I meant to play and then discuss the latest episode of the Guild Wars 2 Living Story tonight, but since the game is a bit broken at the moment, I’ll talk about Defiance instead. I’ve spent a good few hours playing the Defiance 2050 open beta this weekend, and the thought that keeps going through … Continue reading “Beta Perspective: Defiance 2050 Is Hot Garbage, But Shows Promise”
Fraudster: 2a: a person who is not what he or she pretends to be :impostor; Today’s Crowdfunding Fraudsters sucks, and not because of the content but the subject itself. I’ll be the first to admit that I had, and despite this piece, still have a lot of admiration for Jeremy Soule and the career and artistic … Continue reading “Crowdfunding Fraudsters: Jeremy Soule and The Northerners, a Five Year Ballad”
Electronic Arts may have won the award for most disliked and tone deaf comment on Reddit in the history of the platform. Those of you who follow Battlefront II are likely aware of the criticisms that the game has received in regards to its progression system, namely complaints that it shamelessly gates power behind random … Continue reading “[Community] The Sense of Accomplishment, or Buy Our Freakin Lockboxes”
NCSoft’s quarterly earnings have been made available and the results are not so bad. Sales fell 1% over the same time last year thanks to early recognition of Lineage 1 promotion sales with NCSoft pointing to lower demand than expected for Lineage M, the mobile release of Lineage. Operating profit and income plummeted 60-70% year … Continue reading “NCSoft Releases Quarterly Earnings, Lineage M Sees Lower Demand”
Fraudster: 2a: a person who is not what he or she pretends to be :impostor; Meet the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+, a handheld device designed with the backing of Sir Clive Sinclair himself, and a modern representation of everyone’s favorite 80’s computer system designed by Sir Clive Sinclair. The Vega+ was crowdfunded on Indiegogo back … Continue reading “Crowdfunding Fraudsters: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+”
It’s been a while. Crowdfunding Fraudsters is a recurring column here at MMO Fallout where I look at campaigns on Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Gofundme that, in my opinion, need a good going over with a fine tooth comb. The use of the term fraudster does not imply malice, but rather the idea that the creator is … Continue reading “Crowdfunding Fraudsters: Save Asheron’s Call Gofundme”
2016, like any year, marked the sunsetting of multiple online games, some of which we’ve already forgotten about thanks to the release of big name titles and updates to those games that we are spending too much time playing. Sure, sure, that Shantae port on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 got cancelled, can someone tell … Continue reading “2016 In Review: The Games We Lost”
Hero’s Song is a thing you can pay money for and gain access to. Thank you, good night. Alright, I’ll keep going. I think you could look into my history on Twitter and here on this website and easily lose count as to how many times I have said that I refuse to rate games … Continue reading “Early Access Preview: Hero’s Song Is Certainly A Thing”
NCSoft has released their second quarter results and the news is good, even for those of you who play Wildstar. The Korean developer published a 28% boost in operating profit over last year with a 27% bump in pre-tax income and a 56% increase in net income. US and EU shares of NCSofts revenues plummeted, … Continue reading “NCSoft: All Key IPs Showed Stable Sales Last Quarter”
Gloria Victis’ latest patch is putting focus on player immersion, in the form of NPC battles and exhaustible resources. While the scope is starting out small, with animal hunting and mercenary fights, NPCs will eventually be engaging in all out war that players can join in on or dutifully side step away from. In addition … Continue reading “Gloria Victis Adds NPC Battles, War Is Coming”
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