MMO Roundup: Guild Wars 2 beta on the horizon
by Alex Ziebart 
Jan 24th 2012 at 10:30AM
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The Old Republic previews future content updates BioWare released a new video detailing the content slated for the game in the coming months. Director James Ohlen lays out several new additions planned for the near future, several of which are features players had been asking for. |
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Diablo III senior producer leaves Blizzard Blizzard's Steve Parker dropped a bit of a bomb via Twitter recently. The Diablo III senior producer is leaving the project and the company for reasons unknown. "I'm no longer working at Blizzard or on D3," Parker wrote. "I've had a great five years there and those guys are going to kill it with Diablo." |
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Guild Wars 2 confirmed for 2012, public beta coming ArenaNet founder and president Mike O'Brien rocked the Guild Wars 2 community very recently announcing 2012 as the official launch year for the game. Guild Wars 2 recently finished up a very small closed beta test, and now ArenaNet is planning to start opening the testing doors wider very quickly. |
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RIFT revenues reached $100 million in 2011 How successful is RIFT? That's hard to say without knowing how much it cost, but it's safe to assume that Trion executives are smiling after the game generated $100 million in revenue in only 10 months. The game is aiming to launch in China and South Korea later this year. |
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The latest MOBA news Move over MMOs -- MOBAs and ARPGs are all the rage these days. Catch up on the latest news from your favorite not-quite-massive games such as League of Legends, Heroes of Newerth, and Diablo III. |
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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)
RogueJedi86 Jan 24th 2012 12:52PM
Another interesting news piece from Massively in the past few days that would be relevant to WoW Insider's readers is this article:
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/23/blizzard-job-listing-mentions-product-placement-within-their-n/ (ext MMO)
Titan may have product placement in it, judging by that job listing. Kinda tarnishes Titan's image a little in my eyes. But I'm high on TOR right now so Blizzard isn't high on my list, so I'll admit bias. But I know gamers in general hate product placement in their games, so this can't be too pleasing.
Ant Jan 24th 2012 3:18PM
There are MANY games with in game advertisements. Like, did you know that in Battlefield 2142, there was a monitoring system that you had downloaded so that when you looked at an advertisement in the game, it would track how long you looked at it, what it was and when? Every other Battlefield game after that had it.
Pyromelter Jan 24th 2012 1:34PM
It depends on the game. For those of us who play sports games, NOT having product placement would be weird. Imagine a racing game that had no brand name cars, no brand-name advertising banners. It would be really weird and empty. Or if they used fictional ones, that's always strange too. Like that family guy episode where they were using slightly altered names like "McDaniels," "Burger Queen," "Flame Broiled Bopper," "Chicken McFingers," "Fresh Fries" (Quagmire: "Oh, c'mon, they don't own "french fries!"). Imagine a sign at a sports even that said "Cucu Coola" or something. It's kinda jarring.
In a fantasy RPG or MMO, I do concur however, product placement would not feel right... unless that fantasy RPG or MMO happened to be placed in the current time frame. Also, if product placement helps make it f2p, and appears fitting in the environment, sure, why not, go for it.
John Jan 24th 2012 2:54PM
What's a MOBA? Museum of Bad Art is the first hit on Bing.
ARPG I get.
Alex Ziebart Jan 24th 2012 2:59PM
Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. Basically... DOTA games. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_%28genre%29
Arrohon Jan 24th 2012 5:27PM
@Alex Have you started on MOBA Dick yet? When can we expect beta?
Jamie Jan 24th 2012 4:42PM
Guild Wars 2 has Mesmers... sadly my WoW days are now over.
Arrohon Jan 24th 2012 5:18PM
GW2 is basically the way for me to be able to play two MMOs without having two subscriptions. THAT'S probably the only real reason that I plan to buy it.