Wild Terra is an upcoming MMO where players train and live on a map that generates as they explore, and the developers have opened up testing to everyone for the next week. From March 29th to April 5th, you’ll be able to download the client and give the game a try.
MMO Fallout will have more coverage on Wild Terra coming this week.
(Source: Wild Terra)
Trion Worlds has spent the better part of the past six or so months attempting to slowly detoxify the very virulent community whose actions they have actively coddled and defended as ‘in the spirit of the game,’ and that shift in management has come to a head once again with Trion reversing a trade scam against a high profile streamer during a charity event. The streamer was duped into trading expensive equipment to an imposter account during a charity stream for Doctors Without Borders, after which Trion reversed the trade and banned the imposter account.
Impersonating someone else, even if it’s by name, to separate someone from their hard earned goods is not allowed and has not been allowed in ArcheAge. In the past, there have been situations where a player impersonated another player and, in those situations, our Customer Service team has reversed the outcome of the scam no matter if it was items or gold.
Some of the anger seems to stem from the fact that the impersonation rule, while it has always existed, has admittedly not been publicized and may not even have been properly enforced until this recent incident. The majority of it, however, is coming from the ‘hardcore’ end of the community who view the idea of impersonating another player to defraud someone as fair game, with the usual attitude of ‘the victim deserved it for being stupid.’
We realize that this policy has not been made public in the past, but this high profile incident has made us realize that we need to publicly acknowledge and reinforce our stance on name impersonation within the game. This is not a new policy that was made simply for this stream — this is a policy that we as a company have had for the past year and beyond, and it is a policy that is referenced within our Terms of Use (11. Code of Conduct, Rule A.)
There are numerous false reports circulating that the rule did not exist before this event, and MMO Fallout has been able to confirm via archives of the terms of service that the rule has always been in place. Regardless of certain members of the community using wordplay, unaffiliated rules, and technical trickery as justification, it objectively was not allowed, even with ArcheAge’s lax stance on scams. The rule explicitly forbids creating a character with a name “belonging to another person with the intent to impersonate that person, including without limitation a “Game Master” or any other employee or agent of Trion.”
Still, there is plenty of valid criticism towards Trion Worlds for not bringing this rule to light until it happened to a high profile player, regardless of the fact that it existed prior to this incident.
(Source: ArcheAge)
Welcome to Deadman mode. On these worlds, you die.
RuneScape’s Deadman Mode has proven to be a rather successful spinoff to Old School, requiring players to stay on their toes as death means heavy losses in experience, inventory, and bank. To keep things exciting, Jagex began a seasonal Deadman mode, allowing players to level up over the course of three months with the top two thousand players gaining entry to the Deadman tournament servers, culminating in a deathmatch tournament whereby the winner goes home with ten grand in real money.
Well the first season has come and gone, and its victor has been crowned and will be receiving his money. Season 2 has begun, and all seasonal server characters have been reset. Players can log into the new seasonal servers and start grinding away.
As usual, players on seasonal deadman will enjoy boosted experience rates at the cost of heavy losses on death.
(Source: Old School)
If you were looking to give the gift of cash shop items in Black Desert Online, you’re out of luck. Due to rampant credit card fraud, Black Desert Online will no longer allow cash shop items to be gifted. In a post on the official forums, Daum Games also announced that players purchasing from gold selling services will be “sanctioned accordingly.”
Due to abuse and credit card fraud by third parties (gold sellers and others) we will shut down the gifting feature in our cash shop. All players who purchased items/silver from those services will be inquired and sanctioned accordingly.
As a commodity that already finds itself in the grey area of the law, gold farmers and credit card fraud are two pieces that often come packaged together, using stolen cards to traffic in goods at no cost to themselves, with the funds inevitably reversed at the developer’s expense. The practice has been growing in selling CD keys purchased off of gaming websites with stolen credit cards, causing numerous developers to begin disabling associated keys.
(Source: Black Desert Online)
Indie sandbox MMO Revival has announced that development has ceased due to lack of funds.
Starting in the very new future, you will find that homes are no longer for sale through the Dunwich and Innsmouth section of our website and future patches to the client are, at least as of now, highly unlikely. I will never give up on Revival, and I know I’m not alone, but we just don’t have the resources at our disposal that we need, and the sacrifices necessary to acquire them don’t make much sense given our goal, here.
When we first set out to build Revival, we had access to expertise and resources that aren’t available today. Making up for their loss, be it as simple as lacking sufficient animators or as complicated as losing access to certain networking expertise, has been a costly affair, far more costly than we can honestly afford to bear. So, what does that mean? Is Revival completely dead?
Not particularly, no, just delayed indefinitely. Founders will still have access to their renovation kits, their properties, etc, with no intention of shutting those down for the foreseeable future. In addition, it looks like development will still continue on Revival in some fashion, even if it is unpaid and slow. Founders will also receive Steam keys for two other games, Nexuiz and Moving Hazards.
(Source: Revival)
Survarium developer Vostok Games has announced another wave of bans, removing one hundred accounts for violating the game’s rules on using cheats. All of the accounts can be found, by name, on the Steam announcement page. Vostok regularly posts the names of accounts banned for cheating, and recommends that players use the report tool at the end of the match to report any suspicious players.
We remind everyone that use of prohibited software is a serious violation and it is punished with a permanent ban. 101 accounts were permanently banned from March the 14th to March the 21st because their owners have used prohibited software to gain an advantage in the game.
If you follow the link below, you can also find a comprehensive list of accounts that have been previously banned in Survarium.
(Source: Survarium)
Greed Monger has once again been cancelled, leaving everyone who pledged the over ninety grand out of luck, again. The MMO was Kickstarted to the tune of ninety grand, only to face development issues and eventual cancellation under Jason Appleton and Electric Crow Games. Appleton handed over the title to ex-employee Jason Proctor who has, in turn, announced that the game has been cancelled.
After careful consideration giving GM’s track record and the number of people we still have in the community we have decided it’s best to put Greed Monger to rest for good. There is no way that Greed Monger could support it’s self with as small of a user base as we would have.
We’ll have to see if this is the last time that Greed Monger is momentarily resuscitated. For now, it appears that the game is back where it was always headed, the defunct category.
(Source: Greed Monger)
Planetside 2 China joins the growing list of Daybreak Game Company products that have shut down or will be shutting down shortly. As reported by MMO Culture, Planetside 2’s Chinese publisher The9 announced that it would not be renewing its contract with Daybreak to publish the massively multiplayer shooter and will be taking the servers down at the end of May. According to reports, despite the notable amount of money spent promoting the title, Planetside 2’s venture in the east never wound up receiving many updates.
The9 will instead be focusing on the upcoming launch of Firefall.
(Source: MMO Culture)
MMO Fallout has partnered with Suba Games to give away beta keys to the upcoming relaunch of Luna Online. Dubbed Luna Online: Reborn, the revival includes numerous improvements and additions over the original launch in order to attract a more nostalgic crowd of gamers. Suba Games is relaunching the title in response to overwhelming demands by its community after the servers were shut down by gPotato.
New to Luna Online: Reborn is a revamped progression system, the removal of race restrictions on classes, new housing options and guild halls, and more.
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In addition, Luna Online: Reborn is currently running a Kickstarter campaign in order to assist in advertising the relaunch.
About Luna Online: Reborn
Luna Online: Reborn is an anime themed MMORPG set in the cute fantasy world of Blueland. The game is a remake of the popular Luna Online, now published by Suba Games. It provides adjustments to original content that remove any negative experience gamers reported about Luna Plus.
Furthermore, we’ve added in new Realm vs Realm & Real Time Ranking Systems that are certain to provide a new meaning to gaining dominance over Luna castle.
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Never let anyone tell you that 99 mining won’t get you everywhere in life. Jagex, makers of the MMO RuneScape and its many spinoffs, has announced that it is in the negotiation phase for a potential acquisition by a Chinese company by the name of Shandong Honda. You may be thinking that Shandong Honda is one of China’s many game publishers, but you would be wrong. The company is actually an iron ore mining operation.
“Jagex has entered into a non-exclusive, non-binding arrangement for a potential acquisition. The negotiations surrounding the acquisition are ongoing and it remains very much business as usual for the Company.”
Jagex’s head of community, also known as Mod Balance, posted a response that the news coverage today noting that the deal may still not materialize into anything.
Jagex is in early stage discussions with the firm in question, but we must stress that they may – or may not – materialise into anything. However, should they come to fruition, it would potentially allow us access to the Asian marketplace to a high level.
Players have been promised that their questions are being collected and answers will be given in due time.
(Source: Deal Street Asia)
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