MMORPGs or ‘massively multiplayer online role-playing games’ make up the majority of games covered on MMOPulse. In MMORPGs, very large numbers of players can assume the roles of characters and interact with one another within a persistent virtual world.
World of Warcraft celebrates Easter by activating the yearly celebrated feast of Noblegarden, an in-game event in which lords and nobles from each race hide coins, candy and treasures within eggs painted to look like wildflowers. Citizens are encouraged to scour through major cities to find them.
We’re just one month over three years since Crowfall, the PvP focused MMORPG was initially crowdfunded on kickstarter and today the developers have answered development related questions and respond to feedback from their ACE dev partners. Thomas Blair (Design Lead) and Mark Halash (Senior Game Designer) go through important development information involving the game’s Eternal Kingdoms, movement speed increase when flying back to your corpse, new maps and more.
TERA (The Exiled Realm of Arborea) is now available on Xbox and PS4. En Masse Entertainment boasts their newly released game with a brand new trailer and is actively promoting it with the involvement of Twitch, YouTube and Mixer streamers. EME is smart to take advantage of the powerful influence that streamers hold as there are very few other action MMORPGs on console that is largely streamed at this time.
For three years now, every year in March, the World of Warcraft Chronicle book series grows. World of Warcraft Chronicle: Volume 3 continues the epic saga deep into Azeroth’s history as agents of the Burning Legion devour the world and unleash a mysterious force of undeath. Follow the stories of iconic characters from the World of Warcraft universe like Jaina Proudmoore and Arthas Menethil of The Alliance, Thrall of The Horde and Illidan Stormrage as they face dreadful choices to save Azeroth and their way of life. Volume 3 is now purchasable on Amazon, Target, Jet and other book stores.
Arcfall is an isometric sandbox MMORPG that currently has a purchasable pre-alpha build available on Steam. The game’s indie developers Neojac Entertainment has announced that the game will be leaving its buy-to-play model and switching to free-to-play in its next major update on April 6, 2018. Game currency will be given to Arcfall’s founders as a form of compensation.
While we’ve got other MMOs like Wild Terra giving free trials during the recent holidays, Arcfall looks to be staying with a free-to-play business model even when it leave its alpha.
The next massive update to ArcheAge (version 4.5) is coming very soon on April 5th and Trion Worlds, the game’s developer encourages players to participate in testing on their Public Test Server before the update is patched onto the live servers. Last week we talked about the announcement of this update and went over the main points of change like the new world bosses, dragon mounts and combat changes. Now Trion has released an extensive and lengthy patch notes for this coming 4.5 update.
During a livestream interview by Twitch and YouTube channel SWTORCentral, Eric Musco (Community Manager) and Charles Boyd (Creative Director) of Bioware confirmed the upcoming 6.0 expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic! They mentioned that a release date has already been decided, but cannot be made public as of yet. When they are ready to do so, we will be hearing about all the changes features to come to SW:TOR. This news should be enough to dismiss the rumors going around in the SW:TOR community that the game will be shutting down soon.
Maewha, the female blader has made her way as the latest playable character in Black Desert Online‘s SEA version. Maewha becomes part of the roster only one week after her male counterpart, Musa was brought in. Both are sword-wielding classes that fight with oriental-styled martial arts to execute chain combos. Maewha is especially powerful in single combat situations.
