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Nexon Q2 2024: Dungeon & Fighter Mobile drives a...

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2024/08/08

The parade of financial reports continues this afternoon with Nexon’s Q2 2024, which saw record revenues for the gaming company thanks to Chinese mobile gamers. “Nexon delivered record-high Q2 results driven by Dungeon & Fighter Mobile in China, which launched on May 21 and sustained the top grossing position on China’s iOS chart for more […]

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Old School RuneScape will take a hard stance against...

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2024/08/08

Old School RuneScape has often been used as fertile soil for RMT shenanigans, particularly in the case of its duel arena feature, which was being used as an RMT hot spot to the point that it was completely replaced. Of course, that didn’t stop players from using 1v1 PvP as a way to stake gold […]

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Nightingale’s massive Realms Rebuilt update offers a...

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2024/08/08

Nightingale has drifted a bit out of the gaming consciousness since its early access launch earlier this year, but Tencent’s Inflexion apparently means to change that, as it’s thrown down quite a gauntlet with this afternoon’s reveal of Nightingale: Realms Rebuilt, which is basically the 0.4 and 0.5 patches rolled into one. “This is our […]

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RIFT opens its test server once more but doesn’t...

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2024/08/08

Good news, RIFT fans! After recent months when most of the news about the game has been about merges and transfers, the game’s test server is being re-opened until August 12th. Players will get a chance to test… something! Presumably. The announcement does not make any hint about what players will be testing, just saying […]

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MMO Business Roundup: Bandai Namco’s Q1 2025, My...

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2024/08/08

Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! And much like yesterday’s digest, we begin with some quarterly financials! Woo! Bandai Namco: The Q1 earnings report for Bandai Namco’s fiscal year 2025 has arrived and it brings some good news for the investors: Net sales are up by almost 25 percent YoY, […]

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Pearl Abyss Q2 2024: Equinox bolstered EVE Online...

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2024/08/08

The dog days of August bring a whole deck of financial results for companies – including MMO companies like Pearl Abyss. The Korean gaming giant’s Q2 2024 report shows a relatively flat revenue streak for the company, which has bobbed between $57M and $62M (US) in revenue hauls for the last five quarters. This month, […]

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Final Fantasy XIV launches the Moonfire Faire,...

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2024/08/08

Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion was already about what a summer vacation would look like for the Warrior of Light, but today brings a more literal interpretation of summer vacation as promised, as today marks the annual Moonfire Faire’s return. Players who are eager to get their mitts on bomb monster-shaped tabletop balloons and a […]

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Fortnite unveils plans to add previous battle pass...

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2024/08/08

The battle pass monetization model is something of a double-edged sword: On the one hand, it can motivate people to spend money in order to ensure they get the latest shiny, but on the other hand, the pressure of FOMO can have the opposite effect or could even stop people from playing a game altogether. […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Is it time for MMORPGs to start...

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2024/08/08

The other day, I was writing about Baldur’s Gate 3 celebrating its anniversary with statistics about all the companions that people have smooched over the course of the game’s first year of operation. And that prompted a discussion about the fact that this is clearly a market that MMORPGs have generally been kind of ignoring […]

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Warframe’s August 21 Lotus Eaters update sets the...

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2024/08/08

Are you excited to go back in time to Warframe 1999? Then you’re going to want to fire up the game on Wednesday, August 21st, when the Lotus Eaters update drops since it will act as a prologue to whatever wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey thing is happening in the looter shooter’s weird and wild narrative. “The Man […]

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New World’s Aeternum console beta infographic can’t...

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2024/08/08

As New World continues its agonizingly slow march toward Aeternum this fall, PC players are in a bit of a grumpy mood, unreceptive to community efforts like the extremely smol infographic Amazon dropped last night. The studio says that testers finished over 682K quests, killed 3.6 baddies, got wrecked by Indra more than any other […]

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Stars Reach’s Raph Koster on MMO trust, fear, and...

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2024/08/08

Regular MOP readers know that our commenters have already spilled a lot of ink about Raph Koster’s in-development MMORPG Stars Reach – and he’s clearly reading it as he’s been down there in the comments with you. And we’re guessing that the latest dev blog on the game might be inspired directly by some of […]

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Diablo IV’s recipe bug benefits seasonal players –...

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2024/08/08

Blizzard’s long been the studio that’s earned the moniker “Fun Police” as it quite routinely stamped out any enjoyable quirks or non-harmful exploits that players were enjoying. However, it appears that the studio is turning a deliberate blind eye to a situation in Diablo IV that’s proving beneficial to many of the playerbase. Apparently, new […]

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Guild Wars 2 makes a lot of spear adjustments prior...

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2024/08/08

The spear was once described as the “king of the medieval battlefield,” which makes its omission from many fantasy MMOs puzzling. This won’t be the case for Guild Wars 2 when it introduces the new weapon type for all classes with Janthir Wilds this month. In fact, ArenaNet’s been testing the spear pretty extensively and […]

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Black Desert launches the Mountain of Eternal Winter...

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2024/08/08

Console Black Desert players are capping off their summer with some winter – Mountain of Eternal Winter, that is. The console version of the expansion is live today on PlayStation and Box with the new snow-capped region, new quests, new cutscenes, the new hub, a new boss, new loot, and new endgame content. “In Mountain […]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you have the highest...

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2024/08/08

2024 is not nearly in the rear-view mirror yet, we’ve still got several months to go, but we have definitely moved into the back half of this particular calendar year. Several big MMORPGs have yet to get their big expansion this year. And while there are titles that have definitely struggled to really make a […]

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The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming enters the RTS...

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2024/08/07

Tonight’s episode of Backseat Streaming is once again host to another game that will be entirely new to MOP’s MJ and Chris: Immortal: Gates of Pyre, a competitive RTS title that pits players against one another in strategic combat. Join them tonight at 8:00 p.m. EDT as they offer up some 1v1 action from the […]

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Final Fantasy XI prepares new Ambuscade encounters...

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2024/08/07

It’s very important for you to make morbols feel good about themselves. Sure, Final Fantasy XI’s incarnations are among the more toothsome and tentacular (that’s not a word) incarnations of the series mainstays, but the Ambuscade battles being added in the next patch on August 13th features Jody, Julika, and Vivian! They’re idols, by Morbol […]

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No, Pax Dei isn’t going to delete all your houses...

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2024/08/07

Remember last week when Mainframe Industries teased a plot clean-up for Pax Dei that would hopefully clear out some of the abandoned plots in the game – i.e., claimed but currently unused land from early testers? It’ll actually be the second batch of clean-ups, and apparently, it’s caused current players some concern that they might […]

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SMITE 2 introduces a new character as part of its...

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2024/08/07

SMITE 2 has been running closed alpha tests a few times already, but those were happening only during weekends. That’s about to change in a few weeks’ time as the refreshed MOBA is preparing for a 24/7 closed alpha test starting on Tuesday, August 27th. Hi-Rez Studios says that always-online testing is now required in […]

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