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Crowfall suddenly changes course and announces a Dregs campaign for...
Last week and this past Tuesday we reported on Crowfall’s lack of a Dregs campaign for Oceania players while NA and EU players got one, with ArtCraft noting that the player population in the region...
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The Daily Grind: Which Kickstarter MMOs do you actually still want when they...
Not long after Crowfall launched, I had a fun chat with MOP reader Brandon, who mentioned that one of his friends was an early backer of the game but had bailed and passed along his account loot to...
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Crowfall begins testing The Shadow update, plans capacity testing tonight
Can you believe Crowfall’s been live for three weeks now? It has, and ArtCraft is back with another weekly blog – and a tease for the upcoming patch. “Our next major gameplay update, The Shadow, moved...
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Crowfall launches The Shadow update, opens new recruiting campaign
This won’t surprise anyone who was already participating in Crowfall’s pre-launch recruiting programs, but it’s worth noting all the same that the live game is also embarking on a promotion to pull in...
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Crowfall plans scoring and reward changes for Conquest campaigns
Earlier this week, ArtCraft elevated Crowfall’s first big patch since launch to the live servers, bringing the 3v3 faction PvP fully online and opening the larger Dregs campaigns as the original...
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The Game Archaeologist: Defining the eras of MMORPG history
With MMO history stretching back to the early 1980s (and even before), this genre has accumulated a whole lot of history over the years. Taking a bird’s eye view of this history is interesting, because...
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Fight or Kite: Crowfall’s latest release brings RvR and ‘pop-up PvP’ to the...
It’s been about a month since the release of Crowfall, and the team at ArtCraft hasn’t let off the gas yet. This past week we saw the completion of the first post-launch campaign and an update called...
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Crowfall plans a new system for initiating sieges, shares another roadmap of...
Crowfall’s ACE Q&A livestream for the month of August has come and gone, and the devs are looking ahead to the RvR MMO’s next major update. This new patch for the game will introduce a handshake...
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Crowfall makes plans for cross-server campaigns and handshake sieges
It sure doesn’t feel as if Crowfall launched six weeks ago, but this summer has felt like three minutes and also three years, so maybe that makes sense. ArtCraft has posted a new dev blog at this...
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Massively Overthinking: The worst chat in the MMORPG genre
The first rule of MMORPGs is turn off global chat. Think about that for a sec. This is a genre that is expressly multiplayer and social, where one of the best parts is that we’re supposed to be able to...
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Interview: Crowfall’s Global Conquest update brings ‘mega’ changes to the world
Today we are being treated to the latest and greatest Crowfall has to offer with Update 7.100, better known as Global Conquest. We’re expecting a slew of new features coming fresh out of the oven,...
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Crowfall studio ArtCraft has apparently suffered a round of layoffs
We’ve got some bad news for fans of Crowfall: It appears that the team behind the game, ArtCraft, is going through some layoffs. The news initially came from Valerie Massey, who was the Director of...
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Crowfall confirms layoffs, attributing them to switching to a ‘live service’ op
On Labor Day, we reported that Crowfall team ArtCraft had suffered a round of layoffs. While ArtCraft itself declined to comment on the record about the extent of the damage, one affected developer was...
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The Daily Grind: Do you think Crowfall has a future?
So Crowfall developer Artcraft suffered a batch of layoffs. This is not in and of itself all that unusual; lots of companies have layoffs after a launch. But the thing is that this is hardly the first...
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Massively Overthinking: Overcoming barriers-to-exit in MMOs
About a thousand years ago, I wrote an article on Old Massively called “but I already have that game” about barriers-to-exit: the difficulty of convincing gamers to leave an MMO where they’re popular,...
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The Daily Grind: What does reception to Crowfall and Elyon say about the MMO...
Real talk here for a sec: I’m a smidge nervous about Crowfall and Elyon and what they portend for the next stage of the MMO genre. I backed Crowfall but found I couldn’t get into it when it launched,...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 338: No power in the multiverse can stop Raph...
Justin and Bree discuss Elyon, Lost Ark, New World, Crowfall, LOTRO, and Raph Koster's multiverse, with adventures in Runes of Magic, Fallout 76, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on when leaving an...
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Crowfall lays out roadmap, addresses newbie zones and requests for auction halls
If you were worried about the state of Crowfall following the layoffs early this month, you can at least be comforted by the fact that ArtCraft is still putting out ACE Q&A videos. The latest...
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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best castle sieges?
I think that the very last time I engaged in any sort of castle siege in an MMO had to be back in my Warhammer Online days. All I remember is the sheer chaos of gobs of people streaming into tight...
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Crowfall tests 7.2 new player onboarding, outlines 7.3 update focus on...
The patches will keep on rolling in Crowfall, which isn’t exactly news, but the content of those patches are what’s news and are generally outlined in the game’s most recent Founder’s Update dev blog....
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