After the quiet turn of the year, there are now plenty of reports in the MMORPG genre. This week, the focus in the world of MMORPGs was primarily on money. MeinMMO summarizes the most important news of the week.
The highlights of the week:
- A streamer shares his opinion, that the Korean version of Throne and Liberty is 100% Pay2Win. Most items needed for progress can be purchased on the marketplace for real money. Even the well-known MMORPG streamer Asmongold agrees with him.
- In contrast, the MMORPG company Nexon has confirmed that it has indeed unlawfully taken money from players. In their game MapleStory, false probabilities for loot boxes were reported for 10 years. The company now has to pay a record sum of 8.1 million euros, but has earned 383.5 million euros from the loot boxes over 11 years.
What else happened? Also at The Quinfall, the focus is on money. Players warn that the MMORPG could be a scam. Only selected players are allowed in the closed beta, and a fee is to be charged for the open beta.
Some fans therefore advise being cautious with the MMORPG. To them, the developer studio does not seem trustworthy enough due to AI support, assets, a small number of employees, and only minor communication.
This is how the development team advertises their MMORPG The Quinfall:
Money is also involved with other MMORPGs
This is what happened with the major MMORPGs:
- In World of Warcraft, there is a new vendor selling exclusive weapon skins and a golden mount. However, the prices are quite steep: You have to spend over 2,000,000 gold to obtain the legendary treasures.
- In World of Warcraft Classic, players accept bounty quests. They kill the character, record a video of it, and receive a small payment for doing so. They fulfill the most curious requests from the players.
- For Final Fantasy XIV, the Dawntrail expansion is set to release in 2024, for which a fee will also be charged. After that, the development team at Square Enix promised to attend to more features. Players can expect a lot of new features there.
- Lost Ark is also bringing new content. An update starting in January will come with a new difficulty level for the Legion raid Brelshaza. Additionally, there will be quality of life improvements and balancing changes.
This is what happened with the smaller MMORPGs:
- City of Heroes has now been shut down. Since the servers closed, there have been fans who have continued the MMORPG on private servers. The largest of these servers has now received the official license from NCSoft to continue operating.
- Mad World of Age Darkness launched as a browser game back in April 2023. Now, it is set to transition to Steam on January 25, 2024. Some rewards and new content are expected to come along.
- A player spent 8 years of his life in RuneScape to find all the items that a boss can drop. The story shows how the player went from a clueless noob to an expert.
- This month, there are also two different in-game events in Star Wars: The Old Republic. The first event
Relics of the Gree
starts on January 9, 2024. The second eventThe Pirate Incursion
is set to follow on January 23 (via mmorpg.com).
This is what happened with MMORPGs in development:
- Magic to Master is a new MMORPG, which takes a similar direction as Metin 2. It visually orientates itself on far eastern aesthetics and offers 4 classes. The title is set to release on Steam soon.
- The developers of TERA are working on a new MMORPG. The South Korean development team recently unveiled a new trailer and announced that it will run under the name The Starlight.
- Chrono Odyssey claims to offer a true
next-gen experience
. Unfortunately, the developers have remained tight-lipped so far and only occasionally release new screenshots or small videos of the MMORPG. When the next information will come is unclear (via massivelyop.com).
With that, we have summarized everything important that happened this week in the world of MMORPGs.
What did you enjoy this week? What annoyed you? Feel free to write it in the comments at MeinMMO. If you are looking for new MMORPGs in 2024, the following list might be helpful for you:
