Free to Play Cast: Our 2018 Free MMO Predictions Sure to Go Wrong and BLAME PUBG! Ep. 247
On this week's show it's time to review the predictions we made last year and set down our new MMO predictions for 2018. Will we hit on any of them this year? Then we all gather and laugh at Nexon blaming the least likely thing for the failure of LawBreakers and we wrap it up with some Steam revenue chat. All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!On this week's show we gather together right between Christmas and New Year's to cover some smaller holiday news and to reveal our Best of 2017 MMO Awards, take a look at the worst of 2017, and cap it off with a look into what is the most anticipated of 2018 in the free-to-play arena! All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!
Discussion Timestamps:
02:17 Last Year's Predictions Reviewed, This Year's Revealed
29:54 Nexon Writes Off LawBreakers
38:00 Steam's Biggest F2P Earners in 2017
43:13 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
52:57 Questions and Answers of the Week
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The charm of the battle arena genre is parachuting in with nothing, no skill abilities, no weapons, running for some. In paladins...It just feels off. And already the beta footage is just that: Snipers trolling the map as they pop out, cap players far off, and run under cover to get a healers full heal, rinse and repeat as the non sniper just gets farmed. Of course it might be balanced, but as is....no....their CEO cries "mmorpgs not creative", as he contributes to uncreativity...I can solve that in 3..2...1...: DAMAGABLE TERRAIN ....give me a pay check in the mail, I just cured years of gaming with one single change.
Da-Bomb to Assassin's Creed Origins, combat feels like Dark Souls, map layout and graphx feels like Witcher 3, crafting is goodish, quests are relayed through conversation, and overall egypt awes the crowd. A-Bomb to flu and cold season, it has been a pretty bad couple of weeks for my nose.
QOTW: Fortnite will grow especially with the PVE side coming out, POE will be stable unless something groundbreaking and more new player friendly comes out, Warframe will grow since more zones like the plains will be added and the Umbra story quest will come out, Wildstar for me is tricky, I feel that if done right it could get HUGE atention but only if someone could pick it up and some decent development came up it's way, but unless something like that happens it will keep dwindling down, it might even shutter this year, Tera is same old, Dauntless will probably be great by the end of the year but not at open beta start, Anthem will disapoint, MTGArena will be good but it's a game that if done right only in a year or so will be great to compete with the other TCGs and Bethesda's Artif.... nah forget that. :P
-H