Jagex has put out a warning for players to avoid high risk content as the servers for both RuneScape and Old School are currently being disrupted by an ongoing targeted attack. More news is to come and Jagex has not ruled out the possibility of a rollback. As you may be aware, we’re currently experiencing … Continue reading “RuneScape Hammered By Service Attacks”
Evolution of Combat was introduced to RuneScape on November 20th, 2012. A massive undertaking and equally dramatic shift in gameplay for the eleven year old MMO, Evolution of Combat introduced abilities, a hotbar, dual wielding, new equipment, and altered how creatures in the world needed to be fought. New items were introduced and many spells … Continue reading “The Eventual Removal of Evolution of Combat?”
Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard posted an article on the RuneScape main website to discuss demographics and dispel a few myths about RuneScape this past weekend. According to the metrics, 84% of RuneScape’s population are male, and 90% of the overall population plays the game in English. The average RuneScape account was created in 2009 and … Continue reading “The Average RuneScaper”
Fundamentally changing an MMO’s combat system post-launch is a daunting and risky task. As much as there is the opportunity to bring in new customers and reinvigorate the old, a game also stands to alienate its existing user base. Like it or not, people are generally averse to change, especially when it comes in one … Continue reading “Rolling Back Evolution of Combat: One Patch at a Time”
Divergence Online is the next up and coming hardcore indie sandbox, and you can go ahead and stop reading there if you are as tired of that sentence as I am. Maybe it is the four years of writing MMO Fallout that has made me jaded, but when I hear about an indie hardcore sandbox … Continue reading “I Don't Think Divergence Is A Serious Game”
Divergence Online is the next up and coming hardcore indie sandbox, and you can go ahead and stop reading there if you are as tired of that sentence as I am. Maybe it is the four years of writing MMO Fallout that has made me jaded, but when I hear about an indie hardcore sandbox … Continue reading “I Don’t Think Divergence Is A Serious Game”
RuneScape’s Old School server has been running for four days now and while the game is looking pretty stable, it isn’t completely up and running. Construction and player owned housing needed to be overhauled and are not currently available, and neither is the Barbarian Assault mini-game or one or two quests. The small team currently … Continue reading “MMOrning Shots: Does Preserving Nostalgia Trump Preventing Scams?”
I’m writing on scenic on-campus, and that can only mean one thing: It is Taco Tuesday, inarguably the greatest day of the week in cafeterias all around America and hopefully much of the world. Taco Tuesday is also the day where I get to put some focus on games that I think you should be … Continue reading “Taco Tuesday: Five More Steam Greenlight MMOs”
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