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Let's not sugarcoat this: A startling number of gamers are willing to wait in some ridiculously long lines to fling sand in the ArcheAge sandbox. This week, ArcheAge's launch woes were inescapable as Trion struggled to add waves of new servers and deal with the fallout of queues and character creation embargoes that have kept both paying and freemium players from logging in, let alone claiming land.

Massively's Jef Reahard chronicled his first six days in the game:

	Massively's ArcheAge launch diary: Day one - Introduction
	Massively's ArcheAge launch diary: Day two - Classes, skills, and combat
	Massively's ArcheAge launch diary: Day three - PvE, quests, and story
	Massively's ArcheAge launch diary: Day four - Trade runs, sea beasts, and pirates
	Massively's ArcheAge launch diary: Day five - Random knowledge
	Massively's ArcheAge launch diary: Day six - Pay-to-win and the early verdict

Read on for a look at the rest of this week's top MMO stories.

	Perfect Ten: Terrible, terrible MMO names
	Why I'm a fan of Guild Wars 2's new player experience
	Final Fantasy XIV introduces personal housing (badly) with patch 2.38
	WildStar's housing gets huge with Drop 3
	This EVE LEGO ship will rock you like a hurricane
	Elder Scrolls ups VR cap, adds upper Craglorn and more
	This video reveals part of SWTOR's new expansion
	The Elder Scrolls Online pushes players to Upper Craglorn in Update 4
	World of Warcraft's next Lord of War is Kilrogg Deadeye
	Lessons from the history of MMO housing
	World of Warcraft addresses upgrading to the Warlords of Draenor CE
	New burner missions scrap nearly 20,000 EVE Online ships, CCP happy with results
	World of Warcraft bumps up graphical settings
	A look at Star Trek Online's history with lead designer Al Rivera
	Forumgoers speculate on the name of SWTOR's next expansion
	On the twilight of Final Fantasy XIV's story
	Exploring exploration via Elite: Dangerous
	World of Warcraft reclaiming abandoned names for Warlords of Draenor
	Raptr shows MMOs and MOBAs dominating the top 20 in August
	Hearthstone boasts 20 million registered players
	Destiny unlocks its first raid and goes on sale

	The Stream Team: Anchors away in ArcheAge!
	The Stream Team: Custom decks with HEX: Shards of Fate
	The Stream Team: Wandering through Wakfu on Steam
	The Stream Team: Solving new Sidestories in The Secret World
	The Stream Team: New is new in Guild Wars 2
	The Stream Team: Win a Settler's Pack while touring Landmark
	The Stream Team: Black market dealings in Elite: Dangerous
	The Stream Team: Exploring ArcheAge with devs
	The Stream Team: A first look at Albion Online's alpha event

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Tags: archeage, destiny, eve-online, final-fantasy-xiv

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