Always Online Podcast: Warcraft Adds Duty Support But Why Are Pantheon & Ubisoft Dropping Things? Ep 497

Wild week in MMOs and multiplayer games! Pantheon decides to drop 247 extraction and focus on the MMORPG again, World of Warcraft is getting its own version of FFXIV's Duty Support, and Ubisoft is dropping Trackmania's esports after the current world championship! If you think that's all though...you'd be wrong as we also dive into NCSoft at GStar 2023 complete with Throne and Liberty and more. Happy Thanksgiving! All that and more on this week's Always Online!

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Discussion Timestamps:

00:00 Show Intro

02:16 Weird News Week (Pantheon Drops 247, Ubisoft Drops Esports, WoW Duty Support & More!)

44:10 NCSoft At GStar (Throne and Liberty, LLL, and More!)

52:10 Noobfridge's New World Update

01:00:26 Weekly Bombs (DA-Bomb / A-Bomb) And Question Of The Week

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torithechicken 11 months ago
QotW: For pantheon, it absolutely shakes confidence. However, scrapping 24/7 is probably the best move to start winning it back. The turnaround is absolutely scary, but you can imagine they might have learned from it, and that they do listen in the future. Who knows though.


I might sound like a broken record at this point but giving bombs to trackmania again. Last time they got an A-bomb for quitting esports, but they did promise content. Nobody believed them. A week later, they dropped probably the biggest update the game has seen, along with an actual roadmap for future updates. Massive DA-bomb. It's a lot of fun. Slight A-bomb to the release of it though, since they managed to mess up the whole game for two days because they had avoided external testing in order to keep the update a secret. And they broke a bunch of old maps, kinda on purpose. They are doing a "pantheon" on that though because of backlash, and reversing it to let the old maps work, according to a twitter post by a dev.

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