This week, the MMORPG Embers Adrift celebrated its first anniversary. Accordingly, there are plenty of rewards. We also analyzed the current situation of Final Fantasy XIV and of course gathered news about WoW, Lost Ark, New World, and more.
The highlights of the week:
- The PvE MMORPG Embers Adrift is completely free to play from now until November 5. To celebrate the first birthday, you even get all subscription bonuses for free.
- Final Fantasy XIV was overrun by players a few months ago, but today the servers are reportedly empty – How bad is it really for the MMORPG?
The story of the week: The Twitch streamer Blue_Squadron was a teacher in the USA until recently. Then his former guild sent clips from his streams to the school administration. As a result, he was fired and will now only work as a content creator.
This week in the podcast: In their own podcast MMO News, MeinMMO editors Alexander Leitsch and Mark Sellner discuss the most important news about MMORPGs. Topics included Aion 2, the new expansion of New World, an upcoming patch for Lost Ark, and the endless dungeon in ESO.
You can listen to the podcast on Apple, YouTube or here on Spotify:
Arthas falls in a few hours, Lost Ark announces the biggest patch of all time
What happened with the big MMORPGs:
- In WoW, the new patch 10.2 will be released soon, which will likely be the last one for Dragonflight. Additionally, the WoW token reached a record price and players are already joking: “You might as well go to work in real life.”
- In WoW Classic, the raid “The Icecrown Citadel” started this week. At launch, it took 46 days for the Lich King to be defeated in heroic mode back in 2009. This time it only took 2 hours.
- Guild Wars 2 has announced a new round of Extra Life, a charity marathon for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. This will take place on November 3 (via GW2). Also, the popular Halloween event starts on Tuesday.
- Final Fantasy XIV now randomly transforms players into Super Saiyan.
- In Lost Ark, the October patch with the new area Pleccia has been released (via Lost Ark). In the new Lost Ark Live, changes to the current raid boss Thaemine were announced as well as the biggest patch of all time for Korea (via Reddit).
- In ESO, the new endless dungeon will be released on October 30. We have already tested the Endless Archive and drawn a conclusion about it.
What happened with the small MMORPGs:
- In New World, you can level up the new Battle Pass quickly with a simple trick. Additionally, we have prepared an overview with builds for the new weapon Flail.
- Metin 2 has released a new patch that brings new graphics options and a performance mode. This is said to make the MMORPG much smoother to play when many monsters are visible at once (via MMORPG.org.pl).
- The horse MMORPG Star Stable now has 25 million registered players and also celebrated a release on Android (via MassivelyOP).
- Old School RuneScape talks about its bot problem and revealed that about 2.4 million accounts were banned over the year (via Twitch).
What happened with the MMORPGs in development:
- Pax Dei promises absolute freedom and has now revealed new details about the combat system and PvP.
- The sandbox MMORPG Fractured has announced its last test before returning to Early Access on Steam. This will run from October 13 to 22, and everyone can participate for free (via Fractured).
- The MMORPG The Quinfall still sounds too good to be true. Now, 4 of the classes have been presented in more detail (via MassivelyOP).
- Perfect New World, the successor to Perfect World, will be conducting the next tests in November. Accordingly, a new gameplay trailer has been released, which we have embedded here 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 did we possibly forget something important? Feel free to write it in the comments here at MeinMMO.
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