In the last edition of Checking Up On Mythic, I talked about the developer’s latest spat with players, this time over how to deal with the over-encumbered and bloated scenario system. Mythic’s original idea, which consisted of removing 75% of the scenario maps, did not digest well with the community. In fact, from a PR point of … Continue reading “Warhammer Online: Here’s What You Wanted”
In the last edition of Checking Up On Mythic, I talked about the developer’s latest spat with players, this time over how to deal with the over-encumbered and bloated scenario system. Mythic’s original idea, which consisted of removing 75% of the scenario maps, did not digest well with the community. In fact, from a PR point of … Continue reading “Warhammer Online: Here's What You Wanted”
If MMO Fallout were a physical entity, I’d have a lot more fun searching through its records, what with the shelves of documents and that ladder on wheels I’d get to ride around. Going back to the earlier days of Aion’s coverage, I discovered an announcement that the MMO had hit the three hundred thousand … Continue reading “Unsurprisingly: NCsoft Record Profits”
I think I’ve directly spoken of Roma Victor once on MMO Fallout, not because of any malice towards the title, but because the only newsworthy piece I came across in regards to the title was the act of crucifying cheaters. And much like any other image I find, it was subsequently beaten and overused for … Continue reading “Roma Victor to Shut Down: RV2 May Die”
Cryptic wants to change. They want to stop being the company known for poor communication with its players, and they want to stop this cycle of rushing patches untested. The employees are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore! Bill Roper and the team had a lot to say in the … Continue reading “Cryptic Studios Listens: Expansion and CO’s Future”
Cryptic wants to change. They want to stop being the company known for poor communication with its players, and they want to stop this cycle of rushing patches untested. The employees are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore! Bill Roper and the team had a lot to say in the … Continue reading “Cryptic Studios Listens: Expansion and CO's Future”
Free Realms is a browser based MMO aimed primarily at the tween market, a relatively small niche also occupied by Cartoon Network’s Fusion Fall (which you may remember is set to go free to play this year). What Free Realms does for its market is take the usual MMO grind, and throw it out the … Continue reading “8 Million Registered: Bigger Number, Still Meaningless”
Gauging subscriber numbers in an MMO that doesn’t want to reveal them is difficult. Although it is possible to go through a company’s financial reports and make an estimation based on income, you still won’t end up with a hard number. Gold farmers, on the other hand, are an excellent indicator of how well the game … Continue reading “Star Trek Doing Something Right: Hello Goldfarmers!”
Perfect World’s upcoming MMO Battle of the Immortals breaks one of the unwritten and of questionable logic, yet universally fundamental rules of MMOs: Pets don’t aid in combat. For some reason or another, the idea that any pets that are not part of a summoning spell, should be vanity pets that do not give an … Continue reading “Battle of the Immortals: Why Not? Pets That Help In Combat”
Last month I talked about Aventurine’s plans for Darkfall this year, more specifically the focus on making the new player experience much more of a soft palm and not a bronze-knuckled fist. I also raised concern that this is creating speculation in the Darkfall community that this will bring updates along the lines of the … Continue reading “Darkfall: Newbie Protection Program”
MMO Fallout 