Everyone has a fighting chance
Hearthstone’s feature set remains somewhat barebones and the new year offers Blizzard many opportunities to expand on the game and perhaps make some changes to the way the approach certain aspects of dealing with its issues. This week, let’s take a look at a couple of ways Blizzard can improve the Hearthstone experience in 2015.
2014 will go down as a banner year for proponents of change in social tolerance. From the final episode of Legend of Korra to the announcement of a potential new James Bond to ‘first of its kind’ character in Dragon Age: Inquisition, we have borne witness to often overlooked segments of the larger society taking center stage in our television shows, movies and games.
Seriously, it’s the end of the year already? This year has flown by! It feels like it was just a couple of days ago I was helping to slay the werewolves of Camlorn and when it fact it was roughly 270 days ago. Time really flies when you’re enjoying every moment of it. Well almost every moment of it, waiting in the LFG queue is never an enjoyable experience. Within these 38 weeks since the game released, so much has changed and improved.
According to a notice on the Legend of Silkroad site, game service will officially end on December 31st. Publisher JCPlanet cites developer difficulties as the reason for the shutdown.
Greeting and salutations, Crusaders, and may I say that we, here at MMORPG.com, hope you all are enjoying a healthy and happy holiday season. This week we are going to take a look back at the final livestream of the year, Into the Warp, episode fifteen, which aired on the 19th of December. The big focus of this episode was the unveiling of about twenty or more minutes of actual game play using the current in-studio build of Eternal Crusade.
While going on my weekly browse through Kickstarter I noticed an area of the video games subdivision that I had never noticed before. A section that boasts there are over 100 games on Steam that were once on Kickstarter. This is a great thing for Kickstarter to brag about! Kickstarter has made some amazing games possible. Of course most of them aren’t MMOs. Kickstarter has been a great platform for non-MMO indie games.
As my habits demand, I check on older MMOs periodically to see what’s new and to possibly download a new trial or even restart an old account. I do it with EVE Online, Ultima Online and other games that just scream nostaglia. Normally I find that the games have aged well but do not change so dramatically that I feel like I am playing a brand new game. Things were different with this visit to Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
Backers and fans of Pathfinder Online will be pleased to hear that the Early Enrollment process will begin on December 31st. Originally planned for earlier this year, the Early Enrollment was delayed to allow more time for the client to pass the quality standards set by developers. To celebrate the official end of the Alpha, Pathfinder Online alpha testers are being invited to a special event to be held on Tuesday, December 30th.
This is it, folks. The final round of this inaugural Great MMO Face-Off. Fans of LotRO and ESO have fought hard to get their games into the final round, while EVE and TSW are facing off for the third-place prize. Who will win? Click through to cast your vote!
The Project Gorgon team has let us know that the game’s Steam Greenlight Initiative has met with rousing success and is already on the ‘approved’ list. With the successful completion of the Greenlight campaign, the team can concentrate on getting a timeline together and shaping up the game client "Steam Ready".