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If we had stopped counting on Friday, this week still would’ve been a wild one for the MMORPG, but it doubled with the drama of the weekend. Ashes of Creation’s former boss dropped a crapton of legal docs in his defense in court and on the public, Windrose has proven itself to be the survivalbox darling of the season, the MMORPG community melted down over bans in Project Gorgon, Book of Travels gave up on being an MMO, we dipped a toe in Vindictus Defying Fate, and World of Warcraft rogue server TurtleWoW announced its closure pursuant to last week’s lawsuit settlement.
Read on to catch up with the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions today as every Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Ashes of Creation boss drops new evidence and allegations against Intrepid’s board, vows to finish the game – Last weekend, after the leak of an incomplete check ledger for Intrepid Studios was dropped on the Ashes of Creation-obsessed legion of amateur forensic sleuths, the internet again went ballistic…
Kickstarted tiny MMO Book of Travels will sunset in July, become a solo offline game, and welcome modding – Well, there goes another Kickstarter MMORPG into the dust: Early this morning, Book of Travels studio Might and Delight announced that it’s sunsetting the MMORPG you backed on Kickstarter and…
Perfect Ten: Old MMORPGs we used to talk about all the time but aren’t mentioned today – We’ve been covering MMORPGs here at MassivelyOP and Massively-that-was for a very long time. So you can imagine that there have been many seasons when a game is in favor,…
Multiplayer piratical survivalbox Windrose officially begins its early access voyage – Drop canvas an’ bring ‘er ‘ard t’port, me hearties! We’re sailin’ our way inta the roilin’ brine of early access development, as the survival sandbox Windrose be makin’ ‘er way intae her…
Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box Festival has returned with World 3 Test Zone 2 as teased – During last week’s tease of the return of Super Adventure Box in Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet strongly hinted that we were getting another map with this festival, i.e., World 3…
Not So Massively: Vindictus Defying Fate’s latest alpha build is visceral, polished, and fun as hell – Last June, I got a preview of Nexon’s upcoming multiplayer optional action RPG, Vindictus: Defying Fate. I went in with low expectations and came away thoroughly impressed by its quality…
LOTRO Legendarium: One change I’d make for each of LOTRO’s classes – We all know that every MMO player is, deep down, an amateur backseat developer. We can’t help it! When we play these games for so long, we form Opinions on…
Final Fantasy XIV reveals its trailer and more details for patch 7.5, Trail to the Heavens – The end of April is bringing with it the Final Fantasy XIV fan festival and plenty of announcements for the game’s community, but it’s important to remember it’s also coming…
Shiro’s adorable MMO lite Farever is coming to Steam early access May 6th – Way back in June of last year, we covered an upcoming MMO called Farever that actually looked hella cute. Shiro Games has it listed on Steam as an MMO, a…
15-year-old MMORPG Spiral Knights just got a ‘major update’ with a FFA PvP mode and a level editor – I actually rubbed my eyes this morning when I saw on Reddit a claim that cutesy free-to-play MMO Spiral Knights had actually gotten an update. It’s been absolutely ages since…
Massively Overthinking: What kind of cozy content is missing in MMORPGs? – The days when “MMORPG sandbox” was synonymous with “life skilling virtual world” have been dwindling as the terms are slowly shifting, in my estimation, which means things like housing, dress-up,…
Fight or Kite: Kakele Online is a fast-paced MMO drawing inspiration from 16-bit RPGs of old – I’ve been playing RPGs and video games as far back as I can remember. Just like I’m sure so many of you, I cut my teeth on the NES and…
Warframe of Mind: The big guide to picking a frame – Trinity, Ember, Loki – Let’s be realistic about Warframe for a moment. No one could have ever expected with certainty that the game would still be around and going strong a decade after it launched,…
RuneScape’s October ‘biggest and best’ RuneFest starts selling tickets this month – Where are my party ‘Scapers at? Woo woo! OK, that’s about all the energy I’ve got for today, but you RuneScape fans keep your enthusiasm high for this coming October’s…
Roblox settles Nevada state lawsuit for over $12 million, promising to make platform changes – As we’ve pointed out a few times now, there are several legal filings against Roblox from different states over the platform’s alleged lacking child safety this year, but one such case…
Elder Scrolls Online reimagines the open-world group dungeon in its upcoming Night Market – Elder Scrolls Online’s Season Zero is technically open, but it doesn’t really get its pièce de resistance until the Night Market launches at the very end of April. And in…
Star Citizen confirms cancellation of Squadron 42 pledge package buybacks was intentional – Earlier this week, we were alerted to a mounting controversy for Star Citizen, as long-time backers were pointing out that pledge packages for the sci-fi sandbox MMO that also included…
Vague Patch Notes: No, ‘foreigners’ are not coming for the American games industry – I guess last week I sort of committed to doing a two-part column on that wild piece by Dr. Joost van Dreunen regarding the state of the gaming industry because…
Entropia Universe has a new patch this week that injects fishing and cooking into the sandbox – Just yesterday, MOP’s Justin included Entropia Universe in his list of MMORPGs that used to be talked about routinely in the MMO community but have rather fallen off, which prompted…
Sky Children of the Light is testing new MMO tech to ‘fully embrace its massively multiplayer nature’ – Are you ready for a multi-week party in Sky: Children of the Light? Sure you are. And that means the Season of Carnival that’s going on now in the cozy multiplayer…
Sea of Thieves promises higher-quality updates and unveils ‘experiment’ to inject new life in world events – During its March Community Direct, Sea of Thieves developer Rare Ltd. admitted that its three-act seasonal content rollout was not working as expected, and so in Season 20 it was going…
Blizzard is making boosting much harder in WoW Classic’s Burning Crusade dungeons – The number of World of Warcraft old hands who wanted classic The Burning Crusade to return to WoW Classic and the number who don’t want to actually play the expansion has more overlap than…
Imagine that, players who went to the Epic Game Store just for free games didn’t stick around – Ready for the shock of the century? It turns out that bribing people to use the Epic Games Store didn’t actually work… well, not if the goal was getting people…
Lost Ark rolls out a new raid with The Shadows Rise update as recent Steam reviews shrivel – Bright and early this morning, Amazon patched up Lost Ark, whose playerbase is still reeling from the loss of two beloved community managers, among others laid off from the studio…
Soulmask is a survivalbox that has just hit 1.0 with DLC, and the devs are already apologizing for a messy launch – So stop us if you’ve heard this one before: It’s a survivalbox game with optional multiplayer in which you get to have a whole town full of converted workers to…
Solo MMO sim Erenshor celebrates first birthday by teasing simulated MMO raids – We’ve had a long run of single-player games that are openly inspired by MMORPG mechanics, but one of the first to really blow up in recent years and actually capture…
Project Gorgon fixed a nasty exploit that let some players get ‘more than a year ahead of the intended power curve’ – Indie MMORPG Project Gorgon is settling into a comfortable cadence now following its whirlwind winter launch, still holding around 1800 peak players on the weekends – not shabby at all.…
Conan Exiles introduces character transfers in today’s patch, promises console server merges in May – Dune Awakening isn’t the only Funcom game getting some love this week: Conan Exiles, which has nearly as many players as its sibling, dropped its R15 update today. “[W]e know…
Dune Awakening’s base recycling system is live as Funcom begins testing its PvE-PvP split – As promised, Dune Awakening’s 1.3.15.0 update has arrived this morning with the new base recycling system. “[The base recycling feature] refunds 100% of materials and items stored in a base…
You can test Elder Scrolls Online’s new overland challenge difficulty system now on the Update 50 PTS – If you’re currently looking at what’s already live in Elder Scrolls Online’s Season Zero and feeling a bit whelmed, then perhaps you’ll be more interested to engage with what’s coming…
Choose My Adventure: The Division 2 appears to feed my multiplayer shooter need – I mentioned before, I’m pretty sure in one of our What Are You Playing columns as well as in last week’s poll, how I’ve been hankering for a good shooter…
EVE Online announces a fully PvP-free starting region for new players arriving this summer – Getting your foot into the door of EVE Online is probably one of the more daunting hurdles for new arrivals to clear, especially considering the gankbox’s history of warfare over the…
Overwatch Season 2: Summit arrives today with its latest hero, the Helix rifle-toting Sierra – Are you ready to swing into high-caliber action with Overwatch’s latest update? Season 2: Summit arrives today with the Grand Mesa event (including a special reward track associated with it),…
Don’t Starve Elsewhere is the sequel to the ‘uncompromising’ multiplayer survival game set in a fantasy world – Fans of multiplayer survival games that manage to blend cute visuals with eldritch-like horrors might be familiar with Don’t Starve Together from Klei Entertainment. And while the developer and publisher…
Pete Hines admits he retired partly to avoid seeing Bethsoft ‘damaged and broken apart’ – Back in 2023, Bethesda Softworks head of publishing Pete Hines confirmed his retirement after 24 years at the studio, remarking in the announcement that it was his time to begin…
Wisdom of Nym: What’s at stake for Final Fantasy XIV’s Beastmaster – It’s interesting to think about what is at stake for Beastmaster in Final Fantasy XIV because in one sense the actual thing at stake is… nothing. Unlike Blue Mage, Beastmaster has never…
Albion Online’s massive world refresh has arrived today with the launch of Radiant Wilds – Albion Online fans are entering a whole new world of pretty pretty PKs today thanks to the arrival of Radiant Wilds and its “complete visual overhaul” and performance renovations. “With Radiant…
World of Warcraft rogue server TurtleWoW agrees to end operations in court settlement – Readers might remember that last year Blizzard filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the operators of the World of Warcraft rogue server TurtleWoW, a filing that our own Lawful Neutral columnist Andy…
Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif says leaked ledger is an ‘effort to litigate this dispute in the public domain’ – Over the weekend, the MMORPG community was laser-focused on a new drop in the Ashes of Creation legal drama: An unnamed (but easily guessable) source had dropped a multi-year ledger…
Project Gorgon’s Miraverre server has erupted in drama over player pop and moderation – The baiting of and then public teardown of indie developers sure has become a thing in the old school MMORPG community over the last year, and it’s happening again, this…
Cozy MMO Loftia continues to hype up its April 22 closed beta with a new cinematic trailer – We’re just entering the new week, which means that the Kickstarted cozy MMO Loftia will be entering its closed beta soon — Wednesday, April 22nd, to be exact — so that means the…
EverQuest Legends provides a primer for its item merging system – It’s the weekend, and that means another weekly video digest from the devs of EverQuest Legends. This time around, the team is taking curious fans on a tour of the MMORPG’s…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
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