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F2P Cast: 9.99 For Access to the Show (Ep 41)
This week, the F2P Cast panel delves into even MORE games charging for guaranteed beta access, an absurd "advanced play" amount of time, and other bits and pieces. We mix in our Weekly Bombs and make a "cash grab" for yours! Sit back, grab and drink, and chill listening to this all new episode!
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So...is Guild Wars 3 a thing or not and what's up with that League of Legends MMO?
Was the wait for this troubled title worth it?
You can play ALL the games, but some just keep enticing you.
Do "MMO" and "MMORPG" mean the same thing in your mind or is "MMO" more encompassing than that?
I'd also like to give an A-Bomb to Age of Wushu for waiting till May 3rd to launch the game. It shouldn't take that long, especially when the game is already developed! I also have to give them an A-Bomb for charging $10 for the beta. Why don't they just come flat out and say, "By the way, were taking your money to play a game that might not live up to it's standards, but hey, you get to come in 90 days before everyone else and rub it in their faces." Sorry for my rant there. :D
Any way, super happy that I can spend the 1st year anniversary with you guys as a member! Great mile stone for mmobomb and hope for some more epic years to come!
~MasterZixina
To Magicman: Cheers! Always a beer in hand during the show.......always :)
I have to give a two part bomb this week, both going to World of Warplanes.
DaBomb for being really fun to play (with a joystick)
ABomb for sucking hardcore with a mouse and keyboard, honestly i wouldn't touch this if i didnt have a joystick. Hopefully they will make adjustments to the controls....fingers crossed.
As for the RAWRRRRR, I always RAWRRRRR!
RAWRRRRR
It's like going to a mechanic and he pays to you to fix your car. How awesome is that. It only shows how people can be brutally stupid....ok, mostly nowadays "First!" kids.
A-Bomb for Gpotato's Flyff trying to get people back into the game with item giveaways. I created a new character and did not see a single Player Character for the entire 15 minutes derping around.
Da Bomb for Roit Games and the greatest e-sport event (World Championships League of Legends Season 2) I am lucky enough to witness: HD-Stream on own3d AND twitch in several languages and VODs of all matches. E-sports to the next level? More like: Last thing seperating it from regular sport is massive media presence.
A-Bomb for Wild Shadow Studios for letting Item Dupers destroy the economy of Realm of the Mad God over many weeks.
and a final DA BOMB (!) for YOU Mr. Magicman, Sir, for pronouncing my name correctly.
May your connections be stable
qroxta
Magicman, Host's or community,
Question i have already asked Brim and got his awnser.
Is Runescape F2P or P2P ?
Plz explain why you choose your responce.
For week's now ever since this Subs are dead has been brought up,
Why ! Has not one person mentioned this game from 2001 ever been brought up and with the price jump from 5-8$ a month for content after lvl 60 and quests pre lvl 60 ever been mentioned?
Don't say Runescape sucks, We all have our opinion's and truthfully this game is not for me,But
It has probably as many subscribers paying as WoW doe's!
Jagex, I will give them a Da-Bomb for this New feature that i have not seen in any game Ever before.
No, This will not fix the bot problem and for them i Hope it never doe's and thus it probably will encourage more bot's. Why, This feature now give's players that are maxed lvl and still hang out as a social networking site, Kinda like what you called WoW.
But now you have some entertainment while chatting to your friends. Love It !
Inflictious
btw wtf magicman. this podcast you said that you did not like that age of Wushu was charging 10 bucks for beta access.and EVERBODY is so happy that PLANETSIDE TWO is in closed beta and a f2p. but you can pay like 40 buck for access the beta also, same as wushu. so magic plz tell me whats the diff between planet side 2 and wushu. are people pissed at wushu but not planet. and if so why.
Dunno if I should give an A-Bomb to the individual publishers, their games, Nvidia or my own computer, but it's to do with sudden FPS drops in games like GW2 and Dota 2. It's really frustrating when it happens, especially in the heat of battle, as it could mean the difference between life or death. Checking out both the GW2 and Dota 2 forums, and I see I'm not the only one with the problem. In fact, the issue is affecting a lot of people with higher specs than me (even those with GTX 670s and higher), or at least higher than minimum/recommended specs. So basically for now, I've had to put both those games on hold.
Like I said last week, betas have lost their meaning. Sure, people still test bugs and such, but with most betas, it's basically just a trial or early access. Hell, The International for Dota 2...that used a beta client.
Speaking of betas acting as trials reminded me of GW2's beta. They pretty much perfected (well as much as they could) the starting zones, but when the game was officially released with the rest of the content, there were a heap of bugs in later areas because they couldn't be tested in the betas. Here the issue is this: Should beta tests give access to the whole game so all bugs can be quashed or should they only give access to a small amount of content so the rest can be kept for release?
Last thing, with the 52nd f2p cast being live, will there be a recorded version available still for those that can't make it to the live podcast?
the game looks good
so my da-bomb goes for Black Desert Online
idk if I'm doing this correctly
And for the question of the week i say you do a TF2 match with zombie dragons flying around, Skeletons pop out of the wall with AK-47's, Orc's shooting grenade launchers at you, and then a huge pit of firey death that will steal your soul (and yes the pit is ginger). AND THEN MAKE IT TO THE ULITMATE SHOWDOWN OF ULITMATE DESTINY!!!
Da BOMB for wizardry onlines permadeath now all they need is a skill progression system like skyrim a level system alongside it only have swords (i know irony fun all round) and then it'll be perfect.
A BOMB for not having an mmo with flying (angel, fearie, demon w/e self powered flight) that does not limit flying in anyway not being released yet.
DA bomb for the whole f2p caste cast
A Bomb For real virtual reality not being invented yet
A Bomb for Aria games not releasing lime odyssey not launching even though alpha was a year or longer ago.
A BOMB F BOMB COMBI ATTACK!!!! for every cookie cutter mmo with the balls to change (secret world tried and failed, but i say learn from the fail)
DA BOMB for damina's revolution
hope these are enough to keep you on your toes magicman I don't want to hear you say there's no bombs again (i gave mine last time proberly wasnt fast enough)
PS. You never did E-mail me back lol.
On that note I have a DABomb for Firefall! The game does need a little bit of a tutorial, when I first started playing I was running around looking for !'s for quests, but later found out you find quests as you walk, run and fly around which once I figured that out its a breath of fresh air. The game is fun and beautiful. As they add more quests and things to do, this game could be the ultimate sci-fi MMO. I know people are looking forward to Planetside 2 (as am I) but I don't know how its going to beat Firefall, we can only hope it equals it because we need more good sci-fi MMO's.
Oh and I have to disagree with Damina on the subject of games getting worse and worse because publishers/developers sell beta access. Sure, beta-testing have somewhat lost its original meaning (although there are companies that still do beta-testing the right way). But it has nothing to do with ability to buy access to beta. In fact I don't even see it as paying to get in the beta. You're paying to support development and for that you're getting some kind of special reward that includes early access to the game.
The only difference between this and some special edition of p2p or b2p game is that here you're getting early access to an unfinished game. But that's just the way free to play games work. They are never truly finished. They continue to grow and change from the first days of alpha to the last days of their existence. Besides... Beta access is not the only thing you're getting for buying founder's package. Usually they give you exclusive in-game items and/or currency that are worth much more than you paid.
And it's not like players who bought their way into beta can thwart beta-testing in some way. Those who want to get in alpha/beta to actually do the testing always find their way into given alpha/beta. I can say it from my personal experience. The problem is that most companies don't give a damn about player feedback nowadays. At best they are going to fix a few submitted bugs, at worst they are going to ignore everything you say and use beta for advertisement purposes only. But as I already said, it has nothing to do with people who bought "founder's package" (or however it's called in a given game).
And by the way.... it's not pay for beta is paying for a package of things that includes beta. If people are just using it just to get into beta and dont care about everything else that's their view of things but is really not the actual case.
Unless this stuff is required to get into the game there shouldn't be any problem. This is MMOBOMB for god's sake, you guys give out keys for everything as well as other sites.... why does anyone care about some people wanting to pay for stuff?
This is exactly the same silly arguments that were going around when special/limited edition first started to become a norm.