During the week of August 30 to September 5, Lost Ark and New World dominated the headlines, sometimes even for the same reason. We have summarized all the important news of the week from MeinMMO for you.
The highlight and the stir of the week: Amazon has postponed the release of Lost Ark to 2022. This led to many emotional comments, making it both a highlight and a stir:
- Many fans blamed New World, but we at MeinMMO see it more as the rescue of Lost Ark.
- Some users then returned their pre-order packages.
- All information about the upcoming closed beta of Lost Ark can be found here.
The discussion of the week: While Lost Ark’s postponement sparked major discussions, Guild Wars 2 was also active. A supposed small change to the gameplay was made, which is viewed very negatively by fans.
New World reveals details for the time after the release, Blade & Soul will be huge with a new update
This week in the big MMORPGs:
- In WoW a paladin survived almost 4 minutes against 20 Horde players. There was also a small aside about servers that has fans of WoW Classic cheering.
- A big fan of Final Fantasy XIV recreated one of the coolest raid bosses in Minecraft.
- ESO released interesting statistics. Over the last 2 months, players created over a million new characters and the developers revealed which class was particularly popular.
- Guild Wars 2 launched the event “Festival of the Four Winds” on Tuesday. You can find a good guide to it from the colleagues at Guildnews (via Guildnews.de).
- Black Desert announced in a dev letter that class overhauls and new “quality of life” changes are coming (via PlayBlackDesert.com).
This week in the smaller MMORPGs:
- Swords of Legends Online has published a new roadmap for the rest of 2021.
- Blade & Soul will become bigger than WoW and ESO combined with the new engine update. Release is on September 8.
- Crowfall received its first major update two months after release.
- Albion Online teases a new weapon line and hideouts (via Albiononline.com).
- DC Universe wants to know how players currently feel about the game after the new update for free-to-play players (via Twitter).
This week in MMORPGs in development:
- New World gives first insights into what will happen after the release.
- Mortal Online 2 is considered one of the best PvP MMORPGs after the first tests.
- TitanReach raised over €175,000 from fans, but development is on hold due to lack of funds.
- World of Jade Dynasty is a new MMORPG from China. In the first gameplay, the next-gen game looks beautiful.
- Untamed Isles is on Kickstarter and looks like a new Pokémon MMORPG where battles take place in an open world.
- A new MMORPG based on Ragnarok has started its beta in Korea.
These were the news of the week from the world of MMORPGs at a glance. What was your personal highlight? Did you experience anything exciting this week? Or did we forget something important? Please let us know in the comments.
