No Eastern MMO is complete without wings. In fact, they're just about everywhere in most Free-to-Play games (Aion comes to mind almost immediately). Vindictus has hopped on the bandwagon a few years back as well, and since then, has hosted events where players can acquire their own set of wings for their characters. The catch? They've been almost all exclusively RNG based. [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV's Patch 4.01 is upon us. The first major content patch after the launch of Stormblood, Patch 4.01 brings numerous balance changes, and a new raid tier to experience and challenge. Lets go down some of the changes that caught our eye together. Enmity for the Tank jobs has been increased across the board Buffs to Dark Knight [...]
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Albion Online is nearing its launch day. On July 17th, the servers for Albion Online will go live, and the game will be out in full. However, no game ever goes live without a beta beforehand (though your definition of beta can vary based on what you buy on Steam that's Early Access), and Albion Online's beta is coming to a [...]
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Elder Scrolls Online is going to be hosting a special event this month. All players, from July 5th, until July 9th, will have access to a free trial of ESO Plus. During this free trial, all players will have access to- All DLC Game Packs Unlimited Crafting Double Bank Space 10% increase Experience and Gold Double Furnishings and Collectibles for player [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV announced Server Transfer Incentives with the launch of Stormblood, to help try to help spread the population across the servers. Using unofficial census data from Japanese blog Lucky Bancho, the average amount of players on a standard Final Fantasy XIV is about (and this is an eyeball number), somewhere in the range of 7,000 players per server. [...]
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Warframe has launched its new update, Chains of Harrow. Currently only on PC, this update brings with it a very impressive graphical overhaul, a new Warframe, the Harrow, a new quest chain that "resembles a horror film," new enemies, and new weapons. Starting off with the new Harrow Warframe itself, Harrow brings with it a mixture of Crowd Control and party [...]
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Elsword Online is slowly marching towards what appears to be the end of a major story, the culmination of Elsword's actions in saving his sister Elesis, and the aftermath of his choices. The Hall of El update will bring with it two key features- Prologue to the Culmination of the El End game dungeon content that is not Character-restricted Both the [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV's turnaround story is one of the greatest in the industry. In 2010, FFXIV 1.0 was a disaster of a game, and was a stain upon the Final Fantasy legacy, but in 2013, it turned itself around completely with the launch of A Realm Reborn. Previously, we covered Noclip's documentary about exactly how Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 failed. Parts [...]
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Square Enix sometimes makes good decisions. Sometimes they make bad ones. This is a bad one. Since the launch of Stormblood, Final Fantasy XIV has implemented a 30-minute AFK kick function. In practice, it's not a bad idea - densely populated servers could see thousands of people trying to log on at once, leaving many stuck in queues that could take [...]
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Marvel Heroes Omega, the Console-exclusive version of Marvel Heroes, has announced that starting June 30th, 2017, players will have "substantially" increased chances to receive costumes from loot boxes. New hero-specific "Ultimate Upgrade Tokens" and "Experience Tokens" will be added as well. On top of that, players will now be able to earn one-time loot boxes at certain levels. To quote the developers [...]
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