With Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion, Stormblood, on the horizon, and early access just around the corner, I thought it would be a good idea to look back at the first expansion we’ve had, Heavensward, and see how far we’ve come from the end of A Realm Reborn, to where we are now. At the time, no one knew what [...]
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With the rise of mobile gaming comes the need for good android emulators. Since I like to record and upload gameplay videos for a lot of mobile MMOs, I needed to find a good android emulator because recording on my tablet isn't easy and the quality isn't nearly as good as an emulator. I also prefer to play mobile games [...]
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E3, perhaps the best known video gaming conference took place this week June 13-15. While the event was dominated by the big three console, there was something for everyone. What are you most excited for from this year's E3. Is it the new $499 Xbox One X? How about Bethesda's paid mod platform Creation Club? For me its twofold. First, [...]
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Few MMORPGs have had as rough a time as Neowiz's Bless Online. Despite a development budget of over $60 million, making it one of the most expensive MMORPGs ever, the game suffered a series of server mergers in its home market leaving it with a single Korean server. But its not just in the home front that Bless is reeling. [...]
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In the 16 years that RuneScape has been online, it has seen 250 million players enter its world. It has a total of 205 quests, 6583 "unique characters," and over 25,000 items that players can collect. Today, those counts are about to go up a bit more with the release of the game's first expansion, Menaphos. I was recently given [...]
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We try to cover every MMORPG release here at MMOs.com. Sometimes that involves shiny new games or expansions. But too often these days the MMORPGs that "launch" are years old and are on their second, third, of even forth re-release. Its almost like a game of MMO hot potato with old games bouncing from one publisher to the next. Most [...]
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Entropia Universe is an interesting game and is one of the only MMORPGs in the world (along with Second Life) with a real cash economy. The game uses a special currency called PED which is issued by the game's parent company at a fixed exchange rate of 10-1 ($1 buys 10 PED). The company both sells PED and buys back [...]
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If you go to the official FAQ on Wild West Online's official website right now, the following vague statement is given in regards to to game's choice of engine. We are using a proprietary licensed engine, designed and developed specifically for open world online games, and we'll cover our technology in more details in the coming months. The engine rendering [...]
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The first half of 2017 turned out to be a bit slow with the only major MMORPG release being Revelation Online. But so far the second half is shaping up to be very different. The much anticipated Morrowind expansion for Elder Scrolls Online launched for PC today and Destiny 2 reveal just a few weeks ago. Final Fantasy 14 Stormblood [...]
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Lineage was one of the defining games of the MMORPG genre. Released way back in 1998, it is still NCsoft's main money maker nearly 20 years later. It continues to see regular updates along with its sequel, Lineage 2 which also is still performing well. Both games have inspired separate mobile spin-offs that have themselves gone on to attract huge [...]
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