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38 Studios Missing Payments, Wants More Taxpayer Money
May 16th, 2012 
Omali Ever since 2010, I did not think a developer could rattle my nerves as much as Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment and Gary Whiting, but 38 Studios and Curt Schilling are certainly looking to prove me wrong on all accounts. For the taxpayers of Rhode Island, the investment made by their state government by offering $75 million [...]
Stargate Worlds Just Can’t Die, Yet Another Lawsuit
May 16th, 2012 Omali Some of you may remember the Ponzi scheme that Stargate Worlds and MMOGuls allegedly turned out to be. I do, and I distinctly apologize to my editor for forgetting that I had duct taped and locked you in the basement, but then again that is what happens when you interrupt my Diablo 3 time to [...]
NCSoft Q1 2012: Aion/Lineage Up, Lineage 2 Down
May 15th, 2012 Omali NCSoft has published their first quarter finances, and as always there is good news and bad news. Quarterly sales were up, although profits were down nearly 20% due to increased labor cost, royalty expenses, and other factors. Korea grew due with sound in-game item sales, while Japan dropped. Aion and Lineage performed strongly. Lineage 2 [...]
MMO Fallout Talks: Storybricks Interview
May 15th, 2012 Omali Looking at my calendar, there are approximately 17 days to go until the Storybricks Kickstarter runs out of time. As of today, 347 backers have contributed $21,522 to the fund, which means there is a long way to go before the $250,000 goal can be reached. Here at MMO Fallout, we are supporters of the indie-MMO [...]
Lockboxes Illegal? Cryptic Would Rather Dump Your Country
May 15th, 2012 Omali It’s been almost two years since Bill Roper has had anything to do with Cryptic Studios, but with some of the recent money-related decisions made by the developer, you would never know he’d left. Not long ago, Cryptic introduced lockboxes, cash shop items that have the chance at offering valuable items to the players who [...]
Rift Introduces Three Faction PvP
May 15th, 2012 Omali Check your pulse, we all may be collectively hallucinating. In an almost unexpected move, Trion has announced the impending release of three faction, cross server PvP in the form of Conquest. Not only will players be pledging their allegiance to one of three factions, they will be battling it out for domination of control points [...]
Rhode Island Working To Keep 38 Studios Solvent
May 14th, 2012 Omali Let’s talk history. Back in 2010, Rhode Island lured 38 Studios from Massachusetts to their own state with the promise of a $75 million loan, under the promise that 450 jobs would be created. The loan was a product of controversy among Rhode Island politicians, especially as the loan would be hedged on a studio that had [...]
Falling Out #2: Generic Fantasy MMO Revealed
May 14th, 2012 Omali I can’t wait for this to hit #1 in pre-order sales.
Whining Vs Complaining, By Michael Pachter
May 13th, 2012 Omali Get More: GameTrailers.com, Pach-Attack! – Whiners vs. Complainers HD, PC Games, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 In today’s video, Michael Pachter calls it like he sees it, he is MMO Fallout’s resident Whale Biologist after all. More importantly is the distinction between complainers and whiners. People who complain do so constructively and express their problems reasonably [...]
