It’s time for our MeinMMO format “MMORPG news in two minutes.” We summarize the most important news around the best genre in the world. Look forward to creative homes from GW2, the open beta of New World Aeternum, the start of the first season of WoW: The War Within, and much more.
The highlights of the week:
- For Black Desert a new expansion, Land of the Morning Light: Seoul, has been released and MeinMMO had the opportunity to see many of the changes ahead of time from the developers.
- On September 13, 2024, the open beta phase for New World Aeternum started. MeinMMO had already played the new console version – the conclusion: Don’t worry, New World Aeternum is still an MMORPG, and a good one, even on console.
What else has happened? Season 1 of WoW: The War Within has started and this brings not only a new raid instance, ranked PvP, as well as Mythic Plus dungeons. So now Brann Bronzebeard is harder to level – players are upset, and those who want the best possible gear from the depths need to pay close attention. Additionally, there was trouble regarding the scaling of the difficulty of the depths.
Here is the trailer for the new expansion of Black Desert:
Battle in EVE Online costs 1.1 trillion ISK
This is what happened with the major MMORPGs:
- WoW might currently have as many players as never before, but not thanks to The War Within.
- Via a hotfix, the folk of the Earthen from WoW: The War Within received a new racial ability.
- Just before the start of the world-first race in the first raid of WoW: The War Within various professional players received multi-day bans.
- A long dream finally comes true. You will soon be able to become Sylvanas Windrunner in World of Warcraft and pay homage to the Banshee Queen.
- Since A Realm Reborn, the community of Final Fantasy XIV has been arguing about whether dungeons are too hard, too easy, or too boring. Feedback for the dungeons of the new expansion Dawntrail was also initially rather negative. Now, the director says that players find it just right.
- One more FFXIV: In the Square MMORPG, there is a level 70 boss that cannot be defeated alone even with a level 100 character in top gear. A persistent player took on the challenge and managed to succeed after over 200 hours of gameplay.
- Update 44 of The Elder Scrolls Online has been released for PC, featuring the return of the first tutorial, new companions, and fresh battleground content. Additionally, since September 12, 2024, celebrations of the Undaunted are taking place in Tamriel (via elderscrollsonline.com).
- On September 11, 2024, the new content update for Lost Ark was released, bringing among other things the Behemoth raid for 16 players to the servers.
- In Guild Wars 2, many players are now demonstrating how powerful the home feature is. For example, heroes of Tyria have built the Eye of Sauron, a hobbit residence, a Greek temple, and much more (via massivelyop.com).
This is what happened with the smaller MMORPGs:
- The developers of Lord of the Rings Online showcased impressions of the upcoming expansion “Legacy of Morgoth” for the first time during a livestream on YouTube.
- Tarisland is set to be released on Steam soon and to encourage as many players as possible to show their interest, the developers are offering rewards. Additionally, a new speed leveling event started on September 12, 2024 (via tarisglobal.com).
- Players of the MMORPG EVE Online are helping with important research – meanwhile, a professor explains why gamers are so useful.
- The SW:TOR community commemorates the actor of Darth Vader with a heartwarming ceremony.
- For RuneScape, community servers are set to come next year, where you can set your own rules and modifiers.
- MeinMMO recalls the difficult launch of Funcom’s first MMORPG Anarchy Online.
- On September 10, 2024, a new update for Blade & Soul was released, which includes a new ranking season as well as a fresh Battle Pass – check out the patch notes at bladeandsoul.com.
- On September 1, 2024, there was once again a massive battle in EVE Online, involving countless ships. The damage is said to have amounted to 1.1 trillion ISK (via X).
- In Star Trek Online (PC), the next event is coming on September 17, 2024, with three brand new pieces of content related to the Borg multiverse – more on playstartrekonline.com.
This is what happened with the MMORPGs in development:
- Even before the launch of Throne and Liberty, you can already secure the first Twitch Drops.
- Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street has once again written about the design process of MMORPGs. This time, many modern genre representatives like World of Warcraft are criticized for making what he believes is a critical mistake during the leveling phase.
- According to a survey, many MMORPG fans consider the ambitious Ashes of Creation to be a “scam that will never work.”
With that, we have summarized for you the most important things that have happened recently in the world of MMORPGs.
What did you enjoy this week? What upset you? Let us know in the comments. If you are looking for a lively yet informative overview on online role-playing games, be sure to check this out: Report, columns, talks, and the top list of the best MMORPGs of all time – that was the theme week of MeinMMO
