MMO Reporter 248 – Disastrous Duo




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Summary: <p></p> <br> <p>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.</p> <br> <h4> </h4> <br> <h5><strong><a id="more-6674785"></a></strong></h5> <br> <h5><strong>What we did in game:</strong></h5> <br> <p>Bill:</p> <br> <ul> <br> <li>King’s Quest</li> <br> <li>GW2 – inching closer to legendary precursor</li> <br> </ul> <br> <p> </p> <br> <p>Chris:</p> <br> <ul> <br> <li>Guild Wars 2</li> <br> <li>Blade and Soul</li> <br> <li>Neverwinter</li> <br> <li>Witcher 3</li> <br> </ul> <br> <p> </p> <br> <p><strong>Patreon  shout out </strong></p> <br> <p><strong>32 Patrons</strong></p> <br> <p> </p> <br> <h5><strong>News:</strong></h5> <br> <p><strong>Neverwinter pulls a bait-n-switch on players:</strong></p> <br> <p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Neverwinter/comments/44xrug/no_blood_ruby_or_coal_wards_in_the_xbox_tradebar/"><strong>https://www.reddit.com/r/Neverwinter/comments/44xrug/no_blood_ruby_or_coal_wards_in_the_xbox_tradebar/</strong></a></p> <br> <ul> <br> <li>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> <ul> <br> <li>Post was added to state that a difference between XBox One and PC has always been expected.</li> <br> <li>Video from PAX 2015: <a href="https://youtu.be/3uOu0xJUlY8?t=4m56s">https://youtu.be/3uOu0xJUlY8?t=4m56s</a> <br> <ul> <br> <li>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.</li> <br> </ul> <br> </li> <br> </ul> <br> </li> <br> <li>Players stockpiled Trade Bars (obtained by opening lockboxes – with Keys that you have to buy with Zen)</li> <br> <li>Patch day comes and SURPRISE!!! Wards are only available in the Zen Store</li> <br> <li>NOT an error according to devs, working as intended, just “not well communicated”.</li> <br> <li>Looks like the CM may take the blame for this one. Just happened today so we’ll have to see.</li> <br> <li>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> <ul> <br> <li>No love from twitter on the announcement. A large majority of the messages that we got back were negative.</li> <br> </ul> <br> </li> <br> </ul> <br> <p> </p> <br> <p><strong>Star Citizen Splits Squadron 42 from MMO Package – clarification from RSI</strong></p> <br> <p><a href="https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15189-Package-Split-Information">https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15189-Package-Split-Information</a></p> <br> <ul> <br> <li>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</li> <br> <li>PREVIOUS PLEDGERS GET BOTH</li> <br> <li>If you pledge by the 14th, you still get both</li> <br> <li>If you pledge for one or the other after the 14th, you can “upgrade” to both for an additional $15</li> <br> <li>Pledging to either Star Citize</li> </ul>