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Bungie’s Luke Smith, Creative Director for The Taken King, has taken to the Weekly Update to apologize to veteran Destiny players for the recent dissatisfaction with the pre-purchase program announced for the expansion. Players loudly complained at the inequity of having to re-purchase the full game and the expansion in order to get the collector’s edition perks.
Carbine Studios is ready to unveil what it has envisioned for the upcoming F2P iteration of WildStar. Among other things, players can look forward to new content, an improved tutorial system, item and stat systems will be overhauled, more consistent challenges in dungeons, and new areas including Alpha Sanctum and Cryo-Plex PvP Arena.
With the XB1 version of Neverwinter firmly in place, Cryptic Studios is ready to start talking about the future and forthcoming updates. Rob Lashley had the opportunity to send a few questions Rob Overmeyer’s way to find out more.
WildStar has always been a terrific candidate for a non-subscription-based business model, and at E3 2015 last week, we got a chance to chat with Carbine Studios about their flagship MMORPG’s upcoming free-to-play transition. It’s no surprise that they’ve received a great response to the transition since their announcement of it a few weeks ago, with over 100,000 free-to-play beta signups in the first day.
As anyone who has played online games for any length of time will know, the territory comes with its ups and downs. One common issue, especially with resource-based open-world games that allow for PvP, is when players form into large groups and trample their respective countrysides (or space stations), obliterating everything in their path. Whether you know it as ‘blobbing,’ ‘zerging’ or by some other name, you’re sure to have run into it in one form or another.
MMORPG.com has been given special gift keys for Continent of the Ninth Seal (C9) to help celebrate the 5th expansion – Lord of Baltic. Each gift key will grant players cool in game stuff such as Extreme Potions, Gold Netherate and much more. Get your key now while supplies last!
Looking to try out the new Diablo-themed map for Heroes of the Storm? Look no further than the HotS PTR where the map is now live. All that is required is for players to choose "PTR: Heroes of the Storm" for the region-select on the main HotS screen and get started today.
Trion has announced that all interested parties will be able to log into Trove this Thursday, June 25th from 12:00am Pacific – 11:59pm Pacific / 3:00am Eastern – 2:59am Eastern to help celebrate the end of open beta testing prior to the official launch of the game later this summer.
With the release of the World of Warcraft v6.2, Fury of Hellfire, update, players can now begin to work on earning the Draenor Pathfinder meta-achievement which is an account-wide unlock for all player characters at level 90+. The most important thing to remember when working on gaining the meta-achievement is that most of these can be multi-tasked and can be completed concurrently while questing / exploring / gathering.
MMORPG.com and Bandai Namco are pleased to present a special opportunity for our community to participate in the alpha test of Supernova – an all new sci-fi MOBA game on the PC platform. Get your key while supplies last!