MMO Reporter Episode 85 – Flippin’ EA

In this episode, Chris, Harry and I praise the wisdom and benevolence of EA’s DLC & microtransaction trends, exclaim glee over the mid-work-day Guild Wars 2 stress test, remark at the innovation of WoW’s latest emote and more!  We also observed national Icelandic Opposite-Day.

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What we did this week

Harry
lotro – a little questing
Mass Effect 3
Steel Battalion

Bill
LOTRO
Secret World beta – attempt 2
Diablo III – finally got to act 3
Rift – played without having to reset souls!

Chris
LOTRO
Secret World Beta
Rift
TOR
Diablo III

News

EA snorts, coughs a couple times and then spits in gamers’ collective face
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/21/ea-coo-on-the-rise-of-free-to-play-ultimately-microtransactions-will-be-in-every-game/
Player push-back http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/capcom-x-players-street-fighter-x-tekkens-poor-sales-lead-publisher-to-reconsider-on-disc-dlc/

Eve scam – fixed
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/22/eve-players-make-over-175000-blowing-up-their-own-spaceships/

GW2 stress test… June 27th, in the middle of the day…
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/22/guild-wars-2-beta-reopening-next-week-for-four-hour-stress-test/

Curt Schilling broke :(
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/06/22/schilling-tapped-out-after-loss-of-38-studios/

DDO Underdark launches
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/06/25/dungeons-and-dragons-online-menace-of-the-underdark-goes-live/

SWTOR 1.3 released June 26th
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/26/the-old-republic-patch-1-3-live-with-group-finder-ranked-warzones-new-legacy-goodies/
http://www.darthhater.com/articles/swtor-news/20620-coverage-guide-allies-update-1-3

Eve devs do eve dev’y stuff
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/25/eve-online-devs-on-dayz-elder-scrolls-online-and-whatd-make-them-quit-the-games-industry/

Table flip emote
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/21/mists-of-pandaria-lets-you-flip-tables-in-angerfrustrationcelebration/

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