Brian Ibbott of Coverville and TMS fame joins us today! We talk a bunch about Race to World First, and the Podcast Awards.
Big News of the Week
Blizzcon Next Week! What are we planning, what can you expect, what matters most?
- New expansion news.
- Other weird announcements?
- We will have full coverage with a show Saturday night, posted that evening or next day.
Big Cauldron of Battle and Cauldron of Battle…were recently changed on the PTR to Bind to Battle.net Account from Bind on Pickup. No more hassle with using your Alchemist alts! Also, how awesome are the new Hurricane and Wrath Animations?
Rumors & Scuttlebut
Sneak Peek: Guardian Cub Tradable Pet! “A new pet is coming to a Blizzard Store near you and … you can trade it and sell it at the auction house! Coming soon to a Pet Store near you: the new and titanically cute Guardian Cub companion. You’ve soared across Azeroth on the majestic Winged Guardian. Soon, you’ll be able to purchase a pint-sized Guardian of the Titans sidekick to accompany you on your adventures.”
Suspending LFG Queues?! An interesting client string that hints at a feature to “suspend” your LFG queue.
IN_LFG_QUEUE_BUT_SUSPENDED = “Your queue has been temporarily suspended. You will retain your position in the queue.”
A note about firelands progression. Blizzard says these are wrong.
Drop of the Week
Blizzard Charity Auction Benefitting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® Coming Soon! Want to own a piece of Blizzard Entertainment history? After a series of World of Warcraft infrastructure upgrades, we’ve preserved the retired HP server blades that once hosted many realms in our archives. In the near future a selection of these blades will be made available for auction, and the net proceeds will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Also, Turpster did some videos for Doghouse Systems!
Special thanks to our sponsors this week: Squarespace (use code WOW6), Audible.com, Doghouse Systems, Rage Quit Relief, and Typefrag.com.
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– The MP3 File
– The RSS Feed
– The iTunes Subscription
– The Zune Feed
– The Frogpants Ultra Feed (iTunes)
Found this on youtube. It blew my mind that Turpster was right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaCRXl5ZuCg
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Back in Black parody:
The Death Knights are back.
Got ghouls to sack.
DG’s range is too long
that shit is whack
Blizzard should make ALL pet store pets and mounts tradable in-game. Why?
1. Gold selling is never going away. If it’s illicit, then the gold is stolen from hacked accounts.
2. Selling outright gold for money, as Scott suggested, does NOT work in an MMO, because introducing arbitrary amounts of new gold into the game causes massive inflation.
3. Allowing people to pay real world money for items which have no intrinsic value in the game, but do have a market value, will simply allow you to move existing gold from one character to another.
I would love a winged guardian, but I will never in my life pay $25 for it, on general principle. However, if I’ve got 50k gold lying around, I should be able to buy it from someone who hates doing dailies or farming.
If anything, this will help the overall economy, since people who hate farming won’t farm anymore, meaning there will be less oversaturation of trade goods and less gold introduced into the economy.
As to the slippery slope, I don’t understand how anyone can see it as such. The slope ends where all vanity items sold on the Blizzard store can be sold in-game. This in no way hints at Blizzard selling gear for real world money, at least not any more than the Pet Store already does.
If Blizzard is worried about few people seeing the end content then perhaps they should just make a third raid difficulty and use the item color code they already have in place.
Story Mode difficulty: Blue gear, a step better then heroics gear, easy to beat
Normal Mode: Purple, obviously
Hard Mode: They have Orange, use it
there everyone is happy, more people get to see the raid content and story, while raiders have their own stuff.