Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Continue with us in our "Hot Buttons in MMOs" channel chat series with Born Reddy! In this series we take on various polarizing topics in MMOs. In this show: group play vs solo play, PvP vs PvE, sandboxing, why travel is important, how players like to turn triangles into circles, and so much more. We dig into various games including Ashes of Creation, World of Warcraft, Star Citizen, Dune Awakening, and more... Lets go!

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Guest channel: [(2) Born Reddy - YouTube](youtube.com/@Born_Reddy)

#mmorpg #podcast #gaming

Hello! I'm Grolo, a systems architect by trade and life-long gamer who leads Unhinged Gaming. Visit us at:
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:43 Background
00:03:56 How is everything worse than New World?
00:22:06 Group Play vs Solo Play
00:28:26 Travel and downtime is part of the experience
00:39:15 PvP and risk vs reward
00:54:36 Citing things to reduce friction
00:58:00 The decline of MMOs
01:11:13 Can sandboxes give theme parks a run for the money?
01:21:53 Paying for things in games
01:41:25 Need vision at the top
01:44:27 Wrapping up