Everyone has a fighting chance
As with all too many other aspects of our lives, it can be temptingly easy to apply either binary or at least not highly differentiated thinking within the context of the MMO category. So, for instance, we tend to regard a game as either good or bad, or if we choose to add a third grouping, as mediocre. However, with a bit of reflection, I suspect many readers can name elements you remember from titles that weren’t very well-received overall. Here are some of mine.
Welcome to Player Versus Player, the bi-weekly column that throws two writers in a cage in a battle of faction warfare. We debate the topics nearest and dearest to your heart and then throw it in the comments to you to decide the victor. This week, we cast our gaze to business models and ask whether it’s time for Pay to Play to go the way of the Dodo.
Spanish developers Arpic Games this week announced its upcoming real-time, free-to-play MMO Starriser, touting the beta’s expanded fleet options.
A new sci-fi MMO has emerged from the Norwegian development company, Fifth Season AS – a game that hopes to change the way MMO players look at web-based games.
Nearly two years ago, we reported that a Harry Potter MMO was in the works. According to a new report from Bio-hazard Entertainment, Wizarding World Online will indeed become a reality. A team of over thirty has been working on the earliest systems to get things lined up to meet today’s start of a Kickstarter initiative.
Haemimont has announced that its forthcoming action RPG, Victor Vran, has kicked off its Steam early access program. Interested players can grab an exclusive costume for participating in the earliest phases of deployment.
Trion Worlds is reporting that its Dallas server farm is currently undergoing a DDoS attack that began at approximately 1:00 pm Pacific today. As of an hour ago, servers running all of Trion’s games are still under attack. Trion is working to remedy the situation but there is not yet any timeline for resolution.
Square Enix is taking the wraps off a new mobile RPG called Heavenstrike Rivals. The game has been released in other locations throughout the world, but will soon be making its debut in North America and Europe.
MMOs are closing in on two decades of existence. Like a first love, many of us have fond memories of our first experience in an MMO.
World of Warcraft is much like walking into a Las Vegas casino; each zone, dungeon, or battleground being its own pocket dimension divorced from reality and filled with scenic grandeur and the promise of wealth. Except for when such promises are at the mercy of pitiless random-number-generators (RNG).