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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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,...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMMO 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....
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMake 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...
View ArticleMMO 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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