Massively OP Podcast

On this week's show, Bree and Justin jaw about Amazon Game Studios restructuring, Black Desert's PS4 port, Ship of Heroes' audacious character creation plans, more E3 news, and debate over how long you can hold bad launches over a game's head.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes, LOTRO, ESO
• News: Black Desert announces PlayStation 4 port
• News: Elder Scrolls Online's upcoming DLC
• News: Warframe talks Empyrean expansion at E3
• News: Last Oasis gets a September launch date
• News: Amazon Game Studio layoffs
• News: Ship of Heroes aims to top City of Heroes' character creation system
• Mailbag: Character creation in MMOs
• Mailbag: Beating a bad launch dead horse
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Green Nugget" from City of Heroes
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this week's show, Black Desert expert Carlo joins Bree and Justin to talk about the new class and expansion as well as Lord of the Rings Online's latest update, the final fate of Bless Online, the surprising Phantasy Star Online 2 announcement, and more! Also, Carlo got a boat. Expect to hear a lot about that.

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• Intro
• E3 2019 chatter
• News: Black Desert teases new class and expansion
• News: Bless Online is shutting down this fall
• News: LOTRO's Vales of Anduin arrives
• News: Phantasy Star Online 2 finally gets a western release
• News: SWTOR goes to Dantooine
• News: Guild Wars 2 gets another raid going
• News: Path of Exile keeps trucking along
• News: Blizzard's secret projects
• Mailbag: Alt problems in City of Heroes
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Tavern Music" from Black Desert
• Your show hosts: Justin, Carlo and Bree
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On this week's show, Bree and Justin give Worlds Adrift a farewell salute, welcome Starbase to the MMO fold, dig into Elder Scrolls Online's newest expansion, brings listeners up to date on the City of Heroes drama, and more!

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: Bree's Chromebook, SWG, City of Heroes, Outer Wilds
• News: Worlds Adrift calls it quits
• News: Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr arrives on the scene
• News: Starbase piques our interest
• News: Tons of FFXIV: Shadowbringers coverage
• News: City of Heroes' rogue servers intensify
• Mailbag: NostalgiaFilm(tm)
• Mailbag: Old Massively Speaking archive?
• Mailbag: WoW Classic criticism
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Main Theme" from Worlds Adrift
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this week's show, Brendon joins Bree and Justin to talk about his latest fact-finding mission deep inside the heart of EVE Online's latest fan festival. In addition to a lot of in-depth internet spaceship news, there's discussion about Dauntless' incredible launch, Black Desert's underwater play, and more!

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• Intro
• News: EVE Online Down Under with Brendon!
• News: Final Fantasy XIV crosses 16M players
• News: Dauntless has a huge launch
• News: Astellia gears up for a summer release
• News: Black Desert takes us underwater
• News: DCUO confirmed for the Nintendo Switch
• Mailbag: Playing Old School RuneScape
• Mailbag: Are fancy cinematics and trailers worth it?
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Surplus of Rare Artifacts" from EVE Online
• Your show hosts: Justin, Brendon, and Bree
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On this week's show, Bree and Justin return to the most vanilla days of them all, thanks to World of Warcraft Classic's beta test. The duo also talk about DDO's latest expansion, the delay of Skull and Bones, and useful tips on playing City of Heroes.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: SWTOR, City of Heroes
• News: World of Warcraft Classic eyes August launch
• Mailbag: Why is Tuesday the MMO release day?
• Mailbag: Is World of Warcraft a classic or modern MMO?
• News: DDO: Masterminds of Sharn releases
• News: Square-Enix's annual report shows growth
• News: Star Trek Online's Rise of Discovery update goes live
• News: ...as does Blade and Souls' Scarlet Tears patch
• News: Skull and Bones delayed to 2020
• Mailbag: Opinions on getting back into City of Heroes
• Mailbag: Original City of Heroes devs?
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Dun Morogh" from World of Warcraft (vanilla version)
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this week's show, Bree and Justin debate whether legislating lockboxes is the way to go, gush over FFXIV's fashion freedom, discuss RIFT's upcoming server merges, and try to figure out what's going on with Amazon's New World.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: FFXIV, City of Heroes, Fallout 76
• News: US Senator's proposed law takes aim at lockboxes
• News: Guild Wars 2's War Eternal update arrives this week
• News: FFXIV gets more fashion storage
• News: RIFT's European servers merge
• News: What's ZeniMax's new project?
• News: New World takes its alpha offline
• Mailbag: Full-featured character creators
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Scarlet Gorge" from RIFT
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this week's show, it's the return of the Bit Wars, as LOTRO and EVE test out their much-needed 64-bit clients. Bree and Justin also dive into a great FFXIV freebie, the downward slide of Blizzard's financials, Guild Wars' 14th anniversary, and more!

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: Fallout 76, FFXIV, City of Heroes
• News: Blizzard's financials aren't the best
• Mailbag: Do people sub without buying new expansions?
• News: World of Warcraft Classic will let you make a staggering number of alts
• News: EVE Online's latest expansion cometh
• News: EVE and LOTRO's 64-bit clients
• News: FFXIV's free expansion giveaway
• News: Guild Wars is alive and kicking for its 14th birthday
• Mailbag: Everything box
• Mailbag: Genderlocked FFXIV classes
• Mailbag: Dad jokes and Patreon support
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "YC118.6 Theme (Never Look Back)" from EVE Online
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this week's show, we're coming off the high of a pretty darn good week! Bree and Justin follow up on the City of Heroes resurgence, say farewell to Atlas Reactor, and look ahead to the goodies coming with Caravan Stories, Peria Chronicles, and Torchlight Frontiers.

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• Intro
• What's going on with the City of Heroes drama?
• Mailbag: Is this a watershed moment in MMO history?
• Mailbag: Are fans overreacting?
• What's going on with the other superhero projects?
• News: Atlas Reactor heads toward the sunset
• News: Peria Chronicles starts Korean testing
• News: We choo-choose Torchlight Frontiers' Railmaster
• News: Caravan Stories heads to console
• News: Villagers and Heroes: A Tale of Earth and Sea announced
• News: Star Trek Online's scaling ships
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Main Menu" from Atlas Reactor
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this special edition of the podcast, Justin, Eliot, and Bree gather together to talk about the so-called "secret" City of Heroes server -- and why it has this long-running community in an absolute tizzy. What's the actual scandal here, and what should be done with this emulator going forward? Check out our thoughts on this show!

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• Intro
• City of Heroes' secret server exposed
• Why is everyone upset?
• Is there money exchanging hands?
• What about other site connections?
• What about NCsoft?
• Was it good to bring this out into the open?
• What should be done with the server?
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Freedom Theme" from City of Heroes
• Your show hosts: Justin, Eliot, and Bree
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On this week's show, it's all about MMO content reveals! Bree and Justin get nerdy over SWTOR's expansion reveal, talk about World of Warcraft 8.2, and wonder how Guild Wars 2 can offer dragon mounts if players have killed them all.

It's the Massively OP Podcast, an action-packed hour of news, tales, opinions, and gamer emails! And remember, if you'd like to send in your own letter to the show, use the "Tips" button in the top-right corner of the site to do so.

• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: Guild Wars 2, Fractured, DDO, WoW
• News: SWTOR: Onslaught is coming this September
• News: Skyforge: New Horizons goes live
• News: Blizzard's health bribes and Patch 8.2 outline
• News: Get your dragon mount on in Guild Wars 2
• News: TERA's unfortunate rollback
• News: Albion Online's F2P launch
• News: Blade & Soul's new update, server merges
• Mailbag: Bumping into tougher expansion content
• Mailbag: Everythingbox and supply and demand
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Peace, the Jedi Counsular" from SWTOR
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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