Official Site:Â Crowfall
Studio:Â ArtCraft Entertainment
Launch Date: N/A
Genre:Â “Throne War Simulator”
Business Model: Hybrid B2P (Optional Sub)
Platform: PC
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Crowfall’s Illara campaign – and a wipe – arrives this week
One of the hallmarks of Crowfall is its cyclical campaigns that feature firm beginnings and endings before coming back in different forms. This format...
Fight or Kite: Falling in line with Crowfall
"Everyone group up! Keep the formation tight. Line up and do not let anyone through that door."
We know that they have a siege weapon...
Make My MMO: You can finally roll a female character in Star Citizen’s latest alpha
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen stole the show with the release of its 3.5 alpha to all backers. Most famously, this...
Crowfall details the random encounters players will have with War Tribes
The point of the various time-limited worlds in Crowfall is, in part, that players are fighting for victory in the remnants of dying worlds. These...
Make My MMO: Project Gorgon’s cash shop isn’t horsing around, Star Citizen’s playable female characters are finally here
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, beloved indie MMO Project Gorgon raised a few eyebrows this week by announcing a microtransaction cash shop that...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that set themselves up as spiritual successors
As with the larger video game market, sequels aren't unknown in the MMO space. We've seen studios take a stab at following up successful...
Make My MMO: Saga of Lucimia’s quests, Dual Universe’s 30K, SOTA’s spring
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, spring has sprung in Shroud of the Avatar, whose latest community newsletter teases a bunny basket full of...
Crowfall previews the PvP map structure of its first campaign in feature walkthrough video
Since its original Kickstarter reveal, Crowfall has been absolutely clear on its key conceit: PvP. This is a PvP MMO. In fact, the devs...
Crowfall buffs Hunger shard hunting by improving rewards and skills
The most recent patch to Crowfall quietly tweaked a rather important aspect of the game's spawning Hunger crystals, and it's a small change but a...
Make My MMO: Shroud of the Avatar is rolling out player-created dungeon encounters this week
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Shroud of the Avatar is gearing up for its 63rd release. Portalarium is currently testing pronged weapons, pirate cosmetics,...
Crowfall’s Raph Koster has some advice for community managers
Community management may be one potential path to making inroads at a development studio, but before you take that job, you'd best heed the...
Crowfall welds leveling and talent systems onto its framework
There is a lot for Crowfall's team to discuss this month, what with the delay of the first sanctioned campaign and all of the...
Battle for divine favor in Crowfall’s Trials of the Gods campaign series
Now that Crowfall has had the time to do some campaign test-runs and make adjustments based on player feedback, thereby delaying sanctioned campaigns, the...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs I’m optimistic about in 2019
It's still early enough in 2019 to do articles about the upcoming year, right? Well, I'm doing this one anyway, so if it's too...
Make My MMO: You can’t launch people from catapults in Ashes of Creation, but you can attend a play in Shroud of the Avatar
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Ashes of Creation posted up a sizable Q&A on Reddit, telling its community that it's still working on support...
Crowfall delays sanctioned campaign, introduces new competitive campaigns
Crowfall's big news this week is either good or bad depending on your view: ArtCraft announced another delay in its testing phase, albeit a...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained puts the numbers on the field
How many players and bots were on the field with the last test for Camelot Unchained? Not one. Not two. Not three. Not... all right,...
Crowfall examines the issues of changing scoring rules mid-campaign
The nature of time-limited Campaigns in Crowfall has given rise to an interesting question of whether or not it's a good idea to patch the...
Make My MMO: Chronicles of Elyria’s armor, Shroud of the Avatar’s R62
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Chronicles of Elyria dropped its latest community journal, which highlighted new armor sculpts and concept art and promises inventory...
Massively Overthinking: The boring MMO development between bookends of hype
If you watch MMOs being developed for long enough, one truth becomes evident: It's kinda boring.
I started thinking a bit about this last week...
