It was a busy – and drama-filled – week over right here in MMORPG land, because the Richard Garriott-fronted crypto MMO acquired a reputation and an internet site that nearly instantly vanished from the web, Embracer scooped up the Lord of the Rings rights, Untamed Isles folded over funding shenanigans, and Blizzard scurried to persuade core players Diablo IV isn’t Diablo Immortal.
In happier information, Guild Wars 2 introduced its Steam launch, Tower of Fantasy is fairly good, Path of Exile launched Lake of Kalandra, Dual Universe acquired a launch date, and Alganon is again from the lifeless.
Read on to meet up with the easiest of this week’s MMO information and opinions right this moment as each Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
First Impressions: Tower of Fantasy is Genshin Impact in a PSO2 costume (and it’s truly fairly good) – Let’s go forward and get this out of the best way: Tower of Fantasy, the brand new shared world RPG from writer Level Infinite and developer Hotta, is successfully what would occur…
Richard Garriott’s NFT MMO has an internet site and a reputation: Iron and Magic – You could keep in mind that house vacationer Richard Garriott, contemporary off the utter collapse of Shroud of the Avatar, had threatened us all with one other new MMO undertaking full of NFTs…
Guild Wars 2 is lastly launching on Steam subsequent week – simply in time for its tenth birthday – So you people bear in mind when Guild Wars 2 was planning to launch on Steam, proper? It was initially introduced approach again in 2020 and deliberate for November 2020. Then it…
Lord of the Rings Online’s subsequent two zones leak as Embracer buys up rights to the LOTR franchise – There’s a giant announcement on the horizon for Lord of the Rings Online — however it could have simply been leaked from the sport’s take a look at server. Maps emerged on Reddit…
WoW Factor: Optimal decisions in MMO expertise timber don’t justify eradicating them – So there’s this humorous persistent factor that goes round with regards to expertise timber in World of Warcraft. A sure coalition of gamers will get very obsessed with defending them,…
Sci-fi MMO Dual Universe is formally launching subsequent month, six years after its $630K Kickstarter – It’s been an extended unusual journey for the Kickstarted sci-fi sandbox MMORPG Dual Universe, studded with uncommon monetization and the ousting of its founder partway by. But as of right this moment,…
Diablo IV talks live-service content material, seasonal construction, and monetization technique – Blizzard’s newest Diablo IV dev weblog has arrived this afternoon because the studio guarantees “formidable” plans for the post-launch live-service sport – and that features a season construction with “up…
LOTRO Legendarium: What new lessons may LOTRO add sooner or later? – There is actually no finish to the matters to debate about Lord of the Rings Online, however generally I need to take a break to do one thing a bit of enjoyable…
Kickstarted MMO Untamed Isles ‘goes into hiatus’ after devs lose funds because of crypto market – Just final month we put a highlight on Untamed Isles, a promising Pokemon-like MMO that raised $528,804 from a 2021 Kickstarter marketing campaign. In reality, gamers had been alleged to get their…
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that took intention at World of Warcraft – The proven fact that we at the moment have a Big Five within the MMO house is a giant change from not so way back, when the market was so totally dominated by…
Derek Smart guarantees Alganon is returning within the coming months, however in a staggered invite-only launch – Just yesterday we reported on contemporary information out of the long-dormant Alganon, mentioning that the sport’s web site got here again on-line, whereas the sport’s proprietor Derek Smart confirmed it as…
Grimdark MMO Mad World confirms 2022 launch as ‘permanent open beta,’ goals for a major male viewers – Jandisoft’s Mad World is wanting increasingly like a candidate for a 2022 launch: Not solely did we spot a brand new “winter 2022” window on its Steam web page, however…
Singapore creates a authorities physique to manage lootboxes, citing a blurred line between playing and gaming – The authorities of Singapore is changing into one other nation that is much less pleasant to the monetization apply of lootboxes because of the formation of a brand new authorities physique earlier this week, which…
Star Citizen solutions participant questions on ship and automobile progress in newest video – Star Citizen’s common Star Citizen Live video is again for one more week, and this time round it is all about autos, because the devs got here collectively to reply all kinds…
Final Fantasy XIV brings again The Rising for its ninth anniversary – If you had someway missed that Critically Acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV™ is celebrating its ninth anniversary this 12 months… nicely, you might be forgiven. The focus has been on patches,…
Judge denies Activision-Blizzard’s try and toss California discrimination lawsuit – I’m sorry to wreck your Friday afternoon with one other replace on the year-long Blizzard scandal, however it have to be executed, as Activision-Blizzard has misplaced one other spherical in courtroom. Readers will…
Nightingale’s new video collection kicks off with a take a look at the inspiration and setting of its world – At this level, it is changing into a provided that Nightingale loves it some movies, and we’re all being reminded of the very fact with the debut of a brand new video collection identified…
Path of Exile’s Lake of Kalandra growth and league go reside this afternoon – Happy launch day, Path of Exile followers! As normal, Grinding Gear Games has ensured that simply as quickly as you hear about an growth, it is already launching earlier than you have got…
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s improved Megas and the kitchen sink downside – It’s been some time now since Pokemon GO acquired its third Mega Evolution system, which was one of many massive causes we took a tough take a look at which pokemon it is best to…
Massively Overthinking: The real-world worth of MMOs – Some time again on the MMORPG subreddit, there was a wildly contentious – one may even say transparently provocative – thread declaring that “[i]f governments everywhere in the world banned…
Elder Scrolls Online drops a brand new QuakeCon trailer for subsequent week’s Lost Depths DLC – We’re only one weekend away from The Elder Scrolls Online’s third massive launch of 2022: its Lost Depths DLC, a part of the continuing Legacy of the Bretons content material arc. And…
Massively on the Go: Everything multiplayer followers have to learn about Splatoon 3 – So we have all gone by the current information about Splatoon 3, proper? No? Well, don’t fret. A whole lot of the presentation appeared to be aimed toward newcomers to the entire collection,…
Pantheon could delay its September pre-alpha, discusses early ‘hardcore oldschool gamer’ advertising – MMORPG gamers have been ready a very long time for Pantheon, however testers might need to have to attend a bit longer: In this month’s Visionary Realms publication, the studio explains…
Vague Patch Notes: The perils of evaluating MMOs to one another – So the opposite day I learn maybe the worst Tower of Fantasy overview I may have presumably learn. It was most actually not the superb one our personal Chris…
Tower of Fantasy will increase server populations, limits chat spamming, and guarantees to combat cheaters – The devs of Tower of Fantasy have checked in with a brand new report that collects among the newest updates made to the shared world RPG in addition to supplies…
CWA accuses Activision-Blizzard of spying on staff and threatening to close down labor discussions – The Communications Workers of America, the mum or dad union the place Raven’s QA staff’ union falls underneath, continues to maintain a highlight on Activision-Blizzard’s ongoing makes an attempt to place workers to heel and…
Rumor: WoW Dragonflight launch date and Diablo IV pre-purchase occasion presumably leaked – A purported inner memo at Blizzard is making the rounds on the web this week because of sure particular dates for World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight rollout and Diablo IV’s pre-order.…
Wizards of the Coast silently soft-launches character-driven on-line CCG Magic Spellslingers for PC and cell – If a digital card sport launches and there aren’t banner advertisements slathered throughout web sites, does its arrival make a sound? This could certainly be the case for Magic Spellslingers,…
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King launches its pre-patch and contemporary begin realms on August 30 – Still keen to return to the times of World of Warcraft when everybody was trampling throughout Northrend? Your journey begins on August thirtieth, as that is when WoW Classic rolls…
Choose My Adventure: Making a home and making character progress in Chimeraland – This week in Chimeraland was all about progress – not essentially for my massive spherical boy Chonkhonk however for my abode and for McFishy himself, because of the voting public’s…
Wisdom of Nym: Everything we realized about Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 6.2 – To the shock of mainly nobody who intently watches Final Fantasy XIV’s total patch development, patch 6.2 is arriving on August twenty third. That’s quickly! Seriously, that implies that we…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
Every week, get caught up on the MMO style’s newest information and Massively OP’s finest content material in our MMO Week in Review! Want extra roundups of content material? Try Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all of the bits of reports we didn’t cowl wherever else.Advertisement
