vampires to be popping bottles of the red bubbly today.
The team behind Shadow's Kiss is celebrating the conclusion a modestly successful Kickstarter...
Shadow’s Kiss devs interview vampires as their Kickstarter nears finish line
Even though it's looking more like Christmas than Halloween around these parts, Shadow's Kiss is taking its Kickstarter all the way to the bank....
Are rank-and-file devs benefiting from MMO publisher ‘money-grabs’? Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs weighs in
Last week, Massively OP's Eliot Lefebvre wrote a (fantastic) Soapbox editorial arguing that Star Wars Battlefront II (and its concomitant monetization dust-up) is merely...
Albion Online’s next update, Kay, launches next week with tons of fresh PvP content
This summer's sole indie sandbox MMO launch, Albion Online, is rolling out its second post-launch update. It's called Kay. As in Sir Kay, one...
Slay-to-win: Massively OP’s hands-on with the Dauntless closed beta
The end of September marked a major milestone for Dauntless, the upcoming monster-slaying action-MMORPG from indie developer Phoenix Labs, as it officially concluded its...
Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas state-of-the-game dev diary
It's been a hot minute since we heard from El Somni Quas, the indie sandbox from a Czech studio that cut its teeth on Ultima Online...
Raph Koster on the cost of making games from the industry side
All of this talk about the price of making games and the price of playing games thanks to Star Wars: Battlefront II has meant...
Saga of Lucimia dev argues that minimaps destroy MMORPG immersion
Saga of Lucimia has made a name for itself during its long development as a hardcore old-school indie MMO with a focus on grouping...
Darkfall: New Dawn launches on January 26, 2018
At this point, it's an odd year when Darkfall isn't launching. Darkfall: New Dawn has announced that the game will launch on January 26th,...
City of Titans vows ‘no lockboxes’ for its business model
You might have missed the riots in the streets over lockboxes these past few months, but we assure you, the controversy is very real....
Saga of Lucimia says it’s turned down two publishers to avoid going free-to-play
It's a good time to pile on predatory cash-shop models, especially if you've got a better one, and in-development hardcore MMORPG sandbox Saga of Lucimia...
Dragon of Legends hopes to get on Steam soon
It has been a long while since we heard anything about Dragon of Legends, a pixel art-style indie MMORPG that ran a small but...
Massively Overthinking: Are modern games too cheap?
This week's Massively Overthinking topic is a submission from reader and commenter camelotcrusade, who takes the industry's current fight over monetization in a different...
Forsaken Legends is not dead, but it is downsizing from an MMORPG
It has been a very long time since we have heard anything out of the indie team behind Forsaken Legends, an ambitious procedural sandbox...
Pantheon devs meet up at TwitchCon and make a convert
It took a convention to bring together a development team.
Visionary Realms shared in its November newsletter that many of Pantheon's team members -- some...
Stardew Valley says multiplayer is ‘coming along great’
Charming indie farm simulator Stardew Valley continues to inch closer to the anticipated multiplayer version that the team has teased for some time now....
