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- Ask Massively: You can't cover WoW because of reasons
- Rhode Island explores ditching 38 Studios debt
- The Think Tank: The best MMO of 2013... so far
- Anarchy in the APB
- The Daily Grind: What obscure fluff feature would you like to see in other games?
- Free for All: Interviewing Achaea's Matt Mihaly for MUD May
- Shadowrun Online devs explain F2P model
- EVE Online lays down Alliance Tournament rules
- Nerd Kingdom details TUG's death mechanics
- Snail Games to show off Black Gold, Age of Wushu expansion at E3
- Spacetime Studios celebrates 260 million play sessions with massive infographic
- Gain a clearer understanding of RIFT's new REX
- Wildstar Wednesday: Caste, ritual and the ascension of an emperor god
- Guild Wars 2 data mining finds evidence of LFG tool
- Choose My Adventure: Putting the finishing touches on our Darkfall project
- Scarlet Blade reveals first major content update
| Ask Massively: You can't cover WoW because of reasons Posted: 30 May 2013 10:00 AM PDT Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, MMO Industry, Opinion, Massively Meta, Ask Massively, Community Q&A, Miscellaneous, Diablo III, MMORPG  I love commenters, even the trolls sometimes when you make me laugh. You guys provide instant feedback and adoration but also entertainment and skepticism of our ideas. You're the much-maligned vocal minority of readers, and interacting with you guys and being enlightened by your mad and witty and insane posts is a highlight of my work day. But it has to be said that the most bizarre feature of working at Massively is that legions of commenters have deemed themselves better-equipped than we are to decide what we can cover. Continue reading Ask Massively: You can't cover WoW because of reasons
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| Rhode Island explores ditching 38 Studios debt Posted: 30 May 2013 09:00 AM PDT Filed under: MMO Industry, News Items, Legal, Miscellaneous  Currently the state is planning to pay investors back over the course of 10 years, with a $2.5 million payment the first year and subsequent installments of $12.5 million thereafter.
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| The Think Tank: The best MMO of 2013... so far Posted: 30 May 2013 08:00 AM PDT Filed under: Opinion, Massively Meta, Miscellaneous, The Think Tank  So what did the team pick for best MMO or expansion released from January to May 2013? Read on past the cut to find out. Continue reading The Think Tank: The best MMO of 2013... so far
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| Posted: 30 May 2013 07:00 AM PDT Filed under: PvP, Free-to-Play, All Points Bulletin, Crime, Dev Diaries  Joining a Chaos district will put you into a survival mode that allows you to gain points by killing as many players of the opposite faction as possible. All of the district's contacts are gone, replaced by vendors. So there's no other mission but to kill, and kill quickly. A leaderboard tracks the best of the best and several new titles and a new role have been added. You can check out an early prototype of Chaos Mode in the game between now and June 6. [Thanks to Derek for the tip!]
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| The Daily Grind: What obscure fluff feature would you like to see in other games? Posted: 30 May 2013 06:00 AM PDT Filed under: Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, Warhammer Online, Opinion, The Daily Grind  I can't recall seeing that in another MMO, and it's one of those quirky quality-of-life things that I wish every game would implement. What about you, Massively readers? Is there an obscure fluff feature out there you're particularly fond of and that you'd like to see become a standard?  Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. We crave your opinions, so grab your caffeinated beverage of choice and chime in on today's Daily Grind!
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| Free for All: Interviewing Achaea's Matt Mihaly for MUD May Posted: 29 May 2013 07:00 PM PDT Filed under: Trailers, Video, Business Models, Game Mechanics, Interviews, PvP, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Browser, Roleplaying, Community Q&A, Free for All, Livestream, Miscellaneous, Sandbox  These wonderful games do need to improve in many areas, though. Some MUD developers are attempting to bring these text-based MMOs into the future, none better than Iron Realms Entertainment's Achaea. I sat down with Matt Mihaly, the CEO and Founder of Iron Realms since 1995, for an interview to talk about Achaea and the future of MUDs. Continue reading Free for All: Interviewing Achaea's Matt Mihaly for MUD May
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| Shadowrun Online devs explain F2P model Posted: 29 May 2013 06:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Business Models, MMO Industry, New Titles, News Items, Free-to-Play  Campaigners will receive the ability to buy every in-game item with in-game currency as well as boosts on cash, karma, and loot chances. Paying players will also apparently have more of a chance to affect the game's plot, "meaning their actions could count slightly more than the others' actions on the server in calculating what happens with the plot development." More details are available via the full news post, including a handy chart and answers to questions like "what happens when F2P players and campaign players play together?"
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| EVE Online lays down Alliance Tournament rules Posted: 29 May 2013 05:00 PM PDT Filed under: Sci-Fi, EVE Online, Events (In-Game), PvP, Sandbox, Subscription  The tournament will pit 64 alliance teams against each other in a single stage that involves double-elimination brackets and random initial seeding.
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| Nerd Kingdom details TUG's death mechanics Posted: 29 May 2013 04:30 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, New Titles, News Items, Sandbox, Crowdfunding  In a nutshell, your avatar's soul will vacate his body upon death, and it will do so in the form of a wisp. Wisps will gradually regain enough energy to reenter the avatar and awaken it, and doing so necessitates progressing through four distinct phases. Reviving your avatar in its optimal state is thus dependent on timing, and the importance of reviving in a weak state vs. a fully recovered state will vary depending on your chosen game mode. Nerd Kingdom is enabling corpse-looting in TUG's survival mode, but the devs are also intent on designing plenty of camping deterrents into the system. You can read all about these, as well as the rest of the death mechanics on the TUG Kickstarter project page.
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| Snail Games to show off Black Gold, Age of Wushu expansion at E3 Posted: 29 May 2013 04:00 PM PDT Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Events (Real-World), Expansions, New Titles, Free-to-Play, Age of Wushu, Steampunk  The steampunk title is Black Gold, which is set in a fantasy universe where industrial technology and magic are at war (yes, it has giant mechs vs. dragons). It will have six races and six classes, although the classes will also have subclasses to allow for interesting combinations. Black Gold is set to begin closed beta testing tomorrow in China and Taiwan. Age of Wushu: Legends of Mount Hua promises to deliver new content starting in July, although Snail Games has yet to go into specifics as to what that content might be. The dance MMO is called Music Soul and features nine game modes that pit boogieing players against each other. [Source: Snail Games press release]
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| Spacetime Studios celebrates 260 million play sessions with massive infographic Posted: 29 May 2013 03:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, News Items, Free-to-Play, Mobile  According to the numbers, players have killed over six billion enemies, completed over 25 million quests, and formed over 13 million parties. They've consumed over 16 million potions and elixirs and opened enough treasure chests to provide one for every person in New York City. Perhaps most importantly, Spacetime's games have been downloaded over 20 million times. It's all right there in the infographic, featured after the break. [Source: Spacetime Studios press release] Continue reading Spacetime Studios celebrates 260 million play sessions with massive infographic
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| Gain a clearer understanding of RIFT's new REX Posted: 29 May 2013 02:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Economy, Free-to-Play, RIFT, Dev Diaries  In short, REX is a middle-man currency that is purchased with real money and can then be converted into item store credits (although, as the post states, it's a better deal to directly buy the credits). The twist here is that before it's converted to credits, REX can be sold to other players on the auction house. This effectively gives players with in-game money ways to obtain store credits and players with excess real money ways to inflate their in-game piggy banks. The post also explains the much simpler topic of gifting store items to other players. You probably have it figured out just by reading the previous sentence. Finally, last night we told you about RIFT's promo this weekend. According to a tweet this afternoon, that promo is live early -- in fact, RIFT is freely playable for former subbers right now.
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| Wildstar Wednesday: Caste, ritual and the ascension of an emperor god Posted: 29 May 2013 01:00 PM PDT Filed under: Sci-Fi, News Items, WildStar, MMORPG  The story of the Luminai is deep and intriguing and hinges on some familiar themes. There's a lauded leader who reigned over 300 years of peace, an elite tier of people who named themselves as gods, a caste system forged by an emperor's decree, and an ongoing tussle for power between competing houses that often results in bloodshed and betrayal. Heck, there's even a forced coup and a "dark reign." Click the jump to get a closer look at Myrcalus the Vindicator, the current emperor of the Dominion and the man-Eldan who swears to bring Nexus under its rule. And keep a lookout for the Luminai while you're in WildStar. They are, after all, your gods. Continue reading Wildstar Wednesday: Caste, ritual and the ascension of an emperor god
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| Guild Wars 2 data mining finds evidence of LFG tool Posted: 29 May 2013 12:30 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Events (In-Game), Game Mechanics, Guild Wars 2, Buy-to-Play  The files imply players will be able to filter/advertise/find/pull an LFG search, advertising one's group, finding players for living world content, and pulling together a party for a full range of dungeons and PvP. The .dat file has a few more insights into the future of Guild Wars 2, including back-to-school town clothes, swimwear, a dragon mask, an unlimited logging axe, festive dragon coffers, and something called Skyhammer. Regarding the latter, one of its commands reads, "Maintain control of the Skyhammer cannon to call down lightning and vaporize your foes." Obviously, you need one of these, don't you?
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| Choose My Adventure: Putting the finishing touches on our Darkfall project Posted: 29 May 2013 12:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Darkfall, Game Mechanics, PvP, Opinion, Choose My Adventure, Livestream, Sandbox  From small skirmishes infiltrating the cities of enemies to an all-out war to protect our own, I had the chance to fight -- and occasionally die -- in a few different sieges this past week. Considering I was still fairly new and fighting against a number of vets from the original Darkfall with years of practice under their belts, I didn't do too shabbily. Perhaps more importantly, I had fun through it all. Continue reading Choose My Adventure: Putting the finishing touches on our Darkfall project
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| Scarlet Blade reveals first major content update Posted: 29 May 2013 11:00 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, New Titles, Patches, PvP, News Items, PvE, Free-to-Play  PvP also received attention in this update with the opening of Viledon, an all new open-world zone capable of holding hundreds of combatants. This zone, which contains quests to complete, bosses to fight over, and escort missions to complete or sabotage, can be entered and exited at will. [Source Aeria Games press release]
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