Massively OP Podcast

This past week was reveal after reveal in the MMO world, and the Massively OP Podcast has you covered with detailed analysis of all of the fun. Was the most exciting part a new Blur trailer? The release of One Tamriel at last? Or a one-two punch of EverQuest expansion announcements?

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: Meridian 59, The Secret World, Guild Wars 2, RIFT, Ultima Online
• News: SWTOR expansion's new Blur trailer
• News: EverQuest and EverQuest II's expansion reveals
• News: Elder Scrolls Online launches One Tamriel, talks more about housing
• News: Does World of Warcraft have over 10 million subs?
• News: Crowfall's crafting reminds Bree of SWG
• Mailbag: Getting to know characters after level boosts
• Mailbag: Guild Wars 2 cadence
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "A Knight Tested" from SWTOR
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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In this week's show, Bree and Justin digest the news of an unexpected (well, mostly unexpected) new major MMO in development. Is it too early to get excited about New World? Will it just be another gankbox? Is this the direction that the industry needs to take? Why is Amazon Game Studios going this route?

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: Firefall, World of Warcraft, SMITE
• News: Amazon announces sandbox MMO New World
• News: Final Fantasy XIV's patch 3.4 releases
• News: Destiny 2 might be coming to the PC
• News: Chronicles of Elyria asks for a lot more money
• News: What's going on with World of Warcraft's raid drama?
• Mailbag: Star Wars Galaxies' PvP flagging system
• Mailbag: Looking for an explorable MMO
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Snow" from Chronicles of Elyria
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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When MMORPGs are casually tossing the phrase "rise of" into their expansion titles, you know you're in for a struggle against a huge boss... that won't be rising anywhere, except perhaps to be killed for the millionth time in a raid. As Justin solemnly contemplates this, MJ and Eliot join the cast to bring the whole production down to earth.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: World of Fishing, World of Warcraft, RIFT, ARK, The Secret World, SWTOR, Heroes & Generals, FFXIV
• News: Destiny: Rise of Iron launches
• News: TERA's new patch is all about the guilds
• News: DDO and LOTRO producer letters
• News: Riders of Icarus tops one million players in the west
• News: Guild Wars 2 resumes work on legendaries
• Mailbag: What object would you want from MMOs?
• Mailbag: MMO art style

• Podcast theme: "Sepiks Redux" from Destiny: Rise of Iron
• Your show hosts: Justin, MJ, and Eliot
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You came for the insightful discussion on MMO news and culture, and you'll walk away with Bree's recipe for Hobbit brownies! This week on the show, the co-hosts consider the joy of cooking in-game and why it's the most underrated crafting profession.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, guildie meetup
• News: Chris Metzen retires, Rob Pardo opens Bonfire Studios
• News: Guild Wars 2 players head back to the Ring of Fire
• News: Marvel Heroes announces massive game revamp
• News: Atlas Reactor is launching soon
• News: Bless Online's western testing is delayed
• News: Trove goes all Jurassic Park
• Mailbag: Comment section

• Podcast theme: "Menu Theme" from Atlas Reactor
• Your show hosts: Bree and Justin
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As the team recovers from DragonCon, PAX West, Legion's launch, and Labor Day, it's anything but normal around the Massively OP office. It's fall, and that means that we're wading into expansion and launch season for MMOs, including a couple of significant titles this past week.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: Guild Wars 2, Overwatch, RIFT, World of Warcraft
• News: Star Trek Online launches on consoles
• News: Otherland officially releases
• News: EVE goes F2P?
• News: Legion is off to a strong start
• News: Camelot Unchained talks big at DragonCon
• News: Dual Universe and Hero's Song start crowdfunding campaigns
• Mailbag: WoW in a WildStar meeting
• Mailbag: Stranger Things
• Outro

• Download Episode 82
• Podcast theme: "Main Theme" from Otherland
• Your show hosts: Bree and Justin
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For a special holiday weekend show, Eliot and Justin sit down to compare notes about their first week in World of Warcraft: Legion. It's all artifact this and class order hall that, not to mention general oohing and ahhing over all of the new shinies.

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• Intro
• First first impressions
• Getting to 110
• Shaman
• Does Legion have legs?
• Professions
• Storytelling and failure
• Class order halls
• Dalaran
• Old world repurposing
• Artifact quests
• Criticisms
• Flying
• Future plans
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Kingdoms Will Burn" from World of Warcraft
• Your show hosts: Eliot and Justin
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Happy Legion launch day! It's hard to peek out from underneath the shadow of this massive expansion event, but the podcast team is nothing if not stubborn and persistent. It's a show packed with crowdfunding news, special promotions, nasty data breaches, and more!

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: RIFT, Guild Wars 2, Trove
• News: World of Warcraft: Legion launches
• News: EverQuest II gives away level 95 characters
• News: Wargaming hires... Steven Seagal?
• News: Funcom forum data breach, financials
• News: Guild Wars 2 rollback, fourth birthday
• News: Star Citizen reaches $120M, Shroud of the Avatar passes $10M in crowdfunding
• News: TERA's strange PvP server merge
• Mailbag: Gaming and life balance
• Mailbag: Dungeon bookmarks
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Gloura Village" from EverQuest II
• Your show hosts: Bree and Justin
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Dressed in top hat, tails, frills, and chaffron, the podcast crew is heading to the opera this week! On the show, Bree and Justin talk about a grand return to Karazhan, a lackluster Gamescom, and an MMO that has entered the witness protection program and gotten itself a new name.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, RIFT
• News: World of Warcraft returns to Karazhan
• News: Eternal Crusade gets a launch date
• News: Elder Scrolls Online joins the lockbox crowd
• News: WildStar goes Redmoon Rising
• News: Neverwinter releases Storm King's Thunder
• News: Das Tal gets a new name
• Mailbag: Scaling armor
• Mailbag: Better guild systems
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Karazhan (Opera House)" from World of Warcraft
• Your show hosts: Bree and Justin
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While others are grilling fat, plump casings of processed meat filling on their grills, you are sitting inside, creating a 400-foot-tall hot dog king to which all of the locals will bow and pledge their undying service. Who has the better summer experience here? Eliot and Justin return for a kind of strange podcast in which hot dogs, Demon Hunters, and spaceships all make for interesting bedfellows.

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• Intro
• Adventures in MMOs: Final Fantasy XI and XIV, RIFT, World of Warcraft
• News: World of Warcraft unlocks Demon Hunters, starts invasions
• News: Is No Man's Sky multiplayer at all?
• News: Nexon and NCsoft quarterly reports
• News: Path of Exile announces Atlas of Worlds expansion
• News: Trove is heading to China
• Mailbag: Turn-based RPGs
• Mailbag: Console MMOs
• Outro

• Podcast theme: "Stormwind Harbor" from World of Warcraft
• Your show hosts: Eliot and Justin
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For a genre that's alleged to be dying, MMOs certainly do seem to be picking up the pace of news and releases. This week co-hosts Bree and Justin talk about a new expansion announcement, dig into studio finances, and deliver a strongly worded and strangely practiced rant about lockboxes.

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: RIFT, Guild Wars 2, Diablo III
• News: RIFT announces Starfall Prophecy
• News: Elder Scrolls Online's Shadows of the Hist goes live
• News: Blizzard is apparently doing quite well
• News: Black Desert's financial controversies
• News: Could TERA be coming to consoles?
• Mailbag: New blood for MMOs
• Outro

• Download Episode 77
• Podcast theme: "Silverwood" from RIFT
• Your show hosts: Bree and Justin
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