I’ve been covering Alganon for quite a while, and I always get the same response: Omali! Alganon is a clone of World of Warcraft! Why not just cover the more popular one? Well, Alganon may be a WoW Clone in terms of its old UI, and far too many other features that Quest Online is … Continue reading “Alganon's Press Releases Are TOR Clones”
“We don’t need the kind of subscriber levels that people throw around, like a million subscribers, to make a lot of money on this title. If we get anywhere near that level, we’ll be making a lot of money.” Why thank you, THQ CEO Brian Farrel. MMO success is, as I have said before, relative. Technically … Continue reading “THQ: We Don’t Need No Stinkin Million Subscribers!”
“We don’t need the kind of subscriber levels that people throw around, like a million subscribers, to make a lot of money on this title. If we get anywhere near that level, we’ll be making a lot of money.” Why thank you, THQ CEO Brian Farrel. MMO success is, as I have said before, relative. Technically … Continue reading “THQ: We Don't Need No Stinkin Million Subscribers!”
Television advertisement is a barrier that few MMOs break if their names are not World of Warcraft, so it’s good to see Turbine’s Dungeons and Dragons on the semi-big screen.
I’ve been floating around the internet since the days of AOL and Prodigy, and the main theme I’ve noticed in game communities is that the players (read: 12 year old boys be it in body or mind) are sexist enough with their “no girls on the internet” and the sudden change in attitude should a … Continue reading “Virtual Island: For Women, By Not Women”
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”
My Lord of the Rings account can’t be used in Germany, nor will my World of Warcraft account work in China. My Archlord account may now work in Europe, but my Chronicles of Spellborn account will certainly not work in the Philippines. My Allods Online account might work in Australia, but my Tabula Rasa account will … Continue reading “Aika Online Restrictions And Cash Shop Woes”
I love me some Massively.com. Aside from being great reading material to begin with, I will admit that Massively is one of the biggest sources of MMO news that makes its way on to MMO Fallout (although without my cheeky commentary). One issue I do take with Massively, being the cynic that I am, is … Continue reading “Dungeon Fighter Online: 197 Million Is Still Meaningless”
Here at Darkfall central, we have just one gripe: Carebears. No not the product line of adorable bears with the rainbows, we’re talking players who just can’t take a hardcore game like Darkfall. It always pains us to see the same posers who killed Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, and World of Warcraft come to … Continue reading “Darkfall Becomes More Carebear Friendly”
While doing Kevin Bacon’s usual rounds of Topeka searches for MMO news from my favorite Kansas city of Google, Kevin Bacon checked the calendar and realized: It’s April 1st! The glorious day of the year where, at least in Kevin Bacon’s experiences, news stories fall into one of two categories: Companies either announce something insanely … Continue reading “Best of April Fools 2010”
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