MMORPG.com recently caught up with NCsoft's Albert Kanan to talk about what the retail version of Dungeon Runners gives to players, a wacky critter called a bling gnome that actually serves a pretty good purpose and more.
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.
