With a new World of Warcraft expansion on the horizon, we are once again reminded that the subscription based MMORPG business model is far from dead. While the ratio of free to play to subscription games continues to favor the former, there are a number of interesting releases worth highlighting. Last week Rift announced the addition of a classic server [...]
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NetEase announced today that their successful mobile MMORPG Crusaders of Light is launching on Steam later this year (March, 2018 estimate). It launched on Facebook's Game Room in late 2017, but the Steam launch should accelerate adoption by PC gamers. The game will be cross-platform between Mobile and PC as well. The game differntiates itself from other mobile MMORPGs with [...]
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Square Enix reported their quarterly results for the October - December 2017 period today and their MMO revenues stood out as particularly strong, coming in at 7.6 billion Yen (~$69.6M) thanks to "robust sales and operating income growth from disk sales and increase of paying subscribers" from Final Fantasy XIV and Dragon Quest X. Sales are up 36% from the [...]
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Trion Worlds announced today that their hit free to play voxel based MMORPG Trove surpassed 15 million players worldwide. This figure isn't an "active" player count and instead just counts everyone who has ever played Trove. Still, 15 million players is quite impressive. Trion Worlds released the following fun statistics: 6,584,382,807 Blocks Placed (almost the amount of kilometers from the [...]
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It's much closer than anyone thought, but it's here. Fate/Grand Order NA has announced its collaboration event with Kara no Kyoukai, better known as The Garden of Sinners. This is a rather special event in Fate/Grand Order, as it features the next free 4★ Servant, this time an Assassin known as Ryougi Shiki - those who have seen The Garden [...]
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Sony's wildly successful mobile waifu collector Fate Grand Order is expected to remain "highly profitable for at least a few more years" according to Takuto Takizawa, who works as App Annie's Japan country director. The game which launched in July, 2015 has made over $1.1 billion over the last 12 months and is expected to continue growing. Unlike most Japanese [...]
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Do you know your way around Photoshop? If so, now's your chance to put your skills to good use! Kakao has released the schedule for their upcoming Costume Design contest for Black Desert Online. Players will be able to submit their designs between February 7th to March 5th for a chance to win the grand prize of $10,000. The top [...]
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It has been one week since Final Fantasy XIV's Patch 4.2 came out, Rise of a New Sun, and already, Square Enix has announced a new Live Letter! Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XLII is due to go live Saturday, February 10th, at 1:30 AM PST (4:30 AM EST), with a simulcast on Twitch, Youtube, and Niconico. The Live [...]
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An end of an era is soon approaching. MapleStory has started the process of winding down their Free Market zones. News of the Free Market's closure was first announced back in November 2017, but steps towards that closure only started to surface on the Global servers in the past week. For those who are not familiar with the Free Market, [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #133 February 5, 2018Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #133 - February 5, 2018 A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending February 5, 2018. This is episode 133 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned this week are: [...]
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