Everyone has a fighting chance
Happy Labor Day Weekend! A long weekend is in order after all of the work our indie devs have done over the summer. Speaking of work, several of the indie games we’ve been following are expanding their teams. However, one developer has run out of funds. We’ve got that, and much more for you to catch up on in this week’s Indie MMO Spotlight.
Just in case anyone was wondering, Victoria’s raiding is going pretty okay in Final Fantasy XIV lately.
Mitch never really knew much about Final Fantasy XI before choosing it was this month’s MMO Reroll. However, given than we opened up the MMO Reroll column with Final Fantasy XIV, it seemed fitting to close out season one with the first MMO in the mainline Final Fantasy series.
This week the Indie MMO Spotlight brings you a baker’s dozen of delicious morsels to consume. Indie developers always seem to appreciate player feedback, and this week multiple developers wanted you to speak up. They also did a lot of talking about their inspiration and vision for their games. Oh, and we got some more information on upcoming alphas that you won’t want to miss.
Robin is back with another World of Warcraft column, this time taking a look at Torghast and how its improved since 9.1.
It’s the biggest week yet for the Indie MMO Spotlight, with newsworthy notes for fourteen games, several of which are finding their way here for the first time. Join us and get caught up on what’s going on with the Indie MMORPG scene!
Recently Bradford has been thinking about MMOs and some of the unique mechanics that each game tries to bring to the table. While not every mechanic would directly translate, it got him wondering: if you could choose any mechanic from any game to inject into your favorite MMO, which would it be and why?
The summer months of gaming can be a quiet time; apparently, indie developers didn’t get the memo. Between MMOs that just launched and others with impending alphas and betas, there’s been plenty to cover in the Indie MMO Spotlight. With temperatures soaring as we enter the dog days of summer, there’s no better time than the present to check out some of the indie gems we have in this week’s Spotlight.
On Saturday, July 24, 2021, the long-running and highly popular Dark Age of Camelot freeshard Phoenix was announced to be closing by the end of August. In a Phoenix forum post titled "The Sky Is Really Falling This Time", gruenesschaf, one of the creators behind the freeshard, explained the reasoning behind the decision and the remaining timeline for the server. Eventually, gruenesschaf explained in a rather fatalistic fashion, every online game–freeshard or not–reaches a point after the hype
Robin has been trying to write their World of Warcraft column now for week, but just has no been able to bring themselves to fully do so. Well, having got their thoughts somewhat untangled, Robin is back to talk Blizzard and WoW.