With SOE Live cancelled for the time being, fans are hoping to continue the festivities with their own event. Dubbed Project Fanfaire, the event will be held in August at the Hotel South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Ticket amounts are spelled out in the rewards. This is a fan planned convention to replace SOE Live while Daybreak Gaming Company makes the transition to a brand new company.
Tickets begin at $174.
(Source: Kickstarter)
Trion Worlds recently found itself in a bit of controversy following the company’s attempt to win back ex-customers by doling out gift packages. The packages were considered far too generous by members of the community, including expensive gift packages and items that previously required heavy investment into the game’s lockboxes. In response, community manager Scapes announced that a plan would be announced today once it was finalized in internal meetings.
At their Livestream today, Trion announced the details of the plan. Paying patrons (paid real money) will receive a cyanfin mount, starlight glider, 30 Golden Library Index items, 10 Tyrenos index items, 10 experience potions, 7 day passes to the library floors, 5 worker’s comp potions, 2 vocation tonics, and 1 of each lucky point and archeum essence. Non-paying accounts will receive the index items (only one Tyrenos), 4 lockboxes, 2 worker’s comp potions, and 1 vocation tonic.
Players who bought the cash shop lockbox will receive tokens for each box that they purchased that can be used to buy any of the lockboxes that have been released to date.
(Source: Trion Worlds Livestream)
Update: Trion has laid out its plans here.
Trion Worlds is a company that we see a lot of complaints about here at MMO Fallout, but being too generous is a new one. The developer recently tried to bring back ArcheAge players with lapsed subscriptions by sending emails offering free stuff. Many players received about what you’d expect from such a program: RNG boxes, cosmetic mounts, some resources, etc. Others, however, found themselves the new owners of rare materials, and even gift packages that normally sell for $100 on the cash shop.
Needless to say players are livid, a phrase that seems all too common when talking about ArcheAge. Trion, for their part, have acknowledged that they went too far in what constitutes an acceptable gift and will be addressing the matter further.
We need to ensure our existing loyal patrons and players never feel slighted when we implement programs like this. It’s important for us to treat our community fairly and to do this we are designing a giveaway for all active ArcheAge players. We will have more details tomorrow after internal discussions occur around development of the program.
(Source: ArcheAge)
Square Enix’s Thursday Livestream has come and gone, and the announcements were not all great. Square unveiled the Vana’Diel Project, a three part strategy to continue support for the aging MMO. The first part, unfortunately, involves ending content updates. Following a three chapter scenario aimed for launch in May, August, and November, Final Fantasy XI will cease to receive content updates.
FINAL FANTASY XI’s major version updates will conclude with the implementation of the final chapter of Rhapsodies of Vana’diel, but there will continue to be minor version updates that address bugs and contain various balance adjustments.
Playstation 2 and Xbox 360 users will be sad to hear that services for those platforms will end in March 2016. Final Fantasy XI will be ported to be playable on mobile devices, alongside the launch of a mobile RPG in 2016.
(Source: FFXI)
Wildstar’s next update, Invasion: Nexus, is on its way to clients everywhere soon. As part of the update, Carbine Studios is working on introducing contracts, daily quests that players can partake in at level 50 that are designed to be completed in a short amount of time. The goal of contracts, according to Carbine, is to “enable players to make steady progress toward powerful gear and give them even more reasons to stay and play on Nexus.”
Contracts are divided into three difficulty levels and two categories (PvE and PvP) with players able to complete as many of the easiest contracts as they’d like. Contracts reward points, prestige, gear, and glory, with extra bonuses as the player accumulates more points.
(Source: NCSoft Press Release)
Recent rumors about layoffs at Perfect World Entertainment have gathered stride as an anonymous employee contacted Massively Overpowered with more details. According to the employee, the layoffs include eighteen members of Cryptic Studios, or around 14% of the studio, with the Redwood Shores office hit the hardest.
More information is sure to become public as Perfect World Entertainment has yet to make an official statement.
(Source: MassivelyOP)
Line of Defense, MMO Shooter currently in an early state of development, recently ran a free play weekend that has developer 3000AD rethinking whether or not free weekends will be on the menu for the future. Derek Smart slammed the negative reviews as “disingenuous” and criticized gamers for not reading the documentation provided, not understanding early access, and blaming the game for their low-end computers.
This will probably be our first and our last free play weekend because clearly “free” sometimes tends to attract the wrong demographic.We did this in order to test an aspect of the game that couldn’t have other wise been tested due to the fact that the paid EA tiers have no access to the F2P Starter Kit. So now that we know it works and that SteamWorks entitlement, auth etc are solid; Q.E.D.
You can read the entire announcement at the link below.
(Source: Line of Defense)
Square Enix will be holding a livestream this Thursday to discuss the future of Final Fantasy XI. Considering that this is a Japanese livestream, however, you’ll need to be up pretty early (3am EST) and probably understand Japanese. For the rest of you who need your beauty sleep, the dedicated community will no doubt have the important notes available in your preferred language by the time you wake up.
Speculation is already rampant on what this announcement could be, from buy to play to losing legacy support, sunsetting, and a new expansion.
(Source: MassivelyOP)
The Elder Scrolls Online is now available free of subscription. Anyone who previously purchased the game will already be able to log in with access to the base game and all of its updates up to this point. Subscribers are automatically boosted to ESO Plus, and receive the associated bonuses.
More information can be found at the link below.
(Source: Elder Scrolls Online)
Perfect World Entertainment has issued a news update reminding players that the Perfect World Wallet system will shut down on Tuesday March 17th. Anyone with Zen still in their wallet will have it automatically transfer over to the new Arc wallet.
The migration will take a couple of days and won’t affect your ability to access Arc or any of our games. For any users who still use the Wallet system, never fear, the handy Charge system will be your go-to place to purchase any in-game currency. The Charge system is extremely similar to the Wallet system where you choose a game from the list, the server and method of payment.
Anyone already using the arc wallet will not be affected.
(Source: Perfect World Entertainment)
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