MMO Updates |
- Flameseeker Chronicles: Is 2015 the Guild Wars 2 expansion year?
- Isles of Eventide invites you to live as an animal
- New Kickstarter sandbox Identity promises 'complete freedom and a focus on player interaction'
- SMITE's cinematic trailer on the eve of the World Championships
- Guild Wars 2's Season 2 finale is past the point of no return
- The Daily Grind: Does your MMO guild use social networking tools?
- Not So Massively: Destiny's rumored DLC, Elite's server blip, Hearthstone's new season
- Smedley wants to talk more about monetization
- Frontier testing Elite server-side fix tonight
- Survarium's still a thing, now in Euro open beta
- Hi-Rez offers more advice on how to break into the games industry
- Lizard Squad hacker arrested for cyber-fraud
- Guild Wars 2 hosts a Wintersday twitter contest this week
| Flameseeker Chronicles: Is 2015 the Guild Wars 2 expansion year? Posted: 06 Jan 2015 09:00 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Opinion, Guild Wars 2, Rumors, Flameseeker Chronicles, Buy-to-Play  If GW2 fans have sounded a little like hungry baby birds repeatedly peeping, "Expansion!" for the past couple of months, it's not without reason: The most recent NCsoft financial report conference call reportedly contained hints at expansion plans, and ArenaNet seems to have something mysterious in the works for PAX South this year. But are there any real reasons to think that we might be getting an expansion announcement in 2015 when we've gotten our hopes up to no avail before? Continue reading Flameseeker Chronicles: Is 2015 the Guild Wars 2 expansion year?
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| Isles of Eventide invites you to live as an animal Posted: 06 Jan 2015 08:00 AM PST Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, New Titles, Crowdfunding  Isles of Eventide will invite players to inhabit the role of a canine, feline, or equine living on one of many islands in a magical archipelago. Survival against the elements, predators, and hunger will be one of the major themes of the game, although there will be less stressful features such as crafting and companions as well. Between adventures, players will get to travel to their own personal island, which can be customized with decorations and utilities. The team is seeking $50,000 CAD to get development going, although it certainly welcomes more. One of the stretch goals, at the $100,000 CAD tier, promises to add offspring that can be raised from birth.
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| New Kickstarter sandbox Identity promises 'complete freedom and a focus on player interaction' Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:30 AM PST Filed under: Betas, Real-Life, Trailers, Video, Business Models, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, New Titles, PvP, News Items, Crime, Miscellaneous, Sandbox, Crowdfunding, Player-Generated Content, Buy-to-Play  The title's business model isn't discussed in detail, but it appears to be buy-to-play; VanderZwet says it won't have a sub and won't be pay-to-win: "We hate 'pay to win' games as much as anybody, and will always ensure that items and upgrades purchased with real money will not give a notable advantage in-game." A 10 CAD pledge is the cheapest with game access; pledges run all the way up to 5000 CAD. Asylum is seeking 150,000 CAD. Closed beta has not been announced, but pledge awards are scheduled for "delivery" by December 2016.
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| SMITE's cinematic trailer on the eve of the World Championships Posted: 06 Jan 2015 07:00 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Trailers, Video, News Items, Free-to-Play, MOBA  The rivalry between Thor and Guan Yi isn't usually acknowledged by mythology experts, but that's doubtlessly an oversight. The point is that if you want to watch an improbably busty goddess tap about in heals while fighting a wolf-beast, now is your chance. Click on past the break to watch the full trailer. It may not give you a whole lot of insight into mythology, but it will give you an idea of the game, at least. [Source: Hi-Rez Studios press release] Continue reading SMITE's cinematic trailer on the eve of the World Championships
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| Guild Wars 2's Season 2 finale is past the point of no return Posted: 06 Jan 2015 06:00 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Trailers, Video, MMO Industry, News Items, PvE, Guild Wars 2  Players will ultimately face "a decisive moment" during the finale, which is probably why ANet dubbed the update "Point of No Return." Be sure and catch the teaser clip just beyond the break. Continue reading Guild Wars 2's Season 2 finale is past the point of no return
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| The Daily Grind: Does your MMO guild use social networking tools? Posted: 06 Jan 2015 05:00 AM PST Filed under: Culture, Guilds, Opinion, Massively Meta, The Daily Grind, Miscellaneous  But my guild has shied away from most such tools. We've always had a custom-built website with our own tools, some purchased software and some handcrafted just for us. I wouldn't want to risk losing data on another network, and truthfully, most of my guild's communication is done through other outlets anyway, like Steam, voice chat, and text-based chat channels. What about you folks? Do you use ZergID, Enjin, or other sites to organize or track your friends and guildmates online?  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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| Not So Massively: Destiny's rumored DLC, Elite's server blip, Hearthstone's new season Posted: 05 Jan 2015 05:00 PM PST Filed under: Video, Bugs, Business Models, PvP, News Items, Free-to-Play, Consoles, Miscellaneous, Not So Massively, MOBA, Crowdfunding, Destiny, Elite: Dangerous, Path of Exile, Buy-to-Play, Hearthstone, E-sports 
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| Smedley wants to talk more about monetization Posted: 05 Jan 2015 04:30 PM PST Filed under: Sci-Fi, Business Models, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, PvP, News Items, Free-to-Play, PlanetSide 2  "PlanetSide 2 only recently has turned profitable on an operating basis," Smedley wrote. He also says that the majority of players have a ton of certs because SOE didn't balance properly and "erred on the side of giving away too many or making things cost too little so we don't make you grind too hard." Smedley takes issue with the rhetoric painting SOE as "money grubbing a-holes," but he does own up to the company's lack of clear communication on this particular issue.
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| Frontier testing Elite server-side fix tonight Posted: 05 Jan 2015 03:00 PM PST Filed under: Sci-Fi, MMO Industry, Patches, News Items, Elite: Dangerous  "We have a server side fix in-place to go live tomorrow, it's just undergoing some final testing tonight and tomorrow morning before making its way to the live servers," writes Frontier's Andrew Barlow. "This should fix it for everyone that's not already been fixed by customer services already. We just want to ensure that the fix is correct and safe so we don't cause more issues for players that are currently unaffected."
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| Survarium's still a thing, now in Euro open beta Posted: 05 Jan 2015 02:00 PM PST Filed under: Betas, Sci-Fi, MMO Industry, New Titles, News Items, Free-to-Play, Post-Apocalyptic  Developer Vostok Games writes that "the transition of the game to the stage of open-beta in Europe does not mean the end of project development; on the contrary, we plan to further develop Survarium and introduce lots of new features, including the long-awaited FreePlay (PvE) mode."
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| Hi-Rez offers more advice on how to break into the games industry Posted: 05 Jan 2015 01:00 PM PST Filed under: Video, Business Models, MMO Industry, News Items, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Community Q&A, E-sports  Last time, the SMITE developers covered design, programming, and QA; this round, they're focused on 3-D character art and 2-D concept Art. Just before the holidays, they also pushed out a trio on marketing, shoutcasting, and streaming. Enjoy! Continue reading Hi-Rez offers more advice on how to break into the games industry
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| Lizard Squad hacker arrested for cyber-fraud Posted: 05 Jan 2015 12:00 PM PST Filed under: MMO Industry, Legal, Miscellaneous  The arrest is unrelated to some of the recent activities of Lizard Squad, which includes shutting down the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live over Christmas, DDoS attacks on Destiny this past September, and a bomb threat made on a plane carrying SOE President John Smedley last August. Omari was sought in connection to PayPal thefts from 2013 to 2014.
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| Guild Wars 2 hosts a Wintersday twitter contest this week Posted: 05 Jan 2015 11:00 AM PST Filed under: Fantasy, Contests, Culture, News Items, Guild Wars 2, Buy-to-Play  How can you win? Put some Guild Wars 2-themed stencils up on your window of choice, take a picture, and tweet it to the main Twitter account for the game this week with the hashtags #GW2 and #Wintersday. For those not feeling terribly creative, there are pre-made stencils available to fulfill the requirements. Sure, maybe you're happy to have the holiday decorations taken down, but if you want that mail carrier, you'll get to it. There's still time to enter the other Wintersday contests as well, although those are a little more elaborate; you can read the full details on the contests page.
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