Free to Play Cast: Lootboxes "Not Gambling" In UK, 5 Year Retrospective, And Rapid Fire News Ep. 306

On this week's show we bring you rapid fire news from around the world of free-to-play gaming, delve into the UK's decision to not classify lootboxes as gambling, and take a walk down memory lane to view things we were happy or mad about 5 years ago. All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!

Discussion Timestamps:

01:52 Rapid Fire News Round
26:15 UK and Lootboxes
28:30 What were we pissed about 5 years ago?
34:36 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
39:59 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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