MMORPG Games & MMO News – MMOCrunch

Back in early 2004 the first superhero MMO, City of Heros created by Cryptic Studios, was released and from what I can remember with decent reviews.  The game has done pretty well peaking around 200,000 users at its height and as of Sept 2008 had around 125,000 subscribers.  Not a huge success by any means [...]

DAOC Origins: 6 Months of Silence
A long time ago old Dark Age of Camelot fans were rejoicing when Mythic announced that they were going to be releasing their “Origins” server. Many of the game’s original fans had become disenchanted with DAOC after the release of some controversial expansion packs, and fans had been longing to [...]

This is a bit late, but last week EarthRise started accepting applications for Beta testing.  If you’re not familiar with EarthRise it’s an upcoming FPS MMO set in the aftermath of World War 3.  Some of the main features are dynamic targeting, similar to any FPS you’ve ever played and PvP.  There isn’t a whole [...]

Darkfall Survey Predicts Playstyles
With the slated release date for Darkfall Online approaching, forums have been buzzing with speculation on various aspects of the game in order to try and forecast what players could expect to see once the game goes live.  Often times in the static of forums post and polls, something interesting gets drowned [...]

Since I reached Rank 40 a bit over 2 weeks ago, I’ve basically been doing nothing but RvR.  Keep sieges, Battlefield Objectives and so far two Fortress sieges.  I did do open RvR while I was working my way to rank 40, however I would say it only made up about 20% of my game [...]

Rant: Warhammer RvR Population Capped!
Mythic released an announcement on the WAR Herald today that I find stunning.  Here are some excerpts from the announcement:
“When the Fortress population reaches certain population thresholds, players who are attempting to enter the area of the besieged Fortress that are Rank 35 and below will be teleported to the warcamp [...]

We’ve all done it, doing the same raid over and over again hoping to get that kick ass item everyone is desperately trying  to get.  My questions is not why we do it, that’s pretty simple, it’s because we want that damn item.  The question is why are MMORPGs setup like this to begin with?  [...]