This week saw yet another delay for NCSoft's ambitious cross-platform MMORPG Lineage Eternal. First announced at G-Star 2011, Lineage Eternal promised mobile and PC cross play. We saw screenshots, trailers, and even a Korean closed beta since then. Nowit seems the whole project is now up in the air. NCSoft has decided to scrap the current engine Lineage Eternal was [...]
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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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Given that most of us here at MMOs.com are big fans of Hearthstone we were delighted to get a chance to speak with the Hearthstone team about the upcoming Knights of the Frozen throne expansion. While most of our questions had to do with the upcoming expansion we snuck in some more general questions as well. Now on with the [...]
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This week we were blown away by the success of Fortnite, a game 6 years in the making. Despite announcing it will be free to play when it officially launches in 2018, the co-op third person shooter/tower defense title has managed to sell over 500,000 copies at a cool $39.99 minimum Early Access price in its first 24 hours. Part [...]
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Sometimes we just want to kick back, turn our brains off, and grind. Despite the term 'grindy" carrying a negative connotation, grinding isn't always bad. In fact some of my favorite MMORPGs have been grind-heavy (MapleStory). So without further adieu here's a list of the best MMORPGs for grinding (Grinding as the primary way to gain experience rather than questing [...]
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With the recent launch of Albion, a full loot open PvP MMORPG, the question of death penalties has come up again. Earlier MMORPGs tended to have harsh death penalties. Games like Ultima Online, RuneScape, EVE Online, and EverQuest all had players drop everything they were carrying on death. Ever since World of Warcraft, death penalties have relaxed considerably. A meager [...]
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There's been a lot of mobile MMORPG news this week. Albion Online launched Monday (July 17), Nexon Korea revealed Mabinogi Mobile, and Jagex announced cross-platform mobile versions of both Oldschool and current RuneScape in the works. I've played and been modestly impressed by several mobile games over the years, namely Clash Royale, Cookie Run, and Pokemon Go. But none of [...]
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Governments in Asia have been imposing various restrictions on underage users for years, but Tencent has upped the ante with their recent changes to the mobile MOBA Strike of Kings. Following criticism from The People's Daily (a Communist Party affiliated newspaper), Tencent has implement severe restrictions on underage gamers. Those under 13 will be able to play for only 1 [...]
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What's old is new again. Remastered versions, enhanced editions, remakes, you name it. Nostalgia sells. MMORPGs are no exception. Just this week Warp Portal, Nexon's global publishing arm announced plans to launch a classic Ragnarok Online server. Yesterday saw the launch of Secret World Legends, a tightened up re-work of the 2012 MMORPG The Secret World. Reboots can even cross [...]
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You would think after decades of experience, MMORPG launches would go off without a hitch. Not so. Friday, June 16 2017 saw the Early Access launch of Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood and with it a host of headaches. Long queue times, frequent disconnects, and even secondary queues for those who did manage to get in and wanted to enter certain [...]
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