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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 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 16: Blizzard is the New TSA

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Beautiful Wildstar vista from https://twitter.com/lady_annieloy
Beautiful Wildstar vista from @lady_annieloy

 

This week we discuss Wander’s issues, Guild Wars 2’s issues, World of Warcraft’s issues, and other issues. Issues. That word has lost all meaning to me now. Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and where our lore in stuck in their canon…

MMO News

 

Guild Wars 2
Heart of Thorns Preorder controversy: http://massivelyop.com/2015/06/18/why-guild-wars-2s-prepurchase-deal-has-the-internet-raging/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pre-purchase-community-address/
Specializations: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/specializations-part-one-a-primer/
Reward tracks and Elite Specs: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/specializations-part-one-a-primer/
Spec changes: http://dulfy.net/2015/06/16/gw2-june-23-specialization-changes/

Azeroth Do Not Fly list becomes a premium-air-experience feature.
http://massivelyop.com/2015/06/10/world-of-warcraft-to-allow-flight-in-draenor-in-a-post-6-2-patch/

TSW – $42 for ALL of it… amazing deal for a b2p game.
http://www.thesecretworld.com/news/the_ultimate_edition_is_here
http://www.thesecretworld.com/news/the_franken_chopper_is_here

Wanderlaunch and… Wandercrash
http://massivelyop.com/2015/05/28/explorer-centric-wander-launches-june-4th-with-new-hira-form/
http://massivelyop.com/2015/06/08/wander-struggles-with-bugs-crashes/

 

MMO Community

 

Flashpoint celebrates their 100th episode.

Ootinicast is over 200 (I was in Vegas that week I think)

@lady_annieloy

Xam Xam’s Lore post on Vitiate and the Fallen Empire
http://www.xamxamsays.com/?p=1766

I6: Ravenloft

Secretly Kephess:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=8256270

I want to to Believe:
http://ootinicast.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/I-want-to-believe-Kephess.jpg

 

If I Were a Dev

 

How would you handle content release cycles – how often and what level of content?

JOE: Monthly mini-updates (adventure-sized instances, not a full dungeon). Quarterly new dungeons. Bi-annual new raids. Foundry.

DREW: Quarterly. Don’t lie to the customer. No one has been able to make monthly updates work. Your customers make most of the content for a PvP game anyway. There will be monthly balancing patches, because you cannot let things get out of hand.

 

 

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This week’s end music is Deep Space Nine from Star Trek Online.

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Episode 14: High on Math

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Cutscene from Guild Wars 2

 

This week we discuss Lego, Wildstar (and how it has to be going F2P soon), and the best and worst of SWTOR. Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and where our crit chance is 100% but our hit chance is 0%…

MMO News

Wildstar Goes Wild
That whole reddit thing EXPLODED. Apparently the Carbine staffer in question proved their employment status with a redacted W2. Of course, they could be ANYWHERE on the totem pole. Interesting to watch unfold, though keep the tinfoil hats on. Also, could be easily forged… so who the hell knows.

New Wildstar Twitter Community
Joe is starting up a version of #SWTORfamily for WildStar, #WSFamily. Tweet or DM @joseph_foran if you’d like to be added to the lists.
https://twitter.com/swtorfamily

So, why am I back in WildStar?
Easier to just post a link: http://www.reddit.com/r/WildStar/comments/2vk4uo/just_saw_this_while_wildstar_website_is_under/coiybih

SWTOR
3.2.1 Patch released to the wild! Amazingly, servers don’t implode.
http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes/5262015/game-update-3.2.1-patch-notes

Lego Minifigures Online (semi-MMO) changing its business model
http://mmoatk.com/mmo-news/lego-minifigures-online-adopting-new-financial-model-pay-play-fails-impress/

Zam lays off Staff
Can’t find link, just lots of tweets from staffers

Echo of Soul Gameplay video
http://www.mmoreviews.com/echo-of-soul-gameplay-commentary/

Neverwinter Upcoming Changes to ToEE
http://massivelyop.com/2015/05/14/neverwinter-outlines-new-and-upcoming-changes/

TERA most played MMORPG on Steam
http://massivelyop.com/2015/05/21/en-masse-says-that-tera-is-the-most-played-mmorpg-on-steam/

TERA releasing inactive character names
http://massivelyop.com/2015/05/27/tera-is-releasing-inactive-character-names/

 

MMO Community

Launch of MMO-Central
http://www.mmo-central.com/

H1Z1 Cheaters unbanned…if they are really sorry
http://www.gamesradar.com/h1z1-cheaters-will-be-unbanned-if-they-publicly-apologise/

Conan Witcher 3 bit
https://youtu.be/SfjLRuE1CLw

Bad Feeling Podcast
http://badfeelingpodcast.com/

Metalsucks Podcast
http://www.metalsucks.net/2015/05/27/this-is-what-master-of-puppets-would-sound-like-with-st-angers-snare-drum/

It’s a Trap Podcast
http://itsatrappodcast.com/

Ootinicast
http://ootinicast.com

 

Best and Worst of…

SWTOR

Best: Pre-60 PvP and Starfighter

Worst: Not-Pre-60 PvP (lack of content updates, world PvP)

Best: Story

Smuggler’s One-liners

Worst: Raid /Ops content release rate

Best: Legacy system, and banks

Worst: Slow response time on MAJOR bugs

Best: Travel

Worst: Fire and forget feature release (how’s that new Starfighter map coming, BioWare?)

Best: Companion system

Overall rating for the game: 4/5

 

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This week’s end music is Play This Way (a parody of Walk This Way by Aerosmith). Lyrics, guitars, and vocals by Drew Brandon, bass and drums from guitarbackingtrack.com.

PvP lover, always hiding undercover
In your guild till they try to say
They say “You wanna come raidin’
Best game you have played in
And you’re sure to be a-changin your ways”
I met the guild leader, was a real progression feeder
All the mats went straight to world firsts
But the best game playin’
Is when you are a-layin’
Waste to the other jerks, like this

Buff up, gear up, instill a good fear of us
They run away as soon as we load
Saying we are zerging, but we’re really iceberging
Cause we’re sinking all of their boats
So I don’t really care if you’re a carebear
If you mouse turn or use your keys
If you are backtracking
Then I’ll be attacking
And I’ll teach you your ABCs
You got to

Learn to Play

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Episode 8: Cavorting with Carla

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archeage dolphin

 

This week we are joined by special guest, Carla from Corellian Run Radio, Wildstar Radio, and Old Timers Guild leadership. We talk about Ultima Online memories, Archeage and their problems with dolphins, and more! Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where and we finally got that sparkly mount. (for 25 bucks…)

MMO News

ArcheAge (Carla) – Open World Updates and player interactions being prioritized
http://www.pcgamesn.com/archeage/archeage-to-focus-on-open-world-updates-and-player-interaction-instead-of-new-instances

ArcheAge (Carla) – Dolphingate
http://massivelyop.net/2015/03/20/trion-makes-amends-for-archeages-dolphingate/

Zam’s Post-PAX interview w/ ArcheAge’s Merv Lee Kwai
http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=35849

Crowfall – New VR option in stretch goal, becomes 16th most-funded game on KickStarter.
http://vrfocus.com/archives/13043/pc-mmo-crowfall-adds-vr-stretch-goal-kicktarter-campaign/

SWTOR – the end of TORhead
http://www.torhead.com/forum/TOR+General/topic/1972

SWTOR – New Community guy. Also, he’s an intelligence analyst,
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=8102497

H1-Z1… million!
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/zombie-mmo-h1z1-hits-1m-sales/1100-6426112/

It’s not an MMO, or is it… Mass Effect 4 will have MMO-like features, akin to DA:I
http://motoringcrunch.com/news/mass-effect-4-mmo-mode-will-be-like-dai/1009948/

Blizzcon dates have been confirmed
http://www.examiner.com/article/blizzcon-2015-convention-sale-dates-announced

 

MMO Community

Handless Gamer in League of Legends had skills, subject of documentary
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/140194-Documentary-Shows-Handless-MMO-Gamer-Skills

Plex and Credd and WoW Tokens, oh my! The growing trend of subscriptions bought with game currency.
http://swtoreconomics.com/2015/03/13/the-finest-form-of-flattery-why-swtor-should-imitate-wows-token-mechanic/

 

If I Were a Dev

What 5 unique concepts would you totally steal from other games?

JOE:

  1. SWTOR’s companion system
  2. WildStar’s instanced housing
  3. TSW’s ability wheel (just smaller)
  4. WoW’s roll-free group finder loot.
  5. WoW/TSW realm malleability

DREW:

  1. LOTRO’s mounted combat
  2. Naval combat from Assassin’s Creed IV
  3. Skill trees from SWTOR/WoW (I love hybrids)
  4. Banks from SWTOR
  5. Trial system in Archeage

CARLA:

  1. Fighting abilities from Ultima Online (drink potions while shooting bow, throwing explosion potions blowing up other explosion potions)
  2. LOTRO housing taxes payments a year in advance (and housing escrow which holds your stuff until you come back)
  3. Crafting from SWG (intricacy, detailed, go out and find iron in ground, take core samples, mine it, empty mining drill etc)
  4. SWG and UO NPC shop vendors that you set up to sell your stuff
  5. UO’s transportation system (recall runes, mark it in a book). Could mark it wherever you want.

 

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This week’s end music is Cute and Crafty (Wigwalli Villiage Theme) from Wildstar.

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Episode 6: Live Long and Prosper, Crowfall

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Player-held memorial for Leonard Nemoy in Star Trek Online
Player-held memorial for Leonard Nemoy in Star Trek Online

 

This week we talk about THE news of the week, Crowfall, and honor Leonard Nemoy’s passing. Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and we don’t Pay-2-Win!

MMO News

Crowfall episode

FFAQs (Favorite Favorite Asked Question pages)

MMO Community

Spock
http://massivelyop.net/2015/03/01/star-trek-online-star-citizen-and-elite-plan-leonard-nimoy-tributes/

If I Were a Dev

How would you handle gear customization (cosmetic)?

JOE: TSW-style

DREW: DCUO-style

 

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This week’s end music is the theme from Crowfall.

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Episode 4: Teo and Sunshine

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This week we talk about MMO side-scrollers, Crowfall, and Massively’s resurrection. Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and we have best-in-slot gear for RP!

 

MMO News

MMO Community

 

If I Were a Dev

What kind of stats would you have?

JOE:

  • One main stat for each class. Crit, Crit multiplier, Three mitigation stats – Blocking, Absorbing, Dodging, Uplift (aka Power or Mastery), Haste, plus several hidden stats to track gear score, combinations of stats, etc. for back-end analytics. NO hit. NO PvP-specific stat. (All gear levels will available in PvP and PvE – the best of the best gets the best)

DREW:

  • Main stat for each class or ONE master stat…
    • No accuracy
    • No avoidance
    • Mitigation is okay
    • PvP stat that interacts with a bolster mechanic in Battlegrounds
    • Crit and crit multiplier
    • Haste

 

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This week’s end music is Wildstar Theme – Metal Cover by DivinumX. Check out his awesome work here: http://divinumx.bandcamp.com/album/wildstar-theme-metal-cover

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Episode 3: The one where Joe sounds like a fish at the very end

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Screenshot_2014-02-23_13_11_55_705030108This week we talk a LOT about SWTOR, make a lot of TSW references, and try to get in as much off-topic ranty-ness as two people can reasonably fit in one podcast. Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and we grind like it’s 1999!

 

 

 

 

MMO News

MMO Community

The Ultimate Altaholic:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/22/world-of-warcraft-player-reaches-level-100-with-100-characters

Joe’s Nursenary:
http://swtorista.com/user/?c=341

HeroEngine’s HeroCloud (to compre to Atavism): http://www.heroengine.com/herocloud/

 

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This week’s end music is The Arclight from Firefall.