Going into this article, I assumed I’d have trouble lowering my list to eleven items. Truth be told, I actually had more trouble filling this list than I did culling an even larger list. It must be my power of 20/20 hindsight to look at events of the past and think “well that actually didn’t … Continue reading “Eleven Things I Hated About 2011: 2011 Edition”
Whenever the topic turns to Darkfall 2.0, I can’t help but think back to how Jagex moved Runescape to Runescape 2 (now just referred to as Runescape) and the huge amount of changes the game went under just during that initial transition. So seeing this quote from Aventurine, I can’t help but hold high hopes … Continue reading “Darkfall 2.0 News: Aventurine Stalls On Wipe Announcement”
Nuking bots from an MMO is easy, at least in comparison with nuking actual gold farmers. After all, programs can be broken from the outside, manipulated into revealing themselves, and detected through various means. But how can you know that the person behind the account grinding dragons for five hours is any different than the … Continue reading “Jagex Fights Gold Farmers, Restricts Free Accounts”
Earthrise is one of those MMOs that journalists (or myself) look at and cringe. We’d love to see it succeed, because we support indie developers, but since we can’t cherry pick the news coming out of the title to put it in a better light without compromising our integrity, the end result is the perception … Continue reading “Earthrise Moving To Free To Play: December 1st”
Yesterday was bot nuking day at Runescape, and according to Jagex it has been an overwhelming success not just in cleaning up the game, but disabling 98% of the bots and gold farmers. Something has come to my attention from another player about receiving an email claiming to be from Jagex, offering amnesty and a … Continue reading “Jagex: Nuking Bots, Suing Cheaters, Sends Official Warning”
Coming on the heels of yet another announcement to ban bots, Jagex has formally announced Project Clusterfutterer. Mark Gerhard posted an announcement on the Runescape home page stating: Today, I am really happy to say we are in the long-awaited position of being able to announce that we’ll be launching our most formidable bot-busting weapon … Continue reading “Jagex Announced Project Clusterfutterer: Bot Nuking On Tuesday”
The results for the Golden Joystick Awards are in, and since this is MMO Fallout and not Assassins Creed Fallout, I’ll focus on the MMOs that won awards. Best Subscription MMO Winner: World of Warcraft Runner up: Rift Third place: Eve Online Best Free To Play Winner: League of Legends Runner up: World of Tanks Third Place: RuneScape You can … Continue reading “Golden Joystick Awards: Only The MMOs”
I told you I’d eventually hit the Sunday deadline for Week in Review. I’ve found through MMO Fallout the deadlines I set for myself often conflict with what I’ve heard referred to as a “lack of respect for authority and tendency toward inappropriate analogies.” Personally I equate the situation more to the first few seasons … Continue reading “Week In Review: Trust In The Community Edition”
My first, and for a long time only, experience with MMOs on the UNITY engine was Cartoon Network’s Fusionfall, and for all the criticizing I throw at Bigpoint Games for their public comments, I’m very happy that they had more faith in the engine than I did. I say this because I was playing the … Continue reading “Bigpoint Gives Faith in UNITY, Jagex Should Use It”
While the MMO Fallout inbox is never saturated with emails, so to speak, I get a fair amount of tips especially regarding outbreaks of account theft. For the most part, these thefts are not real. A person will have his account stolen at the general time his friend did, so his conclusion is that a … Continue reading “Falling Victim To Your Own Greedy Nature”
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