My Thoughts on Private Servers
With the prior post regarding the preservation of online only games (that had to stop being published), I felt that I needed to touch on the subject of private servers.…
Preserving online only games
https://www.polygon.com/2017/12/23/16814482/dmca-mmo-exemption-made Game preservations/archivists have been petitioning the U.S. Copyright Office to grant a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) exemption for online video games (specifically MMO's which require an online server)…
Devilian Thai Server – It’s Alive
Just as an update to what I posted a few days ago, I was able to login again. It just took them awhile (several weeks to be more precise) to…
Ascent: Infinite Realm – Character creation/customization
Ignore what I wrote in the prior posting about character models skewing towards the more realistic versus fantasy. A:IR includes a wide array of character appearance customizations as shown in…
Ascent: Infinite Realm Prologue Gameplay
Steparu posted the prologue/initial tutorial gameplay for A:IR (from the lead in to the opening of the first CBT which started in Korea). The prologue zone has everyones character starting…
Trion’s DDoS problem
Trion Worlds North American game servers are located at Comcast's data center in Dallas, Texas. This is of course one of Comcast's many business/enterprise operations center located across the country.…
Trion’s “mea culpa” with a $100 premium mount box
Trion World's Scott Hartsman took to Reddit to offer up an apology regarding the controversial $100 box (Orphiel's mount crate) that awarded one of 42 random premium mounts. This was…
MMO Culture provides an overview of Ascent: Infinite Realm
Utilizing the news provided on the A:IR website and supplementing it with information gathered from G-Star 2017, MMO Culture provided a further look at the airships and weaponry. http://mmoculture.com/2017/12/ascent-infinite-realm-take-a-closer-look-at-the-games-airships-and-weapons/ It…