Category: News

TERA Sees Huge Number Spikes Thanks To Steam


As surprising as it may sound, releasing on Steam can do wonders for a game’s community, as European publisher Gameforge and developer Bluehole Studios found out following the successful rollout of TERA on the digital distribution service. Since its launch, TERA has remained in the top 30 list of free to play games. According to Steam Charts, TERA enjoys on average more than three thousand concurrent players on Steam alone.

Olaf Bernhard, CMO of Gameforge, says: “Our strategy of bringing not only new releases to Steam but also re-releasing our most successful games, proves very successful: With every game we manage to bring new fans in and reactive former players.”

Support for TERA is still going with a new class set to release in April, the Valkyrie, which players will be able to reserve their names for shortly.

(Source: TERA press release)

Neverwinter’s D&D Campaigns Return This Week


If you’ve ever been playing Neverwinter and found the game severely lacking in characters mocking your actions, you’re in luck. Beginning this Thursday and running for a month, players will once again have access to Respen and Portobello’s Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Adventurers interested in getting their 20-sided dice dirty will have the opportunity to get their hands on a number of rewards like the owlbear figurine and Beholder personal tank.

Both Respen’s and Portobello’s campaigns will be occurring during this time, each with tasks to offer during the month-long event. In between evaluations at the Burrow Dawn Inn, don’t forget to check the event queues for new ways to be tested! A new queue will open up each week, so be sure to check back regularly!

The event brings a new campaign each week, check out the link below to see how to get started.

(Source: Neverwinter)

Snapshots: RuneScape Agents of Fury


Today’s Snapshots comes from RuneScape where players are once again playing a limited time resource gathering event. For the next two weeks, skilling activities will yield Zamorakian Emblems, which can be traded in to the envoys of Avernic general Nymora in return for rewards including pieces of the Furies Agent outfit. You can see the full outfit constructed above. The full outfit requires ten days worth of resources, so get cracking!

Wild Terra: Find Bugs, Earn Rewards


Juvty developer wants your help in weeding out bugs in Wild Terra, and they’re willing to reward those who do step up and pledge their assistance. In the latest announcement sent out by the Wild Terra crew, Juvty Worlds announced that players who submit detailed information about bugs and vulnerabilities can be eligible for rewards, including gold and steam keys.

We will reward players for the detailed information about bugs and vulnerabilities of the game. Following the results of the tests will be given prizes of gold and Steam-keys. How to report an error

The news comes alongside a new patch introducing a bevvy of new areas, items, and more. Check out the details at the link below.

(Source: Wild Terra)

FFXIV Drops 90 Day Subscriptions For PS3


We all know that the days of Final Fantasy XIV are coming to an end so far as the Playstation 3 is concerned. With less than 90 days on the radar coming up, it makes sense that Square Enix would stop selling 90 day subscription cards, which they plan on doing after March 18.

Furthermore, on the weekend of March 18, 2017, automatic payments for 90-day recurring subscriptions will be suspended for players registered only to the PlayStation®3 version. Moving forward, we ask that these players please renew their subscriptions using shorter subscription periods.

The upgrade campaign allowing players to move up to the Playstation 4 version of the game is valid until the end of the year. More details at the link below.

(Source: FFXIV)

Hearthstone Tells Non-Americans To Pay Up: How Prices Are Changing Worldwide


The Hearthstone community is responding with frustration as Blizzard announced that the price of card packs in countries that are not America are set to rise, some as high as 30%.

Announced via the Hearthstone forums, one can find a list of new prices set to go into effect on March 22 in countries all over Europe, Africa, and South America on PC, Mac, and Android. In America, the cost of a two pack is $2.99, the two pack containing ten cards total. The price increase in some regions marks upwards of a 30% boost over what Americans are paying.

According to the announcement, this will not affect the price of the Un’Goro prelaunch bundle:

We regularly look at our pricing around the world, and from time to time we make changes such as these to align with local and regional market conditions. The price of the Un’Goro prelaunch bundle offer will not be affected by this change and will remain the same until launch.

The analytically driven among you can find a work in progress chart of the price changes here, showcasing exchange rates and how the prices will change in the coming weeks. It is worth noting that in many regions, the prices have been lower than they are in the states. How this will affect player’s purchasing decisions will have to be seen.

Blizzard Promises Bans For Overwatch AFKers


Blizzard has put AFKers on notice: According to a recent forum post, Overwatch is targeting some bad hombres, specifically players who create or join custom games with the intent of farming experience. Going forward, if players even think about joining a custom game with the intent of farming experience while away from keyboard, they may be on the receiving end of an account ban.

If you create a Custom Game that in any way encourages players to gain experience while inactive, you risk having your account banned. If you join any game mode – including Custom Games – with the intent of gaining experience while being inactive, you risk having your account banned. Also, do not name your Custom Game that in anyway even implies that gaining experience while inactive is OK – please do not even do this as a joke – because you are putting yourself at risk of having your account banned.

Director Jeff Kaplan asks that the community not force Blizzard to remove experience gain from custom games by reporting servers and not joining in on such shenanigans. More information can be found at the link below.

(Source: Overwatch)

Valve Updates Steam Reviews, Free Reviews Don’t Count


Valve has updated how Steam handles user reviews today in a way that will affect how paid/free reviews affect the game’s overall score. Starting today, the review score will no longer be affected by users that received the game for free, including free weekends and gifts.

With the changes we are making now, the review score (shown at the top of store pages and in various places throughout the store such as search results) will no longer include reviews by users that received the game for free, such as via a gift, or during a free weekend. Reviews can still be written by customers that obtained the game in any of these ways, but the review will not count toward the overall review score.

Free to play games will not be affected by this change.

(Source: Steam)

Neverwinter Dumps Windows XP And Old Video Cards


Neverwinter joins the growing list of games dropping support for older versions of Windows, as with today’s update the client will no longer support Windows XP and video cards that don’t meet a certain Direct3D benchmark. The update was announced back in December as an effort to improve game performance and optimize the player experience.

As of this build, Neverwinter can no longer support the Windows XP operating system, or video cards with a Direct3D Hardware Feature Level less than 10.0.

(Source: Neverwinter)

STiCLi Games on Twitter: “[People] Such As You Should Be Killed On Sight.”


In case you weren’t entirely convinced of STiCLi Games’ status as a toxic developer, another piece has come forward straight from the horse’s mouth. It doesn’t take much time to read through the entirety of STiCLi’s posting history, their account consists of 23 posts as of this publishing, but one message in particular caught our attention. The STiCLi account telling a user that people “such as you should be killed on sight.”

Some context: The conversation in question was regarding LaMia Flight 2933, a tragedy that occurred late last November when a plane crashed in Columbia. The comment that STiCLi is responding to said:

81 people were on a plane like the one in the picture? No wonder it went down

(Source: Twitter)