I want you to think back to when you were a kid. If you grew up in a neighborhood like mine, you will be plenty familiar with that one kid who owned “the ball.” The ball was great for any activity; dodgeball, kickball, etc, but instead of being content with the games everyone wanted to … Continue reading “Taking My Franchise Ball And Going Home…”
I have a question for all of you who read this introductory paragraph. Have you ever rage-quit an MMO? I haven’t. I’ve quit more MMOs in the past than I can count, but they’ve never been out of a fit of rage. Single player games, yes, I’ve stopped playing because every time I played I … Continue reading “What Happened This Week: 5/1-5/14 Edition”
I push this idea as much as I can here at MMO Fallout, but the old adage that free to play was a last ditch effort by subscription titles that were tanking died when Dungeons and Dragons Online pulled off the transition, and proved to the industry that throwing in a cash shop wasn’t just … Continue reading “Of Course NCsoft Believes Subscriptions More Profitable…”
It’s that Cylon picture again! Must be another Dungeons and Dragons Online story. Technically when Turbine stated that they were “taking back” the Dungeons and Dragons service in Europe, from Codemasters, they shut the service down entirely. Instead, European Dungeons and Dragons players were transitioned over to the North American service, where they’ve been ever … Continue reading “Dungeons and Dragons Online: Now French/German”
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”
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”
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”
Being an MMO Journalist affords one the opportunity to make fun of a company, yell at them for a stupid mistake, and then praise them all in one day, or even in one article. Given that I’ve managed to fake myself as a trusted journalist this far, I think I can afford to take some … Continue reading “Communication 101: STOP DELETING MY ****ING THREAD”
When Bill Roper left Cryptic Studios, I couldn’t help but feel that great change was to come to the world of Cryptic’s two MMOs: Champions Online and Star Trek Online. It isn’t that Roper is necessarily a bad person, just that he loved cash shops with the kind of passion that can only be found … Continue reading “Champions Online Heading Free To Play”
Ever since MMO Fallout was in its infancy, I’ve been talking about the ongoing lawsuit between Turbine and Atari over the Dungeons and Dragons IP. One interesting note I had about the lawsuit was Turbine’s allegation that Atari was working on a Neverwinter Nights MMO behind their backs, and was intending on shutting down DDO … Continue reading “I Thought We Already Knew About Cryptic’s NeverWinter Nights MMO?”
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