MMO 周报：Jagex 公布 RuneScape 4，Aion 2 在西方正式免费上线

We’ve had three RuneScapes, yes, but what about fourth RuneScape? Hope you wanted that because this week, Jagex finally put a name on the new MMORPG it’s been working on for years, and it is indeed RuneScape 4, which the studio says will operate alongside the other versions.

Meanwhile, Aion 2 made its official debut in the west having successfully completed headstart, LOTRO delayed its fall expansion, we lamented the fate of New World, Richard Garriott was serious about trying to reclaim Ultima and presumably Ultima Online, and Throne and Liberty confirmed its move back to NCsoft in November.

Read on to catch up with the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions today as every Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!

THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES

Jagex announces work on a fourth RuneScape MMORPG that will sit alongside its other games - It certainly might have looked as if Jagex, the self-described RuneScape Company, was barely capable of keeping three games going. But it did indeed clear that hurdle by all accounts.…

Aion 2 has officially made its full free-to-play global release for everyone today - Cue the music, Daevas, because the second coming of the original MMORPG has arrived after about 17 years. Aion 2 has made its full free-to-play global release today, bringing the sequel…

Vitae Aeternum: History will remember New World falsely - Recently I stumbled across a Reddit thread in which the OP laments that New World will be remembered as a failure, despite all the progress it made over the years.…

Lord of the Rings Online delays Wolves of Mordor, sweetens pre-order packages - If you thought that Lord of the Rings Online might have been releasing its Wolves of Mordor expansion a little early, then guess what? So did Standing Stone Games, which…

Aion 2 celebrates over 400K Steam users and opens multiple new servers in its first day of release - We're roughly 24 hours removed from the global launch of Aion 2, and as is the case for any major MMORPG launch, it's time for us to take a look at…

Casually Classic: Five more World of Warcraft Forever features that look amazing - Hey! It's October, and as I write this, it's exactly one month until World of Warcraft Forever launches. The discussion emerging from the beta is strong and near-inescapable, although I…

Hackers get away with millions of Discord IDs and email addresses in ‘multi-stage’ security attack - Folks, it's happened again: Double Counter, a third-party security service utilized by Discord, has reported that it was the target of a successful hack earlier this week, which saw the perpetrators…

Choose My Adventure: Preparing for the first steps into Aion 2 – with your help - First off, you're likely going to notice that the images used throughout this article are just press pics. That's by design because I haven't actually stepped foot in to Aion 2…

Throne and Liberty transitions service from Amazon Games to NCsoft on November 10 - Throne and Liberty players were already aware that the MMORPG was trading hands from Amazon Games to NCsoft as part of the former's unceremonious abandonment of online games, but now we finally…

Richard Garriott expands on his comments about getting the copyright back to Ultima in 2027 - Here is your regular reminder that Richard Garriott has been to space. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, there's also the less-regular reminder that he's been talking…

ArchAge Chronicles summarizes its gameplay and confirms its early access monetization in new video - It would appear that ArcheAge Chronicles is extremely keen to identify itself through the medium of video uploads. Ahead of the MMORPG's PvP-focused demo next week, developer XLGames has put out a…

Vague Patch Notes: What we remember about MMORPGs overrules their past - All right, readers, let's start with a pop quiz: Tell me what you know about Final Fantasy XI. Wait, no, that's not going to work, you can't actually say anything I'll…

LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back at Helm’s Deep - When Lord of the Rings Online arrived at its fifth expansion in 2013, its studio did the unthinkable: It broke the naming format of "Noun of Proper Noun." Now we…

Sunsetted VR MMO OrbusVR is resurrected by one of the original devs as two ‘community editions’ - Last year, we reported on the sunset of the charming looking VR MMORPG OrbusVR, and while its closure may not have been a surprise considering the trickle of updates it was getting…

World of Warcraft Forever dives deep into the Rogue, Warlock, Mage, and Shaman - Have you decided on a main yet in World of Warcraft Forever? For the indecisive, there are four more deep dives that Blizzard posted this week to go into the…

Blue Protocol Star Resonance celebrates its first anniversary with a new season and events today - While its release hasn't necessarily lit the MMO world on fire, the fact of the matter is that Blue Protocol Star Resonance has indeed crested the one year mark as of…

Embers Adrift suffers a hardware failure – and a delivery snarl-up – that knocked it offline for nearly a week - Even if it's a niche product within our niche gaming sphere, you still have to feel bad for Embers Adrift and its apparent bouts of random bad luck when it comes…

Massively Overthinking: What’s your preferred form of MMORPG character build system? - I've been thinking a lot about buildcraft recently. Not because I'm trying to min-max a character in a game I'm playing, but because it struck me that there are a…

Black Desert introduces a new level cap and smooths its XP curve on PC, removes Frost Highlands on mobile - Have you found the climb to max level in Black Desert's PC version just a bit too spiky after a certain point? Are you hungry for those sweet, sweet monster zone…

Anime MMO NosTale celebrates 19 years of operation with events, freebies, and a returning raid - NosTale isn't a game that pops up on our feed terribly often, but that's certainly not because the game is sitting idle. On the contrary; this week it's celebrating its…

Dungeons and Dragons Online unleashes its Night Revels event, adds cantrips, and makes sweeping enhancement tree changes - Hold on to your d20 because this week's Dungeons and Dragons Online update is going to test all your innate resistances to fun gameplay. For starters, Update 81.4 brought back…

DC Universe Online continues its Children of Krypton story with Wrath of the Worldkillers - This week brings a big chunk of new content for DC Universe Online, as the Wrath of the Worldkillers update has gone live as promised, bringing the next chapter of the…

Lord of the Rings Online welcomes back the Halloweeny Harvestmath festival - When creepy Hobbits emerge from a cobwebbed burrow and howls drift over seemingly abandoned cornfield mazes, that's when you know that it's time for another strong dose of Harvestmath in…

Marvel Heroes rogue server Project TAHITI prepares new Danger Room group content - While Project TAHITI hasn't fully rebuilt Marvel Heroes' full offerings -- and they were pretty full before Gazillion collapsed all those years ago -- the rogue server is making strides…

Perfect Ten: Revisiting our last ten ‘Stormiest Future’ winners - Here's the thing: Those of us here at Massively Overpowered know a lot about MMORPGs because we have been covering these games for years, but we are not precognitive. We…

City of Heroes: Homecoming adds new powersets and PvPvE mode alongside its Halloween event - We can understand if people are tired of content that is some mixture of PvP and PvE content by this point, really we can, but will you give an extra…

RuneScape issues apologies and promises for its Reignited characters after the reveal enrages veterans - What likely was intended as a big reveal from RuneScape instead kind of blew up in Jagex's face. Readers will likely recall the Reignited character reveal that was made during…

Multiplayer racing roguelite Star Wars Galactic Racer fully releases today - Trust us, we didn't expect a multiplayer racing game, the Star Wars IP, and roguelite elements to blend together the way they have, but as our own hands-on look showed, the…

Pirates of the Burning Sea has popped up once again on Steam - How do people feel about pirates these days? Still into them? Because Pirates of the Burning Sea is an older MMORPG that predated a lot of more modern pirate content, releasing…

Overwatch brings its new vampiric hero, new escort map, and new event with today’s Season 5 release - It's time for some spooks in Overwatch, though not for the usual seasonal reason. What we mean here is that Season 5 of the shooter has officially started today, and it's got…

Previews of Dungeons & Dragons’ World of Warcraft book highlight dungeon changes, adapted crafting, and a lot of effort - You do not have to try very hard to adapt World of Warcraft to Dungeons & Dragons. Change a few names and set the game in Azeroth and you can, in…

After a year’s worth of work, the Borderlands Online MMO from China is playable and in English - Last year, we took a couple of peeks at the efforts of modder EpicNNG to get a Borderlands MMO from China back online. The modder had put out a call for…

Wisdom of Nym: Speculating about our traveling companions in Final Fantasy XIV: Evercold - Some people are, I think, still kinda upset about our cast lineup in Dawntrail, and I can understand why. I don't agree with people who are mad that we never wound up…

RuneScape unveils three story arcs, remastering efforts, new activities, and a new Reignited character type - As one might expect out of this year's Runefest celebration, Jagex was full to bursting with news for its three main games (and word of a fourth one to boot),…

Tabula Rasa rogue server project Infinite Rasa confirms that it has a functioning development server - It's been just over five years since we had heard anything about the progress of Infinite Rasa, the rogue server project that's attempting to bring the sci-fi MMORPG Tabula Rasa back online,…

THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS

Every week, get caught up on the MMO genre’s latest news and Massively OP’s best content in our MMO Week in Review! Want more roundups of content? Try Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all the bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.