Free to Play Cast: Defiance 2050, Lootboxes, and Who Owns Daybreak? Ep. 259
UPDATE: At 23:53 we state that Renova Group owns Columbus Nova, while many outlets have reported that, what we can find only indicates that Remova made US investments through Columbus Nova, not owned them. Stay Tuned.
On this week's show we break down our impressions on the new Defiance 2050 beta, laugh at companies like EA who just had lootboxes outlawed and specific games were mentioned, then we try to wrap our head around all the news and rumors surrounding Daybreak Games. All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!
Discussion Timestamps:
02:44 Defiance 2050 First Look Review
14:39 Belgium Bans Lootboxes
22:00 Who is Daybreak's Daddy? 23:53
51:40 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
1:01:15 Questions and Answers of the Week
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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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It's an A-bomb kind of week *sigh*.
A-bomb to Halo 5. I finally decided to get an Xbox one, so I could play Halo 5. I play the series primarily to go through the story co-op with my hubby, and do couch multiplayer with family and friends. Well. Screw you, Microsoft. I can't do either. Didn't even occur to me to check such a thing since that's never happened in the history of Halo. I returned the stupid thing, games and all.
A-bomb to FFXIV's 'Customer Service' (Settle down, Magicman, it's not about the actual game). I tried to sub for six months for the hubby and I so we could get back into it, but it kept giving me two seperate errors. After several tries (and a call to my bank to be double-y sure), I put in a ticket describing my issue in detail. I got back a canned response that made it clear they never read my ticket, to which I responded that their reply had nothing to do with my problem and that I was still having it. To date (this was almost a week ago), they have not replied back except to tell me to fill out a survey on my 'experience'. Oh believe me, I filled out that survey and told them exactly what I thought. Careful Square, you're not the only game out there, and you wouldn't be the first to make me walk away due to terrible service.
QOTW : I have the same mindset for Daybreak since they canceled landmark , shut down and fuck off , i don't care under what overlord they serve ,they do not deserve mercy or redemption , they screwed over too many players to many times .