With extraction shooter Escape from Tarkov releasing on Steam this November with its 1.0 version, game owners are dismayed to learn that they’ll have to buy it all over again if they want to play on Valve’s platform. Naturally, this has ranked the community writ large, and people are being very vocal about this “scummy” behavior, condemning the community for double-dipping int players’ wallets.

And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for a roundup of other smaller MMO news stories and videos from this past week in this edition of The MOP Up (and if you don’t see a news story that we should have covered, drop us a tip)!

PlanetSide 2 is testing out its rework of the Infiltrator and isn’t above bribing players with a limited-time title to jump onto the PTS to help out.

Zombie MMO Persist Online talked about its hopes to get more playtests going, but it’s going to be a slow and gradual process.

Apex Legends’ Wild Iron event is coming in hot: “Craft new Wild Cards to get the edge over rival squads, with new abilities like marking enemies with explosive damage or instant reload on knock. Mad Maggie and Seer are blowing up the scene with their new Legend updates.”

MechWarrior Online is rolling out its annual “legends annual rewards program” and released its September patch with “the release of the Shadow Hawk IIC pack, ‘mech adjustments, quirk adjustments, and more!”

Last Epoch presented Patch 1.3.4 with bug fixes and minor performance improvements.

The upcoming Exoborne put out a dev diary about its Exo-Rigs:

Marvel Rivals put out its first dev video that talked about the PvP title’s technical side:

The MMO industry pumps out more and more news every year – no site could possibly cover everything. That’s why we gather together all the extras every week in The MOP Up, our a weekly compilation of MMO info we don’t want lost in the cracks of time. Send us your news bits through our tips line!