Tag archive: mmorpg

Announced by Electronic Arts during an investor call earlier today, the gaming publisher has sold two million copies of Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic and 1.7 million of those gaming consumers have signed up for a subscription to the online role-playing game. However, this number includes all players that are currently taking advantage of the first 30 days of free play-time that comes with the $60 game and does not necessarily mean… Read More

Originally debuting  during March 2010, the online Star Trek collaboration between Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios has moved to the popular free-to-play model as of today. Following the lead of DC Universe Online as well as Lord of the Rings Online, anyone can download and play the Star Trek MMORPG for free. While players get to experience the majority of what the game has to offer at the free Silver level, players will also… Read More

According to Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz, Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic already has between 1 to 1.5 million early players taking advantage of early access from preordering the game. Creutz has been watching the amount of servers being rolled out for the game as well as the server population. The analyst counted 140 servers over the weekend, an increase from 106 servers there were available the previous Wednesday.… Read More

Mark your calendars Trekkies, Star Trek Online has gotten an official date for its free-to-play conversion. Cryptic Studios announced the F2P model will be launching on January 17, 2012. Become a captain and travel to all the iconic locations you love from the Star Trek franchise like the Academy or the First City of Qo'noS; all without spending a dime. Players will be split into Silver and Gold members; Silver being those who opt for the… Read More

Reported during a recent Activision Blizzard conference call,  the subscriber base of the MMORPG World of Warcraft fell by another 800,000 players over a three month period. This constitutes a much larger decline than the lost 300,000 players that quit the game during the second quarter. The total user base now stands at approximately 10.3 million subscriptions, a large drop from a peak of about 12 million players during October 2010.… Read More

Sorry, Old Republic fans, but BioWare giveth, and BioWare taketh away. The hype for the upcoming MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic has been fairly intense. After all, it takes two groups, both of which are populated by intelligent and eager fans that are typically very web savvy, and mixes them together. Fans of the developer BioWare and fans of Star Wars are both fairly well informed in general, so the cross section that is awaiting the… Read More

Earlier today, LucasArts and Bioware announced the launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic on December 20, 2011 for North America and December 22, 2011 for all launch territories in Europe. BioWare co-founders Dr. Greg Zeschuk and Dr. Ray Muzyka released this information at the 2011 Eurogamer Expo in London, England during a keynote address to many Star Wars fanatics. The game has been undergoing extensive beta testing from a small group of fans.… Read More

Divorce. It’s no laughing matter, and certainly not an issue that should ever be taken lightly. One day you are questing together in Crimsonwood Keep, slaying enemies while stealing glances at one another. The bond is there, the feelings, the passion. It’s not long before you wind up in Peach Blosson Island inviting all your friends to your wedding. It’s the happiest day of your virtual life. But while most would assume the fairytale ends with… Read More

 On paper it is a clear winner. Take the popular DC Comics roster of superheroes and villains, mix in a MMORPG element, then let players create their own avatar based on their favorite characters to join. Open that formula up to PS3 users as well as PC, and Sony Online Entertainment should have the next big MMORPG on their hands. But things haven’t worked out quite that way. In a recent press release, SOE has announced that it will move away… Read More

Electronic Arts is planning on putting a cap on the amount of players that will be able to access Star Wars: The Old Republic at the launch of the MMORPG this fall. While no specific number has been announced, there is an exact target of player volume that can be reached with a combination of physical and digital sales of the game. Once that cap is reached, Electronic Arts will halt sales of digital copies and wait until server performance can… Read More

Down about 600,000 players in about seven months during the last report, Blizzard reported another loss in the second quarter. Subtracting another 300,000 players from  the player base, the subscriber base for the World of Warcraft massive multiplayer online game has dropped by nearly one million users in about nine months. This decline may have been slowed by the recent move to convert the game to a free-to-play model. Players can play for an… Read More

MMORPG titan Blizzard has announced new information about the developer's highly anticipated Diablo III title, and it's sent the gaming community reeling. There are some big changes coming to the third major installment of a franchise that's been hugely popular since its 1996 birth. First, players can now officially buy and sell in-game items for real money. Diablo III's auction house will include both in-game and real… Read More

Let’s just go ahead and get this out of the way right now: No, there is still no official release date for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Not even a general time frame. You can now pre-order the game, but it hasn’t even been confirmed for a 2011 release. Just had to get that out of the way first. Last week was Comic-Con, and what would a Comic-Con be without a Star Wars presence? It would be a sad day, and one that would live in fanboy infamy.  On… Read More

What do you do when the hobby that occupied all of your time is taken away? You fire up a good ole' class-action lawsuit, of course. A group of Star Wars Galaxies players, upset about the closure of the eight year-old MMORPG are claiming that Sony is silencing their many cries out for help on the SWG forum, deleting and locking posts that demand the game become free-to-play or stay open somehow. Due to the impending launch of Star Wars:… Read More

The king of of pay-to-play massively multiplayer online RPGs is becoming a free-to-play game, kind of. Leaving behind the 14-day free trial promotion it has used to attract new users since its launch in 2004, Activision Blizzard is now allowing gamers play World of Warcraft until they reach level 20. World of Warcraft has always had a 14-day free trial for new users, but Activision Blizzard has, after seven years on the market, lifted the time… Read More