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Make My MMO: Crowfall’s $3M, Gorgon’s Indiegogo, Nebula’s launch (November 5,...
This week in MMO crowdfunding news was a surprisingly big one for the genre! First, Crowfall broke $3,000,000 in crowdfunding to date, bringing the game’s total funding to $10,000,000. Then Project...
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Camelot Unchained on hiring, graphics, and this weekend’s playtest
Hiring is going well for Camelot Unchained, City State tells players in a new dev post this weekend. “We are now up to six people in Seattle (though the 6th won’t start till January), and have seven...
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Make My MMO: Hero’s Song’s early access, Ascent’s presidency (November 12, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Hero’s Song launched into early access on Steam, allowing anyone with 20 bucks into the alpha test phase. There’s a launch party in San Diego next week for anyone...
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The Game Archaeologist: Mark Jacobs on Mythic’s early online games, part 2
We’re back with our second part of an interview retrospective of Mythic Entertainment’s early online games with CSE’s Mark Jacobs. Last week, we talked about the formation of Mythic, its roster of...
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Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained likes big bots and it cannot lie (November 19,...
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, City State Entertainment posted a happy update for Camelot Unchained: Not only has the studio fixed the chat server problems it alluded to last week, but it’s been...
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Camelot Unchained picks up new staffers, explains big battles
This month’s Camelot Unchained newsletter has arrived, and it’s packed — official word count: 7886. On the staffing front, which is net good news, the team has said farewell to one employee and picked...
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Betawatch: These are the dates of our lives (December 2, 2016)
I never wanted to be writing about betas for a living, you know. I wanted to be a novelist (once I realized that “combination scientist/race-car driver” was not an actual job). But sometimes these...
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Make My MMO: Crowfall’s big world playtest, Star Citizen’s alpha 2.6...
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, ArtCraft says over 9000 gamers have been invited to try to break the three alpha servers active during Crowfall’s “Big World” playtest. “We’ve shifted our...
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Massively Overthinking: The best MMORPG developer quotes of 2016
One of the fun things we implemented on the site this year is a database of quotes from developers (among other entries) that are relevant to the MMORPG industry. In the spirit of the end-of-the-year...
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Ask Mo: Scoring last year’s Massively OP MMORPG predictions
As we do every year, today we’re going to squint back a year, into the depths of a Massively Overthinking from the tail end of 2015 when we issued our predictions for 2016. Sure, sure, it’s a little...
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Camelot Unchained to integrate Discord, including voice chat
Camelot Unchained has a powerful new ally in its fight against your personal boredom. Mark Jacobs revealed a partnership this week that should bode well for the future of the game and its community....
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Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation aims for Kickstarter, Elite Dangeous aims for...
This week in MMO crowdfunding news — or future crowdfunding news, as the case may be — we learned all about Ashes of Creation, a new sandbox MMORPG being built by a group partly made up of...
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Betawatch: Guardians of Ember starts heading into head starts (December 16,...
First, Guardians of Ember had a headstart period for early access. Then, it actually hit early access. So it was even earlier access there. Hyper-early access. Maximum access. Of course, given that...
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Camelot Unchained is working on its bot drowning problem
Camelot Unchained’s weekly update has arrived, and in it, the team outlines its latest projects: networking stability, particle effects performance, banes and boons, and the animation system. Oh yeah,...
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Make My MMO: Elyria concedes coiffure complaints (December 17, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Chronicles of Elyria brought up that most critical of MMORPG features: hairstyles. I’m not even kidding; not 10 days ago I was complaining about bad hair in...
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Massively Overthinking: Our 2017 MMORPG predictions
With 2016 drawing to a close and 2017 rushing up to meet us, the Massively OP team has regrouped for another round of bold and goofy predictions for the year ahead. What’s in store for the MMO genre...
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Camelot Unchained recaps ‘roller-coaster’ 2016 with new pics
Camelot Unchained is wrapping up its development for the year with a recap of the team’s current efforts and a top 10 list describing “the roller-coaster” of 2016. CSE boss Mark Jacobs says that over...
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Make My MMO: Shards Online’s January alpha, Star Citizen’s Star Marine...
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Shards Online announced it’ll kick off its alpha early in the new year, on January 13th. “Based on the feedback we’ve received from our current playerbase, there...
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Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: MMORPG Studio of the Year
Massively Overpowered’s end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Studio of 2016, which was awarded to Square-Enix last year. We asked our writers to consider major...
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MMO Year in Review: The Landmark and WildStar Steam parade (June 2016)
This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into 2017. Both Landmark and WildStar launched on Steam...
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