EverQuest cleaning house with server merges and character changes
Filed under: Fantasy, EverQuest, Game mechanics, Guilds, Server downtime, News items
Sony Online Entertainment has sent out a customer service notification to EverQuest players, dealing with some changes that will potentially affect your account(s). Perhaps the biggest news is an impending server merge — “The Combine” and “Druzzil Ro (Xev)” servers will merge on January 21 at 3 a.m. PST, a process which is expected to last roughly five hours. The new server will retain the name “Druzzil Ro.” While server merges tend to be portents of doom and gloom by some players, EverQuest will also add a new server in March. Players will be able to vote on which type of server it will be…
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Putting on appearances in Star Wars Galaxies
Filed under: Sci-fi, Patches, Star Wars Galaxies
Later this year a brand new ‘appearance’ system will be added to SOE’s Star Wars Galaxies MMO. Like similar systems found in Lord of the Rings Online and EverQuest II it will allow players to appear to be be wearing whatever they wish, while gaining the mechanical benefits of specific ‘loot’ pieces. In a way the system reintroduces one much beloved portion of pre-NGE SWG, which often saw players wearing varied outfits. Loot, in those days, didn’t have mechanical benefits. To accompany the new system, the official site has up a Friday feature explaining how the system is to be used. Making…
Putting on appearances in Star Wars Galaxies originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Know Your LotRO Lore: The Elves
Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Lore, Education, Know Your LotRO Lore
Welcome to Know Your LotRO Lore, a new weekly column here at Massively showcasing the lore of J.R.R. Tolkien’s world as it intersects with Turbine’s Lord of the Rings Online. The Elf is possibly the most intricately-detailed race in all of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works. He created their histories, bloodlines and origins throughout his entire life, from before The Hobbit to works published after his death. Did Tolkien invent Elves? No, but he did redefine them as they’re portrayed today in modern fantasy settings. Mostly everything we see in WoW, Warhammer, and of course LotRO come from Tolkien’s…
Know Your LotRO Lore: The Elves originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Lame scams still profitable in Guild Wars, over 1000 bans every week
Filed under: Fantasy, Guild Wars, Exploits, Game mechanics, MMO industry, Opinion
Would you fall for this? (Please say ‘no’…): A complete stranger approaches you on the sidewalk outside of your bank and shows you a rare coin he says is worth twenty thousand dollars. “I want to just give this coin to you,” he says, “but I don’t want anyone to know we did this… tax issues, you see.” The stranger suggests putting it in your safe deposit box, but because he’s so concerned about privacy, he wants access to your safe deposit box to be sure the rare coin gets there, with no one the wiser. The problem is that he can only get in there with your express permission… We’re…
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Lame scams still profitable in Guild Wars, over 1000 bans every week originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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One Shots: Quiet homage
Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, Lord of the Rings Online, One Shots
We love Lord of the Rings Online. Graphically, you just can’t deny that the world of Middle-earth is absolutely gorgeous. No exception to this is today’s One Shots submission sent in to us from our regular Lord of the Rings Online contributor, Finudir. He tells us a bit about this scene: Captains must always look to the past to find examples of great leaders before them. In one such exercise Finudir was tasked with saving a statue of Elendil, perhaps the greatest leader to ever grace Middle-Earth. Here is Captain Finudir of Gondor paying homage before the reconstituted statue. Do you have a…
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Grimwell takes a look at Atlantica Online
Filed under: At a glance, Fantasy, Game mechanics, Free-to-play, Hands-on
Atlantica Online is one of those MMOs that people always seem to talk about, but never really get fully in-depth with. Insight into the game recently came from an unexpected source: Craig “Grimwell” Dalrymple, a noted MMO blogger and senior community relations manager for Sony Online Entertainment. Craig just recently spoke up about the turn-based MMO, relating his experiences and gripes with the game on his blog. For him, the strong points of Atlantica are the turn-based combat (as it allows PvP to be a bit more tactical rather than a fast paced gankfest,) the mercenary system (which is…
Grimwell takes a look at Atlantica Online originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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EVE Online player breaks 100 million skillpoints
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Forums, Opinion
One of the oldest characters in EVE Online, NTRabbit, made a fairly rare appearance on the game’s official forums, reflecting back on the experience of having racked up over 100 million skillpoints. In EVE, hitting nine digits in skills imparts some serious bragging rights. In fact, those skills plus his years of experience lead NTRabbit to proclaim, “I am close to, if not the, premier combat character in the game.” He sheds some light on the path he’s taken through New Eden, and in the process tells us what the game used to be like in the early days. For most of us newer players, it’s an…
EVE Online player breaks 100 million skillpoints originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Final Fantasy XI implements the RMT PWNER version 1.337 to battle RMT
Filed under: Fantasy, Final Fantasy XI, Culture, Game mechanics, News items
The Final Fantasy XI anti-RMT task force has always been very aggressive in their pursuit of gil farmers and gil sellers in the world of Vana’diel, but the latest task force update shows that they’re about to get even more technological in their investigations. Enter the RMT PWNER program, version 1.337. (No, we totally did not make that up.) This program can parse the many servers of FFXI for information regarding the buying and selling transactions of a character under suspicion of the task force. The program will then list all characters who have associated with that character’s…
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The Daily Grind: Have you had to cancel an MMO subscription?
Filed under: Business models, Economy, Events, real-world, MMO industry, Free-to-play, The Daily Grind
While there may be reason to believe the economy is set to improve in the near future, at the moment the United States is facing something of a downturn (the blogger writes delicately). As a result, everyone’s looking to their own personal bottom line. Things that you’d let slide a year ago might not be so easy to write off today. As a result, it sounds like a lot of people in the MMO gaming community are re-examining their hobby to see where pennies might be pinched. This blogger, for example, has had to made some hard decisions about where he’s going to put his play time and his pay time….
The Daily Grind: Have you had to cancel an MMO subscription? originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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US Age of Conan servers down for the merger of Bloodspire and Hyperborea
Filed under: Fantasy, Age of Conan, Server downtime
Server mergers have finally come to Age of Conan. Today Tomorrow the US servers will be down starting around 7:00 a.m. EST (or 12 p.m. GMT) for about six hours so that Bloodspire and Hyperborea can be merged. Originally planned for early December, the mergers had been postponed when a data problem was identified that might have caused certain items to disappear in the process. Additional details around how the mergers will be done are available on the AoC FAQ forum threads. If you have characters on these servers (or really anyone playing), it’s definitely worth having a look to determine…
US Age of Conan servers down for the merger of Bloodspire and Hyperborea originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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