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Episode 24: Joe buys all the dances

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Neverwinter Underdark

This week we talk about burnout (*GASP*), the holidays (definitely not related), and SWTOR expac goodness. Don’t worry, spoiler free. Welcome to CCR, where we talk about MMOs and where we will not kneel before Emperor Valkorian.

MMO News

 

SWTOR – So. Much. SWTOR. Expansion is live. Well-received.
http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/swtors-knights-of-the-fallen-empire-expansion-has-officially-launched/

Some replayability Concerns – to each their own. Alliance system is MUCH bigger than anticipated.
http://www.swtor.com/info/news/blog/20151020-0

Story seems awesome. Feels more like a Bioware game – http://kotaku.com/star-wars-the-old-republic-now-feels-more-like-a-class-1738781689

Wildstar – Google Interest Drops. Subjectively, still a LOT more players on than ever before.
https://twitter.com/jasonetheridge/status/662201323748659200

Wildstar PvP – new Arena, changes coming in next drop/patch
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-11-05/pvp_updates_in_the_next_patch_of_wildstar.shtml

World of Fishing… do we REALLY need this?
http://nichegamer.com/2015/11/world-of-fishing-mmo-enters-open-beta/

Blizzcon!

Also, Warcraft Movie Trailer
http://www.inquisitr.com/2547933/warcraft-movie-first-official-trailer-drops-and-its-glorious/

Guild Wars 2 – Heart of Thorns is live and pretty dang awesome
http://www.pcgamer.com/guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-review/

Moar GW2 – Raid coming TOMORROW
http://www.realtytoday.com/articles/52119/20151115/guild-wars-2-heart-of-thorns-news-mmorpg-3-wing-raid-set-to-come-nov-17.htm

 

MMO Community

 

5 Pillars of MMORPGs that should be torn down
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=36502

Messages from Roy

MMO Burnout article
http://thefanaticalswordsman.com/2013/03/19/dont-burnout-diversify/

Death to the leveling game
http://thefanaticalswordsman.com/2015/08/15/death-to-the-leveling-game/

Alyssia “Pinky” Swiftwind – Wildstar RP – Sunday mornings at the BBB are awesome! (Entity, Exile)

Critical Role
http://geekandsundry.com/shows/critical-role/

 

If I Were A Dev

Quality of Life: Emotes

Are they important? Should they ALL have Animation? How many? Include some raucous ones?

JOE: 2-PERSON

DREW: Love class-specific emotes. Two person emote, dance a tango or a waltz.

 

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This week’s end music is the opening theme from Neverwinter.

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Episode 22: This time, it’s the Drop BUNNIES!

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Nexu

This week we talk about more Wildstar F2P awesomeness, SWTOR’s KOTFE awesomeness, and other acronyms and their awesomeness. Welcome to CCR, where we talk about MMOs and where we watch Queuetimes while experiencing queue times…

MMO News

 

Wildstar Free-to-Play Extravaganza!!!! 

New Servers opened, will be merged back in (Again, we are prescient)

Rumors of a Console Version? If so, again with the prescience. Oh, and take a drink.

SWTOR News: Big Changes to Little Mechanics

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/367/view/news/read/36576/Star-Wars-The-Old-Republic-Significant-Changes-Coming-to-Several-Systems-in-KotFE.html

http://dulfy.net/2015/09/30/swtor-knights-of-fallen-empire-livestream-coverage/

Nexu mouse droid video
https://youtu.be/YdcJIbgCAWk

A Look at TESO’s Siege System

ARK Expands to two new Biomes

 

MMO Community

 

The irony of watching Queue Times while spending time in queue… not lost. (DREW’S NOTE: Not irony, coincidence…it would be irony if you didn’t have queue times while you watched Queuetimes)

The Wildstar Roleplay Pizza Delivery

Great summary of KotFE mechanics change

http://www.swtor.com/info/news/blog/20151002?sf41399211

 

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This week’s end music is The Mandalorian Blockade from Star Wars: The Old Republic

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Episode 21: Only you can prevent the drop-bear apocalypse

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This week we talk about Dante’s Divine Comedy, drop-bears, the middle finger, and snorting lines of Aurin dander! Oh, and we also talk about Wildstar, ArcheAge, and Marvel Heroes, but that was the boring stuff. Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and where we stay up late to watch games launch (or more usually, crash over and over)!

MMO News

 

Runescape’s Evil Twin: Darkscape (completely F2P) – From a Press Release

CCR will finally be a little positive about ArcheAge.

TSW stealing Wildstar’s ideas now

Marvel Heroes’ Limbo event is up until Oct. 2nd

Bad News for Korean MMOs ASTA, Devilian, Kritika, possibly TERA!! NO word on NA, EU, or other regions.

Contracts in Chronicles of Elyria

Speaking of WildStar – F2P by the time this is is out.

 

MMO Community

 

Random Trivia: This week I learned that Tim Russ, aka Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager and a voice actor in the Secret World, was also one of the troopers in SpaceBalls, “picking” the desert.

New Drinking Game: Whenever we mention Wildstar Radio

ThaydU.enjin.com

 

If I Were A Dev

 

What level of control would you give addon content creators?

JOE: Expose interface for complete modification. Do not allow the casting of any combat abilities, except by click-per-event macros (with GCD limitation). Allow for converting to mouseover targeting

DREW: Hard-core PvP game, so obviously they would be able to edit the game client. It will be a code-to-win game…

Seriously, though, macros and keybinding should be highly customizable to begin with, but addons should have full control over the interface and targeting information.

 

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Episode 20b: The dumb is spreading

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This week we talk about Crowfall’s Preorder Collector’s Edition, Wildstar’s plethora of events, Marvel Heroes’ unique branding strategy, and more! Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and where if this were LOTRO, we would be getting the Undying title for not dying before reaching 20…

MMO News

 

Marvel Heroes and the magic of numbers:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/252690/How_Marvel_Heroes_packaged_its_Phoenixstyle_rebirth.php

ArcheAge 2.0 – Launched, with a bit of drama
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-09-13/archeage_heroes_awaken_update_2.0_has_been_launched.shtml
http://www.mmobomb.com/news/glyph-authentication-issues-trigger-archeage-server-rollback/

Crowfall – Pre-Orders SOON
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-09-11/croefall_collectors_edition_will_start_pre_order_within_a_week.shtml
https://youtu.be/VsWcAjQ2pow

Arawulf Crowfall alpha
https://youtu.be/8nNKuO1S7Z4

Blade and Soul Beta Dates –
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/pc-mmo-blade-and-soul-closed-beta-dates-revealed/1100-6430415/

Wildstar – ALL the events!
http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/2015-09-10-in-game-events-preview/ (zPrix, Shades eve, Winterfest, double XP weekend, and more! )

http://wildstarradio.com/2013/03/29/episode-6-super-secret-guest-arrives/

WildBall
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/131253-wildball-the-wildstar-soccer-mini-game/

 

MMO Community

 

Joe – shoutouts to The Stillriver Tea House, The Villa, and Fringe Rangers Vigil

CipherMandy

 

Special Topic: Best and Worst

 

What is your favorite MMO you’ve ever played (i.e. the “best” in your eyes)?

JOE: WildStar, this time around.

DREW:

https://twitter.com/The_Katbot/status/643154474182119425 as a joke

Guild Wars 2

 

What is the worst MMO you’ve ever played?

DREW:

Archeage

JOE:

Scarlet Blade.

 

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This week’s end music is The Midtown Manhattan Theme from Marvel Heroes

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Episode 19: Drew has no memory and goes on tangents

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This week we go over Guild Wars 2 news about raiding and the fantastic new Thief elite specialization (Daredevil), how Skyforge’s expansion is due out before it is even launched, the Wildstar Halloween event (Shade’s Eve), and how apparently Joe’s game is being made in Overland. Welcome to Casual Core Radio, we talk about MMOs and we are sweating more than our CPUs because it is stinkin’ hot outside and our computers have personal fans…

MMO News

 

So, looks like some of our ideas are about to become somebody else’s reality:
http://www.mmo-central.com/2015/08/27/otherland-shows-new-gameplay-footage/
http://www.drago-entertainment.com/otherland/news.html

Did we forget to mention the BIGGEST news from our little podcast?
This: http://thefanaticalswordsman.com/2015/08/14/20-innovative-things-about-crowfall/
was featured in the As the Crow Flies newsletter.

SWTOR Livestream. Holy Lag, Jediman, and other reactions
Official: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=8407848
Dulfy: http://dulfy.net/2015/08/26/swtor-pax-prime-kotfe-gameplay-livestream-coverage/
Ootini: http://ootinicast.com/2015/08/ootinicast-episode-221/
XamXam: http://www.xamxamsays.com/the-stale-is-strong-with-swtor/ 

Skyforge – The Plants are Coming, the Plants are Coming!
http://www.pcgamesn.com/skyforge/free-to-play-mmo-skyforge-has-an-expansion-on-the-way-and-its-about-invading-plants

Guild Wars 2 announces Raids, F2P, and new Thief Elite spec, the Daredevil (and Drew is pumped)
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/takeover/a-letter-from-the-president/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/meet-the-daredevil-thiefs-elite-specialization/

Final Fantasy XIV’s numbers are actually subs
http://www.vcpost.com/articles/87251/20150831/final-fantasy-14-milestone-square-enix-mmorpg-5-million-susbscribers-inconsistency.htm

WildStar CBT – Shade’s Eve!
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/130622-shades-eve-livestream/

 

MMO Community

Guild Wars 2 Reporter
http://mmoreporter.com/category/podcast/gwreporter-podcast/

Happy Hearthstone
http://gamediplomat.com/category/happy-hearthstone/

 

If I Were a Dev

 

Holding sponsored in-game events: Who, What, When, How?

JOE:

Who: Using both staff (GMs) and volunteers (MODS)

What: Dungeon / Raid events with in-game dynamic changes, such as “chase the villain through the dungeon” where the villain is a GM or MOD with specific timing and goals, RP events in player housing, Puzzle contests in the forums. Boss spawns in the wilderness, along with in-game RP, and of course, HOLIDAYS

How: on the forums via some puzzle solving, RP, etc. for forum badges and in-game for a variety of awards for achievements, RP, etc.

When: Monthly for the forums and in-game events, and coinciding with key holidays, including international holidays.

DREW:

Anything that makes players get together and kill each other. (some ideas: dev makes themselves a powerful bounty target, rare relic shows up and players have to hold it for 10 minutes without dying, etc)

Scheduled events that rotate through every day, so players always know when their favorite is going to come up next in the rotation, allows for players doing the content they want to do for the rewards they need.

Holiday events are fun, but no direct tie-in to real-life holidays except for the timeframe. No pink hearts in February, no Christmas trees, but the ideas of love and family could be present, for example.

 

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This week’s end music is Main Theme from Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns

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Episode 18: Do these guys take a breath?

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Battle of Kyhlo in Guild Wars 2
Battle of Kyhlo in Guild Wars 2

Back from a long break (thanks to Drew teaching a summer class), we talk changes and expansions coming to Star Trek Online, World of Warcraft, Archeage, Wildstar, and SWTOR! Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we always promise to have a new episode, SOON(™), reserved, copyright, service mark.

MMO News

WoW Legion
http://www.chinatopix.com/articles/62800/20150823/world-of-warcraft.htm

Final Fantasy 14 reaches 5 million players
http://www.pcgamer.com/final-fantasy-xiv-has-5-million-registered-accounts/

SWTOR Livestream – KotFE details!
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=8396041#edit8396041

WildStar F2P Closed Beta
http://www.wildstar-online.com/uk/news/2015-08-11-closed-beta-testing-commencing-now/

Also, WildStar China is starting off well…
https://twitter.com/DapperDonatelli/status/628488870598975488/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

The reason the game needs FTP:
http://massivelyop.com/2015/07/31/guild-wars-2-is-up-again-wildstar-is-down-again-in-ncsofts-2015-q2-financial-report/

Funcom is for sale
http://www.funcom.com/investors/update_on_lego_minifigures_online_and_the_financial_situation_of_the_compan
http://www.vg247.com/2015/08/11/age-of-conan-secret-world-dev-funcom-up-for-sale/

Crowfall talks Crowd Control
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-08-20/crowfall_team_shared_their_ideas_on_crowd_control.shtml

Star Trek Online announces Season 11: New Dawn (aka “More Picard, Less Kirk”)
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9488023

ArcheAge – Xfers coming with 2.0, free transfers through 9/4.
http://www.trionworlds.com/archeage/en/2015/08/14/server-transfers-evolutions-everything-you-need-to-know/

MMO Community

XamXam’s analysis of the KotFE trailer: http://www.xamxamsays.com/swtor-kotfe-become-the-outlander-gameplay-trailer-analysis/

Wildstar’s surprisingly awesome RP

www.wildstar-roleplay.com

STO Foundry “Effect, then Cause”
@RogueEnterprise

Unholy alliance podcast

KatiaRacer Wildstar plot

Shout out to Doom Kitty (@doomkittyentity), Mayor Dasmoose (@mayordasmoose), and Kelzam (@clchaotix)

Special Topic: Time Travel

Let’s talk about the different ways Time Travel has been done in MMOs.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/10/perfect-ten-great-mmo-time-travel-adventures/

TSW – The Haunting, The Last Train To Cairo (Issue 6 story arc), The Darkness War

STO – The Night of the Comet, Iconian story arc, (Foundry mission: Effect, Then Cause)

Rift – Defiant tutorial

LOTRO flashbacks

GW2 chronomancer

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chronomancer

WoW TimeWalking, Caverns of Time

 

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Episode 17: I love lamp…I mean Joe

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Galaxy-class cruiser from Star Trek Online
Galaxy-class cruiser from Star Trek Online

This week we discuss a crap-ton of launches, Wildstar’s Livestream and AMA, Crowfall’s knight powers, ESO’s “holy-crap-did-you-release-a-new-game”-sized patch, and more! Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where our launches are more frequent, but crash less, than SpaceX’s…

MMO News

 

WildStar Livestream and AMA Recap
http://www.twitch.tv/wildstar/v/6811764
http://wildstar-core.com/2015/07/03/wildstar-class-team-reddit-ama-recap/

Launches:

  1. Tera “Go Berzerk”
    http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-07-07/tera_go_berserk_update_launches_today.shtml
  2. Maple Story 2 Open Beta http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-07-07/maplestory__enters_open_beta_today_with_new_trailer_released.shtml
  3. Skyforge open beta http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Skyforge-Open-Beta-Launches-Month-72849.html http://www.neoseeker.com/news/27052-skyforge-f2p-mmo-collaboration-between-obsidian-and-allods-starts-open-beta-on-july-16/
  4. Cabal 2
    http://www.gamezone.com/news/cabal-2-officially-launches-on-pc-3420776
  5. Civilization online, From XL Games, releases 2 videos http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-07-04/civilization_online_revealed_two_concept_videos.shtml (treading carefully here!)
  6. Action RPG Devilian announced, from Trion (also treading carefully) http://www.gamereactor.eu/news/327964/Trion+Worlds+reveals+Devilian,+a+new+ARPG-MMO/

Crowfall’s Knight Powers, and lamp detailed
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-07-07/crowfall_knight_powers_and_ui_concept_preview.shtml

ESO: 15GB PS4 patch
http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2015/06/24/the-elder-scrolls-online-gets-a-15-9gb-playstation-4-patch/

 

MMO Community

 

WildStar – Black Dagger Society’s Liestyles of Nexus – https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/128865-lifestyles-of-nexus-iv-a-new-home/

Mikei
https://youtu.be/4oFPIKOWkyQ

Holosuite Media
http://holosuitemedia.com/home/tribbles/

 

If I Were a Dev

 

Let’s talk class stories… because SWTOR and GW2, as well as TSW took radically different approaches, and now SWTOR is on nearly the same track as GW2 and TSW.

  1. Class stories or central story? Or both?
  2. How pervasive would the story be (% in game tasks advancing the story vs other tasks)
  3. How many expansions would you pre-design, including cinematics, soundtrack, and voice acting, would you have ready-and-waiting by launch?

JOE:

  1. Central story. SWTOR’s right to make the change
  2. 100% of non-repetitive tasks would advance the central story, though only 50% would feel like it does.
  3. At least enough for three years of main-story advancement – given an 18mo or so expansion cycle, the main game and two expansions. Very important for audio!

DREW:

  1. Central + zones + class-based thing per zone
  2. The only “quest-ish” things would affect the story
  3. No idea. As much as possible before the studio made me launch too early.

 

 

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This week’s end music is The Siege of Alderaan from Star Wars: The Old Republic.

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Episode 11: Medium Rare Content and Arbitrary Walls

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The brilliant map voting process in Guild Wars 2.
The brilliant map voting process in Guild Wars 2.

This week we discuss bans for exploration, Black Desert’s media push, Left Shark, and more! Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and and we don’t click our skills, but only because we keep dragging them off our bars…

MMO News

Moar WildStar

Boxes and boxes of mounts and outfits – retail box codes giving mounts and an outfit.

Speaking of in-game items, Left Shark is going to be a BATTLE PET in WoW
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/04/23/7430485.aspx

Steam gets community Steamed.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/24/valves-launch-of-paid-mods-faces-backlash-from-community/

And then Valve opens up… “We’ve done this because it’s clear we didn’t understand exactly what we were doing,”
http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-has-removed-paid-mods-functionality-from-steam-workshop/

New Daybreak Games (formerly Sony Online Entertainment) site
https://www.daybreakgames.com/home

Also, Daybreak aren’t dummies – they get community management.
http://massivelyop.net/2015/04/29/everquest-emulator-group-gets-a-written-agreement-with-daybreak/

The natural next question? Will a SWGemu agreement be in the works? No. Definitely not. Not their IP, for starters.  Lucasarts / Disney own the rights. Only one AAA MMO with the Star Wars IP allowed… that’s why SWG shut down rights as SWTOR launched. Zero overlap.

Loads of Black Desert News ahead of Japanese Open Beta
http://my.mmosite.com/2939211/blog/item/beta_date_for_black_desert_onlinejp_information_about_the_future_content.html

World of Tanks – Possible new MOBA style gameplay?
http://www.mmobomb.com/news/wargaming-teases-new-world-tanks-game-mode/

Aion – Expansion due soon!
http://www.mmobomb.com/news/aions-next-free-expansion-upheaval-coming-spring/

The meaty meaty center of tonight’s episodes:
SWTOR 3.2 is live. Kind of.
http://www.swtor.com/gameupdates/rise-of-the-emperor
Class changes
Outfit Designer
Rise of the Emperor Content and the SWTORGATE
BANS!!!!! MOAR BANS!!!! 204 Main hand? You killed a WHAT?

 

MMO Community

Elio cars
https://youtu.be/_JHEm9YYIjU

Empress of the Pagodas (performed by Christopher Parkening)
https://youtu.be/ggoMl7pUQC4

 

If I Were a Dev

Engine Update!

.Net Core released for Linux and Mac. Not enough to build a game engine on, but it won’t be long… a truly cross-platform system. Woot.

 

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Episode 10: Where are dese clowns from?

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A mother of a motherboard... Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard
A mother of a motherboard…
Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard

This week we discuss rumors, tokens, how hookups aren’t like dates, and more! Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and we don’t dupe items, we control markets.

MMO News

Since I’m playing WildStar again, I thought I’d lead off with this sad news about WildStar… because that game just can’t get a break.
http://arcadesushi.com/ncsoft-layoffs-mmorpg-support-wildstar-guild-wars/

I call BS – Article says Interplay blocking Fallout MMO. This was settled in 2012… unless there’s been an appeal.
http://customstoday.com.pk/interplay-entertainment-blocks-attempt-of-bethesda-to-turn-fallout-4-into-massive-mmorpg-title/

More BS in the Press – Kind of like how a hookup isn’t a date. It’s just vaguely date-like. Sort of like calling sometime in 2016 a release date for Black Desert Online.
http://www.youthhealthmag.com/articles/13608/20150411/black-desert-release-date-us-ps4-gameplay-online.htm

For those who enjoy Asian MMOs, Age of Wulin is getting it’s fifth chapter (the fourth expansion), Heaven’s Ascent.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/240645/Age_of_Wulin_New_expansion_ldquoChapter_5_HeavenrsquosAscentrdquo_for_April.php

WoW’s version of CREDD and PLEX is live.
http://www.reviewstudio.net/2218-world-of-warcraft-s-token-system-goes-live-today

And of course, there’s a chart already…
https://wowtoken.info/

Neverwinter for XBOne is live.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/xbox.one.neverwinter.free.to.play.mmo.launches/51276.htm

And their twitter feed shows us they’ve had a slew of issues:
https://twitter.com/NeverwinterGame

Second Life players try to find relevance for the game through development… of an MMO inside of SL.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/04/players-built-an-mmo-inside-ofsecond-life-and-it-looks-wild/

Do we really need a Tom Clancy shooter MMO?
http://www.crossmap.com/news/tom-clancys-the-division-release-news-roundup-5-things-fans-can-expect-from-the-much-awaited-mmo-g-17462

 

MMO Community

We Hate People – a podcast by filthy casuals, for filthy casual. Or is that the tagline to Flashpoint? Same guys, two podcasts – one about MMOs, one about general pop culture.
https://www.facebook.com/WeHatePeoplePodcast
http://oceanicgamer.com/

Joe’s new build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ypvff7 – bear in mind I already had an SSD drive, so the build includes two, while my rig has three, and I was wrong – it’s just a 500w power supply. It only draws 328w, so no biggie. I’m also STILL waiting on shipping of my GTX and second DIMM. Argh.

Jason Evangelho’s $750 build:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2015/04/09/build-a-high-quality-1080p60fps-gaming-pc-for-750-benchmarks-included/

 

If I Were a Dev

How would you handle death and penalties?

JOE: No item penalties: Repair costs are a cheap cash sink. Allow for one free rez-in-place, then offer a timer-driven system (with a currency cost to buy-down the timer) or a rez-and-run.
DREW: Full item drop and lootable body. Leave only equipped items. If you find your body before other players, you can pick it back up. Due to limited inventory space, most people won’t be able to take all of your stuff though. Backpack rigged to blow.

 

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