ArcheAge News

Ah yes, do you smell that? It's the smell of people playing into their biases and then asking "why can't people think rationally?" The latest Archeage news accuses the game of admitting its pay-to-win through a reply made on Facebook. Let's gander at what was written: The social media representative is addressing concerns about the Revelation Pack, a pre-sale pack [...]

Trion Worlds announced today that ArcheAge's "biggest update yet," 3.0: Revelation, will be going live on December 10th. The update will bring with it two new races, the Dwarves and the Warborn, five new environments, and more. The update's key features are as follows. Two New Playable Races - Designed from the ground up, the Dwarves of the Nuian faction [...]

XLGAMES has gone above and beyond in showing off new ArcheAge 3.0 content by creating not one, but six trailers, each of which highlights a different part of the incoming major content update. According to MMOCulture, new details about the new races have been unveiled. Dwarves will be able to summon a "mechanical golem" while the Warborn will be able [...]

Trion announced today that ArcheAge Update 3.0 will be launching in the West "later this year." The announcement coincides with the XLGAMES' reveal of the update in Korea via the trailer below. Very little was announced alongside the trailer. Trion gives us only one sentence: "Whispers echo in the darkness… the long forgotten Goddess of Hatred returns!" According to MMOCulture, [...]

ArcheAge 2.9: Ascension went live yesterday, giving guilds the ability to create player-run nations. Player-run nations allow one Sovereign and up to 10 council members. They can only be formed by "a guild who has heavily invested in their Aurorian castle." The new Castle Upgrade system allows Castle-owning guilds to build cities made up of a variety of buildings around [...]

Do you normally go by ReaperOfDarkness, but some other ArcheAge player took it, leaving you with ReaperOfDarknezz? On May 10th, you will have a chance to get your name back, as Trion Worlds is freeing up the names of inactive ArcheAge characters. Characters affected by this include any character under level 40 that has not logged in since October 5, [...]

Trion is running a new ArcheAge promotion that gives players that purchase a $100 credit pack an in-game pool that can be placed their property. The pool allows up to four players to sit in it, but the owner alone gets an extra bonus. Once per day, the pool's owner can remove the sleep debuff, effectively allowing them to earn [...]

ArcheAge's Community Manager Seraphina Brennan announced yesterday via the ArcheAge forums that Trion has been spending a significant amount of time "creating better methods to accurately and quickly detect players who have been playing unfairly." The new system has been in effect for "a few weeks" without adding any new software on the players' side. As it was put in [...]

Trion Worlds have announced a new feature in ArcheAge called Costume Synthesis. Using Costume Synthesis, players can add stats to their costumes, allowing them to be used functionally as well as cosmetically—sort of. Players can choose from one of four Basic Costumes—Healing, Magic, Melee, or Ranged—that can be purchased for 200 Prestige in the Guild Prestige shop or for "either [...]