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Neverwinter Disables Free Gift Promotion Temporarily

Perfect World Entertainment has temporarily halted an email promotion after players began using it in an unexpected manner. As part of the event, Neverwinter distributed a single code that granted one code with a chance to win random goods including elemental companions.

Players soon realized that the items were not account bound, allowing them to set up new accounts and repeatedly use the code to get more items from the list.

In addition to re-selling the item, we saw several instances where players created additional Arc accounts to continuously redeem the code. With the entire situation in mind, our team decided to disable the codes.

PWE is looking at options to replace/revive the program.

(Source: Neverwinter)

Steam Severely Limits Free Accounts To Combat Bots

If you haven’t been inundated with phishing attempts lately, consider yourself lucky.

With a customer base of their size and a lucrative trading market ripe for the picking, it only makes sense that Steam is in a constant uphill battle against account theft. In the latest attempt to curb phishing, Valve has placed multiple limitations on free accounts.

Certain features will be restricted until the account has spent at least $5 USD on the store, either by adding funds, purchasing a game, or purchasing a gift.

Malicious users often operate in the community on accounts which have not spent any money, reducing the individual risk of performing the actions they do. One of the best pieces of information we can compare between regular users and malicious users are their spending habits as typically the accounts being used have no investment in their longevity.

Free users with nothing spent on their account will be limited from:

Sending friend invites
Opening group chat
Voting on Greenlight, Steam Reviews and Workshop items
Participating in the Steam Market
Posting frequently in the Steam Discussions
Gaining Steam Profile Levels (Locked to level 0) and Trading Cards
Submitting content on the Steam Workshop
Posting in an item’s Steam Workshop Discussions
Accessing the Steam Web API
Using browser and mobile chat

The limitations can only be removed by spending on the Steam store. Receiving a gift, playing demos/free weekends, or adding a retail product will not lift the limitations.

(Source: Steam)

ArcheAge “Reap What You Sow” Event

ArcheAge’s next big update, Omen of Dread Prophecies, is set for an April 28th launch, introducing new zones, ship customization, and improved ship designs, and more. To get players ready, Trion Worlds is hosting a series of events beginning last week and running through the 28th.

The Reap What You Sow event runs until tomorrow afternoon, rewarding players with 500 labor points for every 1000 that they spend. From the 24th through the 28th, players will be challenged to turn in trade packs in return for loyalty points, with rewards going to those that trade in the most.

After the update launches, there will be a further event that doubles all honor gained in PvP

(Source: ArcheAge)

Wildstar Bundles “Mystery Box” With New Copies

Carbine Studios is running a promotion with Wildstar: Buy a copy of the game and receive a “mystery box” code, which will grant one of three items: A mount (pictured above), a hoverboard, and a costume set, plus a title for collecting all three.

For a limited time, when you buy a standard-edition copy of WildStar in the physical box, you also get one of these three awesome items. Got duplicate items? No problem! You can trade them with your friends, sell them on the auction house, or just keep them to yourself.

Unfortunately for current players, the codes are only given if you redeem the game after April 15th, and only the standard edition boxed copy (digital codes and steel box deluxe is not included). The pets can then be traded on the auction house, gifted to others, or applied as a character-bound item.

(Source: Wildstar)

Check Out RuneScape Chronicles Footage From Insomnia 54

Jagex showed up at the Insomnia 54 convention in the UK to show off Chronicle: RuneScape Legends, their upcoming card game based in RuneScape lore. For those of you who weren’t able to make it out to the UK, the team has posted their twenty minute demonstration of the game in action, showing a full match from start to finish.

Check out the video embedded below. Follow the Chronicle blog at the link below for more information.

(Source: Chronicle Blog)

Linda “Brasse” Carlson Is Now At Trion Worlds

Linda Carlson, also known as her Everquest avatar Brasse, has been scooped up by Trion Worlds and hired as the new director of community relations. Carlson had previously worked at Sony Online Entertainment until shortly after the company was acquired by Columbus Nova and rebranded as Daybreak Game Company.

We here at MMO Fallout wish Carlson the best of luck at her new position.

(Source: gamesindustry.biz)

EA Gutting Play4Free Amidst SWTOR Growth

Electronic Arts has announced that a handful of titles from their free to play library will be shutting down this year. The list includes Battlefield Heroes, Battlefield Play4Free, Fifa World and Need 4 Speed World. Servers are set to shut down in about 90 days.

Star Wars: The Old Republic continues to enjoy an “enthusiastic and growing community,” according to EA executive vice president Patrick Soderlund.

(Source: EA Games)

Wildstar Recalls Point Toward Impending Changes

EB Games and JB Hi-Fi have been ordered to recall all copies of Wildstar from shelves in Australia, increasing the likelihood that the game is in the process of either changing its subscription model or shutting down entirely. As of this publishing. Wildstar is still available for purchase from the official website, as well as at game stores internationally.

While this is speculation at best until NCSoft/Carbine Studios make an official announcement, there is precedent. Copies of The Elder Scrolls Online were recalled shortly before the game’s transition to buy to play was announced, as well as retiring its six month subscription package.

(Source: Games.on.net)

Defiance’s Alcatraz Update Live Today

Defiance’s latest update Alcatraz is now available. The update introduces a higher level cap, a new zone, new equipment type, and expeditions.

The new zone, Alcatraz, acts as the stage through which players take on expeditions, cooperative maps that task ark hunters with taking on increasingly difficult challenges. Cyber rigs are new equipment that can be customized to improve performance with weapons, shields, and more. There are multiple rigs and chips for customization that can drop during expeditions, or broken down into cyber shards to spend on the Alcatraz vendor.

Also part of the update, Trion Worlds has promised a smoother leveling curve to 6000 EGO score.

(Source: Defiance)

H1Z1 To Introduce Test Servers/Auto-Bans This Week

H1Z1’s next update is scheduled for April 16th, adding improved grouping/friend systems, ironing out more bugs, and introducing throwable weapons. Players will be happy to know that it also introduces a test server so updates can be previewed and (hopefully) tested before they go live.

Bringing up a test server that launches from steam for players to see the latest patch before it comes out

Also going live with Thursday’s update is an improved version of H1Z1’s anti-cheat technology, as well as improvements to the automatic ban system to deal with cheaters in a more efficient manner.

Next week’s update on the 23rd introduces the Steam marketplace where players will be able to trade and sell items for real money, screen effects, zombie virus, and more.

(Source: H1Z1)

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