aventurine

Greek outfit known chiefly for sandbox Darkfall.

Overpriced or underpriced? Remember, they think they're really cool.

Darkfall: New Dawn launches on January 26, 2018

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At this point, it's an odd year when Darkfall isn't launching. Darkfall: New Dawn has announced that the game will launch on January 26th,...
Wow, positive.

Perfect Ten: A list of all the MMORPGs I supposedly hate

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Did you know about all the MMOs I hate? I sure as heck didn't! I mean, I knew there were a few games I...

Battle Bards Episode 108: Vampires and werewolves

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Here’s a musical episode that you can really sink your teeth into! Your… ear teeth? In any case, the Battle Bards are evaluating our...
And sometimes, it's all about winning.

Massively Overthinking: Three-way RvR and ‘fair’ PvP in modern MMOs

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MOP reader Sally Bowls is on a roll with the good questions lately! She lobbed us one this past weekend that seems a good...

The Daily Grind: Why does EVE survive where other PvP sandboxes stumble?

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MOP reader Tobasco da Gama pointed us to a recent Reddit thread about why EVE Online persists, even in a weakened state, where other...

Massively Overthinking: Epic Tavern-style player-generated content in MMORPGs

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Ever played Epic Tavern? Massively OP reader Uli though it would make an interesting point of comparison for MMO content. "Epic Tavern is a...
This didn't work.

Darkfall: New Dawn tweaks colors, removes bindstones, and improves AI

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Right now it is not hard to keep the two Darkfall reboot projects separated. While Rise of Agon launched earlier this year, New Dawn...

Darkfall: Rise of Agon works on ‘reducing tedium’ with this week’s update

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As promised back in July, the team behind Darkfall: Rise of Agon are taking drastic measures to reorient the fantasy sandbox to a more...
Just barely avoided this fate.

Perfect Ten: The 10 saddest MMORPG stories

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Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...

Darkfall: New Dawn releases state-of-the-game roadmap, says it’s 76% done

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Darkfall: New Dawn, one of a pair of indie-led player efforts to keep MMO sandbox Darkfall going after original studio Aventurine abandoned it last...
And now everything will be better forever!

Darkfall: Rise of Agon is at a ‘pivotal’ design moment

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From the sound of things, it doesn't appear that Darkfall: Rise of Agon is doing quite as well as its indie team was hoping....

Massively Overthinking: Building a better MMORPG economy

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We are on a roll with the epic questions for Overthinking lately! "The recent article about monetization got me thinking about just how much most...

Check out Revelation Online’s Eternal Chasm dungeon

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Revelation Online has a new dev blog up today on the Eternal Chasm, one of its level 59+ multiple-mode instanced dungeons. "Shinji – after the...
He's going to kill Rod and Todd! That's terrible! ...in principle.

Darkfall: Rise of Agon reveals its post-launch roadmap

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In case it slipped your mind, Darkfall: Rise of Agon launched a whole two months ago now. With the fresh car smell of this...
Ironically, this is the sort of controversy you'd probably rather face from inside a hot tub.

Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?

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Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...

Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok

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Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...
ANGRY.RAR

Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist

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This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...
I'll be dead soon

Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs

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Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 116: Bree’s virtual garage sale

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Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Blizzard, Darkfall Rise of Agon, Guild Wars 2, Marvel Heroes, WildStar, Neverwinter, SWTOR, and Ultima Online, with a mailbag question on sandbox MMOs.

The MOP Up: SMITE’s console mea culpa (May 7, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

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