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Trove Gets Frickin Heckbugs
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Trove Forces Cash Shop, Trion Worlds “It’s Just Business”
Trion Worlds has announced that upcoming updates to Trove will increase focus on the cash shop and reduce the ability to obtain certain things through gameplay. The announcement focuses on three aspects of Trove life: Cubits, classes, and patron. For starters, users will obtain cubits at a slower initial pace, with prices on the store going up and repeatable items heading into the store at some point. In addition, it will no longer be possible to buy classes with cubits.
Patron is Trove’s subscription program. To better advertise the feature going forward, players will begin seeing more promotions on the HUD and in the store,
We want to align the business of Trove with the game of Trove as much as possible. Some of you guys here on the forums even called us out this month on how our focus seemed to be trending towards the Chaos Chest rewards and not gameplay focused rewards. That’s a case where the balance has been getting away from us, and we want to make sure we are doing the most we can to both support Trove as a game and a business in a way that is aligned, not at odds.
The post also mentions requiring patron in order to access certain features. What those features are is unknown, Trion does not go into further detail. Later on in the same thread, it is revealed that those details have not been finalized.
Right now we’re looking for the right balance, once we have a final plan for exactly what Patron will unlock I’ll be sure to post it. While we work on that I wanted to get you guys advanced word that it was something we are planning.
(Source: Trove)
Trove To Take Two Days Off, Upgrade Servers
Who’s to say that MMOs shouldn’t get a nice two day weekend every few years? If you’ve been playing Trove recently, you are likely well acquainted with the ongoing server issues. The issue, naturally, is that the game has grown too large in scope for the current hardware to handle, with player clubs particularly outgrowing in size what the server can reasonably process. As a result, the game is going offline from the 19th to the 21st in order to place in new hardware.
For the last few weeks we’ve been testing our new storage system on the on the Public Test Server. We’re happy to say that it’s gone well, and it’s time to do it live! However, it’s going to take some time – up to 48 hours to complete the full upgrade.
The Trion team hopes that the new hardware will result in less downtime, more stability, and faster reboots should anything go haywire. Anyone who logs in between the 21st and the 24th will receive a number of items as compensation for the downtime.
(Source: Trion Worlds)
Get Trove/Devilian Goodies In This Week’s Humble Bundle
Trion Worlds is taking part in the latest Humble Weekly Bundle with a few goodies for two of their games. For this week and this week only, you can get your hands on the Humble Extra Life bundle for Trion’s upcoming ARPG Devilian. The package includes access to all Devilian beta events as well as a cosmetic halo override for all of your characters. Over on the Trove side, pledging more than the average (currently about $3.16) to receive an exclusive helmet.
The fiery battle helm that once graced the head of the mighty Phoenix King can now be yours! Show off your unmatched style and light up every room (literally) with a hat made of flames – all for a great cause.
The bundle also comes with Jazzpunk, How to Survive, one month of X-Split Premium, Overlord, with How to Survive, It Came From Space and Ate Our Brains, Overlord II, and Shadowgate if you pledge above the minimum. With $9, you can also grab Secret Ponchos. The bundle runs out November 12th.
(Source: Humble Bundle)
Trion Worlds At Gamescom: Infodump
Trion Worlds has announced a major info dump at Gamescom, with details regarding all of their first party titles. More information on individual updates will be coming in the next few weeks, but for today the company has pushed a small blurb on each title:
- Rift: Patch 3.4 introduces a new calling, the Primalist, along with six new souls and a Planewilds expedition zone, new raid, new dungeon and more.
- ArcheAge: An update called Heroes Awaken will introduce “significant updates and add fresh content to the game.” The update will bring in a new hero system as well as upgrades to guild progression, housing, and a new Diamond Shore zone.
- Trove: New end-game content and a new class as the game prepares to launch on Mac.
- Defiance: Higher tier weapons, a new enemy, and more.
(Source: Trion Worlds press release)
Log Into Trove For A Free Class This Weekend
To compensate players for recent downtime, Trion Worlds is handing out another free class coin to anyone who logs in between now and midnight Pacific Sunday night. The downtime stemmed from a seemingly simple database upgrade that went awry, forcing the game offline for several hours and requiring that Trion rollback the servers to earlier in the morning.
Thankfully, credits and cubits were returned to players who had purchased and subsequently lost them during that period.
We’ve returned the Credits and Cubits to everyone who made purchases. We also made sure all real money purchases got their goods. Some people might even get double since we wanted to be extra careful. The only exception is the Credit deals (i.e., if you got Credits plus lures or pinatas) in those cases we couldn’t give you the bonus items, so we gave you +50% Credits instead.
This is the second free class coin handed out since Trove went free to play.
(Source: Trion Worlds)
Trove Introduces Patron Program
Trove players looking to pay for a bit more will be able to sign up for Patron, the MMO’s recurring subscription program. Patron costs $14.99 per month and comes with all of the perks listed above, and can be purchased in recurring subscription form as well as single-month packages.
Multi-month packages are up in packages of three, six, and twelve months.
(Source: Trion Worlds)
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