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 #16 — Path of Exile's Allflame Wealth Walks to Standard
Path of Exile's 3.29 Curse of the Allflame league Mirror discount narrowed to 60.1% as PoE Standard currency was bid up to 54% ahead of the November 9 close, WoW Retail's patch 12.1.5 recipe land-rush priced out with Silvermoon Spire Fountain falling from 8,800g to 367g, and OSRS's new Zorya's Tome shed roughly 81% in its first week of trading.
MMO News Weekly #15 — WoW Retail Patch 12.1.5 Bids Up Recipes
WoW Retail's Midnight patch 12.1.5 landed on October 13 and every one of our twelve highest-volume items turned into a crafting recipe, Path of Exile's 3.29 Allflame league set a third straight record Mirror discount at 63.8%, and Jagex cancelled RuneScape Reignited's separate Grand Exchange twelve days after announcing it.
MMO News Weekly #14 — Path of Exile's Allflame League Gets a Death Date
Grinding Gear Games dated the end of Path of Exile's 3.29 Curse of the Allflame league for November 9 and our Mirror discount promptly hit a record 62.5%, WoW Retail's four tracked realms sold off harder on patch eve than at any point since the Midnight Season 2 reset, and EVE Online switched off 90% of its largest destruction sink for a month.
MMO News Weekly #13 — OSRS Lifts Its Grand Exchange Cap
Old School RuneScape blew the lid off its Grand Exchange cash cap and made guide prices eight times faster, WoW Retail finally dated Midnight patch 12.1.5 for October 13, and EVE Online is about to stop destroying 90% of what it kills.
MMO News Weekly #12 — Albion Doubles Loot, EVE Kills a Sink
Albion Online's Dragonfire Patch 2 roughly doubled Ancient Lands loot before a single price moved, EVE Online's Cradle of War switched off Liquid Ozone's largest demand sink on a date the market can finally trade against, and AuricDB's board re-measured Path of Exile's 3.29 Allflame league Mirror discount at 58.3%.
MMO News Weekly #11 — WoW Forever Bans GDKP Before It Opens
World of Warcraft: Forever banned GDKP outright and promised aggressive gold-buyer enforcement before its first auction house even opens, EVE Online finally dated the update that switches off Liquid Ozone's largest demand sink, and Guild Wars 2's Code of Creation shipped a legendary sword without moving a single price on our board.
MMO News Weekly #10 — WoW Forever Opens a Fourth Gold Market
BlizzCon handed Warcraft a fourth economy in World of Warcraft: Forever, Final Fantasy XIV's 7.56 patch flipped the ingot tape green across four worlds, and Albion Online's mount bid climbed from riding horses to Swiftclaws as Guild Season 34 opened.
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.