After a wild 15th year anniversary, Dofus is prepared to crank out a great 2020. The game’s roadmap outlined the upcoming year (brought to us thanks to a helpful tip by Panagiotis), including the return of an interesting server ruleset.
“It’ll then be time to start a new and exciting adventure with the return of the Temporis servers and their 4th edition,” the team said. “This edition will offer lots of new features and even richer and more surprising rules, and perhaps some… let’s just say, unexpected… drop mechanics.”
And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for a roundup of other smaller MMO news stories and videos from this past week in this edition of The MOP Up (and if you don’t see a news story that we should have covered, drop us a tip)!
Twin Saga’s Patch 23 is live: “With the Crystal Core you can improve your stats, and become invincible. Guardians, come explore the secrets of this mysterious item!”
SWG Beyond, a Star Wars Galaxies rogue server, introduced its new Assault on Avatar instance this past week.
MapleStory’s Mechanical Utopia update is on the way with new minigames and rewards! (Thanks Minimalistway)
The Cycle pushed out Release 8 with its new ranked mode. “Ranked Mode is a more deterministic, more competitive way of experiencing The Cycle, where goals/motivations outside of the match win condition are removed or at least kept to a minimum. ”
Neverwinter has been experimenting with improving lockbox odds: “While these chase items are meant to be rare and valuable, they may be more difficult to acquire than is good for the long term health of the game.”
The 2020 season pass is here for SMITE, as is a nice quality-of-life change that pays out daily login rewards automatically.
“We are excited to announce that we will be hosting our very first Black Desert Mobile World Championship – Ramoness!” said Black Desert Mobile.
Steam’s Lunar New Year sale is on — and you might be able to pick up a few good deals on MMOs if you look hard enough.
“PUBG Corporation is happy to announce that Season 6 and Survivor Pass: Shakedown are now live! The update includes a brand new 2×2 map that is sure to bring intense and high tension combat right from the drop. ”
What’s coming to Dark Age of Camelot? “Our 1.127 patch will focus on some tweaks to Endless Conquest restrictions, which are still under discussion as well as several bug fixes and some updates to housing such as market explorer search functionality, full consignment merchants being automatically de-listed, wholesale texture improvements, and more!”
Gamigo sent out a press release saying that ArcheAge Unchained recently released its second ArchePass season and is holding a sale on the Godl and Archeum packages of the game.
“Growl!! A wandering acong eats an mutated oriharukon crystal and evolve into a gigantic monster!” That line of nonsense is actually your cue to check out Atlantica Online’s new invasion event.
Have some fun partaking in Runes of Magic’s Festival of Fire! Just… don’t get burned, OK?
Prosperous Universe shows that not all game development is sexy: “This week, the team has worked on various tasks such as managing job applications, making a mental image of the game’s systems, and preparing an upcoming maintenance patch.”
Starbase’s Week 3 patch continued to improve the game’s UI, mechanics, and visuals.
Kritika Reboot introduced the spear-wielding Lina to the roster:
Learn about the different combat phases that the upcoming Haxity will offer:
The MMO industry pumps out more and more news every year – no site could possibly cover everything. That’s why we gather together all the extras every week in The MOP Up, our a weekly compilation of MMO info we don’t want lost in the cracks of time. Send us your news bits through our tips line!
