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Filed under: EverQuest II , MMO Industry , Opinion , The Tattered Notebook , EverQuest Next , Sandbox , Crafting A curious thing happened as I was strolling through EverQuest II this past week. It seems there was a bit of commotion in the Norrathian community, with races good and evil cheering and dancing in the streets. Personally, I didn’t even know Sarnak could move like that! What was the catalyst of this celebration?

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The Tattered Notebook: EQ Next scoops up Emily ‘Domino’ Taylor

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Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , Free-to-Play , RIFT Trion Worlds Lead Game Designer Bill Fisher has announced that RIFT won’t be allowing raiders to use item store tokens to boost ultra-rare currency gains. In a forum thread titled RIFT is officially pay-to-win , Fisher addressed the concern over the upcoming item shop’s impact in the raiding game. The specific beef was with item store tokens that offered a substantial boost to all currency gained in the game over a period of time.

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RIFT removes currency-boosting effects for raids

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Filed under: Betas , Business Models , Events (Real-World) , MMO Industry , Opinion , Massively Meta , Ask Massively , Miscellaneous It’s a running joke on Massively that some readers believe our lives are glamorous and that we sleep in beds made out of free video game swag. The truth is that video game bloggers are working in this field because they love the job. At least that’s how it is around here

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Ask Massively: The irony of media and betas

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Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , Bugs , Economy , Opinion , Free-to-Play , Neverwinter , Neverwinter Days So funny story: In planning out in advance what I wanted to talk about in this biweekly Neverwinter column, I had selected something that recently caught my eye about the game and made me happy. That something was the Neverwinter Gateway , a web portal that allows out-of-game players the ability to fiddle with their character sheets, auctions, professions, guilds, and mail. I thought — and I still do — that this was a nifty service that deserved a day in the sun.

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Neverwinter Days: The great economic collapse of 2013

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Filed under: Fantasy , Polls , Darkfall , Guilds , PvP , Choose My Adventure , Sandbox Boy, MJ’s Misadventureland is really coming along! Hiring a few more hands sure has sped things up; you wouldn’t even recognize the project now compared to even just one week ago. But isn’t that the whole point of Choose My Adventure — to watch the adventure that you’re building develop and unfold? Well, that and to snicker at your Massively guinea pigs..

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Choose My Adventure: Building on the clan experience in Darkfall

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Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , Trailers , Video , New Titles , Free-to-Play , Trading Card Games Watch out: It’s an unholy fusion of addictive trading card games with addictive massively multiplayer online roleplaying games! The clinics will be overrun and crime will run rampant as police will be too captivated by the bleeps and bloops of their computer boxes to do anything about it. That’s the dire future that Kings and Legends Global could usher in. Or it could just be an interesting title that mixes CCGs with MMOs to create a novel experience

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Kings and Legends Global melds the TCG with the MMO

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Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , Business Models , Culture , News Items , Guild Wars 2 , Buy-to-Play This morning, ArenaNet dropped the price point of Guild Wars 2 by $10 across all available editions .

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Guild Wars 2 developers share APIs, hopes for the future

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Filed under: Sci-Fi , Business Models , Economy , Opinion , Free-to-Play , Ask Massively , Star Wars: The Old Republic , Hyperspace Beacon Those of us who have played through the middle planets of Star Wars: The Old Republic know that chapter two is rather blas

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Filed under: Fantasy , Game Mechanics , MMO Industry , News Items , Free-to-Play , Wizardry Online SOE’s Wizardry Online website has updated with a post outlining an upcoming ” major code update .” The patch will bring the western client “one step closer to all the advanced features of the Japanese version of Wizardry Online ,” the company says.

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Wizardry Online prepping for ‘major code update’

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Filed under: Betas , Fantasy , Game Mechanics , Opinion , Consoles , Final Fantasy XIV , The Mog Log , Dungeons Do you smell that on the wind, my friends? It smells like June is fast approaching, and more importantly it smells like soon we’ll be able to welcome the third phase of testing with open arms. Which is good, since I am currently going through withdrawal.

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The Mog Log: Final Fantasy XIV beta phase 1 and 2 – FATEs and dungeons

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