Massively Overpowered’s first week in operation couldn’t have come at a more turbulent time in the industry. Fortunately, the podcast team of Bree and Justin are here to guide you through all of the earthshattering news that happened this past week, including the Daybreak layoffs and WildStar’s precarious situation.
Show notes:
- Adventures in MMOs: The Secret World, Guild Wars 2, SWTOR
- News: Daybreak layoffs and reassurances
- News: Crowfall will be buy-to-play
- News: WildStar is sliding financially
- News: Nexon vs. NCsoft
- News: SWTOR’s 3.1 update
- News: ESO prepares for B2P transition
- Mailbag: SWG’s open PvP tagging system
- Mailbag: People abandoning traditional MMO formats?
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- Podcast theme: “Track 1” from Crowfall
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MatthewRiddle The idea of openworld PvP “if you want to” sounds awesome. I had those moments on WoW PvE servers odly, if I saw a fight I could choose to join or not. Today the gear- and levelgrind in WoW is too much for me. If I miss the battlegrounds I jump into Heroes of the Storm or GW2 SPvP.
Another good one, keep ’em coming please!
MikedotFoster Also, dishonorable kills. Those things damn near killed my guilds city/outpost raids because a few dishonorable kills would wreck the honor standings (or was it still contribution points back then?) for those of us that were doing the Rank 11-14 grinds.
RagnarTheDrunk TomTurtle I see it as “extortion not entitlement”  The overwhelming majority of gamers do not post in any forum or fansite; so they never whine or complain.  They. in fact, do just go find another game.  It’s when the developers want to finance their AAA budget that they find out what the customer want and will pay for. No game was ever made more solo/pve/casual friendly by a player; the changes are made by developers who want to change their product into one that more people will pay for. The developers would need to make those changes even if no player ever once voiced a complaint/whine in a forum. It’s the Golden Rule – those with the gold make the rules.
Syppi KenAddeh Grats! Just think that today you are living your future “Follow your Bliss” advice to him.
TomTurtle kofteburger Yes, but the converse is not true.  You could develop Landmark and “hiatus” all the EQN-only bits.  They would have to be in huge trouble to do that though as the uproar would be deafening.
melissamcdon I was so jazzed, especially about Story Bricks. Â But my cold shower back to sobriety was the twitch/console combat. Â I still hope it is successful but it clearly is not for me.
Sooooooo frickin happy you guys are still around after the end of the joystiq era.
melissamcdon dionm01 My rebuttal in Audio Form. Enjoy. Sorry for the long rant.
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dionm01 Ironically, in almost all other ways, STO is basically Pirates of the burning Sea in space.