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Perfect Ten: A sampler of crowdfunded MMOs and how they’re doing
I’ve gone on the record many a time as being deeply suspicious of Kickstarter and crowdfunding when it comes to MMOs. There are reasons for this, and most of them are the obvious and mundane ones...
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Massively Overthinking: How long are you willing to wait in an MMO queue?
New World has made headlines since the moment it launched for its excessive queues, but it’s hardly the only MMO ever – or even the only MMO this year – that’s had a launch bogged down in this way. For...
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Crowfall’s latest update adds preset archetypes and ‘substantial’ tutorial...
Players that are looking to get their start in Crowfall now have a number of new options as of the game’s 7.200 update. Specifically, they have archetype options that will help them hit the ground...
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Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPGs of all time, 2021 edition
Five years ago this week – back in 2016 – the MOP team and readers did an epic Massively Overthinking picking out their top five MMORPGs of all time. Thanks to the collapse of Livefyre years ago, most...
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Crowfall plans more small-scale PvP options for patch 7.3000 arriving on...
The big marquee feature of Crowfall’s next major update is all about letting fewer people fight one another. The 7.3000 update is bringing with it the addition of new zones limited to 25 or 50 alliance...
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Crowfall’s 7.300 update will introduce mines full of resources to collect
The upcoming 7.300 patch to Crowfall already sounds like it’s full of enhancements to drive PvP such as tuning for smaller groups and more rewards for campaigns, but on top of that players will get to...
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Interview: Crowfall’s freemium update, small-scale PvP, new players, and the...
Another month has passed, and another meaty patch is coming to Crowfall. That’s right, today we’ll see the latest update (7.300) arrive on the live servers. We’ve hunkered down with ArtCraft co-founder...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 346: Endwalker, ArcheAge, Lost Ark, and New World
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's Endwalker delay, WoW's financials and player council, ArcheAge's new publisher, Gamigo's new MMORPG, Lost Ark's beta, New World's state, DDO update 51, Elder Scrolls...
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Vague Patch Notes: There’s nothing wrong with being a niche MMO
So Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen doesn’t want to be seen as a niche game. Visionary Realms’ recent interview saying so was clearly bewildering to a lot of MMO players, but maybe it shouldn’t have been....
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Crowfall’s CM: ‘If the game was going to shut down, we’d let you know’
It’s no secret that Crowfall didn’t exactly have the launch year that it wanted, with a subdued launch, subsequent layoffs, and low player counts (which the studio tried to hide) happening to this...
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The Daily Grind: What should Crowfall do at this point?
So things do not appear to be going great for Crowfall. I don’t like typing that sentence, but what else can be said? The latest rumor is that the studio is considering shuttering the game just to...
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Working As Intended: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2021 predictions
Last year’s MMORPG predictions didn’t exactly go to plan, since in 2019, we weren’t really expecting 2020 to play out the way it did. But at the end of 2020, we actually did have a pretty good idea how...
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Crowfall’s 7.400 update brings the Mine Overseer’s Tower and winter holiday...
Rumors about its future notwithstanding, Crowfall is pushing onward with content updates and events this week. The 7.400 update is now live, with tweaks for group looting, ensmallening of the Wildland...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 351: There are no bad Star Wars jokes in this show
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR's delay, Lost Ark's launch date, the Nightingale reveal, unionization efforts at Activision-Blizzard, the new Warhammer MMO, and the future of Crowfall, with adventures in...
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End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2022
If 2021 had a problem, it was that we got simply too many MMO releases between new launches, early access, and expansions. This breathtaking torrent of titles to check out doesn’t seem to be slowing...
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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2022
OK folks, it’s that time of the year again: the time when we cast our eyes ahead and try to pinpoint what’s going to happen to the genre in 2022, ideally competently enough that we’re not embarrassed...
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Kickstarter MMORPG Crowfall was just acquired by Mythgard publisher Monumental
So, who had “Crowfall gets bought out” on the ol’ end-of-the-year bingo card? Did you also have “and the announcement gets made at 7:20 p.m. EST on the Friday night before Christmas break” on that...
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Crowfall after the Monumental acquisition: ‘Capital, support, and fresh...
The shockwaves surrounding Crowfall’s acquisition by Monumental just days after an alleged investor report said that the game was on the brink of failure are still being felt in the community and the...
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Fight or Kite: Was 2021 the death of large-scale group PvP MMOs?
Here we are on the cusp of the end to another year: 2021 is almost completely in the rear-view mirror. As I look back on the year, I can’t help but think about the great many PvP games I’ve played and...
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End-of-year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures going into 2022
All right, so let’s start with the disclaimer that I put right at the start of this article every single year, which at least one fanboy ignores every single year to yell angrily in the comments about...
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