MMO Week in Review: The E3 2015 roundup (June 21, 2015)

    
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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!

After several years of dud E3s, this year’s expo took us by surprise, with big reveals for several major MMORPGs, including Star Wars: The Old Republic, which is retooling its faction system for its upcoming Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion, and Guild Wars 2, which opened prepurchases for its Heart of Thorns expansion only to be met with… let’s call it pushback from fans.

Read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions as well as a roundup of all our E3 coverage.

THE E3 ROUNDUP
FINAL FANTASY XIV: HEAVENSWARD
GUILD WARS 2: HEART OF THORNS
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Housing looks unlikely for The Secret World [Updated] - If you're hoping for player housing in The Secret World, you should probably stop hoping. In a Q&A on the official forums, Funcom executive producer Scott "Nophex" Junior basically spends two paragraphs explaining how the devs would need to travel…
Punching dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Evolved - Five minutes after I logged into ARK: Survival Evolved, I punched a fish. A few moments later, I punched a tree. Shortly thereafter, I mustered the courage to punch a dinosaur, and while that didn't go…
Landmark devs: Respawning is working as designed - Addressing complaints that respawning mobs and resources are broken in Landmark, Daybreak came out today to say that, on the contrary, everything is working as intended. The post goes into depth explaining how the respawn system…
Skyforge details its founder’s pack rewards - Have we learned our lesson about founder's packs yet? If not (or maybe even if so), Skyforge is detailing the digital items it hopes to sell you as it moves closer to its free-to-play release. The…
THIS WEEK’S STREAMS
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