I gotta be honest: I wasn’t entirely convinced this day would ever come. I’m referring to Bless Online’s de facto launch, of course. That’s because we’ve been watching this game’s development across the sea since 2011, and when it finally was announced to come westward in 2016 – after the Korean servers had already started merging down to just two...
The developers of Legends of Aria don’t want you opening a world map any more. You shouldn’t have a world map in a sandbox, according to their design philosophy. The latest patch removes that function and will allow you to now purchase physical maps for the five world areas from vendors. You can also place notes about locations on those...
You know, it’s kind of rough to get through all of the content of a new patch in one day, especially when you can’t just huddle up in the house all day. I appreciate that. I got myself through the majority of Final Fantasy XIV‘s patch in one day, though, so I can’t help but feel a measure of pride...
It’s hard to be menaced by monsters in a game like Neverwinter. The whole point of the game is that every kill makes you stronger, after all; that makes it difficult to feel intimidated just because the monsters in a given area happen to be all skeletons or whatever. Which is why the latest development diary reveals that there are...
Europe’s new GDPR regulations are creating a lot of busy work for many MMORPG studios including City State Entertainment, which had to spend over 350 hours updating Camelot Unchained’s privacy policy and making other changes to conform to the law. “We have made a number of changes to our privacy policy based upon the GDPR,” CSE said. “The good news...
One of the best aspects of all of the new Disney Star Wars films is their references to places, events, and characters outside of the film canon and in the extended or “legends” universe. And now, with the release of Solo in movie theaters, Star Wars Galaxies has joined that list of shout-outs for all time. One of the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it...
This just in: Dauntless is hot stuff right now! Hopeful testers, crowding in to try Dauntless’ new open beta, quickly racked up massive queues over the weekend. While large queues is nothing new for popular online games, these numbers — sometimes rising above 150,000 — left players waiting for hours and laughing about the ridiculousness of it all. Phoenix Labs scrambled to...
Across the MMORPG universe, gamers are always asking, what should I play? It’s in our comments, on Reddit, in every guild and global chat channel, and surely in every Discord chat that’s ever seen the letters “MMO” uttered. We get so many podcast emails asking for advice on what to play that I fear we’re repeating ourselves. I’ve always kind...
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! The MMORPG genre saw two big launches this past week: The Elder Scrolls Online released its Summerset chapter for PC players (to positive reviews!), while Worlds Adrift hit early access (to concerned reviews over its retention-unfriendly...
There are just two days to go before EVE Online‘s Into the Abyss expansion lands on May 29th, introducing its new Abyssal Deadspace solo PvE feature. Players will use abyssal filaments to travel into Abyssal Deadspace pockets that exist underneath space throughout the EVE universe, risking their ships in challenging procedurally generated encounters. It’s in these instanced solo encounters that...