December 2018 – Page 2 – Murasama•net

Blizzard is Downsizing the Heroes of the Storm Team

By Murasama December 15, 2018

https://news.blizzard.com/en-gb/blizzard/22833558/heroes-of-the-storm-news Just a little over a month-and-a-half after BlizzCon 2018, the company has posted a letter to the Heroes of the Storm (HotS) community to inform them of their decision…

LOST ARK – Huge Balance Update + Developer Notes About Upcoming Changes

By Murasama December 13, 2018

Smilegate performed a major balance/tuning pass update (with a ton of bug fixes) for LOST ARK (KR), touching every single subclass in the process as they looked through player data…

TERA – Initial Impressions of Fishing and New Gathering

By Murasama December 11, 2018

First off, the fishing animations are well done (the physics on the fishing pole look really great except for some weird bending angles depending on the over the shoulder view). …

MapleStory 2 Skybound Expansion

By Murasama December 11, 2018

http://maplestory2.nexon.net/en/news/article/40256/skybound-expansion-phase-1 Nexon released the first major expansion for MapleStory 2 last week (December 6th) which includes the Sky Fortress and new Soul Binder class. I haven't really started playing the…

K-TERA – New Level 70 Expansion

By Murasama December 7, 2018

[Spoiler Alert] http://tera.nexon.com/news/devnote/view.aspx?n4ArticleSN=375 [Spoiler Alert] The new story (or at least the beginning parts of it) which the TERA development team outlined last year is being released on the Korean servers on…

Blizzard Risks Alienating More of Their Diablo Playerbase with “Diablo 4”

By Murasama December 6, 2018

After Blizzard's tone deaf announcement of Diablo: Immortal at BlizzCon 2018 last month, the company has found itself testing the goodwill loyalty of many of their more ardent supporters. As…

TERA – Revamped Crafting and Gathering

By Murasama December 4, 2018

Gameforge (EU) released a preview of the upcoming patch 77 for TERA where the games crafting and gathering system will be receiving an update (including a new fishing system as…

[Rant] When does speculation on a blog become official news?

By Murasama December 3, 2018

http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=jmk1756&logNo=221406229009 First of all, Naver is one of South Korea's largest/longest running online sites with a lot of user generated content. The blogging component there is akin to Blogger (blogspot)…