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Darkfall lays out a strict anti-macroing policy
Filed under: Fantasy, Darkfall, Exploits, News ItemsThere are no levels in Darkfall Online. Instead, they use a skill-based progression system. For example: the more you cast magic missile, the better...
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E3 2009: Jade Dynasty at a glance
Filed under: At a glance, Betas, Fantasy, Game Mechanics, Launches, New Titles, Free-to-Play, Casual The third game in Perfect World's portfolio, Jade Dynasty, has been riding quietly in closed beta...
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Anti-Aliased: My first 30 levels with AFK... er... Jade Dynasty
Filed under: At a glance, Betas, Fantasy, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, New Titles, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Anti-Aliased So I learned a few things since last week. One, writing an opinion column on how...
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Anti-Aliased: My first 30 levels with AFK... er... Jade Dynasty pt. 2
Filed under: At a glance, Betas, Fantasy, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, New Titles, Opinion, Free-to-Play, Anti-Aliased So that's why it's called AFK Dynasty...When I finally found a new area to level...
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Jade Dynasty goes into open beta, supplies new trailer
Filed under: Betas, Fantasy, Trailers, Launches, New Titles, Free-to-Play Perfect World Entertainment's new flagship game, Jade Dynasty, has pulled itself out of closed beta right on time and has...
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Massively goes toe to toe with Jade Dynasty's Andrew Brown
Filed under: Fantasy, Game Mechanics, MMO Industry, Free-to-Play, Casual, Interviews (Massively's), Jade Dynasty Jade Dynasty. The game that plays itself. We ran an op-ed on it a while back and even...
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Silkroad Online says no to botters
Filed under: At a glance, Fantasy, Historical, Business Models, Culture, MMO Industry, News Items, Silkroad Online, Free-to-Play No botters! Bad botters! Down! Ban! You're banned!Well, that's not...
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One month: Aion October community address
Filed under: Fantasy, Aion, News ItemsAion has officially been out for one full month and NCsoft just released an October community address in response. The notice reads less like a giant pat on the...
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NCsoft bans 16,000 Aion accounts
Filed under: Fantasy, Aion, News Items One of the continued complaints we hear from Aion players is that bots litter the game's digital landscape, severely reducing the enjoyment of actual...
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See an Aion GM in action blowing up spammers
Filed under: Fantasy, Aion, Humor NCsoft has always been fairly vocal about about their assault on Aion's goldspammer and bot epidemic. They bolstered the game's spam filter a while ago and their Game...
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Aion's first Eye On Community for December
Filed under: Fantasy, Aion, Forums, News Items The Aion team had plenty to say in the latest Eye on Community segment, released on Friday. The question of the week, unsurprisingly, centered around the...
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Masthead Studios discusses Earthrise economy
Filed under: Sci-Fi, Economy, Exploits, Game Mechanics, New Titles, Earthrise It's an immutable law: create an online game where virtual currency is used and it'll inevitably give rise to a black...
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The lesser of two evils is still evil
Filed under: Culture, Exploits, MMO Industry, Opinion There are a lot of choices we face where we don't so much pick a good option as we pick the option that's least negative. Most people would argue...
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[Updated] If you cheat in Guild Wars, Dhuum will kill you
Filed under: Fantasy, Guild Wars, News Items No, seriously. Guild Wars players hanging out in Heroes' Ascent this afternoon noticed an interesting sight. Dhuum in all his giant shiny glory was popping...
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NCsoft releases third The More You MMO video
Filed under: Fantasy, Video, Aion, News Items NCsoft has released the third episode in The More You MMO series of video shorts focused on RMT in Aion. The new piece, entitled Earn Your Power, examines...
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Turbine expands on LotRO's Lua scripting
Filed under: Fantasy, Lord of the Rings Online, Previews, Free-to-Play Ever since hearing the news that Turbine will allow players to create mods for Lord of the Rings Online using the Lua programming...
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Massively's EVE CSM interview: EVE Gate, microtransactions and more
Filed under: Sci-Fi, EVE Online, Culture, Game Mechanics, Interviews, MMO Industry, Opinion Earlier this month, the official minutes of meetings between CCP Games and EVE Online's Council of Stellar...
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The Daily Grind: Have you ever bought gold?
Filed under: Sci-Fi, EVE Online, Culture, Economy, Opinion, The Daily Grind Practically every MMO ever made has some kind of currency-based trade system, and if that currency takes time or effort to...
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Banned WoW player offers $1,000 for reactivation
Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Culture, MMO Industry If you lost an MMO account through hacking, banning, or any other method, what would you pay to get it back? One California World of...
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EVE Spotlight: An interview with CCP Zulu
Filed under: Sci-Fi, Video, EVE Online, Culture, Events (Real-World), Interviews, MMO Industry EVE Spotlight is a new bi-weekly feature in which we interview prominent members of EVE Online's player...
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