Working As Intended Podcast #21 – When a Game is no Longer a Game: The Lost Horizon, and the Vanishing Difficulty of Modern MMOs

By Steven Crews | February 17, 2010 | | Filed under: News, Podcast

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Welcome to the 21st episode of the Working As Intended podcast!

In this week’s show, we largely focus on the declining difficulty of the modern MMO genre (or as many people call it, the ‘dumbing down’) in order to appeal to a wider audience than its original base.

Using STO as a jumping off point for the discussion (sorry, Cryptic, we’re going to stop ranting about your games eventually, we swear), the conversation weaves its way from the Sunwell in World of Warcraft, to Golden Axe back in the coin-op days of yore.

Guest Rantalyst Brian Gardner makes his first appearance on the show, to discuss his theory of “The Lost Horizon.”

Topics

• What we’ve been playing… which goes on for 40 minutes straight.
• Star Trek Online Introduces the Borg Content Update
• STO Fans set a new world record for the most people dressed as Star Wars characters at one time. Surprisingly, the record was not set at Comic Con.

Hosts

• Jeffrey Philipp
• Steven Crews

Guest Rantalyst

• Brian Gardner

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