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World of Warcraft has likely made millions from its...

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2025/01/31

Last October, World of Warcraft elected to celebrate its 20th anniversary by selling a $90 mount with mail and auction house features baked in. And even though complaints about the eye-watering price and pay-to-win features of the mount were raised, it would appear that those voices were drowned out by the sound of ringing cash […]

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MultiVersus will close again in May, and this time...

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2025/01/31

MultiVersus is shutting down again, and unlike the last time, this one’s going to stick. “Season 5 will serve as the final seasonal content update for MultiVersus,” Player First Games wrote on Steam today. “As January 31, 2025, real money transactions are no longer available. Season 5 will begin on February 4, 2025, and run […]

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Guild Wars 2, Overwatch 2 compensate players for...

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2025/01/31

This is a tale of two MMO studios and how they handled recent fiascos competently. Happy Friday! First, ArenaNet announced last night that it is compensating Guild Wars 2 players who’d been affected by a Steam bug that effectively flagged their paid accounts as free-to-play accounts. It was a problem for only 10 hours before […]

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Destiny 2 highlights new activity, new and returning...

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2025/01/31

The devs of Destiny 2 have once again put together a look ahead to its February 4th Heresy episode release in both video and newsletter form, focusing on a new three-player activity, several new and returning weapons, and a bit of transmedia synergy with Star Wars. That’s right, the universes of the looter shooter and […]

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Elder Scrolls Legends has officially sunsetted after...

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2025/01/31

Back in November, we covered the sad news that multiplayer CCG Elder Scrolls Legends was truly doomed. After siloing the game off under a new reboot studio, abandoning promised content rollouts, and then pushing the game into a messy maintenance mode all the way back in 2019, Bethsoft and Sparkypants announced last November (via a […]

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Richard Garriott is still toying with Ultima Online...

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2025/01/31

MMORPG gamers might recall that last summer, Ultima Online creator Richard Garriott grabbed headlines a bit by accident when he casually told a player on Twitter that he’s been trying to buy back the game and thought he had a chance. Garriott, of course, sold Origin to EA in the ’90s, even before UO came […]

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The Daily Grind: The perfect MMO guild doesn’t exist…...

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2025/01/31

I must admit right up front that this is not my guild. I have a guild of weirdos who live mostly on Discord now. But I was playing Guild Wars 2 a while back when this guild advertisement popped up, and while I usually ignore these, this one caught my eye because… it sounds kind […]

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Sunsetted MOBA Heroes of Newerth is coming back for a...

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2025/01/31

Back in 2022 we reported on the unfortunate sunset of Heroes of Newerth, a free-to-play MOBA that had been running for 12 years (although it received its final patch back in 2019). However, it looks as if this game isn’t quite ready to ride off into that good night, as it has been picked up […]

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Massively Overthinking: The MMOs where suddenly...

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2025/01/31

I was recently thumbing through my Lord of the Rings Online screenshots when I stumbled into one I’d taken of a player’s extremely smart observation on session play and mounted combat – and the real reason they don’t work. “Session play was often like mounted combat,” the player wrote. “You are suddenly converted into a […]

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Diablo IV details Season of Witchcraft’s features and...

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2025/01/30

If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t absorb information about the new season in Diablo IV unless it’s in video form, then you’re in luck because Blizzard has put together a vignette that outlines all that the Season of Witchcraft has brought to the OARPG. The devs run through a summation of some of […]

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The Division 2 now says The Battle for Brooklyn DLC...

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2025/01/30

Earlier this week, following news that Ubisoft’s was laying off another 185 people affecting four studios in Europe, the The Division 2 team – which was apparently affected by those layoffs – announced that while the game’s new season will launch on February 25th as planned, the game’s long-delayed DLC would once again be delayed, […]

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Star Citizen releases the Fight for Pyro event in...

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2025/01/30

Star Citizen alpha 4.0 – that is, the “preview” version as opposed to the forked-off alpha 3.24.3 – is getting itself a new event, just in case there wasn’t a big enough reason to fight in the new system of Pyro. The appropriately named Fight for Pyro event, which continues the narrative that began with […]

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The Quinfall opens new servers while attributing...

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2025/01/30

If Vawraek Technologies is to be believed, the myriad connection issues that have plagued The Quinfall’s early access launch aren’t entirely the fault of the studio and instead are the result of DDOS attacks. In memos released yesterday, the studio claims that these attacks have been occurring since launch despite the team’s “working with a […]

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Throne & Liberty will merge 107 servers down to 25 in...

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2025/01/30

Amazon has been heralding server merges for Throne and Liberty for weeks now, and we have everything from a rationale (cleaning up the excess severs needed at launch) to a timeline, which includes a two-week transfer period before the February 27th merge. And now, we’re getting a list of which servers are doomed and where […]

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Worlds Adrift spinoff Lost Skies will have a demo at...

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2025/01/30

If you’re still missing Worlds Adrift, then put Lost Skies back on your radar: Bossa Studios is reviving the feel of the defunct MMO, without all the gankboxiness, in its new survival title. And you’ll get a chance to try it out yourself next month when Bossa opens the gates to its demo. “Bossa Games […]

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Albion Online previews kill trophies, journal...

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2025/01/30

Because of the way weapons work in Albion Online, new Crystal Weapons are a big deal, and they’re coming with the game’s Rogue Frontier update on February 3rd. Do you want to jump up and rain arrows down upon your foes? Dash forward with your gauntlets to deal slam damage to things? Spray lethal mist […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Bad MMOs happen – but not because...

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2025/01/30

When I first started working at Massively-that-was, I got a bit of a wake-up call pretty early on when I made a joke about EverQuest II. It wasn’t a good joke, actually a mean one, but since it was in work chat, you won’t be able to find it even if you go looking. But […]

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Sandbox MMO Pax Dei is razing inactive housing plots...

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2025/01/30

With the early access boom firmly in its rearview mirror, Pax Dei is turning its attention to the necessary work of clearing out long-abandoned housing plots so that its active community can use them. The devs said that this will take place today during a hotfix: “We’ll take this opportunity to perform a plot cleaning session […]

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Blade & Soul NEO is launching February 25 following a...

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2025/01/30

Just two weeks ago, NCsoft America announced that not only is Blade & Soul NEO launching in the west but the game is opening up preregistration packages. The one thing we didn’t have was a date – and now we do. “NC America revealed today Blade & Soul NEO, the modern remaster of Blade & […]

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Elite Dangerous dates the release of its colonization...

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2025/01/30

Consider us surprised and perhaps a little bit confused – mostly because of the lack of details – but Elite: Dangerous devs have just announced that the major colonization gameplay feature that has been talked about over the past couple of months is coming to players on Wednesday, February 26th. Readers may remember that this […]

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