Casual Core Radio

This week we talk about more Wildstar F2P awesomeness, SWTOR’s KOTFE awesomeness, and other acronyms and their awesomeness. Welcome to CCR, where we talk about MMOs and where we watch Queuetimes while experiencing queue times...

Wildstar Free-to-Play Extravaganza!!!!

• http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/10/02/carbine-issues-update-on-wildstar-server-issues-following-free-to-play-launch

New Servers opened, will be merged back in (Again, we are prescient)

• http://www.gamespot.com/articles/enormous-demand-for-wildstars-f2p-version-forces-s/1100-6431114/

Rumors of a Console Version? If so, again with the prescience. Oh, and take a drink.

• http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ps4xbox-one-version-of-pc-mmo-wildstar-seems-to-ma/1100-6431113/

SWTOR News: Big Changes to Little Mechanics

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/367/view/news/read/36576/Star-Wars-The-Old-Republic-Significant-Changes-Coming-to-Several-Systems-in-KotFE.html

http://dulfy.net/2015/09/30/swtor-knights-of-fallen-empire-livestream-coverage/

Nexu mouse droid videohttps://youtu.be/YdcJIbgCAWk

A Look at TESO’s Siege System

• http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-10-05/why_elder_scrolls_onlines_sieging_is_awesome.shtml

ARK Expands to two new Biomes

• http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-09-28/ark_survival_evolved_expands_with_new_snow_and_swamp_biomes.shtml

The irony of watching Queue Times while spending time in queue... not lost. (DREW’S NOTE: Not irony, coincidence...it would be irony if you didn’t have queue times while you watched Queuetimes)

• http://twitch.tv/queuetimes

The Wildstar Roleplay Pizza Delivery

• http://www.wildstar-roleplay.com/forum/page/1/m/11410152/viewthread/24389493-carbine-pizza

Great summary of KotFE mechanics change

• http://www.unholyalliance.org/passionatelycasual

http://www.swtor.com/info/news/blog/20151002?sf41399211

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This week’s end music is The Mandalorian Blockade from Star Wars: The Old Republic

This week we talk about Dante’s Divine Comedy, drop-bears, the middle finger, and snorting lines of Aurin dander! Oh, and we also talk about Wildstar, ArcheAge, and Marvel Heroes, but that was the boring stuff. Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and where we stay up late to watch games launch (or more usually, crash over and over)!

Runescape’s Evil Twin: Darkscape (completely F2P) – From a Press Release

• http://www.biogamergirl.com/2015/09/darkscape-launches-for-pc-with-fresh.html

CCR will finally be a little positive about ArcheAge.

• http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-09-16/archeage_gets_much_needed_server_merges_and_land_reset.shtml

TSW stealing Wildstar’s ideas now

• http://www.thesecretworld.com/news/enjoy_the_hoverboard
• Wildstar dev puzzle for hoverboards

Marvel Heroes’ Limbo event is up until Oct. 2nd

• https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/236652/marvel-heroes-2015-1-72-patch-notes#latest
• Screenshot from Drew

Bad News for Korean MMOs ASTA, Devilian, Kritika, possibly TERA!! NO word on NA, EU, or other regions.

• http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-09-23/nhn_to_shut_down_several_games_including_tera_and_kritika.shtml
• http://massivelyop.com/2015/08/18/devilians-south-korea-server-is-shutting-down/
• http://mmoculture.com/2015/08/tera-publisher-announces-upcoming-closure-of-taiwan-server/

Contracts in Chronicles of Elyria

• http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/1308/feature/10148/Contracts-and-PlayerCreated-Professions.html/page/1

Speaking of WildStar – F2P by the time this is is out.

• http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/2015-09-23-wildstar-free-to-play-midnight-launch-party/

Random Trivia: This week I learned that Tim Russ, aka Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager and a voice actor in the Secret World, was also one of the troopers in SpaceBalls, “picking” the desert.

New Drinking Game: Whenever we mention Wildstar Radio

ThaydU.enjin.com

What level of control would you give addon content creators?

JOE: Expose interface for complete modification. Do not allow the casting of any combat abilities, except by click-per-event macros (with GCD limitation). Allow for converting to mouseover targeting

DREW: Hard-core PvP game, so obviously they would be able to edit the game client. It will be a code-to-win game...

Seriously, though, macros and keybinding should be highly customizable to begin with, but addons should have full control over the interface and targeting information.

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This week’s end music is Our Perception of Beauty by Jeff Kurtenacker from Wildstar

This week we talk about Crowfall’s Preorder Collector’s Edition, Wildstar’s plethora of events, Marvel Heroes’ unique branding strategy, and more! Welcome to Casual Core Radio, where we talk about MMOs and where if this were LOTRO, we would be getting the Undying title for not dying before reaching 20...

Marvel Heroes and the magic of numbers:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/252690/How_Marvel_Heroes_packaged_its_Phoenixstyle_rebirth.php

ArcheAge 2.0 – Launched, with a bit of drama
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-09-13/archeage_heroes_awaken_update_2.0_has_been_launched.shtml
http://www.mmobomb.com/news/glyph-authentication-issues-trigger-archeage-server-rollback/

Crowfall – Pre-Orders SOON
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2015-09-11/croefall_collectors_edition_will_start_pre_order_within_a_week.shtml
https://youtu.be/VsWcAjQ2pow

Arawulf Crowfall alpha
https://youtu.be/8nNKuO1S7Z4

Blade and Soul Beta Dates –
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/pc-mmo-blade-and-soul-closed-beta-dates-revealed/1100-6430415/

Wildstar – ALL the events!
http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/news/2015-09-10-in-game-events-preview/ (zPrix, Shades eve, Winterfest, double XP weekend, and more! )

http://wildstarradio.com/2013/03/29/episode-6-super-secret-guest-arrives/

WildBall
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/131253-wildball-the-wildstar-soccer-mini-game/

Joe – shoutouts to The Stillriver Tea House, The Villa, and Fringe Rangers Vigil

CipherMandy

What is your favorite MMO you’ve ever played (i.e. the “best” in your eyes)?

JOE: WildStar, this time around.

DREW:

https://twitter.com/The_Katbot/status/643154474182119425 as a joke

Guild Wars 2

What is the worst MMO you’ve ever played?

DREW:

Archeage

JOE:

Scarlet Blade.

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This week’s end music is The Midtown Manhattan Theme from Marvel Heroes

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This week we go over Guild Wars 2 news about raiding and the fantastic new Thief elite specialization (Daredevil), how Skyforge’s expansion is due out before it is even launched, the Wildstar Halloween event (Shade’s Eve), and how apparently Joe’s game is being made in Overland. Welcome to Casual Core Radio, we talk about MMOs and we are sweating more than our CPUs because it is stinkin’ hot outside and our computers have personal fans...

So, looks like some of our ideas are about to become somebody else’s reality:
http://www.mmo-central.com/2015/08/27/otherland-shows-new-gameplay-footage/
http://www.drago-entertainment.com/otherland/news.html

Did we forget to mention the BIGGEST news from our little podcast?
This: http://thefanaticalswordsman.com/2015/08/14/20-innovative-things-about-crowfall/
was featured in the As the Crow Flies newsletter.

SWTOR Livestream. Holy Lag, Jediman, and other reactions
Official: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=8407848
Dulfy: http://dulfy.net/2015/08/26/swtor-pax-prime-kotfe-gameplay-livestream-coverage/
Ootini: http://ootinicast.com/2015/08/ootinicast-episode-221/
XamXam: http://www.xamxamsays.com/the-stale-is-strong-with-swtor/

Skyforge – The Plants are Coming, the Plants are Coming!
http://www.pcgamesn.com/skyforge/free-to-play-mmo-skyforge-has-an-expansion-on-the-way-and-its-about-invading-plants

Guild Wars 2 announces Raids, F2P, and new Thief Elite spec, the Daredevil (and Drew is pumped)
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/takeover/a-letter-from-the-president/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/meet-the-daredevil-thiefs-elite-specialization/

Final Fantasy XIV’s numbers are actually subs
http://www.vcpost.com/articles/87251/20150831/final-fantasy-14-milestone-square-enix-mmorpg-5-million-susbscribers-inconsistency.htm

WildStar CBT – Shade’s Eve!
https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/130622-shades-eve-livestream/

Guild Wars 2 Reporter
http://mmoreporter.com/category/podcast/gwreporter-podcast/

Happy Hearthstone
http://gamediplomat.com/category/happy-hearthstone/

Holding sponsored in-game events: Who, What, When, How?

JOE:

Who: Using both staff (GMs) and volunteers (MODS)

What: Dungeon / Raid events with in-game dynamic changes, such as “chase the villain through the dungeon” where the villain is a GM or MOD with specific timing and goals, RP events in player housing, Puzzle contests in the forums. Boss spawns in the wilderness, along with in-game RP, and of course, HOLIDAYS

How: on the forums via some puzzle solving, RP, etc. for forum badges and in-game for a variety of awards for achievements, RP, etc.

When: Monthly for the forums and in-game events, and coinciding with key holidays, including international holidays.

DREW:

Anything that makes players get together and kill each other. (some ideas: dev makes themselves a powerful bounty target, rare relic shows up and players have to hold it for 10 minutes without dying, etc)

Scheduled events that rotate through every day, so players always know when their favorite is going to come up next in the rotation, allows for players doing the content they wa...