Actually, only a few, to date, have been removed from the roster of items that Atlantica Online players can purchase from the cash shop. The latest casualty is the Tesla’s Black Box, the box containing the Mercury Rider mount that has been discontinued yesterday, November 16th.
rior to the removal of Tesla’s Black Box from the Atlantica Online item mall, NDOORS Interactive, publisher of the game, discontinued two other boxes, the Relic of Huike and Laila’s Wonder Box. The Relic of Huike contained the Jiangshi Outfit and Cap, while Laila’s Wonder Box gave players the Cute Bunny Hat and Costume.
So sad, …read more

I’m sure you’re probably tired of people wishing you a Happy Halloween, but I just have to say it since I’m really not used to it coming from a country that doesn’t celebrate it. Oh, we also mark Halloween, especially the thousands of massively multiplayer online game junkies, since this holiday is an integral part of MMOs all over the world.
For one, it’s one of the best holidays to launch events. I just wish that online game developers and publishers would come up with better gimmicks than simple bash-this-monster-and-get-this-item or open-this-box-and-get-a-random-item-that-is-totally-useless events. I mean, come on, guys! Fire up those …read more

Finally, Atlantica Online, our favorite massively multiplayer online role-playing game with a twist has turned one year old, and NDOORS Interactive, publisher of the game, is unfurling the red carpet for us players with a month-long event.
For starters, all characters above level 20 and is logged on at 6 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time will receive a special gift. What this gift is, we still don’t know. It better be “special”!
Well, if the gift doesn’t cut it, there’s always the 200-percent experience point bonus time for the entire first week of November. So break out those mercenaries you’ve been keeping in …read more

Sigh. It’s difficult to sit and wait for the implementation of a new patch for an online game. At the moment, I am waiting with mixed anxiety and dread for Atlantica Online to come back online and check what the latest update has in store for us. Anxiety because there are some features that I’d like to try out and dread because there are other features that I’d rather do without.
As I write this, NDOORS Interactive, publisher of the hit strategy massively multiplayer online game, has just announced that the maintenance, which began at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on …read more

I’ve been taking a keen interest in watching videos of past championships in Atlantica Online’s Titan League of both international and Korean servers in a vain hope of one day being able to compete in one. Sadly, it might remain a pipe dream because going toe-to-toe with players on a single server where the odds are more or less equal is one thing, clashing with players from another server who have a huge head start in terms of equipment and level is another thing.
Although the odds are stacked against me in my bid to participate in the Atlantica Online Titan …read more

It’s weird reading about the United States’ free-to-play massively multiplayer online games market being saturated considering that it is one of the largest MMO markets in the world. The news prompts the question, “Is publishing a free-to-play MMO in North America no longer viable?”
J. Mark Hood, co-founder of F2P games company Reality Gap, publisher of Monato Esprit in North America, made this assessment of the market in a recent interview with Gamasutra. “I think it is saturated here … how do you compete with (the massive budgets) that Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts are doing right now?” Hood said.
He goes …read more

In keeping with its record of coming out with new stuff almost every month, NDOORs Interactive has just introduced the Hydra mount in its widely popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game Atlantica Online.
This powerful new steed gives its owner a 340 to 440-point boost to attack power, +140 to strength and dexterity, +200 to vitality, an additional 4,200 to defense, and a decent 20-percent increase in movement speed.
Yes, the Hydra is the most powerful Atlantica Online mount to date. It is also by far the ugliest, with none of the grace that the Unicorn or Mars Rider exudes. To give …read more

NDOORS Interactive has finally released the latest patch to its hit strategic turn-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game Atlantica Online. The update introduces the Minstrel to the growing roster of recruitable mercenaries. A musician mercenary? Great news for some, not for others.
No matter how you receive news of the new mercenary, one thing is for certain: It will change the strategy of some Atlantica Online players in Free League, the game’s player-versus-player competition. The Minstrel mercenary has three skills:

It’s time once again for another installment of MMOre Power, a semi-regular section of MMOtaku that highlights survival essentials in the world of massively multiplayer online games. In this edition of MMOre Power, we check out Atlantica Online and its Blessing License.
While other MMORPGs market in its item malls some trinkets that boost experience points rates, NDOORS and Atlantica Online takes it a step further with the Blessing License, which essentially works the same except for the fact that it also increases attack power or damage by 150 percent and defense by 110 percent.
These bonuses are pretty handy if you’re …read more

A few weeks ago, good friend and MMOtaku regular Robert Sanchez gave me the heads up about NDOORS Interactive’s recruitment of a game master in the Philippines. I checked out the job posting and, sure enough, it was the real deal. It got me thinking: Was NDOORS planning to launch Atlantica Online in the little tropical paradise that serves as home to thousands of online games-hungry players?
Oh, don’t bother looking for the advertisement; it’s long gone. NDOORS has probably found someone capable of running the show. The question, however, remains: A game master for what game? I fervently hope it’s …read more