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Xsyon Now On Steam Early Access

Notorious Games has officially launched their sandbox MMO Xsyon on Steam Early Access. Now available for $29.99, and includes one month of subscription time.

During the Prelude, Xsyon is continuously evolving and expanding. This phase of the game was intended as a time for the game to adapt to its community. The development team has been working closely with the player base to determine the future of Xsyon and wishes to continue to do so with the Steam crowd.”

Players with existing Xsyon accounts can request a Steam copy for no additional charge.

(Source: Notorious Games Press Release)

Petition To Revive Wizardry Gets Attention

A player petition to bring back Wizardry Online may have hit its mark. Ever since Sony Online Entertainment cut its ties and shut down the Wizardry servers mid-2014, players have been trying to convince other publishers to give the game a second chance.

Several months later, one such company has responded. Over at the Suba Games board, a community manager for the publisher responded that they have heard player demands, and have contacted developer Gamepot.

Afternoon everyone, it’s always great to see people passionate enough to pool together and try to have their voices heard. In this case i want to let you know you all have been heard and Suba is interested in reviving this game. They have actually made contact with the developer but have yet to conclude an outcome with them yet.

Nothing is set in stone, but the news is certainly a positive for the game’s fans.

(Source: Suba Games)

DC Universe Online Reclaiming Inactive Names

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that inactive names will be reclaimed later this month. In a post on the official website, players have been warned that characters that have not been accessed since July 20, 2013 will have an underscore and Roman numeral attached to their names, although the account and character itself will remain unchanged otherwise. No characters will be deleted.

(Source: DC Universe)

Reminder: Tentative Schedule For Quarterly Releases

January is upon us, and that can only mean one thing: the 2014 fiscal year is ending and the 2015 fiscal year is beginning, well for most people. This year MMO Fallout plans on expanding our coverage of quarterly reports with even more analysis, so now is as good a time as any to show off the anticipated schedule for this year’s coverage:

February: Q4 2014 Reports
May: Q1 2015 Reports
August: Q2 2015 Reports
November: Q3 2015 Reports

Presently MMO Fallout more heavily covers NCSoft, Perfect World Entertainment, Star Vault, with heavier coverage of Electronic Arts and unconfirmed other companies coming. I will be covering Square Enix, but only in their annual reports.

I will make a note in the actual report, but Square Enix’s fiscal year runs a little different from the other companies, so try not to be too quick in hitting those comments when you see “annual report for 2015 fiscal year” being published in May. Once again, Square Enix’s 2015 fiscal year roundup is published in May, as it covers April through March. Clear as mud? Good.

If you have any ideas for content you’d like to see added in the quarterly roundups, go ahead and drop a comment.

Jagex Silences Solomon Over Player Outrage

Jagex has reigned in an update relating to a cash shop sale after customers complained that the promotion was obnoxious. In order to promote a month-long Solomon Store (cash shop) sale, Jagex placed a Solomon NPC within several cities to banter on about his deals. Players criticized the NPC text as spam, noting that in many locations he was appearing next to town heralds who were also promoting the same sale.

In response, Jagex quickly removed the Solomon NPCs from all locations except his permanent home in Varrok, while town heralds are still promoting the sale at a less intrusive rate. Jagex has since apologized over Twitter, declaring the NPC placement to be a mistake.

RuneScape’s cash shops continue to be a hot button issue over the perception that content is being withheld from the game in order to be monetized over limited time Treasure Hunter promotions.

(Source: Reddit)

Pathfinder Online Early Access Rates

Pathfinder Online recently entered Open Enrollment, meaning the price of admission has changed once again. Many seem to be under the impression that you still need to drop a good grand to gain entry, which was the case during the alpha stage.

Right now you can gain immediate access for $100 by buying the Early Enrollment pack. The package comes with three months of game time and other digital goodies. For those who can wait another month, there is a $50 pack that grants access beginning in February, and only contains one free month of game time.

Early enrollment should not be confused with open enrollment, which is not set to begin until January 2016. Also keep in mind that while the game is in early access, you are still required to pay a subscription.

Goblinworks does not consider this to be a beta period.

(Source: Pathfinder Online)

Planetside 2: “We Are Actually Trying To Make Money.”

John Smedley went on Twitter today to defend SOE’s decision to reduce the drop rate and effectiveness on implants to push players toward newly introduced, more powerful variants. In response to complaints that the update was a cash grab, Smedley responded via Twitter:

Sorry but we are actually trying to make money. I don’t consider it a money grab.

Smedley later pointed out on Twitter that the changes were due to the original drop rates being too high.

(Source: Massively)

RuneScape Details 2015 Manifesto

Jagex has released the 2015 manifesto for RuneScape, detailing some of the big updates coming this year.

The list of updates includes a new cooperative world event, skill updates, world bosses, quests, and more.

We’re planning for one update per month to be grabbed from RuneLabs, although you won’t start seeing the fruits of that labour until the Summer. That isn’t even counting the many polls we’ll be releasing on non-RuneLabs updates.

For Old School, 2015 is set to bring in plenty of content, pending approval via player polling. Content currently planned includes trading post updates, achievement diaries, resizable mode, the new continent Zeah, and other updates.

January will see the launch of boss pets, drop table reworks, the return of Hati and Skoll, ports, and RuneLabs, as well as new cash shop items.

(Source: RuneScape)
(Source: Old School)

EA Denies Origin Breach, Change Your Password Anyway

Electronic Arts has denied that the Origin service was the victim of a security breach, in a statement to PC Gamer. The statement comes in response to an article published earlier from a surge in users reporting unauthorized games being purchased on their accounts.

“We found no indication at this point of a breach of our Origin account database.”

Account thieves appear to be mostly using compromised accounts to purchase Fifa 2015 and using the accounts to farm coins. Users have reported little trouble in getting EA to reverse the charges, and are encouraged to not have credit card details stored on the account, and to implement the client’s two factor authentication.

Derp Trolling, a hacker group, claimed to have 1.7 million Origin accounts. Whether or not this apparent surge in compromised accounts is related is unknown.

(Source: PC Gamer)

Project Gorgon Successfully Greenlit

Following its unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign, Project Gorgon has been successfully greenlit for release on Steam.

There’s a lot of work to get the game Steam-ready, and I don’t know the exact timeline yet, but the hard part was getting Greenlit.

You can currently play an early build of Project Gorgon at the official website.

(Source: Steam)

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