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”
CCP’s situation is unfortunate. The developer has done very well with Eve Online, but as I speculated earlier is year, the simultaneous development of DUST 514 and World of Darkness is straining the company to its financial limits. The reduction in staff is expected to leave one fifth of CCP’s employees without a job, and … Continue reading “CCP Lays Off 20% Work Force”
GamersFirst has a good year ahead for it, with the upcoming transition of Fallen Earth to a free to play medium. In a recent dev blog, G1 goes over some information regarding what free players, subscribers, and past customers can expect when the game makes its official move on October 12th, and there is a … Continue reading “More Fallen Earth Free To Play Information”
I got some time to play with Warhammer: Wrath of Heroes, and the more I begin to doubt that certain Mythic employees will have much in terms of career options should the time come that they no longer report to EA/Mythic. Consider that Warhammer Online is one of the primary reasons (including All Points Bulletin) … Continue reading “Week In Review: Not A Real Doctor Edition”
Now that I’ve run the Crom praying joke into the ground, I’m going to have to come up with a new introduction for Age of Conan articles. Starting today and continuing tomorrow, Funcom plans to merge the Age of Conan servers for American and European players. On the United States side, Tyranny and Cimmeria will … Continue reading “Age of Conan Servers Merging”
Crom, I don’t normally pray to you. I don’t have the time, what with writing all those forum posts making jokes like “Funcom? More like… not… so… funcom!” If you will grant me one thing, make it Age of Conan free to play. I’m playing in the welcome back week, and I’m very much enjoying … Continue reading “Age of Conan Going Free To Play This Summer!”
Craig Morrison strikes me as the kind of guy who would immerse himself deeply enough in his work that he’d require the Funcom employees to pray to Crom every morning before work begins: Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if … Continue reading “Age of Conan Film/Game Tie-In”
Back in March, I mentioned a Warhammer Online campaign on Facebook with simple terms: Once the WAR Facebook profile hit five thousand likes, the price of the RvR Booster Double Pack would be dropped (permanently) to $9.99. At the time, if my memory servers correctly, Warhammer carried around fourteen hundred (1,400) likes. I also compared … Continue reading “WAR: Facebook Update, And First Impression Thoughts…”
Part of my job here at MMO Fallout includes predicting the future, and occasionally I am wrong. This is not one of those times. Now, those of you who follow this website know that I have historically suggested that MMO players who want to play on the console choose the Playstation 3 over the Xbox … Continue reading “Dungeon Fighter Online Does Not Constitute 360 MMO”
Amidst the disaster in Japan, what with the body count rising and the ongoing threat of even greater problems stemming from the nuclear power plants, it’s easy for us westerners (and more likely easterners) to forget that Square Enix fully suspended services for Final Fantasy XI and XIV last week Sunday. In a new lodestone, the … Continue reading “Hallelujah! Square Enix Restoring Services March 25th”
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