If you haven’t had a chance to check out Wildstar, your time is coming soon. NCSoft has announced that Wildstar will enter open beta on Thursday May 8th. The beta is scheduled to run until May 18th and allows players to access content up to level 30. For more information on Wildstar, check out the website at the following link. Wildstar is set to go live on June 3rd.
(Source: NCSoft Press Release)
Brad McQuaid has posted an announcement on the Pantheon website detailing the future of the MMO and Visionary Realms. The good news is that development will be resuming on Pantheon under a new remote team of volunteers. Visionary Realms is looking for people with experience in UNITY, as well as designers, moderators, and lore writers.
“When we do bring in funding and restart that campaign to reach out to Angel Investors, Publishers, and the like, and when we can have an office and paid employees, we will then look at the volunteer force and, on a case by case basis, determine if that person wants to and should become a contractor or, if they can re-locate, possibly a full employee.”
You can check out the entire announcement at the link below. Brad McQuaid has promised regular blogs detailing the company’s progress.
(Source: Visionary Realms)
Today’s MMOrning Shot comes to us from Eldevin, currently celebrating its recent Greenlighting on Steam.
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Notorious Games has released the latest patch for Xsyon, pushing forward with a number of quality of life improvements to the game experience. Foremost, a tutorial has been implemented with more than two hundred panels of instructions for new players and those that might have missed a thing or two along the way. There are also a few changes to the interface, as well as to the energy and health system increasing gain rates of both while decreasing the energy used by actions.
You can check out the entire list of patch notes at the link below.
(Source: Xsyon)
Today’s MMOrning Shot comes to us from Nosgoth, the upcoming spinoff from Legacy of Kain. In Nosgoth, players take on the role of vampires vs humans in an all out struggle for survival. Check out the founders packs here and receive instant access to the closed beta.
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Trion Worlds has announced that Defiance is shedding its box price and going completely free to play later this year. The PC version is set to make the switch on June 4th, with the PS3 version following on July 15th, and the Xbox360 changeover to come at a later date. New players will have access to the Bay area, including original endgame content and future missions for free. Players who pick up a copy of the game will receive a number of perks, including inventory space, ark keycodes, character slots, and more. Existing owners will also have these same perks.
More on this announcement in the coming weeks.
(Source: Trion press release)
Criminals beware, you’re in for a fair…trial. ArcheAge has one of the most interesting crime systems that I have ever seen. It is far too complicated to explain in this article, but the gist of the system is that crimes leave behind evidence that can be found by other players, and if you die as a criminal you are sent to a court and sentenced by a jury of five players. As one gamer found out in the alpha test, that sentence can be rather harsh. Especially if you’ve racked up over one hundred charges. As you can see from the screenshot above, the player was sentenced to 770 minutes in prison, or just under thirteen hours.
Prisoners in ArcheAge can either wait through their sentence or try to break out.
(Thanks to DSWBeef for uncovering this, and credit to Reizla in the same thread for the picture)
The launch of Elder Scrolls Online has doubtlessly been, well, turbulent to say the least. In a newly released post on the official website, Matt Firor has laid out the roadmap for coming updates. In it, he assures players that customer support is actively banning gold farmers and chat spammers, as well as many of the game’s bugs that seem to dot the landscape. The first content update for the game available “soon,” Craglorn, includes a new adventure zone as well as twelve player raids, death recaps, tweaks for Cyrodiil, and a number of bug fixes and modifications for classes, abilities, animations, etc.
The article even goes into recent press reviews of ESO, not all of which have been very positive.
As those who follow ESO closely know, a wide range of reviews have been posted for the game, with scores ranging from 90s to 50s. ESO generates strong emotions in gamers—both positive and negative. While I obviously don’t agree with the more negative articles, the reviews are out there, and we read them to determine if there are legitimate complaints that we should address.
You can read the entire piece at the link below. Firor includes a list of updates planned for the future, as well as a note that players will receive an extra five days added to their accounts as an apology for the downtime over the past month.
(Source: Official Website)
Transformers Universe has finally unveiled its founders packs for gamers who want to hop on pre-launch, and the prices are rather expensive. All bundles include a title and inclusion in the “founders honor roll,” likely another term for credits on the website. The cheapest bundle starts at $45 and includes $30 worth of cash shop money and 60 days of the season pass which includes a new warrior and consumable each month, 25% increased experience, and 10% discount on the store.
The most expensive package includes 18 launch warriors, $250 in cash shop currency, one year of season pass content, a number of in-game items, and a limited run figurine, and will run you $450.
(Source: Transformers Universe)
May has arrived, and that means another year and another Newbie Blogger Initiative. For those of you who don’t know, NBI is an annual event that hopes to bring more people into the big blogosphere that is the internet. In my case, it means hopefully populating the internet with writers who in all likelihood will far surpass my own abilities and leave me unemployed and homeless. The goal of the Newbie Blogger Initiative is promote new and upcoming game bloggers as well as for veteran bloggers to offer advice and mentor those who aren’t entirely sure what they are doing. I will also be present.
I wish there was an NBI when I started blogging…twelve years ago on Tripod websites. Over the course of May, I will be talking about various aspects of MMO Fallout’s creation and maintenance, as well as answering some of the more popular questions I have received over time. We’ll share some laughs, learn more about each other, and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. I will also likely be promoting some new blogs on the main page and sidebar from time to time, so check them out. These are good people.
If you have any questions or comments of your own for NBI, drop a comment in the box below or email me.
