Free to Play Cast: Amazon Gets In On A LOTR MMO, New Studios, And More Lootboxes Ep. 305

On this week's show we find out that Amazon Game Studio will be working with Leyou on the previously announced new F2P Lord of the Rings MMO but what does that mean for LOTRO, UK may not consider lootboxes gambling, and new studios could be opened under 2 large companies...but what will they work on? All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!

Discussion Timestamps:

02:16 Amazon Game Studio Partners with Leyou On Lord of the Rings MMO
21:00 Good News for EA on Lootboxes?
27:21 New Studios with Unknown Projects
34:32 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
42:49 Questions and Answers of the Week

If you have submissions for the show's Weekly Bombs, have questions for the panel (nothing is off limits!), or just ideas for what you want covered you can now send them to magicman@mmobomb.com. You can also be a guest in the show, just send us why you want to host, and what topic or game you would like to cover.

Free-To-Play Cast is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about free to play multiplayer online games. Free-To-Play Cast takes on the week's biggest news with plenty of opinion, weekly bombs, community feedback, guests, laughs thrown in for good measure and much more. Have fun and expect a new episode next week!

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