MMO Updates |
- The Mog Log: Duo feature
- DC Universe Online rolling out megaservers on Monday
- WRUP: Wonderful edition
- The Daily Grind: Would you pay money for in-game housing?
- Betawatch: August 5-11, 2011
- Final Fantasy XIV's patch 1.18a due for Monday
- Nexon concludes MapleStory's Chaos series with loads of new content
- New Rusty Hearts dev diary delves into delicious design decisions
- The Road to Mordor: What to do with Destiny Points?
- Win a free EverQuest II mount from Massively!
- Storyboard: Ten tips to avoid drama burnout, part two
- One Shots: Remembering when
- SWTOR's meet the Medic -- er, Consular
- SWTOR Alderaan warzone playable at Gamescom
- Make like a tree and check out ArenaNet's Sylvari Week
- Wasteland Diaries: I got skills
- Aika's Epic II: Exodus expansion debuts August 11th
| Posted: 06 Aug 2011 10:00 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Game mechanics, Opinion, Consoles, The Mog Log  Of course, there's more to the equation than just throwing two classes together and hoping for the best. There are a lot of things that you can do to make your experience harder than it needs to be, something that I'm unfortunately familiar with from my own experience. So this week, I'm going to take a look at what you can do to make your life easier when running as a team, no matter what resources are available to you in terms of jobs, gil, and fellow players. Continue reading The Mog Log: Duo feature
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| DC Universe Online rolling out megaservers on Monday Posted: 06 Aug 2011 09:00 AM PDT Filed under: Super-hero, News items, Consoles, DC Universe Online  Character names will have to be changed in some cases, but the system being used ensures that characters whose names are changed will also receive a free subsequent change if they want. According to comments, the determination will essentially be comparing hours played -- so if you have two characters with the same name on active accounts, but one's been active since launch, the older character will get to keep the name. While it's not quite the cross-platform servers many players had hoped for, it should help bolster the population of each game server as a whole.
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| Posted: 06 Aug 2011 08:00 AM PDT Filed under: Massively meta, Miscellaneous  Spam joking of meta concludes with share a feature with you. WRUP. Believe you will love it. Contains many of Massively staff members discussing weekend activities, games, books, movies, also all of their feelings on pen-and-paper games to MMOs. All of the entries can be read beyond the link below, and the comments. Add your own weekend plans into this field, accept free shipping. Believe you will love it, and the price. Wonderful. Continue reading WRUP: Wonderful edition
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| The Daily Grind: Would you pay money for in-game housing? Posted: 06 Aug 2011 06:00 AM PDT Filed under: Culture, Opinion, The Daily Grind, Virtual worlds, Miscellaneous  On the one hand, it's a feature that frequently has limited to no utility, with the main advantage simply being a sense of connection to a virtual world. On the other hand, for many people, a sense of connection to a virtual world is a pretty significant function to begin with. So what do you think? Would you pay real money for in-game housing, or would you eschew the feature even if it were free?  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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| Posted: 05 Aug 2011 06:00 PM PDT Filed under: Betas, Massively meta, Miscellaneous  Bounty Hounds Online joins our closed beta list this week, and we've got some beta keys for those of you who'd like to check it out. That's not the only new closed beta, though. Scarlet Legacy has begun closed beta testing as well, and we've got keys for that too! Tribal Trouble 2 has entered open beta for those who like their MMOs with a side of Viking. Finally, Dungeon Blitz rounds out the week by jumping into open beta. Follow along after the jump for the updated Betawatch list! Continue reading Betawatch: August 5-11, 2011
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| Final Fantasy XIV's patch 1.18a due for Monday Posted: 05 Aug 2011 05:30 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Patches, News items, Consoles, Final Fantasy XIV  In quality of life improvements, the visibility of several frames has been adjusted, a supplementary log window is being added for players to use, and the process of setting a crystal as the destination for Return has been changed. There's also a new emote being added to the system and the beginnings of the new tool-hiding functionality that will be finished in 1.19. 1.18a won't be the game-changer that 1.18 proved to be, but it looks to still be a solid update in its own right.
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| Nexon concludes MapleStory's Chaos series with loads of new content Posted: 05 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Galleries, Screenshots, MapleStory, Patches, News items, Free-to-play  MapleStory's Chaos series of updates is ending with a bang with the Age of Triumph, which according to Nexon, is "a huge update that brings unique content exclusively to those players who traverse Maple World on Global MapleStory servers." So what does the final update have in store for Maple World? Well, for starters it brings an all-new storyline titled The Silent Crusade. The storyline quests are available for players in the incredibly broad level range of 37-110, and they introduce players to a force that specializes in the elimination of Master Monsters (a new faction of enemies). Alongside the new storyline, the update will also introduce PvPers to the new Capture the Flag mode. And lastly, players will find in their inventory a Crusader Codex, which is essentially an encyclopedia of the monsters of Maple World. Each page can be filled with Monster Cards, which drop from various enemies. Once a page is completed, the page will display the monster's information such as levels, locations, and item drops, and players will receive unique prizes such as medals. For some new screenshots of the upcoming update, check out the gallery below.
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| New Rusty Hearts dev diary delves into delicious design decisions Posted: 05 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Video, News items, Free-to-play, Dev Diaries  It's time for another dev diary from the fine folks at Perfect World Entertainment, this time detailing the art of Rusty Hearts. We're sure that by now most of you have seen Rusty Hearts and its crisp cel-shaded anime style, but the dev diary goes into detail on what the team is aiming for with the art, and outlines the inspiration behind it. The team is careful to note that while the overall vibe of the game is decidedly dark and gothic, that by no means insinuates that the world will be dull or muddled. Taking inspiration from popular anime such as Bleach and Full Metal Alchemist, Rusty Hearts aims to carve a niche for itself as a "living comic." For the full dev diary, hop on past the cut! Continue reading New Rusty Hearts dev diary delves into delicious design decisions
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| The Road to Mordor: What to do with Destiny Points? Posted: 05 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Game mechanics, Free-to-play, The Road to Mordor  Yet there's one type of currency that always seems to fly under the radar in my gaming experience: Destiny Points. I'm forever forgetting they're there and I almost never use them. To be honest, I'm not quite sure why they're in the game in the first place. Destiny Points are a shared currency between your characters that seem to be vitally important to PvMPers (monster play) and vastly less pertinent to your average PvE adventurer. Still, as they exist and offer you an opportunity to get an edge -- however slight -- in the game, I figured it was about time to dive into the subject and see if they're worthwhile or just more junk for the closet. Continue reading The Road to Mordor: What to do with Destiny Points?
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| Win a free EverQuest II mount from Massively! Posted: 05 Aug 2011 03:30 PM PDT Filed under: EverQuest II, Contests, Giveaways  All you have to do to enter and win one is leave a comment here letting us know which one you'd like. We'll continue taking comments until 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, August 7th. Monday morning we'll choose winners and share codes. Make sure you read our contest rules, leave your comment here, and best of luck! 
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| Storyboard: Ten tips to avoid drama burnout, part two Posted: 05 Aug 2011 03:00 PM PDT Filed under: Culture, Opinion, Roleplaying, Storyboard, Miscellaneous  If you haven't read the first part of the column, I advise you to do so first, but let's recap just in case. The goal here is to provide tips to help reduce real-world drama and minimize hurt feelings spilling into the real world. I don't claim that this will be in any way a cure-all, but these tips should at least help reduce the odds of screaming matches that scare you off roleplaying for good. Everyone on the same page? Then let's move on to the second half. Continue reading Storyboard: Ten tips to avoid drama burnout, part two
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| Posted: 05 Aug 2011 02:00 PM PDT Filed under: Galleries, Screenshots, Wurm Online, One Shots, Sandbox  When I look at this older screenshot of Massively's Wurm Online village, it makes me smile. It wasn't so long ago that the hard working citizens of Hindmania (the official name of the village) planned out a boat dock and started building boats.Now it's your turn to show off your items. This week's theme is Some Assembly Required -- a little nod to the newest addition to our column lineup. Some Assembly Required covers player-created content, so we want to see the best of what you've created. We're preparing for next week's theme too: Pop culture in MMOs. Developers sneak references in all over games, whether it be via NPCs, quests, or items, and we want to see your favorites. Grab a screenshot, tell us a bit about what it is, and send it to oneshots@massively.com. We'll be featuring the best of these next week.
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| SWTOR's meet the Medic -- er, Consular Posted: 05 Aug 2011 01:30 PM PDT Filed under: Sci-fi, Trailers, Video, Classes, New titles, Star Wars: The Old Republic  This keeper of Force tradition is split up into two advanced classes: The Sage and the Shadow. As their names imply, the Sage is a healer and ranged Force wielder, and the Shadow is a stealth and melee class. As we have seen in past screenshots, the Trandoshan hunter Qyzen Fess will join the Consular on his travels across the galaxy. This reptilian humanoid has hunted all the galaxy's most deadly beasts from the swamps of Belkadan to the Tatooine deserts, according to his bio on the official website. Witness all the wonder of this class in the screenshots below, and be sure to catch the full Consular trailer after the break! Continue reading SWTOR's meet the Medic -- er, Consular
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| SWTOR Alderaan warzone playable at Gamescom Posted: 05 Aug 2011 01:00 PM PDT Filed under: Sci-fi, Events, real-world, Game mechanics, MMO industry, New titles, PvP, News items, Star Wars: The Old Republic  BioWare's Chris Collins gives us the details on the official SWTOR boards, and you'll need to sign up via email ahead of time if you and your mates want to get in on the action. The warzone matches will feature eight vs. eight teams and will pit Republic forces against their imperial counterparts in the Alderaan Civil War scenario. Whether your taste runs to the clumsy randomness of a blaster or elegant weapons from a more civilized age, you'll need to get your signups in by Monday, August 8th.
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| Make like a tree and check out ArenaNet's Sylvari Week Posted: 05 Aug 2011 12:30 PM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Previews, News items, Guild Wars 2, Races  Forget Shark Week, it's Sylvari Week! ArenaNet announced today that, in honor of the Sylvari race being playable at Gamescom later this month, it is declaring next week (beginning Monday, August 8th) to be Sylvari week on the ArenaNet blog and the Guild Wars 2 official site. So what's the schedule looking like for Sylvari week? Well, things will kick off on Monday with ArenaNet artist Kristen Perry discussing the aesthetic of the Sylvari and explaining how it has evolved over time. Tuesday we get writer Angel McCoy talking about how the writing team intends to bring the race to life through its dialogue. Wednesday, Lore and Continuity Designer Ree Soesbee swings by -- with returning guest Kristen Perry -- the ANet blog to to discuss the roots (Ha Ha! Sylvari are trees.) and development of the Sylvari race. Thursday sees the Sylvari page on the official Guild Wars 2 site updated with buckets of new content, and things finally wrap up on Friday as Ree Soesbee returns with a narrative blog post that expands on the lore of the Sylvari even further.
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| Wasteland Diaries: I got skills Posted: 05 Aug 2011 12:00 PM PDT Filed under: Sci-fi, Fallen Earth, Game mechanics, Wasteland Diaries, Post-Apocalyptic  One thing is for sure: The new combat system is here to stay. Many of us would like to see them scrap it, go back to the old system and just patch up its imperfections (it was so close). But, I have been told emphatically that it's here to stay. So, instead of dwelling on the what-ifs, I'd like to take a look at all of the new skills and mutations, since they are definitely permanent -- although they may be changing a little bit in the coming days while this brand-new system is tested and balanced. Mostly what we have now is what we are going be using. Some of them are the same, but by and large, this new system is an entirely different animal. You may recognize some of the names, but most of the abilities (actually, I think all of them) function differently. After the cut, we will take a look at every skill and their associated abilities in the game. Continue reading Wasteland Diaries: I got skills
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| Aika's Epic II: Exodus expansion debuts August 11th Posted: 05 Aug 2011 11:00 AM PDT Filed under: Fantasy, Expansions, Game mechanics, MMO industry, Patches, News items, Free-to-play, Aika  Aika players are getting a new zone, a level cap increase (to 75), new mounts, and a few choice pre-launch bonus events. These include triple (yes, triple) XP and play-for-rewards summer events which offer a laundry list of cool prizes just for logging in. As for the new zone, Traband was formerly a temperate and beautiful island but is now a frozen wasteland "where only the most bloodthirsty beasts survive." That's OK, though, because what self-respecting MMO adventurer wants to hang out in a tropical safe zone bereft of killable monsters? The Aika website has more details on Epic II, and you'll also find the client download front and center on the new splash page.
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