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EA / Bioware announced today that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be merging its 17 servers down to 5 on November 8th, 2017 with the "United Forces" update. The United Forces update expands your connection to a galactic-sized community of players. We will be integrating our existing seventeen servers to five new servers, one for each existing region and [...]
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The classic medieval MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot turns sweet sixteen and parents Broadsword Online Games and Electronic Arts are inviting old players to return to Albion, Hibernia, and Midgard. As part of the realm vs. realm MMORPG’s sixteenth birthday celebration, the devs will be holding a “Come Back to Camelot Campaign” which includes 30 free days of game time. [...]
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Happy 100 Days, everyone! It has been 100 days since Fate/Grand Order launched in North America, and to celebrate, all players are getting a bonus! For one day only, until October 4th, 0359 UTC, all players will receive 10 4★ All EXP cards! But that's not all! Until October 10th, all players who log in will receive- 1,000,000 QP 2 [...]
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Earlier, we extensively covered Final Fantasy XIV's latest Letter from the Producer LIVE, a massive 3-hour live stream from the developers of FFXIV, who gave us a plethora of new information regarding the upcoming Patch 4.1. Now, courtesy of Bayohne, the Community Rep for FFXIV, we have updates regarding the Job changes coming in Patch 4.1! Warrior Steel Cyclone will [...]
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Grim Dawn developer Crate Entertainment first revealed the upcoming expansion Ashes of Malmouth in August. After two months of twiddling our thumbs and waiting for news, the devs have finally announced a definite release date for the massive expansion. Grim Dawn: Ashes of Malmouth is coming October 11th!https://t.co/7H5MXDMHkW https://t.co/VVmO5zgGHq — Grim Dawn (@GrimDawn) October 2, 2017 Crate says that Ashes [...]
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If you’re a League of Legends player you’ve undoubtedly come across toxic players at one time or another, probably said things that you shouldn’t have in the heat of the moment, and maybe even got reported for it. Water under the bridge right? Not if you’re the Lead Experience Designer for Riot Games. Aaron Rutledge, a.k.a. Riot Sanjuro, made the [...]
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In an interview on GamesIndustry.biz, Final Fantasy XIV Game Director Naoki Yoshida mentioned that the game could possibly one day go free to play. See the full quote below: "That being said, if 80% or 90% of our players are demanding we go free-to-play, then we might need to look at shifting our business model," he says. "But we would [...]
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Yet another older MMORPG is launching on Steam; this time it's the cute anime inspired Luna Online from Suba Games, which is launching on Steam on October 6th, 2017 as "Luna Online: Reborn". The game features 4 playable classes with a unique skill system that allows players to mix and match various skills and abilities. Given that the game originally [...]
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Toxic players will always be a problem, more so for highly competitive games like Overwatch. Blizzard Entertainment’s widely-popular shooter, however, seems to be having more than their fair share of toxicity. Turns out even the devs are feeling harassed on the forums which prompted Game Director Jeff Kaplan to post a rather lengthy letter defending the Overwatch team. “We have [...]
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Preface: Without the people at the Fate/Grand Order Subreddit, this information would have never reached our years. Thank you, /u/chaosking121, for attending AWA and bringing us this info! Now, onto the meat of the information! Fate/Grand Order NA, since its launch, has followed a different system than Japan's. While the core gameplay and Servants are the same, Fate/Grand Order NA [...]
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