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MMO Week in Review: Guild Wars 2 Godspawn, WoW Classic Classic
What a week for the MMORPG genre: Guild Wars 2 released Godspawn, WoW Classic Classic launched with nary a hitch, FFXIV's Crossroads was pretty good, EverQuest II dropped its 21st expansion, and EverQuest 3 is still happening. Plus, we got a deep look into MMO-adjacent Path of Exile 2 - and our mobile MMO friends have FFXIV Mobile to...
MMO-themed TV show Mythic Quest returns for Season 4 in January
At this point, I'm really starting to think that I'm missing out because I've yet to see Mythic Quest. I know, I know, I'll turn in my MMO credentials right now, but I do promise you that it's next on my list of sitcoms to watch.
In any case, when I do get around to seeing Mythic Quest, I'll have...
The MOP Up: Hawkeye joins the Marvel Rivals roster
Marvel Rivals is getting a good dose of the Hawkeye on December 6th along with plenty of other additions to the PvP shooter. The title is adding the Birnin T'challa map and kicking off Season 0: Doom's Rise for the month.
And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for a roundup of other smaller MMO...
The Stream Team: The quest for silverware in Final Fantasy XIV
MOP's Chris and his Eorzea Sunday crew are taking on a noble quest for today's stream in Final Fantasy XIV. They're going to try to see if they can't open portals into treasure dungeons and make away with gigantic silverware weapons. This is a real thing that's happening today at 2:00 p.m. EST!
What: Final Fantasy XIV
Who: Chris Neal
When: 2:00...
Throne & Liberty says over 3900 players took part in its biggest castle siege to date
With the first large-scale castle siege for Throne and Liberty now in the books for the western audience, Amazon Games is taking a moment to take look back at the event and discuss what worked, what didn't, and what changes are coming to the activity in a new video digest from globalization design manager Daniel "Tico" Lafuente.
First, Lafuente notes...
Palworld delays its early access release on Mac until February 2025
If you were hoping to get some Palworld game time on your Mac, Pocketpair has some unfortunate news for you: The game's release for the platform, which was scheduled for sometime this month, has been postponed.
The studio simply said in the announcement that it needs time to "deliver a better experience to everyone" and so has pushed the launch...
One Shots: The eternal rambler
Sometimes don't you wish that your character had a "out with it" emote that would make NPCs cut down on their rambling speeches and get to the point already? I know that Greaterdivinity does in Janthir Wilds.
"Playing through the new Guild Wars 2 story and… yeah, Isgarren is a wordy wizard. My Guardian ended up taking a nap. The...
The Daily Grind: What are the MMO projects that you’ve given up on?
One of the nice things about MMOs in general is that they are games that err on the side of long timetables and long projects. You figure out things you want to accomplish in these games, and you do so over the course of weeks and months, sometimes even years. That's part of the fun. But sometimes you start...
Steam changes its guidelines on Season Pass DLC to emphasize compensation for players
When a developer sells a season pass DLC pack on Steam, they are selling you a bill of goods for future DLC. This is not exactly novel at this point, but the latest update to Steam guidance is actually taking aim at some of those season pass packs. Basically, the new guidelines make it clear that a developer cannot...
Ashes of Creation wipes away assets and eliminates over 100 characters over duping incident
One has to wonder exactly what sort of benefit someone would get from trying to use dupes to get ahead in a game that's in alpha testing. It's not like this is going to be permanent, you know? This is a test build. It's irrelevant. There's not a win condition right now. While we may never understand why, the...
Star Citizen aims to shift spaceship combat focus from time to kill to ‘time to disable’
As of right now, fighting against other ships in Star Citizen generally ends when a ship on either side of the conflict explodes in a blossom of fire. But sometime in the future, that metric is going to change according to the devs in the MMO's latest video digest, which is less about burning a ship down until it...
The Stream Team: Storm chasing in Astroneer’s Glitchwalkers
Last week, Massively OP's MJ realized she needed a bit more preparation to begin her Glitchwalkers adventures in Astroneer. And by preparation, she means knowing on which palnets her doggone vehicles are parked! Today, she's better situated for some serious storm chasing; she needs to catch the storms before they disperse in order to gather the data. Join us...
Perfect Ten: The allure of a fresh start MMO server
This week, WoW Classic activated another set of "fresh start" servers -- something that it's been doing pretty much annually since 2019. Yet even with the routine and familiarity of the event, a good subset of the playerbase (myself included!) got ridiculously excited about the prospect of going again.
So what is the allure of fresh start servers in MMORPGs?...
Corepunk resets servers to test account bank, skin collection, and an infinite reward system
Color us surprised: It turns out that Corepunk didn't have an unlimited cheat code for delays after all. The title is bound and determined to launch into early access next week on November 26th -- albeit in a limited format -- and has reset character progress while adding "several major account-related features."
Artificial Core even is asking some players to...
WRUP: Eliot is probably fine edition
Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about our clutch gaming moments.
The Daily Grind: Do MMOs make our characters too powerful too quickly?
When I think back to all of the MMORPGs, CRPGs, and JRPGs I've played and the part of each game that I like the most, it typically is the very first section. I love starting out as a nobody -- weak, relatively unskilled, and wearing tissue paper armor. That means that every step forward in those opening hours and...
The Stream Team: Factions, reputations, and the Friday before Black Friday in AdventureQuest 3D
'Twas the week before Black Friday, when all throughout Lore
Massively OP's MJ was raking in deals galore;
Who cares if it's early, she must buy more bags,
Her backpack's so full, it makes the game lag!
For some reason this year, there's been a rush of treating other Fridays in November like Black Friday. Even AdventureQuest 3D has gotten in on the...
Betawatch: Path of Exile 2’s early access is almost here
It's almost time: On December 6th, Path of Exile 2 will enter the early access club. Classes: Six. Acts: Three. Endgame: Available. And hopefully it will not be forcibly removed from the club as a result of any of that. To be fair, the total number of classes will double by the time of full launch, but it is...
MapleStory adds an all-new Dark Ride event, revamps classes, and opens the Page of Memories in latest patch
Most of the time the events and updates applied to the global version of MapleStory are from the Korean version; this shouldn't come as a surprise to most players. However, our global version of the MMO forked away from Korea a while ago, and this week's newest update - subtitled The Dark Ride - continues that trend with an...
Temtem Swarm shows off its ‘living roadmap’ for future development
"The living roadmap" sounds like it's almost but not quite something that's been put together by Jack Kirby if you ignore certain basic facts (like Kirby being very dead and never having worked in game development). But in this case it's really about Temtem Swarm's ongoing development, with the "living" part being mostly about the fact that it can...
