Our latest coverage of Columns.
Omer published a column yesterday claiming "We need more aspirational content in MMORPGs." The post sparked quite a discussion on the MMORPGs subreddit so we thought we would revisit the subject this week on the podcast. There's been a steady lowering of difficulty in modern MMORPGs. In the past, less than 1% of the WoW playerbase even attempted the original [...]
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We need more aspirational content in MMORPGs. Nowadays whenever new content is released for a modern MMORPG like World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XIV it's typically cleared pretty quickly. Mythic Emerald Nightmare Xavius, the hardest World of Warcraft: Legion Raid at the time, was cleared a mere 18 hours after launch. Deltascape Savage 4.0 in Final Fantasy XIV was [...]
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More Main Story Quests. The Drowned City of Skalla. New PvP Content, a new Extreme-mode Trial, the addition of a 24-man Raid Roulette, and most importantly, THE UNENDING COIL OF BAHAMUT (ULTIMATE) - there's so much content in Final Fantasy XIV's latest Letter from the Producer LIVE that I can barely hold it all at once! Lets get into a [...]
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Over the past several years we have seen a boom in high end computer peripherals. Ever since Das Keyboard help popularize mechanical keyboards back in 2008, there has been a proliferation of high end (and high priced) keyboards, mice, headsets, and even mouse pads. While many of these products offer little beyond RGB 'gamer' aesthetics, those of us who spend [...]
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Did Black Desert Online go full-on mobile game tier pay 2 win? Not yet, but it looks like Pearl Abyss / Kakao Games are definitely inching a bit closer with the most recent patch which added the ability to instantly finish work orders with premium currency (Pearls). Anyone who has played mobile pay 2 win strategy games like Game of [...]
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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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Valve, the studio behind Half-Life, Portal, Counter-Strike, and the Steam platform, just revealed their latest game during the Dota 2 International World Championships. We're incredibly short on details, but we do know the game is called Artifact and that it is a card game based on the Dota franchise. All we have to work with so far is a brief [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV patch 4.06 is here and with it comes quite a few new changes. Most notably, Dragoons, Ninjas, Bards, Machinists, and Summoners all received some buffs and the automatic logout function has been removed (congestion has died down a lot since Stormblood's launch). Players can access the full patch notes here. Another interesting bit of Final Fantasy XIV [...]
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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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Path of Exile 3.0 Fall of Oriath officially launched last night and is off to a remarkable start. According to Steam Charts the game's playerbase increased from ~8,000 concurrent to over 80,000 and hit an all time peak today of 86,645. The 3.0 expansion for Path of Exile brings with it a LOT of changes. Most notably though it added [...]
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