Welcome to another edition of MMOre Power, a semi-regular section of MMOtaku that highlights survival necessities in the ever-changing and fast-paced world of massively multiplayer online games. In this edition of MMOre Power, let’s discuss newsletter subscriptions to your favorite online games.
I know you’re begging to ask what the big deal is with newsletter subscriptions and how they are linked to getting MMOre Power in an MMO setting. All right, let me go straight to the point. Having a subscription to the newsletter of an online game affords you special items through what publishers call “promotional codes” attached to the …read more

It’s not apparent from the title what I’m talking about, so let me lay it out more plainly in the body text of this posting. You see, 4story looks like a World of Warcraft clone from almost every angle. Even the character sprites, with their ungainly and cartoonish appearance, reeks of the highly successful Blizzard Entertainment massively multiplayer online role-playing game title.
Not that 4story is devoid of merits. Far from it. Despite a warning I’ve received from a fellow gamer and colleague in the gaming industry that I might end up disappointed if I start playing the game, I still …read more

Friends of the MMOtaku up at online games publisher Uforia have been kind enough to send us images and descriptions of the challenge maps for their upcoming online military first-person shooter Mercenary Wars. Let’s not let their effort go to waste, shall we?
At present, Uforia has only revealed five maps, including a museum filled with ancient treasures to a restaurant filled with secret meeting rooms, which are sure to pose a challenge even to the most aim-savvy player.
“We are pleased to reveal the interesting maps of Mercenary Wars as we continue to develop its unique gaming experience leading up to …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 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

I’m seriously thinking about permanently hanging up my sword belt in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Ragnarok Online. What the hell for? Well, I’ve realized that I’m getting too old for this game.
Not.
Actually, I’m just a little flustered after a few hours of playing my merchant TikaWaylan on Valkyrie, the free-to-play server of Ragnarok Online Philippines. Oh, yeah, she’s now a blacksmith. Damn job change quest!
The source of my frustration is, as you may have already guessed, the Blacksmith job change quest. The Merchant job change quest is a walk in the park compared to that of the Blacksmith.
Nah. …read more

As a microcosm of real life, the virtual environments of massively multiplayer online games also hosts negative aspects of the world it is patterned after. In simpler terms, if we have baddies in the real world, there are also baddies in the virtual world.
In the real world, the worst of the worst criminals are those that commit heinous, mostly unforgivable crimes like genocide and murder. In the virtual worlds, because you can’t exactly kill a character and not expect him or her to rise from the grave and pwn your sorry behind, the worst malcontents turn out as scammers and …read more

Welcome to 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 Title Buffs System.
What are Title Buffs? To put it in simple terms, Title Buffs are, well, titles that appear in front of your character’s name and give you buffs. Duh, that didn’t sound quite right. But that’s exactly what they are—titles that give buffs.
Why are Atlantica Online’s Title Buffs great? First, having titles in front of your character’s name is way cooler than …read more

While playing your favorite massively multiplayer online game, do you ever ask yourself what all those numbers which represent your character’s vitals and statistics mean and how they affect combat and other in-game interactions?
Your answer is probably the same as the one most MMORPG players give: “Yes, I’m curious about these numbers and how they affect the way my character moves and interacts with other game elements, but it matters little when I’m busy hacking and slashing.”
Spoken like a true video games fanatic.

True Games Interactive, publisher of new MMORPG Warrior Epic, begs to differ, if its recently released tutorial on …read more

The title of this posting should read, “Atlantica Online: Life After Getting Into Delphi’s Free League Top 3,” but (no) thanks to space constraints, it turned into that unappealing title you see up there.
Actually, the title should be posed as a question: “Atlantica Online: Is There Life After Reaching the Top?” This is a question I’ve been asking myself this past week, or more accurately, after my toon or broke into Atlantica Online’s Delphi server’s Free League Top 3.
Before proceeding, I should first tell you more about the Free League and why breaking into the top spots is important. Here’s …read more