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WRUP: Great personalities of the American something-or-other no. 341 edition

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William "Basketball" Cragen was born in 1784 following his mother's prolonged and particularly unusual bout with pneumonia, which produced three children and at least...
Race!

Check out World of Warcraft’s allied races jokes and flirts, plus guilds topple Antorus bosses

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Back in the day, the only way we'd learn about the many jokes and flirt lines for races in World of Warcraft was by...
Just fight the thing.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 147: Daybreak but not that one

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Justin and Bree discuss Secret World Legends, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Star Citizen, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, and the cost of making games, with a lengthy mailbag-inspired discussion on minimaps.
Want some?

The Daily Grind: Should MMOs have enforced naming standards?

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For some players, "enter a name for your character" might as well read "insert the best joke you can within the character limit." As...
Recognized.

WRUP: Your honor, I motion for lizards edition

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Mr. Lefebvre: Your honor, the defense motions for lizards. The Court: Counsel, could you repeat? Mr. Lefebvre: Your honor, the defense motions for lizards. Your honor,...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 146: World of Warcraft’s fun police

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Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes' death, Darkfall New Dawn, LOTRO 2018, Neverwinter Nights, WoW's fun police, DDO, Hearthstone, and Trove, with mailbag discussions on Disney the lockbox villain and the max we'd pay for MMO subscriptions.
NO

WRUP: I’m cold and this place smells like farts edition

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Ugh. Why are we here? This is dumb. I'm cold and this place smells like farts. When can we leave? Why did we have...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 145: Farewell Marvel Heroes and Master X Master

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Justin and Bree discuss the sunsets of Marvel Heroes and Master X Master, NCsoft's and Funcom's quarterly financials, EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2 business model fiasco, and Path of Exile's upcoming expansion, with a mailbag question on slowing down for classic WoW.
STUFF IT IN YOUR CONSUME HOLE

WRUP: Enjoy the smooth flavor of Mrs. Patter’s Bacon-Fried Cookies edition

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Guys, we could not be more excited to start getting in on the branded content game, and we're starting with endorsing Mrs. Patter's Bacon-Fried...
This has less dramatic impact than hoped.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth sets a world record for its diorama

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Turns out that World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is already setting records well before it releases. How? Well, it had a very nice...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 144: Harry Potter and the Deathly ARG

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Justin and Bree talk Guild Wars 2 mounts, the Harry Potter ARG, SWTOR's merge, WoW, LOTRO, Pocket Legends Adventures, Android games, and Bluehole's Ascent: Infinite Realm, with mailbag questions on GW2 marketing, visual effect shenanigans, and MMOs as escapism.
Tubes! In series!

WRUP: Helpful pointers about the inter-nets edition

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Hello, one and all, and welcome to the inter-nets! The inter-nets, or as they are sometimes known the "world wide tubes," are a fascinating...
BEHOLD MY HUMAN LASER!

Final Fantasy XIV brings out patch 4.15 on November 21

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At long last, Final Fantasy XIV Bards can put on a show with patch 4.15. The patch is slated for November 21st according to...
Yep.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 143: BlizzCon strikes back

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Justin and Bree discuss BlizzCon, WoW's Battle for Azeroth expansion and legacy servers, Marvel Heroes' drama, the fate of Motiga and Runic, DCUO, WildStar, Kritika, and Wild West Online, with a mailbag question on MMOs that lock classes and races behind paywalls.
Race!

WRUP: Is this what I wanted edition

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So, for a very long time, I was one of the people crying out for making some of the many racial variants in Azeroth...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 142: The state of the sci-fi MMO genre

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Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR, Destiny 2, RIFT, CCP's studio closures, Warframe, and Star Citizen's CitizenCon, with tidbits on Guild Wars 2, Trove, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, WoW, and BlizzCon, and a mailbag question on the future of traditional MMORPGs.
just come back

WRUP: World of Warcraft: The We Just Want Eliot To Come Back Expansion edition

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Well, here's our World of Warcraft expansion leak. Apparently, it's titled World Of Warcraft: The We Just Want Eliot To Come Back Expansion. I...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 141: Mouse invasions and elf butts

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Justin and Bree discuss MMORPG Halloween, Trove, World of Warcraft, EverQuest II, DDO, Life is Feudal, Bless, Destiny 2, and Project Gorgon, with a mailbag question on how and whether we should all be supporting struggling MMOs.
lizards

WRUP: Of balls and pins thereof edition

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Why are pinball machines so expensive? All right, that one's obvious, they're rather elaborate things with lots of moving parts all wired up to...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 140: Dubious drops in LOTRO, FFXIV, and SWTOR

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends' Orochi Tower patch, Lord of the Rings' weird patch week, FFXIV's housing mess, SWTOR's balance patch, Warframe's open-world patch, and H1Z1's name-change patch, with a mailbag question about older gamers in MMORPGs.

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