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Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s 2019 year in review, from Icebrood Saga to the future
The first half of 2019 was a rough time to be a Guild Wars 2 fan. It wasn’t without its bright spots, but it...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2019 predictions
The day has come: the day when we look back at last year's predictions for this year and see how we did. Yep, this...
Champions Online yanks event currencies and seasonal rewards to be replaced with more time-limited availability
We all know that Champions Online had been in de facto maintenance mode for a long while, although this year has seen a spate...
Bethesda’s MMOTCG Elder Scrolls Legends is destined for maintenance mode
Bad news for fans of the Elder Scrolls franchise card battler Elder Scrolls Legends: Bethsoft announced today that it's effectively putting the game into...
Guild Wars 2’s skill balancing update is live with weapon swap, dynamic HUD, and… capes
The latest Guild Wars 2 patch is officially upon us. As we noted yesterday, players players can expect multiple quality-of-life tweaks to specific skills...
Black Desert plans three-week Season of the Hunt event starting September 25
It's been a bit of a bye week in Black Desert's PC version thanks to an extra-long maintenance mode - gamers will recall that...
Leaderboard: Does Guild Wars 2 need another expansion?
If you've followed NCsoft's quarterly investor reports for the last many years, you've probably seen dozens graphs of Guild Wars 2's revenues and the...
Pirates of the Burning Sea’s new operators promise new content and more with new hires
Last year, Pirates of the Burning Sea made headlines when it lost its publisher support and primary coder. It was on the brink of...
Perfect Ten: How Final Fantasy XI shaped my MMO preferences forever
Your first experience with something has an outsized importance. This feels like one of those statements people really want to argue with sometimes but...
Perfect Ten: The MMORPGs boasting the most expansions
In 2018 alone, the MMORPG industry saw no less than 14 major expansions release for various titles, and in 2019 we've had at least...
E3 2019: Terraria: Journey’s End will be the game’s final update before entering maintenance mode
It's been a long trip for the 2-D multiplayer side-scrolling exploration title Terraria, and while we don't cover this one particularly closely, the upcoming...
Into the Super-verse: Why didn’t Champions Online do better?
A while back I was flipping through the backlog of my personal gaming blog, looking at the history of my gaming trends, particularly in...
The Daily Grind: How long should a studio keep an MMO in maintenance mode?
It seems pretty clear to me now that Final Fantasy XI is going to keep running for a long time. I can't say for certain...
Final Fantasy XI developers share plans for the future of the game and ongoing development
If you've ever thought to yourself that Final Fantasy XI updates so reliably that it really shouldn't be called a maintenance mode, you're not entirely...
Tree of Life heads into maintenance mode today as studio Oddone moves to new projects
Tree of Life players, there's bad news and news for you today. Let's get the bad news out of the way first: It sounds...
Pirates of the Burning Sea’s new owners aim to revitalize the game after rescuing it from certain doom
City of Heroes' resurrection and preservation efforts are big news this month, but we've covered similar stories about playerbases rescuing video games from certain...
Age of Conan adds semi-permadeath mode, badges, and new race/class combos
It's time to pull Age of Conan out of "maintenance mode" status and back into active development, because Funcom just dropped an update that...
Final Fantasy XI development is focusing on something ‘that can surprise everyone later on’
The amount of support that Final Fantasy XI gets in a declared maintenance mode is in and of itself surprising, but that is apparently not...
The Daily Grind: Do you try out MMOs in well-maintained maintenance modes?
It's not hard to play Final Fantasy XI or Guild Wars at this point. Both titles are in maintenance mode, yes; they've gotten their last major...
Heroes of Newerth gets its final major patch on February 26
The last patch for Heroes of Newerth arrives next week, at which point the game's live support will be scaled back to nothing but essential...
