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MMO Business Roundup: Embracer Q2 2024, Steam toxicity, and GOG’s game preservation program
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Embracer
Embracer - the failson megacorp we keep an eye on because...
Star Trek Online launches the Dimensional Typhoon event for console and The Feast event for PC
It's event week in both PC and console editions of Star Trek Online apparently, as the latest patch for the MMORPG has added a...
EG7 Q3 2024: EverQuest, LOTRO, and Palia gave Daybreak its best quarter all year
The quarterly financials avalanche continues this week with Enad Global 7, better known to MMORPG fans as the company that bought Daybreak and then...
Vague Patch Notes: Living like a rock in MMORPGs
So if you are anything close to my age, you probably do not think of Simon & Garfunkel's music as being anything remotely "raw."...
Star Trek Online is bringing its Borg multiverse event to Xbox and PlayStation next week
It's not Star Trek if you're not milking the popularity of the Borg for all its worth -- a lesson that Star Trek Online...
Star Trek Online gets into the Halloween spirit with space witches
Putting aside the valid fears of mass studio layoffs for the simulated fears the final frontier, Star Trek Online players are invited to indulge...
Star Trek Online ends grandfathered subscriptions – in exchange for free lifetime memberships
As if the news of Cryptic's mass layoffs and de facto demise this week wasn't news enough, now Star Trek Online's new caretakers appear...
Embracer-owned Cryptic Studios will suffer devastating layoffs at the end of October
We've been keeping a very worried eye on Cryptic Studios for the last year or so, ever since it became clear that the floundering...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you bring a whole squad of pets and minions
Pet classes are not really my jam. I don't want my companion to be doing the tanking or damage or healing or whatever, and...
Perfect Ten: The MMO races that nobody ever seems to choose
Just because an MMORPG offers a wide array of character options doesn't mean that player interest will be equally divided among them. We've long...
Star Trek Online activates the new Dimensional Typhoon event, Neverwinter reworks battlepass
A galaxy near, near to here is asking for all Star Trek Online captains to crank it into warp for a new event that...
Global Chat: Star Trek Online’s content problem
As we kick off another edition of MMO gamer blogs talking about the titles that we love the most, we'll be visiting with Contains...
Star Trek Online brings back its ‘historical museum’ for franchise’s birthday
Star Wars fans certainly know the importance of May the 4th, but did you know that there's a counterpart in the Star Trek fandom?...
Perfect Ten: Underrated MMOs that deserve a second look in 2024
We've all been there at one time or another. We've been playing the same-old favorite MMO for a long time and then suddenly feel...
Perfect Ten: My 10 favorite MMO pet classes of all time
I've had to face the fact that among the MOP team, I'm in somewhat of a minority who actually likes -- nay, passionately loves...
Vague Patch Notes: The player-provided guidance problem in MMORPGs
Final Fantasy XIV has a player-based mentor program and an automatic guidance network for new players. The idea is that certain players can volunteer...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with outstanding tutorial sections
Tutorials! They're important. I even wrote an entire column about them recently, talking about how important they are in getting people into a new...
Star Trek Online unveils the Heritage Starship Bundle after teasing it with cryptic hints
Look. You knew that when Star Trek Online started toying around with pseudo-ARG puzzles regarding its latest promotion that the end result would be...
Star Trek Online hints at a new ship bundle with mysterious teaser images paired with a cipher
What's a good way to draw hype for an upcoming reveal for Star Trek Online? Offer fans a mystery, apparently: The MMO's Twitter account...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs show blood and battle damage?
At the risk of sounding like a bloodthirsty gorehound, I do kind of wish that MMOs did more to visually represent the damage that...
