Take on both a hostile planet and even more hostile enemies in Amazon Games' first entry into the free-to-play shooter genre, Crucible!...
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Free to Play Cast: PSO2's Botched PC Release, ArcheAge Fumbles, And A Shadow Arena Review Ep 342
On this week's show, PSO2, SEGA, and Microsoft team up for a horrendous PC launch filled with technical issues...and that was just on the game's download, we get Zach's thoughts on Crucible and then review Shadow Arena, and continuing the disaster train we park in the ArcheAge station and look at the expansion issues. All that and more on this week's Free to Play Cast!
Discussion Timestamps:
02:26 PSO2 Fumbles The Launch Ball
27:41 Shadow Arena Review (And Zach's Crucible Thoughts)
55:45 ArcheAge Expansion or DLC?
01:08:00 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb)
01:12:33 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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