MMO Week in Review: Mapserved

by Brianna Royce on Dec 2nd 2012 4:00PM

City of Heroes, MMO Industry, Massively Meta, Week in Review, Miscellaneous

The final mapserve in City of Heroes. We love you CoH.

At the end of every week, we round up the best and most popular news stories, exclusive features, and insightful columns published on Massively and then present them all in one convenient place. If you missed a big MMO or WoW Insider story last week, you've come to the right post.

Superhero MMO City of Heroes ended its eight-year run this week, having been shut down along with dev house Paragon Studios by NCsoft for what are still not fully understood reasons. Massively celebrated the game's ingenuity and long history with a screenshot and music tribute, a farewell parable edition of A Mild-Mannered Reporter (our regular City of Heroes column), and a livestream of the game's final hour.

Read on for the rest of this week's top MMO stories.

MMO Week in Review

	SOE asks whether your FPS measures up to PlanetSide 2
	Opinion: Nope, your FPS can't do what PlanetSide 2 does
	Exclusive: Matt Higby reveals account-wide SC unlocks coming to PlanetSide 2
	SOE outlaws all PlanetSide 2 mods
	Smedley clarifies PlanetSide 2's long-term plans: 'NPCs aren't on the table'

	SWTOR livestream Q&A highlights F2P success, BioWare 'listening to feedback'
	Exclusive: SWTOR story secrets revealed by Lead Writer Hall Hood
	SWTOR Preferred Status players awarded with additional quickbars
	Opinion: SWTOR's Section X is not a steaming pile of poodoo

	Guild Wars 2 welcomes Wintersday next month
	Guild Wars 2 staff tackles the ascended gear controversy head-on
	The spotter's guide to Guild Wars 2's Fractals of the Mists

	Blizzard snags Project Blackstone domain name
	Minecraft creator Notch's 0x10c is aiming at a monthly subscription fee
	Yup, you're dead: Massively's hands-on with Wizardry Online
	Yoshida: Another 'mistake like FFXIV' could destroy Square
	Darkfall Unholy Wars hits Steam Greenlight, debuts shiny new video
	Mortal Online is now free-to-play with a video to prove it
	Three terrific RIFT player dimensions that have to be seen to be believed
	DayZ standalone features new engine, moving to MMO client-server model
	How RuneScape's Evolution of Combat changed the game
	Concept art and story details leaked for Bungie's Destiny
	Opinion: The trinity isn't so bad
	Pathfinder Online begins second Kickstarter project
	The MMO Report airs its series finale
	The Secret World's new PvP: How do you like them Big Apples?
	Over 20 minutes of ArcheAge gameplay on display in new vids

And from our sister site, WoW Insider...

	World of Warcraft Patch 5.1 official patch notes
	Ore and herb spawn rates reduced by 50%
	No automated PvP queuing for groups greater than five people
	Druid blogger Lissanna lowers the boom(kin) on autism research