Everyone has a fighting chance
Today we reached out to Daybreak Studios to ask them about that thing we’ve all been eagerly awaiting for over two years: EverQuest Next. Well, we’re still going to be waiting, but just as former President John Smedley said, we were assured today EverQuest Next is indeed still being hammered away on.
Greetings MMORPG.com readers! I’m Mike Donatelli, Product Director for Carbine Studios’ WildStar. We are less than a week away from a major moment in our game’s history as we’ll be switching over to a free-to-play business model on September 29. The decision to change business models was not a light one, and we put a lot of thought and debate into when, why and how we were going to do it.
My relationship with Destiny is complicated. On one hand, it would only take a subtle prodding to get me to unleash a violent torrent of criticisms and resentment towards a game that was so obviously a shell of its true potential. On the other hand, I had sunk more time into it than I would ever care to admit in front of polite company. And so, Destiny made me a walking hypocrite.
The Guild Wars 2 team will be on hand this weekend with a boatload of exciting live streams, announcements and even the Heart of Thorns launch trailer debut during Twitchcon running Friday, September 25th and Saturday,September 26th. During the two day event, ArenaNet Television will have some new shows to tempt viewers including Taste of Tyria, a Guild Wars-themed cooking show hosted by none other than Jennifer Hale.
The latest in a series of Fallout 4 videos designed to give players a fun look at the games base attributes continues today with a look at Endurance and why it’s important. Find out why it’s S.P.E.C.I.A.L. and let us know what you think!
The Rift site has been updated with a first look at some of the locations in the Planetouched Wilds that will be forthcoming with the v3.4 update. Players can find out a little information about denizens in each of the location and what can be expected when journeying through them.
The WildStar site has been updated with a new blog post that outlines some of the many welcomed quality of life improvements coming to the game with next week’s free-to-play launch. Among other things, fast travel (aka ‘rapid transit’), a sell junk button, nav points and content finder are all included.
The Crowfall team has gone on record via Twitter to announce that the latest stretch goal for the team has been passed and that the male assassin archetype will be added to the game.
Artcraft Entertainment has revealed a pair of exciting news tidbits of keen interest to EU Crowfall players. Andreas Weidenhaupt, co-founder of Frogster Online Gaming and founder of Infernum Productions, has been named to the Crowfall advisory board as its EU specialist. In addition, localized web and game servers will be opening in Europe in the near future. The German site and server will be opening later this week.
Aeria Games’ community team has gone on record to soothe the nerves of the Echo of Soul NA and EU community after the recent closures of both Korean and Chinese iterations of the game. According to PM_Bacon, Aeria has received assurances from Nivius’ CEO that publication of the game as it is and development of new content is assured beginning with the introduction of PvP Season 2.