Massively Overthinking: The one about MMORPG content roadmaps
You know what word I love to hear from MMORPG developers? Roadmap. If you’re a millennial or older, you surely remember roadtrip life before widespread GPS – sitting in a car trying to navigate twisty...
View ArticleFight or Kite: MMO PvP needs to be memorable or it’s not worth the bother
The best combat-related moments I’ve had in gaming were always surprising feats or wild encounters with other players. They weren’t always victories, but those were the best ones. Running from quest...
View ArticleHarvesting and crafting will soon grant experience in Crowfall
February – and Crowfall’s big overhaul – are inching closer, and ArtCraft has been teasing some of the big changes it’s making with the new round of testing. This week’s dev diary is all about getting...
View ArticleMassively Overthinking: Contemplating Colossus and Camelot Unchained
You had to know we were going to talk about Camelot Unchained in this edition of Massively Overthinking, right? Last week, City State Entertainment announced that it’s started work on a second game, a...
View ArticlePerfect Ten: MMOs I’m optimistic about in 2020
I didn’t actually plan to make this an annual feature or anything; I thought of it last year as a fun list, and then it occurred to me this year that it’d make another fun list. Yes, that’s really the...
View ArticleCrowfall’s February Q&A tackles tentpole features, survival tray, and racial...
ArtCraft’s J. Todd Coleman and Thomas Blair are back for another monthly Crowfall Q&A, covering all the questions and big news as the Drengskapar campaign is rolling into its last few days before...
View ArticleCrowfall will start handing out monthly appreciation rewards to its backers
How do you thank those who have been monetarily supporting your in-development throne war MMO? By dishing out monthly freebies, that’s how! Crowfall is going to be showing the love to its backers by...
View ArticleCrowfall offers a two-hour tutorial on digging up graves and practical...
If you’ve ever longed for the option to look on your crafting interface and see the option to assemble a higher quality arm for reanimation in an MMO, Crowfall has you covered with its necromancy...
View ArticleCrowfall takes a closer look at character race disciplines
Racial passives in MMOs are a bit of a dying system, but Crowfall is bringing them back with racial disciplines, which were the subject of a recent dev blog from Thomas Blair. Racial disciplines are...
View ArticleFight or Kite: New World’s switcheroo is the best thing that could have...
About a month ago, Amazon’s large age of conquest MMO, New World, announced a huge shift in focus from a free-for-all, full-loot PvP game to a less hardcore PvP game with some PvE features. The MMO at...
View ArticleCrowfall introduces its Thrall system arriving with the War of the Gods update
It would appear that Crowfall’s War of the Gods update is bringing a whole lot of unique wrinkles to the throne war MMO. A recent post introduces the concept of Thralls, spectral beings that players...
View ArticleCoronavirus roundup: Virtual GDC, Overwatch League suspended, Crowfall and...
As the novel coronavirus pandemic’s impact is felt across the globe, shutting down everything from international travel to the NBA to markets, it continues to encroach on gaming as well. Here’s what...
View ArticleCrowfall previews the Frostweaver class, says War of the Gods update is imminent
Crowfall’s March developer Q&A session has been uploaded, and once more it’s got a lot of tasty informational bits for fans of the game. The devs fielded several questions from players, with topics...
View ArticleCrowfall details a quartet of its racial disciplines
Your choice of race matters in Crowfall. Not simply in the sense that it affects your options when it comes to character classes, although there’s that too; no, it also affects your selection of powers...
View ArticleCrowfall’s War of the Gods update inches closer with this past weekend’s test
It’s been the subject of the vast majority of Crowfall’s discussion, and this past Thursday and Friday it went live… for a little bit, at least. The War of the Gods update was brought to the test...
View ArticleVague Patch Notes: Chronicles of Elyria’s road to nowhere
I honestly cannot stop thinking about Chronicles of Elyria. Not in the sense of surprise, mind you; this was pretty much one of the two endpoints I had always envisioned for the title, and the other...
View ArticleCrowfall’s latest ACE Q&A covers class design and the safety of the ArtCraft...
We’ve all gotten accustomed to videos from the Crowfall team, but the latest ACE Q&A video is a little different from usual as it is, well… not in a studio. No, it’s obviously being broadcast from...
View ArticleMassively Overthinking: What generates trust in MMO crowdfunding for you?
Last week, an anonymous game developer posted on the MMORPG Reddit about the broader MMO playerbase’s frustrations with crowdfunding. See, this dev says he’s been working on an MMO and his studio was...
View ArticleMassively Overthinking: Canaries in the MMO coal mine
A few weeks back on the MOP Podcast, reader Danny posed us such a provocative question that we said right then we were going to turn it over to the team. And that’s exactly what we’re doing in this...
View ArticleCrowfall on Frostweaver limits, the next Dregs campaign, and what’s delaying...
The month of May brings yet another ACE Q&A video from Crowfall and another cornucopia of player questions, which runs a pretty wide gauntlet as one would expect. In this month’s episode, there’s...
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