business model
Villagers and Heroes plans The Crux update for October 28, eyes subscription hike
Villagers and Heroes is gearing up for its next big thing: It's called The Crux. The first part of it, anyhow, and it includes...
Roblox Corp denies short-seller’s report that it lies to investors and hosts ‘a pedophile hellscape’
The dark clouds that hang over Roblox have been well-documented by us for quite some time, but now there's a damning new report from...
Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become toxic?
Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar's team,...
Fight or Kite: Is Wild Card Football ready to be the new NFL Blitz for 2024?
Ah, the beauty and the wonder of a new season. School is back in session. New episodes are on TV – well, streaming TV....
Make My MMO: My Time at Evershine zooms past 1.2 million dollars on Kickstarter
Cozy multiplayer title My Time at Evershine joins our crowdfunding list in this week's edition of Make My MMO - triumphantly, even, as the...
Dungeons and Dragons Online gets ready to test its own subscription-only 64-bit server
If envy has been burning in the bosom of Dungeons and Dragons Online players after seeing its sister MMO LOTRO get 64-bit servers, maybe...
NCsoft renames Blade & Soul Neo Classic to BNS NEO, confirms western launch
Almost a year ago, NCsoft announced a new spin on Blade and Soul called Blade & Soul Neo Classic. The game as planned would...
Palworld shoots down business model shift rumors after ambiguous CEO interview
Palworld is a buy-to-play early access game. There's no cash shop, no DLC, no battle pass, and to this point, no suggestion that was...
A year after vaporizing industry trust, Unity abandons runtime fees, raising subscriptions instead
A year ago this week, the doofuses running Unity surprise-announced they were adding new per-install and runtime fees with multiple tiers designed to leech...
Throne and Liberty answers ‘top questions’ about its business model
While MMO fans continue to wait for the September 26th early access and October 1st launch for Throne and Liberty, NCsoft did address a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 484: September MMO mailbag show
Justin and Bree dip into the mailbag to discuss MMO limitations, megaservers, studio dealbreakers, age accessibility, aggro, and offline MMO content, plus there's adventures in WoW, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2.
Make My MMO: Pricing shifts for Shroud of the Avatar, Embers Adrift, and Ashes of Creation
Would you pay $27 for a subscription to an MMORPG? Lord British's tiny and controversial crowdfunded MMO Shroud of the Avatar is going to...
Riot Games details price hikes coming for Brazil, Ukraine, and most of Asia on September 18
In its recent post on the topic, Riot isn't sugarcoating the numerous price hikes coming to Riot's various games including Valorant and League of...
Shroud of the Avatar adds $18 and $27 monthly subs to offset the costs of development
Catnip Games has admitted that the free-to-play Shroud of the Avatar isn't exactly making the studio a lot of money. That's one of the...
Old School RuneScape counts over 160K players online during the holiday weekend
This past Monday was the Labor Day holiday (and a long weekend) for those of us living in the US of A, and it...
Ashes of Creation previews Alpha 2’s Citadel of The Steel Bloom and Firebrand
The road leading to Ashes of Creation's long-awaited Alpha 2 is less than two months away at this point, and Intrepid Studios hopes to...
Into the Super-Verse: Looking back on Champions Online, 15 years later
I hadn't even really thought about the fact that Champions Online has been out for 15 years now until I saw the anniversary post...
Perfect Ten: Underrated MMOs that deserve a second look in 2024
We've all been there at one time or another. We've been playing the same-old favorite MMO for a long time and then suddenly feel...
Vague Patch Notes: When did Blue Protocol really die?
It was the middle of the night, for us, when we heard the news: Blue Protocol is dead. It will never be receiving a...
RuneScape fans revolt over Jagex’s second subscription fee hike in three years
Welp, the party is over for RuneScape fans: Jagex has once again announced that it's raising the price of the game.
"Membership pricing has been...
