Aug 18, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min · 15 segments
On this week's episode of the Massively OP Podcast, Bree and Justin talk about the **entire** future of MMORPGs, *SWTOR's* pseudo-expansion plans, *World of Warcraft's* big patch, the fate of *Lost…
We're gonna start out with some Star Wars: The Old Republic because we haven't talked about this in a little while, but it's kinda gearing up for Game Update 8.0 sometime later this year.
Yeah.
They haven't put a date on it.
All right.
So w- we're kinda getting this all-
This year, yes.
Yeah, we're get- we've been getting this piece, the information for 8.0 kinda piecemeal, and now it's, it's solidifying.
It's coming together.
This is not a, an expansion-
No
... officially, but unofficially, you know, if you wanna call it one, I'm sure Broadsword wouldn't be too upset.
[laughs]
But it, you know, they've even given it a name so that now we c- they're gonna call it Masters of the Force, but what they're really talking about is just kind of like, it's a new era for the game.
It's a new storyline.
Right.
They're moving into, um, a new world.
Of course, we talked about previously this Twi'lek w- home world that we're gonna be going to, which I think sounds pretty fun.
And, uh, one thing that really caught my attention, and I wanted to ask you, Bree, have we even talked about this difficulty slider?
slider?I don't think we had talked about it.
But yeah, I mean, like this is a good one
I didn't even know about that until I read a piece-
Oh
... on Massively OP, and I'm like, "Wait, what? There's going to be, uh, overland difficulty modes."
Yeah.
What is that?
We're gonna start out with some Star Wars: The Old Republic because we haven't talked about this in a little while, but it's kinda gearing up for Game Update 8.0 sometime later this year.
Yeah.
They haven't put a date on it.
All right.
So w- we're kinda getting this all-
This year, yes.
Yeah, we're get- we've been getting this piece, the information for 8.0 kinda piecemeal, and now it's, it's solidifying.
It's coming together.
This is not a, an expansion-
No
... officially, but unofficially, you know, if you wanna call it one, I'm sure Broadsword wouldn't be too upset.
[laughs]
But it, you know, they've even given it a name so that now we c- they're gonna call it Masters of the Force, but what they're really talking about is just kind of like, it's a new era for the game.
It's a new storyline.
Right.
They're moving into, um, a new world.
Of course, we talked about previously this Twi'lek w- home world that we're gonna be going to, which I think sounds pretty fun.
And, uh, one thing that really caught my attention, and I wanted to ask you, Bree, have we even talked about this difficulty slider?
slider?I don't think we had talked about it.
But yeah, I mean, like this is a good one
I didn't even know about that until I read a piece-
Oh
... on Massively OP, and I'm like, "Wait, what? There's going to be, uh, overland difficulty modes."
Yeah.
What is that?
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