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Massively OP Podcast Episode 396: Crowfalling
Justin and Bree discuss Crowfall, Blue Protocol, SWTOR, New World, Q3 2022 financials (for Blizzard, Pearl Abyss, Square Enix, NCsoft), and new patches (for DDO, Neverwinter, Blade and Soul, EVE Online, Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online), with a mailbag topic covering Shadowbane, Second Live, Secret World, and Ultima Online.
Vague Patch Notes: Alas, poor Crowfall, you’re gone now
Dusty dusty, ashy ashy, Crowfall's plane went crashy crashy. Yes, we are now talking about Crowfall very strictly in the past tense. You could...
Crowfall is going offline on November 22, supposedly for further development work
Since Crowfall was purchased in December of last year, the news coming out of the game has been minimal at best. So today's announcement...
Whatever happened to throne war MMO Crowfall?
It's been some time since we peered in on the news coming out of Crowfall, the Kickstarted PvP "throne war" MMO originally from developer...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO Kickstarters that let us down
MOP's Chris penned a solid piece earlier this week about the fate that has apparently befallen Destiny's Sword, and as I was editing it,...
Massively Overthinking: Have you ever returned to an old MMO and fallen in love?
Earlier this month, MOP's Eliot penned a WoW Factor that doesn't quote but certainly does evoke the ol' Heraclitus quote about how you cannot...
Monumental, the studio that bought Crowfall, just bought Boundless too
To make some sense of this press release and why it matters to MMO fans, we're going to have to throw it back to...
Perfect Ten: The MMO studios that keep whiffing on new projects
Everyone makes mistakes, and that's all right. That's not necessarily a big deal. Yes, this is true when it comes to MMO studios too....
Working As Intended: MMOs that wish they were Star Wars Galaxies
"My friends and I would skin someone alive for an SWG 2," an old Star Wars Galaxies player recently wrote on Reddit, and that...
Crowfall preps two new campaigns this month and hands out a sigil for its first anniversary
It's been one year since Crowfall fully launched, and the news has been kind of lackluster for the RvR MMO. Major updates to the...
Massively Overthinking: Solved problems in MMOs
One of the most annoying pet peeves this genre seems to spin up frequently is some companies' tendency to treat solved problems as unsolved...
Crowfall’s Gordon Walton joins Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds MMO and platform
Raph Koster's Playable Worlds MMORPG has picked up two new executives today: Gordon Walton and Omar Abdelwahed.
Walton will be immediately recognizable to modern MMO...
Daybreak’s EG7 intends to sell Innova subsidiary and relocate Toadman Interactive studio in a pull-out from Russia
Enad Global 7, the Swedish company that readers will recall bought up all of Daybreak Games in 2020, is apparently looking to cut ties...
Crowfall has kicked off a 10-day custom Dregs campaign called Wolfe
Last week, Crowfall rolled out the prepwork for what it called "campaign configuration knobs" - essentially, tools that would allow the developers to adjust...
Crowfall’s latest patch adds significant dev config for next week’s Wolfe campaign
Kickstarted MMORPG Crowfall has been through kind of a lot in its short life. Having launched last summer, the RvR game suffered from a...
Massively Overthinking: What do you expect from MMO Kickstarters?
I know, I know. People don't trust Kickstarters anymore. Nor should they, especially now. I think our genre knows this now. For every Wagadu...
Crowfall promises shorter and more intense Dregs campaigns and a long-term roadmap in the future
There are still things being done in Crowfall. We examined where the PvP MMO sits this past February after developer ArtCraft sold the game...
Fight or Kite: Checking in with Crowfall after the acquisition
I’ve been playing all kinds of different games these days, many of them MMOs and many of them offline RPGs. I find myself kind...
Crowfall tasks players with confectionery crafting for Valkyntine’s Day
I have to admit that I didn't imagine that Crowfall would have a Valentine's day event queues up, what with its population struggles and...
Massively Overthinking: Are you an MMO skeptic or true believer?
A while back, a reader (hi Ken!) posted an infographic into a Star Citizen thread I'd forgotten all about, but it wasn't even the...
