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Crowfall takes players on a journey… to squash bugs
The latest Crowfall Q&A video changes tack about halfway through. For the first half, lead designer Thomas Blair and executive producer Gordon Walton helpfully discuss various player questions...
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Raph Koster takes Rolling Stone to task over vanilla World of Warcraft
Don’t ever test Raph Koster on MMORPG history, because you’ll probably lose. The Star Wars Galaxies and Crowfall designer challenged a recent Rolling Stone article and a resulting Reddit thread on its...
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Crowfall retires pledge packages in favor of pre-orders, partners with...
Before we get to talking about ways Crowfall is trying to make money, here is something it’s giving away for free: four brand-new Patch 5.3 wallpapers. Treat yourself today. ArtCraft gave its...
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Crowfall takes a skittering look at spiders
If you’re the sort of person who runs screaming from a room and vows to burn the whole house down over the barest glimpse of an arachnid, you are not going to like the newest Crowfall bestiary entry....
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Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs
Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given what he considers bad advice to just stay in high-sec; indeed, he...
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Crowfall: ‘You don’t have to get into the stats to have a good time in this...
Crowfall’s J. Todd Coleman and Billy Garretsen are back for another ACE Q&A – you can pretty much mark the months by these things. December’s edition is all about the user interface. Garretsen...
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Crowfall studio ArtCraft just raised another $6M from investors to launch the...
Lest you be dispirited by the fact that Crowfall’s soft launch isn’t going to make 2017 as promised (after also not making 2016), ArtCraft has a post up today outlining all the things the team did...
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Crowfall’s crafting looks more and more like Star Wars Galaxies’
Hey crafters. Let’s talk Crowfall for a minute. ArtCraft Design Lead Thomas “Blixtev” Blair explains today in a new dev blog that crafting in the PvP-centric MMORPG is due for a pretty hefty update....
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Perfect Ten: 20 upcoming MMOs to watch in 2018
It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list of titles that we anticipate for the coming one. It has always been a...
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Crowfall brings in the Assassin and Ranger for today’s Pre-Alpha 5 test
Even games that haven’t technically launched yet are getting into the whole pre-holiday MMORPG frenzy. Take Crowfall, for example: Instead of kicking their feet up and sipping the finest of eggnogs,...
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Crowfall explains crowns, guilds, and buying crowns for guilds bought with...
Crowns are the microtransaction currency coming to Crowfall starting in 2018, which you can buy like most microtransaction currencies. Guilds are… well, guilds. If you’ve played an MMO you know how a...
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Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG articles of 2017
For this week’s Massively Overthinking, I’ve asked the writers to do something most of them hate: brag! We’ve tried to isolate our favorite personal work from the year and talk about why we think it...
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Crowfall overhauls crafting with special stations, tiers, and improved UI
The world of Crowfall will never be the same again. If you’re a crafter, that is. ArtCraft’s December update for the PvP MMO is overhauling its crafting system and bringing it kicking and screaming...
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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2018
With 2017 drawing to a close and 2018 rushing up to meet us, the Massively OP team has regrouped for another round of bold and goofy predictions for the year ahead. We’re feeling pretty good after our...
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Crowfall’s gods demand your sacrifice
In an effort to create “moment-to-moment” gameplay and progression for players to enjoy in short bursts, Crowfall’s team has come up with a new system designed to fill in the gaps between major...
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Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2017
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP’s regular recap of what’s going on in crowdfunded MMOs, which we do specifically for those of you who are convinced Kickstarter is the...
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The Daily Grind: Will you kickstart any MMOs in 2018?
I didn’t back a single video game in 2017, which is a first for me. The year before, I backed Hero’s Song, and we all know how that ended. I’m looking forward to a few of the games I backed actually...
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Crowfall overhauls keybinding extensively
Keybinding is important when you’re playing any sort of game with active combat. Perhaps you really like to have all of your action keys on the numpad, control your movement with the number keys, or...
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PSA: Crowfall is retiring its current pledge packages on December 31
We can assure you with absolute certainty that after the end of this year, Crowfall will still be willing to take your money. But we can also assure you with absolute certainty that it will no longer...
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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO hopes and wishes for 2018
One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It’s way too easy to assume that if someone is...
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