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Massively Overthinking: MMOs and ‘fresh piece of gum’...

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2024/04/18

Back in March, MOP reader Exarch Cathedra posted a comment to a Daily Grind about daily logins and sticky MMOs that caught my attention, and not just because it was a cute pun. “If I care enough about a game that an inducement gets me to log in it will generally prove sticky, especially if […]

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Neverwinter runs down Adventures in Wildspace’s...

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2024/04/18

Since 2021, Neverwinter has been trying to do new things with the battle pass model, and now it’s looking to try out a new layer to the whole system when the Adventures in Wildspace module releases, as the upcoming Sidereal Voyages battle pass will introduce a “spill-over XP” mechanic that adds the potential for more […]

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Tarisland answers more questions about PvP,...

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2024/04/18

Tarisland is continuing its multi-day lineup of answers to Discord member questions, as days two and three have brought another couple of rounds of insight specifically about PvP, economic matters, and play between PC and mobile, among other things. While PvP is mostly contained to a 3v3 arena, there are plans for “big-scale PvP actions […]

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Sea of Thieves marks 40 million players to date as it...

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2024/04/18

Many live service games would give anything to see success numbered in the tens of millions, which makes Sea of Thieves’ current accomplishment that much more special. This week, Rare announced that the pirate PvP sim has enjoyed 40 million players across all platforms since its launch in 2018. “[Forty] million players across Xbox, Windows […]

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V Rising demos its new Dracula-themed endgame zone,...

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2024/04/18

Vampire survival sandbox V Rising continues its efforts to drum up hype as it seems certain to lap Valheim when it fully releases on May 8th, and the latest comes in the form of a new trailer for the game’s impending new endgame zone, Ruins of Mortium. “As the story unfolds, players discover the legendary […]

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Skull & Bones is already on 50% discount two months...

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2024/04/18

After being delayed approximately four thousand times, to the point that we were even making jokes about it to the date it released, how has Ubisoft’s piratical online adventure Skull & Bones worked out? Well, it has been two months since the launch and the game is on sale for 50% off already. That is […]

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DC Universe Online adds Fortress of Solitude base and...

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2024/04/18

I was today years old when I learned (or more likely, re-learned) that there’s an official Superman Day, and that day is April 18th. Not coincidentally, today is April 18th! Hey, that would make today the perfect day to celebrate Superman in DC-themed video games, wouldn’t it? Daybreak obviously agrees with my extremely reasonable assertion. […]

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Post-layoffs, Palia is celebrating its alpha...

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2024/04/18

We’ve all been figuratively holding our breaths to see what would happen with Palia after the last month of mess, and now the game is taking a few tentative steps forward – but maybe not the ones players might hope for. Readers will recall that Palia studio Singularity 6 raised a whole lot of eyebrows […]

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City of Heroes Homecoming unveils huge...

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2024/04/18

If you’ve been enjoying our tours of our favorite City of Heroes supergroup bases and portal hubs on the officially licensed Homecoming servers, then you’re in for a treat as the Homecoming community team has unveiled a new project to help players find and access cool bases in-game, complete with a themed tour of some […]

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Entropia Universe announces plans to have an ‘AI...

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2024/04/18

Entropia Universe has not been one to ignore a big shiny bandwagon – remember that this MMO has tried to hawk egg NFTs and seen its players pay eye-watering amounts of real-world money in some cases for absurd digital ephemera – so now it’s decided to join the chorus of AI faithful by announcing the […]

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Not So Massively: Godsworn made me break my ‘no early...

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2024/04/18

I’m pretty blasé about most monetization in games, but there are a few things that I don’t like, and charging for early access is near the top of the list. I don’t like the idea of paying for an unfinished product, and far too many early access games never launch or limp across the finish […]

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Fractured adds new playable demon races and cash shop...

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2024/04/18

Dynamight Studios formally announced Fractured Online’s next patch last night: Dubbed The Invasion, it heralds the arrival of two new player demon races, specifically blood demons (vampires) and hellfire demons (infernals). “It’s official: The Invasion, the second major update to Fractured Online since our Early Access launch, will be released on… Wednesday, May 8, at […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Getting meta in MMORPGs

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2024/04/18

This week, MOP’s Chris ran afoul of the MMO meta when he was going through New World. Only he… didn’t, not really. He ran afoul of something that looks a lot like the meta, but it really isn’t; he ran afoul of bad design. But it ties into ideas of meta and balancing that I’ve […]

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Mortal Online 2 opens a new dungeon, adds new mounts,...

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2024/04/18

Testing is over and release is here: Mortal Online 2’s latest content update is live this week, opening the doors to a new dungeon, adding new mounts, and adjusting its siege gameplay. The new dungeon is known as the Sylvan Sanctum, which can be found somewhere in Myrland (and that’s all the details players are […]

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Heroes of the Storm is getting its biggest...

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2024/04/18

After causing a stir with some small patches late last year and earlier in 2024, Blizzard‘s MOBA Heroes of the Storm is back again with its biggest patch yet since entering maintenance mode in 2022. Currently in testing on the PTR, the update is still a relatively small patch by the standards of most games, […]

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World of Warcraft adds videos and Q&A on the War...

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2024/04/18

We hope you World of Warcraft fans brought a big appetite for The War Within this week because Blizzard doesn’t seem in the mood to shut up this week about this fall’s expansion as it sits on the cusp of beta testing. Last night, we covered preorders for the physical collector’s edition and the Ion […]

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Kickstarted MMORPG Legends of Aria is relaunching as...

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2024/04/18

When last we looked in on Legends of Aria, it was fading fast into unfortunate obscurity. The Kickstarted MMORPG – originally known as Shards Online – had been one of many crowdfunded throwback MMOs from the mid-aughts, but it struggled to find its voice and its playerbase once it actually launched. Developer Citadel Studios eventually […]

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The Daily Grind: Have you ever backed an MMO...

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2024/04/18

Back around the time when I first was getting my sea legs on Massively-that-was, donating to an MMO Kickstarter was basically a rite of passage. There was a sense among certain wings of the industry that this was the wave of the future, and when some of those games released we’d all see the results […]

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The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming checks out Your...

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2024/04/17

Fighting games aren’t normally the purview of our stream team (except for that one time), but that doesn’t mean MOP’s MJ and Chris can’t watch someone else play a fighting game. And better yet, this one is turn-based, so maybe they’ll have an idea of what’s going on! That’s the hook for Your Only Move […]

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World of Warcraft shows off the ways that Warbands...

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2024/04/17

Your Warband is going to share everything. Clothes, money, social standing, even boyfriends. That’s the big takeaway from the new entry on Warbands from World of Warcraft, which shows off the ways that Warbands will have numerous reputations from Dragonflight as well as new reputations rolled together. It also explains that the Diplomacy racial trait […]

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