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Crowfall shows off gender-alternative variants of the Assassin and Druid
Now that the Crowfall team has revealed most of the core archetypes that will come in the launch game, the devs are turning their attention to providing more variants and customization for these...
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Crowfall’s destructible castles are hungry hungry hippos
One of my favorite early MMORPG PvP memories is from Dark Age of Camelot, where I liked to position my Huntress atop my side’s keep battlements to fire down on the Hibbies and Albies swarming below....
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Crowfall has big changes in store for its alpha UI
An MMORPG with a crappy user interface doesn’t last long in 2017. ArtCraft has this lesson memorized and has put it to good use in Crowfall, if today’s dev update is any measure. UX Design Lead Billy...
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Take a peek at the development of Crowfall’s winged fae assassin class
OK, so “minimum viable product” is pretty much the worst thing an MMO dev can say about her game. But how about “minimum viable powers”? That’s the descriptor for the philosophy underpinning...
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Crowfall’s hellcat has a purr of doom
One shouldn’t forget that Crowfall’s various campaign worlds will be populated by more than just irate players looking to make the world burn (and loot your corpse while they’re at it). There are...
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‘Reputation should matter’: Crowfall ties your account name to your character...
Anonymous griefers, Crowfall might not be the game for you. In May’s developer Q&A video, the team clarified that players’ character names will be the same as their account names in order to make...
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Crowfall teases next week’s teases for May 16 reveal
Who wants a teaser for more teasers! Nobody? Bad news because we’re getting some anyway, so go make some popcorn. A lot of it. The teaser for the teaser swirls around Crowfall, and ArtCraft insists...
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Crowfall’s teaser week begins with the Frostweaver archetype
Last week, Crowfall studio ArtCraft posted a teaser that it would be posting more teasers this week on the road to a something “massive” — a “big splash” — only the fourth such event the studio’s ever...
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Crowfall posts another teaser for the reveal of teasers
What could Crowfall’s teasers for Teaser Week mean? Are they teasing new classes? New races? New combinations of same? Today’s teaser is just a group of images consisting of a short, hairy man, some...
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Crowfall expands Eternal Kingdom testing, drops yet more teasers
Are you tired of Crowfall’s string of teasers leading up to a big announcement on May 16th, or does every word and screenshot add more coal to your hype train? Well hope it’s more the latter, because...
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Day four of Crowfall’s teaser week: Are we getting warm yet?
ArtCraft is clearly taking Crowfall’s teaser week super seriously, what with naming today’s teaser images “hottiemchotster” and “jamesgoblinlikesthis.” There’s not much to the Thursday reveal beyond...
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Massively Overthinking: Is the MMO genre facing an identity crisis?
MMORPG blogger and MOP commenter Isarii (@ethanmacfie) recently published an excellent video positing that the MMO industry is facing a “massive identity crisis.” “The MMO genre has sort of walked...
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Day five of Crowfall’s teaser week: A ‘triad of confusion’
Yes, Crowfall’s teaser week is coming to a close today, with two new images and a story excerpt commenting on the insidious nature of humans. If yesterday’s image names (“hottiemchotster” and...
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Ashes of Creation meets Underrealm stretch goal, eyes $2M in crowdfunding
With well over two weeks to go in its Kickstarter campaign, Ashes of Creation has already outpaced similar efforts from Chronicles of Elyria ($1.36M raised) and Crowfall ($1.76M). In fact, with over...
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Crowfall is shifting away from race-bound class archetypes
Crowfall’s teaser week is over, so what was the tease? “Massively expanded character customization options,” ArtCraft says, confirming some of the earliest hunches that the game will break up the...
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Crowfall fans create mix-and-match class survey
After the astonishing reveal yesterday that Crowfall is decoupling its races and classes to offer more build freedom, what will you make? This burning question prompted one player, Tinnis, to put...
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Crowfall wraps up marathon seven-hour stream event, promises open beta by the...
Following Crowfall’s titanic reveal of expanded and new features earlier this week, the dev team sat down for a seven-hour livestream event yesterday to go in-depth on the race/class pairings, powers...
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Crowfall explains the logic and breadth of passive powers
It is reasonable to assume that anyone who has spent a bit of time playing MMOs is familiar with the basic concept of passive powers. They’re powers you don’t click to operate, they just… work. But...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 118: Crowfall breaks up the band
Justin and Bree discuss ESO Morrowind, Crowfall, Wild West Online, Destiny 2, Funcom financials, Star Citizen, SWTOR, Dreamfall Chapters, and Ultima Online, with a mailbag question on dating in...
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Massively Overthinking: Disentangling MMO classes and races
Last week, a guildie of mine mentioned that he’d been interested in Crowfall until he realized he couldn’t be a gerbil (Guineacean) of the class of his choosing. It was a total coincidence that the...
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