April Fool’s is one of my favorite days of the year, because I love seeing what jokes companies will come up with, my personal favorite being Google’s yearly jokes. Today isn’t even over, and I think the award for the best joke goes to ArenaNet with Guild Wars, who not only created a trailer and page … Continue reading “April Fool's 2011 Roundup”
Rift launched last month to the fervor of a substantial number of people, opening up more than thirty servers in the days after launch to deal with population. With the mechanics involved, Rift has pulled in players from World of Warcraft and similar MMOs, by presenting a similar game with a new mechanic attached: Dynamic … Continue reading “Rift: How About An Authenticator?”
Jagex is an inspiration of hope in the MMO genre. Born out of a side project by Andrew Gower, Runescape has since gone on to become the most popular free to play MMO gracing our internets, crafting a membership system that not only gave an enormous amount of content for a low price, but also … Continue reading “Jagex: Stellar Dawn? No, Transformers!”
The folks at Warhammer Online have a simple task for their fans. Get five thousand “likes” on Facebook, and the company will reduce the RvR Booster Double Pack down to $9.99 from its original $14.99 price. To my knowledge, there is no time limit on this promotion, although I have to express my doubts that … Continue reading “Warhammer: All We Need Is Five Thousand Fans…”
Back in the day, you may remember that Dungeon Runners was set to receive a transfer to the web browser shortly before death. Due to the nature of MMOs being the opera singers (read: fat) of the gaming genre, free to play titles have a harder time gaining new customers when that means convincing someone … Continue reading “Runes of Magic Coming To A Browser Near You!”
In the past, Everquest has been one of the few MMOs to dabble in, shall we say, unconventional alternate rule servers. Sure, most games you come across nowadays have some combination of PvE, PvP, and RP, and you can’t get much better than a PvP-RP server, when striking someone with your sword as you scream … Continue reading “Age of Conan: Loot PvP Server Coming!”
Don’t you just hate when this happens? You spend half of your time in Runescape either cursing at other players, or trying to scam new players by selling them rare black lobsters for a few hundred thousand, and suddenly you find yourself with so many warnings you cannot appeal that you are permanently banned from … Continue reading “Banned? Jagex Will Sell You Your Account Back”
Back in 2009, Jagex implemented a jobs system on Runescape mainly for new players where they could take tasks doing menial work with low level skills in return for gold, as well as an occasional experience lamp. This gave players a reason to work on their crafting and combat skills for a reward other than … Continue reading “Cash4Trash: Lord of the Rings Online Task System”
I got a package in the mail from Jagex Ltd, after a discount put me on a shopping spree. Well, so it was a two item shopping spree, but what do you want from me? I’m not made of money!
File this one under “how is this in improvement?” I don’t normally talk about game’s individual updates, but the upcoming patch to Warhammer Online, 1.3.6, is revamping the UI of the auction house to better fit the searching needs of the game’s players. As a result of this upgrade, all auctions are standardized to 48 … Continue reading “WAR’s Auction House Becoming WAR Flea Market”
MMO Fallout 