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Perfect Ten: The most poorly managed MMO sunsets of all time

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MMOs shut down. This is just kind of a reality. It's an unpleasant one, but we also are collectively aware that it happens and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 225: The slash and burn of Amazon Game Studios

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Justin and Bree discuss E3, Black Desert, Warframe, Last Oasis, Amazon, New World, Ship of Heroes, SWG Legends, LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, with mailbag questions on monetizing character costuming and beating bad launch dead horses.

Star Wars Galaxies Legends rogue server brings back Empire Day and Remembrance Day events

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Fourth of July celebrations in MMOs are always a curious event in games with broad global reach, which is possibly why so many skip...
This is... better?

EverQuest and EverQuest II producer’s letters tease ‘unfamiliarly familiar’ expansions for this fall

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A one-two punch of prognostication came out of Daybreak yesterday, as EverQuest franchise executive producer Holly Longdale posted a duo of letters detailing the...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best systems for helping newbies?

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A while back I saw a deeply underrated post on the MMORPG subreddit about mentoring systems. I don't mean the kind of systems like...
splash

EverQuest II celebrates Oceansfull across the waters of the world

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Ready for a shocking revelation about EverQuest II? There's water in the game. A fair amount of water, even! Players can even celebrate the presence and...

New Star Wars Galaxies rogue server Sunrunner 2 blends pre-NGE and post-NGE content

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So here's the thing about Star Wars Galaxies: The people who tell you NGE stunk are right. When it launched in 2005, it was...

H1Z1 launches season 4 as Daybreak says it’s ‘not ready to call it quits’ on Z1 Battle Royale

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Z1 Battle Royale - the PC game once known as H1Z1 - has had a rough year or two, losing most of its playerbase,...
Well, I feel daunted.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 223: Starbase Adrift

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Justin and Bree discuss Worlds Adrift's sunset, ESO Elsweyr's launch, Starbase, FFXIV Shadowbringers, and City of Heroes, with mail on old episodes and WoW Classic blowback.

SpatialOS TwoKinds Online transforms a webcomic into an MMO

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Huh, this might be a first for MMORPGs: a webcomic-turned-MMO. What we're talking about today is TwoKinds Online, a small indie RPG created by...
Kick it down the road.

Lawful Neutral: Why Josh Hawley’s lockbox regulation Senate bill is dead-on-arrival

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There's a special place in my heart for lootboxes and exploitative monetization, and that place is somewhere below the revulsion I feel for Martin...
Scowly!

Fight to survive in DC Universe Online’s new Survival Mode

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DC Universe Online's game update 95 has gone live as of last night, and it gives players the opportunity to put their superheroic skills...
Oh bang.

Vague Patch Notes: Don’t take it personal, it just ain’t your (MMO) story

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Here's an interesting fact of trivia for you for today: I am pretty much clocked out when it comes to news about H1Z1. The game...
Bless this hot mess.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 222: A good EVEning to be invaded

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Brendan joins Justin and Bree for a sponsored segment on EVE Online's upcoming expansion and Fanfest world tour, plus news from FFXIV, Dauntless, Astellia, Black Desert, and DCUO, with mailbag topics on Old School RuneScape and MMO cinematic trailers.

New MMO Starbase pretty much sounds like EverQuest Next in space plus robots

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Finnish developer Frozenbyte just dropped a brand-new MMO on the Steam store: It's called Starbase, and it's set to launch into early access "later...

The Survivalist: What ever happened to the smaller survival sandbox MMOs? Part two

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Last week we learned what was up with a number of the smaller survival sandbox MMOs. Sadly, some have faded away, but others are...

Massively Overthinking: What are your favorite MMO ‘chores’?

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A few months ago, The Outline ran a piece on Red Dead Redemption 2 titled I don't wanna do my video games chores, and...

Daybreak is porting DC Universe Online to the Nintendo Switch

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This is an unusual place to be getting MMORPG news, but it looks to be legit: Comics website CBR is reporting that DC Universe...

Rogue Server Roundup: Toontown Rewritten, Chronicles of Spellborn, and SWG Legends

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Emulators, pshards, rogue servers: Whatever you want to call them, they're buzzing with confidence right now. I mean, we legit got a properly formatted...

DC Universe Online previews its revamped Survival Mode

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Say you've hit the absolute top tier of content in DC Universe Online; you've gotten through all of the latest episodes, have an immensely...

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