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Vague Patch Notes: No, splitting your MMO into two halves, one with P2E blockchain integration, does not fix the problem
by Eliot Lefebvre on July 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
There was no scenario in which I was the target audience for Reaper Actual, but I would never assume that it could have never had an audience. Sure, I might be firmly of the mind that adding John Smedley to a spiritual sequel for a series I’ve never really had an emotional attachment to is
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Perfect Ten: Why The Secret World was one of the most unique MMOs ever made
by Justin Olivetti on July 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
While The Secret World (and its ill-fated Secret Legends reboot) still exist and can be played today, they’ve been moved into the retirement home well before their time due to the studio abandoning the MMO for other properties. While The Secret World always had a difficult time attracting a huge population and generating sustainable income,
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Working As Intended: Read a book, any book, but preferably an MMO history book
by Bree Royce on July 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Hello and welcome to our long-running Working As Intended column! I’m Bree, and I’ve been working on Massively/MOP for over 15 years. I’m actually a historian. I care a lot about MMOs and history. It’s kind of my whole deal. And I have never been shy about my belief that sites like MOP aren’t as
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Huh, Funcom is actually addressing the Dune Awakening PvP zone bungle with reimbursements
by Bree Royce on July 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
All week, we’ve been covering the fallout from Dune Awakening’s latest update, which had a not insignificant portion of the playerbase up in arms owing to the fact that it accidentally flagged newly PvE areas in the Deep Desert back to PvP again. This unfortunately caused many players to lose their bases as PvP players
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Guild Wars 2 will shift around story and maps in its next expansion, due for reveal next week
by Bree Royce on July 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We’re a week away from what we now know will be the reveal of Guild Wars 2’s next expansion – and the fresh platter of elite specs that we now know we’re getting. In the meantime, ArenaNet’s Josh “Grouch” Davis has penned a lengthy dev blog, recapping the year of Janthir Wilds, what the studio