MMO Reporter Episode 212 – Conspiracy Reporter

This week Layanor, Bill and Chris talk about how to farm gold in World of Warcraft, a new Sci Fi MMO, and the MMO hall of fame!

Audio Version

What we did in game:

Layanor

Plague INC.
MUGEN

Bill

Guild Wars 2

Chris

Neverwinter
WoW – $8,000 gold. Up 7.5K since last week.

Patreon Campaign:

Patrons: 25

Current Total: $116

News:

Destiny – House of Wolves launches May 18th, with NO raid!

https://www.bungie.net/en/News/News?aid=12764

“House of Wolves will not have a Raid activity. We didn’t make this decision lightly. Our team has been humbled by the reception of Raids in Destiny and we are creating a new Raid for a release later this year.”
Will launch with a three man PvE “end game activity”.
New arena – The Prison of Elders
Prologue video for the expansion: https://youtu.be/fPg3jWn6Nn0

Anarchy Online & Lineage II inducted into the MMO Hall of Fame

In other news, there’s an MMO Hall of Fame

http://www.mmohall.com/hall-of-fame-2/2015-hall-fame/

http://www.mmohall.com/hof-inductees/

via

http://massivelyop.net/2015/04/09/anarchy-online-and-lineage-ii-to-be-inducted-into-the-mmo-hall-of-fame/

Anarchy online released in 2001
- Survived atrocious beta & release
- 14 years online; points for longevity
- Early use of dynamic quests/instances
- Pioneer with “free play” in 2004; ad-supported F2P limited to the original release version of the game.
Lineage II – released in 2004 (2003 in S. Korea)
- Very successful sequel to Lineage
- Prequel to Lineage
- Converted to F2P in 2011
- As of 2011, over 14M people had played it
MMO Hall of Fame is a list annually curated by an eclectic list of MMO industry members and experts
- 2015:
  - J. Todd Coleman (Creative Director of Shadowbane
  - Wizard101, Pirate101, Crowfall)
  - Andreas Weidenhaupt (CEO of Infernum Productions)
  - Carsten van Husen (CEO, Gameforge)
  - Mark Hill (Senior Manager, Perfect World Entertainment)

Terri Perkins (Legal Compliance Director, Funcom)

conflict of interests?

Richard Vogel (President, BattleCry Studios)
Eric Bloom (Gamer, Lead Vocalist of Blue Oyster Cult)
William Murphy (Managing Editor, MMORPG.com)
Carolyn Koh (MMO Gaming Writer) and Jane Yun (Global PR Manager, WEBZEN)

$2,700 case

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2015/04/13/2700_computer_case_from_china/#.VSyGUvnF98F

Project Genom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yy-EvA3OrE

Free to play sci-fi shooter MMO
Began its closed alpha test in anticipation for a June release on Steam.
The game just upgraded to the Unreal Engine 4 engine and features a flexible class creation system, PvP, crafting, and pets.
At high level you are able to use Mechs, and also change into creatures that have Psionic abilities to help heal and do DPS.
The game looks like a Mass Effect MMO

Website: http://pgenom.com/

Email:

From Hagu

In a recent podcast, you talked about trying to grind 30k gold one time just to see.

Which is down to under 22k https://wowtoken.info/

I think I have a good idea – which of course says more about my ego than the quality of the idea. :-)

I have dozens of equations in TradeSkillMaster addon and buy and sell a few hundred items a day but that is not you. OTOH, I read on reddit, wowhead, etc about soloing old raids.

http://www.wowhead.com/news=247090/wowhead-now-tracking-wow-token-prices-on-front-page has the comment that soloing all the old H25M cata raids gets you 7500g/week.

So you get to see old raids, kill stuff – no unmanly commerce, and it is quite streamable. Someone without your hearty independence would even invite cohosts and listeners along to help since you can cross-realm group. Personally, I would tell them that in order to more accurately compute the gold per hour for the attempt it will be easier if they just passed on loot. :-) Some of the value is in cool transmog gear and pets that you can sell. Or like a bad drug dealer consume your product.

Anyway, good luck and thanks for all your efforts!

Youtube Comments

From emikochan13

Great episode, some really nice discussions this time :)

I have trouble playing any game that forces me to play a male character so I get how you feel.

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