Description: The MMO Reporter podcast is your source for Massively Multiplayer Online Game news! We cover all MMOs, but we focus on WoW, Guild Wars 2, The Old Republic and Lord of the Rings Online.
This week, Chris and Harry are joined by LOTRO Reporter co-host Layanor to discuss the ethical implications of closing down City of Heroes, if Planetside 2 is compensating for something, and why Glitch shut down.
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What we’ve done in game this week:
Layanor:
Started a solo game of Minecraft
Played Lord of the rings Online to do some dailys
Also have been playing The Walking Dead Social Game on facebook. Its online and I can level… so its a MMO damnit!
Harry:
Guild Wars 2 <is in my bed
SWTOR
Phoenix Wright
Chrono Trigger
Xenoblade Chronicles
Rift
Chris:
Arcane Legends
Rift – Leveling through the expansion, but not much time for the game this week.
LOTRO – Into The Norcorfts
GW2 – Level 80 baby! Now Harry can stop mocking me!
By Cho Mu-hyunA US novelist slams NCsoft for shutting City of Heroes
I think canceling a game that is making a profit, along with destroying jobs and an online community, is entirely unethical.
This is not so much a game as a huge town of 100,000 people who have intersecting interests and neighborhoods, and who play together and care deeply about their town
