Darren from The Common Sense Gamer and Karen from Journeys with Jaye hosted another episode of Shut Up We're Talking this week, with guests John from The Ancient Gaming Noob and Scott from Pumping Irony.

Here is this week's agenda:

• Introductions
• Listener mail/What we're playing
• AoC: Broken Game or Playing Beta
• No Guild Hopping Plz
• Free Trial MMOs
• Blog of the Week

Topics:

• Open Beta vs Closed
• AoC Closed Beta Worlds
• Guild Hopping
• Fixing Guild Hopping
• Fixing WoW's progression problem
• Who Does the Epic Belong to?
• How to get more people to buy Your MMO

It was another entertaining episode, full of all sorts of jibber jabber. One of the subjects that I really enjoyed was that on Guild Hopping. I thought some of the ideas presented to help alleviate guild hopping were good indeed. Others I didn't agree with too much. I do think game companies should implement some form of DKP (or multiples that can be chosen from) to the guild system.

Guild progression is a very important thing, That’s a big thing that helps turn a guild from a large random pickup group, to a large family of people. I've been in large guilds that have actually started meeting IRL once a year, because of the relationships that have formed over the years of building up the guilds and characters. That's exactly what guilds are all about.

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