Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMOÂ news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
Better not call it pay-to-win: Skyforge made headlines this week for bristling at the P2W term. Massively OP’s Justin Olivetti delivered his first impressions of the game’s closed beta in two parts, suggesting it feels more like a Neverwinter-style “guilty pleasure than a long-term stay.” The devs also revealed the game’s 13 launch-day classes, and our own stream champion MJ Guthrie checked out the game live for viewers.
Read on for a look at the rest of this week’s top MMO stories.
- Camelot Unchained released an alpha video
- Crowfall finished out its Kickstarter with $1,766,204
- EVE Online’s Sleepers are stealing corpses to rebuild their bodies
- ArcheAge is finally on Steam
- What you need to know about SWTOR’s Outfit Designer
- Elder Scrolls Online console preorders are now open
- H1Z1 has sold a million copies on Steam
- EverQuest’s new progression server could take you eight years to finish
- Guild Wars 2 outlined the path to crafting Legendary precursors
- City of Heroes dev will answer lore questions for game’s anniversary
- Dungeons & Dragons Online previewed the Temple of Elemental Evil
- Douglas Firs cripple City of Titans’ framerate
- Black Desert celebrated its 100-day beta mark
- Sword Coast Legends demoed a multiplayer dungeon crawl
- Quit whining and pay for your Secret World content
- Das Tal opened summer alpha sign-ups
- RIFT patch 3.2 plans massive wardrobe overhaul
- The true value of free-to-play players
- ArcheAge’s dolphingate was much ado about nothing
Here’s what our Stream Team was up to this week:
- The Stream Team: Give me exploration or give me death in The Repopulation
- The Stream Team: Trekking through Skyforge’s closed beta
- The Stream Team: Gobbling up AP from The Secret World’s golden golems
- The Stream Team: Exploring the swamps of Factions: Origins of Malu with devs
- The Stream Team: I am Groot in Marvel Heroes
- The Stream Team: Watch H1Z1 zombies
- The Stream Team: Conquering EverQuest II’s Chronoportals
- The Stream Team: Sharing the story in Marvel Heroes
Our friends at Blizzard Watch posted some fun stuff too:
- How to solo raids and dungeons in WoW
- The fastest way to level a battle pet
- How to get to Draenor and skip Tanaan Jungle entirely
This week, we unleashed our new swag and key giveaway systems; added pages for columns, videos, RSS tips, FAQs, and credits; and reintroduced a guild-centric column to the site. We updated our games page too, and we even got our new badge system for our Kickstarter backers in on schedule. Hooray!
