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Make My MMO: Genfanad’s Kickstarter, Dual Universe’s Mercury, Ashes of...
Indie MMORPG Genfanad became the latest MMORPG to fully fund on Kickstarter this week, pulling in almost $20,000 to finish the game and get it launched into beta in the middle of July. Meanwhile, Ship...
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Make My MMO: Pantheon raises another $2.4M in investor funds
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen’s Visionary Realms got a welcome blast of new funding this week with a haul of $2.4M in Series A fundraising, bringing the company to over $5M raised from investors on top...
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Make My MMO: Elite’s new CEO, Wagadu’s alpha, and Fractured’s conquest system
This week in crowdsfunded MMOs, Kickstarted sandbox Fractured Online dropped a new dev talk video this week, deep-diving the game’s city conquest system and how its developed over the course of the...
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Make My MMO: A big September for Fractured, Temtem, Genfanad, Embers Adrift,...
A whole bunch of Kickstarted MMORPGs are launching or heading into their last legs of testing this month. A slew. A plethora. A lot! Fractured Online rolled onward with an open beta test ahead of its...
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Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s half billion dollar boondoggle
Star Citizen continues making history as this week it reached the lofty heights of $500,000,000 in crowdfunding from gamers, players, and donors. Of course, in just a few months, the game will also be...
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Make My MMO: Embers Adrift’s launch, The Secret World’s TTRPG, and gobs of...
Embers Adrift launched this past week with a surprisingly smooth rollout; while its design is going to suit most MMO gamers, it’s still a welcome sight whenever a Kickstarted MMO, especially one that’s...
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Make My MMO: The Crowfall autopsy
Nobody in the MMORPG community was particularly surprised to learn this week that Crowfall’s new – and very quiet – owners have decided to pull the crowdfunded throne war MMO offline later this month...
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Make My MMO: Crowfall’s sunset and Elite’s update 14
Crowfall went offline this week, possibly for the last time, as new owner Monumental pulled the game back into development without a clear plan, repeating again that nothing is off the table for the...
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Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2022
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP’s column keeping track of all the crowdfunding MMOs in our genre. Last year, the column got a big refresh with a handy tracker for games we’re...
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Make My MMO: The Fractured fiasco
Welcome to the 2023 edition of Make My MMO, MOP’s long-running MMO crowdfunding column. We’ve already rounded up all the big MMO crowdfunding news narratives of 2022, so now, it’s time to recap the...
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Make My MMO: Elite’s delay, Zenith’s birthday, Repopulation’s death
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Kickstarted VR MMO Zenith rolled quietly into its first anniversary since launching; while the game has become an indie...
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Make My MMO: Embers Adrift’s new zone, Wagadu Chronicles’ next alpha
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Embers Adrift is building out a new zone: a three-tiered canyon-encrusted zone for players to explore. In fact, they can...
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Make My MMO: Embers Adrift’s price drop, Star Citizen’s alpha 3.18
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! While our own experience with Embers Adrift has been a bit of a struggle, the Kickstarted indie MMORPG is nevertheless picking...
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Make My MMO: Embers Adrift’s Forgotten Depths, Star Citizen’s forced march
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Is it a great idea to set devs to crunching for the next patch when the last patch is still a mess? Star Citizen sure thinks...
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Make My MMO: Stop trying to make TitanReach aka World of Titans happen
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! The chaos still trailing behind the failed Kickstarter MMO TitanReach continued through April; readers will recall that...
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Make My MMO: Embers Adrift vetoes PvP, Zenith launches Skyward Summit
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! We don’t often hear the word “never” from MMO developers as studios usually like to keep their options open and their players...
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Make My MMO: In for a penny, in for a pound with Star Citizen
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Star Citizen has made headlines lately thanks to the fact that Cloud Imperium had silently pulled SC’s sister game, Squadron...
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Make My MMO: Fractured is back…tured
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Following Gamigo’s end-of-2022 chaos, few gamers really ever thought we’d be seeing Dynamight Studio’s Kickstarted sandbox...
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Make My MMO: Star Citizen has zero incentive to ever launch
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! A Star Citizen player who applied for a refund finally got it earlier this month – but he also got a bizarre boilerplate legal...
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Make My MMO: Loftia Kickstarter backers blow past $400K, unlocking pets,...
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Loftia isn’t due to finish out its Kickstarter until the end of August, but it’ll be smooth sailing for the indie “medium-ly...
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Make My MMO: Loftia has generated $850K on Kickstarter so far
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Loftia is on track to be the biggest MMO Kickstarter of the year, having pulled in over $850K as we type this with less than a...
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Make My MMO: Star Citizen is nine years late, but sure, it’s the gamers who...
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Star Citizen, an alpha MMORPG Kickstarted in 2012 ahead of a planned 2014 launch, has had one hell of a past couple of weeks...
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Make My MMO: Ship of Heroes’ demo, Pantheon’s art, Ashes of Creation’s alpha two
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Interestingly, there’s actually been kind of a lot of nice forward motion on some of the big in-development crowdfunded MMOs...
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Make My MMO: Squadron 42, Pantheon 247
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Indeed, these last few weeks have been packed with wild stories about crowdfunding games, topped by Star Citizen’s CitizenCon,...
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Make My MMO: Project Gorgon rebounds, Pantheon regroups
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Pantheon has fully backtracked on its plans to launch the 247 extraction mode as a standalone game, vowing to return to full...
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Make My MMO: Wagadu Chronicles’ early access, City of Titans’ surprise patch
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! Indie Afrofantasy sandbox MMORPG The Wagadu Chronicles launched into early access this week, sticking hard to its planned...
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Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023
Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we – well, I – keep tabs on all of the crowdfunded MMOs in our genre, as well as all the ones that attempted...
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Make My MMO: MMO crowdfunding at the top of 2024, from Ashes to Zenith
Welcome to our very first Make My MMO of 2024! When we last checked in on the crowdfunded games of our genre, we were recapping the entirety of Kickstarter MMOs in 2023, but now we’re back to our...
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Make My MMO: Zenith’s spinoff game, EVE Online’s board game Kickstarter
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! It’s been pretty hoppin’ for Kickstarted MMOs lately, as Elite Dangerous is back from its deathbed, Ashes of Creation dropped...
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MMO Week in Review: Skull & Bones departs drydock
Skull & Bones finally drifted into its soft launch open beta after eleventy billion delays and do-overs, and… it’s actually not terrible? And it’s actually somewhat MMO-ish? Huh. Well then....
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Make My MMO: Scars of Honor’s Kickstarter, Temtem’s and Zenith’s spinoff drama
Welcome to another blast of MMO crowdfunding news from the last few weeks! We’ve got three specific newish Kickstarters to talk about. Galactic Getaway, a multiplayer title with obvious ACNH...
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Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained and Star Citizen eye 1.0 launches
It’s been a fairly dramatic couple of weeks for crowdfunded MMOs! Top of the pile is surely the fact that Kickstarted MMORPG Camelot Unchained has awakened from its slumber of the past few years: The...
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Make My MMO: Starship Simulator has pulled in $350K on Kickstarter so far
It’s only April and we might just have our biggest MMO Kickstarter of the year in the form of the new sci-fi multiplayer sandbox Starship Simulator. Indie team Fleetyard Studios sought $82K on the...
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Make My MMO: Starship Simulator’s $500K Kickstarter, Legends of Aria’s revival
The last few weeks have been absolutely packed for MMO crowdfunding news. To wit: Legends of Aria aka Shards Online is back! The original developer, who’d sold the game to a crypto outfit, is reviving...
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Make My MMO: Wagadu’s untimely end, Legends of Aria’s new beginning
The grave is claiming another Kickstarted MMORPG: The Wagadu Chronicles developer Twin Drums announced in May that it’ll throw in the towel on the early access afrofantasy MMORPG, telling players that...
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MMO Week in Review: Pandaria Remix, Loot Reborn, Wayfinder Echoes
What a hell of a week for the MMO genre! Good and bad, as it were. We got previews of FFXIV Dawntrail, Guild Wars 2’s Midnight King, and Star Trek Online’s Unparalleled; quarterly financials for...
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Make My MMO: Britaria is dead, long live Legends of Aria
Another one bites the dust? This week, we learned that the crypto version of Legends of Aria, Britaria, has completely folded. It’s not a huge surprise, given that the company doing it was also at one...
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Make My MMO: Project Gorgon’s hardcore living, Ashes of Creation’s alpha 2
Project Gorgon rolled out a big patch at the tail end of June, adding a new dungeon, a hardcore hardcore living skill, and more confidence in the longevity of the game. Meanwhile, Ashes of Creation...
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Make My MMO: Fractured’s launch, Zenith’s maintenance mode
It’s been a weird couple of weeks in MMO crowdfunding – with both a launch and an almost-sunset. First, Fractured Online has finally launched properly and fully after its second early access, just...
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Make My MMO: Ashes of Creation’s alpha 2, Dual Universe’s player hosting
It’s been an interesting summer for crowdfunded MMOs. Ashes of Creation has hit August running, first with a preview of the Bard class, then with a formal announcement of its paid alpha 2 starting...
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Make My MMO: Pricing shifts for Shroud of the Avatar, Embers Adrift, and...
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 test that theory, as it’s added two new monthly sub pledges in...
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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 third game in the “My Time At” franchise not only fully funded...
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Make My MMO: Star Citizen opens CitizenCon, Fractured eyes F2P, Fractured...
Star Citizen’s CitizenCon event kicked off this morning under a cloud of drama as backers tuned in to see where the game and S42 stand. Stay tuned for our coverage in Stick and Rudder! Meanwhile,...
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Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous’s Ascendancy, Embers Adrift’s misfortune
Kickstarted MMORPGs have been a rollercoaster over the last few weeks: Elite Dangerous is finally getting a major revival with the release of Ascendancy. That’s good! Belated, but good! But Embers...
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MMO Week in Review: World of Warcraft will be ‘home’ by Midnight
Most MMO players who thought World of Warcraft should have housing also never expected it to happen, largely because, you know, the devs kept saying so – but it is happening now, as this past week...
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Make My MMO: Star Citizen passes $750M in crowdfunding because y’all have no...
It’s been over 12 years since Star Citizen’s record-setting Kickstarter, and while the game is still being dragged through alpha, its crowdfunding has only increased: This week, the space MMO passed...
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MMO Week in Review: New World’s roadmap, Corepunk’s early access
After weeks of needling, Amazon finally delivered a roadmap for New World this week: The studio is introducing what it’s calling “seasonal worlds,” the first of which will revolve around a throwback...
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Make My MMO: Pantheon’s early access, Ship of Heroes’ launch window, Star...
Welcome back to Make My MMO – technically our last edition before the turn of the year, though next week we’re doing a full recap of all the big MMO crowdfunding over the course of 2024, with some...
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Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2024
Welcome to a Very Special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where – most weeks – we keep track of the crowdfunded MMOs in our genre, in addition to those that tried to...
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Make My MMO: Star Citizen sheds execs, Pantheon tops 6K concurrent, Stars...
Welcome to our first Make My MMO of 2025! Make My MMO is a long-running column where we keep track of crowdfunded MMOs, both brand-new titles just starting their campaigns and older games long past...
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