Planetside is hitting its seventh birthday soon, and I still believe that no other MMO has come close to the enormous battles that Planetside has presented since its launch in 2003. In fact, here is a community video recently highlighted on Sony Online Entertainment’s website, highlighting the action of the game. I’ll give you a … Continue reading “"Big" Planetside Announcement On The Way?”
Here at MMO Fallout, it’s essentially my job to cover the the good and the bad side of corporate PR, and I have to say that ultimately the two traits that can make or break a company following an “incident” are communication and timing of response. On one hand, you’ll find that a lot of … Continue reading “Why We Love Turbine”
As some players point out to me in the numerous emails I receive each week, I apparently look like an idiot/hypocrite/uninformed child when I praise a company one day, and then crush them like a bug the next (literally) for doing something insanely inane. What these emails forget is that here at MMO Fallout, we … Continue reading “Turbine: Sorry We Directed You To Scams/Phishing”
I mentioned on the previous article about Star Trek Online’s new advisory board that Cryptic has this habit of making an announcement that is poorly worded, has fairly little description, and serves to gin up all kinds of fears across the community. Following the uproar that results from the announcement, Cryptic ends up releasing more … Continue reading “Star Trek Online: What Bad Information? Have This FAQ.”
Player advisory boards are humorous, to say the least. In cases such as Eve Online, not a month goes by without some new scandal or news of corruption within the ranks of said advisory board, with revelations of favoritism, smuggling, rule breaking, and other such misdeeds. In Star Wars Galaxies, MMO Fallout gets frequent requests to … Continue reading “Cryptic: Now Not Listening..Through An Advisory Board”
I told you this weekend that Henrik Nystrom would be giving a special announcement on Monday in regards to the status of the game. Yes, it is fifteen minutes to Tuesday, but you can blame my busy schedule for this late news. Long story short, Mortal Online is not being shipped this month, in order … Continue reading “Henrik Nystrom Speaks: No Mortal Online This Month”
Warhammer Online is one of the games I have berated for…signs of desperation in bringing in new players, we’ll call it. One of the first of the mainstream titles to switch to an unlimited beta, players can enjoy all that Warhammer has to offer, that is up until level 10, completely free forever. With the … Continue reading “Play Warhammer Online: Free Client!”
“It has always been, and still remains our intent to release on consoles, and as soon as we’re able to share more information about it, we will.” -Daeke, Community Manager, Cryptic Studios, on Champions Online on consoles. One downside to the internet is that anything you say can and will be used against you in … Continue reading “Champions Online on the 360: Officially Canned”
Bill Roper is to the MMO genre as JK Rowling is to children’s literature. On one hand, the man had a big role in Blizzard during the glory days of Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft. More recently, Roper’s name has been tied to Champions Online and Star Trek Online, both titles are doing quite well despite … Continue reading “Bill Roper No Longer Executive Producer of Champions Online”
March is upon us, and StarVault has used this opportunity to announce that Mortal Online will be shipping this month to…what? Stop snickering! I’m serious…yes, this month. No, I’m not being ironic. The company has admitted that there are numerous issues that need to be worked out, such as desync problems, among other gripes, but … Continue reading “Good Luck Mortal Online: Launching This Month”
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