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Few MMORPGs have had as rough a time as Neowiz's Bless Online. Despite a development budget of over $60 million, making it one of the most expensive MMORPGs ever, the game suffered a series of server mergers in its home market leaving it with a single Korean server. But its not just in the home front that Bless is reeling. [...]
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We try to cover every MMORPG release here at MMOs.com. Sometimes that involves shiny new games or expansions. But too often these days the MMORPGs that "launch" are years old and are on their second, third, of even forth re-release. Its almost like a game of MMO hot potato with old games bouncing from one publisher to the next. Most [...]
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The first half of 2017 turned out to be a bit slow with the only major MMORPG release being Revelation Online. But so far the second half is shaping up to be very different. The much anticipated Morrowind expansion for Elder Scrolls Online launched for PC today and Destiny 2 reveal just a few weeks ago. Final Fantasy 14 Stormblood [...]
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Lineage was one of the defining games of the MMORPG genre. Released way back in 1998, it is still NCsoft's main money maker nearly 20 years later. It continues to see regular updates along with its sequel, Lineage 2 which also is still performing well. Both games have inspired separate mobile spin-offs that have themselves gone on to attract huge [...]
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One necromancer to rule them all! The art of MMORPG Resurrection used to be a niche occupation. Small companies like Suba Games and Red Fox Games dominated the unholy arts. That all changed when Steam loosened its listing standards a few years ago. A flood of MMORPGs, old and new, came crashing onto the shores of the Steam Store. For [...]
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The Unreal Engine 4 powered MMORPG Ashes of Creation launched its Kickstarter campaign yesterday (May 1st, 2017) and surpassed its initial $750,000 ask in less than 12 hours. That makes it one of fastest large-scale campaigns to hit its target in crowdfunding history. Hype and interest in the MMORPG genre is certainly alive and well! Ashes of Creation, unlike most [...]
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Everyone has experienced it: that moment when you know you're done: donzeo, badabing, badaboom—time for the next game. It's hard to figure out exactly what that moment is, or if its even the same from game to game. Though I think you can nail down some similar experiences that nudge at you and say, "Yeah, you're going to be done [...]
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What do I mean by this nebulous clickbait weekly raid statement? What I mean is, will gambling and placing bets be an intricate part of the future of eSports, will it add to eSport's successs, and without it can eSports succeed? Why are we talking about this? Well, Wargaming’s Mohamed Fadl recently said (and eloquently so), “you’re stupid to say [...]
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This week's Weekly Raid is a bit personal: back when Burning Crusade released I grinded up my second character while watching Indiana Jones movies and Home Movies, and I only had one monitor. I couldn't just play the game. I needed to multitask. Lately, I've realized that it's a rare event when I don't pop open YouTube or music or [...]
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Sometimes dungeons can be so hectic and involved that it's hard to type to your group members. Not that it matters. In most MMORPGs, group content is a snore, with no need to communicate. Does that mean we shouldn't talk at all? A part of me thinks an in-game voice chat (VOIP) would let people talk nonsense during a dungeon—or [...]
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