Summary: <br> <br> Welcome to 2016! We hope you enjoyed your holidays! In this episode, Bill and Harry go over the big Oculus Rift pre-order announcement, touch on a bit of drama in Divergence Online, return to Tyria and Guild Wars 2, and more!<br> Audio Version:<br> <br> <br> What we did in game:<br> Bill:<br> <br> Guild Wars 2<br> Rocket League<br> <br> Harry:<br> <br> Elite Dangerous Horizons<br> Galactic Civilizations III<br> Rise of the Tomb Raider<br> <br> <br> Patreon:<br> <a href="http://patreon.com/mmoreporter">patreon.com/mmoreporter</a><br> <a href="http://mmoreporter.com/?9tvXsn">patreon.com/mmoreporter</a><br> News:<br> Oculus Rift Pre-order are live (starting January 6th)<br> <a href="https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/oculus-rift-pre-orders-to-open-on-jan-6/">https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/oculus-rift-pre-orders-to-open-on-jan-6/</a><br> <a href="http://mmoreporter.com/?9tvXsn">https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/oculus-rift-pre-orders-to-open-on-jan-6/</a><br> <br> <br> $599 USD<br> <br> Huge price backlash. 90% of reddit posts on day 1 were complaining about the price (imprecise MMO Reporter measurement)<br> Many people are compounding the cost of the Oculus Rift with the minimum ~$600 USD they will need to spend on PC upgrades as well to run it smoothly (modern i5 CPU + GeForce 970 / AMD 290 are minimum specs)<br> <br> <br> <br> Will include an xbox controller, Lucky’s Tale and Eve: Valkyrie<br> <br> <br> Note – Eve: Valkyrie alpha testing starts January 18th<br> <br> <a href="http://massivelyop.com/2016/01/06/eve-valkyries-alpha-test-will-kick-off-on-january-18th/">http://massivelyop.com/2016/01/06/eve-valkyries-alpha-test-will-kick-off-on-january-18th/</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Elite Dangerous may not support CV1 (the only Oculus SDK they support so far is 0.6, which is a prior version to what will be supported by CV1)<br> <br> <a href="https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=221107">https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=221107</a><br> <br> <br> <br> AMA with Palmer Luckey<br> <br> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3zt7ul/i_am_palmer_luckey_founder_of_oculus_and_designer/?ref=search_posts">https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3zt7ul/i_am_palmer_luckey_founder_of_oculus_and_designer/?ref=search_posts</a><br> Explains the “$300-$400” estimate – was an estimate based on poorer tech in the demo hardware<br> <br> <br> <br> Divergence Dev Rants Against Freeloaders<br> <a href="http://massivelyop.com/2016/01/05/divergence-online-calls-for-an-indefinite-moratorium-on-gaming-yelp-reviewer-bullshit/">http://massivelyop.com/2016/01/05/divergence-online-calls-for-an-indefinite-moratorium-on-gaming-yelp-reviewer-bullshit/</a><br> <a href="http://mmoreporter.com/?9tvXsn">http://massivelyop.com/2016/01/05/divergence-online-calls-for-an-indefinite-moratorium-on-gaming-yelp-reviewer-bullshit/</a><br> <br> Language alert!<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> Suck as Love Sucks at Not Cheating<br> <a href="http://massivelyop.com/2016/01/06/popular-guild-wars-2-youtuber-team-banned-for-cheating/">http://massivelyop.com/2016/01/06/popular-guild-wars-2-youtuber-team-banned-for-cheating/</a><br> <br> Youtube channel popular for GW2 themed original songs<br> <br> Posted a video (since deleted, but mirrored: <a href="https://vid.me/ngMX">https://vid.me/ngMX</a>)<br> <br> <br> GW2 support (as they are wont to do) publically countered the ban-whine with their findings (indicating map-hacking)<br> <br> <a href="https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Suck-at-Love-Banned/first#post5899797">https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Suck-at-Love-Banned/first#post5899797</a><br> <br> <br> ArenaN
