AION team will be bringing the Aion servers down at 08/06/2011 12:00 BST / 13:00 CEST (more) for maintenance.
The maintenance is estimated to take no longer than 2 hours.
The Aion website will also be serviced and therefore remain inaccessible during the maintenance.
Multiple Home Ownership went live in EQII on 28 April! If you have questions before you dive into the role of real estate mogul, then check out here (or offical website )that should help you get on your way!
How many houses can I own?
There is currently a limit of 10 houses per person. This may change in the future as we evaluate the feature and the effect on the server.
How do I get a prestige home? Read more…
This is an important reminder for customers with either PlayOnline accounts or Square Enix Accounts.
In the event that another company’s online service experiences a data breach, use of the same name and
password across multiple services could lead to an unknown third party gaining unauthorized access to your
accounts.
Accordingly, we advise that you take extra precautions to protect your Square Enix Account. In order to
maximize security, we would like to remind you of the following password management practices:
* Do not use the same password for multiple online services
* Do not use repeated strings of characters, phone numbers, birth dates, or other similar information in your password Read more…
From us.battle.net,
That’s right, folks. Development on the first post-Cataclysm content update for World of Warcraft is well underway! Blizzard opened up the Public Test Realms to bring players a healthy dose of the dungeons, class changes, and other features they have been working on for patch 4.1. “What will we find on the test realms?” you ask? (You did ask that, right?) Well, let me tell you!
The Gurubashi Tribe Persists
Originally a 20-player dungeon released in patch 1.7, Zul’Gurub will once again open its gates, featuring updated lore, all-new encounters, achievements, and improved loot! Zul’Gurub is now a level-85 five-player Heroic difficulty dungeon. To provide a new tier above the current Cataclysm Read more…
BY Mike Bitton,
I’ve had an interesting journey with Rift. Truth be told, when the game was first announced as Heroes of Telara I honestly passed it off as just another fantasy MMO in the oversaturated fantasy genre. Fast forward to 2010 and Trion made it clear they were serious about making a splash in the MMO genre as they really pushed the game and got gamers to give it a closer look. Even as the hype train was rolling out of the station I wasn’t truly convinced until I flew out to Trion Worlds late last summer to check the game out for myself where I was shocked to find out how polished it was in its pre-alpha state.
Since then the game has improved exponentially as it pushed through the beta process and into launch, with Trion being extra attentive to player feedback and quite agile in implementing changes in response to that feedback. Months ago the unique Soul System was quite a bit less impressive than it could have been as it took forever to really sink your teeth into it. Today you can choose from all eight souls from the get go and have many more points to spread across your three souls of choice even early in the game. Most developers would not dare to make such substantial changes to the game design so close to launch, and I was honestly surprised to see Trion make it (among other things) happen. Read more…
Fanfest 2011 is just a few weeks away, and I wanted to share a few thoughts with you about it and why you, no matter the personal or professional cost, should join us to celebrate the serious business of internet spaceships. Fanfest is about celebrating EVE Online and about making it better. The first was a lot larger than we’d expected and it has only grown exponentially since. As hundreds of pilots from all walks of life and all corners of the Earth (and the EVE universe) come together, a deep, volcanic like power is born. A real, palpable force that stirs the fires within. It’s impossible to conceive of until you experience it. People from across the globe descend upon Iceland, a country that has fewer people than there are EVE pilots. Amazing.
And there you are in the middle of it—a player who, if you are extremely lucky, knows a dozen EVE players in real life. Suddenly you’re surrounded by hundreds of others who, like you, have built their own experiences out of EVE’s sandbox. For me, it was a complete shift in how I regarded EVE, even though I loved it so dearly before. After my first Fanfest it seemed so much bigger… Read more…
Thus far, the holidays of Final Fantasy XIV have closely paralleled those of Final Fantasy XI, and the latest holiday announcement continues that trend in probably the best way possible. After all, one of the charms of the older game has always been its unique and sometimes offbeat holidays, a tradition held over in the brand-new Little Ladies’ Day. It’s a chance for players to celebrate the coming of spring, blossoming trees, and of course, their diminutive feminine side.
RuneScape just celebrated its 10-year anniversary and is bringing back the Wilderness and Free Trade due to an overwhelming response from players. We talked with Mark Ogilvie about these topics and more!
Ten years. Many MMOs are lucky to last half that, but RuneScape has been chugging along since 2001. In addition to reaching this impressive anniversary milestone, Jagex recently held a referendum asking players if they want to see the Wilderness and Free Trade return to the free-to-play game. More than 1.2 million votes were cast in just under three weeks, and an overwhelming 91% of players said they wanted these features back in RuneScape. Jagex listened, and they’ll be implemented on Feb. 1. Read more…
Hunted for their masks that give them their powers, the Masqueraiders are suspicious of everything. Their real faces are very rarely seen and no-one truly understands their motives: they can appear to be solitary valiant knights or rebels with their own agenda, they can be guided by their faith, by the values or by their feelings (like vengeance, for example).
Masqueraiders have three basic masks: the Classic mask, the Cowardly mask and the Psychopath mask. Each mask gives them a bonus and a different style of combat: the spells vary according to the mask. As a result, the Masqueraiders can sometimes be good at long-distance, sometimes close combat, sometimes defensive and sometimes very in your face! In other words, they’re quite unpredictable characters… Read more…
The developers wanted to make FFXIV a good game, they created a visually amazing Erozea world, they tried to invite you to play different classes, they hoped that casual players won’t be left behind by hardcore players, and they brought the very authentic Final Fantasy combat system from the console. But all of those that could make FFXIV a big hit just brought big disappointment: too luxurious graphic disappointed a group of people who don’t have high end machines, the fatigue system didn’t please too many casual gamers, let alone hardcores, and the combat was said to be a joke.
Rise of the ResistanceEdelstein is a quiet mining village. The people are prosperous, polite, and peaceful and have a knack for using technology – particularly robots. Indeed, Edelstein was such a calm place that Explorers and Cygnus Knights haven’t been there in hundreds of years. Yet Edelstein has a dark secret. Edelstein is where the Black Mage was born.
The town is now the home of the Black Wings, a secret cult dedicated to the resurrection of the Black Mage. They recently came out of hiding and took over Edelstein, oppressing the populace into silence while working hard to resurrect their foul master.
They succeeded. Read more…
Step aside, class changes. Back off, world revamp. Now it’s time to put what everyone really wants to see into the spotlight: trade skills. MMO-Champion, which is having some difficulty staying up and stable this evening, has what you’re looking for amongst its Cataclysm information.
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So what’s a girl like you doing in a grind like this?
I can’t tell you how many times a variation of this line has been lobbed my way regarding Aion. Hi everyone! I’m MJ and I have taken the Aion torch from Jef as he has moved over to cover EQII. I am looking forward to soaring through the Aionosphere with you.
If you haven’t heard about the loudest gripe ringing out over Atreia, please let me know what rock you’ve been hiding under lately so I can join you; even people who can’t distinguish Aion from linguine seem to have this answer down pat! OK, all together now — THE GRIND. We all know it, we all live it, and some have lost their remaining scraps of sanity due to it. Those who made it to level 35 still have the brick prints on their foreheads from slamming into that wall. Those who braved to 40+? Well, their foreheads are a bit squishy from repeated slamming.
While you’re waiting for Patch 3.3.5 to hit the live servers, you can check out Blizzard’s latest preview of the final raid instance in Wrath of the Lich King — the Ruby Sanctum. European Community Manager Wryxian just dropped by the forums to link the Under Development page for Ruby Sanctum, which contains some new images and (perhaps most importantly, for some) the storyline behind the instance.
In response to players’ concern over guild organization and management in Cataclysm, Ghostcrawler’s been frequenting a thread answering questions about their design goals for guild leveling and why developers decided to axe guild talent trees.
While you should definitely read all of his responses, there are a few points concerning the new system that really jump out:
They didn’t want to encourage guild-hopping, and forcing a guild to pick and choose among talents would have wound up suiting some players and not others (e.g. a guild leader picking PvE-oriented guild talents and alienating the more PvP-focused players in the guild). Hence the leveling system rather than the almost-inevitable squabble over which talents to get.
