Summary: <br> <br> This week’s show has Chris and Bill flying duo with Harry (star of stage and screen) on a world, well, country wide tour! They discuss Neverwinter’s in-game currency issues, Star Citizen’s game split, and earning reports from a few of the major MMO game developers.<br> Audio Version:<br> <br> <br> What we did in game:<br> Bill:<br> <br> King’s Quest<br> GW2 – inching closer to legendary precursor<br> <br> <br> Chris:<br> <br> Guild Wars 2<br> Blade and Soul<br> Neverwinter<br> Witcher 3<br> <br> <br> Patreon shout out <br> 32 Patrons<br> <br> News:<br> Neverwinter pulls a bait-n-switch on players:<br> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Neverwinter/comments/44xrug/no_blood_ruby_or_coal_wards_in_the_xbox_tradebar/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Neverwinter/comments/44xrug/no_blood_ruby_or_coal_wards_in_the_xbox_tradebar/</a><br> <br> <br> Coalescent Wards (used for upgrading Enchantment and considered by many to a must for end game) were (according to dev post: <a href="http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/9624953-developer-blog%3A-improved-trade-bar-store">http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/9624953-developer-blog%3A-improved-trade-bar-store</a> – WHICH HAS BEEN EDITED SINCE POSTING) going to drop in price from 200 Trade Bars to 75. <br> <br> Post was added to state that a difference between XBox One and PC has always been expected. <br> <br> Video from PAX 2015: <a href="https://youtu.be/3uOu0xJUlY8?t=4m56s">https://youtu.be/3uOu0xJUlY8?t=4m56s</a><br> <br> Talk about concurrency between release dates, not content, so I don’t think there’s even been a big conspiracy to hide that XBox would be different. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Players stockpiled Trade Bars (obtained by opening lockboxes – with Keys that you have to buy with Zen)<br> Patch day comes and SURPRISE!!! Wards are only available in the Zen Store<br> NOT an error according to devs, working as intended, just “not well communicated”.<br> Looks like the CM may take the blame for this one. Just happened today so we’ll have to see. <br> <br> Official Responce: <a href="http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1212047/update-on-the-trade-bar-store-xbox-one">http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/1212047/update-on-the-trade-bar-store-xbox-one</a><br> <br> No love from twitter on the announcement. A large majority of the messages that we got back were negative. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Star Citizen Splits Squadron 42 from MMO Package – clarification from RSI<br> <a href="https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15189-Package-Split-Information">https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15189-Package-Split-Information</a><br> <br> As of February 14th (love you too) you will be able to pledge a minimum of $45 USD for Squadron 42 OR Star Citizen MMO<br> PREVIOUS PLEDGERS GET BOTH<br> If you pledge by the 14th, you still get both<br> If you pledge for one or the other after the 14th, you can “upgrade” to both for an additional $15<br> Pledging to either Star Citizen or Squadron 42 will get you access to Arena Commander<br> Game client will be the same for both Squadron 42 and Star Citizen<br> This is the closest thing to an explanation of what you get when you buy as I’ve ever seen :/<br> <br> <br> Sponsors:<br> Audible<br> Go to audiblepodcast.com/mmoreporter<br> Doghouse<br> Use the coupon code mmoreporter for a free 120GB SSD with your purchase!<br> <br> NCSoft Earnings for Q4 2015:<br> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/455vxo/ncsofts_earning_report_4q_2015_disillusioning/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/455vxo/ncsofts_earning_report_4q_2015_disillusioning/</a><br> <br> GW2 HoT below projections<br> Wildstar “disappointing” conversion to F2P<br> Blade and Soul over 2 million pl
