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Ubisoft Executive Says Microtransactions Help “Make Games More Fun”

By Murasama July 22, 2025

They really WROTE that. File this one under the "executives are out of touch" category. The company included this blurb in their annual financial report (a report normally targeted at…

Stop Killing Games

By Murasama July 18, 2025

This is a campaign that leads into the actual European Union initiative that started in 2024 which as their site mentions, is an "attempt to challenge the legality of publishers…

ArcheAge Service Termination (XLGAMES)

By Murasama March 6, 2025

XLGAMES brought ArcheAge service to a close in South Korea on March 6th (local time). The actual service termination announcement was made 3 months ago (which I didn't post about…

ArcheAge NA/EU Officially Sunsets

By Murasama June 27, 2024

Without much fanfare (there were no CM's in-game to perform any sort of official sendoff), ArcheAge came to a close in NA/EU right on schedule on June 27 at 8:00…

The Final Few Days of ArcheAge NA/EU

By Murasama June 24, 2024

The June 27th closure of ArcheAge NA/EU is only a few days away. After the service termination was announced, I rarely logged in except to just pay the taxes on…

ArcheAge NA/EU Service Termination – June 27, 2024

By Murasama April 25, 2024

Announcement. Steam Announcement. Not surprising (since I was calling this back when the Asia region service was being terminated). Additionally, there was the Korea MTN report that all parties tried…

LOST ARK JP Service Termination in March

By Murasama January 16, 2024

Pmang which publishes Lost Ark in Japan, announced they will shutting down Lost Ark on March 20th.As the announcement notes, they began servicing the game since September 2020. As is…

ArcheAge Asia Service Termination

By Murasama August 31, 2023

And here is the boom. ArcheAge in general is living on borrowed time. XLGAMES which operates the Asia version of ArcheAge, announced they will be ending that service on December…