Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Continue with us in our "Hot Buttons in MMOs" channel chat series today with CyberFaunaVT! In this series we take on various polarizing topics in MMOs. In this show: Group and solo play, comm challenges in large scale sandboxes, NPC crew and AI blades, griefing in PvE (its not just for PvP!), monetization... and so much more. In this show we focus on Star Citizen but tough on some other games in the genre too... Lets go!

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#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
00:00:45 Background
00:20:57 Group Play vs Solo Play
00:23:49 Comm challenges in large scale sandboxes
00:25:20 Solo accessibility
00:36:54 NPC crew and AI blades
00:45:56 PvP encounters
00:56:45 PvE griefing
01:12:34 MMOs dying quickly upon release
01:16:26 Monetization
01:36:27 Subscriptions
01:40:14 Wrapping up