The EU's KIDS Act Would Ban Daily Streaks. The draft also bars strangers from messaging minors and needs their consent for group invites, rules Riot's MMO would launch under.
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@runegrove.bsky.socialThe EU's KIDS Act Would Ban Daily Streaks. The draft also bars strangers from messaging minors and needs their consent for group invites, rules Riot's MMO would launch under.
@runegrove.bsky.socialRiot MMO Engineer Calls Cancelled Fake News. Orlando Salvatore shot down a guild-name joke, told a fan 'One day I hope!' and thanked Blizzard's Classic lead for the beta that emptied his street.
@runegrove.bsky.socialAion 2 Hit 73,761 Players at Once on Steam. That was a two-day stress test on Steam alone, and NC closed it by handing paying members their own priority queue for launch.
@runegrove.bsky.socialRiot Punished 296,416 Accounts for Boosting. Vanguard now judges who was really at the keyboard, and Riot says MFA and TPM chip requirements are coming on an expedited timeline.
@runegrove.bsky.socialRiot MMO Dev Jokes WoW Forever Emptied His Town. Orlando Salvatore saw almost no one on a five-mile walk, and Blizzard's Classic lead says the beta numbers are the craziest in 17 years.
@runegrove.bsky.socialRiot's MMO Never Promised Easy Classes Can Win. League's lead gameplay designer says simple champions must beat experts at every rank because players with jobs and kids can't grind; the MMO never has.
@runegrove.bsky.socialRiot's MMO Is Hiring a Senior UX Designer. The Sydney listing posted September 14 wants Unreal Engine familiarity and is the only design role among the studio's seven Sydney openings.
@runegrove.bsky.socialRiot Should Take Six Things From WoW Forever. Nine decisions Blizzard put on stage at BlizzCon, sorted into the six the Runeterra game should copy and the three it should leave in Azeroth.
@runegrove.bsky.socialRiot MMO Producer Says It’s Time to Lock In. Sarah Tudor’s five-word post drew 12,000 views, both Riot MMO trackers and a colleague’s shocked GIF, and she has not said what it means.
@runegrove.bsky.socialBlizzard Is Banning Gold-for-Loot Raids. WoW Forever will not allow GDKP, because the format swallows guilds and prices out new players, and gold buyers get punished aggressively.
@runegrove.bsky.socialPyke’s Kill List Ran Out of Names. The Night the Last One Came Off, He Found a Midshipman on His First Night in Port, and the City Hunting Him Keeps the Same Kind of List.
@runegrove.bsky.socialRiot's MMO Should Never Let You Fly. Blizzard ruled out flying mounts in WoW Forever and added ships instead, and its lead engineer explains why the long way round is where players meet.
@runegrove.bsky.socialBlizzard Is Keeping WoW's Dead Time on Purpose. Its lead engineer says the flight path stays long so you answer general chat, and the campfire only buffs you after a minute of sitting.
@runegrove.bsky.socialBlizzard Is Deleting the Realm List in Forever. Rule sets replace servers, the world keeps showing you the same strangers, and Riot's MMO is being built by the engineer who shipped WoW Classic.
@runegrove.bsky.socialBlizzard Built a Campfire to Make You Wait. Every profession feeds one fire, the buffs take a minute of sitting, the flight paths stay long on purpose, and that minute is what Riot's MMO should copy.
@runegrove.bsky.socialBlizzard Put a Gamepad Mode in WoW Forever. Official controller support after two decades, a first-login mode selector, and a Riot MMO job ad that asks for twin-stick controls.
@runegrove.bsky.socialBlizzard Froze WoW Forever's Level Cap at 60. No catch-up, no token, one bank of points shared across every alt, and a studio whose games never had a power ladder to begin with.
@runegrove.bsky.socialBlizzard Builds Azeroth From a 2D Map First. Five stages, an 18-yard aggro circle, a 35-second run test, and a zone about living in Azeroth, not saving it. Runeterra has the same gaps.
@runegrove.bsky.socialBlizzard Prototyped WoW Hardcore in Two Weeks. Concurrency went from 200 to 1,500 over one holiday, the boss face-palmed and said yes, and Runeterra already keeps a lodge of the dead.
@runegrove.bsky.socialBlizzard Made Transmog Optional in WoW Forever. Turn it off and everyone looks like what they earned, a dungeon drop hands its look to the whole group, and Riot sells looks for a living.
