Mirage Online Classic is out!
This week sees the Steam release of Mirage Online Classic, a spiritual sequel to Mirage Online and an MMO built using HTML. The title was put together by Christopher Kremer and Rich Conner, and is available as a free to play title at this very moment.
New Frontier is the current iteration of the fraud racket formerly known as Wild West Online, and as of this week it is officially in release mode. MMO Fallout has been covering New Frontier since the original shell company 612 Games was denying involvement from the industry’s most relentless shyster Sergey Titov (spoiler: He was and is involved). New Frontier was developed by Free Reign Entertainment who were behind the godawful reskin releases-slash-commercial failures that were Romero’s Aftermath, Shattered Skies, and Burstfire.
Don’t give Free Reign Entertainment money.
Today’s video comes to us from Wild Terra 2: New Lands. The video shows off gameplay from the upcoming title kicking off with what else but a party killing big infectious rats, followed by skinning them for parts. Yummy.
Wild Terra 2 is currently in alpha testing. For more information, check out the Steam page. The current iteration of Wild Terra is free to play.
Source: Steam
The Kritika Reboot team has not exactly been quiet about their bot-banning sprees, but you might not be aware that the company is going after gold buyers as well. This week the team at ALLM Co. posted a reminder to users; three strikes and you’re out. The message has been reposted below for your enjoyment.
Kritika:REBOOT responds seriously to all of illegal trades including trade in cash. When such behavior is caught, disadvantages can be applied as follows.
– 1st time caught : Sends Warning mail.
– 2nd time caught : 3 days account suspension
– 3rd time caught : Permanent account suspension.Illegal trades effects bad influence to the economy of the game, we are sorry for those of you who play in manner.
We ask for your cooperation to form better environment of the game.
Thank you.
Source: Kritika
Finally time to deliver those cookies.
Those of you playing through the Destiny 2 Winter event may have found yourself caught up on a bit of a hitch: The Lavender Ribbon Cookies that you bake up have instructions to deliver to Saint-14 in the tower hanger. The problem? When you get to the tower hanger, Saint-14 is nowhere to be found!
Saint-14 is the latest character reintroduced to Destiny 2 thanks to the Season of Dawn event. This season’s activities are centered around finding and saving Saint-14 after he went missing and was presumed dead in the Infinite Forest. Thankfully Guardians have managed to canonically save Saint-14 and at the end of his raid players are told to meet up with him back at the Tower. Until today he has not arrived.
Thankfully you can now deliver your cookies to Saint-14 and take part in a number of quests in return for goodies. Saint-14 can be found in the hanger behind Amanda Holliday. All players should see a notification upon login that Saint-14 is now present in the Tower.
(Update 12/21: That didn’t take long. It looks like Valve has killed trading card drops for Postal as of this morning)
Postal is free on Steam, and if you keep track of the top played Steam games you might be wondering how this little shooter from 1997 managed to amass more than four hundred thousand concurrent players on Steam. I mean, it’s good. It’s not that good.
Well the answer is fraud, but not on the part of developer Running With Scissors or Valve. Postal has trading cards; five normal and five foil, which makes the game an easy target for bots seeking to farm the cards and basically launder money on the black market. The cards were initially added back in 2014.
The good news for players is that if you’re looking to max out that Postal badge, doing so will assuredly be as cheap as it’s going to get. You’ll just have to swallow the possibility of your thirty cents going toward a criminal Russian mafia operation. The bad side is that Valve has a history of outright disabling card trading for free games that become the target of botting, so if you’re going to buy those badges do so now before the hammer of justice swings down. There are five badge levels until you max out, plus one foil badge level.
Check it out.
Source: Postal, Steam Charts
And now something heartwarming.
Generally when stories about credits come up, it’s because someone got snubbed and didn’t receive recognition for their work. Games, movies, the press, it happens a lot more than it reasonably should. This week however, we have a story coming out of Bungie regarding Destiny 2 that should warm the hearts of our readers.
Bungie’s Drew Tucker took to Twitter to note that Destiny 2 has received an update which credits everyone who has worked on the game since launch.
A small thing we updated in Destiny 2 that no one is aware of is our credits. Everyone who has worked on the game since launch is included!
It’s so surreal to see my name in one of Bungie’s games amongst so many awesome people.@witchysheep @A_dmg04 @DeeJ_BNG @MercifulDev pic.twitter.com/fXQ057xjSO
— Drew Tucker – Game Award Winner (@Duard0) December 18, 2019
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The sentiments were echoed by other Bungie staff including Steve Dolan who apologized that the credits had taken so long and expressed his happiness that the people involved could finally see their names.
Sorry it took is so long to get that one done… So glad that everyone can now see their name in the credits!
— Steve ?? (@CrazyStevieD) December 18, 2019
DC Universe Online has a problem; An exploit allowed players to inject a gross amount of money into the game’s economy. How gross? According to Daybreak, trillions. Enough that virtually everyone in the game is now in possession of the fake cash, regardless of whether or not you’re aware of its origins. The cash has made its way through the economy and into so many player’s hands that Daybreak shut down trading cash and use of the broker while they figured out what to do about it.
The answer? Fix the exploit, ban the exploiters, and enforce a one-time “progressive tax” to fix the economy. You rich folks aren’t going to like this.
We have settled on six tax brackets for this one-time event, totaled at the ACCOUNT level, which are as follows:
- Cash below $500,000,000 is not taxed at all.
- Cash between 500,000,001 and 10,000,000,000 is taxed at 5%
- Cash between 10,000,000,001 and 15,000,000,000 is taxed at 10%.
- Cash between 15,000,000,001 and 20,000,000,000 is taxed at 20%.
- Cash between 20,000,000,001 and 25,000,000,000 is taxed at 25%.
- Cash above 25,000,000,001 is taxed at 100%.
Daybreak has admitted that the goal is not to fix the economy in one swoop, but to get rid of most of the cash that was introduced with the exploit. Their “look on the bright side” explanation is certainly something.
“We also want to maintain some of the scale of wealth legitimately present in the game. You may have less cash after this tax, but for the most part you will still have more than the people you had more than before, and less than the people you had less than before.”
On the plus side, if you had your investments wrapped up in items instead of cash, you’re pretty much safe from the number squash.
Source: DCUO
Stadia’s holiday launch is an embarrassment of riches. Well it’s an embarrassment anyway. At least you’d be laughing if you’re not among the astroturf social media accounts who coincidentally just registered and only post to lie about Stadia and its competition.
Borderlands 3 is out on Stadia today, and nothing says embarrassing quite like your console-free game being woefully out of date. One positive of the Stadia experience is that you don’t have to download or update your games, and Gearbox has sweetened the deal even more by simply not updating the game. As posted on the official website, the Stadia edition of Borderlands 3 has launched with the most recent version of Borderlands 3 up to October 24. Gearbox hopes to achieve version parity around early 2020.
“We aim to achieve feature parity for all versions of Borderlands 3 early in 2020, but for the moment the version of the game that you play on Stadia has benefitted from the updates and fixes that were released through October 24. Noteworthy features coming soon to the Stadia version of Borderlands 3 include endgame content like the Takedown at the Maliwan Blacksite and Mayhem 4 difficulty, dedicated loot pools for bosses, and additional bank space.”
Borderlands 3’s first expansion content titled Moxxi’s Heist For the Handsome Jackpot launches on December 19, whereas Stadia players will need to wait until early 2020.
Astellia Online is hosting a temporary free trial period for you stragglers.
Starting this Friday December 20 and running through January 5, anyone who creates an account on Astellia’s website will be able to check the game out free of charge. It looks like the free trials are only going to be for the weekends, and you’ll need to use the code HAPPYHOLIDAYWEEKENDS in order to qualify. Over the same weekends, all players will enjoy an experience boost as well as drop rate and increased dungeon ticket rate.
Meanwhile players will be able to take part in a holiday event beginning today (Dec. 17) that will open up a new zone where Braga Claus will offer new quests and new rewards.
For more information, check out the official website.
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