We’re sure you’re noticing a trend in the free to play genre these days and it’s not a particularly exciting one. A phenomenon wherein company produces a ridiculous number of MMO franchises in the hopes that you will eventually take note of one and hopefully invest. On one hand, I applaud this foray into the wild world of MMO capitalism since it exposes the massive multi player genre to the public at large and likewise creates competition for the more dedicated gamers. Competition theoretically means that said company will work harder for your dollar and will hopefully produce a better product in the processes. On the other hand, this projectile vomiting of titles also tends to endear the ‘if it works, why fix it?’ mentality, which has in turn has given rise to the MMO clone wars. These companies will invariably attempt to produce a cutesy MMO with an Asian-anime feel, a serious MMO probably featuring an ancient Chinese theme, some flavor of sports MMO and a fluffy socialization MMO if that wasn’t already included in the cutesy-anime one. One need look any further than Konami as one of the more egregious offenders, and gpotato is rapidly joining the ranks with their newest effort: Luna Online.
Luna Online News – Preview
January 11th, 2010Dragonica Online News – The Magician
January 11th, 2010Dragonica Online’s job class system is composed of four basic job classes that can be promoted to 16 unique advanced jobs. During character creation, players choose a main job class – Warrior, Magician, Dragonica Gold, Archer or Thief. Each job class specializes in a unique set of attacks and skills and allows adventurers to customize their character based on their combat preference and style.
After choosing a job class, players battle monsters and bosses to gain experience and master unique skills to progress to advanced job tiers. Although each class progression retains the core combat style and characteristics of the starter class, each advanced job has unique attributes, skills and items only available to that job. At level 20, players face the challenging decision of which advanced class to pursue and master.
Destiny Online News – One Year Anniversary
January 10th, 2010Destiny Online is an MMORPG featuring Beautiful 2D Graphics, Exotic Weapons, Powerful Skills, Loyal Pets, Versatile Mounts, Fierce PK, Tribal War, Online Romance and Wild Wedding Party. Now it has been a great year since last summer when Destiny Online was first launched. We experienced lots of fun together and those memories will be with us forever.
It is the first MMO that “Pays U 2 Play”, meaning that for each 2 hours that you are continuously logged in the game, you will earn 2 Gold Points. The Gold Points that you accumulated by being online can be used to purchase valuable items from the Destiny Item Mall. And now with the new twist of it, the brand new Master-Slave program, you can even earn more Gold without doing any more work.
Mortal Online News – First Interview
January 10th, 2010Mortal Online is a first-person sandbox MMO set in a believable fantasy environment. Although the game is not necessarily about PvP, its core is built around player skill and PvP as opposed to experience points, levels and a PvP-mode glued on top. Mortal Online revolves around player-to-player interaction more than solo-journeys and quests; it has full loot, sandbox crafting, housing and very seldom follows the streamlined design-rules and automated systems of modern cookie-cutter MMO’s. In short, it’s a niche skill-based fantasy game for a mature audience. The game is currently in Beta stage with nearly 10.000 accounts.
It’s very difficult to describe Mortal Online in a few sentences as it is very different from most of the MMOG’s out there. Now please understand I don’t use that cliché for marketing purposes, it simply is a niche game that some will like because of its unique approach and some won’t because it’s too different from their style of play or what they are used to. The game does not necessarily build on or “learn” from the errors or the steps taken by big-name MMO’s
Dark Age of Camelot News – Jeff Hickman on WAR, DaoC and the Future
January 8th, 2010Jeff Hickman is Executive Producer at EA Mythic. He has worked on several titles including Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer Online. Jeff gave a presentation at AGDC which outlined how players will purchase and play games in the future and what design ideas we might see years from now. He also touched on some of the areas where Warhammer went wrong and explained some improvements they are trying to make for the future on all of Mythic’s products. After his presentation I had a chance to interview Jeff, sadly the video interview was lost, sorry Jeff, but I’ll try to highlight some of the points he made.
Jeff explained that digital distribution is important in the future for games. There will always be boxed sales, but with services like STEAM and other digital download companies, getting games directly online easier than ever to do. In the future, more and more people will be downloading games online than going to the store to buy them.
Martial Heroes News – Game Entertainment Europe
January 8th, 2010Game Entertainment Europe brings Massive Multiplayer Games to Europe
Amsterdam, 26th June 2006 – Game Entertainment Europe BV has added the game Martial Heroes to its game portfolio as the first massive multiplayer game. Martial Heroes is a free to play game based on oriental martial arts. With the introduction of Martial Heroes, Game Entertainment Europe is offering a new game genre to gamers that like Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG).
Martial Heroes is a provocative game to play for both new and experienced gamers. A gamer chooses the role that fits him or her best. By playing quests and using items such as swords and horses, the gamer grows into his role. Of course real success comes from playing the game together. Martial Heroes offers the possibility to form a Guild. There is an unlimited number of levels that will keep the game provocative for every hardcore gamer. New items and extensions are launched daily and there will be events regularly.
Gamers can visit the European website for Martial Heroes, which will be launched in August. Through this site the Martial Heroes game client can be downloaded for free. The European website will be available in English, German, French and Dutch with additional languages being added in the near future.
European gamers will be able to buy interesting items, pay for these with their favourite (local) payment system and use the European helpdesk, forum and Game Masters (GM). Throughout 2006 the international game server for Martial Heroes will be extended with servers dedicated to the European users.
“There are many more great online community games besides those from well known publishers like NCSoft and Webzen. Many games that are successful in Asia are hardly available for gamers in Europe”, according to Richard van Barneveld, CEO of Game Entertainment Europe. We are the first company to offer a complete solution to the many problems that game developers face in offering their games in Europe. Game Entertainment Europe can offer 28 different languages, 86 payment methods, local promotion, helpdesk and superior hosting facilities. Besides Martial Heroes, Game Entertainment Europe will offer several other online community games to European gamers. Van Barneveld: “In the short term we will launch an online First Person Shooter (FPS) and several online sports games. “
Lineage 2 News – Subclass Change Service
January 8th, 2010Have you ever dreamed about changing your character’s class, wondered what it would be like if you had a different main class, or just wanted a fresh new experience in Lineage 2? Your dreams can become reality!
Lineage II is proud to announce the Subclass Change account service and a small update to the Name Change account service.
You can sign up for the Subclass Change paid account service starting Tuesday, June 9th, 2009.
Any account services purchased on or after June 9th, 2009 will follow our normal account service processing during regular maintenance.
Money king
January 8th, 2010No matter the new players or old players, I always have the methods for you to earn much mabinogi gold. First, get into a life group, textile group or medicine making group in Cumberland. Then go the cemetery in Cumberland and go to pick up the spider silk all the time till your parcel is filled with it. Then go to find a textile machine in front of the grocery store to spinning. After you finishing it you may put all the thread in your bank or the parcel of your pet. If you do not have place to put them in, just put them in your parcel. Doing all the procedures all the above and you may get a lot of thread one day, then you can sell all of them out. Five of them is 4000 mabinogi online gold and you can earn about 500 thousand mabinogi money one day, but it is also so hard. If you have the sheep pet, you may go to buy the magical potion. You can cut the hair of the sheep and when there is no hair, you may feed it with the potion. After you cutting the hair, you may also go to the textile machine to spinning the thicker thread and you may get about 600 to 700 thousand cheap mabinogi one day. The third method is just suitable for the old players. First, go to best up several red ball which are in the light. Going to Columbus to get a pass card and throw it on the altar. Then go to another world mars, then to the underground city Albert and throw your red balls into it. There will be some monsters, you should beat them and get money r you should buy mabinogi gold.
EverQuest II News – Update 52 Preview: Emperor’s Athenaeum
January 7th, 2010In Monument and Might, GU #52, Kurn’s isn’t the only place the mysterious stranger will lead you. Your new “friend” will send you to the Emperor’s Athenaeum to uncover more secrets.
Behind the last known door into the sealed city of Charasis lies the Emperor’s Athenaeum. It is the great lost library, thought to be only legend by most.
It is said to be the location of all of the Sathirian Dynasty’s greatest secrets.
Vanguard News – Pantheon Game Update Notes
January 7th, 2010Halls of the Pantheon
The Halls of Pantheon is finally here. The first part of the great architect Artera’s story has finally been released and now is your chance to prove to the gods of Telon you are worthy of their blessings. Within the halls you will be asked to do many things as you increase your favor with the gods until finally correcting the imbalance of creation and unlocking the path that leads into the halls of shattered souls and the truth behind the gods of Telon and their years of silence. It is up to you adventurers, crafters, diplomats to unlock the secrets within the halls and prove once again that the inhabitants of Telon are a force to be reckoned with.
Feature Details:
200 new quests
1000+ new items
2 new flying mounts
Choose your alignment and reap the rewards
Find out the truth behind the schemes of Kamelott
Become a god warrior and unlock the way to the Halls of Shattered Souls
Craft enhancements making them more powerful
Craft god armor
Craft a unique epic weapon for each class
New item mods
New resistances