MMO Updates |
- Funcom overhauling Fusang PvP in The Secret World's Issue #4 update
- Neowiz releases new Bless intro trailer
- The Stream Team: RUSH edition, November 12 - 18, 2012
- Guild Wars 2's Lost Shores content primer
- The Daily Grind: Will you be playing SWTOR for free?
- MMO Week in Review: History repeatin'
- EVE Evolved: History of the Interstellar Starbase Syndicate
- The end comes to Final Fantasy XIV
- One Shots: It all comes out pink
| Funcom overhauling Fusang PvP in The Secret World's Issue #4 update Posted: 12 Nov 2012 08:30 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Horror, Game mechanics, MMO industry, PvP, News items, The Secret World  "[The] new reward scheme incentivizes conflict a lot more, since now you have to actually hold on to your objectives in order to gain rewards," writes Rasmus "Bjorndal" Harr. "This also means that zerging is discouraged, since you ideally need to have players spread out in several groups to be able to quickly react to events." Players will no longer receive black marks for completing Fusang PvP missions, and Funcom is also adding PvP vendors to the zone that sell upgrades for the turrets and custodians that guard each facility. Furthermore, the devs are implementing an underdog mission to assist undermanned factions as well as cross-dimensional Fusang battlegroups. That's not all, either, as Harr has plenty to say about matchmaking and currency changes. Read all about it at the official TSW website.
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| Neowiz releases new Bless intro trailer Posted: 12 Nov 2012 08:00 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Trailers, Video, MMO industry, New titles, News items  The upcoming Korean MMO features 10 different races and eight classes, and will be powered by the Unreal 3 engine. You can watch the trailer after the break. Continue reading Neowiz releases new Bless intro trailer
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| The Stream Team: RUSH edition, November 12 - 18, 2012 Posted: 12 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST Filed under: Polls, Massively Meta, Livestream, Miscellaneous, The Stream Team  It's kind of like Massively TV! Of course the show itself is great, but being there live to watch the antics of The Stream Team and be a part of the audience interaction can't be matched. So to make sure you don't miss any shows, here's the schedule for this week. And to fill that time in between performances, there is also a handy guide for the previous week! Weigh in with your opinion about what music you prefer and what you'd add to games. Continue reading The Stream Team: RUSH edition, November 12 - 18, 2012
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| Guild Wars 2's Lost Shores content primer Posted: 12 Nov 2012 06:00 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Galleries, Events, in-game, Game mechanics, Patches, Previews, PvP, Endgame, News items, PvE, Guild Wars 2, Dungeons  There are other, more pragmatic mysteries too. What is the content update all about? What can we expect? What sort of name do you give to a race of evil, bow-legged crustaceans? Happily, we're equipped to shed a little light on all those and more. Read on for our Lost Shores content primer! Continue reading Guild Wars 2's Lost Shores content primer
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| The Daily Grind: Will you be playing SWTOR for free? Posted: 12 Nov 2012 05:00 AM PST Filed under: Sci-fi, MMO industry, Opinion, Free-to-play, The Daily Grind, Star Wars: The Old Republic  While the company has taken some lumps for its monetization model (paying for hotbars, really?), we're betting that the obligatory eleventy-billion-registered-players press release is already being prepped in anticipation of a successful F2P launch. What about you, Massively readers? Will you be playing SWTOR for 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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| MMO Week in Review: History repeatin' Posted: 11 Nov 2012 05:00 PM PST Filed under: Massively Meta, Week in Review, Miscellaneous  November 15th is an inauspicious day for Star Wars MMO fans. Veteran gamers will remember it as the day SOE launched Star Wars Galaxies' infamous New Game Enhancements, better known as the NGE, which inserted themepark elements into the beloved sandbox and caused an exodus of players. Seven years later to the day, Star Wars: The Old Republic will undergo its own enhancements in the form of a massive free-to-play conversion and 1.5 update that hope to reinvigorate the shrinking playerbase and repair trust in the development team, which just split up with Mythic. I'm going to resist the obvious Han Solo "good luck" quote and instead point you toward the rest of this week's top MMO stories, tucked handily behind the break. Continue reading MMO Week in Review: History repeatin'
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| EVE Evolved: History of the Interstellar Starbase Syndicate Posted: 11 Nov 2012 03:00 PM PST Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Culture, Events, in-game, Game mechanics, Guilds, Lore, PvP, EVE Evolved, Sandbox  The first player-owned structures introduced were Starbases, which offered not only a place to stash your loot and ships but also a whole new industry based on reacting moon minerals together. Moon minerals have been a major point of contention in nullsec balance discussions over the years, but most alliances weren't all that interested in moons when the industry first appeared. Starbases took all day to set up, refueling and emptying them required constant hauling, and just scanning all the moons in a region for minerals was a massive undertaking. In the summer of 2005, player Count TaSessine saw this problem as an opportunity and grabbed it with both hands as he formed the Interstellar Starbase Syndicate. In this week's EVE Evolved, I look back at the history of one of EVE's early alliances, its creator's dream for a civilian nullsec, and the changes that eventually led to the alliance's destruction. Continue reading EVE Evolved: History of the Interstellar Starbase Syndicate
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| The end comes to Final Fantasy XIV Posted: 11 Nov 2012 01:00 PM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Trailers, Video, Events, in-game, Lore, News items, Consoles, Final Fantasy XIV  It's worth noting that the cutscene is both fairly long and lacking in context -- if you don't know the most recent lore of the game, you're not going to catch everything that's going on. But if you've been watching the final defense of the Eorzean city-states from inside the game or on the sidelines, you deserve a front-row seat for the last clash of armies. And even though you know how it ends, it's still going to pack a punch. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in!] Continue reading The end comes to Final Fantasy XIV
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| One Shots: It all comes out pink Posted: 11 Nov 2012 11:00 AM PST Filed under: Galleries, Screenshots, Guild Wars 2, Massively Meta, One Shots, The Secret World, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Final Fantasy XIV, Miscellaneous, PlanetSide 2  But I am happy to take control of this regular feature for the week and show off a few of the shots you lovely readers have sent in. This first one is a testament to the amazing artwork we can expect from PlanetSide 2 when it launches on November 20th. As reader Lovelycarrot explains, "In this image, I'm all alone in a frozen wasteland in PlanetSide 2, pondering the next base to capture." Check out the full image and more submissions just after the cut. Continue reading One Shots: It all comes out pink
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