ArcheAge

The ArcheAge site has an important announcement for its player base: Server merges, or Evolution, are coming. Understanding that many players may be concerned over the loss of land that an Evolution brings, the team has published an FAQ to outline each player's options and what servers will be affected. Legacy servers are not affected by the Evolution.

Our friends at MMOCulture have a new video that features a look at the upcoming ArcheAge (KR) naval arena taking place in Trapaces. Four teams of five level 30+ players battle one another in any one of four ships. Each ship has strong and weak points so choosing will be challenging.

ArcheAge Community Manager Seraphina "Celestrata" Brennan has been promoted to the game's Associate Producer position. She indicated that, while she's moving on more to the production side of the game, she will still be around the forums and on Reddit from time to time. Taking over the Community Manager position is Joe "Muzzy" Brogno who moved over from Atlas Reactor earlier this year.

MMORPG.com has been given keys to give players the Armored Wavewyrm Costume! Experience ArcheAge like never before thanks to ArcheAge 3.5: Erenor Eternal! New coastal Auroria zones, new crafted gear tier, reduced crafting randomness, customizable Ancestral skills, streamlined trade routes, and more await!

Erenor Eternal is a huge content expansion coming to ArcheAge later today. It features overhauled systems as well as new locations for players to explore. I had the chance to chat with Senior Producer Merv Lee Kwai about Erenor Eternal and what it means to players and to the game itself.

The ArcheAge site has been updated with a new blog post that lays out the details about forthcoming changes to crafting coming with the Erenor Eternal expansion. According to the blog, many of the changes coming with the expansion have come directly as a result of player and community feedback.

With the ArcheAge expansion ready to launch on June 7th, the team is unleashing a series of events to "double and triple everything your heart desires". The first event is already underway and will run through the Memorial Day weekend featuring Double Experience & Honor Points.

Trion Worlds and XLGames have announced that the next ArcheAge expansion, Erenor Eternal, will be launching on June 7th. New content includes Ancestral Skills, a new way for max-level characters to progress their characters. In addition, the new open world battlegrounds of Whalesong Harbor and Aegis Island zones are being added with tons of new content to explore.

ArcheAge Patrons are being invited to participate in a new event that runs from today through April 13th. Patron status is achieved either through purchasing a Patron subscription or using in-game APEX. Patrons can log in each day to be entered into a contest for a share of 100,000 Labor Points. Each day earns another chance at the top prize of 50,000, or secondary prizes of 20,000 or 10,000 Labor Points.

Researchers have used the culmination of the ArcheAge beta test as a predictor of a real world equivalent to a catastrophic end time scenario. The study analyzed over 270 million records of AA player behavior in something called the mapping principle. The team felt that the end of a closed beta test is a "close approximation of an end times scenario...[that can] shed light on human behavior in general under such conditions".

MMORPG.com has been given free gift codes for ArcheAge that will give players a free in game costume: the Pure Sky Dynasty Robe! Get your gift key now!

The ArcheAge forum has the latest update notes that contain the fun...or curious...or interesting information about how to upgrade your underwear. Other features...if you can get past the skivvies thing ... include a new world boss and a pair of new events, ArcheDelivery and Guild Unity.

The ArcheAge holiday season is set to kick off on Wednesday, December 21st and will run through Tuesday, January 10th. During the festival, players can take off on a series of festival quests to search out a winter ghost, praying to the maiden and building snowmen in Mistmarrow.

ArcheAge’s 3.0 Update, Revelation, had a rocky start in the NA region. EU seemed largely problem-free, but the NA servers proved a bit of a bear to get online and thus the actual launch of Revelation didn’t happen until Sunday AM. We’ve spent the past couple days playing a new Dwarf, and have some thoughts on 3.0 and the current state of AA.

The Trion Worlds team has announced that due to issues deploying the ArcheAge expansion, Revelation, North American servers are offline and will hopefully be back up by 12 pm Pacific / 3 pm Eastern if all goes according to plan. The EU release of Revelation seems to have been successfully deployed.