| Rise and Shiny: Inferno Legend Posted: 16 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Video, Game Mechanics, New Titles, Previews, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Browser, Hands-On, Casual, Humor, Rise and Shiny, Livestream This week's game was a giant gamble, one that I should have known would not have worked out at all. The problem is that I have this crazy inborn optimism that tells me that even though many MMOs look and play the same way, you never know how they truly play until you actually play them. I've literally played hundreds of MMOs for this job and probably a hundred or so before that, so I've seen my share of games that look one way and play the other. So this week I decided to go ahead and roll in Inferno Legend, a new MMO by GameBox, even though it appeared to be an auto-player like League of Angels from a few weeks ago and other titles before that. I picked my character from five different classes: the Cyclops, Vampire, Samurai, Faerie, and Mummy. I barely got past the incredibly bad voice-acting that was presumably supposed to add life to the characters and popped into the game. Continue reading Rise and Shiny: Inferno Legend  Rise and Shiny: Inferno Legend originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 16 Feb 2014 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| One Shots: Guard whacked! Posted: 16 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST Filed under: Screenshots, Culture, Ultima Online, One Shots, Final Fantasy XIV, Vindictus, Miscellaneous According to Massively Law, which is as unshakable as it is awesome, if you send in screenshots from an MMO that was made during the Clinton presidency, then I'm required to feature them as a header for this column. Hence, Ultima Online. This picture comes from reader Azzura, who found out the hard way that not everyone likes a bad guy. "This is my 'red' character, one that I used to player-kill (PK) with, strolling near town," he said. "The NPCs did not like my being around and were calling the guards on me to get me 'guard whacked'." I mourn not for thee, but I shall be entertained by thy photographic memorial. Smite that "continue reading" button, readers, and feast thine eyes upon the glory of our community. Continue reading One Shots: Guard whacked! One Shots: Guard whacked! originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 16 Feb 2014 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| The Daily Grind: What 'famous' NPCs were a thrill to meet? Posted: 16 Feb 2014 05:00 AM PST Filed under: Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous Some of us who are perhaps more deeply invested in particular game worlds and lore tend to have a strong reaction when meeting the more famous members of the NPC cast. Perhaps it's a big name from another game in the series, a character that was prominently featured on the box art, or even a person who is synonymous with the franchise as a whole. Sometimes it's just a character that all of your friends have talked up and you're only getting to meet now. I've certainly witnessed friends geeking out when they finally got to meet, say, Arthas or Gollum for the first time in a game. When I went back for a super-brief visit to Dungeons and Dragons Online, I felt a little shiver at bumping into Elminster in the newer content. So what famous NPCs were a thrill to meet in the game -- and did you ask for their autograph?  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!The Daily Grind: What 'famous' NPCs were a thrill to meet? originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Kickstarter hacked, customer information accessed Posted: 15 Feb 2014 04:00 PM PST Filed under: Legal, Miscellaneous, Crowdfunding If you've logged in to use Kickstarter, perhaps to support an up-and-coming MMO, then pay attention: earlier today, the site reported to users that it was hacked this past week and customer data was accessed. In a security notice posted on the site, Kickstarter said that it was notified by authorities this past Wednesday that hackers gained access to the site. The company has since closed the breach, bolstered its security, and notified customers to change their passwords. Credit card information was not part of the accessed information, but user names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords were. "We have since improved our security procedures and systems in numerous ways, and we will continue to do so in the weeks and months to come," the company posted. Kickstarter hacked, customer information accessed originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Norrathian Notebook: Musings on my EQII Tears of Veeshan experience Posted: 15 Feb 2014 03:00 PM PST Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest II, Classes, Expansions, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Norrathian Notebook EverQuest II's most recent expansion, Tears of Veeshan, landed a couple of months ago. That's given me a good amount of time to sink my teeth in and really experience what it has to offer. I've run a few different characters through much of the storyline, explored various nooks and crannies, and poked into a number of the dungeons. If you've been watching EverQuest Two-sday, you've seen some of those adventures as they were playing out. If not, however, you may wonder what this expansion holds. Is there anything special that sets EQII's 10th expansion apart and makes it worth getting? That's what I am going to share with you in today's Norrathian Notebook. For starters, ToV is chock-full of one thing I really love: dragons. Dead dragons, maybe, but still dragons! From the moment this expansion was introduced at SOE Live, I've been looking forward to cavorting through the realm of the dead, hobnobbing with the dragon residents. Then, after hearing more about the dungeons, the story, and the new class, I really couldn't wait. And now that I've seen it for myself, I haven't been disappointed. Continue reading Norrathian Notebook: Musings on my EQII Tears of Veeshan experience Norrathian Notebook: Musings on my EQII Tears of Veeshan experience originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| The Mog Log: Patch 2.2 and beyond for Final Fantasy XIV Posted: 15 Feb 2014 01:00 PM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Game Mechanics, Patches, Endgame, Opinion, Consoles, Final Fantasy XIV, The Mog Log, Dungeons Supposedly, we're still on track to see patch 2.2 in March. Assuming later March, that would mean we're still on a roughly four-month schedule for updates to Final Fantasy XIV, which feels just a bit slow... especially since what we know right now about patch 2.2 is just a bit thin compared to what we knew about 2.1 at the equivalent point in time. Admittedly, I'm biased. New turns of Coil? Not really my jam. (Being able to stomp the old ones will be kind of nice, though.) Still, in some ways this update currently feels smaller than its predecessor, even though I'm pretty sure it isn't. We've got a lot of stuff incoming, but between a deluge of in-game events and the PlayStation 4 beta test, less attention has been paid to the update. So let's shine some light on it. Yes, there's going to be some speculation, but let's start looking at what patch 2.2 is going to mean and what we'll be getting. Continue reading The Mog Log: Patch 2.2 and beyond for Final Fantasy XIV The Mog Log: Patch 2.2 and beyond for Final Fantasy XIV originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 15 Feb 2014 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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