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PlanetSide 2’s next update is bringing changes to weapon attachments, directive weapons, and overall balance

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Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. For example, the next big update coming to PlanetSide 2 is called the Arsenal Update....
NOW PUNCH! YOUR FRIEND! PUNCH, PUNCH YOUR FRIEND! GET OUT ON THE FLOOR AND PUNCH YOUR BEST FRIEND!

Vague Patch Notes: Pretty is boring in MMOs

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So NCsoft unveiled Throne and Liberty and it looks... pretty? I guess? But it looks pretty in the worst way. It looks pretty in the...

Star Citizen outlines several changes to its loot system and tweaks to injuries coming in alpha 3.17

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While the upcoming alpha 3.17 build of Star Citizen is seeking to add things like the Hull A and a river, it also appears...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best animal taming mechanics?

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I saw a fun thread on Reddit a while back that made me all nostalgic for Ultima Online. The player was looking for MMOs...

Massively Overthinking: Does wallet-voting work in modern MMOs?

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MOP reader The Grand Nagus recently pointed us to his thread on the Star Trek Online reddit where players were trying to sort out...

EVE Online community podcast loses official CCP Games partnership over media blackout participation

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Yesterday, we reported on a media blackout protest being fomented by the EVE Online community in response to CCP Games' monetization decisions over the...

Elite Dangerous puts console to PC wealth transfers on hold to assess possible changes

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Before Elite: Dangerous studio Frontier Developments elected to put the kibosh on content development for consoles, it allowed players a one-time transfer of wealth...

The Stream Team: Starting SWTOR’s Legacy of the Sith for real

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It's Massively OP's Larry to the rescue! MJ's Chiss is left behind as Larry moves on to show off the new Legacy of the...

Star Citizen discusses the difficulty of creating visual effects

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It would appear that VFX Director Mikey Snowdon, the guest of Star Citizen's latest weekly dev Q&A video, has an extremely tough and exhausting...

EVE Online streamers organize an ‘EVE Blackout’ to protest CCP’s monetization of the sandbox

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The complaints about EVE Online's recent monetization moves are not going away despite CCP Games' best efforts to keep its head down. Some streamers...
This is expensive.

Star Trek Online team scrambles to address nasty console crash bug

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If Spock took a look at Star Trek Online's servers in the past 24 hours, he might say, "Crash long and expire." It's certainly...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 364: Turtle power!

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Justin and Bree discuss Elite Dangerous console, EVE Online's P2W controversy, Guild Wars 2's turtles, and WoW's expansion reveal, with adventures in DDO, WoW Classic, SWG Legends, and GW2, plus mailbag topics on WoW free-to-play and New World's MMO pedigree.
I AM EXTREMELY MORTAL, I HAVE INSIDE ME LOOT TO TAKE

Interview: Mortal Online 2’s CEO on launch, the playerbase, tech, and the future of the sandbox

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Mortal Online 2 was one of multiple MMOs to launch in the first few months of 2022, and it began life with the best...
Right, right, space. We're in it.

Elite Dangerous brings Fleet Carrier interiors, functioning seats, and a new mission type in Update 11

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After a couple of delays and the unfortunate news that the console version is effectively going into maintenance mode, Update 11 of Elite: Dangerous...

The Daily Grind: Are you irritated by paid server transfers in MMORPGs?

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A few weeks back, MOP's Eliot covered a World of Warcraft sale that caught my attention: Concurrent with the launch of Eternity's End, Blizzard...

The Soapbox: SWTOR’s Legacy of the Sith is bad, but not for the reasons you’ve heard

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I've never been a big Star Wars fan, but I am a big BioWare fan, and after many failed attempts to get into the...
Ominous!

Warframe previews April update’s new mission types, new character, and reworks for Eximus and Focus

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As promised, Warframe's most recent devstream has offered a closer look at the game's next content expansion known as Angels of the Zariman, which...

The Game Archaeologist: Dark Zion, the brainchild of Tad Williams and Ultima Online devs

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It has almost become a running joke in MMO circles that pretty much every new studio and new title these days was founded by...

EVE Online begins its PLEX for Good charitable campaign to help Ukraine’s humanitarian crisis

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While the ongoing community kerfuffle over EVE Online's decision to sell its players a kitted-out mining ship is still something to bear in mind,...

Star Wars: The Old Republic promises flashpoint and weekly mission improvements in the near future

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Star Wars: The Old Republic caused a great amount of design upheaval with last month's launch of Legacy of the Sith -- and BioWare...

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