Crystal Ball
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Looking forward to… in 2024
We have just moved on from 2023 to 2024 and the next new game releases are already around the corner! It actually feels like there are a lot of games going to release in the first couple of months of 2024 that I am interested in. In theory, this is great. But since time is…
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Happy 10th birthday, Rift…?
Rift launched on March 1, 2011 which means that it’s currently “celebrating” its 10th anniversary! Or it should be, given it’s such a nice round number! Trion Worlds was acquired by gamigo in October 2018. So gamigo could be proud to have an MMO that is 10 years old now and still has a community…
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Guild Wars 2: Roadmap for the next 7 months
I was so happy to see ArenaNet post a roadmap for the game. Even though I fully expect the possibility of delays (as it says: “subject to change”), it is nice to see what we can look forward to. As I have previously written, I am actually not a fan of the living story. I…
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Guild Wars 2: Third expansion coming!
Now that was a surprise (…and it’s not April 1 either!). When reading through ArenaNet’s latest news article about upcoming features, I skimmed over it and thought to myself: Okay yeah, nothing exciting or new coming… festivals, new PvE episode, something for the PvP players, third expans…. what? “Development is underway on a third Guild Wars 2…
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2020 and upcoming MMOs…?
I clearly remember the time before LotRO launched and how I was eyeing it curiously (and testing it during a beta event) and how I could understand the excitement other players had for the title. It wasn’t for me back then, but still. I understood and even shared the excitement! When I first heard about…
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Guild Wars 2 – Heart of Thorns speculation
I assume most of you have heard about “Heart of Thorns” by now. I will try to keep this mostly spoiler-free, but if you haven’t played the latest story bit, you will at least not want to click on the play button of the video. Other than that, I’m not mentioning the latest story bits…
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GW2: Will it really lack endgame?
Update July 13, 2012: There’s an interview on Twitch.tv with Eric Flannum and Colin Johanson where they’re talking about endgame in Guild Wars 2. :) I have seen several people talk about whether Guild Wars 2 has an endgame and whether it needs one. Some articles/discussions are a bit older, others are newer. Let me…
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Guild Wars 2 and its server transfers
We still don’t know every detail about this. Although maybe there’ll be more now in the Reddit interview that Mike Ferguson does… right now? Anyway, have a look at the latest ArenaNet blog post or just read the next paragraph about server transfers here: Some of our more astute fans asked about the complications involved…
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Guild Wars: Character slots, naming rules and their possible transition
When I try to imagine how the naming rules, server architecture, guild limitations and the character slots may be handled in Guild Wars 2 I always reach the point where I have to take into account how it was implemented in Guild Wars, why it may have been done like that and what the benefits…
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