With Legends of Aria and Rift, two MMORPGs that currently do not play a major role, are planning major updates for 2022. Additionally, Lost Ark and Black Desert have announced their next updates. We have once again summarized all the important news of the week for you from MeinMMO.
The highlights of the week:
- Rift was considered a new WoW-killer in 2011 but hasn’t received any updates for a long time. There has now been a patch, which only brought a warmed-up Battle Pass. However, a major update is planned for 2022.
- Legends of Aria aimed to become the new Ultima Online but failed. Major changes are planned for 2022 and 2023, including new maps, a revision of housing, and … cryptocurrency.
- Lost Ark has extensively presented the new May patch. This includes a new class and new raids.
The controversies of the week:
- One of the best raid guilds in WoW is based in Berlin and now has to stop because the raids demand too much from them.
- The developer of Ragnarok Online is suddenly taking aggressive action against private servers and is even banning Twitch streamers.
New details on Throne and Liberty, more Pay2Win in Black Desert?
This is what happened with the major MMORPGs:
- WoW is planning adjustments to the capitals with patch 9.2.5. There were also discussions about the Method Guild, which is said to be involved in boosting, as well as some tips from a player to make WoW significantly prettier.
- In ESO, the developers shared 5 highlights of the upcoming expansion High Isle, which you must experience.
- Black Desert is making a change to shop items, in which some players see Pay2Win.
- Lost Ark released a new update this week with minor adjustments. The developers also revealed that the next class, the Destroyer, will be released with the latest balance from Korea. If you enjoy collecting free items, be sure to check the Prime page of Lost Ark.
This is what happens with the small MMORPGs:
- The MMORPG Forsaken Worlds, released in 2012, will be shut down in 2022.
- EVE Online is currently hosting the Fan Fest and made an old joke there – they now allow data to be exported into Excel sheets.
- A Korean has copied items worth 17 million euros in the MMORPG AIKA Online and has to go to prison because of it.
- New World has released a strong patch on the PTR to fix the contents of the arena criticized by players (via New World).
- Blade & Soul is getting a new update with new dungeons on May 11 (via MassivelyOP).
- Lord of the Rings Online is still being overwhelmed after the adjustments for Free2Play players. The developers are now promising adjustments to server performance (via MassivelyOP).
This is what happens with the MMORPGs in development:
- Throne and Liberty, the new MMORPG hope from Korea, has finally shared details on PvE, classes, and PvP.
- We also looked at Ashes of Creation, the MMORPG hope from the West, and revealed how things stand in 2022.
- Monsters & Memories is set to become a new MMORPG from the creators of EverQuest and is also heavily inspired by the old hit.
- The sandbox MMORPG Profane revealed new details from development and announced that there will soon be the first combat tests with the community (via Twitter).
This was the news of the week from the world of MMORPGs at a glance. Tell us, what was your personal highlight? Or did we perhaps forget something important? Did you experience something exciting that you want to share with us? Feel free to write it in the comments here on MeinMMO.
If you are interested in all MMORPGs that are still scheduled to be released in 2022, you can find a list here:
