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See: Sony Online Entertainment, now Daybreak Game Company

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMOs of 2017’s PAX West

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PAX West 2017 has come and gone, and though MJ is still feverishly working on her last few articles, we wanted to pause a...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio’s finances worry you the most right now?

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During this week's MOP podcast, Justin and I remarked on Funcom's spectacular 2017 financial showing, particularly in light of the fact that its numbers were...

Perfect Ten: MMOs that changed their names

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Names and titles fascinate me. While sometimes they have no deeper meaning than to sound pleasant and be memorable, a label can indicate purpose,...
I'm so disappointed in what we've done with robots.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds passes 10M sold

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This year's online juggernaut is not, surprisingly enough, anything made by Valve, Blizzard, or Riot, but instead one stemmed from the mind of a...

PAX West 2017: Dual Universe demos its persistent, seamless, sandbox universe

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If you were hoping that another title would pick up the idea of a voxel world and run with it, you're getting your wish....

Daybreak wants H1Z1’s focus on fast-paced action to set it apart from PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

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Matches in H1Z1: King of the Kill are about to get faster, according to Daybreak's latest roadmap for the game. "Our vision is for...

Ultima Online suspends housing decay, placement during 20th anniversary month due to Harvey

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During this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I wondered whether any MMORPGs with ongoing in-game costs and timers might disable them because of...

Let’s go moon mining in EVE Online’s newly announced expansion, Lifeblood

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Happy September, EVE Online. Howsabout an expansion? You got it: CCP has just announced Lifeblood, launching October 24th. "As new technologies for resource acquisition emerge...

Massively Overthinking: Female characters and gender-locked classes in MMOs

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One of the reasons I gravitated to and stick by the MMORPG genre in spite of its many ups and downs (oh, so many...
You could also do what DCUO does, wherein there's no crossplay anywhere, everyone is off in their own little world, and also you are made by Daybreak and are completely terrible and no one should play you ever.

DC Universe Online introduces the new water powerset

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For far too long, heroes and villains in DC Universe Online who wished to harness the power of water have had to make do...

EverQuesting: Guide to EverQuest II’s Days of Summer reward event

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Did you hear about EverQuest II multi-month Days of Summer reward event? If so, lucky you! Here is an event that was launched with...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: The 10 saddest MMORPG stories

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Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...

Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida on Stormblood’s release, AI issues, and MMO history

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After all this time, I'm sure some of you forgot that my original E3 2017 interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida was supposed to...

Raph Koster on roleplaying consent and emotes in Star Wars Galaxies and WoW

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MMORPG designer Raph Koster has a fun piece out today, ostensibly about what he's dubbing "consent systems" in multiplayer games that include roleplaying --...

DCUO makes skill point tinkering easier, throws triple events

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Sometimes the arrival of a long-awaited, much-needed feature can make a small patch feel worthy of a tickertape parade. Perhaps that's the case today with DC...

Perfect Ten: MMO experiments in transmedia synergy

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We're not going to argue that MMORPGs are the dominant form of media entertainment these days, but they do have endurance and a devoted...

EverQuest II brings out more familiars and expert raids with Game Update 104

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Don't fret that your summer's slipping away; revel in the final days of August here, as EverQuest II delivered a new game update yesterday...

Global Chat: World of Warcraft’s wild frontier

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How is World of Warcraft like the wild west of American history and legend? Something about Barrens chat might come to mind, but blog...

The Daily Grind: What MMO would you like to see dump its branding or IP?

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On Tuesday, Daybreak formally announced that the neglected PvE half of H1Z1, Just Survive, would be shedding its H1Z1 branding once and for all. The...

Massively Overthinking: Alone together vs. forced grouping in MMORPGs

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that everyone has at some point seen the xkcd called Isolation, but if not, there...

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