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- Captain's Log: Can Star Trek Online craft a future for crafting?
- Elder Scrolls Online player emperors will gain a permanent skill set
- The Repopulation surpasses 2nd KickStarter goal, moves on to stretch
- The Stream Team: Snow shark edition, January 6 - 12, 2014
- The Daily Grind: What's your favorite holiday event?
- MMO Week in Review: Altering the deal
- EVE Evolved: Designing EVE Onland, part 2
- World of Warcraft player hits level 80 without picking a faction
| Captain's Log: Can Star Trek Online craft a future for crafting? Posted: 06 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST Filed under: Sci-Fi, Opinion, Star Trek Online, Free-to-Play, Captain's Log, Crafting  When it comes to business, it's usually best to save those parts of a business plan that are working so as not to waste the investments already made. In relation to MMOs, the same considerations should (and in the case of publicly-held companies, is legally required to) be granted to all aspects of its product. Since most MMOs have multiple features typical to all games (PvP, crafting, housing, PvE, etc.) each one of these facets' productivity matters. If a single feature assists in keeping players in-game, then there's more potential for revenue generation to occur. If a feature not only keeps a player in-game but is, in and of itself, a point of revenue generation, then it's all the better for the company and therefore its shareholders. Continue reading Captain's Log: Can Star Trek Online craft a future for crafting?
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| Elder Scrolls Online player emperors will gain a permanent skill set Posted: 06 Jan 2014 08:00 AM PST Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, PvP, The Elder Scrolls Online, Subscription  The Official Xbox Magazine discovered that player emperors will gain a skill line that they will retain for the rest of their time in the game. The skills will persist even if the position of emperor is lost, although the skills will be toned down somewhat in that case. Becoming emperor won't be easy, however (as if you thought otherwise). To do so, a player will need to do a heckuva lot of PvP to gain alliance points. If a player's alliance conquers all of the keeps around the Imperial City and that player has the most alliance points when it happens, he or she will be crowned emperor.
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| The Repopulation surpasses 2nd KickStarter goal, moves on to stretch Posted: 06 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST Filed under: Sci-Fi, New Titles, PvP, News Items, Sandbox, Crowdfunding, The Repopulation  Want to learn even more about the game? If the recent three-hour Q&A livestream wasn't enough to satisfy you, Above & Beyond Technologies' creator J.C. Smith chatted with The Noobist about ongoing world story, the horticulture system, animal breeding, trade, and much more.
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| The Stream Team: Snow shark edition, January 6 - 12, 2014 Posted: 06 Jan 2014 06:00 AM PST Filed under: Massively Meta, Livestream, Miscellaneous, The Stream Team  Thanks to just such people, I have now experienced the Snow Shark. And I want one! If you haven't seen one yourself, you simply haven't lived yet. Now I am inspired to go do something with the foot of snow right outside my door, but what would I make? I may not be able to top a Snow Shark (who can?!), but I'm sure to get plenty of inspiration watching this week's Stream Team escapades on Massively TV. Continue reading The Stream Team: Snow shark edition, January 6 - 12, 2014
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| The Daily Grind: What's your favorite holiday event? Posted: 06 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Culture, Events (In-Game), Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, Opinion, Free-to-Play, The Daily Grind  Members from the audience were plucked at random to participate in a dev-scripted stage play, and depending upon how well you engaged the NPC audience with various character emotes, you could expect to be showered with either flower petals or rotten fruit courtesy of the player characters in the crowd. What about you, Massively readers? Do you do MMO holiday events, and if so, what's your favorite?  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: Altering the deal Posted: 05 Jan 2014 05:00 PM PST Filed under: Business Models, MMO Industry, Massively Meta, Week in Review, Miscellaneous  To ring in the New Year the way only it can, Sony Online Entertainment shocked fans of its current and upcoming MMOs (and made some of us question our most-anticipated and best-studio picks) by rescinding longstanding subscriber benefits for several of its titles, swapping industry-standard cash-shop allowances for a single time-limited monthly gift item and reducing the attractiveness of subscriptions on the whole. Massively's EverQuest franchise columnist remains unimpressed by the studio's claims that the nerfs represent "added value" for players, especially considering that EverQuest Next Landmark is likely to enter pre-order alpha by the end of the month. Read on for a look at the rest of this week's top MMO stories. Continue reading MMO Week in Review: Altering the deal
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| EVE Evolved: Designing EVE Onland, part 2 Posted: 05 Jan 2014 03:00 PM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, EVE Online, Economy, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, PvP, Endgame, PvE, Opinion, Ultima Online, EVE Evolved, Sandbox, Dungeons, Player-Generated Content  With the sandbox genre due to explode back onto the fantasy scene, I've been left wondering how much of the core gameplay that makes EVE tick could be easily adapted for an avatar-based game on land. Even features such as EVE Online's trademark territorial warfare and player-run economy have roots in classic fantasy MMOs like Ultima Online, so they should be easy to convert to modern fantasy equivalents. Last week I started this game design thought experiment with a territorial warfare system and free-for-all PvP with harsh consequences for attackers, but there's a lot more to a good sandbox than smashing people's heads in. In this week's EVE Evolved, I delve into the hypothetical world of EVE Onland again and tackle issues of realistic world scale, exploration, economics, and the evils of global banking. Continue reading EVE Evolved: Designing EVE Onland, part 2
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| World of Warcraft player hits level 80 without picking a faction Posted: 05 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Video, Culture, Crafting, Subscription  When last we saw Doubleagent in August 2013, he had reached level 60 by engaging in herbalism and inscription as his sole source of XP. WoW Insider reports that he just recently crossed the level 80 barrier and hopes to reach level 81 within two weeks. Doubleagent started his quest to level a true neutral Pandaran back in September 2012. You can check out the moment of level 80 glory in his video after the break! Continue reading World of Warcraft player hits level 80 without picking a faction
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