Rooster Teeth – MMO Fallout

Vicious Circle Goes Free To Play, Refunds Everyone

Back in September we reported on the failed launch of Vicious Circle, the latest title from Rooster Teeth Games. In that time, the crew has been working behind the scenes and at the start of the month announced that not only would Vicious Circle be going free to play, but that those who bought founders packs would be refunded.

“Why is Vicious Circle going Free to Play? In short, the game didn’t succeed. We came together on a super creative ambitious new project, put our hearts into it, did our best to support it, and it didn’t work out, and that’s okay. Not every idea we have will be a success. We have to fail to find success. Servers will remain up because we made a game and we want the community to still have a chance to play it. We don’t want price to get in the way. We remain proud of the work that was put into the game and want as many people to have the chance to experience it as possible.”

Don’t get too excited about that free to play, though. While the game is going free to play, Rooster Teeth has no intention of supporting the title outside of some bug fixes.

Source: Steam

[NM] Rooster Teeth’s Game Launches, Immediately Dies

Vicious Circle is a game developed by Rooster Teeth Games and launched on August 12, 2019 making it just one month old as of this week. It looks like No Man’s Sky and not just because you’ll have to fly across the galaxy in order to find another person. It labels itself “an uncooperative multiplayer shooter in which mercenaries compete for loot against a terrifying monster.”

It is also a massive flop just one month after launch. Vicious Circle launched on Steam last month to a peak of 304 players and as of this writing has seen a 24 hour peak of six. Radical Heights, the dead Battle Royale game that shut down a long time ago, peaked at four concurrent players on Steam over the same period. And it doesn’t have functioning servers. Battleborn has a higher player count.

Warner Media announced this week that they would be cutting 50 jobs at Rooster Teeth, approximately 13% of the employee force at the company. Vicious Circle was not specifically mentioned in the announced layoffs.

Netmarble and Rooster Teeth Team Up For RWBY Crossover With Knights Chronicle

Starting now through July 31, Knights Chronicle is running a crossover event with the Rooster Teeth anime series RWBY (pronounced Ruby) that will afford players the opportunity to attract powerful members of Team RWBY (Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long, and the deadly Maiden of Fall, Cinder Fall) from the world of Remnant into their roster of powerful heroes through Knights Chronicle’s Summon Shop.

An all-new Advent Dungeon where fans can win over Cinder Fall into their party and learn how the worlds of Knights Chronicle and RWBY come together in an all-new story.
All-new costumes for Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long and Cinder Fall themed after their Beacon Academy uniforms.
A limited-time check-in event where players can simply log-in and earn a free 4? SSR RWBY hero.

Knights Chronicle is a classic turn based RPG available on mobile devices. For more information on the game, head over to the official website.

Aion 1.9: Louie Goes Legit

NCsoft has big goals behind the 1.9 update to Aion. In fact, as this video shows, they are willing to bet that leveling has become so much faster, that players won’t have any reason to buy powerleveling services, leaving Louie from Louie’s Power Leveling For Losers…oddly out of business. But hey, even Louie is finding Aion so much fun, he’s going legit! So go help Louie with his raiding, and if you don’t, he’ll break your legs.

I hope Rooster Teeth keeps making these videos.

The More You MMO #3: Earn Your Powers

Once again Rooster Teeth has teamed up with NCsoft to inform those of you who may be considering buying accounts/powerleveling, and entertain those of us smart enough not to. Today’s lesson? Don’t buy your characters, otherwise you’ll end up as dumb as Caboose. Oh and you’ll be naked and alone.