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Episode 26: You really get my goat

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Is that a whip on your belt or are you just happy to see me?

 

This week we talk about karate kicks, goat kicks, gettin’ our kicks on Route 66, and more! Welcome to CCR, where we talk about MMOs and we don’t have alts, we have alt games…or at least I do…Joe just plays Wildstar…

 

MMO News

Blade and Soul Launched and passed 2 million players

Black Desert launches on 3/3. Currently in CBT 2

Smaller MMO Dragon Nest loses TWO YEARS of player data

Because we ALWAYS talk about Goats: Goat Simulator: The Bundle on XBox One

WildStar: State of the Game

TSW: New membership program

Marvel Heroes 2016

Repop Re-Servers

https://www.therepopulation.com/index.php/news/275-the-future-of-the-repopulation

 

MMO Community

 

DISCUSSION ARTICLE: Do North American and the European Union need more domestic MMO titles?

http://news.mmosite.com/content/2016-02-11/na_and_eu_need_more_domestic_mmorpgs.shtml

 

If I Were A Dev

Lore entries: How do you want to track and compile lore for your game? Should it open automatically, or be a usable item in the world?

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

Dynamic newspaper mechanic

 

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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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This week’s end music is Our Perception of Beauty by Jeff Kurtenacker from Wildstar

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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 16: Blizzard is the New TSA

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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 8: Cavorting with Carla

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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.