Another week, another Albion Online controversy. The fantasy sandbox MMORPG had a very successful launch last month but has had several major controversies surrounding it already. The first involved changes to in-game ganking mechanics and was a perfectly normal issue that players could fall on either side of. This week's issue is far more complicated. In a reddit post with [...]
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Otakon 2017 is due to start this Friday, August 11th, 2017, and Fate/Grand Order will be hosting an event in celebration! Starting at 08/11 0400 UTC, until 08/13 0359 UTC, all players who log into Fate/Grand Order will receive 1,000,000 Quantum Particles (which sound like a lot, but believe me, it's nothing special), 1 Sun Fou card, 1 Star Fou card, [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV is a familiar face at PAX, and PAX West 2017 is no exception! With Stormblood, FFXIV's 4.0 Expansion, out in full force, there isn't too much that players can expect in terms of upcoming content - after all, the expansion has only been out for just over a month! At this PAX convention, players and event-goers will be [...]
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NCSoft's epic action MMORPG Blade and Soul will be coming to consoles in the near future; no release date has been announced yet. Given the game's action oriented combat the game could be a natural fit on consoles. NCSoft's North American branch is in charge of getting the game ported to console and will likely lead the charge in getting [...]
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NCSoft reported Q2, 2017 earnings today that showed overall sales increase 8% both quarter over quarter and year over year to $229M. Net income (profit) came in at $27.3 million. The most interesting bit of news from the earnings presentation as usual was the breakdown of sales by franchise: Guild Wars 2 sales hit an all time low this quarter [...]
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Faeria, the free to play digital CCG, launched its first expansion today titled The Adventure Pouch: Oversky which introduces a new co-op mode, 33 new cards, and more. New content and cards will unlock on a weekly basis to keep the game fresh. Since the game's official launch 5 months ago, Faeria has reached 1 million downloads. The game averages [...]
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MMOs.com Weekly News Recap #107 August 7, 2017Watch this video on YouTube Weekly MMO News Recap #107 - August 7, 2017 by Omer A look at MMO News and updates for the week ending August 7, 2017. This is episode 107 in a weekly series every Monday that will cover all major MMO news and updates. The games mentioned this [...]
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Dark Age of Camelot Gameplay First Look - MMOs.comWatch this video on YouTube Dark Age of Camelot First Look By Omer Dark Age of Camelot is a subscription based fantasy MMORPG developed and published by EA Mythic. It originally launched back in 2001 and is known for coining the phrase "Realm vs Realm" PvP. It was the first MMORPG with [...]
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Path of Exile 3.0 Fall of Oriath officially launched last night and is off to a remarkable start. According to Steam Charts the game's playerbase increased from ~8,000 concurrent to over 80,000 and hit an all time peak today of 86,645. The 3.0 expansion for Path of Exile brings with it a LOT of changes. Most notably though it added [...]
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Crusaders of Light Gameplay - Friday Grindfest (Mobile MMORPG)Watch this video on YouTube Crusaders of Light Grindfest Friday Crusaders of Light is a free to play mobile MMORPG developed and published by Netease. The game has World of Warcraft inspired cartoony art with traditional PC MMORPG gameplay elements. Unlike most mobile games which are level based (think Aion: Legions of [...]
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