Summer time isn’t slowing down for the MMORPG style: This week, we noticed Dawn haul one – and only one – of the EverQuest emulators into court docket, accusing it of copyright infringement and forcing its obvious income right into a court-approved escrow account whereas the lawsuit proceeds.
In the meantime, Funcom is shocked – shocked! – to seek out out that Dune Awakening gamers didn’t really need the gankbox endgame Funcom had ready for them, so the studio is just about strolling it again.
Plus, Hytale went up in flames, and we obtained arms on with Sea of Remnants, Towerborne, and Diablo Immortal’s new Druid class.
Learn 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 Overview!
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Funcom is retooling Dune Awakening’s PvP endgame to be extra PvE-friendly in any case – Dune Awakening is on the transfer, fam, and Funcom does not imply to let anybody neglect it. This morning, the studio launched a launch infographic calling the sport Funcom’s fastest-selling to…
Decide approves order mandating EverQuest emu The Heroes Journey halt content material and put income in escrow – Earlier this week, we lined the eyebrow-raising information that Dawn was suing EverQuest emulator server The Heroes Journey in a California court docket. As we famous, Dawn (fka SOE) has a…
Dawn is chasing EverQuest emulator operators from The Heroes Journey in court docket – By no means let or not it’s stated that no person cares about traditional EverQuest: Half a dozen readers tipped us final night time a few authorized mess brewing over on the earth of historical…
Riot’s Minecraft-inspired Hytale MMORPG has been canceled – its studio is closing too – Should you can bear in mind simply 4 months in the past, MOP’s Chris did some digging into Hytale, an MMORPG whose improvement we would been protecting since 2018. Readers may recall that it was…
First Impressions: Sea of Remnants is a curious, colourful, and completely complicated little bit of MMO gaming – You realize whenever you see trailers or pictures for a sport and also you suppose that it appears too good or too good to be true? That is sort of the place I…
‘Political, dynamic, and unapologetically brutal’: Early impressions of Dune Awakening – I stood there nearly bare, staring throughout the desert the north as my hydration rapidly dropped. I had no gear and no base and an enormous expanse of worm-ridden desert…
The most effective MMO and multiplayer offers from Steam’s summer time sale and past – I often put a pithy line or two snarking in regards to the annual Steam summer time sale on this put up, however this 12 months, I am unable to convey myself to do it as a result of for…
RIFT’s datamined patch has formally gone stay with Summerfest minion missions and a small listing of fixes – “The RIFT patch truly went stay after they stated it could. My mind hurts,” remarks our tipster for this story. And certainly the confusion is comprehensible, nevertheless it’s true: The…
Embers Adrift ‘completes its full launch’ on Steam whereas touting previous 12 months’s progress – It is a launch day of types for indie fantasy MMO Embers Adrift, which right this moment completes its full migration to Steam. The discharge comes alongside a patch that features new gear…
WoW Issue: Is World of Warcraft flooding us with an excessive amount of content material? – The terrible intervals when World of Warcraft suffered from intensive content material droughts nonetheless present in dwelling reminiscence: Usually, these had been prolonged stretches of time previous to an growth’s launch when…
‘We’ve got misplaced gamers to the best way we method microtransactions’: RuneScape plans enormous monetization overhaul – Should you’re on the lookout for a motive to be distracted from the truth that Jagex management made the deeply unpopular resolution to stop RuneScape’s devs from totally celebrating Satisfaction this 12 months…
The brand new Star Trek On-line, Champions On-line, and Neverwinter Discords that can displace the boards are right here – Again in Might, gamers of Cryptic’s outdated MMORPGs jacked their grumpiness ranges as much as 11 on the information that their video games’ new operators at DECA Video games deliberate to do away…
Interview: Chatting with Knut Avenstroup Haugen, the genius behind the music of Dune Awakening – If you’re like many MMO gamers, you’ll finally, if not instantly, flip off the music to your sport as you might be enjoying. In truth, in many of the…
Chrono Odyssey confirms restrictions to restrict ‘unusual and uncomfortable’ player-created characters – When gamers get their arms on character creators in an MMORPG, they’re usually going to go buck wild if given the flexibility to take action. Chrono Odyssey has discovered this…
Fingers-on with Diablo Immortal’s newly introduced Druid class, launching July 3 – As of this morning, Blizzard has taken the wraps of its latest class for Diablo Immortal: the Druid. The Druid joins the present steady of eight different courses, bringing the…
Massively Overthinking: What number of MMO alts is simply too many? – A couple of weeks again, I requested our readers how they handle their MMORPG alts (the joke being the LOTRO participant who stated “sign off of 1 and log into the…
LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s Midsummer island is an enthralling addition to the pageant roster – Summer time in Lord of the Rings On-line by no means appears to reach till the outdated Summer time Pageant or Farmer’s Faire lastly kicks in. Even the earlier iteration of the Midsummer Pageant…
Lovable VR MMORPG Eldramoor launched a $25,000 Kickstarter that’s already funded – Again in April, we first lined a new-to-us MMORPG: Eldramoor, a digital actuality title that reminded us extra of OrbusVR than something. And now, it is formally launched on Kickstarter -…
Sq. Enix acknowledges Last Fantasy XIV’s dip in high quality and overextending Yoshi-P – Many followers of Last Fantasy XIV seem to have clung to admissions from producer and director Naoki Yoshida in the course of the latest stay letter about missed high quality targets and a few dropped…
Struggle or Kite: Previous-school side-scrolling beat-’em-ups have lastly arrived for MMO players in Towerborne – Let me take you again in time. It was the early Nineties, and movies video games had been tremendous and rollerblades had been so rad. A cute, bright-eyed boy spent hours upon hours…
RuneScape Dragonwilds neighborhood Q&A says Jagex is aiming to double the map measurement – Following a state of the sport and roadmap earlier this month by which the Jagex staff stated that it wasn’t going wherever, survival sandbox RuneScape Dragonwilds produced a neighborhood question-and-answer…
Gachapwned: The lesson a failed gacha sport’s offline model teaches about gacha video games – In 2020, Capcom launched a cell gacha sport primarily based on Mega Man X titled Mega Man X DiVE. The title was primarily developed by a Taiwan-based studio, and so that you may suppose…
Challenge Ghost highlights the hand-crafted nature of its ‘purple zones’ – If there’s one factor that is sort of complicated when approaching Implausible Pixel Fortress’s Challenge Ghost MMO, it is that the studio retains utilizing the phrases “blue zones” and “purple zones” like…
Black Desert provides a brand new PvP dragon on PC, strikes to present gen on console, holds a vast class change occasion on cell – How are you going to strike worry within the hearts of your PvP foes in Black Desert? Why, rock up on high of an enormous offended dragon in fact. We’re onerous pressed…
Hearthstone is including its first in-game pet, however you get it solely with a gacha pull mechanic – Hearthstone is establishing a pet adoption company in its sport — however it might price you greater than you would like. [AL:Hearth]The digital buying and selling card sport introduced that it is including…
Warframe of Thoughts: Warframe’s Isleweaver is an awfully skinny replace – I’ve been wanting ahead to Isleweaver just about for the reason that second that it was introduced. It struck me as somewhat bit shocking as a course to go; positive,…
PSA: Champions On-line will apparently finish 32-bit working system assist subsequent week – The inexorable march of time seems to be coming for the tech that is powering Champions On-line, as one participant is sharing a screenshot of a popup (archived right here on the…
Dune Awakening begins the method of pivoting to a extra PvE-friendly endgame with right this moment’s replace – Following the latest furor over a heavy PvP endgame design and subsequent developer change of thoughts, Dune Awakening delivered its Patch 1.1 right this moment with a way more pleasant PvE endgame…
No matter occurred to the WoW-inspired MMORPG Scars of Honor? – We admire that it has been some time since we reported on Scars of Honor, the WoW-like MMORPG in improvement from Beast Burst Leisure that we began protecting in 2024 when…
Diablo IV’s Sins of the Horadrim transgresses our approach on July 1st – You finest put your affairs so as, for you will not be lengthy for this realm. Diablo IV is bringing its subsequent chapter to bear in opposition to you and yours on…
Fortnite now has its personal garden-growing clicker sport due to course it does – By no means let or not it’s stated that Epic Video games is not prepared to leap on the shiniest bandwagon on the market. Readers will little question recall that Roblox has been making headlines thanks…
‘Sling webs and cling to partitions’: Warframe launches Isleweaver with its creepy spiderframe Oraxia – Spiderframe, Spiderframe, does no matter a Spider- OK, would not rhyme, however the Spiderframe is certainly stay right this moment in Warframe’s Isleweaver replace. “Warframe’s subsequent main replace, Isleweaver, is now out there without spending a dime…
Good Ten: 10 MMOs which have enjoyable with dinosaurs – An excellent perk of being an MMORPG developer is indulging in your interior kid’s biggest fantasies. Been a life-long fan of pirates or ninjas? You possibly can toss these into your…
Little Orbit says it’s lastly ‘shut’ to reopening Fallen Earth after almost 5 months offline – To these not tallying up the times, Fallen Earth Basic has been offline almost 5 months since server issues compelled Little Orbit to take the post-apocalyptic MMO and its sister…
PSO2 New Genesis teases its new 32-player mission kind and the remainder of 2025’s deliberate content material – With the month of July winding down (and the rest of this month’s replace being actually nothing however new lockbox objects), it is time for followers of Phantasy Star On-line 2:…
Misplaced Ark’s stylebook is lastly stay within the west together with main raid nerfs and a brand new island – It is patch day for Misplaced Ark gamers! Or it was patch night time. Amazon patches at bizarre instances. The servers went down at 5 a.m. EDT this morning and returned simply…
Struggle Thunder followers leak categorised paperwork within the boards to win an argument, once more, this time over the Harrier Soar Jet – Oh, Struggle Thunder followers. At this level it must be a factor, proper? Look, the AV-8B and TAV-8B Harrier are each actually cool jets with VTOL capabilities, and they’re…
Select My Journey: Utilizing the polls to tackle untouched mission varieties in Elite Harmful – More often than not once I ask for pollsters to information me to duties in Select My Journey, it is only for that goal: steerage, course, and a normal understanding of…
Blade & Soul NEO releases the Warlock class and points one other spherical of DDoS compensation – It is time for gamers of Blade & Soul NEO to allure, shackle, and throw a demon at their combative issues right this moment because the MMORPG has formally launched the Warlock class…
World of Warcraft’s Patch 11.2 would be the final main Struggle Inside replace – World of Warcraft: The Struggle Inside is not lengthy for this world, however it may make an enormous splash earlier than it exits the stage in favor of subsequent 12 months’s Midnight.…
Knowledge of Nym: Ideas on the primary stay letter for Last Fantasy XIV’s The Promise of Tomorrow patch – Generally I’ve to really feel just like the staff is asking me out particularly on the subject of Last Fantasy XIV’s stay letters. After some back-and-forth hypothesis, this stay letter simply stated…
Blizzard readies larger World of Warcraft: Midnight reveal at Gamescom 2025 – When Summer time Video games Fest got here and went and not using a hoped-for reveal of World of Warcraft’s subsequent growth pack, all eyes turned to August’s Gamescom for Blizzard’s massive announcement, particularly contemplating…
Chrono Odyssey’s beta attracts in 65K gamers on Steam, blended reception, and comparisons to New World – Had been you amongst these inside this previous weekend’s beta take a look at for Chrono Odyssey? Then you definately’re counted amongst 1000’s and really probably have Opinions on the title, as gamers swarmed…
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s July occasions ought to preserve the Go Fest social gathering going – Pokemon Go could also be having Go Fest 2025 round this time, however the July 2025 occasions have not been forgotten. Nicely, not all of them; as of this writing, Scopely’s POGO staff…
Throne & Liberty’s Calanthia 12-person raid is stay with new heroic gear drops and craftables – Throne and Liberty followers are marching towards their loss of life and/or their delight right this moment because the Calanthia 12-person raid has formally opened its doorways. “Vanquish Calanthia earlier than her dream turns into a…
Riot Video games confirms sports activities betting sponsorships for its League of Legends and Valorant esports tournaments – The sponsorship banners for the following main League of Legends and Valorant esports tournaments are going to look a bit completely different this 12 months, as Riot Video games has formally introduced that…
Hytale’s former devs paint an image of executives’ mismanagement, pointless reinvention, and overambition – Earlier this week we had the unlucky obligation to report that Hytale, the Minecraft-like MMORPG being developed by Riot Video games-owned Hypixel Studios, was totally cancelled together with its studio being…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
Each week, get caught up on the MMO style’s newest information and Massively OP’s finest content material in our MMO Week in Overview! Need extra roundups of content material? Attempt 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 stories we didn’t cowl wherever else.
