WEBVTT - Bonus Ep: BlizzCon 2018 Recap 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.639 Welcome to Narrative Center with Danny Niffy. I'm Iffy way away. 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.760 Danny is sitting this one out. She's been She's had 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.639 quite an eventful weekend. You're doing the press junket for 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.440 Bracket Ralph and you know, hanging out with all those 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.119 celebs and all. Buddy Buddy, you know, didn't give me 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.400 a ticket, But it's all bit, it's all good. I 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:28.560 couldn't make it because I had blizz Con. But you know, 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:30.640 I'm sure if I didn't have blizz Con, she would 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.000 have me up in the air or something like that. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.680 But in her stead, we have two people who were 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:39.800 able to experience the con with me, and we'll be 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.760 talking about a chatting and breaking it down, and that 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:49.960 is Malika Limb and Naim Stewart. Hello. How are y'all doing? Hello? Everybody? Yeah, yeah, 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.440 So we had one person who had a job offer 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:58.200 from Blizzards. I'm not a job offer, but you got 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.880 pretty close to the the light there, you got you 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:06.160 had an interview. If I'm not mistaken, right, Yes, that's 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:10.080 absolutely right. I'm Alika Limb again. I'm a game designer, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:15.600 game developer, occasional community manager and marketer for games. I 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.840 also like to play games surprise surprise, and a while 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.960 back I did try to get an internship at Blizzard 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.280 on the Quest writing team. I don't know if I'm allowed. 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:33.600 I'm always nervous to talk about my relationships with other companies. Okay, 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.880 we'll just stop there then and keep it safe. But 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.560 I feel like that much is cool, you know what. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:44.200 I'm still interested in collaborating that out there tuned in 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.160 and and we have names Stewart Artists extraordinaire. I mean you, 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.880 I mean he's a pro stippling. That's that's pretty much 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:56.160 what he primarily does. Is he only does. I haven't 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.760 done stip do you know what? You know what stipling is? 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:03.880 Absolutely it's the dots. Yeah, pretty much. You explain it 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:07.480 for the listeners. So pretty much you use ink dots, 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.280 whether it be black or colored, and you will just 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.880 create an image just using dots. That's what I did. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.240 I mean, I still do it. I haven't done it 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.760 actually in a couple of months, probably to a year now. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:24.760 I've been focusing more on digital, uh, drawing digitally, but yeah, 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.360 I just do all types stuff. But that was one 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.280 of the things that uh, if you remember me doing 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:34.320 when he first met me. So yeah, because you did 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.080 like this huge piece for twitch coom right that Twitch 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.080 Con show, and it was like this huge dwarf and 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.960 it was amazing. We're gonna add it in the footnotes 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.720 if you're listening and curiously what that looks like. But 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.040 it's a real cool piece and it was like the 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.920 like I knew of stifling, Like You've definitely kind of 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.240 seen that art before, but I've never watched someone do it. 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:58.520 And Naim used to stream himself literally just making dots 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.440 on Twitch. Yeah. I would stream that late at night. Uh, 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.560 started like around eight nine o'clock specific time, and just 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.160 do that till five six in the morning and go 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.360 and sleep and go to work. Yeah. I would probably 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:15.360 sleep like three hours and go straight to work. So 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.160 when you're stippling, how do you know you're making what 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.800 you want to make? Like? How do you plan it 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.440 out some way? When I did it, I pretty much 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.520 had a simple image just sketched out, and then when 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.560 I started stippling, I just let it go just when 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.079 it three and then whatever comes with it, I make it. 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.920 So Yeah, alright, looll cool. I mean more on that. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.920 You probably go to his bods. I'm sure if you 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:43.600 wanted to see that in action. But we're talking about 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.600 blizz Con, and blizz Con was super fun. It was 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.320 both of your first times at blizz Con. First time 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.880 it was, this is my second, so it's not like 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:58.120 I'm like the super Vet, but blizz Con is was. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:02.080 It's it's a great experience. I think when you have 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.280 such a focus cons, like we talked in the Comic 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.160 Con episode of how Like you know, when you go 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.080 to a comic counter anime con, it's so many different 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:14.320 properties coming together that you know, you get what you like, 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.400 everyone gets what they're like, but sometimes you don't get enough. 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.320 And when you have something so targeted like blizz Con, 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.240 where it's just all Blizzard everything, it was so cool. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.720 They had like a whole large live dark Moonfair. They 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:31.360 had multiple sports made. Yeah, they had that we yeah 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.919 you missed that, dad, full size dark Moonfair. It was 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.880 and it spanned like multiple buildings. It felt, it honestly 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.400 felt that that this year it was almost a little 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.479 too big for the Anaheim Convention Center and y'all, y'all 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.000 might have to move to l a convention center. You know, 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.359 I'm just saying, Blizzard you know, not only would that 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.200 make that trip way easier, but you'll have a lot 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.880 more space. It'll be a good time. I think it's 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.440 time Blizzard come on down l a maybe make our 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:02.640 lives way easier. But yeah, it's but every year it 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.320 starts off with the opening ceremony and we get those sweet, 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.440 sweet announcements. It's basically like the Apple kind of like 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.920 keynote speech, but for Blizzard nerds, and it's super exciting. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.279 And they even have their own little versions of weight. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.800 There's more, but let's kick it off with the Blizzard 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.839 property most people are familiar with, which is World of Warcraft. 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.760 They yes, yes, yes, they announced Tides of Vengeance, which 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.240 is the war between and and you know this little 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.440 tizzy that they hooked me up with. They gave me 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.200 the press, you know, info so I can just read 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.800 it all, and the war between the Horde and the Alliance, 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.240 which is a crucial turning point. And Tides of Vengeance 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.200 the upcoming first major content update for Battle for Azarath 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.880 that will bring new content including the Battle of Dessar, 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.600 a Lower Raid and Battle for Dark Shore, Warfront and more. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:57.040 And there's then they added a nice cinematic which Naim 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:01.279 got to watch I have sat there watched him watch it. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.039 Malik and I got to watch it live. It was 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:09.159 amazing And unfortunately when Malik watched it, even when he 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.000 watched the livestream, he didn't get the cheers. But there's 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.160 something about hearing the cheers at the specific moments and 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.160 just the energy that's in the room. But for those 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.599 who once again, this will be in the footnotes for 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.560 you to watch later. But just a quick cliff notes. Um, 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.039 if you are unaware at the top of Battle for 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:32.719 as Roth in the general encounter and which you're joining 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.440 the with a whole bunch of new players, you there's 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.240 a battle in which you arrest sal Frank sour fang 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.279 Um and he's just in jail. So this picks up 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.040 from there where Aldown goes down to check and he's 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.640 kind of filling weathered by the war seeing so many 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:53.000 people dying, which has been a good It's so interesting 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.440 with the world of warcraft because they are so good 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.760 at like both like making a game that sits in 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.280 a constant state of war, but still like have that 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.480 kind of down to earth take of like this is bad, 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.080 we're losing people. We we don't want this, Like, yeah, 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.040 we're having fun out here questing, but there are you know, 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:19.000 problems that come with war. And so he goes down 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.640 consults with sour Fang. You find out that sour Fang 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.240 is not happy with Sylvanas and the where she's taking 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:33.440 a hoard. Yeah, some people disagree. Yeah, you know, well 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:40.280 Silvanna still got stands na are you Hoarde? Okay, here's 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:44.800 the thing, Wow, did not know that. I didn't say 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.960 I was. I I like, both sides have have characters 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.520 on both sides. I started on Alliance, Um, I'm but 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.960 the character on playing now is Alliance. But I still 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.600 have love for Hoarde, I don't. I mean, I just 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.040 look at both sides and see what's going on to 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.240 to figure out the naime over here with good people 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:09.000 on both sides. Yeah, so as a both sides are Um, 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.160 how do you feel about this new expansion because it 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.320 does kind of bring the both together sort of. Well, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.520 at first, I did not care for all the one 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.760 right at the beginning, I was all for King Varian. Uh, 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:23.400 and when he you know, died get killed by Golden, 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:26.440 I had to like getting used to this new guy, 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.760 and and so far he's pretty cool. I believe he's 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.520 a paladin, right yea, yeah, yeah, paladin. He might be 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:39.240 a Paladin's I'm kind of going based off of his hearthstone. Yea. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.080 But so far, I haven't played much of the expansion 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.319 because of work and other stuff. But so far as 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.480 it's pretty good, like really good. I haven't played a 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:56.400 Legion was good too, but anyway, uh, it's so far, 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.360 it's pretty good. Uh. I want to explore more about 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:05.840 sar Fangs uh uh his uh what do you call it? 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.240 His uh mindset when it comes to what he perceives 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.319 as what the Horde looks for in his eyes? As 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:18.000 well as Savannas, she's pretty much I know we have, 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:22.199 like you said, stands for Silvanas, but what she's doing, 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.880 in my opinion, is pretty left up. Yeah, I mean 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:30.800 she's she's basically committing genocide. And uh, I'm interesting to 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:34.400 see if Sarfang could potentially be the new Wards you eventually, 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.960 especially since he you know, if you played without the 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.680 Lynch King, you know, he lost his son at that time, 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.960 and then you know, I want to see what his mindset. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:43.880 I just want to explore more because he's a really 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.319 interesting character. Yeah. So yeah, no, I'm I'm super excited 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.400 for that, and and it's it is so funny because 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.800 I do feel like on the Horde side, They're big 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.359 angle is that there's so much turmoil in the leadership 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.400 of the Horde where Alliance are thing has just been 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.080 and it does seem like Alliance are kind of being 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.040 played as the good guys, where our biggest mission is 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.400 whatever the expansion pack is about. You know, there's never 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:13.920 Our first change of power has been when King Arrian 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:20.560 Wren died, which I skipped Warlords and a Legion because 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.000 I just got caught up in other games. So I 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.679 came back for Battle Forever round and I'm like, oh man, 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.959 I'm excited to see my man Barian. You know, he's 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.480 finally getting to fight. The Hoard was something to get 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.600 spiced up. And then I come in. I'm like, where 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.679 what is it? Why is it? Why is that one 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.640 running everything? And someone had to go and tell me 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:42.200 that he is dead, and I was like, wait, what hey, 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:46.280 straight killed my man's off behind the back. That's why 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.360 that's why you played through all expansions, y'all, so you 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.199 don't come back when your favor is dead. I didn't 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.200 even get to see him off. I have to go 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.000 back and play it, but it's not even the same 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.400 because I know that I'm already in the future of it. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:00.120 You've seen the cut scene though, right the video of 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.679 you know, you're just trying to rub it in. Now, 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:07.079 I thought you watched it. I will play through that 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.360 point and watch it when I get to that point. Naive, 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:14.199 I'm not there yet. I'm sorry. I thought you actually 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:19.520 watched it. That's how we also had, you know, the 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.839 confirmation of a release date of Wild Classic. I will 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.400 launch in the summer of two thousand nineteen and will 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.439 be included with your Wow subscription. Blizz count attendees can 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.040 demo it early. Uh and uh it was on the 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:36.640 show floor. Me and Naim got to play it. Um, 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:42.680 it's Wild Classic, that's my take on that's it. Well, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.920 what do you think of classic? Um? So, I've been 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.360 playing Wild for a really long time. I'm on a 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.280 day one server mana Roth confined me. Um, but I 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.000 what I started what six years ago? And this is 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.319 what a fourteen year old game now? So even I 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.439 don't feel like o G And it's kind of cool 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.360 to maybe have that opportunity to be like what were 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.880 you guys all freaking out about? Yeah, I mean it 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.400 was it was Look, I will say there was interest 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.240 in being like, oh what is this like first, and 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:16.439 everyone so hyped about but I came in like Burning Crusade. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.640 But I came in in the same sense. I don't 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.960 know how familiar. I feel like everyone in this room 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:26.400 will be gamers and understand, but everyone remembers like that 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.360 period where there were tons of MMOs and you would 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.880 play an MMO, but you weren't playing an MMO. You're 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.040 just kind of leveling a bit before you were like 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:37.200 all right, you know, like that, And that's kind of 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.000 how that's that's how I did with b C. Then 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.280 rather lich King came and I kind of first finally 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.439 had a guild, people to cheer me on, someone who 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.640 knew what they were doing, and something to build towards. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.520 And that's when it became like the best off tank 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:56.280 on'nara has ever seen, um but I But even then, 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.559 like I remember, I really liked Wrath because that's when 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.880 I kind of got good at the game and understood it, 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:07.200 and they had the they just introduced the dungeon finder 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.280 or the raid finder, and I was really excited about 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.880 that because if if you were unfamiliar the way you 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.560 have to find raids were speaking in all chats in 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.720 the middle of the town, and people would run these 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.920 weird quizzes from you and expect you to know the rate, 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:23.760 even if you're like, hey, it's my first run. Oh, 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.560 you don't get a first run. You gotta know the raid. 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.959 And then if you if it is someone who's like, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.920 I'm gonna let you run through, it's like, well, did 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.360 you watch all the videos and you're like, yeah, I did, 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.120 but it's still not the same as actually playing the game. 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.840 Uh so, And there was just a lot of gate keeping, 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.199 and it made for the end game being very slow 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:47.360 and stilted if you didn't have a guild. Uh and 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.440 raid Finder kind of got rid of all that, and 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.079 people were mad about it. And I think the thing 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.880 people are mad about is that they don't get to 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.160 be elitist that and that is my true heart of 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.480 hearts feel on people's anger towards like a lot of 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.960 the improvements, because a lot of the quality of life 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.240 improvements helped with a lot of these things that I 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.840 felt were wrong on a social level. And wow, which 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.960 is like people gatekeeping and being being able to be 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.840 elitist within the game and when there was a way 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.319 to skip them and they can't, you know, have this 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.400 kind of hold over you. Now all of a sudden 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.640 the games bad, but to stay on the task. For 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.920 Wild Classic, I turned it on me and I am 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.720 played I got a quest. I hit mapp to see 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.840 where the quest was. It wasn't there, and I was like, oh, yeah, okay, 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:37.640 I'm not gonna be playing this. Yeah. I played Wow 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.400 from the get go right when it launched. I got 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.600 it for a right around Christmas two thousand five or 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.640 something like that, and uh, that was pretty much. I 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:51.120 played an MMO beforehand before Wow. Those dark ages for 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.600 next on made it whatever, But what well the world 0:14:54.600 --> 0:15:01.400 craft was like first full MMO experience, and uh, comparing 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.520 Wild now compared to where it was, it's such a 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:08.600 nine and day thing because, like if he said, when 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.200 you look at your map, if you get a quest, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.360 usually now you can see where you need to go. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.920 It's it's so easy. Before you have to literally read 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.360 the quest and figure out where such as such, if 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.680 we had to kill like ten minutes, you have to 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.480 like read it where it's at. It's a mind southwest 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.920 of the location right now, you have to go there 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:33.640 and find it and then kill slowly ten uh ten 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:40.200 or so amounts of uh uh whatever to uh complete quest, 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.480 then come back to return it. You couldn't. You couldn't 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.400 complete the quest right then and there. You have to 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.720 come back to the quest giver at the hill for example, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:52.440 uh ten minutes away getting another quest, go back out. 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:57.040 It was such slow grinding experience. But because I was 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.560 so young personally and I was just having fun and 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.480 just hambored by the world that I was seeing, I 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.640 was like, Okay, whatever, it's cool, this is cool. Um. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.720 But I think personally there will be such a wake 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.680 up call once this comes out. Granted, I'm gonna play it. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.280 I want to, I want to play I'm gonna play it. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.359 But I think once people get over into the nostalgia 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.840 feeling of playing Wow Vanilla, they'd be like, I don't 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.360 know if this was as fun as I remember what 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.680 in the But I think because this will answer the 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:34.240 question of did people want a Vanilla Wow experience or 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.920 did people want a free Wow experience? Because that's what 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.120 it's gonna answer, because remember that was the main thing 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.720 that where Blizzard was shutting down these services. All these 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.360 servers were free, So we're getting the Wow, the same 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.840 game that other people are paying a subscription fee for. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.480 You were getting it for free and you were saying 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.840 the reason you wanted it is because it was vanilla, 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.320 and Wow didn't offer that. So now that whole I 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.000 was offering that it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting. 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.000 It's like, it's so, now do you want it? Or 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.040 did you want a free Wow? There was things I 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.880 can say doing Wow Classic the Classic area that were 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.520 just amazing times, Like if you were if you got 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.840 a rate of forty people together, do that you you 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.959 managed to defeat, say Raging Ross and Moncore. That feeling 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.240 of just seeing forty individual people just cheer on in 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:29.760 Ventrilo Ventrilla is before now, but you know, of course 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:35.679 you have to pay for a server. Then, yeah, teams speaking, 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:41.000 team speak. Counterstrike was all about team speak, then Trillo 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.600 was for the MMO nerds, yeah, and vice versa for 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:48.320 some people. But just just having that moment of hearing 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.440 just forty people and then people waiting outside in the 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.719 raid and just hearing that you've defeated the Raging Rows. 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:58.280 Since your first guild raid Boss Kill is amazing, and 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.280 I know people want to have that feeling again at 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:05.240 nostalgia feeling. But at the same time, it was hard 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:07.960 to get forty people together and be on the same 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.920 page to actually strategize to beat a boss and and 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.760 molten Core and Black Wing Lair and next Ramus was 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.400 so hard to deal with that, you know, But that's 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.679 just one of the things that was both pros and 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:25.000 contents when dealing with a WOW classic back then compared 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.960 to now, well that was a yeah. So you know, 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:31.480 love it, love it or not, it's gonna be there. 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.680 And if you're already sub to Wow, no extra price 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.760 to you. So I think that's a win win either way. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.480 And you know, last a lot not least, they announced 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:43.439 the the kind of charity gift they Every year they 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.960 do a charity gift where if you buy, the proceeds 0:18:46.040 --> 0:18:48.880 go towards charity, and this year it's gonna benefit code 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.280 dot org, which is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding computer 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:56.520 science education in schools and increasing participation by women and minorities, 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.679 Which is cool like that that not only is it 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:00.720 a charity, but it's a charity that hope it helps 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.080 women and minorities, and you know, we definitely want more 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.040 of that in stem tech and in gaming. And you know, 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:10.280 to see a company like Blizzard be proactive about that 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.720 by you know, helping a charity like that, that's real 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.320 cool to see. Uh. And yeah, this year it's a 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.199 cute little whomper, so you can adopt that. It's a 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:21.679 whomper for for people who don't play Blizzard game it's 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:26.000 basically abominable snowman, but look it up. It's cute. But 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:31.280 we got to talk about the big old Overwatch announcement 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:34.360 that came out. It was exciting, everyone's super hyped about it. 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:43.119 We'll get into that right after these messages and we're back. 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.280 Uh just like that you know you need, and we're 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:47.960 gonna jump in and we're gonna speed it up. We 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:52.200 got real nostalgic with Wow, we're gonna I'm gonna try 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.679 and be on everyone's head. But Overwatch kicked off with 0:19:55.720 --> 0:20:00.160 a Macree animated short which showed this character Ash, which 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.800 was super exciting. Well before that, we saw this apple 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.440 pie that was so good that made me go get 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.399 apple pie today. I was like, yeah, the apple pies 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:12.760 are bomb. You're right, mcrea. Um. But uh, the animated 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:16.640 short which will be in once again the footnotes, that's 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:20.960 me cos playing as Miles. Uh. If you don't listen 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.000 to the day the site guys, then you don't know 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:27.280 what I just did. Um. But it was cool because 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:31.440 this was very much a like I don't want to 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.840 say trolly because that seems like it's mean, but just 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:38.000 definitely like exciting announcement because you know, they talked about 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.080 how almost every character in that cinematic would be fun 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:43.199 as a playable character, and it's true. And then they 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.680 went through I thought they swerved us at the end 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.119 by introducing that Echo character, but then he was like 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:51.520 echoes not ready yet, and we're like, oh damn. And 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:53.600 they're like, but what if it's this guy? And I 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:55.479 was like, oh, I was like, but it's not. What 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:57.680 if it's this guy? Oh but it's not. What if 0:20:57.680 --> 0:20:59.479 it was Bob? And was like, oh, but it's not, 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.560 it's Ash And we're like yeah. And then they play 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:07.280 ashes uh kind of announcement uh you know video and 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.760 it's good. And then towards the end of it, Uh, 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:13.320 Bob pops up and we're like oh, and I'm losing 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:15.800 my mind because I thought it was a double character announcement. 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.960 It was not. It's just an ultimate which will get 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:21.600 into that. Actually, yeah, this will be pretty long because 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.280 all of us had a chance to play, and your 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.639 boy got real sweaty. I got play of the game 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:29.520 in the media room because I don't play. I don't play. 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:31.719 I don't care if y'all trying to test out this 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.600 new character. I'm here trying to get wins, me and 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.159 the guy who decided to stop playing as Ash and 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.000 play a healer just so we can win. I was like, 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:42.680 this is the type of scum lord stuff that I'm into, 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.119 taking the media time, chance to learn this new character 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:49.800 and trying to win. But yeah, so we had Ash. 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:52.480 She's a gun slinger, she was, she's in the Deadlock game. 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:54.760 She has a um, I don't know what would you 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:58.960 call that, like yeah, like, but it's like it is 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:06.760 like a staple in West Yeah, like a repeat yeah yeah, yeah, 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:09.639 So it's a it's a repeater a rifle which is 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:14.280 so versatile and cool because you have uh without aiming 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:17.160 downsites is shooting pretty fast and then when you aim 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:19.879 down shot sites, it shoots slower, but it has like 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:22.359 that sniper rifle damage, and it does seem like it 0:22:22.359 --> 0:22:26.840 gets that bonus damage with headshots. Uh. So it's uhum 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:30.359 or lever action, yes, repeater or lever action for the 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.760 cowboys in the room. But she is super fun. She 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:37.960 her shift attack is a sawed off that knocks you 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.359