Despite a rumor that Microsoft was prepping a bid to buy Valve, we just can't see that happening for many reason, not the least of which is why Valve would want to actually sell to anyone! After that we'll dive into Tarisland, Destiny 2, Elder Scrolls Online, and Throne and Liberty upcoming release news and more. All that and more on this week's Always Online! Also visit us at https://www.mmobomb.com Discussion Timestamps: 00:00 Show Intro 04:33 Rumors (Microsoft and Valve, Deadlock, Guild Wars 2, and More) 35:10 Upcoming Games (Destiny 2, Throne and Liberty, RAWMAN, and Tarisland) 49:00 Picking Only 1 Multiplayer Game For Eternity 55:58 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question 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 [email protected]. 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. Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online 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!

Wayfinder is radically changing direction, The Division Heartland is no more, FFXIV's Live Letter showcases jobs changes and new jobs, and New World made its players pretty angry this week. We also welcome back Jason Winter to talk about some of the good and bad things about working for a gaming site! All that and more on this week's Always Online! Also visit us at https://www.mmobomb.com Discussion Timestamps: 00:00 Show Intro 05:03 The Pros and Cons of Working for a Gaming Site 32:37 Interesting Gaming News (Wayfinder's New Direction, New World Player Anger, and The Division Heartland's Death) 01:01:01 FFXIV Live Letter Mini-Recap 01:06:58 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question 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 [email protected]. 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. Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online 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!

Honestly, does it feel like the gaming world is just burning down to anyone else? Microsoft closes studios, Helldivers and Sony make a mess, making award winning games like HiFi Rush won't save your job, and the layoffs continue. We'll also chat Wagadu Chronicles, XDefiant, Redfall, Destiny , and more! All that and more on this week's Always Online! Also visit us at https://www.mmobomb.com Discussion Timestamps: 00:00 Show Intro 05:10 Helldivers 2, Microsoft and Zenimax Closing Studios, and HiFi Rush 34:12 Games Coming and Going (Wagadu Chronicles, XDefiant, Second Wave, and More) 42:00 Neat! (Destiny 2 Free Expansions and Multiversus Adding the Joker) 48:38 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question 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 [email protected]. 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. Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online 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!

Time once again to look at upcoming MMOs like Blue Protocol, ArcheAge 2, Throne and Liberty, Path of Exile 2, and more! Let's see what still excites us and what may have fallen off of our radar. After that, we'll check out announcements like the cancellation of BlizzCon, the closure of ArcheAge in the West, and more, and wrap it up with a dash of WTF?! All that and more on this week's Always Online! Also visit us at https://www.mmobomb.com Discussion Timestamps: 00:00 Show Intro 03:17 Upcoming MMOs and Our Current Interest Levels 24:35 Games Coming and Going (ArcheAge, Genfanad, The First Descendant, and more!) 45:27 WTF? (Embracer to 3 companies, Steam's refund policy update, and more!) 56:55 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question 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 [email protected]. 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. Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online 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!

Are there MMOs or multiplayer games that every time you see them you think, "I should really play that" but you never actually do it? Troy wants to talk about those and why we never play them. After that, we'll dive into the return of Legends of Aria, Warcraft's The War Within alpha, Fractured Online's attempt to attract more players, and more MMORPG news, including the return of Lawbreakers! All that and more on this week's Always Online! Also visit us at https://www.mmobomb.com Discussion Timestamps: 00:00 Show Intro 01:50 MMORPG and Multiplayer Games We Never Have Time For...but Wish We Did! 17:49 Upcoming Games (Warcraft The War Within, EvilVEvil, Marvel Rivals, Fractured Online, and more!) 40:15 Weird Updates (Legends of Aria, Mad World, Tipping Game Devs, and More!) 59:50 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question 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 [email protected]. 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. Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online 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!

Turning your favorite video games into movies, shows, and other forms of media doesn't always work out. Let's take a peek at the best video game movies and the worst among them now that the Fallout shows has released! Then we'll dive into Blizzard new, including an unannounced game, and cap it off with talk about Gigantic's relaunch, Wayfinder's halting of sales, and some sad new for the Friday the 13th return! All that and more on this week's Always Online! Also visit us at https://www.mmobomb.com Discussion Timestamps: 00:00 Show Intro 03:05 The Best and Worst Video Game Movie Adaptations Ever 45:02 Blizzard News (New Unannounced Game, NetEase Partnership restored, and Overwatch Season 10) 52:10 Some Updates (Friday the 13th, Gigantic, Battlefield 2024, Evercore Heroes, and more!) 01:09:35 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question 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 [email protected]. 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. Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online 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!

Making MMORPG Games is expensive and time consuming, we get it, but there's just some IPs out there that seem to SCREAM "Make Me an MMO!". Which ones have surprised you the most and never made it to the MMO realm? Then we've got new on upcoming games like Fantastic Pixel Castle's "Ghost", Age of Water, The First Descendant, and more eyerolling video game news! All that and more on this week's Always Online! Also visit us at https://www.mmobomb.com Discussion Timestamps: 00:00 Show Intro 02:39 What IP really needs to be an MMO but isn't yet? 20:04 Upcoming Games ("Ghost", The First Descendant, Age of Water, XDefiant, and Some New World chat) 38:27 Roll Your Eyes Time (Loot box principles not followed, Apex Legends' Woes, and more!) 44:08 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question 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 [email protected]. 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. Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online 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!

It's probably not the way ArenaNet would have LIKED the world to know about a potential Guild Wars 3, but we'll talk about who said it was a thing, how they tried to reframe their comments later, and what ArenaNet had to say about the subject. After that we'll look at Marvel Rivals, Hexadome, and more upcoming games, including the FFXIV Dawntrail expansion. We'll wrap up with League of Legends MMORPG news and some ArcheAge 2 info! All that and more on this week's Always Online! Also visit us at ⁠https://www.mmobomb.com Discussion Timestamps: 00:00 Show Intro 05:57 Gearbox Sold and Guild Wars 3? 33:25 Upcoming Games (Marvel Rivals, Hexadome, V Rising/Castlevania, FFXIV) 49:20 Quick News Hits (League of Legends MMO, ArcheAge 2, and Pax Dei) 55:50 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question 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 [email protected]. 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. Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online 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!

We were going to talk about some of the features in MMOs that we hate (and we do list some), but on today's show we change it up on the hosts and give them a chance to talk about MMORPGs and multiplayer games they miss and more. We'll look at some games coming up like Seekers of Skyveil, Goons, Brighter Shores, Ascendant Infinity, and other games! All that and more on this week's Always Online! Discussion Timestamps: 00:00 Show Intro 02:52 Worst Parts About MMOs and Just Talking Games We Love 46:34 Upcoming Games (Seekers of Skyveil, Goons, Brighter Shores, SMITE 2, & More!) 01:01:20 Quick News Hits (FFXIV, Rift, Project Awakening, and More!) 01:03:38 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question 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 [email protected]. 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. Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online 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!

Let's talk about MMORPGs of the past and what they did RIGHT that modern MMOs don't do, and what has evolved in a good way since the early days of the genre. Then we'll check out Dune Awakening, Midnight Ghost Hunt, New World's delayed update, and some new sure to make you scratch your head! All that and more on this week's Always Online! Discussion Timestamps: 00:00 Show Intro 02:28 What's changed for the better and worse in MMORPGs? 34:50 Upcoming Games (Dune Awakening, Midnight Ghost Hunter, New World Update delay) 47:00 WTF News (Wakerunners is Dead, Epic and Apple at it again, and WB Games) 58:23 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question 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 [email protected]. 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. Always Online (formerly the Free-To-Play Cast) is the official podcast (and videocast) of MMOBomb.com about multiplayer online games. Always Online 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!