I’ve just returned from a rather extensive first look at SOE’s sandbox MMO Everquest Next. As I rode up the elevator to my hotel room, I mulled over what I had seen and found it hard to narrow down exactly what wowed me the most. With each passing minute during the presentation, SOE showed us [...]
There’s been a small buzz surrounding the announcement of Molten Games’ creation, as it involves former executives from three of gaming’s biggest behemoths. The ex-head of Blizzard’s Korean office is CEO Jungwon Hahn, and he’s teamed up with former global head of e-sports for Blizzard Paul Della Bitta and former Sony Online Entertainment and Relic [...]
We’re risk takers here at MMOBomb. Just look at our name, it has an explosive strapped right on the end. We live life on the edge. So in a recent F2P podcast, our rag tag team of pod-casters decided it would be a good idea to explore Hello Kitty Online. A place previously only reserved [...]
By now, you may have already heard of the… unusual… payment model that is being implemented in the Chinese version of Snail Games’ Black Gold Online. If you can’t understand what’s being spoken in the video, the main concepts (courtesy of MMOCulture) are: The system, Black Gold Time, will automatically (every hour) or manually “lock” [...]
A couple of months ago, I looked at how various MMOs stacked up against each other, in terms of how much traffic their websites got – a reasonable enough way to determine general activity and populariy. Today, I’m again going to the charts, courtesy of Alexa, to see how the top free-to-play MMOs are doing. [...]
Sony Online Entertainment’s philosophy with the new content update for Dragon’s Prophet, Wintertide, seems pretty simple: more, bigger, and… more bigger? The level cap has been raised from 60 to 70, and players can journey through the new Wintertide region, which contains three major new cities, including a particularly scenic one built around the skeleton [...]
So End of Nations is going to be a MOBA. We’re all a bit surprised by that move, but with about 532 MOBAs coming out this year (approximately), maybe we shouldn’t be that surprised. In fact, we probably shouldn’t be surprised in general that there are so many MOBAs in development, in beta, or have [...]
We talked about this a little bit in the last F2P Cast, but everyone wants to be an e-sport now. Firefall, PlanetSide 2, every flippin’ MOBA… they all want to be the next League of Legends and draw millions of players to their virtual arenas. Hey, haven’t we seen this before? Remember when every game [...]
There’s a lot of information – and misinformation – out there about the gaming market. Some guy posting on a forum that he “knows” that Game X has a million active players or Game Y cost $50 million to make is about as credible as my saying that I’m descended from French royalty. (Actually, I [...]
Here we go again! The recently datamined info found on World of Warcraft’s public test server turned up an item, the Enduring Elixir of Wisdom, that offers a 100% XP buff from killing monsters and completing text. It seems like the kind of thing that would come from a cash shop – which Blizzard’s community [...]
By now, it seems that just about every free-to-play game includes some form of lockboxes. I’ve picked up a gazillion in Team Fortress 2, The Lord of the Rings Online, and Star Trek Online (and have over a hundred in the non-F2P Guild Wars 2), and my feelings about them are mixed. On the one [...]
If you’re looking to get an Xbox One for your free-to-play kick and don’t mind paying for an Xbox LIVE Gold membership… well, you still might be out of luck because your selection of games could be seriously limited, thanks to Microsoft’s Stone Age policies regarding digital distribution. By now, you’ve likely heard about Wargaming [...]
E3 2013 was just over two weeks ago and while it certainly was a console-fest, some interesting Free-to-Play news did emerge from the heaps of media and PR bodies stacked on top of one another within the expo center. We pulled ourselves from the pile with some opinions of our own, and in my case, [...]
I’ve got something of a love/hate thing going with Neverwinter right now. The game officially launched Thursday, June 20, but I still haven’t logged in. In fact, I haven’t been in the game at all this month, not since early May or so. I’ve even unfollowed the game’s unexciting Twitter account, which consists of 1/4 [...]
I have never bought a pre-launch package for a F2P game. I’m not like some people, who think they’re an evil on par with Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” or that they’re a cunning scheme by corporate bigwigs looking to separate overeager gamers from their money – OK, they are that, I suppose. Some people think they [...]
MMOBomb interviews Matt Higby, Creative Director for Planetside 2. In the interview we talk about the MMOFPS’s future on the next-gen console and what seperates it from its PC counterpart. We also talk about the game’s road-map of planned features and potential Oculus Rift integration. You can keep track of more E3 Free-to-Play news and [...]
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