Our latest coverage of ArcheAge Unchained.
The time of ArcheAge Unchained has come to an end as Kakao Games officially shuts down the buy to play version of ArcheAge. The premium and free-to-play servers have now been merged down into just one server each for North America and Europe. As previously announced, all existing characters have had their name changed to default values to prevent potential [...]
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Big changes are afoot for ArcheAge and its buy-to-play counterpart, ArcheAge Unchained, as Kakao Games prepares to merge both games into one. The merge was first announced back in August and will combine 12 servers from the original game and Unchained into one big server for North America and another for Europe. Kakao has confirmed that the merge is still [...]
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Back in 2019, Trion Worlds launched a separate premium, supposedly non-pay-to-win version of ArcheAge called ArcheAge Unchained. Three years and a new publisher later, its population is now so low that Kakao Games has finally decided to call it quits. Come November 30th, all of the Archeage Unchained and ArcheAge servers will be merged into just two servers, one for [...]
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If you missed the opening of the new ArcheAge Unchained fresh start servers back in November, then you’re in luck. Kakao Games has added two more of the same, one for North America and one for Europe. For those who can’t wait to get their hands on new real estate, the land rush for the newly-opened servers starts on February [...]
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ArcheAge Unchained will soon be opening new fresh start servers in Europe and North America which will function more like a progression server rather than an actual fresh start one. According to Kakao Games, the new servers will retain the same elements as the existing servers but will be tweaked to allow for faster level and gear progression. “Much like [...]
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Kakao Games is giving ArcheAge Unchained players a chance to catch up before a new year begins with a week-long end-of-year boost. From now until January 5th, players will enjoy double XP and Quest Honor Point gains. They’ll also earn Vocation Badges twice as fast and will get double loot drop rates for the duration of the event. Meanwhile, the [...]
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Release the Kraken! Or in this particular case, the Kraken and the Abyssal Kraken, which will both be unleashed on ArcheAge seafarers in today’s update. The Kraken is a level 55 Eternal Grade world boss with over 8 million hit points and the ability to summon the Abyssal Kraken by chance when its health drops to 70%. Defeating the gargantuan [...]
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Kakao Games has rolled out a band-aid solution to fix the annoying ArcheAge bug that allowed players to reset boss health by moving them with vehicles. As of the latest patch, vehicles will now automatically be destroyed when they come within a certain distance of the Hound of Kyrios, Nightmare Blade, or Nightmare Bowstring bosses. While it doesn’t fix the [...]
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Since Kakao Games took over as Archeage and ArcheAge Unchained’s new publisher, the studio has taken a very hard stance against exploiters, botters, and real-money trading. Over the past few months, it’s banned tens of thousands of accounts and removed over 200 billion in in-game currency. They’ve apparently softened that stance a bit with the reversal of permabans on accounts [...]
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This week’s ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained update is a bit heftier than usual, featuring a long list of skill balance adjustments and the addition of two new Swiftblade skills. “Swiftblade skills are difficult to control as they entail a lot of combos given their nature. Hence we are planning to reduce this difficulty and fatigue by changing certain skills into [...]
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