the secret world

Official Site: The Secret World
Studio: Funcom
Launch Date: July 3, 2012
Genre: Modern Horror Hybrid Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid B2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
See also: Secret World Legends

One Shots: Let us tell you a fairy tale…

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Just the other day I was musing about how EverQuest II feels like a forgotten MMO -- and I guess I was heard because...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO haunted houses to explore – if you dare….

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Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It'd be the best of...

Star Anvil’s Secret World TTRPG shares images of card decks and draugr as crowdfunding moves past $100K

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The TTRPG for The Secret World being created and crowdfunded by Star Anvil Studios continues to roar along. As of this story's writing, the...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 392: Don’t rollback my heart

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Justin and Bree discuss New World's fresh start and Brimstone Sands, expansions for EverQuest and EverQuest II, the sale of My.Games, Final Fantasy XIV, Mythos, Echo of Soul, Shroud of the Avatar's huge rollback, and the Secret World TTRPG Kickstarter, with adventures in WoW and SWG Legends.

One Shots: The Old Lion’s Arch Fan Club

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While it was certainly gutsy for Guild Wars 2 to smash up and replace the main city hub of Lion's Arch back in the...

Global Chat: What gets you back in an MMO you previously dismissed?

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We've all been there: We try out an MMO, find that it isn't doing it for us, and abandon it. But then down the...
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Massively Overthinking: Do you take vacation time to play MMOs?

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Back when Amazon was busy merging several dozen Lost Ark servers, I saw a comment thread where people were grousing about being locked out...

Star Anvil’s Secret World tabletop RPG has already exceeded its Kickstarter goal

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As we've been reporting, while Funcom is more or less content to leave both versions of Secret World in maintenance mode for the indefinite...
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Vague Patch Notes: Mandatory content and game design in MMOs

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Let me tell you about my second roommate in college. He was named Kyle, and he was benefiting from the fact that I had...

Vitae Aeternum: The New Secret World

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Comparisons between New World and The Secret World have existed pretty much since the earliest teases of NW. It's what put the game on...
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A YouTuber is archiving every single portion of The Secret World

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If you're the sort who has problems sticking it out through the combat model weirdness of The Secret World in spite of the outstanding...

Vitae Aeternum: The best solo armor and magical weapons in New World

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I now return to bring you the second part of my analysis of weapon and armor choices for the solo player in New World....

One Shots: A line-up of champions

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You know that you've finally made it as a bona fide hero when you are asked to line up in a dramatic group pose....

Vitae Aeternum: Previewing New World’s Brimstone Sands, leveling revamp, greatsword, and more

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New World is gearing up to unleash its largest patch since launch, and members of the press were recently invited to a virtual event...

The Secret World’s tabletop RPG sourcebook heads to Kickstarter in October

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Last November we caught wind of the creation of a tabletop RPG game based on the long-neglected MMO The Secret World, which got the...

Massively Overthinking: The most unusual subscriptions in the MMO space

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A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, so long ago that I can't remember who or when, a listener asked us about unusual MMO...

One Shots: Tower of Final Phantasy

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When a popular game comes out, expect to see a whole bunch of pictures of it slathered across the One Shots comments section! That's...

Massively Overthinking: The real-world value of MMOs

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A while back on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a wildly contentious - one might even say transparently provocative - thread declaring that "f...

Massively Overthinking: What endgame content keeps you in an MMORPG long-term?

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A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, Justin and I were trying to sort through why New World's endgame hasn't had staying power with...
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The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are better with fewer people playing?

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In Tyler's longform piece on The Secret World a while back, he said something that leaped out at me: that the game isn't really...

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