Free To Play Unlimited with Oxana is the exclusive FreeMMOStation.com webshow about free MMORPG and F2P games. The team will bring you exciting news, quizzes, the most anticipated games and more. In this episode there’s the Mortal Online free-to-play announcement, Gamania’s (upcoming Core Blaze MMORPG publisher) decidedly bleak fate and the postponing of the End of Nations open beta. This show marks the launch of two new segments: First Look, with games that deserved a FreeMMOStation Watcha Playin’? first impression (this week there’s Age of Wushu, DK Online and Absolute Force Online); and Face Off, where two similar games clash and you have to decide which one will emerge victorious (will it be Hawken or Mechwarrior Online?). The most wanted game of the week is Dragon’s Prophet, the new MMORPG from the makers of Runes of Magic.
An interview with piranha games president Russ Bullock about MechWarrior Online and MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries.
Expect the game to only work offline right now.
As we trend ever deeper into a world of games that require servers maintained by the developer or publisher, we see more and more games disappearing from the world. What happens when these games are shut down? What does it take for a game to survive beyond this point?
Most modern games that have online components like destiny rely so heavily on co op between players that even if you had a full disc version popping it in and playing won't be a fun experience as you can't play the actual game after hitting a wall with difficulty levels of they even boot
But classic titles like vice city will still be the same in 2049 as they were in 2001 provided you play on a disc not stripped down digital versions that have the soundtrack cut out ten years later