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EA Is Working To Restore Access To Myanmar


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Electronic Arts has responded to complaints that the Origin service is unavailable in Myanmar, with Community Manager EA_Tom announcing that the company is working on restoring access to affected customers.

The whole ordeal started with players in Myanmar finding out that their access to legitimately purchased Origin games had been blocked. According to ‘Champions,’ EA’s volunteer moderators, the block was due to complying with economic sanctions not allowing Electronic Arts to do business in specific countries. Players have no ability to access their games and, as it appears, EA had no intention of offering any sort of compensation for those who were locked out of their games or had bought newer titles (Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, etc) only to find that their purchases are useless.

For those who pay attention to political games, the ban makes no sense. According to users on the forums, the bans only went into place last month despite Myanmar being under economic sanctions by the US for years now with EA doing nothing to prevent purchases from the country. Furthermore, the economic sanctions were lifted by President Obama on October 7th, meaning that Electronic Arts is continuing to enforce economic sanctions that haven’t existed in close to a month.

Many are also doubting EA’s handling of the situation as other digital services in Burma/Myanmar (Steam, Good Old Games, etc) have been functioning in the country just fine. MMO Fallout will update as soon as we have more information.

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Abandonware Asteroids: Outpost Yanked From Steam


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Asteroids: Outpost was the subject of an Early Access Fraudster article back in March, I pointed out that the game had been abandoned by its developer (Salty Games) with no comment by its publisher (Atari, yes that Atari). As an online only game, the fact that the Asteroids servers had evidently been offline since November (as of March) were bad enough, the fact that the game was still up for sale was even worse, that players were attempting to report the game to Valve and getting nowhere is criminal.

Since that article’s posting, I have made numerous attempts to contact both Valve and Atari with no response from either party. Salty Games, as you would expect from a fly-by-night startup somewhere in Los Angeles has zero company presence in the form of a Salty Games account on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Atari doesn’t even seem to be too sure on who they’re working with, because the game’s product page on the Atari website calls them by two separate names: Salty Studios and Salty Games. I was able to track down several people on LinkedIn listing Salty Games as their former place of employment, and it appears that the studio has been defunct for over a year now. Gone before it ever discovered WordPress.

The important piece to take out of this article is that the game has finally been removed from Steam, seven months after my previous write-up. Atari, a company whose customer support and press relations are virtually non-existent since I tried to get answers by sending emails and submitting support queries, has not responded to a single email in those seven months. They completely ignored the fact that the game was still on sale despite being offline and unplayable for months on end, and it isn’t hard to believe that they won’t realize that the game has been pulled from sale until well into next year. The official website points toward Steam’s nonexistent store page, and the forum link ignorantly leads to a full page of warnings that the game is broken and to stay far away.

So while your dreams of an open world PvP sandbox turret defense MMO Asteroids spinoff may be squashed for the time being, the internet can once again feel safe knowing that another bad game is off the market.

Hacked Hello Games Tweet Affirmed By Hacked Sean Murray


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“No Man’s Sky was a mistake.” It’s the kind of misattributed quote you expect to see photoshopped onto a Hello Games tweet. But what happens when the message is verifiably from the official Hello Games Twitter account? Well it must have been hacked, you say, and Sean Murray will be right around to let us know that the whole ordeal is just a poorly protected account.

Alright, now what do you do when Sean Murray writes in to let you know that the tweet was indeed authentic? Well that exact story happened today, someone used the Hello Games Twitter account to write “No Man’s Sky was a mistake” and then followed it up by writing to Polygon under Sean Murray’s email address.

Murray has since pointed to an insecure LinkedIn account, however Mashable is reporting that the culprit is a disgruntled employee.

LinkedIn was hacked earlier this year, leading to speculation that Murray or another employee had committed the terrible no-no of sharing passwords between accounts.

(Source: Mashable)

Star Trek Online Tops 1 Million On Xbox/Playstation


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Star Trek Online launched on Xbox One a month ago and Perfect World Entertainment has announced that the consoles have surpassed 1 million players. According to a press release revealed today, the 1.1 million players break down into 68% Starfleet, 20% Klingon, 12% Romulan, with 2.7 million bridge officers and over 1,600 fleets in service.

You can check out Star Trek Online free on Xbox, Playstation, and PC.

(Source: Perfect World Entertainment Press Release)

Perfect World Entertainment Claims Lockboxes Preview As Bug


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Perfect World Entertainment has dug itself into a controversy this week as the company made the announcement that loot previews are being removed from lockboxes. According to a post on the main website, although this feature has been in the game for a long time, it is evidently a bug. As such, the “bug” is being removed.

Since this bug has been live for a long time and we believe that some players may have come to rely on this bug, we are providing advance notice of the change.

Unsurprisingly, players are responding angrily on the forums with players calling fowl on Perfect World’s attempt to explain away a confirmation screen as an unintended function.

(Source: Neverwinter)

Kakao Permanently Bans Bug Abusers


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Forum moderators over at Black Desert Online are no doubt getting ready for the barrage of “I was banned for nothing” threads as Kakao has permanently banned a number of accounts over an incident that occurred this week. A number of players figured out an exploit involving the shovel item and empty bottles, resulting in the use of both items being temporarily disabled while the team figured out how to fix the exploit.

The use of exploits to gain an unfair advantage over other Players is an egregious violation of our Terms of Use. As such these Users have been permanently removed from the game. We wish to make our stance clear regarding this type of behavior; it will not be tolerated.

(Source: Black Desert Online)

Evolved Into Abandonware: Turtle Rock Ends Development of Evolve


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We’ve been keeping a close eye on Evolve ever since its Stage 2 update to free to play went into beta on PC, hoping that it would revitalize the community and bring new life into a game that hit too many hurdles (many it placed itself) during development. It didn’t, while Evolve ballooned up to over 51 thousand players in July, as of the past 30 days less than 10% of those remain. With the free to play update on PC complete and the console versions still up in the air, Turtle Rock Studios announced today that their handling of the game has come to an end.

“Today, Turtle Rock finishes development on the project and begins to transition day-to-day server operation to 2K, as we take the operation of the Evolve franchise fully in-house.”

According to Community Manager “Shaners,” the decision to end the contract was made by 2K Games pulling the license. Whether or not Evolve Stage 2, the free to play transition, will come to consoles is unknown, however Turtle Rock won’t be heading it. There are no plans to continue creating content for Evolve.

(Source: Evolve)

Chronicle: RuneScape Legends Giveaway


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MMO Fallout has been given a bundle of Chronicle: RuneScape Legends keys to hand off to our viewers, and if you paid attention to our previous giveaway you’d know that it didn’t exactly work as intended. Luckily, we’ve managed to fix the issue and the keys are now back up and running. In order to grab yourself a key, click on the link below. All keys are redeemed through Steam, meaning you need to download the game on Steam and link your account first before you can redeem it.

The Foundation Pack is a $10 value on the Steam store and grants 10 booster packs with 5 cards each, 500 platinum ingots, 1 exclusive card back, and 500 gem shards to craft more cards. For more coverage of Chronicle: RuneScape Legends, check out our video of the new single player campaign, Trials of Radimus, below.

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Wild Terra Update Introduces New Skills


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The latest update to Wild Terra has hit the game’s servers, bringing with it two new skills. Agriculture introduces tree planting with higher experience granting better a better chance at successfully planting and cultivating trees and plants. Gathering presumably has to do with gathering. Gathering allows the player to collect necessary materials for agriculture, including plants and fungi. Items like bird poop can be used as fertilizer and, along with water, assist in growing plants faster.

You can read the entire list of notes at the link below. Wild Terra is currently in early access and with founder packs available at the official website.

(Source: Steam)

New Hi-Rez Game Is A Turn Based Smite Spinoff


Hi-Rez Studios has announced their next title, SMITE Tactics, a turn-based strategy game spinoff of the MOBA of a similar name.

Introducing SMITE Tactics, a turn-based strategy game from from Hi-Rez Studios. Build an army from a large roster of mythological gods and creatures like Zeus, the Greek God of the Sky, and Odin, the Norse Allfather. Then wage war in competitive multiplayer matches or single-player adventures. It’s up to you to command your Gods, strategically position your forces to take advantage of the terrain, and unleash divine powers to defeat your foes.

Registration is up on the main website.

(Source: SMITE Tactics)