Episode 4: The One About MMOs

Overall topic this episode is MMOs, their evolution, and our experiences with them. (Recorded on August 12th, 2015)

Panel

• Alex Reis
• Eric Hartin
• Jim Myhrberg
• George Antoniadis

Topics

• Introductions (00:30)
• What we have been playing (summer 2015) (01:36)
• (Old) news (12:45)
• Humble beginnings of the MMO (20:25)
• Ultima Online (23:15)
• Everquest (31:30)
• Dark Age of Camelot (39:15)
• World of Warcraft (42:30)
• Guild Wars (59:40)
• Guild Wars 2 (1:04:45)
• EVE Online (1:11:30)
• The Black Hole of Korean MMOs (1:14:00)
• Failed MMOs (1:27:15)
• Future MMOs (1:30:45)
• Jim can’t stop talking about Sword Art Online (1:38:40)
• More speculation (1:39:30)
• Good byes (1:50:30)

Notes

P.S. Our publishing schedule seriously sucks. This episode was recorded 8 months ago and was a major editing task. That’s why we have started doing Sidequests a few months which need nearly no editing compared to regular episodes. The plan is to try and get the editing work needed for episodes down to about as little as sidequests. Time will tell if we succeed or not :)