Episode 466 - Brand Expansion (The MTG MMO Episode)

On the day this episode was recorded, it was announced that Cryptic Studios is working on a Magic: The Gathering Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game! This is absolutely unprecedented in MTG's history of licensing, and we decided to do an entire episode about it! We're beginning with Dirk's extensive MMO experience! He goes on at length about what Magic's world and mechanics could bring the MMO genre, and the rest of us pipe up whenever we have something to add. After all the rampant speculation, it's time to talk about the dark side of all this. There has been a massive negative reaction to this from the MTG community, and it's because nerds are, I'm sorry to say, terrible people when it comes to the properties that they nerd over. After that we're going over as many of the other ways MTG has attempted to expand its brand over the years as we can remember. Old video games, books & comics, a miniatures game, Jones Planeswalker Soda...just whatever. Be sure to let us know if we missed any good ones! Announcement/Interview article - http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-07-06-taking-an-ip-and-making-it-your-own Cryptic Studios - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptic_Studios MTG Video Games - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering_video_games   Support us on Patreon! – https://www.patreon.com/themanapool Intro & Outro Music – Diamond by Swift – https://myspace.com/swiftband This episode's post: http://themanapool.com/podcast/episode-466 Check out our archive at http://themanapool.com/category/podcast Email us at [email protected] Follow us on Twitter at @TheManaPool Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheManaPool Subscribe to us on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheManaPool Follow us on Twitch at http://www.twitch.tv/themanapool TMP Steam Group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/themanapool Subscribe to our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themanapool Brought to you by Mana Pool Productions