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rbrennan@us.square-enix.com, schang@us.square-enix.com, support@epicaction-online.com, support@machinezone.com, platinum@mz.com, dyang@us.square-enix.com, kdumont@machinezone.com, prsej@us.square-enix.com, squareenix@fortyseven.com, eshoji@us.square-enix.com Updated As of May 11th, 2019 NEW CHAPTER IN FFXVANE: The  DARK WORLD!  AND THE GAME HAVE BEEN RESET TO THE BEGINNING   with NEW TROOPS (making old troops obsolete)  New Realm Boss - Dark Moogle (Level 1 and Lvl 9 (your  King Noctis must be level 65 or above)  (May 11th, 2019) New Iris Level - to 350 (May 11th, 2019) New Dark Advanced Research (May 10th, 2019) New Leaderboards - Global Leaderboards aka MZ is too cheap to give prizes per realm (May 9th, 2019) New Guild Adventure Hall - Surprise Blitz (Uses Adventure Contract: Surprise Blitz - Needs 10 Adventure Contract: Surprise Blitz per Hall run (May 8th, 2019) New Dark Gem Sets - Dark World City Attack, Dark World City Def...

Some people are wondering why this writer is writing this article / blog about “ Machine Zone: Operating Free-To-Play with RAPID Release Cycles ”. This writer is writing this article / blog (my speculation of what had occurred) for several reasons: To shed light to the fact that MZ is teaching other game developers to follow suit (They want to be the “Industrial Leader”) Recent releases of new features at an astonishing rates (To show the attendees of their conference why some players of the MZ games are dumb enough to spend daily) What is about to happen = More new feature releases to show the attendees that what they say works Due to their Quarter End (March 31 st , 2019) Setting themselves up for possible IPO in the near future (Hired an IPO specialist as CFO with possible IPO in October, 2019 (Speculation)) Why the Boycott / Strike / Revolt is a NECESSARY EVIL to combat against a PREDATORY game developer...

rbrennan@us.square-enix.com, schang@us.square-enix.com, support@epicaction-online.com, support@machinezone.com, platinum@mz.com, dyang@us.square-enix.com, kdumont@machinezone.com, prsej@us.square-enix.com, squareenix@fortyseven.com Calling all Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire Players!!  Another  BOYCOTT / STRIKE / REVOLT is HERE!!! As you are aware, many players from across the world started a Boycott / Strike / Revolt on Feb 2nd, 2019 to protest the frequent releases of new features by Machine Zone aka MZ. Some players are still Boycotting / Striking / Revolting while many have crossed the picket line and gave into MZ's new release in fear of being zeroed by others or to take advantage of people that are Boycotting / Striking / Revolting. Band Wagon tipped over on Feb 12 th , 2019 when the new Citadel levels were released. INSTEAD OF WORKING on the items that players have requested, MZ decided to speed up the releases of new features (Before and after the...