MMO Roundup: Last week on Massively
by Alex Ziebart 
Oct 12th 2010 at 10:00PM
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Questionable EVE attack deals 30 billion ISK in damage This week, a player by the name of Solarius became the unfortunate target of EVE's more ruthless player element. Solarius, CEO of Quantanamo Corporation, was running missions in high-security space in his Paladin when players destroyed his ship in a coordinated suicide attack. The losses amounted to 30 billion ISK, a $1,200 USD equivalent. |
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SWTOR's Ilum a crystal-clear win for the Sith While Hoth may take the spotlight whenever someone wants to interview a winter-bound planet in the Star Wars universe, the scrappy planet of Ilum is out to make a name for itself. Star Wars: The Old Republic's 16th announced planet is a remote ball of ice that just so happens to be a major source of lightsaber crystals. |
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Lord of the Rings Online's revenue doubles after going Free to Play According to Turbine, it's been a bonanza month for Middle-earth. At GDCO, the studio announced that revenues from Lord of the Rings Online have doubled in the past month since switching to a free-to-play hybrid model. What's even better is that Joystiq reports that LotRO has added a million new accounts over the last 30 days as well. |
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Massively interviews FFXIV's Sage Sundi and Yasu Kurosawa At the recent New York Comic Con, Massively's Eliot Lefebvre had an opportunity to sit down with two of the names behind the newly released Final Fantasy XIV, the MMO that has potentially been Massively's most controversial for the last few months. |
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New EVE character creation videos prove CCP can make pretty humans too The EVE character creator, which was terribly lacking previously compared to the rest of the game universe's beauty, is receiving a complete overhaul in the EVE's next expansion. See it in action! |
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Braaaaainssss: First details about Undead Labs' zombie MMO revealed The unnamed MMO is going to be console-only and will take place in today's world following a zombie apocalypse. Strain promises that the world will be dynamic and malleable -- think "sandbox" -- as players build up defenses to protect settlements, lay down traps for the zombie horde and eventually take the fight to the undead. |
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GDCO 2010: Running MMOs for the long haul In a year that seems overshadowed by the premature demise of big-budget titles, the question on everyone's mind is just what does it take to not only successfully launch an MMO, but keep it going for the long haul? At GDC Online, several devs who find themselves struggling with this very issue got together for an informative panel called "Strategies for Successfully Running an MMO from Launch and Beyond." |
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Massively's favorites of the week If you enjoyed our picks for the best of Massively from the past week, you might enjoy Massively's own! Head on over and find out what the Massively editorial staff has chosen as its best work. |
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
WaterRouge Oct 12th 2010 10:11PM
Saw that there was a zombie MMO in the works and got excited. REALLY excited.
Saw that it was console ONLY and my interest was lost.
I only have a Wii (meaning no XBox 360 or PS3) and I doubt something potentially this huge will reach Ninento's empire. The only successful console only MMO I know of too is Monster Hunter Tri 3...but it's a pretty awesome game.
Nico Oct 12th 2010 10:24PM
what game is that header screenshot from ?
Tarius Oct 12th 2010 10:35PM
That image is the character creater being implemented in Eve Online with the Incursion expansion (around November most likely). The new 3D avatars are for the Incarna (Walking in Stations) expansion slated for next year.
Karne Oct 12th 2010 10:35PM
"New EVE character creation videos prove CCP can make pretty humans too."
Drakkenfyre Oct 13th 2010 12:50PM
In EVE, you create a character. Then basically never see them again.
Chobis Oct 12th 2010 10:31PM
I was really into trying LotRO but I had three problems-
1. Couldn't get the downloader to work.
2. No warlocks. (Or female dwarves. What's up with that?)
3. And it seems that they're afraid to do anything that could be considered not Lord of the Rings based. But then again with a fan base like Tolkien's......well I wouldn't risk doing anything that could even resemble being controversial.
Literaltruth Oct 13th 2010 1:43AM
2. No warlocks. (Or female dwarves. What's up with that?)
Your complaint is that a game based on an established intellectual property is true to that property? Really?
This is a game that prides itself on being true to the books. There are no Warlocks in LoTR, therefore there aren't any in LoTRO. There are no female dwarves in Tolkien (not just in the sense that there aren't any characters, they literally don't exist in Middle Earth). You want them to pay for the LoTR license then completely ignore the source material? I...just...I don't....why...what?
Mark Oct 13th 2010 7:53AM
Female dwarfs DO exist:
"In The Lord of the Rings Tolkien writes that they breed slowly, for no more than a third of them are female, and not all marry; also, female Dwarves look and sound (and dress, if journeying — which is rare) so alike to Dwarf-males that other folk cannot distinguish them, and thus others wrongly believe Dwarves grow out of stone. Tolkien names only one female, Dís. In The War of the Jewels Tolkien says both males and females have beards."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_(Middle-earth)
Gimli comments on it in The Two Towers.
flackbash Oct 13th 2010 9:13AM
Sick burn.
matticus Oct 13th 2010 11:52AM
Umm, Loremasters have both pets and dots - sounds warlocky to me.
razion Oct 12th 2010 11:35PM
And by that notion, yourself.
Rakah Oct 13th 2010 2:17AM
"There are no female dwarves in Tolkien"
I call BS.
In The Lord of the Rings Tolkien writes that they breed slowly, for no more than a third of them are female, and not all marry; also, female Dwarves look and sound (and dress, if journeying — which is rare) so alike to Dwarf-males that other folk cannot distinguish them, and thus others wrongly believe Dwarves grow out of stone." Tolkien names only one female, Dís. In The War of the Jewels Tolkien says both males and females have beards.
Hih Oct 13th 2010 12:20PM
Yes, but you aren't actually able to choose female dwarf from the character creation, even if there's no cosmetic changes at all between the two genders, you're forced to go male if you want to be a dwarf.
Jinx Oct 13th 2010 3:53AM
I'm surprised you didn't mention Guild Wars 2's Hall of Monuments rewards announcement!
It's made Guild Wars a lot of fun again for me, I've gone back to get to 50/50 and only logging WoW for guild raids atm :D
Jinx Oct 13th 2010 3:54AM
Link for the curious:
http://hom.guildwars2.com/
Narshe Oct 13th 2010 10:48AM
Mah keys!
Zhiva Oct 13th 2010 4:22AM
# Questionable EVE attack deals 30 billion ISK in damage #
Again?
Haro Oct 13th 2010 7:00AM
The awful flop that is FF14 made me sad. Looks like they didn't learn much from FF11.
Either that, or they succeeded in their effort of being different from wow by appealing to the sector of games who enjoy rewardless grind, and call it "difficulty" and "noob-filter".
Hih Oct 13th 2010 12:24PM
Square-Enix doesn't learn though. They had their successes in the past, and then they just assumed that whatever they touched would turn to gold, so they put blindfolds and earplugs on and made some games, getting more "artsy" and "innovative" each time, which just ends up making for worse and worse games.
Fletcher Oct 13th 2010 10:49AM
EVE Online's new character thingy looks awesome. Regardless of what the actual *game* is like, I want to play with the character generator.