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Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017

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As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...
YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!

The Daily Grind: What feature from another game would you import into your favorite MMO?

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One of the everlasting points of contention between me and the MMO industry is that no game gets everything right. Gah! Can't you mold...
Just fight the thing.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 147: Daybreak but not that one

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Justin and Bree discuss Secret World Legends, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Star Citizen, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, and the cost of making games, with a lengthy mailbag-inspired discussion on minimaps.
Expectations.

Star Wars: The Old Republic is holding a Thursday livestream with author Timothy Zahn

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Timothy Zahn is kind of a big deal for Star Wars fiction. Yes, he helped develop the most recent bit of Star Wars: The...
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Destiny 2’s Curse of Osiris DLC arrives

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Enough lollygagging, you Guardians; it's time to suit up and get your butt to Mars... er, Mercury. Wait, Mercury? We sure that's right? Oh....

Star Wars Galaxies’ main emulator got a major infrastructure upgrade and the Village Jedi system

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If you've not played on the original Star Wars Galaxies emulator in a season or two, it's probably escaped your notice entirely that its...
Boom?

EVE Online’s Arms Race update offers more ships to free players today

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Before you get too excited, let's note that today's update for EVE Online is not simply handing out ships like space travel-shaped candy. Free...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO needs a better music system – or any music system?

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If you ask any Star Wars Galaxies veteran about the game's most amazing features, I guarantee that the music and dance system will make...

Warframe on how studios should ‘learn to fight superficial microtransaction integration’

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Warframe has become aggressively popular according to Digital Extremes' own metrics, and our own readers back that up. Part of the reason is the...

Star Trek Online celebrates Christmas with giant nerf guns

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No matter what the stardate, it's Christmas season for Star Trek fans, and that means a few things. For starters, it's time to dig...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever fallen for an in-game MMO prank?

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Stop me if you've heard this one: If you fly to the remote Hutton orbital space station in Elite Dangerous, there's a free Anaconda in...

Star Citizen’s monthly studio report covers alpha 3.0 work, eyes Squadron 42

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What's Cloud Imperium been up to the last month? Oh nothing much, just frantically trying to prepare Star Citizen's alpha 3.0 to debut ahead...

Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs

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Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...

The Daily Grind: Did Marvel Heroes just get the worst-managed MMORPG sunset of all time?

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If you happened to catch the Massively OP Podcast this week, you heard my positively livid rant about the whole Marvel Heroes situation. Now,...
Sorry, guy.

WildStar has a fun-filled December in store for you

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House renovations, crass commercialization, and (XP) explosions are all in store for WildStar players this December. Carbine posted its December DevConnect preview today, sharing a...

Leaderboard: Is Destiny 2’s marketing brilliant or just plain nuts?

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So this morning I'm dishing out cheese crackers for my kid, who was up all night barfing. (If my posts have typos today, it's...

Bluehole’s CEO on how Ascent: Infinite Realm (A:IR) will breathe life into a stagnating MMORPG genre

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Ready for some harsh truths, MMO players? Bluehole CEO Hyo-Seob Kim recently told GIbiz that he wasn't expecting PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to do so well globally,...

Superdata’s October 2017 revenue report: Destiny 2’s and PUBG’s dominance

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Destiny 2 may be fudging up left and right, but it still sold a truckton of copies. That's according to Superdata, whose most recent revenue...
No, it's still not.

Destiny 2 acknowledges ‘betrayal’ over XP adjustments and studio silence

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While stopping short of an actual apology in this week's Destiny 2 state of the game post, Bungie acknowledged that players have been greatly...

The Repopulation considers closing its EU server, adding hardcore server as 10.2 patch rolls out to testers

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Idea Fabrik has a new forum post up on the state of sandbox MMO The Repopulation heralding the testing of update 10.2. There's downside,...

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