For all intent and purpose, the River of Souls event on Rift went rather smoothly, minus some intermittent issues with a few servers. On the other hand, the much touted second and third phase that the game had been working toward lasted all of a half hour last night. As one of the players who … Continue reading “Rift: River Of Souls Goes Out With A Fizzle…”
Security. In the game of anything tech related, security would be the boss you fight before fighting Lucifer himself. The big question that lies heavy on the minds of the IT guys is: how do you save the consumers, when most of the time their biggest enemy is themselves? People losing their account because their … Continue reading “How To End Security Issues For…Some Time.”
This article requires a bit of backstory, so if you are already in tune with the Atari Vs Turbine saga, feel free to skip ahead. To start, we must set the stage for the players in this ongoing drama. Wizards of the Coast owns the Dungeons and Dragons IP, and in turn license the video … Continue reading “Neverwinter Will Compete With D&D Online Directly”
Rift’s head start launched out the door yesterday, and almost immediately the title was punched in the throat, dragged into a back alleyway, and beaten with a metal club for all of its bandwidth. Of course, those of you familiar with MMO launches will be well aware of the launch-day queue lines, matched and surpassed … Continue reading “Rift: **** Your One Additional Server!”
Asian MMOs live and die like rats. They appear quickly, populate an area with many of their clone offspring, and several years down the line it becomes difficult, nay impossible, to get one of the major gaming publications to even take a passing glance at that carcass in the streets, other than to pinch their … Continue reading “Bots? In My Asian MMO?”
Back in the age of gaming magazines, getting an exclusive was really a privilege, as the other newspapers would have to wait until the next month’s (gaming magazines primarily printing monthly) print in order to keep up. In the age of the internet, however, exclusives simply mean an hour or two ahead of the competition. Developers … Continue reading “Bioware: Fansites? No Advertisements Anywhere!”
Security is a priority here at MMO Fallout, among our many priorities that have no static value and tend to change depending on what is making headlines. Botting, being a completely legitimate community that breaks no rules and in no way creates a seedy underbelly to a community, at no way puts the account or … Continue reading “Runescape Bot Website Steals Accounts: Surprise!”
As a partial webmaster myself (that is, I run a website, not a professional at web services), nothing makes the belly chuckle like an anonymous person who is likely not old enough to drive, writing a comment threatening to hack (hax) the website and ruin my life. Often, such a problem can be fixed by … Continue reading “Frogster Account Security Compromised: 3.5 Million Accounts Hacked”
2010, to me, was a bit like entering a shaved watermelon contest. I love watermelon, and I enjoy contests, and there isn’t much I won’t do for the promise of a trophy and perhaps a gift certificate to Denny’s. On the other hand, a trophy for “best shaved watermelon” isn’t exactly something I would use … Continue reading “2010: A Retrospective, Answered Questions”
You have been issued a warning by one of our moderators. Warning Category: Trolling Reason: Posting excessive negative comments or baiting others to respond in a negative manner is considered trolling on the MMORPG.com forums. I have this problem over on the MMORPG.com forums, and that is whenever I make a positive post about Mortal … Continue reading “MMORPG.com: Slander With Human Shields”
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