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Guild Wars 2 defends new mount price, Zadorojny stays on as Game Director, S4 plans brisk cadence

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There's a bit of a kerfuffle over Guild Wars 2's new mount, which is a gorgeous peacock reskin of the raptor. ArenaNet has put...
Proud?

EA lockbox debacle wipes out billions in stock as SuperData forecasts regulation

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It looks as though the rebels may have defeated the empire -- or at least struck a mighty blow to give the latter pause. CNBC...
No, this is not from my playthrough.

Clicker Heroes dev on abandoning the free-to-play model for the sequel

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If you've never played Clicker Heroes, you can pick it up for your phone or on Steam right now; it's a lightweight little idle...
Seriously, someone needs to turn up the gamma correction in New England.

Choose My Adventure: Challenging currency in Secret World Legends

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Here's the thing that I love to point to whenever I talk about this portion of Secret World Legends: New England is really kind...
Awesome. Very impressive. Great job.

The Soapbox: The long tail of game development isn’t an excuse for gouging

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Don't be too mad at Star Wars: Battlefront II. It's a symptom of a problem, not the cause. I mean, be mad at people...

Hyperspace Beacon: What potential lockbox gambling laws could mean for SWTOR

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Late yesterday I read these words Google-translated from Belgian news site VTM: "The Minister of Justice wants to prohibit purchases in video games if...

Belgium seeks to ban lockboxes as gambling, plus Hawaii and France weigh in

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Capping off the Great Star Wars Battlefront II Fiasco of November, Belgium's Gambling Commission and the Dutch Gaming Authority both began investigating lootboxes/lockboxes to determine whether...

Analyst blames EA’s Star Wars Battlefront 2 fiasco on the press, Reddit, and video game purists

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KeyBanc Capital Markets financial analyst Evan Wingren, who surely makes more money than you do, wants you to know that he's a gamer too!...

Saga of Lucimia says it’s turned down two publishers to avoid going free-to-play

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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...

Star Wars Battlefront II lockbox controversy prompted Disney intervention

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To put it simply, it has not been the best of weeks for Electronic Arts, DICE, or Star Wars Battlefront II. The publisher's decision to...

The Netherlands joins Belgium in investigating lockboxes as games of chance

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Earlier this week, we reported on a move by the Belgian Gaming Commission to investigate lockboxes/lootboxes in games like Star Wars Battlefront 2 to...

Massively Overthinking: Are modern games too cheap?

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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...
Awesome. Very impressive. Great job.

EA disables all Star Wars Battlefront 2 microtransaction crud – for now

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Whenever you see a studio call fans "passionate," it's almost always shorthand for "rioting with pitchforks and torches." Guess what Star Wars Battlefront 2's...

Earth Eternal’s player-run emulator just patched in tons of new stuff

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Scroll back in your brain a decade to 2007, when Sparkplay announced it was building an MMORPG called Earth Eternal, a free-to-play, microtransaction-based MMO...
We never like these things.

Former SWTOR dev talks about designing ethical lockboxes

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An extensive Twitter thread from former Star Wars: The Old Republic lead systems designer Damion Schubert grappled with the timely and touchy topic of lockboxes and microtransactions...

EVE Evolved: Three tricks to maximize your free-to-play EVE Online account

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It's now been almost one year to the day that EVE Online officially got a limited free-to-play option, and it's certainly been a boon...

EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s CCP Games is gambling with the livelihoods of employees

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Last week we broke the story that EVE Online developer CCP Games is backing out of the virtual reality games market, closing its Altanta...

Monster Hunter World isn’t doing lockboxes or lootboxes either

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Add Monster Hunter World to the pile of games that are standing against the exploitation of lockboxes and lootboxes. Multiple Monster Hunter devs told...

Massively Overthinking: The state of early access, alpha, and beta ‘testing’ in the MMO genre

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I remember years ago when then-Massively-columnist Rubi Bayer let loose with a blistering rant on the state of faux beta MMOs. She helmed Betawatch...

MMO lockboxes: Market impact, regulation, and the letter of the law

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GIbiz posted an article earlier this week peppered with quotes from Mat Piscatella, an NPD US games market analyst who suggests that the recent...

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