https://massivelyop.com MMORPG news and opinions Thu, 20 Apr 2023 14:26:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/20/ccp-games-is-already-sunsetting-eve-anywhere-after-just-a-year-in-the-wild/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/20/ccp-games-is-already-sunsetting-eve-anywhere-after-just-a-year-in-the-wild/#comments Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:00:12 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=436438 Back in 2021, CCP Games made a big to-do over a browser client for EVE Online called EVE Anywhere – essentially a cloud-hosted version of the game that denizens of New Eden could play from, well, anywhere (except for all the countries they couldn’t). It hit beta in 2021, expanding to multiple browsers and countries, […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/20/ccp-games-is-already-sunsetting-eve-anywhere-after-just-a-year-in-the-wild/feed/ 10 https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/05/retro-pvp-mmorpg-leafling-online-has-sunsetted-over-waning-interest/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/05/retro-pvp-mmorpg-leafling-online-has-sunsetted-over-waning-interest/#comments Wed, 05 Apr 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=434252 Hey, remember Leafling Online? It first scooted onto our radar about two years ago as a free-to-play retro 2-D, nostalgia-driven open PvP sandbox; players described it as a cross between “Ragnarok Online, RuneScape and Zenonia.” Our PvP columnist Sam Kash almost immediately dived into the game, finding it surprisingly cute and deep, though heavy on […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/04/05/retro-pvp-mmorpg-leafling-online-has-sunsetted-over-waning-interest/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/22/ea-is-sunsetting-another-trio-of-online-games-from-the-battlefield-ip/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/22/ea-is-sunsetting-another-trio-of-online-games-from-the-battlefield-ip/#comments Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=431988 Prepare to say farewell to a whole ‘nother slew of online games and a whole ‘nother reason to support widespread game preservation. Though technically these aren’t MMORPGs, they’ll suffer the same fate, as EA announced yesterday that it’s sunsetting Battlefield 1943, Battlefield: Bad Company 1, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 in December, removing them from […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/22/ea-is-sunsetting-another-trio-of-online-games-from-the-battlefield-ip/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/16/multiplayer-time-looping-strategy-fps-lemnis-gate-announces-its-july-11-sunset/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/16/multiplayer-time-looping-strategy-fps-lemnis-gate-announces-its-july-11-sunset/#respond Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:00:35 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=431161 You would be forgiven for not realizing Lemnis Gate was a thing. The title was first announced in August 2020 as one of two titles being launched by Frontier Developments’ publishing arm Frontier Foundry, then went online in September 2021. The game touted itself as a “revolutionary turn-based combat strategy FPS taking place in a […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/16/multiplayer-time-looping-strategy-fps-lemnis-gate-announces-its-july-11-sunset/feed/ 0 https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/13/after-14-years-enjin-drops-guild-site-building-tools-in-favor-of-blockchain-and-nft-tech/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/13/after-14-years-enjin-drops-guild-site-building-tools-in-favor-of-blockchain-and-nft-tech/#comments Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=430475 It has been a very long time since the name of Enjin crossed our minds. Long-time MMORPG gamers will recognize it as a service that helped guilds form their own websites and forums. The march of time has apparently seen Enjin’s original intent leave it far behind, which has prompted VP of engineering Brad Bayliss […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/13/after-14-years-enjin-drops-guild-site-building-tools-in-favor-of-blockchain-and-nft-tech/feed/ 17 https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/06/kakaos-mobile-mmo-moonlight-sculptor-is-closing-down-in-may-after-less-than-two-years-online/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/06/kakaos-mobile-mmo-moonlight-sculptor-is-closing-down-in-may-after-less-than-two-years-online/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2023 14:00:54 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=429607 At 4:20 a.m. EST this morning, Kakao and XL Games announced that Moonlight Sculptor’s global servers are set for demolition in multiple regions just two months from now. “Despite the fun we’ve had, it has become necessary to make the difficult decision to terminate the live service of Moonlight Sculptor on Europe, North America and […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/06/kakaos-mobile-mmo-moonlight-sculptor-is-closing-down-in-may-after-less-than-two-years-online/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/03/square-enixs-babylons-fall-went-out-with-the-wimpiest-of-whimpers/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/03/square-enixs-babylons-fall-went-out-with-the-wimpiest-of-whimpers/#comments Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=429249 How do you imagine your favorite online service game going dark? Hopefully it’s with bittersweet parties among the faithful community and massive end-of-game events that serve to put an exclamation mark on the history of the game. Or, alternatively, you could be Square-Enix and do this to Babylon’s Fall: It may be the saddest, most […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/03/03/square-enixs-babylons-fall-went-out-with-the-wimpiest-of-whimpers/feed/ 7 https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/23/rf-onlines-western-version-has-been-sunsetted-thanks-to-an-apparent-contract-issue/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/23/rf-onlines-western-version-has-been-sunsetted-thanks-to-an-apparent-contract-issue/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:00:02 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=428025 News coming out of the sci-fi MMO RF Online has mostly been a trickle of headlines – the last report involved Korean developer CCR announcing its intent to chase the blockchain dragon with a separate server – but by and large the game appeared to simply be moving along, including here in the west. That […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/23/rf-onlines-western-version-has-been-sunsetted-thanks-to-an-apparent-contract-issue/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/17/natural-selection-2-enters-maintenance-mode-spellbreak-returns-as-an-official-community-version/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/17/natural-selection-2-enters-maintenance-mode-spellbreak-returns-as-an-official-community-version/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=427219 We once more have to report on some semi-sunsets in our corner of the gaming sphere, although as the headline suggests, it’s not all terrible news for fans of the PvP shooter Natural Selection 2, and it’s particularly good news for fans of the battle royale Spellbreak. This week, the devs at Unknown Worlds Entertainment […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/17/natural-selection-2-enters-maintenance-mode-spellbreak-returns-as-an-official-community-version/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/17/mobile-co-op-multiplayer-rpg-echoes-of-mana-announces-a-may-15-sunset/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/17/mobile-co-op-multiplayer-rpg-echoes-of-mana-announces-a-may-15-sunset/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:30:16 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=427239 Echoes of Mana is not a game that we’ve really touched on here but it does fall within our sphere of interest: The mobile co-op RPG, which released in April 2022, promised a classic 2-D RPG experience evocative of the IP’s other games and leaned on the introduction of characters from across the series as […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/17/mobile-co-op-multiplayer-rpg-echoes-of-mana-announces-a-may-15-sunset/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/08/hearthstones-mercenaries-mode-will-get-one-last-major-patch-that-adds-new-mercs-mechanics-and-endgame/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/08/hearthstones-mercenaries-mode-will-get-one-last-major-patch-that-adds-new-mercs-mechanics-and-endgame/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2023 17:30:44 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=425966 If you’re a regular player of the Mercenaries game mode in Hearthstone, then we have good news and bad news: The game is going to be seeing a major content update soon, but it will also be the last such update for the mode. The upcoming patch 25.4 will include six new mercenaries to collect, […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/08/hearthstones-mercenaries-mode-will-get-one-last-major-patch-that-adds-new-mercs-mechanics-and-endgame/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/08/world-of-warcraft-is-shutting-down-its-integrated-twitter-posting-feature/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/08/world-of-warcraft-is-shutting-down-its-integrated-twitter-posting-feature/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=425922 One of the very first stories we covered when Old Massively became Overpowered was World of Warcraft’s Twitter integration implementation. It seems like yesterday, but that was actually eight years ago – so long ago we hadn’t even finalized our image sizes yet. The idea was that you could link your Twitter account to your […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/08/world-of-warcraft-is-shutting-down-its-integrated-twitter-posting-feature/feed/ 14 https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/03/rumbleverse-and-knockout-city-announce-sunsets-back-4-blood-announces-maintenance-mode/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/03/rumbleverse-and-knockout-city-announce-sunsets-back-4-blood-announces-maintenance-mode/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2023 21:00:06 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=425324 We have an unfortunate trifecta of bad multiplayer gaming news, especially for fans of the battle royale title Rumbleverse, the team-based dodgeball battler Knockout City, and the co-op zombie shoot-em-up Back 4 Blood, as all three titles are effectively wrapping up. Epic Games confirmed the wholesale sunset of Rumbleverse on Tuesday, February 28th, after only […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/02/03/rumbleverse-and-knockout-city-announce-sunsets-back-4-blood-announces-maintenance-mode/feed/ 10 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/31/ea-is-sunsetting-apex-legends-mobile-canceling-battlefield-mobile-game/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/31/ea-is-sunsetting-apex-legends-mobile-canceling-battlefield-mobile-game/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:11:05 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=424839 Electronic Arts delivered its Q3FY23 investor report this afternoon, and it wasn’t a bad one; the company saw net revenues up for the quarter and essentially flat for the year. So you might be surprised to find out the company is killing off two of its games in its most popular franchises – both mobile titles. […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/31/ea-is-sunsetting-apex-legends-mobile-canceling-battlefield-mobile-game/feed/ 14 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/21/square-enix-published-marvels-avengers-is-ending-official-support-this-fall/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/21/square-enix-published-marvels-avengers-is-ending-official-support-this-fall/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=423299 Even the force of one of the mightiest IPs of the world couldn’t save Marvel’s Avengers from a disappointing turnout and underwhelming reception. On Friday, Crystal Dynamics announced that it would be ceasing official support for the superhero online RPG come September 30th. “The decision was made in conjunction with our partners that now was […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/21/square-enix-published-marvels-avengers-is-ending-official-support-this-fall/feed/ 33 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/20/one-of-ubisofts-canceled-games-was-a-pvp-team-battle-arena-dubbed-project-q/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/20/one-of-ubisofts-canceled-games-was-a-pvp-team-battle-arena-dubbed-project-q/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:00:44 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=423141 In covering Ubisoft’s ongoing clownshow – the mass-game cancelations, the sixth delay of Skull & Bones, the CEO gaffe, and the impending worker strike – we noted that Ubisoft has canceled seven games in the last half year, four last summer and three last week. One of those games was apparently Project Q, a “team […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/20/one-of-ubisofts-canceled-games-was-a-pvp-team-battle-arena-dubbed-project-q/feed/ 11 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/17/fractured-should-be-back-in-february-as-gamigo-shrinks-to-just-a-quarter-of-its-2020-portfolio/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/17/fractured-should-be-back-in-february-as-gamigo-shrinks-to-just-a-quarter-of-its-2020-portfolio/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2023 22:00:42 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=422770 Last month, Gamigo suffered a round of layoffs, axed multiple MMOs (dispatching them to other publishers), and stealth-deleted Fractured from its website – Fractured, of course, being the Kickstarted sandbox MMO from Dynamight Studios that Gamigo had agreed to publish. After days of worrying silence, Dynamight finally told fans it planned to wipe the game, […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/17/fractured-should-be-back-in-february-as-gamigo-shrinks-to-just-a-quarter-of-its-2020-portfolio/feed/ 4 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/16/stadia-offers-one-last-game-to-subscribers-in-the-form-of-worm-game/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/16/stadia-offers-one-last-game-to-subscribers-in-the-form-of-worm-game/#respond Mon, 16 Jan 2023 23:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=422636 Before Google Stadia closes its doors for good, the service is offering its fans one final game to play for free. Lest you get too excited, though, the game in question is Worm Game, a title made to facilitate network testing for Stadia ahead of the product rollout. It’s a game that will be instantly […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/16/stadia-offers-one-last-game-to-subscribers-in-the-form-of-worm-game/feed/ 0 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/15/the-mop-up-final-fantasy-record-keeper-meets-its-finality/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/15/the-mop-up-final-fantasy-record-keeper-meets-its-finality/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2023 21:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=422045 We’re a little late to the party on this, but friend of the site Connor pointed out that Square Enix shut down yet another Final Fantasy title in 2022 — this one being Final Fantasy Record Keeper, a mobile gacha game that came out in 2015 And this is just the beginning of the rest of the […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/15/the-mop-up-final-fantasy-record-keeper-meets-its-finality/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/12/working-as-intended-the-mmos-we-lost-in-2022/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/12/working-as-intended-the-mmos-we-lost-in-2022/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2023 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=415765 Perhaps one of our saddest traditions at the turn of every year is taking stock of all the MMOs we lost along the way. Unfortunately, 2022 ensured we said farewell to several good ones – Bluehole’s Elyon and TERA being chief among them. EVE Valkyrie, Crowfall, Forsaken World, Bless Unleashed on console, and Atlas Rogues […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/12/working-as-intended-the-mmos-we-lost-in-2022/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/11/kickstarted-sandbox-mmo-the-repopulation-is-apparently-dead-as-idea-fabriks-contracted-dev-team-quits/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/11/kickstarted-sandbox-mmo-the-repopulation-is-apparently-dead-as-idea-fabriks-contracted-dev-team-quits/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:00:35 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=422084 When last we checked in on The Repopulation, it was in August, when I realized that the team behind the game had put out almost no information all year, not even the steady stream of fluff and promises we’d become accustomed to. Nevertheless, in May the developers were still insisting that everything was fine and […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/11/kickstarted-sandbox-mmo-the-repopulation-is-apparently-dead-as-idea-fabriks-contracted-dev-team-quits/feed/ 14 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/10/kingshunt-has-shut-down-its-servers-for-what-the-developers-are-claiming-will-be-further-development/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/10/kingshunt-has-shut-down-its-servers-for-what-the-developers-are-claiming-will-be-further-development/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2023 01:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=421867 We hope you got in your enjoyment with Kingshunt while it lasted because it’s over now. The game’s servers shut down on January 6th, after entering early access just a little over two months earlier on November 4th. That’s not much of a lifespan for any title, although the official notice claims that the shutdown […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/10/kingshunt-has-shut-down-its-servers-for-what-the-developers-are-claiming-will-be-further-development/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/09/level-5s-fantasy-life-online-is-shutting-down-for-good-next-month/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/09/level-5s-fantasy-life-online-is-shutting-down-for-good-next-month/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=421667 It’s been a short, weird, and depressing trip for Level 5’s Fantasy Life Online. The colorful mobile MMORPG launched in Japan in 2018 on Android and iOS, only to shut down in that country back in 2021. However, there was hope of a second chance with a successive global launch… which is now also closing […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/09/level-5s-fantasy-life-online-is-shutting-down-for-good-next-month/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/06/deathverse-let-it-die-announces-that-it-will-suspend-services-in-july/ https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/06/deathverse-let-it-die-announces-that-it-will-suspend-services-in-july/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=421422 Normally, we’d say something like “don’t title your game Deathverse: Let It Die if you don’t want some snarky commentary if the game shuts down.” But Deathverse: Let It Die is a followup to the original Let It Die, so it turns out that’s not actually a subtitle. Weird choice, but all right. The important […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2023/01/06/deathverse-let-it-die-announces-that-it-will-suspend-services-in-july/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/01/google-stadia-hardware-refunds-have-begun-rolling-out-following-cancelation/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/01/google-stadia-hardware-refunds-have-begun-rolling-out-following-cancelation/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2022 20:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=416874 Just two months ago, Google announced the sunset of Stadia, which was less a surprise than an expectation at that point, given the company’s fondness for “deprioritizing” services and the long line of executives who’d already bailed out. Along the way, we saw game companies scramble to to port game saves. Some transferred everything. Some […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/01/google-stadia-hardware-refunds-have-begun-rolling-out-following-cancelation/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/01/elyon-prepares-to-sunset-in-korea-following-its-western-shutdown/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/01/elyon-prepares-to-sunset-in-korea-following-its-western-shutdown/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=416845 It’s an ignominious end to a once-promising MMORPG. Elyon (previously Ascent: Infinite Realm) has less than a week left before Kakao closes it in the west. But if anybody was holding on to hope that the game would endure in its native Korea, those hopes were dashed when the studio announced that it’s also going […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/01/elyon-prepares-to-sunset-in-korea-following-its-western-shutdown/feed/ 3 https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/01/forsaken-world-officially-sunsets-but-theres-already-a-private-server-available/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/01/forsaken-world-officially-sunsets-but-theres-already-a-private-server-available/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:00:43 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=416859 Gearbox Publishing announced at the tail end of April that it would be shutting down Perfect World Entertainment’s MMORPG Forsaken World on November 30th. Sure enough, that sunset has come to pass, as the game is no longer among the list of titles on offer. “This was a very difficult decision to make, but we […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/12/01/forsaken-world-officially-sunsets-but-theres-already-a-private-server-available/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/28/pvpve-survival-shooter-scavengers-goes-from-maintenance-mode-to-sunsetted-on-december-16/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/28/pvpve-survival-shooter-scavengers-goes-from-maintenance-mode-to-sunsetted-on-december-16/#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=416027 It’s been a fairly long stretch of time since we’ve heard much out of Scavengers, the PvPvE survival shooter from developer Midwinter Entertainment, but that’s to be expected as the devs announced that its PC version had entered maintenance mode and its console version would cease development earlier this year. Apparently, however, the news is […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/28/pvpve-survival-shooter-scavengers-goes-from-maintenance-mode-to-sunsetted-on-december-16/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/25/gamigo-silently-pulled-aura-kingdom-off-steam-after-months-of-payment-issues/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=415831 Welp, this can’t be good news for Aura Kingdom. Players are reporting that Aeria Games’ MMORPG has been pulled from Steam by the publisher’s request, and a quick peek at Steam’s new “Notice: Aura Kingdom is no longer available on the Steam store” label confirms that, yes, the title is no longer available on Valve’s […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/22/crowfall-goes-dark-today-with-a-slim-hope-of-a-future-return/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/22/crowfall-goes-dark-today-with-a-slim-hope-of-a-future-return/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=415504 For an MMO that’s all about death and reincarnation, there’s either irony or hope in Crowfall going offline today supposedly for retooling. Whether or not the crowfunded PvP game returns, its deactivation today effectively functions as a sunset to the loyal but battered playerbase that’s stuck with a constantly declining title. “In order to refocus […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/22/crowfall-goes-dark-today-with-a-slim-hope-of-a-future-return/feed/ 13 https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/16/wow-overwatch-diablo-hearthstone-and-more-to-sunset-in-china-following-failed-blizzard-netease-licensing-deal/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/16/wow-overwatch-diablo-hearthstone-and-more-to-sunset-in-china-following-failed-blizzard-netease-licensing-deal/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2022 03:29:55 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=414832 Last week, as part of its Q3 2022 investor report, Activision-Blizzard included what we described as an ominous note about its apparent difficulties negotiating a new licensing deal with Chinese counterpart NetEase, specifically in regard to partnerships set to expire in January of next year. We’d speculated that the worst-case scenario would be the loss […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/16/wow-overwatch-diablo-hearthstone-and-more-to-sunset-in-china-following-failed-blizzard-netease-licensing-deal/feed/ 54 https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/14/swgemu-sunsets-basilisk/ Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=414297 One of Star Wars Galaxies’ oldest emulator projects bid farewell to a long-running test server this past weekend. SWGEmu announced that it took the Basilisk shard offline as part of a service provider change that’s in the works. A requiem was held last Friday to mark the passing of the world. The Basilisk server “started […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/10/vague-patch-notes-alas-poor-crowfall-youre-gone-now/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/10/vague-patch-notes-alas-poor-crowfall-youre-gone-now/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=413756 Dusty dusty, ashy ashy, Crowfall’s plane went crashy crashy. Yes, we are now talking about Crowfall very strictly in the past tense. You could argue that technically it’s just sleeping, but that would be inaccurate, for reasons that I am about to elaborate upon. The point is that the game is going offline toward the […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/10/vague-patch-notes-alas-poor-crowfall-youre-gone-now/feed/ 21 https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/07/crowfall-is-going-offline-on-november-22-supposedly-for-further-development-work/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/07/crowfall-is-going-offline-on-november-22-supposedly-for-further-development-work/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:16:18 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=413401 Since Crowfall was purchased in December of last year, the news coming out of the game has been minimal at best. So today’s announcement that the game will go offline as of November 22nd will likely not come as a major surprise to anyone, with the game’s shop being completely free for everyone currently playing […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/11/07/crowfall-is-going-offline-on-november-22-supposedly-for-further-development-work/feed/ 29 https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/31/valofe-resurrects-the-sunsetted-diablo-like-mmo-cronous-in-a-steam-re-release/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/31/valofe-resurrects-the-sunsetted-diablo-like-mmo-cronous-in-a-steam-re-release/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=412195 Usually, when an MMO has announced its closure, that’s often the last word. However, some games refuse to go into that good night like they’re comic book characters. This appears to be the case for the Diablo-like MMO Cronous, which had originally planned to sunset this summer but has instead resurrected under a new publisher: […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/31/valofe-resurrects-the-sunsetted-diablo-like-mmo-cronous-in-a-steam-re-release/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/30/epic-games-moba-paragon-is-resurrected-as-paragon-the-overprime-under-netmarbles-oversight/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/30/epic-games-moba-paragon-is-resurrected-as-paragon-the-overprime-under-netmarbles-oversight/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=412128 It’s been a long, strange, and twisty-turny journey for Epic Games’ Paragon. The third-person MOBA came out in 2016 but quickly found itself floundering from population issues and a controversial business model. By early 2018, Epic shuttered the stagnant title — but released many of its assets to be used in other games, such as […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/30/epic-games-moba-paragon-is-resurrected-as-paragon-the-overprime-under-netmarbles-oversight/feed/ 5 https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/20/electronic-arts-will-sunset-multiplayer-servers-for-a-wide-assortment-of-classic-games-this-year/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/20/electronic-arts-will-sunset-multiplayer-servers-for-a-wide-assortment-of-classic-games-this-year/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2022 21:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=410423 As Tim Curry’s character can tell you, escaping capitalism requires some pretty severe steps, but unfortunately the online multiplayer servers for a number of classic Electronic Arts games can’t just fly to space, which means they are getting shut down this year. Included in the list are several titles in the Command and Conquer series, […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/20/electronic-arts-will-sunset-multiplayer-servers-for-a-wide-assortment-of-classic-games-this-year/feed/ 9 https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/12/final-fantasy-vii-the-first-soldier-is-shutting-down-in-january-after-less-than-a-year-of-operation/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/12/final-fantasy-vii-the-first-soldier-is-shutting-down-in-january-after-less-than-a-year-of-operation/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=409502 It’s apparently the season for Square-Enix to cut loose its various online games that are severely underperforming, as Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier has received an official sunset notice stating that the game’s servers will shut off on January 11th, 2023. For those of you who don’t recall, First Soldier is a battle royale […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/12/final-fantasy-vii-the-first-soldier-is-shutting-down-in-january-after-less-than-a-year-of-operation/feed/ 11 https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/07/ceo-of-platinum-games-on-babylons-fall-live-service-games-are-definitely-something-we-do-want-to-do/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/07/ceo-of-platinum-games-on-babylons-fall-live-service-games-are-definitely-something-we-do-want-to-do/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=408702 Ultimately, Babylon’s Fall went about as badly as a live-service game could conceivably go. It launched to poor reviews and reception, never convinced a critical mass of players that it was worth sticking around to play, and has already been announced as shutting down in the near future. Platinum Games CEO Atsushi Inaba finally spoke […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/07/ceo-of-platinum-games-on-babylons-fall-live-service-games-are-definitely-something-we-do-want-to-do/feed/ 8 https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/06/flagships-dead-mmo-mythos-is-back-as-a-single-player-rpg-from-hellgate-owner-hanbitsoft/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/06/flagships-dead-mmo-mythos-is-back-as-a-single-player-rpg-from-hellgate-owner-hanbitsoft/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2022 13:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=408477 A few weeks ago on the MassivelyOP Podcast, Justin and I were trying to come up with MMOs that had centaur-like races, and we happened to mention Mythos, which did indeed have a satyr class. Mythos was one of the Flagship MMOs – yes that Flagship – and was in testing back in the late […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/06/flagships-dead-mmo-mythos-is-back-as-a-single-player-rpg-from-hellgate-owner-hanbitsoft/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/05/echo-of-soul-comes-back-to-the-west-once-again-as-echo-of-soul-ragnarok-thanks-to-a-new-publisher/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/05/echo-of-soul-comes-back-to-the-west-once-again-as-echo-of-soul-ragnarok-thanks-to-a-new-publisher/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2022 17:30:28 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=408370 Echo of Soul has had a long and drawn out history of death and rebirth here in the west as well as across the globe. The MMORPG was shuttered in 2015 in Korea and China, a western version run by Blue Potion Games ended service in 2020, and the Gamigo published version announced its sunset […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/10/05/echo-of-soul-comes-back-to-the-west-once-again-as-echo-of-soul-ragnarok-thanks-to-a-new-publisher/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/14/perfect-ten-an-mmo-sunset-tour-for-2022-to-date/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/14/perfect-ten-an-mmo-sunset-tour-for-2022-to-date/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=405265 MMO sunsets can be weird. I am never happy when a game that people love goes away. It always represents a lot of lost time and effort, the loss of something beloved, and it is never a thing that I revel in. But so far this year, the shutdown announcements have come down to one […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/14/perfect-ten-an-mmo-sunset-tour-for-2022-to-date/feed/ 4 https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/13/babylons-fall-is-shutting-down-on-february-27/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/13/babylons-fall-is-shutting-down-on-february-27/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:00:38 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=405119 It turns out that building a looter-shooter that is more of a looter-slasher is harder than it looks. Square-Enix and Platinum Games’ Babylon’s Fall launched in March of this year to fairly low player counts (with lackluster reviews definitely not helping), but fans were assured that development was simply being re-evaluated. Of course, veterans of […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/13/babylons-fall-is-shutting-down-on-february-27/feed/ 24 https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/07/krafton-has-put-thunder-tier-one-into-maintenance-mode-after-less-than-a-year/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/07/krafton-has-put-thunder-tier-one-into-maintenance-mode-after-less-than-a-year/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2022 23:00:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=404160 You guys remember Thunder Tier One, right? It’s a top-down tactical multiplayer shooter with a heavy emphasis on player modding along with single-player, co-op, campaign, and PvP modes. It launched at the tail end of 2021, and it actually got a lot of positive buzz from top-down tactical multiplayer shooter genre fans. It was a […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/07/krafton-has-put-thunder-tier-one-into-maintenance-mode-after-less-than-a-year/feed/ 1 https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/07/elyon-once-hotly-anticipated-as-ascent-infinite-realm-is-sunsetting-in-december/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/07/elyon-once-hotly-anticipated-as-ascent-infinite-realm-is-sunsetting-in-december/#comments Wed, 07 Sep 2022 11:23:57 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=404261 I wish I could say nobody saw this coming, but unfortunately, that’s not the case: Kakao is closing down Elyon. “Kakao Games Europe, following lengthy discussions with the game developer Bluehole Studio Inc., has made the difficult decision to terminate the live service of Elyon in Europe and North America due to the unsustainability of […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/07/elyon-once-hotly-anticipated-as-ascent-infinite-realm-is-sunsetting-in-december/feed/ 21 https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/02/ubisoft-delays-subsetting-some-online-games-including-anno-2070/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/02/ubisoft-delays-subsetting-some-online-games-including-anno-2070/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=403740 Ubisoft has an ongoing habit of launching games with online components and then turning those online components off when the games get old enough, sometimes severely breaking older titles. This is not news to anyone. What is news is the fact that several of the older titles the company had originally slated for having online […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/02/ubisoft-delays-subsetting-some-online-games-including-anno-2070/feed/ 7 https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/02/bless-unleashed-on-console-becomes-the-latest-bless-title-to-shut-down/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/02/bless-unleashed-on-console-becomes-the-latest-bless-title-to-shut-down/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2022 12:30:04 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=403718 Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Bless is shutting down. It’s Bless Unleashed this time. Our readers will remember that Bless Online originally launched in the west on PC back in 2018, and it was a mess; it saw several server closures, a corporate merge, and then a sunset in 2019. A few months […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/09/02/bless-unleashed-on-console-becomes-the-latest-bless-title-to-shut-down/feed/ 12 https://massivelyop.com/2022/08/31/maplestory-2-announces-a-shutdown-date-for-its-chinese-server-in-november/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/08/31/maplestory-2-announces-a-shutdown-date-for-its-chinese-server-in-november/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:00:44 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=403425 Alas, poor Maplestory 2, you were cute and likable and then you got kicked to the curb after less than two years. We did a lot to memorialize this game before it left us in both its gameplay and its memorable soundtrack, but the game’s global version shut down altogether and left it only in […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/08/31/maplestory-2-announces-a-shutdown-date-for-its-chinese-server-in-november/feed/ 2 https://massivelyop.com/2022/08/24/the-chinese-version-of-the-life-is-feudal-mmo-will-be-shut-down-in-october/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/08/24/the-chinese-version-of-the-life-is-feudal-mmo-will-be-shut-down-in-october/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2022 19:00:16 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=402479 Fans of the sandbox MMO version of Life is Feudal are unfortunately dying a second death in a manner of speaking. Tiancity, the publisher of the Chinese version of the game, has announced the closure of the game, set for Wednesday, October 26th. The sunsetting process begins today, August 24th, with a closure of the […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/08/24/the-chinese-version-of-the-life-is-feudal-mmo-will-be-shut-down-in-october/feed/ 6 https://massivelyop.com/2022/08/08/ccp-games-vr-multiplayer-game-aspirations-expire-as-eve-valkyrie-sparc-and-eve-gunjack-go-dark/ https://massivelyop.com/2022/08/08/ccp-games-vr-multiplayer-game-aspirations-expire-as-eve-valkyrie-sparc-and-eve-gunjack-go-dark/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:30:00 +0000 https://massivelyop.com/?p=399892 This past weekend saw CCP Games’ run at VR games development die on the vine, as the shooter EVE Gunjack, the sports title Sparc, and the online spaceship dogfighter EVE Valkyrie all shut down last Friday. The closure date for all of these titles was announced at the beginning of July with a message that […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2022/08/08/ccp-games-vr-multiplayer-game-aspirations-expire-as-eve-valkyrie-sparc-and-eve-gunjack-go-dark/feed/ 5