Free to Play Cast: Is Esports Hurting, What Will Go F2P, and Guardians of Ember Reviewed Ep. 288
On this week's show Daybreak, Blizzard, and Riot have all taken esports hits, but is that a slice of something bigger or not, what games do we think could go F2P this year, and we wrap it up with a review of Guardians of Ember. All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!
Discussion Timestamps:
02:19 Is Esports Hurting?
17:54 What Games Could Go F2P in 2019?
34:05 Guardians of Ember Review
42:36 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
49:09 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
Top 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 agoAlways Online Podcast: Summer Game Fest Multiplayer Games, Stormgate, Warhammer 40K Darktide, And "Apparently" Ep 435
Breaking down what we thought of the Summer Game Fest keynote and, specifically, all the multiplayer titles!
By Michael Byrne - 3 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 - 1 week 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 - 2 weeks 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 - 1 month agoTop 5 Free to Play Weekly Stories - Spellbreak is Shutting Down and Denuvo Expands Its Influence Ep 516
Your "favorite" anti-piracy software is now moving into the DLC market.
By Michael Byrne - 10 hours ago
QOTW:(oh boy this ended up been way longer than expected , i'm sorry )I don't think that esports are in trouble , yes there might be problems to the competitive sides of some game but not the industry as a whole , i mean my God , Starcraft still has a living and breathing esport scene , the thing is , it's not going to bring as much money as sports do ,basketball , football , baseball , those bring a lot of money way more then games do , right now anyway , and besides , to watch sports it's easier than watching esports , it's not hard to understand what's happening on the football field but you need to know dota 2 when you watch the dota 2 championship, its absolute nonsense , a mishmash of colors , if you never played the game, so the audience is way smaller , and even so there are way to many games that try to go for the big esport scene , like it's the only important thing , none of the games that are the big money makers in esports were intended to be esports , Starcraft was the biggest RTS , DOTA and LOL come from a mod in war 3 , CS was pretty much an lan game to have fun with your friends , The biggest problems , in my opinion, are the greedy devs that look for a way to exploit the competitive side of the game for money instead of making the game good enough for the players to have long time interest in the game . The esports are not going to go anywhere in the age where games are coming out on a daily basis .