E Tay, Author at MMOs.com

Epic Games Uses Private Investigators To Hunt Down Cheaters

February 19, 2018 E Tay Comments

If there's one story more prominent in the gaming press these days than the success of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, its the rampant cheating in Playerunknown's Battlegrounds. Despite banning over a million (paid) accounts, PUBG continues to face an onslaught of cheaters and hackers, primarily originating in The People's Republic of China. Fortunately for Epic Games, their Battle Royale title, Fortnite, mainly [...]

US Copyright Office Considering Abandoned Online Games Exemption

February 19, 2018 E Tay Comments

The U.S. Copyright Office is currently considering easing DMCA anti-circumvention provisions which come up for renewal every 3 years. One of the most important topics being considered this year center around the preservation of abandoned video games. Previous rulings have granted museums, libraries, and other archival organizations the right to use emulators and other tools to make old games playable. [...]

Path of Exile Announces The Bestiary League

February 16, 2018 E Tay Comments

Grinding Gear Games has announced the latest challenge league for their free to play Action-MMORPG Path of Exile. The Bestiary League adds a new monster capturing feature to the game. Players will be able to capture monsters while adventuring and display them for all to see in their very own menagerie! Path of Exile has had a grand 2017, with [...]

The Weekly Raid: Do You Care About World of Warcraft?

February 13, 2018 E Tay Comments

World of Warcraft revolutionized the MMORPG genre when it first launched in 2004. It quickly accumulated millions of monthly subscribers, dwarfing all previous records set my the genre. For years it has continued to retain its crown despite a wave of premium MMORPG contenders. Warhammer Online, Star Wars The Old Republic, and many others were billed as WoW killers whose [...]

Fortnite Hits 3.4 Million Concurrent Users, Surpasses PUBG

February 8, 2018 E Tay Comments

Fortnite hit a new peak of 3.4 million concurrent users this past weekend (Feb 3-4 2018) before suffering a major outage due to the high server demand. Epic Games posted an article on the outage earlier today titled Postmortem Of Service Outage At 3.4M CCU that goes into some of the details on how the meltdown played out. The post [...]

Mojang Is Shutting Down Scrolls

February 7, 2018 E Tay Comments

On February 6, Mojang announced their decision to close down the official servers for their digital card game Scrolls. The game's servers will shut down on February 13, five years after the game's initial beta launch. To Mojang's credit, they are working on ways to allow the community to keep the game alive. Players will be provided a method to [...]

The Weekly Raid: Will Subscription MMOs Make a Comeback?

February 6, 2018 E Tay Comments

With a new World of Warcraft expansion on the horizon, we are once again reminded that the subscription based MMORPG business model is far from dead. While the ratio of free to play to subscription games continues to favor the former, there are a number of interesting releases worth highlighting. Last week Rift announced the addition of a classic server [...]

Black Desert Announces $10,000 Costume Design Contest

February 5, 2018 E Tay Comments

Do you know your way around Photoshop? If so, now's your chance to put your skills to good use! Kakao has released the schedule for their upcoming Costume Design contest for Black Desert Online. Players will be able to submit their designs between February 7th to March 5th for a chance to win the grand prize of $10,000. The top [...]

MapleStory Is Shutting Down The Free Market

February 3, 2018 E Tay Comments

An end of an era is soon approaching. MapleStory has started the process of winding down their Free Market zones. News of the Free Market's closure was first announced back in November 2017, but steps towards that closure only started to surface on the Global servers in the past week. For those who are not familiar with the Free Market, [...]

Fan Pays Over $60,000 For Counter Strike Skin

February 3, 2018 E Tay Comments

One of the costliest digital goods transactions to date took place earlier this week when a user on OPSkins purchased a CSGO gun skin called 'Dragon Lore' for $61,052.63 The item's value comes from a variety of factors that conspired to create a truly unique digital asset. First, the Dragon Lore is the rarest item obtainable from the Cobblestone Package [...]

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