On this week’s show, Bree and Justin look at the frenzy of preparations for WoW Classic, explore more of Middle-earth, talk about Aion for the first time in about forever, and talk about how studios could better handle the end-of-life years of MMORPGs.
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- Intro
- Adventures in MMOs: Chronicles of Spellborn, City of Heroes, Star Wars Galaxies
- News: Blizzard preps fans for WoW Classic, posts server list, financials down
- News: Square Enix’s financials are up
- News: LOTRO pushes out an interesting patch
- News: Aion has a meaty content update coming
- News: DCUO launches on Switch, Legends of Aria releases
- Mailbag: Finding your way when you’re lost in an MMO
- Mailbag: Planning an exit strategy for operational MMOs
- Outro
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I would expect a rather large boost in numbers because of WoW Classic.
The question I wonder is, what lesson will they take from it?
Burning and burning in the widening fyre
The DPS cannot hear the healer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Wipeout is loosed upon the raid,
WoW Retail’s center cannot hold?
…or crosses the Rubicon? o.O
Class quests in Classic is one reason why i’m excited to play it, i think it was a mistake to take them out, as Blizzard usually do they overcorrect, so instead of changing the quests to make them less tedious they removed them and with them the learning abilities system, add to that many class quests to obtain good gear, so many quests removed with first patch for Cataclsym.
So i’m happy to try all of that in Classic.
Its going to be interesting to see how questing in the plaguelands turns out. The old Darrowshire questline was pretty much impossible without a party.
Nice nod to Yeats. /applause.