Guild Wars 2 formally introduced its subsequent enlargement this week: Launching October twenty eighth, Visions of Eternity, with new content material in a beachy setting. In fact, all anybody is chattering about is these dang elite specs, which can begin their official unveiling this week!
In the meantime, we’re keeping track of TennoCon, worrying over New World, returning to Black Desert, welcoming an EverQuest pserver to the lands of legitimacy, and ordering some additional popcorn for the Subnautica 2 lawsuit.
Learn on to meet up with the easiest of this week’s MMO information and opinions at this time as each Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Assessment!
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Guild Wars 2’s subsequent enlargement known as Visions of Eternity, and it’s coming October 28 – As promised, ArenaNet has totally unveiled Guild Wars 2’s subsequent enlargement as of this afternoon – and longtime gamers are very more likely to be happy with what the studio is…
TennoCon 2025: The highlights from tonight’s Warframe TennoLive reveals – TennoCon grows and grows every year. However even with a two-day occasion that encompasses two video games, the TennoLive broadcast that caps off the con with all the large Warframe reveals…
TennoCon 2025: Soulframe prelude take a look at entry is open to everybody who indicators up this weekend – There are three sorts of gamers who’ve signed up for the Soulframe Preludes: those that are at the moment enjoying (by far the smallest group), those that are wanting to play…
Imprecise Patch Notes: The actual downside with generative AI in gaming is intent – I don’t like DC Universe On-line. I made a joke out of this in yesterday’s Excellent Ten, however it was all true statements. Practically each single aspect of that recreation…
Casually Traditional: Traditional Plus can course-correct WoW Traditional’s best mistake – Final night time in WoW Traditional, our guild received into an enormous, rambling dialogue in regards to the anticipated path for the twentieth Anniversary Servers and our needs for the way forward for the…
One of many EverQuest emulators is again with an official settlement with Dawn – however it’s fairly restrictive – MMORPG followers will do not forget that again in June, we realized that Dawn was pursuing one of many many EverQuest emulators in court docket. In short: Dawn has approved no less than one…
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s season 10 seems promising, however the future stays unsure – The subsequent season for New World is trying to be one more with little to nothing on provide for PvE gamers, however there may be lastly some hope on the horizon…
Select My Journey: Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s old skool design decisions rear their head – I’ve tried to clear the identical single quest 5 occasions. I recognize that on the face of it that assertion sounds alarmist or like I am attempting to cover some…
Not So Massively: Diablo Immortal’s druid dunks on Diablo IV’s – After bouncing off it on the preliminary launch, I did not actually anticipate to see myself again in Diablo: Immortal, however Andy’s preview of the brand new Druid class made it sound…
Star Trek On-line’s new group talks radio silence, dev studying curve, and future content material tales – Earlier this week we reported that the devs at DECA Video games would lastly be internet hosting an informational livestream that the studio promised many months in the past. That stream did certainly come…
Desert Oasis: Black Desert simply hits totally different nowadays – I have been enjoying Black Desert On-line for about 7 years now. It has been on and off the previous few years. I began approach again in 2018, when the Darkish Knight…
Confronted with a breach of contract lawsuit from fired execs, Krafton is appeasing remaining Subnautica 2 devs – Replace: We have summarized the principle allegations of the now-unsealed grievance on the finish of this publish. The unique article stays. Subnautica 2 has change into the unlikeliest of headline information over…
Excellent Ten: MMOs that transitioned their enterprise fashions efficiently – It was 2009 when Dungeons and Dragons On-line transitioned to a free-to-play mannequin, and every part modified. That was our “Fireplace Nation attacked” second. I am severe. Should you do not realize how massive…
Star Citizen kicks off a brand new occasion, provides a brand new ship, and applies flight mannequin tweaks in alpha 4.2.1 – This weekend sees one more injection of content material to Star Citizen, as alpha 4.2.1 formally arrived this week with a headlining new occasion, a brand new ship and weapon, and a…
Blue Protocol Star Resonance confirms July 24 closed beta signups in new gameplay trailer – For the longest time we have been compelled to take a seat our our arms, chew our desks, and stare considerably jealously at A Plus Japan and Bokura’s gradual rolling return of Blue…
Dungeons and Dragons On-line’s 64-bit realms went dwell, however the server queues are backed up – It is DDO-Day +1 for Dungeons and Dragons On-line’s mass server migration, as a flood of gamers exit the soon-to-be-extinguished 32-bit realms for one of many 4 64-bit worlds. Transfers to…
MMORPG Loftia hasn’t even launched and its devs have already got a theoretical end-of-life preservation plan – If you have not been paying any consideration to in-development solarpunk MMORPG Loftia, you might wish to revise that call. This week, the Kickstarted recreation issued an announcement about recreation preservation…
Massively Overthinking: Should you had been wealthy, would you purchase an MMORPG you really liked? – So here is a enjoyable one. Over the weekend I used to be browsing YouTube attempting to place collectively a Trove playlist as a result of I feel the Trove music is tremendous enjoyable and nostalgic…
Ubisoft’s new spun-off franchise division is being led by… the son of considered one of Ubisoft’s founders – Oh, Ubisoft, after we consider high quality, we consider you, if by “high quality” we imply “your former executives had been convicted of crimes” and “doin’ the layoff dance” and varied…
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO’s buddy system is doing all of the lifting – We have talked about Pokemon Go’s over reliance on throwing every part however the kitchen sink at options and/or occasions to make them appear worthwhile, and in some methods, that is been toned…
RIFT’s Unicornalia returns with hooves, horns, and hopes for extra content material – We had been just lately speaking within the Massively OP workplace about how there actually are no good holidays for the late summer time stretch. Nicely, apparently we plumb forgot about Unicornalia as a result of that is…
Outdated Faculty RuneScape seeks enter on internet hosting dwell occasions within the US because it preps for July 23’s The Last Daybreak – Would you prefer to see extra in-person occasions for Outdated Faculty RuneScape come to the US in 2026? Then you’ll very possible wish to fill out a survey to…
EVE On-line makes tweaks to ghost websites and exploration zones to assist jumpstart in-game trade – There are actually lots of gears that lock collectively to make EVE On-line tick, however a few these in-game exercise connections are getting slightly bit deeper thanks…
Cell MMO Ragnarok M Traditional declares its world launch, guarantees single recreation forex monetization – After we had been wanting over this recreation announcement and its pleasure over “Zeny buys all of it,” we had been instantly suspicious that this was one more blockchain morass within the making.…
Misplaced Ark’s July replace welcomes you to Paradise subsequent week – Misplaced Ark goes full velocity forward on its July replace, which is launching on July twenty third, and the newest Eye on Arkesia video is all about previews of that…
MapleStory’s Dave the Diver collab content material is dwell alongside Stargazer half 2 – Stargazer half 2 has arrived to MapleStory as of the wee hours of this morning – and sure, that is the one that features the collab with vastly widespread indie…
After a number of delays, Dungeons and Dragons On-line will open its new 64-bit servers this afternoon – Whereas neither July ninth nor July fifteenth changed into the Grand New Server Opening Day that Dungeons and Dragons On-line followers have been anticipating, it is wanting much more promising…
Sea of Thieves talks in regards to the affect of layoffs at Uncommon as Season 16’s third episode kicks off at this time – Usually the developer replace movies that come out of Sea of Thieves are centered solely on the issues coming to the horizon of the piratical sandbox, with out mentioning something from…
Mortal On-line 2’s Reckoning replace is dwell with territory management and fight skill overhauls – Mortal On-line 2’s Reckoning enlargement is dwell this afternoon, however the one factor we’re reckoning with is the hideous freaking bug factor that capstones the enlargement trailer. OK, I child,…
Not even 500 folks accomplished the entire season journey duties on New World’s final season server – Whether or not you really liked or hated New World’s seasonal servers, they’re nonetheless going away, or so Amazon intimated final week. Nevertheless, they’re nonetheless providing up some classes about how folks play…
BitCraft lays out its roadmap for 2025, together with participant housing subsequent week – BitCraft is creeping up on the one-month mark because it initially launched into early entry this summer time. So how is the MMORPG sandbox doing? Not too shabbily for a lil…
Cranium and Bones brings the frigate, megaforts, and a faction struggle within the Oaths of Battle replace – This week has introduced some massive issues to Cranium and Bones, and never solely as a result of there is a bunch of recent content material to play with the Oaths of Battle replace that is…
Future 2’s Fringe of Destiny, dwell at this time, marks the beginning of Bungie’s new content material cadence – After a lot teasing, The Fringe of Destiny is lastly dwell in Future 2 this afternoon, delivering the primary chunk of content material to the Yr of Prophecy that marks Bungie’s new…
The Borderlands MMO resurrection group has lastly revived a functioning construct for the sport – So let’s recap. The Borderlands collection had an MMO, briefly, that was solely launched in China. It shut down in 2015. Modder and dataminer EpicNNG was decided to not let this…
World of Warcraft Midnight guarantees housing, zone, and mechanic previews at Gamescom August 19 – Certain, the timing of this announcement this morning was undoubtedly suspect contemplating what one other massive 5 MMORPG was about to and now has revealed, however let’s all strive our greatest…
Blade and Soul Heroes launches globally September 2 following demos at KCON and Gamescom – NCsoft surprised gamers when it first introduced Blade and Soul Heroes throughout Summer season Sport Fest in June, and when the studio referred to as it a “collectible motion MMORPG,” we assumed that…
Zenimax On-line Studios union reaffirms help for Blackbird devs as employees roast Xbox execs over AI slop – The splash harm from Microsoft’s choice to intestine its video games division, particularly the builders behind Zenimax On-line Studios’ previously in-development MMO Undertaking Blackbird, remains to be being felt throughout the trade.…
Nightingale is pivoting from official on-line servers to non-public devoted servers – Again in June, we began getting fairly frightened about Nightingale, whose builders hadn’t actually surfaced over the course of the couple of months for the reason that recreation’s massive April patch. When…
New Riot MMO job itemizing refers to ‘an revolutionary recreation idea within the early phases of improvement’ – When an upcoming MMORPG mission is being saved tightly below wraps, what can the common fan do to tease out some data? One technique is to thumb via the studio’s…
Knowledge of Nym: Last Fantasy XIV’s Moogle tomestone hunts are getting previous – When Inventive Studio III first introduced that Last Fantasy XIV could be shifting its patches from hitting after three and a half months to 4 months, my response was pretty…
Longtime MMO dev Invoice Roper laments the present gaming panorama: ‘Our trade feels damaged’ – It has been a scorching minute since we final checked in with Invoice Roper, a well known trade veteran with titles corresponding to Warcraft, Hellgate London, and Champions On-line below his belt.…
Albion On-line celebrates its eighth anniversary with extra big statue smashing and digital cake – Hey, lookit that, Albion On-line is eight years previous this week, and it clearly has a really particular kind of get together it likes to throw to mark the annual milestone,…
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 Assessment! Need extra roundups of content material? Strive 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 anyplace else.
