MMO Updates |
- Trion officially reveals Trove: Endless adventures through endless worlds
- Play DC Universe Online on your new PlayStation 4 now
- Bless heads overseas, but stays in the East
- Second Wind: Fallen Earth
- The Daily Grind: Do you miss the MMO midgame?
- The Stream Team: VR can still hurt in The Secret World's scenarios
- InnoGames' The West receives item balancing patch
- The Summoner's Guidebook: Avoiding LoL's wombo combos
- Grab popcorn and watch the EVE Online: Rubicon trailer
- The Guild Counsel: Is shared interest in an MMO enough to justify a guild?
- Lord of the Rings Online: Helm's Deep breaks beta records
- The Think Tank: Are non-combat sandbox tools a necessity in your MMO?
- Dota 2 gets new heroes, crafting, and Diretide
- EverQuest Next Landmark livestream delves into player-made structures
- Perfect World Entertainment explains more about Arc
- Champions Online extends automatic veteran rewards to lifetime subscribers
| Trion officially reveals Trove: Endless adventures through endless worlds Posted: 15 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Trailers, Video, Interviews, New Titles, Free-to-Play, Sandbox, Trove  So what is Trove, exactly? It's something radically different for Trion, though it's plainly drawing upon lessons learned from the studio's other titles. Trove is a multiplayer universe of worlds where creation, destruction, and adventure go hand-in-hand. It's a sandbox, an RPG, a toolset, a public space, a private space, a free-to-play experience, and according to CEO Scott Hartsman, a passion. We spoke with Hartsman to get a handle on what Trove will bring to MMOs and how it's looking to differentiate itself from the rest of the pack. So take one last look at the cute bug above and prepare yourself for an endless adventure through endless worlds. Continue reading Trion officially reveals Trove: Endless adventures through endless worlds
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| Play DC Universe Online on your new PlayStation 4 now Posted: 15 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST Filed under: Super-hero, Galleries, Screenshots, Events (Real-World), MMO Industry, News Items, Consoles, DC Universe Online  Perhaps you're the proud owner of a PS4 but have never played DCUO before -- no problem! You can hop in and join the caped crusades for free. Check out the enhanced graphics in both the six new screenshots in the gallery and the launch trailer below. [Source: SOE press release] Continue reading Play DC Universe Online on your new PlayStation 4 now
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| Bless heads overseas, but stays in the East Posted: 15 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, MMO Industry, New Titles, News Items  After posing for a picture at the Bless Taiwan Signing Ceremony, executives retired from the public spotlight at G-Star 2013 to conduct business in the business section. Although there is still no guarantee that the game will even make it to the West, we can hope that expanding into these markets is just the first step on the road to many more. [Thanks to Dengar for the tip!]
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| Posted: 15 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST Filed under: Sci-Fi, Screenshots, Fallen Earth, Game Mechanics, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Post-Apocalyptic, Second Wind  For me, that game is Fallen Earth. It's not so much that the game burned me at any one particular time; it was a gradual decline in respect for the game after years of playing through horrible AI, broken pathing, and unfixed lag that made the game unplayable at times. The changeover to F2P didn't help anything, and when most of the core staff was eventually laid off, I lost interest. But what always kept me going was the overwhelming good points about the game. The setting is perfect for me, the faction wheel is (was) genius, and the sense of humor is unmatched. I played Fallen Earth relentlessly since beta because it scratched so many itches for me, but the problems soon became too much to overlook. But I just can't get her outta my mind. Continue reading Second Wind: Fallen Earth
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| The Daily Grind: Do you miss the MMO midgame? Posted: 15 Nov 2013 05:00 AM PST Filed under: Culture, Endgame, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous, Dungeons  Some people race to the endgame. They can't imagine stopping to smell the roses; they just want to get to the "real" game at the end of the leveling treadmill, whether it's raiding or high-end crafting or PvP. What's often forgotten in themepark MMOs is the mid-game. In sandboxes, the mid-game is the game, but in themeparks, you don't find a lot of people milling around the middle levels intentionally outside of twink PvP. Or do you? Are you one of those gamers who prefers to lock your level to PvP like it's 2005, who roleplays in that tavern from two expansions ago, who longs for the days when people ran UBRS and Unrest and Fornost without irony, and who wishes devs would heap love on the midgame instead of letting it decay with time until it's nigh-on skippable?  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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| The Stream Team: VR can still hurt in The Secret World's scenarios Posted: 14 Nov 2013 06:00 PM PST Filed under: Horror, Real-Life, Hands-On, The Secret World, Livestream, Dungeons, The Stream Team, Buy-to-Play  Game: The Secret World Host: MJ Guthrie Date: Thursday, November 14th, 2013 Time: 9:00 p.m. EST Enjoy our Steam Team video below. Continue reading The Stream Team: VR can still hurt in The Secret World's scenarios
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| InnoGames' The West receives item balancing patch Posted: 14 Nov 2013 05:00 PM PST Filed under: Historical, Patches, News Items, Free-to-Play, Browser  InnoGames' free-to-play, browser-based, cowboy-centric MMO The West has been updated with a new patch, bringing with it some extensive item rebalancing as well as "more than 280 new items," which the devs hope will "allow for a more streamlined character progression." On top of that, the patch introduces "an improved social interface." The press release notes that the item revamps in this patch are "part of the preparation for the upcoming level cap raise and the third part of the [game's] recently introduced main story." For more information on The West and its new patch, just click on through to the game's official site. [Source: InnoGames press release]
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| The Summoner's Guidebook: Avoiding LoL's wombo combos Posted: 14 Nov 2013 04:00 PM PST Filed under: PvP, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Guides, MOBA, League of Legends, The Summoner's Guidebook  In LoL, wombo combos require quite a bit of setup. All participants need to be within striking distance of the enemy, or one of the attackers needs to pull the victim into his friends. Because of the limitations on positioning, most wombo combos are avoidable. Continue reading The Summoner's Guidebook: Avoiding LoL's wombo combos
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| Grab popcorn and watch the EVE Online: Rubicon trailer Posted: 14 Nov 2013 03:30 PM PST Filed under: Sci-Fi, Trailers, Video, EVE Online, Expansions, Sandbox  With this line, the EVE Online: Rubicon trailer drops its mike and leaves the YouTube, perhaps to grab a snack in the green room. For everyone else, there's the option of rewatching the official trailer a few hundred more times until the expansion launches on November 19th. You can check it out after the break! Continue reading Grab popcorn and watch the EVE Online: Rubicon trailer
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| The Guild Counsel: Is shared interest in an MMO enough to justify a guild? Posted: 14 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST Filed under: Culture, Guilds, MMO Industry, Opinion, The Guild Counsel, Miscellaneous  Forming a guild based on a shared interest in a game doesn't guarantee success, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. It does come with its own unique set of issues to address early on, however. Let's take a look at these connoisseur guilds and how to make them work in this week's Guild Counsel. Continue reading The Guild Counsel: Is shared interest in an MMO enough to justify a guild?
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| Lord of the Rings Online: Helm's Deep breaks beta records Posted: 14 Nov 2013 02:00 PM PST Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Expansions, Free-to-Play  On the forums Heaton posted, "It's the first expansion that we've had since Shadows of Angmar that required us to add servers to the beta world to match the number of players trying to log in and participate. It was the first beta since Shadows of Angmar that actually tripped our login queues on the beta world and forced us to raise the max player population." Helm's Deep launches on Monday, November 18th.
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| The Think Tank: Are non-combat sandbox tools a necessity in your MMO? Posted: 14 Nov 2013 01:00 PM PST Filed under: Opinion, Massively Meta, Miscellaneous, The Think Tank  One major element of the RPG is open control over how our story plays out. In true tabletop RPG style, sandbox tools let us play these games as we want to play them, but not all of us want that much freedom in our MMOs. So I asked the Massively team members for their thoughts on sandbox tools in their favorite MMOs. Are they welcome, or should we focus more on leaderboards and combat-based achievements? And how much exactly do they hate this question? Continue reading The Think Tank: Are non-combat sandbox tools a necessity in your MMO?
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| Dota 2 gets new heroes, crafting, and Diretide Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Patches, PvP, News Items, Free-to-Play, MOBA  Today, Valve announced the update, titled Three Spirits. And true to the Dota team's word, it's a big one. It includes two new heroes in the form of Earth Spirit and Ember Spirit (counterparts to the existing Storm Spirit), an in-game coaching mechanic that enables teams and individuals to improve their play, and a crafting and socketing system that provides for customizing existing items or combining unneeded ones to make something better and more useful. The patch also brings a new showcase view of matches, a lane-picker, colorblind mode, new training missions and more. Oh, and yes, Diretide is coming; the event runs from November 14th to November 28th. Check out the full patch notes on the official Three Spirits site.
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| EverQuest Next Landmark livestream delves into player-made structures Posted: 14 Nov 2013 11:30 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Video, Previews, News Items, Free-to-Play, EverQuest Next, Livestream  One of the most touted features of Sony Online Entertainment's upcoming EverQuest Next Landmark is most certainly the ability of players to alter the world and build their own structures within it. If you're a would-be architect who wants to get more details on EQN Landmark's construction process, then you're in luck because yesterday's official livestream consists of over 50 minutes of building-related questions, answers, and even gameplay. Of course, a 50 minute video can't be easily summarized without turning this article into a novella, but suffice it to say that the devs reveal plenty of tasty information morsels on topics including resource gathering, world size, territory control, and naturally, building construction. And if that isn't enough, the video also features a healthy dose of honest-to-goodness gameplay footage of a player-made structure being built in real time. For all this and more, check out the full EQN Landmark video after the cut. Continue reading EverQuest Next Landmark livestream delves into player-made structures
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| Perfect World Entertainment explains more about Arc Posted: 14 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST Filed under: MMO Industry, News Items, Miscellaneous  First and foremost in many players' minds, the new launcher will not be made mandatory just yet, although a new version of all the various game websites will be launching before the year's end. The change is also creating a new and streamlined format for buying Zen for each game, along with a new set of game guides to help new players understand what they're getting into. For more details on these changes as well as the new profile system, take a look at the full update, and keep your eyes peeled for our interview with PWE on these changes from Terilynn Shull.
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| Champions Online extends automatic veteran rewards to lifetime subscribers Posted: 14 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST Filed under: Super-hero, News Items, Free-to-Play, Champions Online, Promotions  As soon as you purchase a lifetime subscription, even if you've never logged into the game before, your account is eligible for every single long-term subscriber benefit. Obviously this won't have much of an impact on people who have already been lifetime subscribers since the beginning, but more recent players will benefit from an influx of new rewards. It's up to you whether or not those extra perks are worth a $300 investment in the game.
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