Week in Review: NCsoft’s wild week (May 17, 2015)

    
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NCsoft did not have the best week. Amidst WildStar’s ongoing Reddit drama, NCsoft’s first quarter financials broke, and rumors about WildStar’s Steam launch as a supposedly F2P title began to brew. Korean mecha MMO Project HON was canceled, too, but it’s not all bad news; scuttlebutt has it that Blade & Soul might be bound for the west after all, and revenues for Guild Wars 2, still rolling out expansion reveals, are up quarter-over-quarter.

Read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions.

THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
EverQuesting: Life after Landmark’s big wipe - It was just over a week ago that Landmark's servers went offline in preparation for a major upheaval that affected nearly every system in the game, from a total reworking of topography to a complete character…
WoW Factor: A three million loss lesson - It's been a little while, hasn't it, friends? In the time since I last penned WoW Factor (which missed an installment purely due to transit strangeness - the only time I've ever missed a column, I…
World of Warcraft goes on the offensive against bots - World of Warcraft botters, beware: Blizzard is coming after you hard. The studio said yesterday that it has leveled the banhammer against several accounts -- perhaps as many as 100,000 for up to six months --…
Ubisoft delays The Division until Q1 2016 - A couple of months ago, we reported that The Division was on track for a 2015 release. Not so fast, according to Ubisoft, which today announced that the MMO shooter's launch is being pushed back to…
See two of Overwatch’s superheroes in action - Which Overwatch character are you going to pick when you get into the beta? That's a hard call to make before you can actually get in and sample each of them, although preview videos are the…
The cowpocalypse hits Diablo III for its anniversary - Hey, would you look at that: Today is Diablo III's third anniversary! Of course, this being a hell-torn haunted world, there can't be a birthday party with balloons and pin-the-tail-on-the-Diablo. No, the way the game celebrates…
Crowfall backers can now gift a copy to a friend - If you have too much money burning a hole in your pocket and a good friend who didn't get on board with the Crowfall campaign during its Kickstarter, then ArtCraft has a way to solve both…
Neverwinter cracks 1.6M players on Xbox One - [AL:NW]If you're looking for Neverwinter's true success story, it might not be on the PC at all. Cryptic Studios announced today that ever since launching on the Xbox One, Neverwinter has racked up an impressive 1.6…
Ask Mo: The trouble with roleplaying in MMORPGs - Long ago on Massively-that-was, a reader named Avaera sent in a long list of fabulous questions worth addressing. I'm tackling another in today's edition of Ask Mo: Would you welcome a large scale roleplaying-enforced MMORPG? One…
EverQuest’s progression server launches on May 20 - Are you itching to turn back the clock with EverQuest's progression server? You don't have much longer to wait, as Daybreak has announced that Ragefire will launch on May 20th. If you're planning to take the…
Crowfall’s Walton wants to shake up the MMO business - Crowfall producer Gordon Walton features in a new interview at MOTD Media. If you're a big fan of the crowdfunded PvP MMO, you won't find anything here that you didn't already know. If you're on the outside…
THIS WEEK’S STREAMS & CASTS
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