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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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Lord of the Rings Online showcases new mount and...

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2024/04/14

Lord of the Rings Online players are getting a celebratory hamster pet. That’s it. That’s the headline. We can all stop reading, and I can stop writing so I can curl up in a corner and cry jealously about the fact that I don’t have an in-game fluffy bean that has party fireworks strapped to […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite weird MMO zone?

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2024/04/14

I do not know what the sixth zone in Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail will be, but I know it’s going to be wild. The sixth zone is almost always wild, from “secret Allagan research islands” to “underwater memory city” to “existentialist depression at the end of the universe.” And we already know that the completely […]

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Destiny 2 outlines April 30 Pantheon activity and The...

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2024/04/14

While much of what’s happening in Destiny 2 is naturally focused on the content release that is Into the Light, Bungie’s weekly newsletter continues to offer a few peeks forward into the near and distant future of the shooter, with some rundowns of a new activity coming later this month and some HUD quality-of-life tweaks […]

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PSA: Elder Scrolls Online is handing out its Thieves...

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2024/04/13

Who doesn’t love free DLC? If you’re an Elder Scrolls Online player and an in-game thievery enjoyer, then an anniversary promotion has you covered, as players can get their hands on a free copy of the Thieves Guild DLC for a limited time. Snagging this free add-on is a simple matter of getting the Pocket […]

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Ubisoft inists its AI-powered NPC tech will be used...

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2024/04/13

When Ubisoft debuted new generative AI NPC tech at GDC this year, it made a lot of promises that it would gather industry feedback and carefully note reactions (all while gassing up the project). A similar kind of tone is being struck by the developers of NEO NPCs, who are trying their best to assure […]

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Jeff Strain shuts down Possibility Space studio via...

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2024/04/13

Jeff Strain, the owner of Prytania Media, has elected to shut down another of his company’s sub-studios. This time it’s Possibility Space that has gotten the axe, with workers reportedly being fired via email and because of internal leaks to the press, according to Strain. The internal email, published via Polygon’s sources at the studio, […]

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The Stream Team: My first ICARUS mission

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2024/04/13

Since ICARUS allows folks to move the character between modes, Massively OP’s MJ is taking a break from her survival world to try a round of temporary deployment resource collection on a new planet. Of course, she’s not abandoning her homestead; this is a method to increase her XP and levels so she can start […]

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Final Fantasy XIV shares pre-Dawntrail schedule,...

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2024/04/13

Want to make yourself a Hrothgal in Final Fantasy XIV? Want to see what you’ll look like Vipering about? (Yes, Viper is not a verb. Hush up.) You’ll have to wait until Dawntrail launches on July 2nd to really get the full experience, but when the expansion’s benchmark arrives on April 14th, you can at […]

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WRUP: There is a hidden message about a chocolate...

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2024/04/13

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about...

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The Daily Grind: How long is an ideal boss fight in...

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2024/04/13

I tend to have a bone to pick with World of Warcraft’s boss fights, which is a bit of an issue when there are a lot of them. My general feeling is that most of them tend to have a rather small list of mechanics to engage with and you just wind up cycling through […]

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