Always Online - MMO Podcast MMOBomb

Looks like Guild Wars 2 players aren't all that thrilled that ArenaNet decided to sell Hero Points in the MMORPG's cash shop, but is it actually a bad thing? Fractured Online and Pantheon provide more info, AIKA Online is coming back and it is apparently the "best MMORPG ever"! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

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Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro
04:36 Pantheon NDA, Fractured Online Sales, And AIKA Online Returns
26:28 Guild Wars 2 Selling Hero Points
42:06 Rapid Fire News
52:08 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question Of The Week

If you have submissions for the show's Weekly Bombs, have questions for the panel (nothing is off limits!), or just ideas for what you want covered you can now send them to magicman@mmobomb.com. You can also be a guest in the show, just send us why you want to host, and what topic or game you would like to cover.

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure, and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

Wild week in MMOs and multiplayer games! Pantheon decides to drop 247 extraction and focus on the MMORPG again, World of Warcraft is getting its own version of FFXIV's Duty Support, and Ubisoft is dropping Trackmania's esports after the current world championship! If you think that's all though...you'd be wrong as we also dive into NCSoft at GStar 2023 complete with Throne and Liberty and more. Happy Thanksgiving! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

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Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro
02:16 Weird News Week (Pantheon Drops 247, Ubisoft Drops Esports, WoW Duty Support & More!)
44:10 NCSoft At GStar (Throne and Liberty, LLL, and More!)
52:10 Noobfridge's New World Update
01:00:26 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question Of The Week

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure, and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

What a very weird week in MMO and multiplayer gaming. The Overwatch League (OWL) is done and the future looks bizarre, Digital Extremes lays off over 30 and cuts ties with Wayfinder, Tarisland drops a Warrior trailer, DreamWorld isn't dead yet, Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street and Fantastic Pixel Castle talk up their "Ghost" MMO, and we dive into whether or not BlizzCon delivered for Blizzard the way it needed to on all fronts... including World of Warcraft! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Also visit us at https://www.mmobomb.com

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro
02:08 Weird News Week (OWL Closing, Digital Extremes and Wayfinder, Tarisland, and More!)
35:50 Initial Reveal Stream for Ghostcrawler's "Ghost" MMO
50:40 Did BlizzCon deliver like it needed to?
01:01:20 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question Of The Week

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure, and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

Imagine that, The Day Before is back on Steam, but the "launch" has been delayed and will now be an early access that costs you $39 to get into with no launch window announced. Cryptic Studios and Bungie's Destiny 2 teams are being laid off in some of the worst ways possible, Ghostcrawler is heading yet another team working on an MMO that is at best years away, and Throne and Liberty is making monetization changes! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro
01:53 Bungie and Cryptic Studio Layoffs
29:49 Some Updates (XDefiant Delayed, The Day Before Delayed, Throne and Liberty Gacha Removal, & More)
45:04 Ghostcrawler's New MMO
53:13 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question Of The Week

If you have submissions for the show's Weekly Bombs, have questions for the panel (nothing is off limits!), or just ideas for what you want covered you can now send them to magicman@mmobomb.com. You can also be a guest in the show, just send us why you want to host, and what topic or game you would like to cover.

Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure, and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

The Pantheon leaks were pretty much dead on and this week the team at Visionary Realms detailed their plans for 247 and the MMORPG going forward. Is there any hope for this project at this point? We'll review the team's public Q&A and more. After that, it's time to look forward to 2024 and reveal some of our most anticipated MMOs next year and cap it all off with a few updates... including a game's, what?, 7th delay?! All that and more on this week's Always Online!



Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

The merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard is finally complete, so what do you want to see out of the companies now? Will this be a good thing for gamers as a whole? We'll talk about that and dive into Trackmania giving away "too much" for free, and talk about the Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen leaks and if gaming sites should even cover leaks! All that and more on this week's Always Online!



Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

01:45 Microsoft Merges With Activision Blizzard, What's the Good and Bad?

20:40 Weird Stuff (Epic Games and Pantheon's MMO Leaks)

54:30 Updates (Throne & Liberty, Stampede Racing, Trackmania, and More)

01:00:56 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question Of The Week



Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!