How much would you pay to attend a fanfest for your favorite MMORPG? If you said $1500 plus airfare and accommodations on top, then you are apparently the vanishingly small audience that Daybreak is hoping to attract to the in-person component of its EverQuest fan event, Fippyfest. If not, then you’ll be watching the digital event on Twitch – alongside us.
Meanwhile, Camelot Unchained’s studio announced a name change and dubious launch window, Guild Wars 2 delivered The Realm of Dreams, and we took a look at Last Epoch and Myth of Empires.
Read on to catch up with the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions today as every Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
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Daybreak’s EverQuest-themed Fippyfest fan event will cost in-person attendees $1499 – Last week, when Daybreak announced it’s planning a live/digital EverQuest community event called Fippyfest in June, the studio said it’d be opening ticket sales on February 28th. We somehow didn’t…
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s The Realm of Dreams, launching today – Can you believe it has been more than half a year since we took our first steps into the mysterious, long-teased Wizard’s Tower in Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the…
10-year-old Camelot Unchained is launching ‘late next year’ following CSE rebrand and investment haul – So, remember Camelot Unchained? The throwback sandbox MMORPG that was Kickstarted way back in 2013, hit beta in 2018, then added a second game to its repertoire all while stiffing…
EA lays off nearly 700 workers to ‘deliver the entertainment players want’ and ‘optimize its global real estate footprint’ – If your friends decided to jump off a bridge lay off hundreds of the very workers who made their products, would you do it too? Apparently EA would, as it’s…
Not So Massively: Last Epoch is a potential gem in dire need of polishing – Originally Kickstarted in 2018, Last Epoch has been in early access on Steam for about five years, but the developers at Eleventh Hour Games have now finally decided the game…
Star Citizen’s CIG admits to rumored layoffs, blaming restructuring and relocation – Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been reporting on an apparent wave of layoffs at Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games, starting first with the sandbox’s game director followed…
Funcom’s Dune Awakening MMO is finally promising trailers and hype as Dune 2 hits theaters – Throughout the length of the Dune MMORPG’s development, it’s seemed weird that Funcom and Tencent didn’t push harder to link the game more directly to the Villeneuve movies, which are…
Cryptic CEO says Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online are safe in a ‘steady state’ for content cadence – If you’ve been worried about the future of Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, or Champions Online recently… well, who can blame you? It’s been a weird time for the games with…
LOTRO Legendarium: Three key problems LOTRO can’t seem to solve – There’s a special agony reserved for faithful fans of a franchise when they see said franchise make unforced errors, decline in quality, or fail to address critical issues. Love mingles…
Changyou is sunsetting its global Shadowbane revival in May over ‘business adjustments’ – So, remember back in 2021 when Shadowbane came back from the dead? I’m now sorry to report it’s dying. Again. Longtime MMORPG fans will remember that the game was originally…
Into the Super-verse: How City of Heroes shows its flexibility with how I’ve changed – When City of Heroes waved farewell in 2012, I had an army of alts who were, at most, in their mid-30s. And I loved that game. It’s not as if…
Ashes of Creation’s newest video explains how its questing system differs from other MMOs – “Ashes does questing just a little bit differently than other MMOs.” That’s a good heads-up for any fans that Intrepid Studios’ upcoming MMORPG may require some readjustment of expectations and…
Massively Overthinking: Always-online vs. offline modes in multiplayer games – The Nightingale team’s admission that players are clamoring for an offline version of the game – and that Inflexion is now planning to do it much sooner than anticipated -…
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Sinnoh Tour turned players into guinea pigs – Both the Pokemon GO’s Sinnoh Tour LA Tour and now the Global Tour have both ended, and while there are good points to be had for both events, overall, the…
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen marks progress on pet system, combat, visuals, and March 30’s Season 2 – Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen appears to be trying to exude a renewed sense of vim and vigor in the February producer’s letter, which gets right past the preamble and…
Elder Scrolls Online is giving away the Orsinium DLC and a sweet ridable bear in its March anniversary promos – Hey, kid, want some free stuff? No, it’s not candy – but it’s free DLC for Elder Scrolls Online. ZeniMax Online Studios is giving away the Orsinium DLC for free…
Vague Patch Notes: The day I deleted a character in anger in Final Fantasy XI – Today, I’d like to tell you about how your characters in MMOs aren’t real, and you know that, but I want you to think about it anyway. In order to…
ASTRA Knights of Veda finally opens pre-registration March 5 – here’s the new trailer – We’ve been keeping half an eyeball on ASTRA Knights of Veda since last year, when publisher HYBE and studio FLINT introduced their 2-D “MORPG” to the western world. Yes, a…
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with interesting Guinness World Records – I never quite know how much stock to put in Guinness World Records. I guess it’s somewhere between “for amusement value” and “stone cold authentication.” But these awards are always…
Black Desert celebrates 55M registered players and €2B revenue since 2014 – It’s not every day that we get hard numbers out of MMORPG studios, but Pearl Abyss has brought some big ones for Black Desert today. “Korean developer and publisher Pearl…
Casually Classic: Is it worth playing into World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm Classic? – Do you know that feeling of flipping through cable channels or endless Netflix menus only to suspect there’s nothing on that would hit the spot? I kind of feel like…
Nightingale teases storage and crafting QOL plans as players build away and reviews sit at ‘mixed’ – A week into its early access launch, Nightingale studio Inflexion has very briefly addressed the community on how the rollout went – and what’s next for the game. “As you may…
Embers Adrift’s latest patch preps an unlimited free trial starting in March – While Embers Adrift most definitely is not the MMORPG for lone wolf players, Stormhaven Studios made some concessions for soloers with the February patch. The update, which is now live,…
Age of Empires announces multiplayer mobile version for 2024 – Oh man, Age of Empires II was my jam back in the early 2000s. Along with many of you, surely, I sunk in so much time playing Microsoft’s hit RTS…
Skull and Bones hauls Season 1: Raging Tides to the surface – When you think about it, “Raging Tides” is an apt description of the unstable flow of Skull and Bones’ gameplay these days. Ubisoft’s pirate simulator got off to a wildly…
Choose My Adventure: The Wagadu Chronicles’ worldbuilding is epic, but the gameplay… – The Wagadu Chronicles has kind of made me sad. I wasn’t really expecting this game to be some arbiter of a new age for early access MMORPGs, but I was…
Sony is laying off nearly a thousand workers – 8% of its global workforce – We’re starting to suspect that companies choose these layoffs chunks of 900 people to stop headlines from saying “a thousand,” but it’s bad no matter what, and Sony is the…
Albion Online’s Foundations patch incentivizes guilds to fortify and protect their territory – Apart from the Crystal Raiders update at the top of the year, Albion Online has had a slow 2024 so far – and even Crystal Raiders was fairly low-key, with…
Project Gorgon’s February update buffs the in-game map and adds a Hardcore Living skill – Should it be illegal to put out an MMO patch and patch notes at 7:25 p.m. on a Friday night? Yes, definitely, tar and feathers and all that, but since…
Zenith OARPG Infinite Realms launches today as Steam reviews plummet over MMO development halt – There wasn’t much lead-up to this – indeed, the world has known it was happening for less than a month – but Zenith’s new spinoff game, Infinite Realms, is officially…
Temtem subreddit mods temporarily close the sub following Temtem Swarm uproar – So hey, things with Temtem are just going absolutely super. Last week, Crema Games insisted that it was still working on the main game in addition to Temtem Swarm and…
Helldivers 2 players decry mission farming and saboteurs as servers stabilize and stealth is hinted at – This past weekend in Helldivers 2 was significantly more stable as far as the game’s servers are concerned, which has now opened players up to fresh new problems: the “fun”…
Wisdom of Nym: The franchise references for monsters in Final Fantasy XIV – Final Fantasy XIV has no shortage of references to prior series enemies, but as with so many things, lots of those references are not worth talking about. Yes, tonberries are…
2-D Pokemon-like MMORPG Duel Revolution makes its full release on PC and mobile March 1 – Last October we got our first peek at Duel Revolution, a 2-D creature-capturing MMORPG that promises 50 different Evo creatures that can be improved through 12 levels’ worth of skill…
World War II Online seeks more crowdfunding for Unreal Engine upgrade – You know how everyone likes to joke that M*A*S*H the TV show was several times longer than the actual Korean War? Let us pause to consider that World War II…
RIFT celebrates its 13th anniversary with a free week of patron status – Whether its continued existence constitutes a blessing or its continued neglect a curse, RIFT has made it to its 13th birthday as of March 1st. The long-running fantasy MMO has…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
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