MMO News Weekly
A weekly editorial digest of the MMO news that matters — market-moving patches, economy shifts, league and expansion cycles, and studio news across the games AuricDB tracks. Synthesized from daily monitoring of Guild Wars 2, WoW, Final Fantasy XIV, Path of Exile, Albion Online, and the wider MMO industry.
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MMO News Weekly #9 — Albion's Dragonfire Makes Mounts a Material
Albion Online's Dragonfire update turned ordinary mounts into feed for the new Firewing Drake and bid riding horses up 18–36% on our board, Path of Exile 2 opened a second live league economy without closing the first, and WoW Retail put a 7-million-gold deadline on its goldmakers.
MMO News Weekly #8 — WoW Retail's Gear Tape Hits −99%
WoW Retail's Midnight Season 2 reset drove current-tier gear to −99.8% and pushed the volume into profession tools instead, FFXIV's ingots bounced on one world and kept falling on another, and Albion Online's bag trade came off a week before Dragonfire.
MMO News Weekly #7 — WoW Retail S2 Eve, FFXIV Ingots Crack
WoW Retail's item-level reset is a day out and the gear tape has already capitulated, FFXIV's Switch 2 ingot spike round-tripped to nothing, and Albion traders spent the week dumping horses to buy bags.
MMO News Weekly #6 — Patch Week: Selling the Rumor
Patch week finally arrives — and our tape shows traders selling the rumor into the double-patch day, unwinding the Season 2 bet even as they bid up the mats they'll actually burn on Tuesday.
MMO News Weekly #4 — FFXIV's Patch Hangover, WoW Season 2 Prep
The patch-day spike became the patch-day hangover — FFXIV's pre-7.55 reagent rally unwound almost as fast as it built, while Warcraft's markets stopped fighting the last season and started pricing the next one.
MMO News Weekly #3 — PoE Resets, FFXIV Reveal, Albion Dragons
The countdown hit zero — Path of Exile's economy reset to a blank slate, Final Fantasy XIV crafters front-ran a patch while Berlin teased the next expansion, and Albion's traders started stockpiling for dragons.
MMO News Weekly #2 — PoE Wipe, WoW Sell-Off, Albion Bottoms
Three tracked economies hit reset at once — Path of Exile liquidating into a hard wipe, WoW dumping Season 1 gear before Midnight's next tier, and Albion's fresh-season floor finally bouncing — while a duplication exploit quietly torched Dune: Awakening's market.
MMO News Weekly #1 — PoE Reset, WoW Restock, Albion Cools
PoE's Mirage economy is in its final days before Curse of the Allflame, WoW's Midnight profession market is heating up ahead of Season 2, and Albion's fresh season is already cooling gear prices.