| MMORPG DAILY DIGEST | February 20, 2015 |
 | Next month, Elder Scrolls Online officially adopts a hybrid revenue system that will include the moniker "Tamriel Unlimited". We caught up to the ESO team to ask a few questions about the upcoming changes and what it means for players. Read more here |
 | Wednesday night I went on a walkabout of New Britannia with Richard Garriott and Starr Long from the Portalarium team. During that time Richard and Starr showed off what was new in update 14; crafting recipes to include enchanting, a contested point, and two new areas. We also learned what Gordon Lightfoot and Jim Morrison have in common and what the SotA community had to do with that. Read more here |
 | The games media has been on fire this week. The topic, not for the first time, has been Steam Early Access – or more precisely, Peter Molyneux, but we'll get to that later. Amidst all the chaos of broken promises and players rightfully feeling taken for a ride, we've had the chance to play a game that does Early Access right: Red Hook Studios' Darkest Dungeon. It's a game with fresh ideas and a sense of style. Read more here |
 | What is the end game? This is the quintessential question in the making and maintaining the average Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) game. How will it keep players engaged when they hit level cap while the developers furiously work on the next major patch that will expand or change the static world. Read more here |
 | We've partnered with ArenaNet to give away a bunch of awesome Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns swag. Read more here |
| Because of freezing weather in Boston, the Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina event has been cancelled. Read more here |
| Next month, Elder Scrolls Online officially adopts a hybrid revenue system that will include the moniker "Tamriel Unlimited". We caught up to the ESO team to ask a few questions about the upcoming changes and what it means for players. Read more here |
| Haemimont has announced that its forthcoming action RPG, Victor Vran, has kicked off its Steam early access program. Interested players can grab an exclusive costume for participating in the earliest phases of deployment. Read more here |
| Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns is one of the biggest topics in the MMO world right now, being the first official expansion to ArenaNet's sequel. As it happens, we're headed to Seattle to see the game next week, and we want your questions to take with us. Post them, as many as you have, beyond the break. Read more here |
| World of Warplanes has been updated to v1.7 that brings new German aircraft into the game as well as a pair of new locations for budding pilots to check out. Read more here |
| Fans of the 2007 version of Runescape will want to check out the "Old School" rebooted version of the game as it celebrates its second anniversary. It is even easier to do than before as Jagex, at the behest of its players, is introducing free to play aspects into the game. Read more here |
| Forged Chaos has announced that the KickStarter campaign to fund the next stage of development has begun for Trials of Ascension. Last year, the team successfully completed its initial fund raising effort to bring a playable demo of ToA to the world. Having released the demo, Forged Chaos is ready to get working on the next phase. Read more here |
| Wednesday night I went on a walkabout of New Britannia with Richard Garriott and Starr Long from the Portalarium team. During that time Richard and Starr showed off what was new in update 14; crafting recipes to include enchanting, a contested point, and two new areas. We also learned what Gordon Lightfoot and Jim Morrison have in common and what the SotA community had to do with that. Read more here |
| Trion Worlds is reporting that its Dallas server farm is currently undergoing a DDoS attack that began at approximately 1:00 pm Pacific today. As of an hour ago, many ArcheAge, Defiance and Rift servers are back online but other are still under attack. Trion is working to remedy the situation but there is not yet any timeline for resolution. Read more here |
| Trion Worlds has announced that Trick Dempsey is leaving the Defiance project for another within the company. In his stead, Carble Cheung will take over as Creative Lead. Cheung has been working on Defiance since 2013 and is said to have worked on some of the best encounters in the game. Read more here |
| The games media has been on fire this week. The topic, not for the first time, has been Steam Early Access - or more precisely, Peter Molyneux, but we'll get to that later. Amidst all the chaos of broken promises and players rightfully feeling taken for a ride, we've had the chance to play a game that does Early Access right: Red Hook Studios' Darkest Dungeon. It's a game with fresh ideas and a sense of style. Read more here |
| What is the end game? This is the quintessential question in the making and maintaining the average Massive Multiplayer Online (MMO) game. How will it keep players engaged when they hit level cap while the developers furiously work on the next major patch that will expand or change the static world. Read more here |
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