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

Massively Overthinking: Counting the hits and misses of our 2015 predictions

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Every year, we lodge our predictions for the next. Funny, strange, and deadly serious, these predictions are a glance back on the naïvetés of 2014 and...

Global Chat: Sifting the good raiders from the bad

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Game designer and blogger Psychochild posited an interesting question recently: How can you tell the difference between a good raider and a bad one? He...

The best MMO deals of Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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You could give thanks on Thanksgiving, or gorge yourself on festive food alongside your bickering family members, but we say there's nothing like shopping from the comfort...

The Stream Team: Adopting ArcheAge’s pawesome pets

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What does MassivelyOP's MJ love as much as housing in games? Pets! And ArcheAge is giving her the best of both worlds: the opportunity...

Raise your own pet through ArcheAge’s Pawesome Autumn Adoption Festival

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Beginning this weekend, you can participate in one of the more unusual MMORPG events we've seen in a while: ArcheAge's Pawesome Autumn Adoption Festival...

World of Fishing is now in open beta

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I like to fish in MMOs. Which is strange because I don't much like to fish in meatspace. My favorite MMO fishing mechanics were in...

Battle Bards podcast listens to MMO character creation music

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Battle Bards, the world’s first and only MMO music podcast, returns to listen to the oft-neglected character creation themes. What music do composers create for...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 35: Expansions galore

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Justin and Larry deep-dive into SWTOR's Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion, with news on Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, Halloween, EVE Vegas, ArcheAge, WildStar, and Star Trek Online.

Massively OP’s guide to MMO Halloween 2015

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Halloween is an unstoppable force in the MMO industry and will not be denied to developers and their players. It's that time of year...

ArcheAge bans blockades, griefers cry about it

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Those crazy ArcheAge kids, always mucking up the works! The latest bit of fantasy sandpark drama comes to us courtesy of the game's official...

ArcheAge’s Halloween event starts tomorrow

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ArcheAge's Hallowtide "rises from the dead" on October 20th, according to Trion's latest website blurb. There's probably a joke in there relating to ArcheAge...

One Shots: C.R.E.E.P.S.

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Whatever happened to bad acronyms as titles for movies and TV shows? Where are our C.H.U.D.s? Our C.H.i.P.s? I guess we have Agents of...

The Daily Grind: How would you mix MMO features to create the best one ever?

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Today's Daily Grind question -- more like command! -- from Massively OP Kickstarter donor Tim is short and sweet: Mix features to create your perfect MMO. It...

ArcheAge has been live for 1,000 days in Korea; here’s a trailer

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ArcheAge recently celebrated its 1,000th day as a live game in Korea. Developer XLGAMES published a trailer to mark the occasion, which is pretty slick...

Massively OP’s first impressions of Devilian

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Call my stance on Trion World's upcoming Devilian "oh-so-cautiously interested." Personally, I think Trion invited more grief than it wanted with the importation of ArcheAge to...

ArcheAge addresses castle construction bug

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A quest bug connected to the construction of castles on ArcheAge's Diamond Shores has resulted in Trion Worlds issuing a hotfix over the weekend...

Guild Chat: Creating a solo-friendly MMO guild

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Welcome along to another instalment of Guild Chat, my own cozy wee corner of Massively OP in which I help readers in need with...

The Stream Team: Moving along ArcheAge’s story quests

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Between sailing, farming, running trade packs, and gliding around, it's been a while since MassivelyOP's MJ has actually quested in ArcheAge. So today she's diving...

Massively Overthinking: MMO server merge horror stories

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Whether you call them server transitions, evolutions, consolidations, megaservers, or connected realms, server merges are a thing that affects most MMORPGs at some point...
Springtime for ArcheAge.

ArcheAge adds $250 item pack to its store

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Sometimes everything comes down to timing. Take ArcheAge's latest store pack, for example. In and of itself it's just a $250 pack, which is...

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