Our latest coverage of LEGO Minifigures Online.
Funcom announced earlier this month that LEGO Minifigures Online will be shutting down on September 30th. The game flew under the radar for quite some time, so we missed the news when it was originally posted to the official website. Funcom explained in its annual report published in April that LEGO Minifigures Online had been performing below expectations by a [...]
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Funcom's annual report is here and it is somewhat of a mixed bag. Highlights include the fact that the company wants to create one "smaller game" per year. The first of these was The Park. Another was confirmed to be in development in the following statement: "the Company has started internal concept development and [prototyping] for a smaller game based [...]
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Valve may have single-handedly ruined the concept of Steam sales by removing daily and flash sales, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still get a ton of games and their DLC at great prices. Today, we have a gigantic list of all the great sales going on in the MMO genre. Buy-To-Play and Subscription MMORPGs The Black Watchmen Season One is [...]
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Seems that the sale on LEGO Minifigures Online that happened yesterday is actually related to the release of LEGO's 14th series of collectible minifigures. Funcom sent out a press release today noting that players can now play each of these minifigures—all monster-themed!—in-game, each with their own personality. You can also purchase each actual minifigure in stores to get a code [...]
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We all know that Funcom isn't doing so great and that that can largely be attributed to LEGO Minifigures Online not meeting sales expectations. Going buy-to-play at a price like $30 per copy probably didn't help matters, as families might have had to spend upwards of $120 to play together. This week, it's a little better, as the game is [...]
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Funcom aren't the world's favorite developers currently, what with the eons it took for the Anarchy Online engine update to release and players claiming that no new content has been added to Age of Conan since before it went free-to-play. It seems all the perceived missteps are catching up to them as the company is currently "[initiating] review of strategic [...]
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Funcom's figure-collecting adventure MMORPG, LEGO Minifigures Online, has relaunched with a buy to play model. Players will only have to purchase the game once for $29.99, and will have access to all of the story and worlds. Instead of unlocking minis through Diamonds in the shop, they will now unlock them through the story. The game has released a new [...]
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