This Week In MMO Ep118: League of Legends, Everquest Next, Bigpoint Layoffs

Written by: Gary Gannon (@garygannon) | October 26, 2012 7:03 pm

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This Week In MMO covers the latest and greatest MMO news of the week. Hosted by Gary Gannon, Hillary Nicole, and Mike B. TWIMMO is live every Friday at 3PDT right here on Gamebreaker.

This Week In MMO Ep118: League of Legends, Everquest Next, Bigpoint Layoffs

World of Warcraft

Patch 5.3 Release Date Confirmed

Patch 5.3 Release Date Is Confirmed By Blizzard on TwitterRead more »

53 comments
1:22:33

World of Warcraft

Legendary Ep126:
Raiding Ra-Den Revelations!

This week the Legendary crew are talking patch 5.3, raiding, and more with World First raider Treckie!Read more »

23 comments
45:25

Guild Wars 2

GuildCast Ep71:
Blue Flowers

The Secret of Southsun update has arrived, a Guild Wars 2 expansion has been confirmed, and more.Read more »

27 comments

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1339406775 Matthew Riddle

LoL is the new StarCraft
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190180138 Richard Grinspan
  
  No, it is LoL.
- Nick Cattane
  
  I hate SC2 vs LoL. They are COMPLETELY different games and – I love them both.
http://twitter.com/DennisIsAwesome DennisIsAwesome

pokket is so FREAKING HOT!
- dragontheory42
  
  I totally disagree with you, being pretty isnt caking your face with a pound of make up with all that bullcrap in her hair. I got 10 bucks to call her out if she was to wash all that BS off her face and hair, wear a T shirt and pull her hair back, you wouldnt look twice at her like any avg girl.
  - http://twitter.com/TheMovement112 TheMovement
    
    you sir…give me back your man card….you sound like a jealous little teen aged girl whos to fat to fly.
  - http://twitter.com/AisarGaming EBates
    
    wtf lol? Who do you think you are kidding? She is gorgeous and a gamer girl. pathetic man, pathetic.
  - http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr
    
    Hillary is a pretty girl and if you follow her broadcast long enough, she will go through phases. She lives outside the Austin, TX area, so the look is fairly honest for that area.
    
    While I disagree with most of her opinions, she plays the games she talks about.
  - Benoit Chalifoux
    
    its all a matter of Opinion, he think she hot that fine, You think she not hot, then good for you, that ur opinion only,
  - João Colaço
    
    Actually if you go to her website there is at least one picture where she looks just like you described you would like to see her.
- http://twitter.com/Threefiddie Landon Loper
  
  if you like over exaggerated placement of makeup and dingy hair.
http://www.facebook.com/inkogni.alex Inkogni Alex

new show coming up, im calling it
This Week on Twitch FAP show star Darnell, MikeS and Richie (topless)
http://twitter.com/justQQing Brian Day

mikeb the big pvp player wvw and spvp thats what i find makes me wont to play guild wars 2…and i hated pvp in wow
- http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr
  
  I would recommend trying out GW2 WvW and sPvP, they are very entertaining. Not sure how much MikeB pvps in released games anymore. He seems to jump from beta to beta and doesn’t seem to actively PvP in any released game.
  - iamthemikeb
    
    ^this is true.
http://twitter.com/johanisgod Sev Hunter

I’m actually really surprised that they haven’t brought up Star Citizen in TWIMMO so far.
http://twitter.com/dularr Dularr

It was funny seeing the hosts talk about the lack of interaction with the npcs in MMOs.

When the Horde first arrive in the Pandaria, the Hozen attack you on sight. After you defeat the Hozens champion, the Hozen run in fear from you. Once you defeat the Hozens enemies and kill enough 10 rats (there are alot of kill 10 rat quests in Mists), the Hozen join you in the war with the Alliance.

Now after you finish the major questline in the Jade Forest, the npcs become fairly static and no longer interact in any significant way. But please no major questlines that reset every couple of hours, after awhile, those events become annoying as hell.
http://www.facebook.com/rasmus.nielsen.75491 Rasmus Nielsen

So…Gary Thinks SoE is going to turn into Bethesda, aka, making shitty games, that it’s players have to make content for to make them playable or worth wasting time on, with terrible gameplay mechanics, terrible combat mechanics, terrible character building, but REALLY PRETTY!
Damir Miric

Since I started following GB I want to play MMOs less and less. I guess analysing everything so much just got me disinterested. Anayised to the death.
http://www.facebook.com/infit4 Nick Godbout

K so, I’d really like to know if the video versions (obviously not the livestreams) of TWIMMO that have Pokket’s face plastered on the cover-picture get more views than ones that don’t. Seriously. Genuinely curious about this, because she’s slowly becoming TWIMMO’s mascot because of this.
- http://twitter.com/Veldara Veldara
  
  I think it’s a no-brainer, we’ve seen plenty of geek culture media get more viewerships/readership if there’s something easy on the eyes to catch their attention.
http://twitter.com/Deadalon Deadalon

Loved how MikeB was trying to sell WOW way as the only way – and Pocket hitting him back with other games like GW2 and SWTOR. All I can say is that Mike B should take better care of his baby cause hes not gonna have much time doing all the daylies in WOW….
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=613400106 Francois Brisson
  
  WoW is better than SWTOR easily, GW2 maybe beats out wow for PvP.
- Dave Paison
  
  You obviously aren’t a parent. I have a 9 month old son and I have time to do 3 sets of dailies on one character and 2 on another. I still also find the time to PvP. This is all while working 40 hours a week at a job that I spend about 8-10 hours (depending on traffic) driving to and from every week. I spend my days off with my wife and son. I do most of the cooking, all of the dishes, half of the laundry AND STILL FOUND TIME TO POST THIS.
  
  That aside…
  
  WoW has more subs now than copies of GW2 and SWToR even sold, let alone have “subscribed”. GW2 was cool for a few levels, but endlessly wandering around hope to level does not trump the quest system and decent PvP doesn’t make up for almost nothing to do at level cap. SWToR is an abomination and even after updates to save subs they couldn’t get it figured out. I might go back and check out their F2P system, but it doesn’t handle a candle to WoW. WoW has flaws, many of them, but overall it is the best experience you will get overall from any MMO that is out. I’m sure if the WoW subs dropped below 5 million and below 2 million in the US that I would feel differently, but that hasn’t happened yet. I also believe that if WoW did sink to the levels of all of it’s competitors in terms of subs, that they would find a way to either bring people back or make the game more fun or meaningful to the faithful who are still playing.
  - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=684860058 Min Hsin Waitforit Shiek
    
    wow wont ever lose subbs on a massive scale… cos ppl who have been playing wow for 7 years have spent more than 1k dollars on wow…. if they quit now that 1k was all for nothing and all that time spent ingame… so yea…. ppl wont leave wow cos they are obligated to play it cos of their time and money they sunk into it for 7 years…… gw2 is 2 months old and it’s got tons of stuff to do at max lvl ive played more than 400 hours atm ive got my 60 bucks worth lol….and im still playing ^^, they released a pretty decent sized content patch for halloween and in november they are planning to launch one of their major patches…. in gw2 u dont have to rave to max lvl for “endgame” cos u start killing massive bosses straight off the bat when u finish the tutorial
    
    also wow and gw2 are 2 very diff mmos wow is ur traditional type mmo… while gw2 is a mmo with a twist u can’t really say 1 is better than the other… swtor after 7 years compared to current wow would be a correct comparison… and from what i hear rift is allready quite abit better than wow (not entirely sure on this front tho )….
- iamthemikeb
  
  You’ll have to excuse me if I can’t make sense of your post. I do, however, want to point out that my work takes up no less than 70-80 hours per week. WoW is a “free time” game, and unfortunately, I don’t have free time right now. Again, I wish your message was clearer, as I’d likely be able to respond to it, but maybe next time.
http://twitter.com/Deadalon Deadalon

oh and Mike B… you know you can unsub from WOW tomorrow – come back in 12 months and you know what… you havn’t missed a THING ! By then you might actually have a decent character progression for next WOW expansion… but still you will probably have to wait for another 12 months for that.

Really… Daily quests is something worth doing ? And some1 feels they miss something if they dont do them? just lol….
http://twitter.com/KrionStudio Krion Studio

What are the biggest video game cities in the US and why? That would be a good show question I think. I would be interested in knowing that.
Revanhavoc

I think I should be able to pay money for any item, any XP boost, or anything else to even the playing field with someone who can afford more time than I can.

I’m not talking about Sword of Walking Death +100000 damage, I’m just talking about being able to buy whatever everyone else is grinding to get.

Just paying to even the playing field, not paying to win.
- http://twitter.com/lifensoul Steven Whiting
  
  But you’re not paying to even the playing field, you would be paying to win. Because somewhere, out there, someone else HASN’T got that item, so you’ve got something better than them, so have essentially paid to win over them.
http://twitter.com/kirzanSix Michael Coulombe

Gary needs to stop putting value in Smedley’s words. Smeds is not to be listened to!!!
Christer Lindqvist

Hey Gary. I can only speak for myself and my friends. But I am quite sure that we here in Europe, dont like P2W any more then you guys in the US does:)
/Sweden over and out
http://twitter.com/TheFeyLife Fey

Oh wow, loving the new auto-play feature. I definitely just listened to like 5 hours of Legendary while I gamed. Even if it’s old stuff, it’s really cool to know what you guys thought back then.
http://twitter.com/JerryWheatfield Jerry Wheatfield

Why isn’t Schaffnit covering Hawken ? F2P, lobby-based, action robot shooter, customization, sounds like something he would’ve been whining about since your blurb on MechWarrior Online.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001703144728 Benjamin Crowther

wtf … halfway through playback it stops playing this episode and starts playing episode #1!
http://twitter.com/Threefiddie Landon Loper

not everyone plays LoL…
http://twitter.com/devdavi Davi

Congrats gamebreaker looks like you are starting to gain some serious viewership! These comments are almost as toxic as the wow forums, so you must be doing something right! Anyway, the shows are still great and Thanks for all of the hard work and dedication in bringing high-quality gaming news / discussion every week, much appreciated and keep up the good work
http://www.facebook.com/Zetesofos Ben Cornforth

I regards to building a fantasy verion of EVE, you guys should check out the design blog for Pathfinder Online – they just finished their tech demo funded by kickstarter, and are starting to build their team – leads are from CCP and a few others and I think if you look at several of their design philosophies, you can see very similar trends (robust virtual economy, terriotory, large organizations, and multiple professions)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=684860058 Min Hsin Waitforit Shiek

just a heads up GBTV….Aeon Of Strife was the first real moba…… it was a starcraft custom map…. then a guy called guinsoo decided to make dota from the warcraft 3 map editor which was essentially the wc3 version of AoS…. it started getting popular and more community mods joined in…. among them was icefrog…. icefrog was mainly in charge of balance changes….. after dota became a world wide phenomenon, guinsoo decided to leave dota and start riot games. he wanted to make a dota with lower mana costs, larger mana pools, lower spell cd, cos he wanted to make the game more fast paced and not too punishing when u die… which is y u dont lose gold in LoL when u die…. LoL is not the first of its kind LoL IS the first clone well techniclally AoS was the original and dota ws the clone…. but seing as dota was the first of its kind to make it big….. like wow was the first of its kinda to make it big…. even tho wow technically used ideas from other games and wasnt really original at all :p

This Week In MMO Ep118: League of Legends, Everquest Next, Bigpoint Layoffs

Patch 5.3 Release Date Confirmed

Legendary Ep126:
Raiding Ra-Den Revelations!

GuildCast Ep71:
Blue Flowers

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