In Manifest Destiny style, players will fight for land ownership once server mergers are complete, according to a Q&A on the ArcheAge forums. Most players resented the competitive rush but there seems to be no way around the landgrab. Post-merger characters will be placed in their racial starting zone with tutorials disabled, so that the swiftest feet can grab the [...]
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I had a chance to sit down with Alexander Zacherl of Fairytale Distillery during Das Tal's playtest this past weekend. Das Tal is an upcoming open PvP sandbox MMO that takes a lot of design inspiration from MOBAs. In its desert-themed world, you battle over settlements, camps, resource nodes, and more. Players battle using a system similar to those seen [...]
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Webzen announced in a press release sent out today that MMO sequel Archlord 2 has received a new content update entitled "Season of Siege." This new update is primarily to introduce the Castle Siege PvP system. Sieges are an integral part of some of the best PvP MMOs available and it is nice to see that they are now included [...]
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No, no, not the lizard. Trove is getting actual, legitimate, bearded dragons. They're calling them "Ancient Dragons" but that doesn't quite do justice to the fact that it's a dragon with a beard. To get one, you must obtain 5 Dragon Souls from Ancient Dragon Caches, the latest in gashapon-styled rewards boxes in Trove. As with all of the others, [...]
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While I am not personally familiar with the earlier days of Lineage 2, I often see players bemoan changes made to the game, calling the earlier version one of the definitive PvP MMORPGs. Announced some time ago, 4Game, the game's European publisher, want to bring players that experience once again, hence Lineage 2 Classic. The good news announced today is [...]
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With the Imperial City DLC out of the gates on PC, now seems as good of a time as ever to put the base Elder Scrolls Online game on sale. Almost as if it were planned, the game is currently discounted 33% on Steam, or about $20. You will probably notice this is the approximate price of the new DLC, [...]
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If you're chomping at the bit for anything related to the upcoming Warcraft movie, you may be interested in knowing that a Russian site has leaked its trailer. It's low quality, obviously recorded by someone holding a camera up to it, and some talks over the end of it, but it is there. You can clearly see CGI orcs go [...]
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MMOs.com Podcast Episode 15 - Featuring Omer (@Remotayx), Erhan (@ehaltay), Shurelya (@Shureria), and Sean (@Sean_sulliva). This is the fifteenth MMOs.com Podcast and we look at the most recent news and happenings in the MMO and gaming world. This week we discussed the pricing of founders packs in games like Devilian and a few other titles. We discussed missing last week's podcast due to family visiting us [...]
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Following the trend for earlier testing phases, Crowfall has kicked off their Pre-Alpha testing—exclusive to backers with the Pre-Alpha reward. The test will largely focus on combat in Crowfall's Hunger Dome (a pun that needs no introduction), where players will slaughter each other in a deathmatch. Three archetypes will be available for the test: Knight, Confessor, and Legionnaire. Expanding the test [...]
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Around the end of September EverQuest 2's servers will be consolidated by moving existing servers to a new one. Unlike server mergers, one server's data isn't being move to another. Instead, all of the designated server's (X, Y, and Z) data will be moved to a new server (A). Guild halls and player housing will be moved to the same [...]
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