Aren’t pre-order betas great? You throw $5 (refundable) down at Gamestop and, in return, you get what can nearly be called a preview copy of your game to play and figure out if it’s going to be worth buying. Where else can you get that kind of preview, apart from perhaps every other form of … Continue reading “Beta Perspective: Destiny on PS4”
Today’s lesson from 2013 is all about free to play or as I’ve taken to calling it, free to ignore. The very same developers who designed free to play to advertise to the gamer bouncing around from title to title are now finding that their customers are in and out in the blink of an … Continue reading “Lessons From 2013 #5: Free To Ignore”
Back when Jagex announced that Transformers Universe was taking a full 180 degree spin and transforming itself from a traditional MMO into a League of Legends style MOBA, I removed it from our listings. After all, we don’t cover MOBA titles here and a recent poll showed that the majority of you have no interest … Continue reading “Jagex Remaking Transformers Universe Within Six Months?”
Last year I asked John Smedley if Planetside would be shutting down with Planetside 2 releasing, since Planetside was already dead in the water in terms of population. The response I received was that Sony would rather seek options including transforming Planetside into the free to play model before they shut the servers down, and … Continue reading “Taco Tuesday: How Will Planetside Manage Cheaters?”
Today’s MMOrning Shot comes from Sony Online Entertainment and Runewaker, for the upcoming MMO Dragon’s Prophet. Players can capture, train, and ride their own dragons, and if this screenshot has anything to say, there are also towns and large pointless steering wheels? Imagine if that thing broke and fell off, you’d have a few dozen … Continue reading “MMOrning Shots: Dragon's Prophet”
Today’s MMOrning Shot comes from Sony Online Entertainment and Runewaker, for the upcoming MMO Dragon’s Prophet. Players can capture, train, and ride their own dragons, and if this screenshot has anything to say, there are also towns and large pointless steering wheels? Imagine if that thing broke and fell off, you’d have a few dozen … Continue reading “MMOrning Shots: Dragon’s Prophet”
Welcome to the Thursday Top 5, where everything is made up and the points don’t matter. Here at MMO Fallout, every Thursday I like to discuss the top five of something, and today I would like to go in a bit of a satirical direction and give aspiring developers tips on how to guarantee that … Continue reading “Top 5: How To Doom Your Kickstarter”
This week’s Thursday Top 5 has to do with communication. The names and titles we give to products and the way that companies and their customers communicate. As I have to say every week, try not to take this as an affront to your favorite game/developer. I use some specific examples of games, but those … Continue reading “Thursday Top 5: New Rules For MMO Language”
Like most of you, I’ve had my silent preconceptions about Neverwinter. After all, we’ve had two past releases from Cryptic to look at and base our assumptions off of, and I’m happy to say that most of them will be proven wrong. I enjoyed Champions Online when it launched and, seeing as how I have … Continue reading “Neverwinter: Getting A Beta Perspective”
The War Z developer Hammerpoint Interactive seems to be in a constant state of apology lately. The game was released on Steam and then pulled shortly after when players began complaining that features advertised were not actually in the game. Sergey Titov then went on Gamespy to blame the Steam community for misreading the details, … Continue reading “Hammerpoint Interactive Issues Open Letter To Community”
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