The real problem with this genre is the fact that humans play it. Here’s some of the worst stuff they’ve done.
this is why we can’t have nice things
Ubisoft’s CEO apologizes for responsibility dodge but fails to mollify strikers
Yesterday, we reported on the impending Ubisoft Paris worker strike and associated demands for better compensation and reduced work hours, provoked by CEO Yvrs...
Halo Infinite and Elder Scrolls Online teams were hit by Microsoft’s 10,000-person layoff
Yesterday's Microsoft layoffs were just as bad as anticipated - 10,000 jobs slashed in one day - and it gets worse for gamers, as...
War Thunder players have now leaked military documents a grand total of five times to win forum arguments
So at MOP we include roundups at the bottoms of some of our articles when we have a lot of similar topics or related...
Microsoft and Unity collectively shed over 10,000 employees in latest round of tech layoffs
Another round of layoffs are coming to both Microsoft and Unity. Both tech companies are dropping more employees from their respective workforces, with Unity...
It has once again been zero days since a War Thunder player used military documents to win a forum fight
When we highlighted how War Thunder players had used classified military documents to argue their cases an astonishing three times during our roundup of...
Blizzard claims NetEase rejected a license extension to keep Chinese games (including WoW) up another six months
When Blizzard and NetEase announced the dissolution of their long-running publishing partnership in China - and the sunset of almost all of Blizzard's games...
NetEase lays off staffers who were working on Blizzard games in China
Lest we forget, the falling out between NetEase and Blizzard has a toll greater than either company's bottom line; it also saw a human...
Workers at Blizzard-owned Proletariat say management refused its union and is ‘forcing’ them to go through NLRB voting
At the tail end of December, we reported that Blizzard-owned studio Proletariat was forming a union known as the Proletariat Workers Alliance. The announcement...
Square-Enix’s Yosuke Matsuda is still all-in on blockchain and NFTs even after 2022
You might think that after watching the steady erosion and collapse of blockchain and NFTs in general and in the gaming space after 2022,...
Goodbye to all the reasons we can’t have nice things in MMOs, 2022 edition
A few years back, we started collecting our happiest stories under the "warm fuzzies" tag and our most unpleasant ones under "this is why...
Fractured Online returns to closed development over ‘platform troubles’
Over the course of this week, we've been covering the ongoing Gamigo clownshow: The company suffered layoffs it didn't disclose, which took out the...
TitanReach resurfaces with a 2024 launch promise, but it might have been stolen from the original studio
Last weekend we recounted some of 2022's largest MMO crowdfunding stories, and unsurprisingly one of the biggies was the saga of TitanReach, which ceased...
ROSE Online’s early access launch is waylaid by a user data leak that forces the game offline for recoding
Veterans of our genre know that MMORPG launches are never smooth, but some launches can go far worse than others. That sadly appears to...
Gamigo transfers publishing of Aura Kingdom, Grand Fantasia, Shaiya, and Last Chaos amid layoffs and Aeria portal closure
It just wouldn't seem right to end the year without watching Gamigo light itself on fire, now would it? Fortunately, the company has indulged...
Activision-Blizzard’s president/COO leaves in March – for the Bored Apes Yacht Club crypto outfit
It appears that one of Activision-Blizzard's top brass will end his tenure by next year. According to a filing with the SEC, Activision-Blizzard president...
Pokemon Go datamining group slashes engagement and output over Niantic’s poor management
Pokemon GO players could use a win right about now, but Niantic's antics have made it harder and harder for the community to support...
Blizzard says it’s still working on finding a new Chinese publisher for World of Warcraft
Blizzard General Manager John Hight has posted a video and now a written message to Chinese players in the wake of last month's announcement...
Unionizing ZeniMax QA workers claim ‘death from a thousand cuts’ thanks to crunch and low pay
Earlier this week, over 300 QA workers employed by ZeniMax, including those who work at Elder Scrolls Online's ZeniMax Online Studios and Fallout 76's...
New report on crunch at Diablo IV’s Blizzard Albany casts doubt on June 6, 2023, early access date
The Washington Post released a new expose of Diablo IV's Blizzard Albany yesterday afternoon, in which workers are skeptical about the June 6th early...
Players caught Niantic’s Campfire app broadcasting private data in spite of security settings
This won't surprise many readers, but Campfire, the social media messenger app built by Niantic for its games, is not working as promised and...
