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It’s that time of the year already, the first quarter financial reports are starting to stream in. Last year wasn’t so great for NCsoft, considering they lost a $28 million lawsuit against Richard Garriot. Sales of Aion, Lineage, and City of Heroes went down, while Lineage 2, Guild Wars, and NCsoft’s other titles saw a [...]
Archive for the ‘City of Heroes’ Category
City of Heroes Global: Sooner Than Expected
May 7th, 2011 
Omali Back in March, we learned the NCsoft was planning on merging the world of City of Heroes, to allow interaction between North American and European accounts. Rather than merging servers, the services themselves were to be merged, with players given access to both services as one grand list. In the original announcement NCsoft praised the [...]
April Fool’s 2011 Roundup
April 1st, 2011 Omali April Fool’s is one of my favorite days of the year, because I love seeing what jokes companies will come up with, my personal favorite being Google’s yearly jokes. Today isn’t even over, and I think the award for the best joke goes to ArenaNet with Guild Wars, who not only created a trailer and page [...]
NCSoft: No, This Is How You Charity
March 18th, 2011 Omali Money is a powerful tool that can buy many things. In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, we’ve seen an outpour of support from MMO developers and their players. Square Enix has shut down Japanese Final Fantasy servers, while Sony Online Entertainment has announced the suspension of billing for Japanese players. Global [...]
City of Heroes: One World, One World List
March 17th, 2011 Omali City of Heroes is the original-man’s super hero MMO. Since the game’s release in 2004, City of Heroes has seen the addition of two expansion packs and nineteen “issues,” with numerous content updates in between. But that’s enough pushing the game up with information we all know, on to the juicy meat center of this [...]
City of Heroes/Villains/Rogues Says Welcome Back, Weekend!
September 28th, 2010 Omali City of Heroes may be six years old, but NCsoft is still committed to keeping the old super geezer alive. Last month saw the release of the latest full expansion pack, Going Rogue, allowing both heroes and villains alike to grey in the lines between heroism and villainy. This past April brought in Ultra Mode, [...]
Thar Be Sales On Steam, Landlubbers!
June 24th, 2010 Omali Updates: The sale is over. Go home. ?? Aion Standard Edition 33% off ($26.79) Includes 30 days of game time Champions Online 66% off ($6.79) Includes 30 days of game time. City of Heroes: Architect Edition 33% off ($13.39) Includes 30 days + City of Villains Global Agenda 33% off ($26.79) No subscription fee. Guild Wars Game [...]
Fun Facts From NCSoft’s Q1 2010 Report
May 19th, 2010 Omali I love earnings reports, more so because I am a huge number crunching nerd, but because it gives us an occasional glimpse into how MMO developers are doing. NCsoft finally got around to filing their Q1 reports, and there is plenty of information to be found, namely in what game is doing better than others. [...]
Put Your Money Episode #1: ________ Station Pass
May 4th, 2010 Omali Back in January I asked a pretty simple question: Since Sony has had so much success with the Station Pass, an offer where players can pay the fee of two MMOs to gain access to eight (previously nine) MMOs, why don’t we see more packages where developers or publishers bundle together MMOs to increase subscriber [...]
City of Heroes: 6th Anniversary Video
May 4th, 2010 Omali Hopefully I’m not the only one whose finger hovered dangerously close to the “resubscribe” button after viewing this. Happy sixth birthday, City of Heroes!
