This week, several new MMORPGs shared game details, including Perfect New World, Throne and Liberty, Blue Protocol, and Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. We’ve also summarized all the important news about WoW, GW2, and more.
The highlights of the week:
- Perfect New World, a new game with action combat and flying in the open world, will start its next beta in November.
- Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is a major PvE hope. However, the upcoming public tests will take place not in the game itself but in a spin-off, which many fans do not appreciate.
- Throne and Liberty revealed stats from the secret test in North America.
- How good is the new expansion of New World? I checked it out and wrote a conclusion.
The story of the week: A developer in the MMORPG Dungeon Fighter Online has cheated items for years and allegedly earned over 2 million dollars.
The week in the podcast: In their own podcast MMO News, the two MeinMMO editors Alexander Leitsch and Mark Sellner discuss the most important news about MMORPGs again this week. Topics included, among others, Throne and Liberty, Blue Protocol, Star Stable Online, and the development history of Chronicles of Elyria.
You can listen to the podcast on Apple, YouTube or here on Spotify:
A crazy WoW player and the sad story of Chronicles of Elyria
This is what happened with the big MMORPGs:
- WoW hides 20 boss abilities in the new raid so that addons cannot read them. Additionally, the release date of patch 10.2 has been revealed and we conducted an interview about the update, where the developers revealed that all open world content can be completed solo. Cortyn also complained about the fact that the German translations in Blizzard games are getting worse.
- In WoW Classic, a player made his character level 60 – completely naked and without talents.
- In Guild Wars 2, the Halloween event has started, and a new version of the Jumping Puzzles has even been released.
- The Halloween event is also live in ESO. There is a free quest and additionally 100% more experience points (via ESO). The big highlight for the rest of the year is the Endless Dungeon, which will be released on October 30.
- Final Fantasy XIV introduced the new job Viper. Additionally, several new details about Dawntrail were shared, which we have summarized here: Everything about the new expansion Dawntrail – release date and all information.
This is what happened with the small MMORPGs:
- New World has launched its Halloween event and we have created a guide for it.
- In Old School RuneScape, a player killed a cheater in PvP and kept his dropped bones for over 3 years.
- The Lord of the Rings Online has postponed the release of the new expansion to November 8 (via YouTube).
- On Monday, Albion Online released the latest patch, which included shapeshifter weapons (via Albion). Here you can watch the trailer:
This is what happened with the MMORPGs in development:
- The Quinfall sounds too good to be true and now reveals new details about the weapon classes.
- Blue Protocol has released Chapter 4 in Japan. It brings the first increase in the level cap, new instances, and new storyline content.
- Pax Dei shows a character editor in a video (via YouTube).
- Tarisland, reminiscent of a Chinese WoW, announced many adjustments to classes and PvE battles for the upcoming closed beta (via Tarisland).
- Chronicles of Elyria has some innovative ideas but has never reached a release. We have summarized the development history again for you:
These are the MMORPG news of the week at a glance. What was your personal highlight? Did you experience anything interesting this week that you would like to share? Or have we possibly forgotten something important? Feel free to write it in the comments here at MeinMMO.
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