Official Site: Master X Master
Studio:Â NCsoft
Launch Date: Sunsetted in 2017
Genre:Â MOBA-OARPG Hybrid
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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NCsoft MOBA Master x Master should’ve turned three years old in the west this month
Way back in 2014 on Old Massively, our team began covering Master x Master, a new MOBA by NCsoft, then in beta in South...
The Soapbox: The sunsetted MMORPGs I miss the most
I'm pining for the fjords.
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‘Secret’ City of Heroes emulator operators address SCORE leak drama, rebut personal info database rumor
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The Daily Grind: What was the most painful MMO sunset of 2018?
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Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games
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Perfect Ten: A dozen MOBAs that didn’t make it
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The Stream Team: Farewell, Master X Master
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Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2017
It's true that we lost a lot of MMOs in 2016 -- bigger and more important ones than in 2014 and 2015. 2017, however, has...
Exclusive: Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever on the superhero MMORPG genre
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MMO Year in Review: WoW Classic and the doom of Marvel Heroes (November 2017)
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The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2017
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Battle Bards Episode 112: MMO minigame music
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The most popular Massively OP MMO articles of 2017
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MMO Year in Review: City of Heroes necromancy in Master X Master (March 2017)
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Massively OP’s 2017 Blooper Awards: Defunct MMORPG with the most coverage
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City of Heroes
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Perfect Ten: MMO things to be thankful about this year
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 145: Farewell Marvel Heroes and Master X Master
Justin and Bree discuss the sunsets of Marvel Heroes and Master X Master, NCsoft's and Funcom's quarterly financials, EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2 business model fiasco, and Path of Exile's upcoming expansion, with a mailbag question on slowing down for classic WoW.
NCsoft is already sunsetting MOBA Master X Master
NCsoft announced this evening that it will sunset its relatively new MOBA Master X Master, explaining that the game just "wasn’t enough to take...