2,500 percent increase & new all-time high on Steam for 14-year-old MMORPG, now play Elder Scrolls Online for free

It’s time again for our MeinMMO format “MMORPG news in two minutes”. We’ll summarize the most important news about the best genre in the world. Look forward to news about ArcheAge 2, Aion 2, Throne and Liberty, Corepunk, WoW: The War Within, Final Fantasy XIV, ESO and many other online role-playing games.

The highlights of the week:

What else happened? With a view to the upcoming MMORPG releases, we have created new overview pages for WoW: The War Within, New World Aeternum, Corepunk, Throne and Liberty and Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds or comprehensively updated the existing articles.

Xal’atath plays an important role in the new trailer for WoW – The War Within:

WoW Cinematic: Threads of Fate

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Final Fantasy XIV supports Square, gets mobile version

This is what happened with the big MMORPGs:

  • The new Dawntrail class of Pictomancer is so well received in Final Fantasy XIV that many players are changing their main class.
  • Meanwhile, the MMORPG and the mobile division ensure that Square Enix remains profitable. It is therefore not surprising that the Japanese publisher wants to develop a mobile version of FFXIV with Tencent, which is primarily intended for the Chinese market.
  • Let’s stay in Eorzea: The player who has completed the hardest challenge in Final Fantasy XIV moves directly on to the next challenge.
  • And FFXIV again: On August 27, 2024, the temporary EU data center Shadow will close its doors (via de.finalfantasyxiv.com). The additional alternative worlds enabled the developers to ensure a smooth Dawntrail launch.
  • Many players are already celebrating Xal’atath, the antagonist of WoW: The War Within. An important factor: She has been slowly built up over several expansions. She is also the focus of the new cinematics of The War Within.
  • During the pre-event of WoW: The War Within, you can currently level up to level 70 in no time.
  • You can play The Elder Scrolls Online for free until August 19th, as the developers have launched a new free-play event to celebrate QuakeCon 2024 (via elderscrollsonline.com).
  • Based on feedback from beta testers, Guild Wars 2 developers have announced a long list of spear changes for various classes for the Janthir Wilds expansion (via guildwars2.com).
  • Amazon Games has released some statistics after the console test of New World Aeternum. More than 680,000 quests were completed, more than 3.6 million enemies were defeated. The bow was used most often (via newworld.com).
  • This is what happened with the small MMORPGs:

    This is what happened with the MMORPGs in development:

    With this, we have summarized the most important things that have recently happened in the world of MMORPGs.

    What were you happy about this week? What annoyed you? Write it to us in the comments. By the way, there was a new special from MeinMMO editor Karsten Scholz the other day, who listed some killer features that no new online role-playing game should be without: These 10 great features every MMORPG should have

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