On this week’s show, Bree and Justin mark a decade of DDO’s free-to-play revolution, say farewell to Bless Online, take a look at a new fairytale-style MMO, and wonder why World of Warcraft vanilla servers haven’t closed up shop in the wake of WoW Classic.
This episode was kindly sponsored by the long-running strategy MMO Travian Legends, which you can read more about on massivelyop.travian.com. (There are bumper commercials on the episode, but no sponsored segment.)
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Show notes:
- Sponsored by: Travian Legends
- Intro
- Adventures in MMOs: World of Warcraft, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2
- News: DDO’s new adventure pack, a decade after the free-to-play shift
- News: Bless Online goes offline
- News: Book of Travels looks trés interesting
- News: Star Trek Online’s latest Discovery episode
- News: City of Heroes/NCsoft negotiations update
- News: WoW Classic sucks players from emulators
- Mailbag: Wanting to live in a static classic MMO world
- Mailbag: Side-stepping the MMORPG label
- Outro
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- Podcast theme: “Bon Voyage” from Bless Online
- Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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