https://massivelyop.com MMORPG news and opinions Sun, 19 Feb 2017 21:43:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://massivelyop.com/2017/02/17/lost-continent-archeage-revelations-fresh-start-servers-arent-doing-newbies-any-favors/ https://massivelyop.com/2017/02/17/lost-continent-archeage-revelations-fresh-start-servers-arent-doing-newbies-any-favors/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2017 17:00:00 +0000 http://massivelyop.com/?p=98805 It’s been over a month now since ArcheAge’s massive update 3.0 went live, adding oodles of new content to Trion’s expansive fantasy sandbox. The update, dubbed Revelation, is indeed monumental: It introduces two new races, the Dwarves and the Warborn—who join the Nuia and Harnya, respectively—and new starting zones for each; two massive new housing […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2017/02/17/lost-continent-archeage-revelations-fresh-start-servers-arent-doing-newbies-any-favors/feed/ 61 https://massivelyop.com/2016/01/26/bebopping-through-archeages-bloodsong-update-with-trion/ https://massivelyop.com/2016/01/26/bebopping-through-archeages-bloodsong-update-with-trion/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:00:00 +0000 http://massivelyop.com/?p=44427 Sometimes the wait for new content is made worse when you see another region enjoying it long before you can. That’s how I’ve felt about ArcheAge. So when Trion Worlds Senior Producer Merv Lee Kwai and Producer Amanda Fry invited me to tour and chat about Bloodsong before its launch today, I whistled a happy […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2016/01/26/bebopping-through-archeages-bloodsong-update-with-trion/feed/ 19 https://massivelyop.com/2015/12/31/tiptoeing-through-archeages-2015/ https://massivelyop.com/2015/12/31/tiptoeing-through-archeages-2015/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:00:00 +0000 http://massivelyop.com/?p=40668 It has been quite a year for ArcheAge. As you look back over the past 12 months, you certainly can’t say 2015 was uneventful; from content to controversies, something was always happening with this sandpark title. Not a month went by that didn’t have some good, some bad, or even both! It was always a […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2015/12/31/tiptoeing-through-archeages-2015/feed/ 40 https://massivelyop.com/2015/04/10/lost-continent-looking-ahead-to-archeages-dread-prophecies-patch/ https://massivelyop.com/2015/04/10/lost-continent-looking-ahead-to-archeages-dread-prophecies-patch/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:00:00 +0000 http://massivelyop.net/?p=4362 Did you miss the latest ArcheAge livestream featuring the Trion dev team? It was a biggun, and it contained quite a lot of information relative to the upcoming Dread Prophecies patch. Currently 1.7 part one is scheduled for the end of this month, though it may slip into early May given how much stuff is jammed into it. […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2015/04/10/lost-continent-looking-ahead-to-archeages-dread-prophecies-patch/feed/ 43 https://massivelyop.com/2015/03/27/lost-continent-archeages-dolphingate-was-much-ado-about-nothing/ https://massivelyop.com/2015/03/27/lost-continent-archeages-dolphingate-was-much-ado-about-nothing/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:00:44 +0000 http://massivelyop.net/?p=3225 I’d like to play devil’s advocate about this whole ArcheAge dolphingate thing. First, though, let me start with a disclaimer. If you’ve read this column for any length of time, either here in our new home or over the years on Massively-that-was, you know that I don’t pull any punches when it comes to Trion’s […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2015/03/27/lost-continent-archeages-dolphingate-was-much-ado-about-nothing/feed/ 171 https://massivelyop.com/2015/03/13/lost-continent-in-which-we-race-archeage-tractors-for-money/ https://massivelyop.com/2015/03/13/lost-continent-in-which-we-race-archeage-tractors-for-money/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:00:47 +0000 http://massivelyop.net/?p=2310 So ArcheAge got five additional levels and a dungeon called The Library this week. To which I say, whoop-tee-funking-doo! Don’t get me wrong — it’s good that we’re getting new content — but I’m so far removed from the bored-at-endgame crowd bum-rushing through this stuff right now that I may as well be playing a […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2015/03/13/lost-continent-in-which-we-race-archeage-tractors-for-money/feed/ 21 https://massivelyop.com/2015/02/27/lost-continent-is-it-worth-returning-to-archeage/ https://massivelyop.com/2015/02/27/lost-continent-is-it-worth-returning-to-archeage/#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:00:00 +0000 http://massivelyop.net/?p=1435 Last time out I said some pretty mean things about ArcheAge. And let’s face it: The game earned every one of them. It’s inarguably pay-to-win, the comically intrusive cash shop is the bane of both immersion and economy-based sandbox play, and Trion made a lot of anti-consumer decisions in 2014 (hello “normalization,” Auroria launch, and […]]]> https://massivelyop.com/2015/02/27/lost-continent-is-it-worth-returning-to-archeage/feed/ 193