You know what...I'm not going to spoil this one by putting something leading here in the description...you really just have to check out this First Look of Grimoire Manastorm...it'll be worth your few minutes to watch. To f...
By Michael Byrne -
Free to Play Cast: Lootboxes Suck, LOTRO Slips Up, and What a First Look! Ep 238
On this week's show we finally get around to expressing out thoughts on Lootboxes, we chat about some games that have made the F2P switch, and we also find a way to talk some Fortnite and Secret World Legends. All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!
Discussion Timestamps:
01:27 Lootbox Breakdown
44:22 Fortnite's Number's and SWL's New Content
52:28 Deceive and Grimoire Manastorm
58:23 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
1:05:15 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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