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The Daily Grind: Do you have hope for World of Warcraft in 2022?

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Phew. It's been a rough, rough year for World of Warcraft players. With sparse content releases for Shadowlands, an unknown future direction for the...

Embers Adrift, formerly Saga of Lucimia, preps a Thanksgiving weekend alpha test

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Citing a "tradition" to hold a test during the Thanksgiving holiday, Saga of Lucimia-turned-Embers Adrift is revving up its alpha server for a run...
I circle the waterfront, I'm watching the sea.

WoW Factor: WoW Classic’s Season of Mastery is starting to gall me

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So here's a column that might be a bit more woolly than recent installments of this particular column. One of the thing that I've...
Do you really want to hurt me?

WoW Factor: Blizzard’s investment call was all bad news for World of Warcraft

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Tuesday's investor call for Activision-Blizzard was not what I would generally call good news for the company across the board, but the reality is...

Massively Overthinking: Initial impressions of New World

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Amazon's Queue World - uh, I mean, New World - is finally upon us. In fact, I imagine that it's been hard to avoid...
Those are people who lied, lied.

Vague Patch Notes: The taxonomy of liars in the MMO development space

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We have talked before in this column about lies and the lying liars who tell them. Those rotten, rotten liars. But the other day,...

Global Chat: Returning to Guild Wars 2

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Guild Wars 2's new (old) leadership, uptick in communication, and upcoming expansion have a lot of MMO players returning to the game lately --...

Embers Adrift, formerly Saga of Lucimia, says it’s raised enough money to launch

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Stormhaven Studios has been relatively quiet this summer since announcing that it was rebranding Saga of Lucimia as Embers Adrift following the bizarre departure...

Indie MMO TitanReach has apparently suspended development as ‘funds have dried up’

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I have some bad news for fans of indie MMORPG TitanReach: The game has apparently suspended development thanks to a lack of funding. Australian studio...
Now is the winter of our discontent.

Whatever happened to The Exiled (formerly known as Das Tal)?

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Do you remember The Exiled? What about Das Tal, its original name? If you answered yes to either question, congratulations, you remember a PvP-centered...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that waved goodbye without ever making it to launch

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If you've somehow missed this fact, then I hate to be the one to inform you of it, but it's time you learned: MMOs...
Into the exceedingly well known.

Wurm Online apologizes for lapsed communication, promises work on animal husbandry and VR support

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It's been a little while since we've heard anything major out of Wurm Online, with the game's last big ticket feature being the addition...
Remember when the big problem we had was seagulls? That seems so much easier right now.

The Daily Grind: How do you know when it’s time to throw in the towel on your favorite MMO?

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Over the weekend, MOP reader Joey tipped us off to the news that the last major German World of Warcraft fansite has put a...

Path of Exile tweaks balance and Expedition drop rates ahead of Royale weekend

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Path of Exile's hardest core fanbase has been roiling for a few weeks now, unhappy with the proposition of, launch of, and state of...

Amazon addresses New World crashes, stability, and approach to exploits post-launch

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Amazon Games has penned a letter for New World testers addressing the state of the game and its impending fixes. "e created several test builds...

Camelot Unchained boss rebuts theory that its studio finances are in disarray

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Dedicated readers of MassivelyOP already know that Camelot Unchained has become an MMO saddled with controversy over the last couple of years. Originally Kickstarted...

LOTRO producer talks Gundabad, Brawler, and LI revamp in new stream

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Lord of the Rings Online's new producer, Oleg "Raninia" Brodskiy, is helping SSG make big strides toward becoming more communicative and transparent ever since...

TitanReach attempts to put its controversies in the past with new details on early access development

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Indie MMO TitanReach has had a strange run to date. It caught our attention in 2020, when it launched a $430,000 US Kickstarter, which...

Secret World Legends’ community organizes fourth anniversary events

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With Funcom seemingly doing the absolute bare minimum to keep the lights on over at Secret World Legends, it's a sad commentary on the...
Hmm.

Crowfall officially launches July 6 – here’s your code to get into the beta

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It's official: Crowfall is finally launching. July 6th is the big day. The MMORPG was Kickstarted back in 2015 and has been on quite...

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