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Global Chat: Can you play WoW Classic casually?
Over at Priest with a Cause, MMO blogger Shintar came up with a great question for those looking to play World of Warcraft's upcoming...
Gamigo is sunsetting Atlas Reactor this summer
It's not the Atlas in the news lately, but it's the one that MMO players knew first: Atlas Reactor is sunsetting this summer.
Gamigo VP...
EverQuest II is merging its Fallen Gate progression server to its live Antonia Bayle server
It'll soon be time for EverQuest II players to bid farewell to the Fallen Gate server. As a time-locked expansion server it offered players a...
RIFT Prime character transfers were delayed over ‘unforeseen circumstances’ as Trove loses CM
When Gamigo announced that it was closing down RIFT Prime, the game's progression server, it told RIFT players that their characters would be safely...
EverQuest’s Selo progression server turns the XP boost back on
When the folks at EverQuest decided to turn off the server-wide 50% XP boost that was applied to the Selo progression server in March,...
LOTRO announces Rohan housing while DDO is slated to get a 64-bit client
Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online players have plenty to look forward to in their near and far future, especially...
Massively Overthinking: Designed downtime in MMORPGs
In a Daily Grind not long ago, MOP reader Armsbend said something I thought just cried out for discussion. After noting that he had...
RIFT’s eighth birthday celebrations are live today with Carnival of the Ascended
RIFT players are having a bit of a wild ride the last few weeks. First, Gamigo announced it was nuking the game's progression server,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 212: Harry Potter, progression servers, and No MMO’s Sky
Justin and Bree discuss the Harry Potter mobile MMOARG; progression servers for RIFT, LOTRO, and EverQuest; No Man's Sky's MMO ambitions; WoW 8.1.5; Blade & Soul's next big thing; and The Division 2's sleepy launch. With reader mail on factional divides, the death of playable races, and staying healthy while gaming.
Gamigo has now confirmed RIFT’s upcoming battle pass
Over the weekend, we covered player datamining that appeared to suggest RIFT, now under the management of Gamigo, is due to receive some sort...
EverQuest turns 20 with new video and infographic as new progression servers arrive
Classic EverQuest turned 20 years old this weekend, with anniversary content (for EverQuest II as well) and two new progression servers. "While we always...
EverQuesting: EverQuest turns the big 2-0
Today is a pretty big day in Norrath: EverQuest turns the big 2-0! Impressive. Twenty years is quite an accomplishment. Even more impressive than...
RIFT datamining adds more evidence for a coming battle pass
Gamigo may have called it quits for RIFT's progression server, but that doesn't mean that the publisher has development for the regular shards. In...
EverQuest’s Holly Longdale discusses Daybreak’s reacquisition thrust
Is the original EverQuest doing better than it ever has? Probably not; the game has been running for 20 years now. But it has been...
LOTRO’s progression server unlocks Moria this Thursday
A week after Lord of the Rings Online spent several consecutive days in the dark, the Tolkien MMORPG is preparing to send players into...
EverQuest’s 20th anniversary invites players to preserve the past with some Gnomish help
It might seem a little bit on the nose for the EverQuest 20th anniversary celebration to literally include a new zone that's all about preserving the...
RIFT prematurely ends its progression server run
While progression and legacy MMO servers are fairly popular these days, RIFT is putting an end to its Prime server before it was able...
World of Warcraft: Classic is now planned to get six phases of content over time
As we approach the planned launch of World of Warcraft: Classic, it turns out we're getting a larger number of content updates than were originally...
EverQuest II outlines progression server plans, offers paid 110 character boosters
EverQuest II's recent offerings have a little bit of something for everyone. For example, if you just want to leap to the endgame in...
Anarchy Online’s first-ever progression server, Rubi-Ka 2019, is now live
As promised, Funcom has rolled out Anarchy Online's first "fresh-start" progression server today. The studio's calling it Rubi-Ka 2019, and yes, you will need...
