Omali you cheeky person, you say while you flick through the calendar here on MMO Fallout and see that yes, indeed, the free to play switch was announced for November 30th. You would be half correct: The Goddess of Destruction patch goes live on the 30th. Today, however, NCsoft has taken down the Lineage 2 … Continue reading “Just Kidding: Lineage II Becomes Free To Play Today”
Will Rift eventually become free to play? No one can say for sure. As long as Scott Hartsman has a say, however, anyone who wants to play the MMO will have to pay up. In an interview with Eurogamer, Scott Hartsman of Trion stated that Rift is still growing, and that there are absolutely no … Continue reading “Rift F2P? Over Scott Hartsman’s Dead Body”
Will Rift eventually become free to play? No one can say for sure. As long as Scott Hartsman has a say, however, anyone who wants to play the MMO will have to pay up. In an interview with Eurogamer, Scott Hartsman of Trion stated that Rift is still growing, and that there are absolutely no … Continue reading “Rift F2P? Over Scott Hartsman's Dead Body”
Back in 2009 when Jagex created the bag of dice, an item that allows a player to roll a set of dice and broadcast the results to his clan chat, they didn’t exactly anticipate that players would take their invitation of emergent gameplay and go ahead and turn the item into a tool for underground … Continue reading “Jagex Removes Dice In Runescape: Fights Scams”
Atari and I have never been on the best of terms. I believe I referred to Atari on a website that is not MMO Fallout, as an empty shell of a company that not only couldn’t keep itself on the NASDAQ stock listing, had a failed European branch, and has undergone more cosmetic surgery to … Continue reading “Atari: Star Trek Online Free To Play? Over Our Dead Bodies”
Hellgate Global is an interesting concept: Take the dungeon crawling of Diablo, combined with the random item combination drops of Diablo, throw in some role playing elements, toss in guns, and place it in the setting of post-apocalypse battle against hell. If the box price and subscription fee was a bit too unnerving when Hellgate … Continue reading “Why Aren’t You Playing: HellGate Global”
Hellgate Global is an interesting concept: Take the dungeon crawling of Diablo, combined with the random item combination drops of Diablo, throw in some role playing elements, toss in guns, and place it in the setting of post-apocalypse battle against hell. If the box price and subscription fee was a bit too unnerving when Hellgate … Continue reading “Why Aren't You Playing: HellGate Global”
Welcome to November, everyone. Now if you are following the free to play mashup, as I do, you know that the market is getting a lot more congested in quarter 4 of 2011. We’ve already seen the free to play conversions of City of Heroes, Fallen Earth last month, and today sees the extended downtime … Continue reading “Free To Play Tuesday: Rhyming Title Edition”
My first, and for a long time only, experience with MMOs on the UNITY engine was Cartoon Network’s Fusionfall, and for all the criticizing I throw at Bigpoint Games for their public comments, I’m very happy that they had more faith in the engine than I did. I say this because I was playing the … Continue reading “Bigpoint Gives Faith in UNITY, Jagex Should Use It”
A rather humorous poster once said “My rule on wiping in-game is the same as in real life. If someone else does it for me, I feel violated.” The month of August starts in 16 days, and in that month we are expected to receive more information regarding Darkfall 2.0, aka Darkfall 2010. To those … Continue reading “Darkfall: Projecting Dave Georgeson On Wipes”
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