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Massively Overthinking: Our 2022 MMO resolutions
Even if you’re the kind of person who is deeply opposed to the idea of resolutions – or your typical resolution fizzles out by February – this week is nevertheless the traditional time of making them,...
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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the brightest future in 2022?
In years past, we’ve run a “most innovative” and “most potential” award, but today, I want to focus on the “most potential” part because let’s be real: Most MMORPGs do not launch at peak quality. Most...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 354: Catch-up roundtable and state of the site
Justin, Bree, Tyler, and MJ discuss the 2021 MOP awards, Cryptic and PWE, Magic the Gathering Online, Fractured, Legends of Aria, Crowfall, and Book of Travels, with adventures in New World, Astroneer,...
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Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2022
For our first official Massively Overthinking of 2022, we’re following tradition: We’re talking all about our hopes and fears for the genre in the new year. We like to run this roundtable as a counter...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 356: A long time from now in a galaxy far, far away
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, Star Citizen, Black Desert, Elyon, and Neverwinter, with adventures in LOTRO, Crowfall, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus voicemail topics on alienating MMO design choices...
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Crowfall applies a general update patch as the newest Dregs campaign gets...
What’s the latest happening in Crowfall? A campaign of course, as well as a recent housekeeping update that mostly focuses on adjustments, fixes, and other tidying up. Of note are some changes to...
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Massively Overthinking: Are you an MMO skeptic or true believer?
A while back, a reader (hi Ken!) posted an infographic into a Star Citizen thread I’d forgotten all about, but it wasn’t even the first time it’s made it to our comments. Apparently, it was originally...
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Crowfall tasks players with confectionery crafting for Valkyntine’s Day
I have to admit that I didn’t imagine that Crowfall would have a Valentine’s day event queues up, what with its population struggles and holiday sale to an investor who is also a game developer and...
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Fight or Kite: Checking in with Crowfall after the acquisition
I’ve been playing all kinds of different games these days, many of them MMOs and many of them offline RPGs. I find myself kind of like an ethereal ghost: I’m wandering through all these games, but I...
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Crowfall promises shorter and more intense Dregs campaigns and a long-term...
There are still things being done in Crowfall. We examined where the PvP MMO sits this past February after developer ArtCraft sold the game to Monumental, but things have been otherwise a little quiet...
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Massively Overthinking: What do you expect from MMO Kickstarters?
I know, I know. People don’t trust Kickstarters anymore. Nor should they, especially now. I think our genre knows this now. For every Wagadu Chronicles, there are a dozen Chronicles of Elyrias. For...
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Crowfall’s latest patch adds significant dev config for next week’s Wolfe...
Kickstarted MMORPG Crowfall has been through kind of a lot in its short life. Having launched last summer, the RvR game suffered from a low population and layoffs and then was bought out and taken over...
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Crowfall has kicked off a 10-day custom Dregs campaign called Wolfe
Last week, Crowfall rolled out the prepwork for what it called “campaign configuration knobs” – essentially, tools that would allow the developers to adjust and tweak each campaign at the onset with...
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EG7 intends to sell Innova subsidiary and relocate Toadman Interactive studio...
Enad Global 7, the Swedish company that readers will recall bought up all of Daybreak Games in 2020, is apparently looking to cut ties with Russia, citing a desire to have “no further exposure to...
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Crowfall’s Gordon Walton joins Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds MMO and platform
Raph Koster’s Playable Worlds MMORPG has picked up two new executives today: Gordon Walton and Omar Abdelwahed. Walton will be immediately recognizable to modern MMO fans as he was one of the two...
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Massively Overthinking: Solved problems in MMOs
One of the most annoying pet peeves this genre seems to spin up frequently is some companies’ tendency to treat solved problems as unsolved problems – or more colloquially, to keep on trying to...
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Crowfall preps two new campaigns this month and hands out a sigil for its...
It’s been one year since Crowfall fully launched, and the news has been kind of lackluster for the RvR MMO. Major updates to the game have effectively dried up with the last blog post being shared in...
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Working As Intended: MMOs that wish they were Star Wars Galaxies
“My friends and I would skin someone alive for an SWG 2,” an old Star Wars Galaxies player recently wrote on Reddit, and that sentiment is… gruesome, yes, but also widely shared by gamers who remember...
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Perfect Ten: The MMO studios that keep whiffing on new projects
Everyone makes mistakes, and that’s all right. That’s not necessarily a big deal. Yes, this is true when it comes to MMO studios too. I cannot think of a single MMO studio that has not had at least one...
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Monumental, the studio that bought Crowfall, just bought Boundless too
To make some sense of this press release and why it matters to MMO fans, we’re going to have to throw it back to not one but two different games. First, there’s Boundless (fka Oort Online), which is a...
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