MMO Updates |
- Black Gold Online secures $97M in funding from Chinese banks
- EVE Online 4000-person battle largest yet
- Massively Exclusive: Episode 5 of Mabinogi the Saga: Iria
- The Nexus Telegraph: What WildStar isn't revealing
- The Stream Team: SOE Live edition, July 29 - August 4, 2013
- The Daily Grind: How long do you wait before kicking an AFK group mate?
- MMO Week in Review: MMO hipsters are annoying
- EVE Evolved: Colonising deep space
- Guild Wars 2: Living story to get more serious, more permanent, and more personal
- Stick and Rudder: The myth of the PC master race
| Black Gold Online secures $97M in funding from Chinese banks Posted: 29 Jul 2013 10:00 AM PDT Filed under: Betas, Sci-Fi, Economy, MMO Industry, New Titles, Steampunk  Snail Games and publisher Shanda Games will also be chipping in a cool $32.6 million for marketing the steampunk MMO title. Black Gold Online is currently in closed beta in China with a North American launch to come next year. If you'd like to read more about the game, check out our impressions from E3 this year.
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| EVE Online 4000-person battle largest yet Posted: 29 Jul 2013 09:00 AM PDT Filed under: Sci-Fi, EVE Online, Events (In-Game), Sandbox  CFC emerged victorious after a two-month invasion of TEST's homeland, Fountain. This battle is said to be the largest of its kind, dwarfing January's 3000-person battle in the lowsec system of Asakai.
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| Massively Exclusive: Episode 5 of Mabinogi the Saga: Iria Posted: 29 Jul 2013 08:30 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Trailers, Video, Lore, Free-to-Play, Mabinogi  This week's episode offers some twists and turns, where alliances break down and danger rears up from new directions. Watch how it all plays out in the video after the break. Then join in as it is played live Tuesday, July 30th, @ 5:00 p.m. EDT on Massively TV. You can also get a a recap of all the action in the first three episodes in Rise and Shiny. Continue reading Massively Exclusive: Episode 5 of Mabinogi the Saga: Iria
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| The Nexus Telegraph: What WildStar isn't revealing Posted: 29 Jul 2013 08:00 AM PDT Filed under: Betas, Sci-Fi, Opinion, WildStar, The Nexus Telegraph  Some of this doesn't really matter one way or the other, but there are some places where these unreveals are pretty worrisome. I'm not sure how much of this comes down to limited time for reveals and how much is actually shady, but in lieu of more information, I think some questions should be asked about why we've heard nothing regarding some stuff that, logically, should have gotten its own day in the revelation sunlight. Continue reading The Nexus Telegraph: What WildStar isn't revealing
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| The Stream Team: SOE Live edition, July 29 - August 4, 2013 Posted: 29 Jul 2013 07:00 AM PDT Filed under: Polls, Massively Meta, Livestream, Miscellaneous, The Stream Team  Luckily, we have something to help you pass the time while waiting: brand-new live episodes on Massively TV! Join your favorite Stream Team members as they adventure in a variety of worlds spanning the MMOverse. During the lulls in live shows, you can catch up on the ones you missed before. But before you get caught up in all that, let us know if we'll be seeing you in the city that never sleeps in our poll after the break. Continue reading The Stream Team: SOE Live edition, July 29 - August 4, 2013
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| The Daily Grind: How long do you wait before kicking an AFK group mate? Posted: 29 Jul 2013 06:00 AM PDT Filed under: Sci-Fi, PvE, Opinion, Free-to-Play, The Daily Grind, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Dungeons  After about six minutes -- yes, I timed it -- the group leader initiated a vote kick, which passed and sent our AFK mate packing. Right before the system removed him from the group, though, we saw his 'hi guys, I'm finally back' text in the group chat. The moral of today's story is that there is no moral. There is a Daily Grind question, though, and it is this: How long do you wait before kicking an AFK group mate?  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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| MMO Week in Review: MMO hipsters are annoying Posted: 28 Jul 2013 06:00 PM PDT Filed under: World of Warcraft, Massively Meta, Week in Review, Miscellaneous  Every few months when it's time for Blizzard's quarterly reports, MMO hipsters come out of the woodwork to tell us all how World of Warcraft is the worst thing ever and that they are just way too cool to play it -- that the loss of six hundred thousand more players just proves that it really is a terrible game and just you wait because soon vindication will be theirs! Except for the part about how Activision-Blizzard just bought itself from Vivendi and its stocks rocketed up. And the part about how World of Warcraft lost more players in three months than whatever game everyone else is playing has total and mostly shrugged it off because piles of money. That doesn't fit the narrative, see. Join us past the break for a look at the rest of this week's top MMO stories. Continue reading MMO Week in Review: MMO hipsters are annoying
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| EVE Evolved: Colonising deep space Posted: 28 Jul 2013 04:00 PM PDT Filed under: Sci-Fi, EVE Online, Culture, Expansions, Game Mechanics, PvP, PvE, Opinion, EVE Evolved, Sandbox, Dungeons, Player-Generated Content, Subscription  CCP has opened new space before with the addition of the drone regions in nullsec and some new lowsec systems for faction warfare, but it wasn't until 2009's Apocrypha expansion that we saw a true exploration and long-term colonisation effort get underway. I think the intoxicating draw of wormhole exploration was primarily due to the fact that the new systems were hidden and the information on them wasn't public. Just adding new solar systems to the existing stargate network wouldn't have had the same effect. Nordgren's vision may take up to 10 expansions to fully realise, but what kinds of features will we need in those expansions to recreate true exploration and deep space colonisation? In this week's EVE Evolved, I look at some of the challenges CCP will have to overcome to make deep space colonisation a reality and what small steps could be taken in each expansion to get us there. Continue reading EVE Evolved: Colonising deep space
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| Guild Wars 2: Living story to get more serious, more permanent, and more personal Posted: 28 Jul 2013 02:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Interviews, Guild Wars 2, Dungeons, Buy-to-Play  Johanson said that the team is responding to feedback by working to make GW2's living story matter more to the player with more serious stories that will "blend" with the player's own personal story. He reiterated that ArenaNet has great plans to use the living story to shape the game's future: "There is now, and certainly will be a lot larger focus on ensuring that the content we're building is creating experiences that people can permanently have when they come back two years later. Instead of saying, 'I see something that happened two years ago but I can't experience it,', we want players to say, 'I'm playing this and I'm playing it as a result of something that happened two years ago.'" The game's dungeons are also fair game for shaping. Johanson confirmed that the team will be revisiting most of its dungeons to make them "more exciting, more fun, more compelling, and also more rewarding." He even mentioned the possibility of "blowing up" dull dungeons to replace with something better.
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| Stick and Rudder: The myth of the PC master race Posted: 28 Jul 2013 12:00 PM PDT Filed under: Sci-Fi, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, Opinion, Consoles, Sandbox, Stick and Rudder, Star Citizen  That said, the PC is and likely always will be my preferred gaming device, and those games I just mentioned would have better served my personal funtime goals if they'd been available on the PC. More importantly for the purposes of this particular column, the PC is the only platform that can do justice to a giant juicy steak of a game like Star Citizen. Continue reading Stick and Rudder: The myth of the PC master race
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