On this week’s episode of the Massively OP Podcast, Bree and Justin spend the entire hour talking about one and only one thing: crafting in MMORPGs. Do you like making stuff? Do you fail to see the point? What's the best and worst crafting out there? This is all discussed and so much more!

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Show notes:

• Intro
• Discussion: Our first crafting experiences in MMOs
• Discussion: What is the purpose of crafting?
• Discussion: Why is so much crafting pointless?
• Discussion: What kinds of things can we craft?
• Discussion: MMOs that took a different crafting approach
• Discussion: Survival games that push you into crafting
• Discussion: MMOs where you can just be a crafter and only that
• Discussion: Palia and time-gating crafting
• Discussion: Are there crafting professions that MMOs should add?
• Discussion: MMOs that struggle with keeping crafting relevant and accessible
• Discussion: MMOs that add crafting later in the game
• Discussion: MMOs where you are not the crafter
• Discussion: What kind of crafting systems do we want in future MMOs?
• Outro

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• Podcast theme: "Crafting" from Salem
• Your show hosts: Justin and Bree
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