MMO Roundup: More Sony downtime, 8 years of EVE, and more
by Alex Ziebart 
May 3rd 2011 at 1:00PM
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SOE takes services offline due to serious issue Sony has not been having a good couple of weeks, and it just keeps getting worse. This Monday morning, Sony Online Entertainment customers woke up to discover that all of their games' services were down. Apparently, the company has discovered a serious issue while following up with the previous weeks' hacker intrusion and is taking steps to rectify it. |
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SOE releases further breach details; 24.6 million accounts compromised And things just get worse for Sony from there. The San Diego-based MMORPG publisher has announced that approximately 24.6 million accounts may have been stolen, in addition to the 12,700 credit or debit card thefts reported earlier. |
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8 years of EVE Online EVE Online is coming up on on its eighth anniversary. EVE has grown from a fledgling niche game with under 40,000 launch subscriptions to a global melting pot of over 360,000 actively subscribed accounts. The company itself has seem similar expansion, starting from humble beginnings as a small independent studio in Iceland and growing into a multinational monster with offices in China, Iceland, North America, and the United Kingdom. |
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Marvel Universe Online will be free-to-play, penned by Bendis Move over, DC Universe Online -- it's Marvel's time to shine. After a few false starts, Marvel's finally poised to become the next big MMO superhero thing. Marvel Universe Online recently announced its head writer: Brian Michael Bendis. Comic nerds, assemble! |
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Blade and Soul videos feature PvP, gliding Blade & Soul, the upcoming Korean beat-'em-up MMO, has just seen the conclusion of its first closed beta phase. It appears that beta phased marked the beginning of the game's media frenzy, because numerous gameplay videos have started to surface. Check it out! |
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Massively's week in review Don't let WoW Insider do all of the talking when it comes to Massively's best content of the week. The Massively staff themselves have picked out what they think is the best content their site has to offer in their own weekly roundup. |
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
MattKrotzer May 3rd 2011 1:58PM
After watching Marvel do everything they could to pre-emptively eliminate the competition (their huge lawsuit against CoH a few years back) I'm not particularly interested in seeing their MMO now that they've finally recovered from it's numerous setbacks and are once again making headway, no matter who they have writing it.
LynMars May 3rd 2011 2:31PM
I'm just wondering where a game that lets you play canon characters and direct the story to that degree is an MMO. Something about Lind's answers were offputting for me.
And looking at it as an RPer, I'm already cringing about how this is supposed to work.
JC_Icefox May 3rd 2011 3:40PM
God, that Sony issue is mildly terrifying. I am willing to put my credit card trust in the hands of a company expecting them to avoid these kinds of overt theft. I'd rather that information be put under 8 million types of security even if it meant I had to jump through more hoops.
Broken faith is one of the hardest things to ever get back.
GrumblyStuff May 3rd 2011 2:17PM
I didn't know Jay Leno liked to cosplay as Wolverine.
Moridin May 3rd 2011 3:52PM
These people complaining about sony still is amusing. Its as if their world was centric around sonys network. Go outside breathe some air, climb some hills. The world around us is 10x more interesting than a game, appreciate it more. So what someone got some of your #'s, they can be changed.
Grayswindir May 3rd 2011 6:06PM
I am so glad I dont own a PS3...this situation is the worst case scenario for Sony...
VioletArrows May 3rd 2011 7:07PM
I don't have one either, but I did end up getting an account to do things like play that boring Free Realms game, talk on their forums, and play my brother's PS3 for all of 2 hours. Now I can't even remember/figure out if I actually have anything to lose from this. :/