archeage

Official Site: ArcheAge
Studio: Trion Worlds
Launch Date: September 16, 2014
Genre: Fantasy Hybrid Sandbox
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions

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Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...

End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2024

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I have not had a good 2024. I have, in fact, had the absolute opposite of that. I feel like I exist now through...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 497: Walking down the Path of Exile 2

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Justin and Bree discuss Path of Exile 2's early access, Elder Scrolls Online weird event snafu, EverQuest's The Outer Brood, and ArcheAge's second sunset of the year, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on the normalization of bad MMO monetization and why some gamers melt down over every bit of MMO news.
And now we're good,yes?

Now XLGAMES is sunsetting the Korean version of ArcheAge too

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Well, Korean players could probably see the writing on the wall when Kakao/XLGAMES shuttered ArcheAge here in the west earlier this year, but now...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 493: Landing on Brighter Shores

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Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's Legacy of Morgoth, Brighter Shores' early access, ArcheAge Chronicles' delay, Chrono Odyssey, Stars Reach's trailer, and FFXIV's Crossroads, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on handhelds and controllers for MMOs.

Kakao Q3 2024: ArcheAge 2 aka ArcheAge Chronicles has been delayed yet again

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Kakao Games dropped its third quarter financials this past week, and it's a bit of a mixed bag - especially if you were anxiously...

ArcheAge Chronicles video highlights its acrobatic combat and vast persistent online world

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A couple of weeks ago XLGames and Kakao Games showed off a rebranded and revised ArcheAge 2, with the name of ArcheAge Chronicles and...

Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become toxic?

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Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar's team,...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 487: Give me Throne and Liberty

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Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty's launch, the new book on Blizzard, ArcheAge 2's morph into ArcheAge Chronicles, and New World Aeternum's impending release, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, plus a mailbag topic on MMO history and games preservation.

XLGames rebrands ArcheAge 2 as ‘online action RPG’ ArcheAge Chronicles, but it still sounds like an MMO

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If you thought endless delays and the unceremonious sunset of ArcheAge were the worst things that could happen to ArcheAge 2, think again because...

Kakao Q2 2024: Profits nosedive as ArcheAge 2 faces another potential delay

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The second quarter for fiscal year 2024 has ended up being a pretty awful one for Kakao Games. The latest earnings summary confirms that...
The yeller.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs with weirdly defensive fanbases

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I do not have nice things to say about RuneScape. I have never had nice things to say about RuneScape. I also do not...
And now we're good,yes?

XLGAMES’ messy masterpiece ArcheAge has officially sunsetted

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Back in April, we got the sad but not entirely unexpected news that XLGAMES had decided to sunset the remains of ArcheAge, including the...
Paws for impact.

Sigh, yes, a man tried to bludgeon another man with a hammer IRL over ArcheAge

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File this one under "why we can't have nice things:" Yahoo reported last night that a feud in ArcheAge went way too far, as...

Kakao Q1 2024: ArcheAge 2 and Chrono Odyssey are apparently back on track for 2025

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Kakao Games' first financial report covering 2024 is out today, and perhaps not surprisingly, Q1 wasn't particularly great or garbage for the Korean gaming...

Massively Overthinking: The loss of ArcheAge

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Last week's admission from Kakao that XLGAMES is pulling the plug on ArcheAge really hit me, and I'm still trying to process why because...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 467: The end of an ArcheAge

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Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge's sunset, the cancellation of BlizzCon 2024, Escape from Tarkov's no good very bad day, Age of Water's early access launch, and the 20th anniversary of City of Heroes, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Fallout 4, and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on defensive characters in MMOs and whether Crowfall has any kind of future.

ArcheAge’s player-run rogue servers are booming as the retail MMORPG’s sunset is looming

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Now that fans of ArcheAge know for certain that their sandbox will be shutting down in June, there are some who are perhaps looking...

Kickstarted MMORPG-turned-TCG Genfanad gives up, will sunset April 30

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ArcheAge isn't the only MMORPG announcing a sunset this week: Kickstarter success Genfanad is apparently closing its doors too. Genfanad is a browser-based nostalgia-driven indie...

Kakao’s western version of ArcheAge is sunsetting in June

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I'm sorry to report this morning that the western version of ArcheAge is apparently shutting down: While we were sleeping, Kakao announced that it...

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