Free to Play Cast: E3 2017, Magic: The Gathering, and Surprising Survey Results Ep 224
On this week's show we run down our winners and losers from E3 2017, point out our favorites from the show, cover the convention's F2P news, chat about Magic Duels shutting down, and reveal the surprising results of Jason's survey. All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!
Discussion Timestamps:
02:32 E3 Review
27:36 Magic Duels Closing, A Magic MMORPG in the Works
40:37 MMO Survey Results
50:04 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
57:35 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!
You May Enjoy
Always Online Podcast: FFXIV Patch 6.15, Sony's State of Play, Roller Champions, And Very Early Thoughts on LEAP Ep 434
Getting down and dirty with some games coming up and some that are leaving us!
By Michael Byrne - 3 weeks agoTop 5 Free to Play Weekly Stories - Diablo Immortal Gets Destroyed By Reviewing Players Ep 513
Yeah...turns out that if you don't do monetization right the reviews may suffer.
By Michael Byrne - 3 weeks agoTop 5 Free to Play Weekly Stories - League of Legends New Champ And A New Gaming Union! Ep 511
The votes were counted, now negotiation will begin.
By Michael Byrne - 1 month agoAlways Online Podcast: Peeking At Starkeepers, Exoprimal, ReVerse, Texas Chainsaw, & Is XBox Game Pass A Good Thing? Ep 436
The game reveals just keep coming so let's look at things we want to try out soon!
By Michael Byrne - 1 week agoTop 5 Free to Play Weekly Stories - This Is What That Marvel MMO Would've Looked Like, Yikes! Ep 512
Maybe getting the axe was the best thing for the game as this looked more Pixar than Marvel.
By Michael Byrne - 4 weeks agoTop 5 Free to Play Weekly Stories - Valorant Will Be Listening To Your Mic And Tower of Fantasy Release Ep 515
Yep...and chat will be recorded for use in player reporting.
By Michael Byrne - 2 days ago
On Nintendo particularly, in the past I said Switch is a tablet with a custom pad and I still stand by it. I'm sorry but nothing grounbreaking can ever come out of a tablet's processing power in our current day and age, again the only game worth playing on any Nintendo platform is Zelda and really how many reiterations of a Mario 64 platformer can you play until you get bored? And please if you want a "tactics" type of game get XCom 2 and/or Atlas Reactor and/or Duelyst and/or Smite Tactics, that thing looks like "this is an intro for 12y olds to tactics games" than a full fledged tactical RPG. It's also funny how they present the console as a thing that everyone will pool around a table to see people play, get it out of your head, no one will spend time looking at you playing a console on a random table. - "Nintendo, we have puzzles and bubbles in all the irritating flashy colors since 1985!"
To Magicman in particular, question to the panel, How's that FF14 experience this week? ( I hear top notch queues, questing bugs, DCs and overall bad server issues. #FinalFrustration14 ? )
Da-Bomb to Vampyr, from what I've seen about the game it seems that story driven RPGs are more what I look into games, dark, gritty, immersive and let's hope with great replayability. A-Bomb to people that think that "fun" is a synonym of "competitive", it's not, while one leads to a happy feeling the whole day the other leads to frustration, rage and an unconfortable feeling when you win.
Question of the Week, If I have to pick quality and quantity all in 1 company's presentation I'd say Sony won with 4 good mid-high quality titles (Spiderman, Call of Duty, Destiny and God of War). If I have to pick top 3 games I'd say in order Anthem, God of War and Vampyr. If I have to pick Top Rehash Gaming Companies, Nintendo and Bethesda won by far.
classic Byrne
Weekly bomb: I'm gonna start by giving an a-bomb to Q. Please take no offense to this Q. It's a pleasure to listen to you and everyone else involved in the podcast, but i was thinking to challenge my self to take a shot each time she says "you know" and "i don't know". I gave that up quickly as... you know... i'm not much of a drinker and ... i don't know... i'd probably just comatose in 10 min.
I've also got a weekly bomb to an update i've been waiting for some time for Gloria Victis, the combat update. It is early into the update, they call this a soft launch of the update, but i am disappointed at the moment. While the animations are cool looking and realistic, the combat still doesn't feel good to me. I hope they can fix it, but for the time being it gets an a-bomb.