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The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO developer you think...

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2025/05/16

A while back, someone in our comments laid down a spicy zinger for MMO developer John Smedley, whom MMORPG fans surely know best as the former president of SOE and then Daybreak. Smed always took a lot of flak for being the kind of game exec who’d wade into the trenches with smack talk. He […]

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The Stream Team: Starting Dungeons & Dragons Online’s...

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2025/05/15

The Sharn saga Massively OP’s MJ was working on in Dungeons & Dragons Online is over, but that doesn’t mean her adventures in the area are. Next up, she’s starting The Soul-Splitter quest arc, which begins with Finding Dorris. Remember Dorris? She’s one of the adventurers MJ fought alongside way back on Korthos Island and […]

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Massively Overthinking: What will the MMORPG genre...

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2025/05/15

If you had asked me in 2020 what the MMO genre would look like in 2025, I’m not sure how I would’ve answered. It was 2020, first all, which was a dumpster fire for so many other reasons, but it was also a time when online games were booming, even if they were being built […]

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Black Desert launches a new season on mobile as Pearl...

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2025/05/15

There is a whole lot going on across all three editions of Black Desert once again, so it’s time to get right into things. And this time around we’ll be starting off with BDO Mobile and its newly released season designed to help players blitz through the levels. This so-called Knowledge Boost season once again […]

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Whatever happened to Airship Syndicate’s Wayfinder?

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2025/05/15

Wayfinder has not had an easy life. Originally meant as an ongoing multiplayer game, it was abruptly ditched by its publisher, Digital Extremes, and was forced to go independent. Studio Airship Syndicate launched on PC and PS5 last fall, having scaled back the game’s ambitions with a new single-player-with-optional-multiplayer format; back in January, the team […]

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Lost Ark reaffirms May and June’s upcoming new zone,...

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2025/05/15

We might have already had a roadmap update video back in April, but April was so long ago and the video production team at Lost Ark does not want to you forget, and so we have another video about content updates on the horizon, specifically looking at what’s arriving in May and June. The May […]

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Hotta’s new multiplayer gacha RPG, Neverness to...

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2025/05/15

Not quite a year ago, Perfect World’s Hotta Studios announced yet another multiplayer gacha game, this one with an even more ridiculous name than usual: Neverness to Everness. It had a bit of an anime Shadowrun vibe, with an mysterious urban setting and lots of “anomalies” to keep the routine of racing, shopkeeping, playing house, […]

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Mortal Online 2 discusses territory control overhauls...

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2025/05/15

If you’re the sort of person who has been invested in the territory control mechanics in Mortal Online 2, you might be among those who feel that the system isn’t particularly interesting, especially since it provides little benefit for its otherwise higher costs. Star Vault has heard this feedback and in its latest livestream has […]

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Pearl Abyss Q1 2025: Black Desert Mobile’s Chinese...

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2025/05/15

Last weekend, we ran the numbers on Black Desert and EVE Online, thanks to some gap-filling on Q4 2024 made possible by Pearl Abyss’s annual figures released for the Iceland tax authorities. In short, in spite of Pearl Abyss’ dissembling when it came to the fortunes of the two MMORPGs we care about, both games […]

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Star Citizen patches in alpha 4.1.1 and Invictus...

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2025/05/15

It’s been all that Star Citizen has been talking about and this week it’s all here. The internet spaceship sandbox has launched its alpha 4.1.1 update as well as kicked off its 12 day-long Invictus Launch Week free fly event. The alpha patch has brought on a host of new ship-based missions for players to […]

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Enter to win a Neverwinter Renegade Illusionist...

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2025/05/15

In celebration of last month’s multiplatform launch of Neverwinter’s 31st module release, aka Red Harvest and its D&D movie-themed location, publisher Arc Games has kindly granted us gift codes to raffle to our readers! We’ve got 20 keys for the account-bound Renegade Illusionist pack, which includes the Renegade Illusionist companion as well as a companion […]

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Fight or Kite: Warborne Above Ashes blends fantasy...

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2025/05/15

A couple of months ago, around the same time Havenhold caught my attention, another game also began to ping on my radar: Warborne Above Ashes. Both games hit a lot of the main sweet spots for my MMO gaming life, and I was glad to see new games catch my interest as much as these […]

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Blue Protocol is apparently coming westward as Blue...

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2025/05/15

The cancelation of Blue Protocol in the west and the subsequent demise of the Japanese MMORPG overseas was one of the low points of 2024; in fact, we called it the biggest MMORPG disappointment of the whole year. But last summer, we got a glimmer of hope: A mobile version of the game, eventually renamed […]

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Stars Reach invests in its economy and work on the...

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2025/05/15

While it might not be as flashy as blowing up chunks of the landscape and building skyscrapers, the economy is an essential part of any MMO, especially a sandbox like the upcoming Stars Reach. In a new dev video, Raph Koster talked about how the studio is constructing the economic framework for the game, including […]

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Vague Patch Notes: What makes MMO monetization...

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2025/05/15

I am really, really excited to be writing our limited series over in Gachapwned because I feel it’s going to be an interesting deep-dive into a lot of fields that aren’t really discussed by MMORPG players often. Obviously, the focus is explaining and examining a specific kind of predatory monetization that I feel merits further […]

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Throne and Liberty adds a spectator mode to war games...

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2025/05/15

Throne and Liberty’s update this week is a small one but a mighty one as it adds a feature we love around here: a spectator mode. Specifically, this spectator mode allows players to, well, spectate war games matches, similar to the old Guild Wars spectator feature. “Browse the list of upcoming War Games and join […]

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Old School RuneScape busts out its “wheelin’ dealin’...

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2025/05/15

Old School RuneScape players may think that they’re rough and tough enough to take on any single boss by themselves — but what about a boss that requires a team-up? That’s the challenge of this week’s new big bad boss, Yama, a “wheelin’ dealin’ demon” in the Chasm of Fire that takes a duo of […]

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Apple’s apparent stalling forces Epic Games to delay...

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2025/05/15

There are children, there are petulant children, and then there are tech executives, apparently: Readers might remember that Epic Games was in the process of bringing Fortnite back to the Apple App Store in the US by way of its Swedish account following the latest and unambiguous ruling by the US court system that commanded […]

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NCsoft Q1 2025: Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds bump is...

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2025/05/15

Spring financial week continues here on MOP, as we now have the NCsoft quarterly report for Q1 2025. And it wasn’t a great quarter, frankly: The company saw revenue drop 12% compared to Q4 2024 and 9% compared to this quarter last year, all following a year when NCsoft was undergoing an organizational restructure and […]

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The Daily Grind: If you could change your first MMO,...

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2025/05/15

You cannot change your first MMO, any more than you can change your first kiss or the first time you realized that the song “Do Your Ears Hang Low” is not actually about ears. And speaking personally, I wouldn’t actually want to. But I think it’s fun to look back at my history and decide […]

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