More acquisitions hit the gaming industry as Sony picks up Bungie in a play for more live service game success! We'll also dive into WoW implementing cross-faction instances, the upcoming Guild Wars 2 End of Dragon expansion announcing its release date, and Magickmann wonders aloud if Embers Adrift can find success in this market! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

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00:00 Show Intro

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!

We were off last week so we run through the Microsoft purchase of Activision Blizzard and what that could mean for the future of World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and other titles. We'll also take a peek at the newly revealed Blizzard game, chat about some rumors regarding a Call of Duty Sequel, and finish it all up with some reviews of games we did First Looks for... including Troy's Mortal Online 2 First Look! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

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!

Some changes are a'comin to a few games and some companies, but are all the changes good? On top of that, we'll take a look at Mortal Online II and LEAP as they move through to launch and testing respectively. The fun doesn't end there though as we'll laugh at LOTRO walking back some shop changes and Aion's really dumb server merge practices. All that and more on this week's Always Online!

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00:00 Show Intro

06:04 Good Changes/Bad Changes? (Riot Games, PUBG, and more)r

30:15 This is Dumb (Aion and Others)

40:57 Upcoming Games (Mortal Online II and LEAP)

48:48 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) / 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! 

Welcome to 2022, gaming fans! Time to catch you up on all the news you missed while doing holiday stuff with friends and family. We've got job changes at Guild Wars 2 and Bungie, Riot moving people around and settling with the DFEH for $100 million, Roblox''s CEO being slimy, and our predictions for gaming in 2022! It is a good thing or a bad thing? All that and more on this week's Always Online!

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00:00 Show Intro

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!

Time to wrap up 2021 with our final show of the year! Today we'll do a Rapid Fire news round where we hit Nexon accepting crypto, Blizzard getting a small win, Peter Molyneux's latest, Ark Survival Evolved being sued, and more...but then things turn dark. With gamigo's announcement that they will publish the Fractured MMO, all hell breaks loose. It is a good thing or a bad thing? All that and more on this week's Always Online!

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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!

Sometimes the news just writes itself...like the case of Ark Survival Evolved going after Myth of Empires for copyright violations and New World having server issues on server merge day. On top of that, we'll talk about NFTs in gaming, The Game Awards, and review Century: Age of Ashes, the flight PvP game where you are on the back of a dragon! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

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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 day has come and FFXIV Endwalker is finally in early access! Although we've only been able to play for a few hours, we give you our thoughts on the early goings while we want YOUR thoughts on the expansion (or why you don't play!) for next week's show! We'll also chat about money issues for a number of companies...including falling stock prices and dumb sale decisions. All that and more on this week's Always Online!

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00:00 Show Intro  

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!

Halo just went ahead and yeeted itself out into the wild with a battle pass that makes progression PAINFULLY slow (they're "working on it"), Bobby Kotick finds himself in VERY hot water as the Blizzard news heats up, and what is the future of New World if Amazon Games can't get things together quickly? All that and more on this week's Always Online!

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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 last Live Letter is done and we were all surprised at the announcement of a delay to the release of FFXIV's Endwalker expansion, we got some more details about the MMORPG's new PvP Crystal Conflict mode, and some system details. Then we talk about PlanetSide 2's new continent and LOTRO's new expansion before wrapping up with some good changes for Ubisoft and Blizzard...but are they enough? All that and more on this week's Always Online!

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00:00 Show Intro

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 multiplayer gaming podcast is back and the financials are in for  Blizzard, EA, and Square Enix. We'll look at who won and lost on that front (and watch SE slap Marvel's Avengers) before we roll through and take a look at an upcoming MMORPG that gamigo is teasing...only to have them show up LIVE and troll us some more. We'll finish up with Lost Ark loot box talk and your weekly bombs! All that and more on this week's  Always Online!

Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

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!