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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[MapleStory celebrates its seventh anniversary with experience bonuses and cake monsters]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/maplestory-celebrates-its-seventh-anniversary-with-experience-bo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/maplestory-celebrates-its-seventh-anniversary-with-experience-bo/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/maplestory-celebrates-its-seventh-anniversary-with-experience-bo/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/trailers/" rel="tag">Trailers</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/video/" rel="tag">Video</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/maplestory/" rel="tag">MapleStory</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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	Do you feel lucky, <em><a href="http://www.massively.com/category/maplestory">MapleStory</a></em> players? You should, because <em><a href="http://www.massively.com/tag/nexon">Nexon</a></em> is celebrating the game's lucky seventh anniversary, and the studio is passing the good fortune on to the players with a series of in-game events and double experience weekends.<br />
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	For the duration of the month, players will be treated not only to double experience and drops every weekend, but they'll also be able to take part in events such as the Maple Rising Star Contest, which requires players to complete tasks to show support for their favorite NPC contestant. And of course, no anniversary would be complete without a visit from the deliciously vicious Cake Boss monster, which combines a challenging battle and a tasty treat into one mutant monstrosity. To put the icing on the proverbial cake, Nexon has released a short anniversary trailer that recaps the major <em>MapleStory</em> events of the past year, so put on your party hats and join the festivities after the cut.<br />
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	[Source: Nexon America press release]</div><p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/maplestory-celebrates-its-seventh-anniversary-with-experience-bo/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>MapleStory celebrates its seventh anniversary with experience bonuses and cake monsters</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/maplestory-celebrates-its-seventh-anniversary-with-experience-bo/">MapleStory celebrates its seventh anniversary with experience bonuses and cake monsters</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Fri, 11 May 2012 21:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/maplestory-celebrates-its-seventh-anniversary-with-experience-bo/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20236759/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/05/11/maplestory-celebrates-its-seventh-anniversary-with-experience-bo/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>7th-anniversary</category><category>anniversary</category><category>double-experience-weekend</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>double-xp-weekends</category><category>events</category><category>f2p</category><category>fantasy</category><category>free-to-play</category><category>in-game-event</category><category>in-game-events</category><category>maplestory</category><category>nexon</category><category>nexon-america</category><category>nexon-korea</category><category>seventh-anniversary</category><category>trailer</category><category>trailers</category><category>video</category><category>videos</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Daniel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 21:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alganon delays expansion, plans double-XP weekend]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/alganon-delays-expansion-plans-double-xp-weekend/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/alganon-delays-expansion-plans-double-xp-weekend/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/alganon-delays-expansion-plans-double-xp-weekend/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/video/" rel="tag">Video</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/expansions/" rel="tag">Expansions</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/alganon/" rel="tag">Alganon</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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Citing "unforseen circumstances," the team at <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/qol/">QOL</a> has announced that <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/alganon/"><em>Alganon's</em></a> <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/rise-of-the-ourobani/"><em>Rise of the Ourobani</em></a> expansion <a href="http://alganon.com/newsletters/newsletter_0412.html">will be delayed</a> until the fourth quarter of this year. "After evaluation of the project, it was decided that more time was needed in order to do some critical bug fixes as well as to spend more time on certain areas and features of the expansion in order to do the best work possible," the devs wrote in the April newsletter.<br />
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<em>Rise of the Ourobani </em>will feature the playable titular race, a brand-new continent to explore, a Warden combat companion, PvP, and flying mounts. To soften the blow of the expansion's delay, QOL has released several sneak peek pictures and videos.<br />
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Even though the expansion is a ways away, players have a reason to log in now, as <em>Alganon </em>is preparing a double-XP weekend from April 20 through the 23rd.<br />
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You can watch <em>Rise of the Ourobani</em> flying mounts in action after the break.<p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/alganon-delays-expansion-plans-double-xp-weekend/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Alganon delays expansion, plans double-XP weekend</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/alganon-delays-expansion-plans-double-xp-weekend/">Alganon delays expansion, plans double-XP weekend</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/alganon-delays-expansion-plans-double-xp-weekend/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20217827/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/04/17/alganon-delays-expansion-plans-double-xp-weekend/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>alganon</category><category>class</category><category>continent</category><category>delay</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>f2p</category><category>fantasy</category><category>flying-mount</category><category>flying-mounts</category><category>free-to-play</category><category>ourobani</category><category>qol</category><category>quest</category><category>quest-online</category><category>race</category><category>rise-of-the-ourobani</category><category>trailer</category><category>video</category><category>warden</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Olivetti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Massively Exclusive: Star Trek Online announces EU relaunch, double XP weekend]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/03/29/massively-exclusive-star-trek-online-announces-eu-relaunch-dou/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/03/29/massively-exclusive-star-trek-online-announces-eu-relaunch-dou/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/03/29/massively-exclusive-star-trek-online-announces-eu-relaunch-dou/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/sci-fi/" rel="tag">Sci-fi</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/launches/" rel="tag">Launches</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/star-trek-online/" rel="tag">Star Trek Online</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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Star Trek may feature universal translators, but the crew at <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/Cryptic">Cryptic</a> has to make do with old fashioned techniques until the future catches up with us. As such, the studio has announced that it is relaunching <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/star-trek-online"><em>Star Trek Online</em></a> in Europe to support its French- and German-speaking players.<br />
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Starting right now, the game, <a href="http://www.startrekonline.com/">website</a>, forums, and game support will be available in all three languages. To further cater to European players, Cryptic has vowed to add more EU-friendly event timeslots.<br />
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Executive Producer <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/dan-stahl/">Dan Stahl</a> hopes this will spread <em>STO </em>across the world: "The launch of <em>Star Trek Online</em> in Europe is the culmination of our efforts over the past several years to bring gamers the Star Trek universe on a truly massive scale."<br />
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All players can benefit from this European relaunch, as Q's coming back to celebrate with a double-XP bonus weekend. Anyone who logs in from today through Monday, April 2nd, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, will not only benefit from the a skill point and bridge officer point boost but can claim a free IDIC Tribble of his or her very own. The Tribble provides a unique buff to your character based on his, her, or its class -- and if you manage to get all three buffs on you at once, you'll be granted an additional boost to damage, resistance, and health regen.<br />
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[Source: Cryptic press release]<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/03/29/massively-exclusive-star-trek-online-announces-eu-relaunch-dou/">Massively Exclusive: Star Trek Online announces EU relaunch, double XP weekend</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/03/29/massively-exclusive-star-trek-online-announces-eu-relaunch-dou/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20203692/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/03/29/massively-exclusive-star-trek-online-announces-eu-relaunch-dou/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>cryptic</category><category>cryptic-studios</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>eu</category><category>europe</category><category>european</category><category>european-relaunch</category><category>f2p</category><category>free-to-play</category><category>french</category><category>german</category><category>idic</category><category>idic-tribble</category><category>in-game-event</category><category>languages</category><category>localization</category><category>localize</category><category>perfect-world</category><category>perfect-world-entertainment</category><category>pwe</category><category>q</category><category>relaunch</category><category>sci-fi</category><category>star-trek</category><category>star-trek-mmo</category><category>star-trek-online</category><category>sto</category><category>tribble</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Olivetti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aion's Rallying the Troops event begins Feb 27th]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/25/aions-rallying-the-troops-event-begins-f/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/25/aions-rallying-the-troops-event-begins-f/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/25/aions-rallying-the-troops-event-begins-f/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/aion/" rel="tag">Aion</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/expansions/" rel="tag">Expansions</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/patches/" rel="tag">Patches</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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If the <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/21/the-wait-is-over-aions-3-0-and-f2p-conversion-announced/">recent news</a> about <em><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/aion">Aion's</a></em> upcoming conversion to free-to-play has sparked your interest or you had left previously but want to pop back in for a little look-see, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/ncsoft/">NCsoft</a> is offering the perfect opportunity to do just that! Starting February 27th, Rallying the Troops will allow Daevas and Daevas-to-be to jump into the stunning world of Atreia for free, getting a head start on preparing for the much anticipated <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/aion-3.0">3.0 patch</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/Ascension/">Ascension</a>.<br />
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Each player, whether new, returning, or currently subscribed, will receive bonuses during that time, including double XP, a 30% boost in AP, and <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/aion-crucible/">crucible</a> insignias. New recruits need only make an account to begin playing a free extended trial. Returning veterans will play for free through March 12th. All those currently serving, along with the returning veterans, will benefit from more medals and relic loot drops from fortresses.<br />
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As an added incentive, everyone who subscribes by March 12th will receive a free set of Daevanion armor. If you have ever had the desire to check <em>Aion</em> out, there is no time like the present... starting Monday, of course.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/25/aions-rallying-the-troops-event-begins-f/">Aion's Rallying the Troops event begins Feb 27th</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/25/aions-rallying-the-troops-event-begins-f/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20179431/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/25/aions-rallying-the-troops-event-begins-f/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>3.0</category><category>3.0-patch</category><category>aion</category><category>aion-3.0</category><category>aion-crucible</category><category>aion-game</category><category>AP</category><category>ascension</category><category>Crucible</category><category>Daevanion-armor</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>double-xp-weekends</category><category>event</category><category>nc-soft</category><category>nc-soft-aion</category><category>ncsoft</category><category>ncsoft-aion</category><category>patch</category><category>patch-3.0</category><category>rallying-the-troops</category><category>veterans</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[MJ Guthrie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of Heroes takes to the shadows with new Darkness Control info]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/15/city-of-heroes-takes-to-the-shadows-with-new-darkness-control-in/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/15/city-of-heroes-takes-to-the-shadows-with-new-darkness-control-in/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/15/city-of-heroes-takes-to-the-shadows-with-new-darkness-control-in/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/super-hero/" rel="tag">Super-hero</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/" rel="tag">City of Heroes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains/" rel="tag">City of Villains</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/previews/" rel="tag">Previews</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a></p><div style="text-align: center; ">
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	It's time for yet another issue of The Intrepid Informer, and this time the spotlight is on one of <em><a href="http://www.massively.com/category/city-of-heroes">City of Heroes'</a></em> upcoming new power set, Darkness Control. Darkness Control does exactly what it says on the tin, granting players dominion over the powers of darkness in order to subjugate and control their enemies. With a number of roots, debuffs, and even a couple of pets, the Darkness Control powerset is sure to please Controllers and Dominators of all varieties. But wait, that's not all. In addition to the Darkness Control power set, <a href="http://www.massively.com/tag/paragon-studios">Paragon Studios</a> is introducing two new secondary power sets: Darkness Affinity for Controllers and Dark Assault for Dominators. All of these new power sets will be free to VIP players, though premium players will have to purchase the Darkness Control set on the Paragon Market. Oh, and before we forget, be sure to drop into <em>City of Heroes</em> March 16th to 19th for a <a href="http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/news_archive/double_xp_weekend_march_16-19.php">double XP weekend</a>.<br />
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	For the full details on the new power set as well as some handy tips and tricks from the designers, just click on past the link below to the <em>City of Heroes</em> official site.</div><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/15/city-of-heroes-takes-to-the-shadows-with-new-darkness-control-in/">City of Heroes takes to the shadows with new Darkness Control info</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/15/city-of-heroes-takes-to-the-shadows-with-new-darkness-control-in/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20172656/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/15/city-of-heroes-takes-to-the-shadows-with-new-darkness-control-in/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>city-of-heroes</category><category>city-of-villains</category><category>coh</category><category>cov</category><category>cox</category><category>darkness-control</category><category>double-experience-weekend</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>f2p</category><category>free-to-play</category><category>intrepid-informer</category><category>ncsoft</category><category>new-power-set</category><category>new-powerset</category><category>paragon-studios</category><category>power-set</category><category>power-sets</category><category>powerset</category><category>powersets</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Daniel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me a fairy tale: ClapAlong launches Warriors Saga]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/tell-me-a-fairy-tale-clapalong-launches-warriors-saga/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/tell-me-a-fairy-tale-clapalong-launches-warriors-saga/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/tell-me-a-fairy-tale-clapalong-launches-warriors-saga/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/launches/" rel="tag">Launches</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/browser/" rel="tag">Browser</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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Keeping your eye out for a neat Asian-themed MMO? <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/clapalong/">ClapAlong</a> has a new prospect for you: <a href="http://warrior.clapalong.com/"><em>Warriors Saga</em></a>. Inspired by Eastern fairy tales, <em>Warriors Saga</em> immerses the player in Asian folklore by placing an emphasis on interactive storytelling.<br />
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The free-to-play browser MMO boasts a wide variety of gameplay features, including pet training, "polymorphic transformation," real-time combat, and an automatic quest navigation system. GPS for MMOs? Maybe!<br />
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<em>Warriors Saga</em> launched its first server, Asgard, yesterday and is hosting several events to celebrate the release. Players participating in the first week will enjoy a double XP bonus, gift vouchers if they purchase gold, and free gold if they share word of the game to their friends on Facebook.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/tell-me-a-fairy-tale-clapalong-launches-warriors-saga/">Tell me a fairy tale: ClapAlong launches Warriors Saga</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/tell-me-a-fairy-tale-clapalong-launches-warriors-saga/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20093010/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/tell-me-a-fairy-tale-clapalong-launches-warriors-saga/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>browser</category><category>browser-based</category><category>clapalong</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>f2p</category><category>facebook</category><category>free-to-play</category><category>gps</category><category>launch</category><category>pet</category><category>pet-system</category><category>pet-training</category><category>promotion</category><category>release</category><category>warriors-saga</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Olivetti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prius Online releases Stronghold of the North expansion]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/26/prius-online-releases-stronghold-of-the-north-expansion/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/26/prius-online-releases-stronghold-of-the-north-expansion/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/26/prius-online-releases-stronghold-of-the-north-expansion/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/expansions/" rel="tag">Expansions</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/game-mechanics/" rel="tag">Game mechanics</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mmo-industry/" rel="tag">MMO industry</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/dungeons/" rel="tag">Dungeons</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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A couple of weeks ago we told you about <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/prius-online"><em>Prius Online's</em></a> new <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/stronghold-of-the-north"><em>Stronghold of the North</em></a> expansion. The content was slated to release sometime in October, and today we're finally able to report that it is in fact live and available for you to download.<br />
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<em>Stronghold</em> adds 500 quests, three new dungeons, two exotic mounts, and a new item upgrade system that "allows players to design their own gear with powerful stats and a unique appearance that suits their character," according to the latest <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/gpotato">gPotato</a> press release.<br />
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That's not all, either, as the expansion brings new looted gear and a new city-based venue for guild siege warfare. Finally, gPotato is offering up a double XP weekend to celebrate all the new content. From October 28th through October 30th, players can look forward to XP bonuses, double drop rates, and welcome back bundles for returning players that include combat enhancers and premium item upgrades.  Check out some of the new gear (and the two mounts) in our gallery below.<br />
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[Source: gPotato press release]<br />
<div class="postgallery"><p><strong>Gallery: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/photos/prius-online/">Prius Online</a></strong></p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/photos/prius-online/#4559258"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2011/10/priusayinmalegear_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/photos/prius-online/#4559259"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2011/10/priushumemalegear_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/photos/prius-online/#4559260"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2011/10/priuslonfeminagear_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/photos/prius-online/#4559261"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2011/10/priuspeakokomount_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/photos/prius-online/#4559262"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2011/10/priusukornmount_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a></div><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/26/prius-online-releases-stronghold-of-the-north-expansion/">Prius Online releases Stronghold of the North expansion</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/26/prius-online-releases-stronghold-of-the-north-expansion/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20090847/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10/26/prius-online-releases-stronghold-of-the-north-expansion/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>dungeons</category><category>expansion</category><category>f2p</category><category>fantasy</category><category>free-to-play</category><category>gpotato</category><category>item-upgrade-system</category><category>mounts</category><category>new-quests</category><category>press-release</category><category>prius</category><category>prius-online</category><category>stronghold-of-the-north</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jef Reahard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[SOE readying EverQuest II double XP weekend]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/09/01/soe-readying-everquest-ii-double-xp-weekend/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/09/01/soe-readying-everquest-ii-double-xp-weekend/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/09/01/soe-readying-everquest-ii-double-xp-weekend/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest-ii/" rel="tag">EverQuest II</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mmo-industry/" rel="tag">MMO industry</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/crafting/" rel="tag">Crafting</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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Pick out your favorite grind spots, adventurers (and tradeskillers too, for that matter), as <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/soe">Sony Online Entertainment</a> is trotting out an <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest-ii"><em>EverQuest II</em></a> double experience weekend starting on Friday, September 2nd. The XP smorgasbord will end on Monday, September 5th, so if you've got no plans for the Labor Day weekend as of yet, why not spend a portion of it in Norrath?<br />
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It's as good a time as any to check out the new itemization revamp that debuted with the recent <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/game-update-61/">GU 61</a> patch, and don't forget that the bonus applies to alternate advancement experience as well. More details are available via EQ2Wire and the official <em>EQII</em> website.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/09/01/soe-readying-everquest-ii-double-xp-weekend/">SOE readying EverQuest II double XP weekend</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/09/01/soe-readying-everquest-ii-double-xp-weekend/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20032387/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/09/01/soe-readying-everquest-ii-double-xp-weekend/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>bonus-xp</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>eq2</category><category>eqii</category><category>everquest-2</category><category>everquest-ii</category><category>f2p</category><category>fantasy</category><category>free-to-play</category><category>gu-61</category><category>norrath</category><category>promotions</category><category>soe</category><category>Sony-Online-Entertainment</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jef Reahard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Double XP coming to EverQuest II this weekend]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/07/27/double-xp-coming-to-everquest-ii-this-weekend/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/07/27/double-xp-coming-to-everquest-ii-this-weekend/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/07/27/double-xp-coming-to-everquest-ii-this-weekend/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest-ii/" rel="tag">EverQuest II</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mmo-industry/" rel="tag">MMO industry</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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Citizens of Norrath, mark your calendars! Bonus experience is coming to <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest-ii"><em>EverQuest II</em></a> this weekend and you'll want to be sure to avail yourself of what the <em>EQII</em> website calls a "<em>true double XP promotion (+100% XP)</em>."<br />
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The bonus applies to adventure, tradeskill, and alternate advancement experience, so don't leave your crafter alts or level-locked and AA-starved characters out in the cold. Double XP starts at 12:01 a.m. PDT on Friday, July 29th and runs through 11:59 p.m. PDT on Sunday, July 31st. It's also good across all the game servers including the free-to-play <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/eq2x"><em>EQII Extended</em></a> shard and French, German, and Japanese realms.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/07/27/double-xp-coming-to-everquest-ii-this-weekend/">Double XP coming to EverQuest II this weekend</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/07/27/double-xp-coming-to-everquest-ii-this-weekend/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/20001930/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/07/27/double-xp-coming-to-everquest-ii-this-weekend/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>aa</category><category>adventuring</category><category>alternate-advancement</category><category>bonus-xp</category><category>double-experience</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>eq2</category><category>eqii</category><category>everquest-2</category><category>everquest-ii</category><category>f2p</category><category>fantasy</category><category>free-to-play</category><category>grind</category><category>grinding</category><category>levels</category><category>norrath</category><category>soe</category><category>Sony-Online-Entertainment</category><category>tradeskills</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jef Reahard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mythos Europe attracts 250,000 players in two weeks, throws double XP weekend]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/05/13/mythos-europe-attracts-250-000-players-in-two-weeks-throws-doub/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/05/13/mythos-europe-attracts-250-000-players-in-two-weeks-throws-doub/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/05/13/mythos-europe-attracts-250-000-players-in-two-weeks-throws-doub/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/classes/" rel="tag">Classes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mythos/" rel="tag">Mythos</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/races/" rel="tag">Races</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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It's only been 15 days since <a href="http://www.mythos-europe.com/en/index.html"><em>Mythos Europe</em></a> launched, but the resurrected action MMO is already seeing impressive results. According to <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/frogster/">Frogster</a>, over 250,000 players have jumped into the game for some hectic hack-n-slash fun.<br />
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The company also provided some revealing statistics as it monitored its quarter-million playerbase. Apparently, the most popular class is the Bloodletter (40% of players), followed by the Pyromancer (32%) and Gadgeteer (28%). A full third of the playerbase chose the human race, with 28% going over to the Gremlins, 27% to the Satyrs, and 15% to the Cyclops. Finally, 66% of the characters created are male. So if you want to be a rarity, rolling a female Cyclops Gadgeteer is the way to go!<br />
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To celebrate this auspicious milestone, Frogster is rewarding its enthusiastic players with double XP for quests and monster kills this weekend. You can catch all of <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mythos/"><em>Mythos'</em></a> double XP action from now until Monday at 12:00 p.m. EDT.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/05/13/mythos-europe-attracts-250-000-players-in-two-weeks-throws-doub/">Mythos Europe attracts 250,000 players in two weeks, throws double XP weekend</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Fri, 13 May 2011 13:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/05/13/mythos-europe-attracts-250-000-players-in-two-weeks-throws-doub/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19939944/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/05/13/mythos-europe-attracts-250-000-players-in-two-weeks-throws-doub/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>analysis</category><category>bloodletter</category><category>breakdown</category><category>classes</category><category>cyclops</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>event</category><category>frogster</category><category>gadgeteer</category><category>gender</category><category>gremlin</category><category>hanbitsoft</category><category>human</category><category>in-game-event</category><category>mythos</category><category>mythos-eu</category><category>mythos-europe</category><category>playerbase</category><category>pyromancer</category><category>races</category><category>satyr</category><category>statistics</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Olivetti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 13:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fourscore and seven levels ago: SOE celebrates President's Day with special in-game bonuses]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/18/fourscore-and-seven-levels-ago-soe-celebrates-presidents-day-w/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/18/fourscore-and-seven-levels-ago-soe-celebrates-presidents-day-w/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/18/fourscore-and-seven-levels-ago-soe-celebrates-presidents-day-w/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/sci-fi/" rel="tag">Sci-fi</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest/" rel="tag">EverQuest</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest-ii/" rel="tag">EverQuest II</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/star-wars-galaxies/" rel="tag">Star Wars Galaxies</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/vanguard/" rel="tag">Vanguard</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-realms/" rel="tag">Free Realms</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/promotions/" rel="tag">Promotions</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/clone-wars-adventures/" rel="tag">Clone Wars Adventures</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.everquest2.com/news/read/current/3863"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2011/02/soe.jpg" /></a></div>
President's Day may not be the most exciting holiday in the States (or even relevant to those outside of it), but <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/soe/">SOE</a> has decided to do it justice <a href="http://www.everquest2.com/news/read/current/3863">with a President's Day Event</a> that's sweeping across many of its titles. As John F. Kennedy once said, "Ask not what you can do for your MMO, but what your MMO can do for you!"<br />
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<a href="http://www.everquest.com"><em>EverQuest</em></a> and <a href="http://www.everquest2.com/"><em>EverQuest II</em></a> players will both enjoy a double XP weekend starting today, February 18th, which will give a huge boost to levels gained during that period. <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest"><em>EQ's</em></a> <a href="http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/news_article.vm?id=52179">boost will last through the 21st</a> but is sadly not applicable to the new progression servers. In <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest-ii"><em>EQII</em></a>, this XP bonus affects adventure, trade, and AA, <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=495220">and it will last through the 22nd</a>. <br />
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<a href="http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com"><em>Star Wars Galaxies</em></a> is running its <a href="http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/players/news_archive.vm?id=69080&amp;month=current">Bonus Everything Weekend</a> from the 17th through the 22nd. This will greatly increase XP, tokens, Pet XP, Chronicles XP, Restuss Commendations, and fish caught, to name just a few of the bonuses. <a href="http://vgplayers.station.sony.com/newsArchive.vm?id=1210&amp;section=News"><em>Vanguard's</em></a> <a href="http://vgplayers.station.sony.com/newsArchive.vm?id=1210&amp;section=News">also joining the party</a>, as crafting, adventuring and diplomacy XP will all get a shot in the arm over the weekend.<br />
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SOE's also running a sale on existing and new items in several of its games, including <a href="http://www.freerealms.com/article/detail.action?articleId=2035"><em>Free Realms</em></a> and <a href="http://www.clonewarsadventures.com/"><em>Clone Wars Adventures</em></a>. This may just be the weekend to splurge on that vanity item you've been eyeing!<br />
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[Thanks <a href="http://www.massively.com/editor/karen-bryan">Karen</a>!]<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/18/fourscore-and-seven-levels-ago-soe-celebrates-presidents-day-w/">Fourscore and seven levels ago: SOE celebrates President's Day with special in-game bonuses</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/18/fourscore-and-seven-levels-ago-soe-celebrates-presidents-day-w/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19849508/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/18/fourscore-and-seven-levels-ago-soe-celebrates-presidents-day-w/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>Bonus-everything-weekend</category><category>Clone-wars-adventures</category><category>Double-xp-weekend</category><category>Eq</category><category>Eq2</category><category>Eqii</category><category>Everquest</category><category>Everquest-2</category><category>Everquest-ii</category><category>Ewok-love</category><category>Free-realms</category><category>Presidents-day</category><category>Presidents-day-event</category><category>Presidents-day-weekend</category><category>Soe</category><category>Sony-online-entertainment</category><category>Star-wars-galaxies</category><category>Swg</category><category>Vanguard</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Olivetti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EverQuest launches second progression server due to popular demand]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/16/everquest-launches-second-progression-server-due-to-popular-dema/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/16/everquest-launches-second-progression-server-due-to-popular-dema/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/16/everquest-launches-second-progression-server-due-to-popular-dema/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest/" rel="tag">EverQuest</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/launches/" rel="tag">Launches</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/promotions/" rel="tag">Promotions</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/news_article.vm?id=52180"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2011/02/dragon.jpg" /></a></div>
Everyone's talking about <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/15/everquest-devs-talk-progression-server-on-new-live-cast/">the new progression server that launched yesterday</a> in <a href="http://www.everquest.com/"><em>EverQuest</em></a> -- and it seems that so many people are trying to play on it that they've outstripped its capacity. Players have reported that <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/fippy-darkpaw/">Fippy Darkpaw</a>, a special server that's rolling out <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest/"><em>EQ's</em></a> expansions at a measured pace, has been crushed by the crowds trying to log in.<br />
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As a result, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/soe/">Sony Online Entertainment</a> decided <a href="http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/news_article.vm?id=52178">to create a second time-locked progression server</a> named after the game's infamous dragon Vulak'Aerr. According to the company, the server <a href="http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/news_article.vm?id=52180">went online today</a>. This should help relieve the stress on poor ol' Fippy. If you're curious about what a progression server entails, <a href="http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/news_article.vm?id=52155">SOE's set up a helpful FAQ</a> to clarify the details.<br />
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Players on <em>EverQuest's</em> other servers shouldn't feel left out of the celebrations, as they'll be enjoying a double XP weekend from February 18th through the 21st. It is important to note that this XP bonus will not apply to the new progression servers. During the same weekend, SOE is marking down a number of items in the Marketplace for a President's Day sale. You can read more on this special weekend <a href="http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/news_article.vm?id=52179">over at EverQuest Players</a>.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/16/everquest-launches-second-progression-server-due-to-popular-dema/">EverQuest launches second progression server due to popular demand</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/16/everquest-launches-second-progression-server-due-to-popular-dema/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19846431/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/02/16/everquest-launches-second-progression-server-due-to-popular-dema/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>eq</category><category>everquest</category><category>faq</category><category>fippy-darkpaw</category><category>marketplace</category><category>new-server</category><category>presidents-day</category><category>presidents-day-sale</category><category>progression-server</category><category>sale</category><category>soe</category><category>sony-online-entertainment</category><category>time-locked-progression-server</category><category>timelocked-progression-server</category><category>VulakAerr</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Olivetti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Producer's letter for City of Heroes hints at the future and promises big improvements]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/01/10/producers-letter-for-city-of-heroes-hints-at-the-future-and-pro/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/01/10/producers-letter-for-city-of-heroes-hints-at-the-future-and-pro/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/01/10/producers-letter-for-city-of-heroes-hints-at-the-future-and-pro/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/super-hero/" rel="tag">Super-hero</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/" rel="tag">City of Heroes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains/" rel="tag">City of Villains</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/previews/" rel="tag">Previews</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2011/01/coh-prodletter-epl-109.jpg" /></a></div>
It's the start of a new year, one that already promises to be an exciting one for fans of superheroic MMOs. <a href="http://www.dcuniverseonline.com"><em>DC Universe Online</em></a> is launching tomorrow, <a href="http://www.champions-online.com"><em>Champions Online</em></a> will be going free-to-play early this year, and <a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com"><em>City of Heroes</em></a> is not sitting down either. In what we hope might be a new monthly tradition, <a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/news_archive/get_in_the_know_with_monthly_p.html">fans have been treated to a brand-new producer's letter</a> that looks back at the year before and begins peering ahead to the next 12 months while also hinting at some of the more interesting new additions to the game.<br />
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Among the more interesting revelations are the promise of a double XP weekend this month, as well as more information regarding Praetoria's Hamidon when <a href="http://www.paxsite.com">PAX East</a> rolls around. The development team is also hoping to step up its communication this year, both from well-known members of the team and from some of the newer talent with less public exposure. While another expansion might not be in the works for <em><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/City-of-Heroes/">City of Heroes</a></em> in the near future, fans can take a look at the full letter on the site and rest easy -- it promises to be a very interesting year.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/01/10/producers-letter-for-city-of-heroes-hints-at-the-future-and-pro/">Producer's letter for City of Heroes hints at the future and promises big improvements</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/01/10/producers-letter-for-city-of-heroes-hints-at-the-future-and-pro/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19793653/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/01/10/producers-letter-for-city-of-heroes-hints-at-the-future-and-pro/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>city-of-heroes</category><category>city-of-villains</category><category>coh</category><category>cov</category><category>cox</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>in-game-event</category><category>ncsoft</category><category>news</category><category>paragon</category><category>paragon-studios</category><category>pax</category><category>pax-east</category><category>pax-east-2011</category><category>praetoria</category><category>producer</category><category>producer-letter</category><category>upcoming-events</category><category>upcoming-patches</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eliot Lefebvre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tattered Notebook: The dual nature of double experience]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/09/06/the-tattered-notebook-the-dual-nature-of-double-experience/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/09/06/the-tattered-notebook-the-dual-nature-of-double-experience/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/09/06/the-tattered-notebook-the-dual-nature-of-double-experience/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest-ii/" rel="tag">EverQuest II</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/opinion/" rel="tag">Opinion</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/the-tattered-notebook/" rel="tag">The Tattered Notebook</a></p><div style="text-align: center;">
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Once upon a time I used to write about a grindy game. That game was called <a href="http://www.aiononline.com"><em>Aion</em></a>. Eventually I dumped... er, gracefully handed off coverage of said game to the lovely and talented <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/bloggers/mj-guthrie">MJ</a>. It wasn't that it was a bad game; I actually played it for over six months and enjoyed most of my time there, so much so that I still log in every few weeks. The grind did me in though, and it was only on those occasions when the double XP fairy left her intoxicating present under my pillow that I was ever really happy in the world of Atreia.<br />
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Fast forward a few months to <a href="http://www.everquest2.com"><em>EverQuest II</em></a>, and the first double XP weekend on my watch has just concluded, leaving me bleary-eyed and wasted due to chasing those dings all Labor Day weekend long.<br />
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Once upon a time I wrote a <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/04/26/wings-over-atreia-in-praise-of-double-xp/#continued">column praising the virtues</a> of double XP in that other game, but now I'm here to tell you that in the world of Norrath, it's not all it's cracked up to be.<p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/09/06/the-tattered-notebook-the-dual-nature-of-double-experience/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>The Tattered Notebook: The dual nature of double experience</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/09/06/the-tattered-notebook-the-dual-nature-of-double-experience/">The Tattered Notebook: The dual nature of double experience</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/09/06/the-tattered-notebook-the-dual-nature-of-double-experience/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19616045/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/09/06/the-tattered-notebook-the-dual-nature-of-double-experience/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>accelerated-experience</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>EQ2</category><category>EQII</category><category>EverQuest-2</category><category>everquest-ii</category><category>featured</category><category>opinion</category><category>soe</category><category>Sony-Online-Entertainment</category><category>the-tattered-notebook</category><category>the-tattered-notebook-jef-reahard</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jef Reahard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aion's 1.9 patch to right XP wrongs]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/05/19/aions-1-9-patch-to-right-xp-wrongs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/05/19/aions-1-9-patch-to-right-xp-wrongs/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/05/19/aions-1-9-patch-to-right-xp-wrongs/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/aion/" rel="tag">Aion</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/patches/" rel="tag">Patches</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://na.aiononline.com/"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2010/05/aion-1274297623.jpg" alt="" /></a></div>
Everybody loves double-experience weekends, right? For a while now, they've been shoring up the XP gap in <a href="http://na.aiononline.com/"><em>Aion</em></a>, helping to push players over the hump of the long grind. While there's an upcoming double-experience weekend <a href="http://na.aiononline.com/board/notices/view?articleID=289&amp;page=">starting this Friday</a>, the <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/aion"><em>Aion</em></a> team has informed the community that these golden days of glory may be short-lived, with these special weekends becoming a rarer occurence in the future.<br />
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This seemingly-depressing announcement is actually because <em>Aion </em>is switching from "shoring up" to "fixing" XP issues. On June 2nd, patch 1.9 will hit <em>Aion's</em> servers, and with it a host of solutions to the XP gap. The <em>Aion </em>community team <a href="http://na.aiononline.com/board/notices/view?articleID=289&amp;page=">has laid out three ways</a> the XP will flow like rivers of honey. Wait, that would be slow and sticky. Let's go with <a href="http://brands.kraftfoods.com/jello/">Jell-O</a>. In any case, 1.9 will add more quests, increased XP for quests and a new <a href="http://powerwiki.na.aiononline.com/aion/Korean+PTS:+March+3rd+Test+Server+Update+1.9+Announcement#hd73370">"Energy of Salvation"</a> system that awards experience bonuses the longer you play.<br />
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So while double-experience weekends might become a scarce event in <em>Aion</em>, it's hopefully for the best overall. <a href="http://na.aiononline.com/board/notices/view?articleID=289&amp;page=">Read the letter</a> and let us know what you think!<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/05/19/aions-1-9-patch-to-right-xp-wrongs/">Aion's 1.9 patch to right XP wrongs</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 19 May 2010 19:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://na.aiononline.com/board/notices/view?articleID=289&amp;page=>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/05/19/aions-1-9-patch-to-right-xp-wrongs/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19483920/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/05/19/aions-1-9-patch-to-right-xp-wrongs/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>aion</category><category>aion-patch-1.9</category><category>double-exp-weekend</category><category>double-experience</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>energy-of-salvation</category><category>jell-o</category><category>ncsoft</category><category>patch-1.9</category><category>rivers-of-honey</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin Olivetti]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 19:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[MAG announces double XP weekend and Fast Attack pack]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/mag-announces-double-xp-weekend-and-fast-attack-pack/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/mag-announces-double-xp-weekend-and-fast-attack-pack/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/mag-announces-double-xp-weekend-and-fast-attack-pack/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mmofps/" rel="tag">MMOFPS</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mag/" rel="tag">MAG</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mag.com/mag.html"><img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2010/04/mag-rb-429.jpg" /></a></div>
<a href="http://www.mag.com/mag.html"><em>MAG</em></a> is offering players some new downloadable content that is awesome in and of itself, and even better because it's free. The newest DLC is the <a href="http://blog.mag.com/blog/2010/04/mag-free-dlc-fast-attack-pack-on-april-29/">Fast Attack Pack</a> -- three new sniper rifles and Improved Light Armor. Yes, it is 100%, honest to goodness free and available in the Playstation Store now along with the other PSN updates, so be sure to add it to your account.<br />
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That's not the only gift for <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mag"><em>MAG</em></a> players this weekend, however. Players can put their new rifles and armor through their paces and earn extra XP in the bargain, thanks to the <a href="http://blog.mag.com/blog/2010/04/mag-double-xp-weekend-starts-april-29/">double XP weekend</a>. The event lasts until 11:59 PM Pacific time on Sunday, May 2nd, and if you're a veteran who already has an XP boost: yes, the bonus stacks. It's important to note that you need to complete every game to enjoy the bonus XP, because it's not applied until the end of a match.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/mag-announces-double-xp-weekend-and-fast-attack-pack/">MAG announces double XP weekend and Fast Attack pack</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/mag-announces-double-xp-weekend-and-fast-attack-pack/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19459445/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/04/30/mag-announces-double-xp-weekend-and-fast-attack-pack/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>DLC</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>downloadable-content</category><category>MAG</category><category>Playstation3</category><category>PSN</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rubi Bayer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mild-Mannered Reporter: Return of community news]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/24/a-mild-mannered-reporter-return-of-community-news/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/24/a-mild-mannered-reporter-return-of-community-news/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/24/a-mild-mannered-reporter-return-of-community-news/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/super-hero/" rel="tag">Super-hero</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/" rel="tag">City of Heroes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains/" rel="tag">City of Villains</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag">Culture</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/expansions/" rel="tag">Expansions</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/game-mechanics/" rel="tag">Game mechanics</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/a-mild-mannered-reporter/" rel="tag">A Mild-Mannered Reporter</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fienemannroad.wordpress.com/"><img hspace="4" border="1" align="top" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2010/03/coh-mmr-community-epl-321-1269204063.jpg" /></a></div>
There's quite a bit to crow about in the <a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com"><em>City of Heroes</em></a> community of late. Since the last time we've taken a look at the community, we've had a huge amount of new information about the next expansion, a <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/10/a-mild-mannered-reporter-tripping-the-xp-fantastic/">double XP weekend</a>, and the usual regimen of alien invasions and parallel universes. (July's release of <a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com/goingrogue"><em>Going Rogue</em></a> will greatly increase the parallel universe portion.) And if you live on the east coast, you also have the opportunity to meet the <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/Paragon-Studios/">Paragon Studios</a> crew without traveling to the other side of the country!<br />
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Have I mentioned that I live on the east coast?<br />
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So next week, expect a very weary me to be dishing out a whole bunch of news from <a href="http://www.paxsite.com/paxeast/index.php">PAX East</a>, as I'm going to be following the crew around like a forlorn puppy. But that's then and this is now. Today, we're going to be looking at some of the interesting community threads that have popped up over the last month, from the serious to the amusing.<p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/24/a-mild-mannered-reporter-return-of-community-news/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>A Mild-Mannered Reporter: Return of community news</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/24/a-mild-mannered-reporter-return-of-community-news/">A Mild-Mannered Reporter: Return of community news</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/24/a-mild-mannered-reporter-return-of-community-news/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19399739/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/24/a-mild-mannered-reporter-return-of-community-news/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>characters</category><category>city-of-heroes</category><category>city-of-heroes-going-rogue</category><category>city-of-villains</category><category>coh</category><category>concepts</category><category>cov</category><category>cox</category><category>development</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>economy</category><category>featured</category><category>going-rogue</category><category>melissa-bianco</category><category>mission-architect</category><category>morality</category><category>paragon</category><category>paragon-coh</category><category>paragon-studios</category><category>pax-east-2010</category><category>player-generated-content</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eliot Lefebvre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Mild-Mannered Reporter: Tripping the XP fantastic]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/10/a-mild-mannered-reporter-tripping-the-xp-fantastic/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/10/a-mild-mannered-reporter-tripping-the-xp-fantastic/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/10/a-mild-mannered-reporter-tripping-the-xp-fantastic/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/super-hero/" rel="tag">Super-hero</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/" rel="tag">City of Heroes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains/" rel="tag">City of Villains</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/game-mechanics/" rel="tag">Game mechanics</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/opinion/" rel="tag">Opinion</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/a-mild-mannered-reporter/" rel="tag">A Mild-Mannered Reporter</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fienemannroad.wordpress.com/"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2010/03/coh-mmr-doublemint-epl-305-1267875984.jpg" /></a></div>
<a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com"><em>City of Heroes</em></a> has the best pseudo-seasonal event anywhere: the double XP weekend. Forget holidays that you're usually sick to death of in which you can get some arbitrary gimmick powers, it's cold hard character boosting that really gets everyone excited. And if those of us that play the game weren't swimming with enough alts, we also had our chance to scream up with dual pistols. In summary, it was poised to be the best Christmas ever, except for the minor detail of not being Christmas. <br />
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Going into the weekend on Friday. I had three major priorities. I wanted to level one of my two "mains" which had been suffering from some neglect, I wanted to bring a villain to 20 or as close as I could manage, and I wanted someone with paired handguns. A tall order, even for a doubled-up weekend, but I live for challenges. Or I'm a glutton for punishment, one or the other. Read on past the break for the path of events and some observations about the leveling game, and perhaps even a bit of enlightenment.<p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/10/a-mild-mannered-reporter-tripping-the-xp-fantastic/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>A Mild-Mannered Reporter: Tripping the XP fantastic</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/10/a-mild-mannered-reporter-tripping-the-xp-fantastic/">A Mild-Mannered Reporter: Tripping the XP fantastic</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/10/a-mild-mannered-reporter-tripping-the-xp-fantastic/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19382367/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/10/a-mild-mannered-reporter-tripping-the-xp-fantastic/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>anecdotes</category><category>city-of-heroes</category><category>city-of-villains</category><category>coh</category><category>cov</category><category>cox</category><category>double-experience</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>dual-pistols</category><category>featured</category><category>low-levels</category><category>paragon</category><category>paragon-city</category><category>paragon-coh</category><category>paragon-studioes</category><category>rogue-isles</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eliot Lefebvre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of Heroes extends free transfers yet again]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/01/city-of-heroes-extends-free-transfers-yet-again/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/01/city-of-heroes-extends-free-transfers-yet-again/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/01/city-of-heroes-extends-free-transfers-yet-again/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/super-hero/" rel="tag">Super-hero</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/" rel="tag">City of Heroes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains/" rel="tag">City of Villains</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="top" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2010/02/coh-freetransfers-epl-228.jpg" alt="" /></a></div>
<a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com"><em>City of Heroes</em></a> players have been heavily anticipating the upcoming <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/02/10/city-of-heroes-preparing-for-double-xp-and-reactivation-weekend/">double experience weekend</a> for understandable reasons -- there's no finer chance to get a character leveled, or take a character who hasn't been played in a while and bring them up to new heights. As the developers have been wont to do of late, they decided to sweeten the deal a fair bit -- specifically, they've decided to add in <a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/news_archive/free_character_server_transfer_1.html">a healthy dose of moving your character wherever the heck you want</a>.<br />
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That's right -- after the last extension, the team decided to further lengthen the period allowed for free server transfers. February 28th was originally slated to be the final day, but with the weekend so close, they've pushed it ahead another week, ending either on Sunday or Monday. (The <a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/news_archive/free_character_server_transfer_1.html">official announcement</a> says "Sunday, March 8th." This is doubtlessly a typo, as the calendar forbids such an interaction from taking place.)<br />
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An extended transfer period means that everyone you play should be well-positioned for the double experience weekend, as well as <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/02/24/new-issue-17-details-for-city-of-heroes/">the upcoming changes to the game</a>. So get your smackdown on in <em><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/City-of-Heroes/">City of Heroes</a></em> wherever you want, and ramp up for the big changes just over the horizon.<br />
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[ Thanks to Skystreak for the tip! ]<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/01/city-of-heroes-extends-free-transfers-yet-again/">City of Heroes extends free transfers yet again</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/news_archive/free_character_server_transfer_1.html>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/01/city-of-heroes-extends-free-transfers-yet-again/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19376724/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/03/01/city-of-heroes-extends-free-transfers-yet-again/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>city-of-heroes</category><category>city-of-villains</category><category>coh</category><category>coh-issue-17</category><category>cov</category><category>cox</category><category>double-experience-weekend</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>free-server-transfers</category><category>issue-17</category><category>paragon</category><category>paragon-coh</category><category>paragon-studioes</category><category>server-transfers</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eliot Lefebvre]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of Heroes preparing for double XP and reactivation weekend]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/02/10/city-of-heroes-preparing-for-double-xp-and-reactivation-weekend/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/02/10/city-of-heroes-preparing-for-double-xp-and-reactivation-weekend/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/02/10/city-of-heroes-preparing-for-double-xp-and-reactivation-weekend/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/super-hero/" rel="tag">Super-hero</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/" rel="tag">City of Heroes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/news_archive/double_xp_and_re-activation_we.html"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2010/02/coh-rb-210.jpg" /></a></div>
If you're a <a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com/en.html"><em>City of Heroes</em></a> player who is thinking of rolling a new character, or even if you have an alt that you're leveling up, you're going to be very happy with what the game has on the way. <br />
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<a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/news_archive/double_xp_and_re-activation_we.html">Beginning March 4th</a>, players will receive double XP, Influence, and Infamy for a three day stretch. It's an even better deal if you've pre-purchased <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/going-rogue"><em>Going Rogue</em></a>, you'll be leveling twice as fast and wielding the Dual Pistols power set.<br />
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What about those <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes"><em>City of Heroes</em></a> players who have let their subscriptions expire, and are looking at the offer and thinking "well, too bad for me"? Nope, you're invited too. The double XP weekend is also Account Reactivation weekend, so you will be able to reactivate your account free of charge.<br />
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All of the information can be found <a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/news_archive/double_xp_and_re-activation_we.html">here</a>. So those of you with inactive accounts, download the client to be ready for the weekend. The rest of you, get ready to either dust off the alts or start planning a costume for a brand new character!<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/02/10/city-of-heroes-preparing-for-double-xp-and-reactivation-weekend/">City of Heroes preparing for double XP and reactivation weekend</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/02/10/city-of-heroes-preparing-for-double-xp-and-reactivation-weekend/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19352665/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/02/10/city-of-heroes-preparing-for-double-xp-and-reactivation-weekend/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>account-reactivation-weekend</category><category>city-of-heroes</category><category>COH</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>ncsoft</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rubi Bayer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Double XP in Aion this weekend]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/01/20/double-xp-in-aion-this-weekend/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/01/20/double-xp-in-aion-this-weekend/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/01/20/double-xp-in-aion-this-weekend/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/aion/" rel="tag">Aion</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/aion/"><img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2010/01/aionheader82438img232.jpg" /></a></div>
Since we're aware many of you get your MMO time in on the weekends, double XP events are always something we're keen to post about in a timely manner. This is especially true if you're stuck in a level spread that's seemingly impossible to grind past without developing a desire to redistribute objects on your desk in a forceful manner. Double XP weekends can be a real life saver for the jaded MMO gamer.<br />
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That's why we're here to tell you that <a href="http://na.aiononline.com"><em>Aion</em></a> is having one starting on Friday, January 22nd -- although make sure to <a href="http://na.aiononline.com/board/notices/view?articleID=195&amp;page=">take a gander at the official post</a>, as it contains the starting time for each server timezone. The weekend ends at 8am (server time) the following Monday, so check which timezone your character's server is set to and plan accordingly.<br />
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[Thanks, <a href="http://power-source.org/">AterNox</a>!]<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/01/20/double-xp-in-aion-this-weekend/">Double XP in Aion this weekend</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://na.aiononline.com/board/notices/view?articleID=195&amp;page=>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/01/20/double-xp-in-aion-this-weekend/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19322806/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2010/01/20/double-xp-in-aion-this-weekend/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>aion</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>grind</category><category>january</category><category>leveling</category><category>ncsoft</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kyle Horner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[EverQuest offers up double experience for the Labor Day weekend]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/09/04/everquest-offers-up-double-experience-for-the-labor-day-weekend/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/09/04/everquest-offers-up-double-experience-for-the-labor-day-weekend/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/09/04/everquest-offers-up-double-experience-for-the-labor-day-weekend/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/fantasy/" rel="tag">Fantasy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/everquest/" rel="tag">EverQuest</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/leveling/" rel="tag">Leveling</a></p><div align="center"><a href="http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/news_article.vm?id=51608"><img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2009/09/eqlabordaydoublexp_580px.jpg"  alt="" /></a><br /></div>
So you've got a long weekend ahead of you (if you're from the USA) and you're wondering how to spend your time. SOE wants to help make up your mind for you. They've put forward a hefty incentive for you to stop by <em><a href="http://everquest.station.sony.com/">EverQuest</a>'s</em> Norrath at some point during the weekend, offering to make it doubly rewarding to do so. That's right -- <a href="http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/news_article.vm?id=51608">the rate of experience will be doubled</a> starting from 10:00AM PDT today, allowing players to speed their characters through the levels, or perhaps just rack up eleventy-million AA points. For the best results, make sure to do your hunting in one of the current Hot Zones that show up on the Welcome Screen; <a href="http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/posts/list.m?start=0&amp;topic_id=155029#2275655">we've been assured</a> that the bonuses do stack.<br /><br />Very generously, the bonus will continue to be applied until 10:00AM PDT on Tuesday. If you pull an all-nighter to catch the tail-end of it and go into work looking like a zombie, at least you'll be able to brag about all the levels you gained.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/09/04/everquest-offers-up-double-experience-for-the-labor-day-weekend/">EverQuest offers up double experience for the Labor Day weekend</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/news_article.vm?id=51608>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/09/04/everquest-offers-up-double-experience-for-the-labor-day-weekend/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19150934/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/09/04/everquest-offers-up-double-experience-for-the-labor-day-weekend/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>eq</category><category>everquest</category><category>experience-bonus</category><category>hot-zones</category><category>labor-day</category><category>labor-day-weekend</category><category>soe</category><category>sony-online-entertainment</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[William Dobson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making/Money: Double the XP, Double the Funds]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/08/10/making-money-double-the-xp-double-the-funds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/08/10/making-money-double-the-xp-double-the-funds/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/08/10/making-money-double-the-xp-double-the-funds/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/" rel="tag">City of Heroes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains/" rel="tag">City of Villains</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/economy/" rel="tag">Economy</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/crafting/" rel="tag">Crafting</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/making-money-1/" rel="tag">Making/Money</a></p><p><a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/42/94949634_83f56edc8c.jpg?v=0"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/07/coinstacks.jpg" /></a>A few of weeks ago, there was another double XP weekend in <a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com"><em>City of Heroes</em></a> and <a href="http://www.cityofvillains.com/"><em>City of Villains</em></a>. In fact, not only was it double experience from each "arrest," but it also provided twice the Influence (or Infamy for you villainous folks out there) such that you got double of most everything you might want in the game. And so it was that, after stocking up on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_Coke">caffeinated beverages</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Pockets">microwaveable snacks</a>, we in my house hunkered down in front of our computers for a three day marathon of leveling. <br /></p>
<p>I must say that, while I do flit about from game to game, there is something about the additional reward incentive that draws me in for these events. Yet, in all the bustle of leveling, I got to thinking about the economic dynamic in these games and the ways in which they are different from our now-classic MMORPG systems.<br /></p><p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/08/10/making-money-double-the-xp-double-the-funds/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Making/Money: Double the XP, Double the Funds</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/08/10/making-money-double-the-xp-double-the-funds/">Making/Money: Double the XP, Double the Funds</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/08/10/making-money-double-the-xp-double-the-funds/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1266498/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/08/10/making-money-double-the-xp-double-the-funds/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>city-of-heroes</category><category>city-of-villains</category><category>crafted-items</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>enhancement</category><category>featured</category><category>infamy</category><category>influence</category><category>invention</category><category>invention-origin</category><category>joystiqfeatures</category><category>salvage</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexis Kassan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Double XP coming soon to City of Heroes]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/double-xp-coming-soon-to-city-of-heroes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/double-xp-coming-soon-to-city-of-heroes/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/double-xp-coming-soon-to-city-of-heroes/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/super-hero/" rel="tag">Super-hero</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/" rel="tag">City of Heroes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains/" rel="tag">City of Villains</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/leveling/" rel="tag">Leveling</a></p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/cox"><img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/07/coxdoublexp.jpg" /></a>From <font class="post">Friday July 18th through to Sunday July 20th this year, <a href="http://www.coh.com"><em>CoX</em></a> players will be able to enjoy double XP rewards. Double XP is always a dingtastic time in <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/cox"><em>City of Heroes</em></a>, and since <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/07/positron-discusses-xp-curve-smoothing-in-cox/">the changes earlier this year that smoothed the XP curve out</a>, characters are leveling faster than ever before. It's the ideal time to level up an alt or five, given that there are now so many character slots available to put alts in.<br /><br />Although it's not always obvious from the publicity, it's not just XP that doubles on events like this. Influence earned is doubled, too, meaning it's the ideal time to stockpile some earnings for the future, or grab some pricier items from the Consignment House. Prestige is also doubled up, so supergroups can afford larger base plots or more gear. Yes, we know there's not much happening with bases right now,<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/06/05/cox-issue-13-all-your-base-are-belong-to-us/"> but that may well be changing in the future!</a></font><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/double-xp-coming-soon-to-city-of-heroes/">Double XP coming soon to City of Heroes</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=11274573&amp;an=0&amp;page=0#Post11274573>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/double-xp-coming-soon-to-city-of-heroes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1249923/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/07/09/double-xp-coming-soon-to-city-of-heroes/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>city-of-heroes</category><category>city-of-villains</category><category>coh</category><category>cov</category><category>cox</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>leveling</category><category>ncsoft</category><category>xp</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Adrian Bott]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[PotCO does double XP weekend]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/04/10/potco-does-double-xp-weekend/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/04/10/potco-does-double-xp-weekend/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/04/10/potco-does-double-xp-weekend/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/historical/" rel="tag">Historical</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/leveling/" rel="tag">Leveling</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/pirates-of-the-caribbean-online/" rel="tag">Pirates of the Caribbean Online</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a></p><div align="center"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/photos/pirates-of-the-caribbean-online-3/614515/"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/04/potcodoublexp41008.jpg" /></a><br /></div>
In the wake of the <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/04/09/virtual-magic-kingdom-comes-to-an-end/">sad news about the Virtual Magic Kingdom</a>... some yaaarfuly good news! Virtual pirates can double their piratey pleasure in <a href="http://apps.pirates.go.com/pirates/v3/welcome#/news/currentnews.html"><em>Pirates of the Caribbean Online</em></a> this weekend!<br /><br /><a href="http://disney.go.com/index">Disney Online</a> is giving <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/pirates-of-the-caribbean-online/"><em>Pirates of the Caribbean Online</em></a> players the chance to earn double experience points and level up their pirate avatars twice as fast during two in-game events. But it's not all weekend so pay attention matey!<br /><br />Both Basic (free-to-play) and Unlimited Access (pay-to-play) players will be able to earn double reputation points in both land and ship battles this Saturday, April 12th... but only between the hours of 12:00 and 3:00 pm (Pacific Time). Pirating for Unlimited Access members will commence again on Sunday, April 13 during the exact same time frame (12:00 - 3:00 pm Pacific Time).<br /><br />Bonus bounty: later this month <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/disney-online/">Disney Online</a> will be be announcing details about new content that will include a bevy of new weapons, quests, and more... so stay tuned!<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/04/10/potco-does-double-xp-weekend/">PotCO does double XP weekend</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/04/10/potco-does-double-xp-weekend/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1163791/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/04/10/potco-does-double-xp-weekend/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>disney</category><category>disney-online</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>pirates-of-the-carib...</category><category>potco</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eli Shayotovich]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CoX Server Cap reminder]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/09/cox-server-cap-reminder/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/09/cox-server-cap-reminder/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/09/cox-server-cap-reminder/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/" rel="tag">City of Heroes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains/" rel="tag">City of Villains</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a></p><a href="http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=10179647"><img alt="" hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/02/server.jpg" align="right" vspace="4" border="1" /></a>As Lighthouse <a href="http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=10166333&amp;an=0&amp;page=0#Post10166333">announced on 6 February</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/ncsoft">NCsoft</a> has made significant investment in the <em><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/cox">CoX </a></em>servers to assist with the current concerns for <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/04/city-of-heroes-double-xp-returns-this-weekend/">Double XP weekend</a> as well as for future events, but there's still the possibility that servers will reach loads that risk performance degradation. At such times, they may have to lock players out of specific servers until the load lessens. While this is an unpopular decision with players who want to use specific servers, NCsoft feels that it's a necessary step to take in order to ensure game play for all players on the server is not severely negatively impacted.<br /><br />Based on this concern, they have instituted a <a href="http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=10179647">server cap</a>, and when servers that have reached their maximum allowable capacity they will show as grayed out with a status of Full. Unfortunately, the server load seems to be hitting the West Coast servers particularly hard, as Freedom and Virtue were bouncing between yellow and red most of Friday afternoon and well into the night. Then again, as Lighthouse noted, "The Freedom server is accommodating more players than it, or any other City of Heroes server has, ever has before in recent history. In reviewing the last several years of log files I can't find where we've even been within 30% of the new number." That being said, if you have any issues with, concerns over, or questions about the server cap, please don't hesitate to <a href="http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=10179647">visit the official forums</a>.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/09/cox-server-cap-reminder/">CoX Server Cap reminder</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/09/cox-server-cap-reminder/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1110722/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/09/cox-server-cap-reminder/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>City-of-Heroes</category><category>City-of-Villains</category><category>CoH</category><category>CoV</category><category>CoX</category><category>Double-XP-Weekend</category><category>Server-Cap</category><category>Server-Lock</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Northwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of Heroes double XP to return this weekend]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/04/city-of-heroes-double-xp-returns-this-weekend/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/04/city-of-heroes-double-xp-returns-this-weekend/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/04/city-of-heroes-double-xp-returns-this-weekend/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/super-hero/" rel="tag">Super-hero</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/" rel="tag">City of Heroes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains/" rel="tag">City of Villains</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a></p><div align="center"><a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/02/coh_horizontal.jpg" alt="" /></a></div>
If you're lacking plans for the coming weekend and have an active copy of <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes"><em>City of Heroes</em></a> lying around, don't forget to login sometime this weekend and play. Because this weekend there's going to be plenty of other players doing the same thing for the double XP weekend. Starting on February 8th players will receive doubled experience, prestige, influence and infamy. All the double XP goodness ends the night of February 10th -- or this coming Sunday if you're bad with calendars like us.<br /><br />Those of us that play <em>CoX</em> here at Massively will definitely be online at least one day leveling up in double-time fashion. We're just glad that all servers have gone through <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/22/city-of-heroes-server-improvement-details/">upgrades</a> before this weekend. Since memories of the last time a double XP weekend hit were full of good times marred with lag and disconnects.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/04/city-of-heroes-double-xp-returns-this-weekend/">City of Heroes double XP to return this weekend</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://coh.com/news/archives/2008/01/fight_crime_or.html>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/04/city-of-heroes-double-xp-returns-this-weekend/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1106340/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/04/city-of-heroes-double-xp-returns-this-weekend/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>city-of-heroes</category><category>city-of-villains</category><category>coh</category><category>cov</category><category>cox</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>ncsoft</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kyle Horner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CoX's Double XP weekend announced]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/coxs-double-xp-weekend-announced/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/coxs-double-xp-weekend-announced/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/coxs-double-xp-weekend-announced/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains/" rel="tag">City of Villains</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/chronicles-of-spellborn/" rel="tag">Chronicles of Spellborn</a></p><p><a href="http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=10075054&amp;Main=10075054#Post10075054"><img  hspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/01/double-xp.jpg" align="right" vspace="4" border="1" alt="" /></a>You've been waiting, hungering for it, and now it's here. <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/ncsoft">NCsoft </a>announced today that the next <em><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/cox">CoX</a></em> Double XP weekend will start immediately after the weekly maintenance on Friday, 8 February, and will end on Sunday, 10 February. For those of you who've never experienced a <a href="http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=10075054&amp;Main=10075054#Post10075054">Double XP weekend</a>, it's not just the XP that gets doubled, it's everything. During the course of the weekend, you'll wind up with twice as much XP, prestige, and influence/infamy. Don't worry, though: debt penalties aren't doubled, only the sweet taste of success. So plan on pressing your capes and brushing the dust off your winged sandals, the <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains">Rogue Isles</a> and <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes">Paragon City</a> are in for some serious server hits in February. As always, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to bring them up in the <a href="http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=10075061&amp;page=0&amp;vc=#Post10075061">official forums</a>.</p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/coxs-double-xp-weekend-announced/">CoX's Double XP weekend announced</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/coxs-double-xp-weekend-announced/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1095927/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/24/coxs-double-xp-weekend-announced/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>City-of-Heroes</category><category>City-of-Villains</category><category>CoH</category><category>CoV</category><category>CoX</category><category>Double-XP-Weekend</category><category>NCsoft</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Northwood]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of Heroes server improvement details]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/22/city-of-heroes-server-improvement-details/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/22/city-of-heroes-server-improvement-details/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/22/city-of-heroes-server-improvement-details/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/super-hero/" rel="tag">Super-hero</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/" rel="tag">City of Heroes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains/" rel="tag">City of Villains</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/server-downtime/" rel="tag">Server downtime</a></p><div align="center"><a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/01/43_4.jpg" /></a><br /></div>
The <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes"><em>City of Heroes</em></a> team announced in their 2008 <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/12/city-of-heroes-state-of-the-game-08/">"State of the Game"</a> post that there we some server upgrades coming soon in preparation of double experience weekend and Valentine's Day events. Considering that the end of January is nearly a week away, you may be wondering just exactly when all these upgrades are going to happen. The answer is soon, very soon. Beginning today (on January 22nd) the server upgrades start. Keep in mind that with each server getting an overhaul it's no normal weekly maintenance. <br /><br />You can expect server downtime to be spread out over different servers for the next two days as well. Champion, Guardian, Justice, Protector and Virtue (also, the training server) are all going down for the first round of upgrades today. Then, tomorrow all servers not upgraded today go down as well. Thankfully, there's a <a href="http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=10055201">handy</a> forum post concerning all downtimes this week. Expect some more upgrade downtime next week as well, according to the <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/ncsoft-norcal">NCsoft Norcal</a> developer post.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/22/city-of-heroes-server-improvement-details/">City of Heroes server improvement details</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=10055201>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/22/city-of-heroes-server-improvement-details/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1092871/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/22/city-of-heroes-server-improvement-details/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>coh</category><category>cov</category><category>double-xp</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>improvements</category><category>ncsoft</category><category>ncsoft-norcal</category><category>server-upgrades</category><category>valentines-day</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kyle Horner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[City of Heroes state of the game '08]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/12/city-of-heroes-state-of-the-game-08/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/12/city-of-heroes-state-of-the-game-08/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/12/city-of-heroes-state-of-the-game-08/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/super-hero/" rel="tag">Super-hero</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/" rel="tag">City of Heroes</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-villains/" rel="tag">City of Villains</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/patches/" rel="tag">Patches</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a></p><div align="center"><a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/01/43_19.jpg" /></a><br /></div>
The team behind <em><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/city-of-heroes/">City of Heroes</a></em> have put up their 2008 state of the game announcement. It consists of all sorts of gooey fun bits, so <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2007/12/31/be-a-hero-put-on-the-cape/">listen</a> on in for all of the scoop.<br /><br />The City Vault is on its way to the <a href="http://coh.com/">official website</a> and for those of you not in the know it will showcase every Hero and Villain throughout Paragon City and the Rogue Isles. It's essentially a search tool that lets you find your friends (or enemies) and view them. This includes images, different costumes, powers, badges, their friends, stats by zone and who knows what else. Thankfully players will be able to manage what information can be seen, so don't worry about privacy.<br /><br />Another double XP weekend is on its way sometime in February. Thankfully, before this happens there will be a server upgrade that should lessen the lag over the weekend. Anyone who's played through a double XP weekend knows lag can be a huge issue. Also, we can expect another Valentine's Day event in February as well. Apparently there are a few new twists coming and a special surprise. Your guess is as good as ours on this one.<br /><br />Beyond <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/08/coh-fanzine-looking-for-submissions/">events</a> and all the commotion that comes with them, there are some pretty cool things the team mentions. They say Issue 12 is on its way, but give no details as to what we'll get from it. <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/08/coh-fanzine-looking-for-submissions/">The Fanzine</a> is looking for more submissions, so if you're a writer or an artist go <a href="http://www.cityofheroes.com/community/fansubmission_guidelines.html">check it out</a>. The last two thing that really have us excited are announcements regarding actual stats and smoothing out the XP curve. <br /><br />A new functionality will be added that will allow players to see the "real" numbers behind all characters and powers. The smoothing of the XP curve is largely about tweaking the amount of experience characters gain from enemies in an effort to smooth out the levels where many character seem to be getting stuck. Overall, it sounds like a lot of good things are on their way for the <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2007/12/20/for-cox-brightening-the-holidays-is-childs-play/"><em>City of Heroes</em></a> <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2007/12/28/cinemassively-time-to-start/">community</a>, we'll keep our ears out for any more information on upcoming changes.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/12/city-of-heroes-state-of-the-game-08/">City of Heroes state of the game '08</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/12/city-of-heroes-state-of-the-game-08/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1085186/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/01/12/city-of-heroes-state-of-the-game-08/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>city-of-heroes</category><category>city-of-villains</category><category>coh</category><category>community</category><category>cox</category><category>double-xp-weekend</category><category>issue-12</category><category>ncsoft</category><category>the-city-vault</category><category>valentine's-day</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kyle Horner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
