MMO Roundup: The last two weeks of Massively
by Alex Ziebart 
Oct 28th 2010 at 9:00AM
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The Soapbox: Don't hate the game, hate the copy The Massively staff's new editorial column, The Soapbox, kicks off with Eliot Lefebvre tackling the World of Warcraft clones plaguing the MMO genre. Someone is to blame for it -- but it isn't World of Warcraft. |
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Blizzard's Pardo talks Bungie MMO Blizzard Entertainment's Rob Pardo recently discussed the possibility of Blizzard and Bungie sharing resources on a future MMO project. He also mentions how much he would love to play it! |
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Zynga sued over Facebook privacy breaches Zynga and its stable of Facebook games have never exactly won the hearts of MMO fans, but they've managed to avoid a lawsuit up until now. Unfortunately for them, a class action lawsuit has been filed today seeking monetary relief for the unwarranted and undesirable release of private information. |
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The Soapbox: Episode II -- A New Hype In the second installment of Massively's editorial column The Soapbox, Jef Reahard tackles Star Wars: The Old Republic and the hype surrounding it. |
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Blogger claims to be Mythic employee, tells "Why Warhammer Failed" A couple of weeks ago, a blogger claiming to be a disgruntled Mythic employee crawled out of the shadows and took on the moniker EA Louse. He (or she) has made quite a stir with his (or her) claims about the company's internal operations. |
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Rumor: Final Fantasy XIV draws a $26 million ragequit You may or may not be one of the people unhappy with Final Fantasy XIV in its current state. Certainly the game has both drawn its fair share of ire and praise, and it's hard to picture a launch with more strongly divided opinions. But even if you hate everything the game turned out to be, you have to admit that you can't make quite the spectacle that one unnamed Japanese player did -- a rage-fueled quit that involved selling off $26 million worth of Square-Enix stock as a parting gesture. |
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ragen Oct 28th 2010 9:49AM
The Soapbox was a really excellent read. It gives you a fair representation of how wow is taken in by the rest of the community (comments and all).
Kunikenwad! Oct 28th 2010 9:55AM
I read that article title and immediately thought Massively was shutting down. I grew morose. Now that I have read the article fully, I am happy again.
Curse you, wow.joystiq.com for toying with my fragile emotions!
Amaxe Oct 28th 2010 11:26AM
Interesting. I had assumed it was a "we're getting caught up" thing but reading your comment I guess I could see how it could be interpreted this way
Vogie Oct 28th 2010 1:21PM
Massively still links to all of your posts as WoW.com
#corrections