Battle.net Ultimatum Date Draws Near, Merge Accounts Or Perish
Blizzard is advising all players in their vast and sprawling World of Warcraft empire to join together in merging Battle.Net and Warcraft accounts. The move to merge all players onto a single account system has been coming for some time, with Blizzard offering gentle nudges and suggestions. The gentleness has ended.
Now the axe comes out.
All players, users, hackers, spammers, pubbies, puggers, scammers, keyloggers, and ERPers must merge their accounts before November 11th. Dire wrath faces those who resist the purity of Blizzard’s single-account system.
Read more at World of Warcraft’s community site.
Warhammer Online Looks At The Newbie Experience, and Patch 1.3.2
Warhammer Online is a tough game to get into, largely because of its PVP focus, combined with a graying playerbase of max-level characters. There are precious few fellow low-levels for a new player to group with, and yet far more high-levels prowling the quest hubs for easy ganks.
Patch 1.3.2 aims to expand and enhance the newbie experience in ways that don’t involve a fireball to the face.
Mythic Moons Warhammer Online
A new live event, Daemon Moon Rising, is coming to Warhammer Online on October 23 through November 2nd. It’s your basic holiday Halloween event, with masks, prizes, hordes of demons, and the understated negotiation between factions that Warhammer Online is so famous for.
Read more at Mythic’s website.
World of Warcraft: Icecrown Citadel Preview
Part of the Citadel, anyhow. The back entrance up through the Lich King’s rose garden, it’s known as the Frozen Halls.
Read about it at WorldofWarcraft.com.
Pirates of the Burning Sea Interview – Power and Prestige Expansion
Pirates of the Burning Sea is an MMORPG set in the golden age of piracy, a sort of EVE Online for the sails and sabers crowd. Although small in the lopsided MMORPG market, it’s been chugging along for close to two years now, slowly growing.
The latest expansion for Pirates of the Burning Sea will be Power and Prestige, a huge addition to the game in that it brings in player control and governance of faction ports. In other words, player-run cities that aren’t lame shanty-towns out in the middle of nowhere.
The website Zam offers an interview with Janice Vonitter and Greg Hanefeld from Flying Labs, concerning the Power and Prestige expansion. Read it here.
World of Warcraft: Pirate’s Day
As we all know, September 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. A fine tradition and a noble internet holiday. To celebrate, World of Warcraft is hosting their own event, Pirate’s Day.
In short, Booty Bay gets taken over by pirates, and they have stuff. Lots of stuff. For you. Including an achievement. But it’s one day only!
Check out Blizzard’s WoW holiday page for the details.
Lord of the Rings Online Runs “Welcome Back Week”
Lord of the Rings Online is currently running a special event week to haul back old players and bring in fresh meat. This “Welcome Back Week” is scheduled for August 18 to 24.
Normally, we here at Vox wouldn’t pass along free advertising (paid advertising can be purchased in slots above and to the right), but Turbine has thrown a little something extra into the pot. Something along the lines of free play for returning subscribers, and a 25% XP bonus that stacks. Also, preview content from Book 8: Scourge of Khazad- dûm.
We have it on good authority that LOTRO is a pretty decent game if you’re into the atmosphere of Middle Earth. If you’re undecided, this might be a good time to …
Star Trek Online, five minutes of heaven
(Deep breath.) Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!
Star Trek is a multigenerational masterwork of ongoing storytelling that managed to span not just decades of time, but the ever evolving cultural ebb and flow of corporate momentum and public nostalgia. Taking such a vastly hallowfied and recrafted property is going to be something of a strange event for any MMO that wants to throw itself behind this vast, spiraling narrative that cannot fix itself in space, time, or even a single story universe (see: the newest Star Trek offering which basically resets the entire Star Trek storyline.)
Reports from Cryptic Studios—the people who brought us City of Heroes/Villains and will bring us Champions Online—inform that the once ailing MMO property Star Trek Online is back on track and will
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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Rumors and Speculation
Recently, a few rumours broke out about the next planned expansion to Blizzard’s crushingly popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft. These whispers in the dark centered around Cataclysm, the next expansion to WoW after Lich King.
It’s said that the great dragon Deathwing will join forces with the immortal and exiled elf-queen Azshara to summon a great power that will shatter the world.
It’s said that Warchief Thrall will pass the Doomhammer to the son of Grom Hellscream, and open war will come upon the Horde and the Alliance.
It’s said that Humans and Undead will finally get Hunters, I mean, damn, what took so long?
Oh, and something about new races and a complete rebuild of Azeroth.
Right now, MMO Champion has a decent rundown of the expected, or at least, more believable changes and details leaked out …
City of Heroes – Issue 16, Custom Powers, Positron Interview
City of Heroes is seeing a strange period of development at record speed, as the folks over at NCsoft do their level best to strengthen the walls and load the catapults against the inevitable siege from various other super-hero MMORPGs that are planned to come online soon.
Position, the lead developer over at Cape Central sat down with MMORPG.com to discuss the upcoming Issue 16 and the terrible mysteries and powers within. Read the article here.
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