Massively OP Podcast

On this week's show, Justin and Bree bid a sad farewell to Marvel Heroes (and Master X Master while we're at it). It's not all depressing news; Secret World Legends is killing it, there's a new Path of Exile expansion, and Guild Wars 2's fourth living world season is on its way.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: World of Warcraft, DDO, Secret World Legends, Star Trader Frontiers, Reigns, Pocket Legends Adventures, Ultima Online, Guild Wars 2
• News: Marvel Heroes is axed...
• News: ...as is Master X Master
• News: NCsoft's quarterly report, Guild Wars 2's living world season 4 announcement
• News: Players revolt over EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2 lockboxes
• News: Funcom has a great quarter, Secret World Legends drops QoL patch
• News: Path of Exiles' War for the Atlas expansion
• Mailbag: Slowing down in MMOs
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Army Base 1" from Marvel Heroes
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this week's show, Justin and Bree wrassle a mess of eastern mobile MMOs that are leaping onto the scene, imagine a world full of Harry Potter gamers wandering about, discuss SWTOR's server merges, and take Guild Wars 2 to task for lockbox missteps.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings Online, Pocket Legends Adventures, NEW PHONE
• News: Harry Potter: Wizards Unite plans a mobile ARG
• News: SWTOR's server merge is here
• News: Guild Wars 2's mount lockboxes
• Mailbag: Marketing via double-dipping
• Mailbag: Disabling visual effects
• News: Upcoming MMO announcements -- Project TL, Blade and Soul Revolution, Aion Tempest, Blade and Soul II, Ascent: Infinite Realm
• Mailbag: Escapism
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Hedwig's Theme" from Harry Potter
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this week's show, Justin and Bree dig into the exciting news from BlizzCon, mull over the troubles at Marvel Heroes, mourn the passing of a great studio, and cover a handful of MMO updates.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: World of Warcraft, Secret World Legends, Dungeons and Dragons Online,
• News: BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft announces Battle for Azeroth and classic servers
• News: Marvel Heroes might be in trouble
• News: PWE shutters Motiga Games and Runic Games
• News: DCUO ends PlayStation 3 support
• News: WildStar and Kritika Online patches
• News: Wild West Online preps persistent alpha for November 15th
• Mailbag: Locking classes behind a playwall
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Battle for Azeroth music" from World of Warcraft
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this week's show, Justin and Bree discuss the up-and-down week that was Star Wars: The Old Republic, boggle at a grand buy-in to a pre-alpha test, and talk about the flurry of MMO releases as of late.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: World of Warcraft, LOTRO, Secret World Legends, Guild Wars 2, Trove
• News: SWTOR moves datacenter, response, free expansions, free character slots
• News: Destiny 2 launches on PC
• News: RIFT's Crucia's Claw update
• News: CCP shuts down two studios, EVE releases Lifeblood expansion
• News: Warframe's open world is going well
• News: Star Citizen's Citizencon 2017
• Mailbag: Is the traditional MMO dead?
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Lana, The Advisor" from SWTOR
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this week's show, Justin and Bree go trick or treating as only grown adults can: in a video game! The is also prim and proper talk of MMO expansion pre-orders, launch dates, mouse invasions, and the all-important ELF BUTTS. It's quite the event, to be sure.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: World of Warcraft, Trove
• News: Halloween season arrives
• News: EverQuest II and DDO start taking expensive expansion pre-orders
• News: Life is Feudal soft launches next month, Bless Online gets a 2018 launch window
• News: Destiny 2 comes to PC this week
• News: Trove's Asian biome coming next month
• News: Project Gorgon's new user interface
• Mailbag: Supporting struggling MMOs
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "A Very Exile's Shade's Eve" from WildStar
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this week's show, Justin and Bree navigate the dubious updates that dropped in several major MMOs (as well as a few other ones that seem to have gone off OK). It's practically an all-patch, all-the-time show with the addition of a couple of interesting listener emails regarding accessibility and crafting!

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: Secret World Legends, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, Ultima Online
• News: LOTRO's Update 21 and gear issues
• News: FFXIV's 4.1 housing debacle and response
• News: SWTOR Update 5.5 and balance issues
• News: Warframe goes open world
• News: H1Z1 changes its name yet again
• News: Secret World Legends finally catches up to The Secret World
• Mailbag: Unnecessarily difficult activities in MMOs
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Shire Hills" from LOTRO
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this week's show, Legends of Aria's Derek Brinkmann returns for another interview about how the indie MMORPG is shaping up as it goes through its "final" alpha and heads toward beta and launch. We also dig deep into the mailbag to gripe about gambling!

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• Intro
• "Final Alpha" interview with Legends of Aria's Derek Brinkmann
• Quickie news roundup:
• Guild Wars 2 is selling waypoints
• SWTOR server merge
• World of Warcraft expansion reveal coming
• Shroud of the Avatar delay
• Mailbag: What do we consider gambling?
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Eldeir Village" from Legends of Aria
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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On this week's show, the amazing duo of Bree and Justin look at another beefy Camelot Unchained interview, talk about several new mystery games in development, and boggle over the mobile MMO revolution that has arrived.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: Star Trek Online,
• News: The mobile MMO revolution
• News: Spacetime Studios returns to mobile MMOs
• News: Blizzard's mobile MMO RTS
• News: Gazillion's VR trek
• News: Daybreak's Parabolic
• News: Nexon and Stephan Frost collaborate on a new game
• News: Black Desert rolls out Kamasylvania
• News: Camelot Unchained's interview
• Mailbag: Are we going backwards in the genre?
• Mailbag: Small touches in MMOs
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "CitizenCon Teaser" from Star Citizen
• Your show hosts: Bree and Justin
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On this week's show, Tina joins the crew to talk about the momentous launch of Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire! There's plenty more for the crew to discuss, too, with a pair of EverQuest expansion announcements, a launch of an underdog MMOARPG, and more!

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• Intro
• The big Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire launch
• News: Guardians of Ember launches
• News: EverQuest and EverQuest II expansion announcements
• News: Villagers and Heroes: Starfall releases
• News: Secret World Legends expands Tokyo
• News: New Star Trek Online episode
• News: Ultima Online goes F2P
• Mailbag: When do you join a guild?
• Mailbag: When does content bore you out of a game?
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Main Theme" from Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire
• Your show hosts: Bree, Tina, and Justin
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On this week's show, Justin and Bree saddle up for discussion on Wild West Online's alpha, Star Citizen's back-backlash on schedules, the miserable state of Phantasy Star Online 2, and more!

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: DDO, Neverwinter, Guild Wars 2, Ultima Online
• News: Wild West Online begins alpha testing
• News: Star Citizen is fed up with dates
• News: Phantasy Star Online 2 teases us yet again
• News: Black Desert is a pretty big success
• News: FFXIV's new housing
• News: EVE Online player threatens physical violence
• Mailbag: Star Citizen's monetization
• Mailbag: Free to play recommendations
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Main Theme" from Phantasy Star Online 2
• Your show hosts: Bree and Justin
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