Massively Week in Review: December 11 - 17, 2007
It's been quite busy in the MMO world if you haven't been keeping up. Auran let their entire staff go after Fury bombed; Electric Sheep only let 1/3 of their people go; Linden Lab did something seemingly dodgy with their Chief Technical Officer. Meanwhile, Sony Online Entertainment transfered characters from test to live servers (and knew it); CCP accidentally deleted some file named Boot.ini when folks upgraded to Trinity; Perpetual is living under the spectre of a lawsuit claiming fraud. If that weren't enough, some guy in Florida is still tilting at the IGE gold-seller windmill in court and Square-Enix is doing a marvelous job of refusing to help any players whose accounts were compromised by hackers (read: gil-sellers) over the weekend. If that doesn't make you want to jump up and start singing carols (or drinking heavily spiked egg-nog) we don't know what will. Perhaps free stuff? We've got that too. Check it out!
Contests
News
- Massively exclusive: Age of Conan Product Developer interview, with gameplay video
- Perpetual plot thickens: lawsuit filed
- Auran goes into voluntary administration, entire staff let go
- Final Fantasy XI hacked; Square-Enix hides behind policy
- A legal, in-game "Wal-Mart" of virtual goods coming to an MMO near you
- Rumor: Entire guild Unhallowed Triad moved from EQ2 Test Server to live
- SOE caught red-handed: EQ2 Player / Dev relationship breached ethical boundaries
- Tabula Rasa three day free trial opened to everybody
- Mounted combat in Age of Conan (and Warhammer, too?)
- EVE Trinity: CCP's take on the boot.ini debacle
- Herndandez vs IGE – IGE withdraws motion to stay/dismiss
- Massively's exclusive insider scoop: Was Cory Linden fired, or did he quit?
Discussion
- Are MMOGs escapism or a refuge?
- Top 10 MIA MMOs of 2007 – part 2
- The Digital Continuum: Activision Blizzard vs Electronic Arts, battle of the MMO titans
- The Daily Grind: It's better to burnout than to fade away
- MMO subscriptions report — who is beating whom
- Peering inside – What does Cory Ondrejka's departure mean?
- As the Worlds Turn: Land of the Free
- Are MMOGs escapism or a refuge?
- MMOGology: Fat sacks 'o crap!
- Exactly when did you get hooked
- Behind the Curtain: Moral & Ethical choices
- Under The Hood: Going Live