![]() That pushed back the official launch another couple of weeks. So, all's clear for launch now, right? Not quite, as the late changes resulted in pricing problems on Steam, depending on what region you were in. ![]() A nice gesture, but geez, couldn't you guys have planned things a little better? The eventual result was a one-month early access period, with higher-priced packs just resulting in more goodies. It took all of one day's worth of player outrage to force IMC to announce that there would be a different plan. First, IMCgames announced "exclusive" founder's servers with up to three months' early access. Tree of Savior Annoys Players With Its Pre-launch AnticsĪs I was looking through MMOBomb articles from 2016 to compile this list, I was amazed at how much Tree of Savior "news" there was before it launched. ![]() ![]() It's a potential watershed moment in the operation of F2P games, but it might still be a while before it impacts you or me.Ħ. Even if they aren't, you'd better believe those numbers will make their way to English-speaking gamers, especially as it relates to games that operate in both China and the West. Instead, it's gaming companies in China that will have to disclose the odds on their paid RNG boxes, if the translations provided by NeoGAF are correct.Īs I laid out in the article, this could be huge if similar laws were enacted in the West. Here's a story that would potentially be #1 on our list - if it was enacted in the United States or Europe. Chinese Games Forced To Disclose Lockbox Odds If you're still actually playing ArcheAge, you could probably find a lot more to disagree with than these few examples, so we ask: What was your "favorite" ArcheAge moment of 2016?ħ. What was your favorite ArcheAge moment of 2016? Was it the recent issues with the Fresh Start servers (which totally aren't pay-to-win)? How about launching an event during server maintenance? Remember the $100 hot tub that granted in-game benefits? Or the time they reversed a scam for a popular streamer? Whether it was questionable cash shop items, technical issues, or poor communication, the combined "WTF Factor" was enough to place ArcheAge on our list. While there might not have been any one story that screamed for attention, Trion Worlds - oh, wait, XLGames, because nothing wrong with AA is ever Trion's fault - continued to annoy fans with one dubious decision after another. We tried to stick with mostly singular events on this list, but we couldn't ignore ArcheAge and all its related drama. Though some of us had reservations about the power curve, CDPR seems to be cognizant of the issues and is taking measures to make sure that what worked as a "free" mini-game can get by on its own in a game with microtransactions. So when CD Projekt Red announced a F2P standalone version of Gwent, it was met with applause from virtually all corners of the internet. As Geralt the Witcher, you recruited a vast army, taking on comers from all over the realm - in Gwent, the CCG game-within-a-game that proved almost as popular as the sword- and spell-slinging action of the main game. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was a huge success. Gwent: The Witcher Card Game Gets Standalone Edition The company's now working on a new F2P dark fantasy FPS, hopefully having learned the lessons of its last game and hoping to improve upon its previous design.Īdapting from a previous state? If only there was a word for that. Just a month after that, however, Turtle Rock announced that it would be ceasing development on Evolve. Acknowledging the "DLC shitstorm," Turtle Rock announced the struggling game would go free-to-play in July.Įvolve: Stage 2 was pretty well-received, especially since it didn't have any microtransactions until three months after its relaunch. But gamers quickly soured on the concept, in part due to the truckloads of DLC that followed shortly thereafter. Turtle Rock Studios' asymmetrical shooter Evolve debuted to a lot of hype and hoopla in early 2015. So let's dive into the top 10 F2P gaming stories of 2016, as selected by the MMOBomb staff:ġ0. And some that seemed like big deals but we aren't sure just how big. Sure, there was that one thing that you know will be #1, but a lot more happened that wasn't so bad. well, sometimes good and sometimes bad? Let's go with that. ![]() All the memes say 2016 was a lousy year in the real world. ![]()
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