Justin and Bree discuss WoW Midnight, Gloria Victis' revival, the Cryptic mess, Neverwinter, and Albion Online, with a run-down of all the cool stuff coming in early December (WoW's housing, LOTRO Kingdoms of Harad, EverQuest Shattering of Ro, Destiny 2 Renegades, Guild Wars Reforged, along with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and WoW, plus a mailbag topic on predatory MMO monetization.

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Last week, we covered the weird news that Embracer was in the process of divesting itself of Arc Games, which is the publishing outfit formerly known as Perfect World Entertainment that it bought only four years ago. Well, that wasn’t really the weird news; the weird news was that in the same presser, Embracer implied […]

Do you ever wonder what happened to Tower of Fantasy? The free-to-play shared-world anime game that I fully expected to make it onto our list of the best MMOs? The one that got some good buzz on Twitch back in 2022 as a potential Genshin Impact killer? Then you might be surprised, elated even, to hear that it's getting yet another big rework in just a few days to bring it closer to the original expectation of it being a shared-world anime adventure MMORPG, while keeping it separate from the regular version that I can only assume still has some staunch defenders.

Read the full story on PCGamesN: A huge anime action game is stripping out its gacha loot boxes to be reborn as a full-fledged MMORPG, and I can't wait

It’s time to express your class-specific opinions, Neverwinter fans! Also it’s time to sign up to the MMORPG’s Discord server if you haven’t already. That’s because that server is the place where DECA Games is gathering feedback on specific class paragon specs to guide its upcoming focus on class balance. The threads in question, which […]

Star Trek Online better hope that it’s got a fleet of space lawyers at its beck and call because the MMO might need them this month. That’s because the title went and started charging Value Added Tax (VAT) to its European customers without notifying them beforehand. “Captains, we’ve received some player reports regarding concerns with […]

For those who consider gacha elements in MMOs and online games an immediate deal-breaker, Tower of Fantasy has something to say: It’s going to deliver the gacha-free experience that players have wanted since the sci-fi RPG’s beginning. As we’ve been covering, a new version of the game called Warp Server is rolling out to fans […]

Remember Tower of Fantasy? It was one of those Genshin Impact-ish gacha games, with its particular twist, so to speak, being that it's sort of an MMO. I say sort of, because it's described as a shared open world, meaning you can see other players, and there are some MMO elements, but its monetisations are much more gacha like. Or, well, they are until tomorrow, November 25th, as in quite a big move developer Hotta Studio is stripping Tower of Fantasy of all of its gacha elements.

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