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MMO Week in Review: Turtling up

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2025/09/01

If you were thinking the only rogue server drama we were going to get this summer was Daybreak suing a profitable EverQuest emulator, think again: Blizzard is now pursuing a profitable World of Warcraft emulator, Turtle WoW, in court too. Meanwhile, we’re probably never getting Rich Vogel’s sci-fi MMO, LOTRO is giving away boatloads of […]

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Throne and Liberty salutes its militaristic Academy...

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2025/08/31

As Throne and Liberty closes out the summer, the MMOARPG activated a battle pass that should appeal to the military-minded player. The Academy Star battle pass, which runs through September 25th, offers new free and paid reward tracks that culminate in some snappy-looking uniforms and other goodies. “The Academy Star Battle Pass features the new […]

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The MOP Up: MapleStory’s second renaissance

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2025/08/31

MapleStory is getting a “second renaissance” with growing player numbers both in the east and west. This is thanks in part to a deliberate decision to create localized versions of the MMO: “We had to come up with a new kind of localization strategy — one that does more than just translation, but customized content […]

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The Stream Team: Spending a Sunday by goofing off in...

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2025/08/31

It’s been a long few days for MOP’s Chris and it’s looking like a long weekend on the horizon, and when it comes to relaxing and unwinding, few titles offer the right vibe than that multiplayer social game of games Tower Unite. Join Chris and his crew today at 2:00 p.m. EDT for some laid […]

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Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s Tales of...

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2025/08/31

It’s been nearly five years since Pokemon Go’s Go Beyond update announcement lifted the player level cap from 40 to 50, and now the devs have announced that on October 15th, as part of the Tales of Transformation Season, the cap will be lifted to level 80. Yes, it’s a weird number and part of […]

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RuneScape’s final microtransaction experiment...

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2025/08/31

Over the past several weeks, RuneScape has been running some microtransaction experiments in order to see how players engage with the variety of buyable items offered by Jagex, from lockboxes to cosmetics. Now the final such experiment is upon the fanbase, with individual cosmetics that were previously available now up for purchase directly between September […]

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One Shots: MMO pathology is gross and cute

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2025/08/31

“This cute thing in Final Fantasy XIV is called Carbuncle, a pet for the Arcanist job,” shared Minimalistway. “However, I just learned that Carbuncle is also a disease. I just saw a photo for it, and I wish I didn’t!” Once again, an MMORPG player learns a hard lesson that one should never google in-game […]

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The Daily Grind: What cosmetic reward do you almost...

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2025/08/31

I’m not a hat guy. I don’t wear hats. I’ve never really liked wearing hats, and I generally don’t care for hats. And that extends to a lot of my aesthetic sensibilities, too. So an MMO can give me an endless string of the greatest hats known to man, but they’re not really going to […]

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Make My MMO: Dual Universe’s sunset, Star Citizen’s...

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2025/08/31

Welcome back to Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past their fundraising. The MMORPG genre said farewell to Kickstarted MMO sandbox Dual Universe this week as the devs streamed the MMO one final time before turning the […]

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Gacha Banner: Wuthering Waves gets new content,...

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2025/08/30

It’s time for another collection of gacha multiplayer RPG headlines that we call Gacha Banner, and today it’s all about a newly released content patch for Wuthering Waves, a date for the next update coming to Genshin Impact, and the upcoming title Neverness to Everness (NTE) being kind of obtuse in a new preview. We’ll […]

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Mabinogi Mobile officially opens its English language...

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2025/08/30

We’ve had eyes on the mobile version of the MMO Mabinogi, appropriately named Mabinogi Mobile, for some time now – all the way back to 2018 – and noted as the game made its way to its release in South Korea how announcements were shared in English, which indicated it would make a global release. […]

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Ashes of Creation addresses phase three issues and...

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2025/08/30

If you were hoping that the release of Alpha Two Phase III for Ashes of Creation was going to go without a hitch, you must be new to the genre or forgot that this is an alpha title; the new release has had its fair share of bugs and complaints about character progression if one […]

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Blizzard files copyright infringement lawsuit against...

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2025/08/30

You had to have known that this was a matter of “when” and not “if” Blizzard would legally go after the extremely popular World of Warcraft rogue server Turtle WoW, and now we know that “when” was this past weekend, as the studio officially filed a legal complaint against the server operators. “The Defendants in […]

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Gamescom 2025: Elder Scrolls Online talks seasons...

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2025/08/30

There is certainly no shortage of things to discuss with the devs of Elder Scrolls Online, whether it’s wider studio matters like layoffs and leadership changes or game-related things like scribing and subclassing. Some of those matters were touched on during a WCCFTech interview at Gamescom with new ESO director Nick Giacomini and now studio […]

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WRUP: Glacier Freeze in the highest edition

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2025/08/30

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about the posters we hung on our walls as kids.

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The Daily Grind: Does your MMO need a quest pruning?

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2025/08/30

More options are always better… or are they? With decision paralysis being a real observable and experiential phenomenon, I’m not sure that’s true. It used to be a huge selling point of MMOs to boast about how many quests they had to offer, but those hundreds and thousands of missions pile up into an intimidating […]

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Betawatch: Path of Exile 2 offers up a free testing...

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2025/08/30

So Path of Exile 2 is open to everyone for testing this weekend. We know, it’s kinda in early access beta already, but that makes this free weekends a double beta. If you’ve been considering jumping into the game but don’t want to pay into early access, you can do that! This weekend. Elsewhere, Ashes of Creation […]

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Kickstarted multiplayer van life game Outbound shows...

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2025/08/29

Fresh off its appearance and playable demo at Gamescom this past week, co-op van camping game Outbound released a new trailer showing off its coastal biome. So if you have dreams of beachfront parties or simply hanging out to watch the sunset over the sea, this could be the perfect spot for you. Last month, […]

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MapleStory merged North American servers this week as...

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2025/08/29

Three of MapleStory’s worlds became much closer friends this week as Nexon merged a trio of servers together on August 27th. The long-running MMO brought together Aurora, Elysium, and Scania into a single realm following a lengthy discussion. “While the majority of the players supported some form of a merge, opinions were split on the […]

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KingsIsle says it’s in the ‘final final stretch’ of...

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2025/08/29

Most of the time, state of the studio or state of the game addresses tend to focus on things that have already happened, and while that’s not too different in KingsIsle Entertainment’s latest video, it does have a pretty big promise for fans of Wizard101 – especially those who are looking forward to a console […]

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