NCsoft North America launched today the free-to-play MMO Dungeon Runners, the first of a series of free MMO games from NCsoft, the firm told Next-Gen today.
Users can download Dungeon Runners for free via NCsoft's online destination, PlayNC Store, and then play it for free. There is also the option for players to upgrade to a membership level which costs $4.99 per month.
The paid level adds features such as extra storage for items, log-in queue priority and most significantly, "access to the most powerful items, weapons and armor."
With the change in the new year, bid a fond farewell to Dungeon Runners, which shuffled off the Internets last night. It's always sad to see an MMO go, especially a wacky, fun, free-to-play title. Thankfully, Massively reader Ripper McGee was on-hand last night to capture this screenshot from the final moments.
Stephen Nichols, producer and lead programmer of NCsoft's free-to-play online RPG Dungeon Runners, has announced that the game is to shut down on January 1st 2010. Reason: it's not making money.
"Dungeon Runners just isn't cutting the mustard," Nichols confessed. "If she were a ship, she'd be taking on water... The game just isn't profitable."
NCSoft has shut down a lot of MMOs recently. Hence the reason why I'm skeptical on getting Aion or not.
Well, it was a free game that wasn't very fun to play. Aion is a different beast.
It's been two years since NC Soft released its tongue-in-cheek MMORPG-slash-dungeon crawler, Dungeon Runners, and now the self-proclaimed "Mother of all RPGs" is finally getting primed for a much-awaited cash shop. In keeping with DR's light-hearted tone, the ingame shops will be called TURDs, ostensibly an acronym for Townston's Universally Recognized Dollar which is also going to be the cash shop currency.
How is this the first free-to-play MMO from NCSoft?
Does nobody remember Guild Wars?
I played the beta of this game and well, it isn't worth it. Not even the download. It looks not even very bad, but the way of controlling, the UI and more is pretty outdated.