World of Warcraft is sending surveys to unsubscribed players for feedback
It's hard to be certain that this is unprecedented, but it's certainly unusual for World of Warcraft. A former player has posted on Reddit...
Massively Overthinking: Is there too much negativity in the MMO genre?
MassivelyOP reader Threespeed posed us an interesting question for this week's Overthinking that I thought was particularly appropriate given the Trion Worlds situation.
"Everyone has...
You can now buy ships right from a showroom floor in Star Citizen’s alpha
Heads-up to Star Citizen testers and watchers: A new patch to the 3.3 alpha rolled out yesterday, most notably adding functionality to Teach's Ship...
Rumor: Black Desert’s Xbox One open beta begins November 8
Betcha forgot all about the fact that Black Desert was still slated for a console port! Welp, it's still happening, and in fact, it's...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is introducing Halloween skin sets for a large amount of money
Halloween is almost here, and in order to celebrate, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is letting you dress up in all sorts of horror movie costumes. Assuming...
Shroud of the Avatar’s R59 newbie experience, Travian Games, and Reddit’s pay-to-chat complaints
Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter homes in on the game's 59th release, due out at the end of the month and currently on...
MMO Business Roundup: Discord’s new TOS, Steam China, EA vs Actiblizz, Dota 2’s transparent lockboxes, WASD
Welcome back to another roundup of businessy things of interest to MMO players this week!
Discord
If you're one of the bajillions of MMO players who...
Black Desert’s Russian servers will be spared from their abrupt and messy closure after all
Welp, we did not see this coming, but here's some extremely good news in the Black Desert license transfer saga.
Over the last couple of...
Ashes of Creation temporarily drops alpha NDA, allow streamers to broadcast live footage
Saturday night, the folks at Intrepid Studios lifted the NDA on the Ashes of Creation alpha for a few hours, allowing streamers to broadcast...
World of Warcraft streamer discusses the major problems with Battle for Azeroth
Whatever new expansion goodwill World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth had held is now gone, and YouTuber Asmongold opines that he's never seen the...
Wisdom of Nym: Rewards in Final Fantasy XIV and what they’re worth
I saw someone asking the other day what the "point" was to the Doman Reconstruction effort in Final Fantasy XIV. What's the big reward?...
Black Desert’s Pearl Abyss claims Russian publisher is using players as a ‘weapon’
Over the month, we've been covering the supposed license transfer of Black Desert’s Russian branch from publisher GameNet back to Korean owner Pearl Abyss. Initially,...
Go gnome or go home: The Running of the Gnomes in WoW kicks off tomorrow
It's once again time for the Running of the Gnomes in World of Warcraft, as the community bands together to help fight breast cancer...
Shroud of the Avatar’s Richard Garriott sheds CEO title for Creative Director role
It looks as if some corporate reorganization is going on over at Shroud of the Avatar studio Portalarium, as Richard Garriott's CEO title has...
PUBG says it’s investigating the matchmaking disaster patched in last week
If you thought last week's PUBG patch, which introduced new anti-cheating measures, was going to make everyone happy with the game finally, you were...
TUG studio Nerd Kingdom owes its Kickstarter backers an explanation – or their money back
We've been following the sad story of TUG, The Untitled Game, for years now, ever since its May 2013 Kickstarter. At the time, studio...
Dataminers dig up EVE Online’s Chinese server elements: RMT interfaces and prison sentences
Ah, datamining, the best way to guess about what's coming to EVE Online in future patches based on incomplete evidence! (And every other game,...
PUBG has banned 13M cheaters since 2017, rolls out new anti-cheat systems
You know what I'm really, really tired of? Freakin' cheaters. They aren't just cheating at the game itself; they are robbing all of us...
Neverwinter devs say that a legacy server is unlikely
If you're the type of person who loves to delve deep into the messy format of Reddit AMAs for juicy information, then boy does...
Guild Wars 2 tweaks class balance, adds buyable stools and resource contracts
Guild Wars 2's promised mini-balance-patch has arrived on schedule, and it... sure is a pile of class tweaks. Even Reddit doesn't know quite what...
