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See: Sony Online Entertainment, now Daybreak Game Company

One Shots: Party on, Garth!

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What makes for a really smashing party in an MMO? You can throw all of the prizes, pretend food, and decorations at the wall,...
And all of the art design is still done on lined notebook paper.

EverQuest II announces anniversary events and new ‘old-school PvP’ event server

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Venerable poster child of the MMO genre EverQuest is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and it just recently announced a cavalcade of events...
Why must life be so hard?

Daybreak opens PlanetSide Arena closed beta signups, promises forums next week

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Daybreak's announcement yesterday that it's delayed PlanetSide Arena's early access launch from January 29th to March 26th didn't seem to surprise any MMO players...
They're not attractive spaceships.

Massively Overthinking: Why aren’t you playing the MMO most like your favorite sunsetted game?

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This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from reader Smuggler-in-a-YT. "Star Wars Galaxies had its problems, but the sense of community, purpose, and story (through...
Comptrollers.

Daybreak is delaying PlanetSide Arena’s early access launch to March

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Daybreak has announced that it's delaying PlanetSide Arena's planned early access launch from January 29th to March 26th. "What we’ve discovered during playtesting is that...
We're here! We're... that's it, actually.

EverQuest producer teases 20th anniversary events and the resurrection of Fan Faire

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Daybreak just had a tough year, but EverQuest is focusing ahead on 2019. This March, the game turns 20 years old, and Holly Longdale's...

Perfect Ten: The worst MMORPG expansions of all time

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A great MMO expansion brings so much to the table: fresh excitement for a game, new classes, innovative features, expanded vistas, additional races, and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 205: Dragons and other MMO rarities

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Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online's Elsweyr, Breach, Nexon, ArcheAge, Pantheon, FFXIV, SWG Legends, CrossCode, and the harms of early access.

Ashes of Creation yoinks another ex-Daybreaker, this one a community manager

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Ashes of Creation's Intrepid Studios has been grabbing up Daybreak devs left and right, and now it's hired a new one: Sarah "Lt. Toast"...

The Daily Grind: What’s your core problem with mobile MMOs, and is it fixable?

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Droid Gamers put out an interesting piece this weekend that to me illuminates how the ongoing conversation about mobile MMOs go south. Author Ash...
Take care.

The MOP Up: WildStar suffers another indignity

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Miss WildStar? Well at least there's the soundtrack to listen to on various sites, right? Nope! Apparently NCsoft pulled the acclaimed score from sites...

Massively Overthinking: What would you want out of a World of Warcraft 2?

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Let's pretend for a moment that the reason Blizzard appears to be dropping the ball with World of Warcraft right now is that it's...

EverQuesting: Can Daybreak make it through 2019?

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Those who've been long-time followers of Massively OP's long-running EverQuesting column might have noticed a distinct lack of new year hopes and predictions articles...

Project Horseshoe’s design papers confirm decades of MMORPG lessons

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Not everyone involved in game design is trying to squeeze every last penny out of you. Yes, a lot of them are, but many...
I TRUSTED YOU

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2019

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Working in this field has given me something of a sense of how a lot of the industry is going to play out. Take...
Also, more robots.

The Daily Grind: Which old MMO studio do you miss the most?

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We have spent a lot of time -- perhaps more than is prudent -- pining over MMOs that have closed their doors. But I...
Oopsies.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 204: SpatialOS spasms

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Justin and Bree discuss the Unity vs. SpatialOS showdown, the Destiny 2 Activision split and investigation, Elite's massive event, big updates for Guild Wars 2, FFXIV, and LOTRO, plus our adventures in ESO, LOTRO, SWG, and DDO, and reader mail on games that don't click with you, the MMOs we'd like to see built, and video game eyeballs.

Interview: Astellia’s western team on pay-to-win, themeparks, and dodging early access and battle royale

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Yesterday we covered the news that South Korean born MMORPG Astellia is heading westward in 2019, with its holy trinity classes, solid PvE and...

PSA: Make sure you log in to get your free DC Universe Online CR210 character booster

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Daybreak's superhero MMO DC Universe Online is currently in the midst of its eighth anniversary celebrations, complete with the new event Attack of the...
Which one of you is the Juno Reactor and which one is the Don Davis?

The Daily Grind: What dead MMO needs more coverage?

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One of the humorous awards we've given out in the past - but didn't in 2018 - was our award for the dead game...

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