Star Wars Galaxies News – Twelve Servers to Close in October

January 11th, 2010

Due to the Free Character Transfer Service, a number of servers have essentially become ghost towns as much of the game’s remaining population has chosen to converge on a small number of servers (example: Starsider).

As a result of this, Star Wars Galaxies Community Manager, Draakull, has announced today that 12 servers and SWG Credits will be shutdown on October 15th, 2009, at 5PM PDT, leaving 13 remaining. The creation of new characters on these servers is now disabled.

The servers listed below will be shut down:

Corbantis

Europe-Infinity

Intrepid

Kauri

Kettemoor

Lowca

Naritus

Scylla

Tarquinas

Tempest

Valcyn

Wanderhome

To help facilitate any players still remaining on these servers, the Free Character Transfer Service has been extended through to October 15th, 2009. Beginning today, all characters still remaining on the aforementioned servers are eligible for a one time free transfer to any of the remaining 13 servers. 

In addition to this announcement, a FAQ has also been made available for more information on the situation.

The announcement and FAQ are both available here.

Darkfall News – Newest Patch Live

January 11th, 2010

The main focus for this patch were the optimizations. This is the most work we’ve done to date in this area.

Optimizations

The audio system has been completely revamped and this will result in significantly higher performance, Darkfall Gold, mostly noticeable during large sieges.

A large number of server side optimizations regarding sieges and large battle performance have been applied.

Miscellaneous client problems have been addressed

Crafting

New Items added for Skinning:

Dragon Bone

Ork Darktaint

Northman Blood

Anarchy Online News – New Tiered Subscription Model

January 10th, 2010

  Durham, USA – January 21, 2008 – Funcom announces the introduction of a tiered subscription system in Anarchy Online, and players can now choose between three subscriptions plans going from free-to-play to 5 to 14,95 USD / EUR a month. The newest subscription level means that gamers can access the areas and content in the Shadowlands expansion pack for only 5 USD / EUR a month, thereby offering one of the most profound, engaging and deep online experiences around for a low monthly cost.

The new areas which open up for the 5 USD a month subscribers are all located in the Shadowlands. This expansion pack got an incredible review score average, several awards and great critical acclaim when it launched, and is one of the most heralded MMO expansions of all time. The expansion not only gives players massive new areas to explore, it also introduces lots of new features as well as a chance to reach the maximum level in Anarchy Online.

Aion News – NCsoft Responds to Player Shop AFKers

January 10th, 2010

  Find yourself sitting in a seven hour queue recently? You can thank your fellow community members for that. Many players have been abusing the player shop system in Aion, which lets players set up shop anywhere in the world and hawk their wares, in order to avoid queue times.

Gotta break for dinner? Don’t want to come back and deal with a queue? Set up shop! Up until today, being in shop mode protected you from the idle out timer. This practice has compounded the issue of already crowded servers by causing queue times to shoot up as more and more people catch on and set up shop to avoid idling out.

Well this morning Aion went down for maintenance, and returned with a newly implemented 30 minute limit on player shops. Now, if only they added some more severs!

Runes of Magic News – The Elven Prophecy Now Live!

January 8th, 2010

  Chapter II: The Elven Prophecy is now on live servers! Those of you who have been having withdrawals due to the lack of Elves in the game will be pleased to know you can finally make one and explore the new lands of Taborea.

The new chapter brings more than just Elves to the game, introducing two new classes, the Druid and the Warden as well as new dungeons, namely the 12-man “Hall of Survivors” raid, two six man dungeons, “The Origin”, and “The Heart of the Ocean”, and a 150 man public encounter called “Varanas Nightmare”. Additionally, four new zones, including a new newbie zone, and three high level zones are available for players to explore.

The expansion is of course free, but there is a boxed version available in stores for 9.95 MSRP.

The boxed version contains a number of goodies and Rom Gold for your 10 Euros, including: a game manual, a poster format world map, and an exclusive house pet: the Manticore. In addition, players who activate their keys within the first five days of release will receive the exclusive “Heavenly Black Wings” item.

Wonderland Online News – Nessie the Loch Ness Monster

January 8th, 2010

For those who venture into the whimsy of Wonderland Online, they’ll find almost anything can appear in the virtual world of Wonderland – even the legendarily reclusive Loch Ness Monster! No one knows much about this monster, except from the videos and pictures depicting a large dark shadow moving along the surface of Loch Ness. Inspired by this mysterious legend, the Wonderland Online dev team has a new boss based on this legend, Nessie – the Loch Ness Monster! In the game, Nessie isn’t as fond of the cold waters of the foggy loch as previously thought, and instead prefers the warm, sunny Mediterranean.

The adventure to find Nessie starts on the sparkling waters of the Mediterranean Sea. There, players will come across a mysterious coral rock. Touch it and suddenly a long slender seaweed green neck rises from the flat calm water. Blazing red eyes will stare hungrily, just before a huge mouth swoops down and swallows everyone up.

When characters regain their senses, they’ll be in complete darkness. Slowly it may dawn on them they have fallen into the belly of the beast! The cavernous interior is littered with the hulks of broken ships and the occasional sailors bones. It’s not safe here, so watch out for attacks, but if they can survive, they’ll find two other survivors to aid in the escape. One is the lonely Puppet Master in the small intestine, the other is Robinson in the large intestine. Where players go from here depends on what they decide to do, it’s up to them.

Bounty Bay Online News – France Gets Free Colony Add-on

January 8th, 2010

  The French version of the free colony add-on for Bounty Bay Online is to be released in France on 30th June 2009. The comprehensive expansion which has been available in Germany and England since January enables the historical seafarer world’s guilds to found their own whole colonies complete with towns and harbours. For this purpose the historical world of exploration has a total of 33 coastal territories standing ready for development. Along with the outside appearance of the colony, players can define the trading policies within their sphere of influence and also their colony’s future development. Upcoming guilds can in this way create a profitable trading centre and individual retreat.

Since its French launch in December 2008, the seafarer MMO has also enjoyed great popularity with already more than 50,000 explorers roving about on the Calypso game server.

Archlord experience

January 8th, 2010

archlord online Gold and I am really easy to make very easy, if you ask me, do make archlord online Gold, then I tell you, a reselling equipment, drawing out each update two derivatives, 3 talisman materials, four resold magic.

1 first of all that equipment resold

District 5, then reselling the most money, five of the most popular, but also buy up new district general equipment, and does not require too much capital. 135 the future, they should not even think of the really bad equipment, do not do not make money, not easy to sell. And to advise everyone not specifically make cheap Archlord Gold equipment, better not reselling 9, because too much capital. Are often equipped with a 9 lot of you miss the opportunity to earn Archlord money.

2 update

Draw out derivatives, the well known things to make money. Want to earn a little money to set up a stall, then close the sale with too bad either, wanting to cash in on the other, then later sold off the shelf. But if you do not have money to buy Archlord Gold, also earn a little money bar. Because the funds have a longer recovery period, there are certain risks. At that time I don a trumpet basin, off the shelf after the net profit of 1WJ.

3 talisman materials

Long ago, on the home page to see a material that the most profitable reselling Acacia posts, then I would say you have fallen behind. Since the King of Ghosts heavenly is changed, a ghost talisman of the most profit Archlord Online Gold. Take Po Kong, I have every 1600J, 1200J sold each solitary note.

4 reselling magic

Some say, and a magic weapon that is not easy to sell. You say is very correct. But it depends on what the magic of the. In fact, what magic does the most profitable, in fact, on the tonic. 75 magic 10 and above, more than 105 magic 20. In fact, many people do not understand magic, if you look carefully at the frontline, then you will see a lot of 75 magic 10, 20 and above are sold very cheap.

Luna Online News – Preview

January 7th, 2010

 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.

Dragonica Online News – The Magician

January 7th, 2010

  Dragonica 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.