Our latest coverage of Astellia.
Astellia, the failed MMORPG from Studio 8 & Barunson Games, has found new life as a play 2 earn blockchain MMORPG named 'Astel of Atra' or 'AoA' for short. The game uses its own governance token called Gelixir (GXR) which is based on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain. Like other play to earn blockchain MMORPGs (Mir 4 comes to mind), Astel [...]
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Studio 8 has resurrected Astellia Online as a blockchain game called Astel of Atra a little over a year since the original game and its battle royale spinoff Astellia Royal shut down in the west. The game’s developers describe the newly relaunched game as a global NFT MMORPG and began pre-selling NFT Astels since spring and the new GELIXIR token [...]
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Astellia Online and it’s free-to-play version Astellia Royal have officially shut down as of Monday, October 18th, 11 days shy of the sunset date announced back in August. Friends Games Corp., the game’s latest western publisher, had apparently decided to move up the game’s closure and edited the original announcement on Steam sometime between August and now to reflect the [...]
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Korean developed MMORPG Astellia is shutting down on October 29, 2021. Officially released in the West as a buy-to-play game in September 2019, the game failed to find a footing during its two year run. A free to play version titled Astellia Royale released on Steam earlier this year already seems to be abandoned. There is no method to download [...]
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A new free to play MMORPG called Astellia Royal has launched on December 10, 2020. The Astellia name may sound familiar to keen readers of MMO news. Astellia Online was originally launched in the West as a buy-to-play game in 2019, but shut down in its native region of Korea several months later. It seems Astellia Royal is the latest [...]
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Astellia Online players have a chance to earn in-game rewards by simply playing the game with the return of the “Home, Sweet Home” event. The event will run from today after maintenance until June 30th. Players will be rewarded a certain number of Stelite and Holy Order’s Symbols for every 30 minutes they spend in the game starting with 10 [...]
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Studio 8 is giving Astellia Online players a preview of what’s coming in next week’s patch in a recent forum post. Some of the significant changes coming on June 9th will be a reduction in the number of available quests. The studio says that they’ll be removing daily quests and will be merging the weekly quests in Astara, Greleaf, and [...]
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It’s been a while since we covered Astellia Online, and it seems that the game has had a recent change in management. In a forum post earlier this month, a community manager revealed that Barunson E&A has handed over control of the game to its developer Studio 8 who will be managing the game’s operations along with a new partner. [...]
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Heads up Astellia Online EU players, Barunson E&A has announced that they will be merging two EU servers “for smooth game service.” On March 17th, the Aquarius and Canceria servers will be merged into one which means that if you have toons on both servers you’ll have to narrow them down to just five, plus any additional character slots you’ve [...]
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Astellia Online celebrates the coming of Spring with the aptly-named “Spring is Coming” event. Spring celebrations are now in full swing in all major cities. During the event, players will be able to pick-up three types of daily and weekly quests from NPCs in Meiville, Frel Village, Ivera Fortress, and Almantin Village. Completing these quests will reward players with Early [...]
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