Everquest 2: Free to play on all servers!
Sony online entertainment's first attempt at going F2P through what they called Everquest: Extended was… [more]
Pathfinder Mmorpg Announced
Paizo publishing has announced that they have licenced their rights to a Pathfinder Mmorpg to Goblinworks.… [more]
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Sony online entertainment’s first attempt at going F2P through what they called Everquest: Extended was generally not received well amongst it’s veteran player-base. Although the F2P model was only introduced on just one server, the whole game underwent some changes. One major one was the Interface, which was one of the reasons i quit just after the release of Everquest 2 : Extended.
I recently came back to the game a few months ago and was pleasantly surprised by the game in general and Velious, and even got to grips with the new interface after a while as well. A few weeks after i came back i read the news that Eq2 was going free to play on all servers. This will however not affect current players as you can choose to have your subscription plan stay as it is if you want, and have all the perks you have enjoyed with your sub. The only difference is that you can choose to play for free, or play with a limited “silver” subscription.
Hopefully these changes will impact Norrath positively. The population on servers are pretty low all around these days, not abandoned just not as high as they used to be, even after several server merges in the recent years. The new F2P model will almost certainly have a positive impact on server population.
This is also good news for multiboxers like myself. One of the reasons i decided to come back, was the news that the next Expansion pack “Age of Discovery” which is to be released any day now will allow players to hire mercenaries. Mercenaries will allow 3-boxers to box a full group and 6-boxers can even run 12 man raids by themselves. There are a few restrictions for free accounts but they can level all the way to 90 so for multiboxing purposes the will still be viable even with adept spells and other restrictions.
To learn more about the transition to f2p go to http://everquest2.com/free_to_play/game_overview
Paizo publishing has announced that they have licenced their rights to a Pathfinder Mmorpg to Goblinworks. The game will be a hybrid sandbox / theme-park Mmo.
The game setting should be familiar to anyone who has played pen and paper role-playing games, as the pathfinder setting has been a close number two in popularity amongst rpg players behind Dungeons and Dragons in recent years. The Pathfinder RPG is very similar to Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 Edition, a favorite amongst fans (as opposed to 4th edition) and has had a lot to do with the settings popularity.
Converting pen and paper settings and rules have been done earlier in Mmorpgs, as most Mmo’s are usually based on the old pen and paper games to varying degrees. A good example of this is Turbine’s Dungeons and Dragons Online, which took place in the Dungeons and Dragons Setting “Eberron” and is heavily based on the Dungeons and Dragons Ruleset. The game was released in 2006, but was generally not well received with the pen and paper crowd. After several server merges it went free to play in 2009.
The developers describe the world of Golarion where the game Will take place as vast and varied, with elements from both classic and modern fantasy. According to the Pathfinder wiki the world of Golarion has eight continents and it’s inhabitants are as varied as Rpg players has come to expect. Three bestiary’s has been released for the Rpg so the developers should have a lot to draw from even though they’re still in the early concept phase.
In the press release the developers also takes up player driven economy as an important part of the game. And goes on talking about character controlled settlements and even kingdoms and social organizations. For a game that is in such an early stage of development these are some big ideas that certainly have been missing from a lot of today’s mmo’s and it will be exciting to follow the development of the Pathfinder MMorpg to see where all this goes.
To read the full press release go to https://goblinworks.com/ , where you also can sign up for a newsletter to get Pathfinder Mmorpg news!
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Welcome to Go Mmorpg, a new site featuring articles and reviews of all your favorite mmorpgs. I have been playing Mmorpgs for over 10 years, since the launch of Everquest in 1999. Since then i have played most of the mainstream Mmorpgs on the market and quite a few of the lesser known ones. I currently have active accounts on about a dozen games or so, and try to test out all the new games on the market. For years i’ve been running gaming websites and forums, but this is my first full fledged mmorpg oriented site with reviews, interviews, etc.
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