{"segments": [{"start": 0.0, "end": 7.0, "text": " ."}, {"start": 7.0, "end": 10.0, "text": " ."}, {"start": 10.0, "end": 15.0, "text": " ."}, {"start": 15.0, "end": 20.0, "text": " ."}, {"start": 20.0, "end": 25.0, "text": " ."}, {"start": 895.0, "end": 923.0, "text": " Good morning, Shaft."}, {"start": 923.0, "end": 932.56, "text": " Good morning chat and happy Wednesday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, September 10th, guys this"}, {"start": 932.56, "end": 942.0, "text": " is the final stream pre BlizzCon, the final stream pre BlizzCon flying out tomorrow morning"}, {"start": 942.0, "end": 947.2, "text": " early so today's stream is actually going to be a bit shorter too, final stream pre"}, {"start": 947.2, "end": 955.8000000000001, "text": " blue scone. It is here, guys. It is here. Basically, holy crap. I'm so excited. What"}, {"start": 955.8000000000001, "end": 959.88, "text": " color t-shirt for blue scone? I'll probably wear this exact t-shirt at blue scone. 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What's going on?"}, {"start": 1023.64, "end": 1028.68, "text": " Pika yeah Pika should be there dude there should be a lot of people there it"}, {"start": 1028.68, "end": 1036.6399999999999, "text": " should be sick should be pretty nice what if they don't announce classic plus I"}, {"start": 1036.6399999999999, "end": 1043.36, "text": " would be brutal any high elo are you gameplay today potential actually"}, {"start": 1043.36, "end": 1048.4, "text": " probably not today man it's just too close to the con comfort hash good"}, {"start": 1048.4, "end": 1052.08, "text": " morning what's going on when you leave it I'm leaving tomorrow morning so our"}, {"start": 1052.08, "end": 1058.02, "text": " to a short little stream today tomorrow morning we will be flying on out it's"}, {"start": 1058.02, "end": 1062.56, "text": " pretty crazy man pretty crazy it's gonna be a sick live stream with everyone"}, {"start": 1062.56, "end": 1065.96, "text": " there yeah should be a lot of fun man"}, {"start": 1068.6799999999998, "end": 1074.3999999999999, "text": " wwoo saf petri out oh this is from a viewer okay let's see don't forget about"}, {"start": 1074.3999999999999, "end": 1081.8, "text": " your prime see that yo prime subs are free generic thanks to the prime man"}, {"start": 1082.08, "end": 1087.6799999999998, "text": " Nah, I'm going solo, Zenshin. My schedule's gonna be kinda nuts. It's gonna be kinda crazy, so I'm going solo."}, {"start": 1088.6399999999999, "end": 1091.48, "text": " Brand new classic HD moment just dropped. Ooh, we can check that out."}, {"start": 1094.48, "end": 1098.6799999999998, "text": " Am I going to Ezfans party tomorrow night? I think I'm gonna try to stop in, but we'll see."}, {"start": 1099.1799999999998, "end": 1100.8799999999999, "text": " Like, what's going on."}, {"start": 1101.3799999999999, "end": 1101.8799999999999, "text": " But..."}, {"start": 1102.58, "end": 1104.08, "text": " Yeah, I think, I think that's the plan."}, {"start": 1106.78, "end": 1107.6799999999998, "text": " Um..."}, {"start": 1107.98, "end": 1109.6799999999998, "text": " Where's BlizzCon this year? 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Yeah, I'm used to that in Arizona, but when we go to California, it's supposed to be colder. What the heck?"}, {"start": 1148.48, "end": 1151.44, "text": " That's gonna be it's gonna be so hot dude, I actually can't believe it"}, {"start": 1152.1200000000001, "end": 1158.26, "text": " Is the main event being streamed anywhere. I think it's just on the Blizzard channel or the Warcraft channel or both or something"}, {"start": 1158.26, "end": 1160.26, "text": " I don't know I"}, {"start": 1160.26, "end": 1176.8, "text": " I live in Anaheim. It's super humid too. Wild weather going on. Well, shoot. Oh well. Dang."}, {"start": 1176.8, "end": 1185.7, "text": " That's crazy. Not an American. What does an average Arizona summer and winter usually"}, {"start": 1185.7, "end": 1194.66, "text": " look like summers on average are like a hundred degrees Fahrenheit like on a good day. 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That's why like I'm talking"}, {"start": 1319.78, "end": 1322.48, "text": " I'm not being as cold as I was going on there."}, {"start": 1325.42, "end": 1326.26, "text": " Do do."}, {"start": 1329.06, "end": 1330.82, "text": " Do you ever plan on leaving to another state?"}, {"start": 1330.82, "end": 1333.58, "text": " We talk about moving all the time."}, {"start": 1334.66, "end": 1338.86, "text": " The big thing is like we have a two and a half year old"}, {"start": 1340.06, "end": 1345.06, "text": " and my wife's family's here, my family's here."}, {"start": 1345.66, "end": 1347.26, "text": " My parents are here, my grandma's here,"}, {"start": 1347.26, "end": 1349.54, "text": " my aunt and uncle are here."}, {"start": 1349.54, "end": 1351.5, "text": " Shannon's brother and wife are here."}, {"start": 1351.5, "end": 1354.3, "text": " Like we have like a whole like network of family here"}, {"start": 1354.3, "end": 1356.46, "text": " and with the baby, or I guess not like with the 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" to convince you to last minute"}, {"start": 1406.94, "end": 1413.94, "text": " I'm going to go to the top on an airplane and meet me at BlizzCon tomorrow."}, {"start": 1413.94, "end": 1415.94, "text": " Peo?"}, {"start": 1415.94, "end": 1417.94, "text": " Peo?"}, {"start": 1417.94, "end": 1419.94, "text": " LMAO?"}, {"start": 1419.94, "end": 1421.94, "text": " No, I love you though."}, {"start": 1421.94, "end": 1423.94, "text": " Peo, I would love to meet you one day."}, {"start": 1423.94, "end": 1427.94, "text": " This was a great opportunity to come meet the boys."}, {"start": 1427.94, "end": 1429.94, "text": " Peo."}, {"start": 1429.94, "end": 1431.94, "text": " Peo."}, {"start": 1431.94, "end": 1433.94, "text": " Peo."}, {"start": 1433.94, "end": 1438.8200000000002, "text": " Next time, next time, next time, next time, next time."}, {"start": 1438.8200000000002, "end": 1443.38, "text": " Celcius was invented in Sweden 1742 by Anders Celcius."}, {"start": 1443.38, "end": 1444.22, "text": " There it is."}, {"start": 1444.22, "end": 1445.06, "text": " The more you know."}, {"start": 1445.06, "end": 1445.9, "text": " Did not know that."}, {"start": 1445.9, "end": 1446.74, "text": " Yo, thanks for the sub."}, {"start": 1449.22, "end": 1451.78, "text": " Payo is not allowed in the U.S. after the incident."}, {"start": 1451.78, "end": 1453.1000000000001, "text": " Oh, that's what it comes down to."}, {"start": 1453.1000000000001, "end": 1455.42, "text": " Okay, rip."}, {"start": 1455.42, "end": 1456.94, "text": " Gift him 10 gifted."}, {"start": 1456.94, "end": 1459.26, "text": " Payo, I will gift you 10 gifted subs"}, {"start": 1459.26, "end": 1460.54, "text": " if you come to the U.S."}, {"start": 1462.78, "end": 1463.6200000000001, "text": " One day, Payo."}, {"start": 1463.6200000000001, "end": 1465.96, "text": " It would be fun bro, it would be fun but it's all good."}, {"start": 1469.1000000000001, "end": 1470.3600000000001, "text": " Oh my gosh."}, {"start": 1472.0400000000002, "end": 1475.0600000000002, "text": " Meet Peekaboo, BlizzCon, yeah Peekaboo will be there."}, {"start": 1475.0600000000002, "end": 1475.96, "text": " I'm excited."}, {"start": 1477.0200000000002, "end": 1477.8600000000001, "text": " Who else bro?"}, {"start": 1477.8600000000001, "end": 1480.14, "text": " There are so many people I wanna say hi to."}, {"start": 1482.0600000000002, "end": 1483.5400000000002, "text": " So many people."}, {"start": 1483.5400000000002, "end": 1485.9, "text": " I have like a list of people I wanna say hi to."}, {"start": 1486.8400000000001, "end": 1489.7, "text": " G-Bay's gonna be there, I really wanna say hi to G-Bay."}, {"start": 1489.7, "end": 1491.14, "text": " Ozzy Falls is gonna be there,"}, {"start": 1491.14, "end": 1496.14, "text": " Pops is gonna be there, Ziko, Ezfan, Ampy, is crazy."}, {"start": 1500.3000000000002, "end": 1501.6200000000001, "text": " Glad you're enjoying it."}, {"start": 1508.5, "end": 1510.1000000000001, "text": " Yo, Matori, thanks for the prime, dude."}, {"start": 1510.1000000000001, "end": 1511.8200000000002, "text": " I'm amped."}, {"start": 1511.8200000000002, "end": 1512.98, "text": " Legit, can't wait."}, {"start": 1513.98, "end": 1515.3400000000001, "text": " Kuzu's gonna be there."}, {"start": 1515.3400000000001, "end": 1518.6200000000001, "text": " Yeah, Savics, yes, Ziko, yes."}, {"start": 1519.66, "end": 1520.74, "text": " It's gonna be a good time, man."}, {"start": 1520.74, "end": 1522.86, "text": " Sardocco's gonna be there."}, {"start": 1522.86, "end": 1524.02, "text": " Sardocco's a good friend of mine."}, {"start": 1524.02, "end": 1524.86, "text": " Can't wait to see him."}, {"start": 1524.86, "end": 1526.22, "text": " I've actually never met him."}, {"start": 1526.22, "end": 1527.6200000000001, "text": " Johnny is gonna be there."}, {"start": 1527.6200000000001, "end": 1528.6200000000001, "text": " Yeah."}, {"start": 1528.6200000000001, "end": 1530.38, "text": " Ampey, Veneruque."}, {"start": 1530.38, "end": 1532.02, "text": " I hope Cidu and Bean."}, {"start": 1533.98, "end": 1536.14, "text": " Showback, I believe it's gonna be there."}, {"start": 1536.14, "end": 1537.74, "text": " I'm excited to meet Showback."}, {"start": 1539.74, "end": 1540.82, "text": " Shibae."}, {"start": 1540.82, "end": 1543.0, "text": " Yeah, it's gonna be sick."}, {"start": 1547.6200000000001, "end": 1548.78, "text": " Do, do, do."}, {"start": 1548.78, "end": 1549.78, "text": " Soda, yeah."}, {"start": 1550.74, "end": 1559.74, "text": " I'm going to stream at BlizzCon."}, {"start": 1559.74, "end": 1560.74, "text": " Yes."}, {"start": 1560.74, "end": 1561.74, "text": " That's the plan."}, {"start": 1561.74, "end": 1562.74, "text": " This BlizzCon start tomorrow."}, {"start": 1562.74, "end": 1563.74, "text": " I'm flying out tomorrow."}, {"start": 1563.74, "end": 1566.74, "text": " The first day of BlizzCon is Saturday."}, {"start": 1566.74, "end": 1572.74, "text": " 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it"}, {"start": 1709.52, "end": 1712.52, "text": " because a thousand subs meant I was only making"}, {"start": 1712.52, "end": 1717.24, "text": " a little bit less than I would at other jobs I turned down."}, {"start": 1717.24, "end": 1718.2, "text": " So like that's pretty good."}, {"start": 1718.2, "end": 1719.92, "text": " So like that was a really big moment for me."}, {"start": 1719.92, "end": 1722.32, "text": " So like that's the face value answer."}, {"start": 1722.32, "end": 1726.2, "text": " The non-phase value answer, which is even the more real answer,"}, {"start": 1726.2, "end": 1728.6799999999998, "text": " is that the way content creation works"}, {"start": 1728.6799999999998, "end": 1731.72, "text": " and the way that entertainment industry works in general"}, {"start": 1731.72, "end": 1736.72, "text": " is you're only relevant until you're not relevant."}, {"start": 1738.08, "end": 1740.26, "text": " You're only as relevant as your last stream"}, {"start": 1740.26, "end": 1741.56, "text": " and your last video,"}, {"start": 1741.56, "end": 1744.1599999999999, "text": " and people will forget about you like that."}, {"start": 1744.1599999999999, "end": 1745.84, "text": " It's the same in acting."}, {"start": 1745.84, "end": 1747.1599999999999, "text": " It's the same in music."}, {"start": 1747.1599999999999, "end": 1751.6, "text": " It's the same in like any type of like comedy."}, {"start": 1751.6000000000001, "end": 1753.5000000000002, "text": " It's the same as anything."}, {"start": 1753.5000000000002, "end": 1755.1000000000001, "text": " So all of you guys will forget about me"}, {"start": 1755.1000000000001, "end": 1757.0200000000002, "text": " as soon as I'm not relevant anymore,"}, {"start": 1757.0200000000002, "end": 1759.5000000000002, "text": " which will happen one day and I'm very aware of that."}, {"start": 1759.5000000000002, "end": 1764.5000000000002, "text": " So I don't really ever think about,"}, {"start": 1764.8200000000002, "end": 1766.18, "text": " oh, I've permanently made it"}, {"start": 1766.18, "end": 1768.22, "text": " because that's not how it works."}, {"start": 1768.22, "end": 1769.8200000000002, "text": " That's just not how it works."}, {"start": 1770.8600000000001, "end": 1773.96, "text": " So that's the real answer."}, {"start": 1775.46, "end": 1776.3000000000002, "text": " Yeah."}, {"start": 1778.7, "end": 1780.5800000000002, "text": " Do-do-do."}, {"start": 1781.6000000000001, "end": 1787.0400000000002, "text": " Um, Shadow, thanks for the tier 129 month, but it hasn't happened yet. Not yet."}, {"start": 1790.4800000000002, "end": 1791.2, "text": " Oh, man."}, {"start": 1798.72, "end": 1802.72, "text": " You're gonna get back to League soon. I'll play more League at some point, but I don't know when."}, {"start": 1802.72, "end": 1804.64, "text": " Advocacy! What's happening, man?"}, {"start": 1804.64, "end": 1811.64, "text": " Who is this guy on my screen again?"}, {"start": 1811.64, "end": 1814.64, "text": " Oh!"}, {"start": 1814.64, "end": 1815.64, "text": " Royal!"}, {"start": 1815.64, "end": 1817.64, "text": " Thanks for the prime for five months."}, {"start": 1817.64, "end": 1818.64, "text": " Appreciate it."}, {"start": 1818.64, "end": 1819.64, "text": " Heading up to Anaheim today."}, {"start": 1819.64, "end": 1820.64, "text": " Woohoo!"}, {"start": 1820.64, "end": 1822.64, "text": " Maybe I'll see you there, man."}, {"start": 1822.64, "end": 1824.64, "text": " I'm flying out tomorrow."}, {"start": 1824.64, "end": 1826.64, "text": " We're going to do a short stream today."}, {"start": 1826.64, "end": 1827.64, "text": " Get packed up."}, {"start": 1827.64, "end": 1828.64, "text": " Get ready tonight."}, {"start": 1828.64, "end": 1830.64, "text": " We're heading off early in the morning."}, {"start": 1830.64, "end": 1833.64, "text": " We're going to fly into LAX and get there."}, {"start": 1833.64, "end": 1840.8400000000001, "text": " tomorrow should be chill Saturday Sunday should be busy as heck and we'll kind of"}, {"start": 1840.8400000000001, "end": 1843.2, "text": " go from there"}, {"start": 1843.2, "end": 1863.92, "text": " I'll be there solo generic. I'm just gonna be like way too busy shout out to show out"}, {"start": 1863.92, "end": 1865.3200000000002, "text": " Xiao from Brazil."}, {"start": 1865.3200000000002, "end": 1866.16, "text": " There we go."}, {"start": 1869.72, "end": 1872.3200000000002, "text": " Long Beach is a better airport to fly into."}, {"start": 1872.3200000000002, "end": 1874.72, "text": " Yeah, I wanted to fly into a closer airport,"}, {"start": 1874.72, "end": 1877.0800000000002, "text": " but there isn't any flights from where I live"}, {"start": 1877.0800000000002, "end": 1879.3600000000001, "text": " to that airport without a layover."}, {"start": 1879.3600000000001, "end": 1880.48, "text": " So then I could like,"}, {"start": 1882.3600000000001, "end": 1883.76, "text": " I, so I have three options."}, {"start": 1883.76, "end": 1886.4, "text": " I can fly out of Tucson to LAX, which I did."}, {"start": 1886.4, "end": 1890.44, "text": " I can fly to Tucson with a layover to the closer airport,"}, {"start": 1890.44, "end": 1893.5600000000002, "text": " but then I have a layover, so it's longer anyway."}, {"start": 1893.56, "end": 1896.46, "text": " Or I could drive to Phoenix and fly from Phoenix"}, {"start": 1896.46, "end": 1897.3, "text": " to the close airport,"}, {"start": 1897.3, "end": 1900.78, "text": " but then driving to Phoenix takes like an hour and a half."}, {"start": 1902.4199999999998, "end": 1905.1399999999999, "text": " So I just went to some LAX or whatever."}, {"start": 1905.1399999999999, "end": 1906.86, "text": " Private jet, obviously."}, {"start": 1906.86, "end": 1909.7, "text": " I mean, that's what I normally do, but I don't know."}, {"start": 1910.8999999999999, "end": 1913.3, "text": " Didn't take the jet this time around, I guess."}, {"start": 1916.26, "end": 1919.06, "text": " John Wayne with a layover is better than LAX all day."}, {"start": 1919.06, "end": 1919.98, "text": " Maybe you're right."}, {"start": 1919.98, "end": 1921.06, "text": " Yeah, maybe, honestly,"}, {"start": 1921.06, "end": 1923.3799999999999, "text": " maybe I should have just sent the layover."}, {"start": 1923.38, "end": 1927.0600000000002, "text": " What's the biggest non-wild thing you're looking forward to this weekend?"}, {"start": 1927.0600000000002, "end": 1932.0600000000002, "text": " The problem with layovers is you can get delays, and if you get delays you just miss your whole flight and then you're kind of screwed"}, {"start": 1932.7600000000002, "end": 1939.0400000000002, "text": " Like a layover is just for a dude. It's a one-hour flight. A layover for a one-hour flight is like so silly"}, {"start": 1939.5400000000002, "end": 1941.5400000000002, "text": " You know what I mean?"}, {"start": 1941.7600000000002, "end": 1947.2, "text": " LAX does suck. I actually yeah, I fly into there here and there and it's annoying."}, {"start": 1947.94, "end": 1953.0200000000002, "text": " I don't think LAX is that bad. What? Bro LAX is brutal"}, {"start": 1953.38, "end": 1956.7600000000002, "text": " Actually, you know what flying out of LAX isn't that bad"}, {"start": 1957.6200000000001, "end": 1963.2800000000002, "text": " It's when you're flying in and then you need to go to like get your luggage and then go to ground ground"}, {"start": 1963.5200000000002, "end": 1969.9, "text": " Transport and you have to like walk everywhere and it's just so crowded and you have to take a bus to get to another bus to another bus to another bus"}, {"start": 1970.2600000000002, "end": 1972.2600000000002, "text": " It's like"}, {"start": 1973.74, "end": 1975.74, "text": " Brutal"}, {"start": 1977.0200000000002, "end": 1982.0200000000002, "text": " But if you're if you're getting picked up at the street, I guess it's not that bad"}, {"start": 1982.02, "end": 1985.22, "text": " Like if you have a friend to pick you up from LAX"}, {"start": 1987.02, "end": 1992.92, "text": " Getting to the rental cars a trip. Yeah, I've taken a rental out of LAX to and it's like to get to the rental place"}, {"start": 1992.92, "end": 1998.84, "text": " It's like multiple shuttles and this and that and you have to like is yeah, it's it's a process. It's a process"}, {"start": 2003.62, "end": 2007.66, "text": " Learn how to travel haha carry on your luggage and uber haha"}, {"start": 2007.66, "end": 2012.66, "text": " Ah, goodness gracious, this guy's never been to LAX,"}, {"start": 2013.6200000000001, "end": 2015.3400000000001, "text": " this guy's never been to LAX."}, {"start": 2015.3400000000001, "end": 2017.3400000000001, "text": " Yo Chris, thanks for the tier one sub."}, {"start": 2017.3400000000001, "end": 2019.9, "text": " Good morning brother, what's the biggest non wow thing"}, {"start": 2019.9, "end": 2021.22, "text": " you're looking forward to this weekend?"}, {"start": 2021.22, "end": 2026.22, "text": " Meeting you guys, meeting my friends online,"}, {"start": 2026.22, "end": 2028.5800000000002, "text": " like, I wish Paya was going, but like,"}, {"start": 2028.5800000000002, "end": 2031.5400000000002, "text": " seeing Ampey meeting Sardocco, meeting Ossie Falls,"}, {"start": 2031.5400000000002, "end": 2036.22, "text": " Pops, right, Taylor, like, I can't wait to just,"}, {"start": 2036.22, "end": 2038.46, "text": " Like that's the biggest thing."}, {"start": 2038.46, "end": 2040.32, "text": " That honestly is what makes the event"}, {"start": 2040.32, "end": 2042.42, "text": " even more than anything else,"}, {"start": 2042.42, "end": 2044.5, "text": " like then the event itself."}, {"start": 2044.5, "end": 2047.02, "text": " Illuminations, thanks for the T1, appreciate it."}, {"start": 2048.18, "end": 2051.98, "text": " LAX as a pilot, I like it, but I get it for passengers."}, {"start": 2051.98, "end": 2054.62, "text": " Yeah, I'm sure as a pilot, it's way different."}, {"start": 2054.62, "end": 2056.86, "text": " I see pilots, they kind of just like skip every line,"}, {"start": 2056.86, "end": 2058.86, "text": " you just kind of walk right in, it's nice."}, {"start": 2060.1, "end": 2061.02, "text": " Am I staying at the Hilton?"}, {"start": 2061.02, "end": 2063.66, "text": " I, wait, I actually was gonna tell you guys,"}, {"start": 2063.66, "end": 2066.06, "text": " but maybe I shouldn't tell you where I'm staying."}, {"start": 2066.2200000000003, "end": 2074.26, "text": " probably not a big deal but yeah maybe I shouldn't you know holy thanks for the"}, {"start": 2074.26, "end": 2077.94, "text": " prime yeah don't yeah maybe it's not a good idea to tell you what I'm saying"}, {"start": 2077.94, "end": 2086.1400000000003, "text": " probably doesn't matter but maybe I won't yeah maybe I won't what's your"}, {"start": 2086.1400000000003, "end": 2091.7200000000003, "text": " room number yeah definitely not doing that I looking forward to meet or see"}, {"start": 2091.7200000000003, "end": 2098.2000000000003, "text": " anyone in particular? Yeah. A lot of people. I like G Bay. Very like if I can meet G Bay,"}, {"start": 2098.2000000000003, "end": 2101.84, "text": " that'd be sick. I'm not in touch with him though. So I'll have to like randomly stumble"}, {"start": 2101.84, "end": 2104.0400000000004, "text": " across him, I think."}, {"start": 2104.0400000000004, "end": 2113.5600000000004, "text": " Cryptic. Thanks for the G1. Am I bringing the family? No, I'm going solo. He's staying"}, {"start": 2113.5600000000004, "end": 2118.28, "text": " at the Rich Carlton after he gets off the private jet. Dude, I just said I don't"}, {"start": 2118.28, "end": 2133.96, "text": " want to tell anyone. Um, um, um, um, this is my first bliss."}, {"start": 2133.96, "end": 2136.52, "text": " Kind of nervous to meet people. Dude, it's a good time."}, {"start": 2136.52, "end": 2141.36, "text": " Like it's just a good time. Oh, I guess I was thinking about"}, {"start": 2141.36, "end": 2150.08, "text": " about this the other day in a in the car I was thinking about this the other day"}, {"start": 2150.08, "end": 2153.2400000000002, "text": " because like this year we're going to BlizzCon and you know we have this meet"}, {"start": 2153.2400000000002, "end": 2156.96, "text": " and creed and some streams and stuff and like it's exciting it's really"}, {"start": 2156.96, "end": 2166.32, "text": " exciting and I was reflecting on my first BlizzCon and bro my first"}, {"start": 2166.32, "end": 2172.88, "text": " BlizzCon that was different my first BlizzCon I was like how old was I? I was probably 18"}, {"start": 2173.92, "end": 2175.92, "text": " What year was it? It was"}, {"start": 2176.36, "end": 2178.36, "text": " 2013 2012 or something like that"}, {"start": 2179.1600000000003, "end": 2187.04, "text": " however old that makes me I was like 18 I had like zero money and like obviously it wasn't like a like a big streamer or anything either so I"}, {"start": 2187.04, "end": 2190.0, "text": " Just kind of went and showed up and I slept in like the"}, {"start": 2190.0, "end": 2194.04, "text": " I didn't have money for like a hotel or anything"}, {"start": 2194.04, "end": 2195.12, "text": " or like a BlizzCon ticket."}, {"start": 2195.12, "end": 2197.24, "text": " I kind of just showed up at the event."}, {"start": 2197.24, "end": 2200.6, "text": " So I just slept out on like the floor of like my friends"}, {"start": 2200.6, "end": 2205.36, "text": " like what's it called, like room I guess."}, {"start": 2205.36, "end": 2207.48, "text": " And then each night I just kind of like couch served"}, {"start": 2207.48, "end": 2210.88, "text": " on like a bunch of people's like couches and floors."}, {"start": 2210.88, "end": 2215.88, "text": " Yeah, Mitch Jones lent me his bed one for a couple hours"}, {"start": 2215.96, "end": 2217.12, "text": " on one of those BlizzCons."}, {"start": 2217.12, "end": 2219.0, "text": " And then we just kind of like literally have like"}, {"start": 2219.0, "end": 2222.26, "text": " a BlizzCon ticket either, so I kind of just like went there"}, {"start": 2222.26, "end": 2225.3, "text": " and like, these are things that are fun to do"}, {"start": 2225.3, "end": 2229.38, "text": " when you're like 18 and you have like, yeah, zero cash,"}, {"start": 2229.38, "end": 2231.94, "text": " you're like 18 or 20 and you just kind of like,"}, {"start": 2231.94, "end": 2235.06, "text": " I bought like a $100 plane ticket, flew out"}, {"start": 2235.06, "end": 2239.18, "text": " and just, I think I caught a ride with like NMP"}, {"start": 2239.18, "end": 2242.9, "text": " and NMP bought the Uber or bought the taxi back then"}, {"start": 2242.9, "end": 2245.3, "text": " or whatever it was and like,"}, {"start": 2246.26, "end": 2249.5800000000004, "text": " Then I just I like stayed with other people and they're like"}, {"start": 2250.0600000000004, "end": 2254.9, "text": " Yeah, it was fun dude. It was fun though. I remember it to this day, you know, it was fun"}, {"start": 2255.98, "end": 2257.98, "text": " Did you just hang out outside the event?"}, {"start": 2258.78, "end": 2262.98, "text": " So BlizzCon back then like 13 years ago was a little different"}, {"start": 2264.46, "end": 2266.46, "text": " Like I"}, {"start": 2268.0600000000004, "end": 2272.5800000000004, "text": " There's got to be some statute of limitations on this but like I like back then it was a different time"}, {"start": 2272.58, "end": 2283.42, "text": " time. So back then we just figured out a way to get inside. And he snuck in no way. Yeah,"}, {"start": 2283.42, "end": 2289.14, "text": " no, actually, though, I think it's a lot harder to sneak in now. Like, I think it's a lot harder."}, {"start": 2289.14, "end": 2293.42, "text": " Back then things were so different. You just kind of like could kind of just like go in."}, {"start": 2293.42, "end": 2298.42, "text": " I was like, yeah, no, you broke the law?"}, {"start": 2299.4, "end": 2302.82, "text": " No, I, no, guys, I wasn't talking about me."}, {"start": 2302.82, "end": 2304.66, "text": " I was saying that 13 years ago,"}, {"start": 2304.66, "end": 2309.5, "text": " my friend might have done that."}, {"start": 2309.5, "end": 2310.5, "text": " It wasn't me."}, {"start": 2310.5, "end": 2313.02, "text": " You guys misunderstood, unbelievable."}, {"start": 2313.02, "end": 2314.7000000000003, "text": " But yeah, dude, it was a good time, man."}, {"start": 2314.7000000000003, "end": 2315.54, "text": " It was a good time."}, {"start": 2315.54, "end": 2317.38, "text": " I remember like just staying up late."}, {"start": 2317.38, "end": 2320.1, "text": " We were hanging out at the Hilton lobby,"}, {"start": 2320.1, "end": 2322.12, "text": " Sheraton lobby, all the rank one players"}, {"start": 2322.12, "end": 2323.8599999999997, "text": " we're just talking about, oh dude,"}, {"start": 2323.8599999999997, "end": 2326.38, "text": " this arena match from last week was so crazy"}, {"start": 2326.38, "end": 2328.2799999999997, "text": " and like, like who is they?"}, {"start": 2328.2799999999997, "end": 2330.24, "text": " I'm trying to think of like all these OG names, man,"}, {"start": 2330.24, "end": 2333.16, "text": " like Casca, Thugonomics,"}, {"start": 2334.48, "end": 2335.7999999999997, "text": " Rockus,"}, {"start": 2339.2799999999997, "end": 2340.8599999999997, "text": " who I'm trying to think like,"}, {"start": 2342.12, "end": 2343.2799999999997, "text": " like Wreckful,"}, {"start": 2344.2, "end": 2346.24, "text": " Soda, not Soda Poppin,"}, {"start": 2346.24, "end": 2349.8599999999997, "text": " but like, like Alex, Talbedar,"}, {"start": 2349.86, "end": 2354.6600000000003, "text": " You know all these guys it was just so fun, man. So fun."}, {"start": 2356.42, "end": 2358.42, "text": " Should be a good time."}, {"start": 2358.7400000000002, "end": 2363.78, "text": " Is BlizzCon mainly WoW or other Blizzard games as well? It's all Blizzard games, not just WoW."}, {"start": 2364.5, "end": 2366.5, "text": " I will say this though."}, {"start": 2366.9, "end": 2369.1400000000003, "text": " From every BlizzCon I've been to,"}, {"start": 2372.38, "end": 2379.06, "text": " the crowd is the loudest and most excited for the WoW announcements every time."}, {"start": 2379.86, "end": 2384.92, "text": " I will say that there was a moment where like Starcraft 2 Finals was like really big, you know"}, {"start": 2385.1800000000003, "end": 2390.0, "text": " but like the people in the crowd at BlizzCon are clearly"}, {"start": 2390.84, "end": 2398.02, "text": " Wow fans. Yeah Starcraft 2 there was a moment like in 2012-2013 like Starcraft 2 Finals were more massive"}, {"start": 2398.1600000000003, "end": 2402.94, "text": " But it's not quite that way anymore than there was a moment where Overwatch Finals were pretty massive too"}, {"start": 2403.6600000000003, "end": 2407.3, "text": " But obviously it's not like that anymore, but like yeah wow is"}, {"start": 2407.3, "end": 2410.6200000000003, "text": " is, yeah, it's massive."}, {"start": 2413.2000000000003, "end": 2414.32, "text": " There was a couple of years where Overwatch"}, {"start": 2414.32, "end": 2416.1200000000003, "text": " was definitely the main thing going on."}, {"start": 2417.0, "end": 2421.0, "text": " I mean, there was Overwatch, the thing is kinda."}, {"start": 2421.0, "end": 2423.1200000000003, "text": " There was Overwatch Finals, which were sick"}, {"start": 2423.1200000000003, "end": 2425.36, "text": " and exciting to watch in the arena,"}, {"start": 2425.36, "end": 2426.86, "text": " like when you go into the right."}, {"start": 2426.86, "end": 2429.28, "text": " But the problem with that, it was hype,"}, {"start": 2429.28, "end": 2433.04, "text": " but it was still like when the announcements were going on,"}, {"start": 2433.04, "end": 2435.4, "text": " you could tell that wow was still the main thing."}, {"start": 2435.4, "end": 2437.9, "text": " You know what I mean, like you could hear it from the crowd."}, {"start": 2449.28, "end": 2450.88, "text": " 2023 had more room for Overwatch"}, {"start": 2450.88, "end": 2452.52, "text": " and it was empty compared to the WoW areas."}, {"start": 2452.52, "end": 2455.48, "text": " Yeah, the WoW areas are just always going crazy."}, {"start": 2461.5, "end": 2462.84, "text": " Niau, 94."}, {"start": 2462.84, "end": 2465.96, "text": " CDL plus announcement to all the insider info."}, {"start": 2465.96, "end": 2467.88, "text": " I don't know what you're talking about,"}, {"start": 2467.88, "end": 2469.48, "text": " but yo, thanks for the two and one, three months out, man."}, {"start": 2469.48, "end": 2470.44, "text": " I appreciate that."}, {"start": 2473.32, "end": 2475.28, "text": " Blizzard wouldn't exist without WoW."}, {"start": 2476.36, "end": 2477.2000000000003, "text": " Is that true?"}, {"start": 2477.2000000000003, "end": 2478.04, "text": " I mean, maybe they would,"}, {"start": 2478.04, "end": 2479.28, "text": " but it would look a lot different."}, {"start": 2479.28, "end": 2480.76, "text": " This would probably kind of true."}, {"start": 2480.76, "end": 2482.36, "text": " Look a lot different."}, {"start": 2482.36, "end": 2486.08, "text": " WoW is, well, WoW kind of holds it together, I think."}, {"start": 2492.84, "end": 2501.88, "text": " Oh my gosh, the book play nice about Blizzard is such a good read."}, {"start": 2501.88, "end": 2506.04, "text": " I actually have that on my reading list, I might check that out."}, {"start": 2506.04, "end": 2515.6800000000003, "text": " Nah, we're going solo cracker."}, {"start": 2515.68, "end": 2525.68, "text": " All right, all right, all right."}, {"start": 2525.68, "end": 2527.3599999999997, "text": " What's happening?"}, {"start": 2527.3599999999997, "end": 2534.48, "text": " What is happening?"}, {"start": 2534.48, "end": 2538.12, "text": " Wish me luck star driving the whole family from today at 2pm to Cali."}, {"start": 2538.12, "end": 2540.3199999999997, "text": " Oh my gosh, legendary."}, {"start": 2540.3199999999997, "end": 2542.08, "text": " You'll have a good drive."}, {"start": 2542.08, "end": 2543.08, "text": " Have a good drive."}, {"start": 2543.08, "end": 2544.08, "text": " How many hours is that?"}, {"start": 2544.08, "end": 2545.08, "text": " Yeah."}, {"start": 2545.08, "end": 2552.16, "text": " I could, I could drive, but it's like eight hour drive, I think, which I don't want to"}, {"start": 2552.16, "end": 2553.68, "text": " do, so I'm definitely flying."}, {"start": 2575.08, "end": 2589.96, "text": " Oh, news.blizzard.com, schedule, day one schedule, 10.30am opening ceremony, 12, wow what's next,"}, {"start": 2589.96, "end": 2597.24, "text": " two, building cutscenes in a wow, 245, wow what's next, two, 330, wow developer, X"}, {"start": 2597.2400000000002, "end": 2601.34, "text": " creator showcase 445 blizzcon community night."}, {"start": 2606.0400000000004, "end": 2611.44, "text": " Esports day two schedule deep dive housing."}, {"start": 2612.8, "end": 2616.94, "text": " World building art design design deep dive hardcore."}, {"start": 2616.94, "end": 2618.6000000000004, "text": " What's next? That's exciting."}, {"start": 2618.6000000000004, "end": 2623.1000000000004, "text": " Closing remarks, live performance, eSports, eSports."}, {"start": 2623.1, "end": 2627.64, "text": " So I'm actually so excited for an AWC finals. Oh my gosh"}, {"start": 2628.48, "end": 2633.68, "text": " Watch BlizzCon live from home will be streaming select programming live for everyone streamer schedule"}, {"start": 2633.68, "end": 2638.6, "text": " What's your favorite streamers live from the show floor during blizzcon or live from the streamers channels?"}, {"start": 2638.6, "end": 2640.6, "text": " Check out the schedule below guys. I"}, {"start": 2641.4, "end": 2644.36, "text": " Didn't know this was out there, but we will be live"}, {"start": 2645.88, "end": 2647.68, "text": " At the con"}, {"start": 2647.68, "end": 2651.96, "text": " First I guess these hours. I guess these are the guests. These are some of the hours"}, {"start": 2651.96, "end": 2662.28, "text": " I'm going to be live Saturday September 12th 9 30 a.m. To 11 to 12 to one select 9 30 to 145 on Saturday"}, {"start": 2663.56, "end": 2665.56, "text": " So that's happening"}, {"start": 2666.12, "end": 2667.96, "text": " That is happening"}, {"start": 2667.96, "end": 2669.48, "text": " That is"}, {"start": 2669.48, "end": 2672.36, "text": " Happening so the one word. Thanks for the one stream"}, {"start": 2673.48, "end": 2678.2, "text": " Um wait, what am I gonna be playing on stream? I'm gonna be watching"}, {"start": 2678.2000000000003, "end": 2686.28, "text": " what's happening at, I'm going to be watching the day one schedule, so I'm going to be watching"}, {"start": 2686.28, "end": 2693.1200000000003, "text": " the opening ceremony on stream, and then I'll be watching World of Warcraft, what's next,"}, {"start": 2693.12, "end": 2694.12, "text": " And then..."}, {"start": 2694.12, "end": 2700.92, "text": " Okay, let's see what else this says."}, {"start": 2700.92, "end": 2712.7, "text": " Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom."}, {"start": 2712.7, "end": 2713.7, "text": " Oh!"}, {"start": 2713.7, "end": 2715.88, "text": " Oh, oh cool!"}, {"start": 2715.88, "end": 2718.66, "text": " Meet and greet World of Warcraft streamers at Blizzcon!"}, {"start": 2718.66, "end": 2720.66, "text": " Hey!"}, {"start": 2720.66, "end": 2722.42, "text": " Blizzcon attendees can meet some of their favorites."}, {"start": 2722.42, "end": 2724.0, "text": " Okay, so this is, this is out there."}, {"start": 2724.0, "end": 2725.52, "text": " So, okay, sick."}, {"start": 2725.52, "end": 2727.44, "text": " So, meet and greet."}, {"start": 2727.44, "end": 2730.36, "text": " I guess I'm with Tyler1, Annie, Guzhu and myself."}, {"start": 2730.36, "end": 2731.64, "text": " We're gonna be from, we're gonna be there"}, {"start": 2731.64, "end": 2735.42, "text": " from six to 645, day one."}, {"start": 2735.42, "end": 2737.9, "text": " I need to get my schedule up to date"}, {"start": 2737.9, "end": 2740.48, "text": " because this is, I mean, assuming this is right,"}, {"start": 2740.48, "end": 2743.4, "text": " I need to get my hours right."}, {"start": 2743.4, "end": 2744.6800000000003, "text": " Holy crap."}, {"start": 2744.6800000000003, "end": 2748.44, "text": " Tyler1, the wild player, I think so, yes."}, {"start": 2748.44, "end": 2749.86, "text": " Yes, yes, yes."}, {"start": 2749.86, "end": 2762.86, "text": " Saturday, September 12th, Max Scott hopeful fired up. Oh my goodness gracious. Oh my goodness gracious. Earn World of Warcraft rewards. Watch the AWC and MDI Grand Finals live."}, {"start": 2762.86, "end": 2772.86, "text": " Helpful details for BlizzCon attendees. BlizzCon bundle. Okay, cool. When did this come out? When did this blue post actually get posted here?"}, {"start": 2772.86, "end": 2789.3, "text": " posted here. Is anyone read this? Wow, head. Oh, this came out like an hour ago. Yeah,"}, {"start": 2789.3, "end": 2792.1800000000003, "text": " this came out like an hour ago. Okay. I was like, I was, I was like, I didn't know this"}, {"start": 2792.18, "end": 2809.7799999999997, "text": " was even out there. I've been preaching it, have you? I didn't even see that. Yeah, so"}, {"start": 2809.7799999999997, "end": 2818.7, "text": " we're doing some stuff. We're doing some stuff. We're doing some stuff. We're doing"}, {"start": 2818.7000000000003, "end": 2829.9, "text": " some stuff. Definitely doing some stuff. It should be a good time."}, {"start": 2829.9, "end": 2833.9, "text": " See, TravelsR? Y'all, thanks, man."}, {"start": 2835.9, "end": 2841.7000000000003, "text": " Bum bum ba bum bum. Am I still banned from your meet and greets? Yeah, same rules as"}, {"start": 2841.7000000000003, "end": 2845.9, "text": " last time, Lemus. Same rules as last time."}, {"start": 2848.7000000000003, "end": 2857.2200000000003, "text": " Um, when and where is the meet and create?"}, {"start": 2857.2200000000003, "end": 2866.38, "text": " So the win is right here, six to 645 PDT."}, {"start": 2866.38, "end": 2869.5400000000004, "text": " Well, there's kind of tennis can be their favorite."}, {"start": 2869.5400000000004, "end": 2870.5400000000004, "text": " Wow."}, {"start": 2870.5400000000004, "end": 2878.3, "text": " Streamers during special main treat sessions in hall a day one hall a six to 645."}, {"start": 2878.3, "end": 2879.3, "text": " That's where I'll be."}, {"start": 2879.3, "end": 2882.94, "text": " Additionally, if you see me, come say hi."}, {"start": 2882.94, "end": 2889.1400000000003, "text": " And additionally, additionally, I might do some unofficial stuff on Discord."}, {"start": 2889.1400000000003, "end": 2891.6200000000003, "text": " Be like, I'm going to be hanging out here for a while."}, {"start": 2891.6200000000003, "end": 2893.1400000000003, "text": " Come say hi if you want, kind of a thing."}, {"start": 2893.1400000000003, "end": 2895.7400000000002, "text": " But this will be like the official meet and greet."}, {"start": 2895.7400000000002, "end": 2896.9, "text": " Yeah."}, {"start": 2896.9, "end": 2899.5800000000004, "text": " What's the dress code for your meet and greet?"}, {"start": 2899.5800000000004, "end": 2900.5800000000004, "text": " Bro."}, {"start": 2900.5800000000004, "end": 2901.5800000000004, "text": " What?"}, {"start": 2901.5800000000004, "end": 2905.1400000000003, "text": " Don't even just..."}, {"start": 2935.14, "end": 2937.2999999999997, "text": " Be very grateful for that. Yes"}, {"start": 2940.74, "end": 2946.02, "text": " Everyone wear lulu lemon shorts and a crane black shirt. I mean that's what I'm gonna be wearing lulu lemon shorts and a black t-shirt"}, {"start": 2947.94, "end": 2951.7, "text": " Black l would see that's right because like I don't I'm not trying to overheat man"}, {"start": 2953.3799999999997, "end": 2957.8599999999997, "text": " What's the rating requirement you have to be high elo so I mean if you're playing league at least gold"}, {"start": 2965.14, "end": 2975.7, "text": " Where is BlizzCon at? It's in California. Anaheim, California. You're gonna deal with"}, {"start": 2975.7, "end": 2980.3799999999997, "text": " some weird weather. Yeah, apparently it's super hot out there. Can we get a Tyler 1 versus"}, {"start": 2980.3799999999997, "end": 2987.46, "text": " our height check at the meet and create? We might be sitting down at like the angles"}, {"start": 2987.46, "end": 2992.94, "text": " too, so it's kind of hard to see. Am I not nervous? I actually slept like a baby"}, {"start": 2992.94, "end": 2996.34, "text": " last night but two nights ago I was like up all night trying to think about"}, {"start": 2996.34, "end": 3000.86, "text": " scheduling stuff now that this is how it's actually good to see to be honest"}, {"start": 3000.86, "end": 3005.02, "text": " yeah there's definitely a little the schedule is a little different than I"}, {"start": 3005.02, "end": 3007.94, "text": " thought which is good"}, {"start": 3010.42, "end": 3014.94, "text": " do do do do do"}, {"start": 3017.14, "end": 3020.66, "text": " make sure to wear the boosters in your shoes I actually wear shoes that are"}, {"start": 3020.66, "end": 3026.06, "text": " completely flat. I wear like the uh like Vivo barefoot shoes so they're like they have no"}, {"start": 3026.06, "end": 3032.74, "text": " heel at all so you have zero drop and a wide toe box so like my feet can actually like grip"}, {"start": 3032.74, "end": 3038.94, "text": " the ground. One thing about them is like I actually have zero increase height from my"}, {"start": 3038.94, "end": 3042.2599999999998, "text": " shoes but who cares because they're nice because they're zero drop and I can feel the"}, {"start": 3042.26, "end": 3051.6600000000003, "text": " ground. So we got to win there. No, not the toe shoes, white toe box. Barefoot shoes can"}, {"start": 3051.6600000000003, "end": 3054.96, "text": " make tall people look shorter. Yeah, exactly. That's why I wear them, because I'm a little"}, {"start": 3054.96, "end": 3059.1800000000003, "text": " too tall sometimes. I wear the barefoot shoes to bring things back down to reality."}, {"start": 3059.1800000000003, "end": 3067.92, "text": " This is how you do it."}, {"start": 3067.92, "end": 3076.9, "text": " Um what else what else."}, {"start": 3076.9, "end": 3086.28, "text": " What else what else."}, {"start": 3086.28, "end": 3091.0, "text": " G-Bay is really tall and he wears like I wear the black team. He wears like the super bright team"}, {"start": 3091.0, "end": 3098.5, "text": " So it's gonna be like the opposite. I was actually thinking during my workout this morning that like like G-Bay is like my"}, {"start": 3099.4, "end": 3101.4, "text": " Kind of guy, you know what I mean?"}, {"start": 3102.6000000000004, "end": 3107.36, "text": " Like I really like G-Bay. I was I don't know why I was thinking about that this morning specifically"}, {"start": 3107.36, "end": 3113.46, "text": " But like I definitely like G-Bay a lot like he's just he's just like a good dude"}, {"start": 3113.46, "end": 3115.6200000000003, "text": " You know you can tell he's like very positive"}, {"start": 3116.28, "end": 3121.48, "text": " Trying to just get some good content out there, give his perspective, it's phenomenal."}, {"start": 3124.36, "end": 3126.1200000000003, "text": " Yeah, very, very cool guy."}, {"start": 3127.8, "end": 3131.5600000000004, "text": " Pika and Shambles? No, I mean Pika's cool too guys, I was watching Pika"}, {"start": 3132.2000000000003, "end": 3136.2000000000003, "text": " get completely smoked on the riff last night, like it's, it's just a different kind of vibe."}, {"start": 3138.76, "end": 3142.0400000000004, "text": " Yep, completely different."}, {"start": 3146.28, "end": 3148.28, "text": " I"}, {"start": 3151.0800000000004, "end": 3156.02, "text": " Don't trust anyone with 225 fishing before level 40 bro. She pays a legend"}, {"start": 3163.6400000000003, "end": 3166.0800000000004, "text": " Have I seen the latest you bet yeah, yeah, I"}, {"start": 3166.6800000000003, "end": 3170.96, "text": " Watched it once before stream once on stream and then once last night before I went to bed"}, {"start": 3172.0800000000004, "end": 3174.2000000000003, "text": " Yo Steph, thanks for the t13 months up in"}, {"start": 3176.28, "end": 3183.28, "text": " Yo, Fates, thanks for the prom."}, {"start": 3183.28, "end": 3185.0, "text": " Yo, I'll try my best."}, {"start": 3185.0, "end": 3186.0, "text": " Should be a good time."}, {"start": 3186.0, "end": 3198.1200000000003, "text": " Should be a very, very good time."}, {"start": 3198.1200000000003, "end": 3199.44, "text": " What else is going on, guys?"}, {"start": 3199.44, "end": 3204.28, "text": " There's this blue post from an hour ago."}, {"start": 3204.28, "end": 3209.52, "text": " Do I even want to spend time on more leaks?"}, {"start": 3209.52, "end": 3211.52, "text": " How many?"}, {"start": 3211.52, "end": 3213.52, "text": " 209 thumbs up."}, {"start": 3213.52, "end": 3222.76, "text": " No, no, no, no, no, fake, let's see."}, {"start": 3222.76, "end": 3224.5600000000004, "text": " Probably the best leak yet."}, {"start": 3224.5600000000004, "end": 3228.36, "text": " I really like some of these ideas."}, {"start": 3228.36, "end": 3232.5600000000004, "text": " Release date, December 8th, new HD textures, character models, not from retail, more matching"}, {"start": 3232.56, "end": 3236.72, "text": " Ciel smiley you should try the game that I think you would like it. Oh"}, {"start": 3237.96, "end": 3243.02, "text": " 100 parts.com I actually played that a little bit. It actually is pretty fun. It actually is pretty fun. Thanks a little fiber"}, {"start": 3247.4, "end": 3251.72, "text": " Max is 60 no phasing levels seven new zones Gilneas Baler"}, {"start": 3252.36, "end": 3254.04, "text": " Northern Lordaeron"}, {"start": 3254.04, "end": 3260.4, "text": " Nazretara Mount Heishel storm feather island blood mall Hills new neutral race skyborne elves"}, {"start": 3260.4, "end": 3264.08, "text": " Skyborne elf classes warrior Pali mage priest rogue hunter"}, {"start": 3264.6, "end": 3268.64, "text": " No new class, but guardian specs for druids weaver for mage"}, {"start": 3269.4, "end": 3272.96, "text": " Wonder what that would mean and fernel for lock water for shaman"}, {"start": 3273.52, "end": 3278.1600000000003, "text": " Weaver's a healer. Okay healer spec. No, please. No, please. No"}, {"start": 3278.96, "end": 3282.32, "text": " The one thing from sod like I don't want healer mages"}, {"start": 3282.76, "end": 3286.2000000000003, "text": " The other three are tank specs and fernel tank spec lock"}, {"start": 3286.2000000000003, "end": 3293.4800000000005, "text": " Please no, what didn't we learn? I don't I don't want that dwarves can be shamans"}, {"start": 3293.4800000000005, "end": 3299.0800000000004, "text": " Torrens can be pallies come on undead pallies not Torrens oh gosh please be fake"}, {"start": 3299.0800000000004, "end": 3305.8, "text": " Nine new dungeons hive timber mob blood fang barrow dark whisper game to new"}, {"start": 3305.8, "end": 3310.32, "text": " raids stairs of destiny siege of Lordaeron those are that would be"}, {"start": 3310.32, "end": 3315.2400000000002, "text": " interesting picks versus just like doing stuff that's already kind of more"}, {"start": 3315.2400000000002, "end": 3316.6800000000003, "text": " more set in stone."}, {"start": 3316.6800000000003, "end": 3319.0400000000004, "text": " Two new battlegrounds, battle for a winter spring."}, {"start": 3319.0400000000004, "end": 3320.2400000000002, "text": " Blehh."}, {"start": 3320.2400000000002, "end": 3323.0400000000004, "text": " Kurobashi rumble, that could be cool."}, {"start": 3323.0400000000004, "end": 3325.1600000000003, "text": " Props reworked, more like retail."}, {"start": 3325.1600000000003, "end": 3327.6400000000003, "text": " PvP ranking system reworked."}, {"start": 3327.6400000000003, "end": 3329.96, "text": " More focus on skill, the time spent."}, {"start": 3329.96, "end": 3331.0800000000004, "text": " Oh gosh."}, {"start": 3331.0800000000004, "end": 3332.76, "text": " Auction house copied from retail."}, {"start": 3332.76, "end": 3334.48, "text": " I actually would like that."}, {"start": 3334.48, "end": 3336.0000000000005, "text": " New features, Cursed Dungeon."}, {"start": 3336.0000000000005, "end": 3337.1200000000003, "text": " One Dungeon each day is Cursed,"}, {"start": 3337.1200000000003, "end": 3338.44, "text": " buffing all enemies health and damage,"}, {"start": 3338.44, "end": 3340.1200000000003, "text": " adding an Apex and Crease loot trumps."}, {"start": 3340.1200000000003, "end": 3341.92, "text": " That's actually kind of a cool idea."}, {"start": 3341.92, "end": 3347.88, "text": " Give you a reason to do a daily dungeon on it like a hard or daily dungeon"}, {"start": 3347.88, "end": 3353.84, "text": " That's actually kind of cool new feature supply effort war effort type system that requires the entire server to work together to accomplish"}, {"start": 3354.16, "end": 3362.12, "text": " Okay, that could be cool new feature hunts requires you to kill a certain rare name of our dungeons bail from level 20 a new feature tomb trials"}, {"start": 3363.4, "end": 3365.28, "text": " Deep sea fishing"}, {"start": 3365.28, "end": 3369.52, "text": " Gbay would like that that fagal invites you to join his crew for deep sea fishing"}, {"start": 3370.36, "end": 3371.88, "text": " new feature"}, {"start": 3371.88, "end": 3377.56, "text": " new feature achieves class campaigns that could be cool in-game shop with"}, {"start": 3377.56, "end": 3381.84, "text": " mounts and pets oh gosh if you buy new starcraft terran protocol you get a"}, {"start": 3381.84, "end": 3386.42, "text": " surged mount oh gosh see each of Lord Iran is the caverns of time raid the"}, {"start": 3386.42, "end": 3394.92, "text": " rates and open till January oldham is updated I think there's a lot of good"}, {"start": 3394.92, "end": 3398.4, "text": " Good ideas mixed with a lot of crappy ideas in this."}, {"start": 3402.28, "end": 3404.6800000000003, "text": " I hope this is fake."}, {"start": 3404.6800000000003, "end": 3406.04, "text": " I mean, there's a few ideas here"}, {"start": 3406.04, "end": 3408.1800000000003, "text": " that could be really good,"}, {"start": 3408.1800000000003, "end": 3410.12, "text": " but I hope generally this is fake."}, {"start": 3412.6800000000003, "end": 3414.52, "text": " That's an AI post, yeah."}, {"start": 3414.52, "end": 3417.2400000000002, "text": " Guys, one's in the chat if this is real and true."}, {"start": 3417.2400000000002, "end": 3419.64, "text": " Two's in the chat if this is complete fake news."}, {"start": 3419.64, "end": 3428.64, "text": " Pressing X yeah this this this looks kind of like bad enough to want to be fake"}, {"start": 3428.64, "end": 3432.08, "text": " except there there is a few things I like in here like there could be some"}, {"start": 3432.08, "end": 3441.0, "text": " cool stuff from this this is based on wishes and sod true what's this"}, {"start": 3441.0, "end": 3450.36, "text": " WU washed up Saf Petri out. Oh, no, what happened?"}, {"start": 3450.36, "end": 3454.16, "text": " Watch the run and don't get killed with don't get killed with move over."}, {"start": 3454.16, "end": 3457.68, "text": " I need incoming heels. I've no incoming heels."}, {"start": 3457.68, "end": 3461.28, "text": " Coffee's mail. I'll help you if you have it up."}, {"start": 3461.28, "end": 3467.48, "text": " Shut it on me. I'm turning the boss needs to watch range needs to watch up turning the boss."}, {"start": 3467.48, "end": 3477.16, "text": " I have no defensive buttons right now. Oh my god. Watch me watch me watch me. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die"}, {"start": 3477.16, "end": 3479.16, "text": " You"}, {"start": 3492.0, "end": 3495.16, "text": " Bro Oscar I've seen a bunch of Oscar clips"}, {"start": 3495.16, "end": 3499.7999999999997, "text": " I've never seen him like kind of squirm at being low HP before"}, {"start": 3500.12, "end": 3506.02, "text": " Oscars normally the guy who's the last one to Petri and he's calm cool and collected and he's like"}, {"start": 3507.16, "end": 3510.68, "text": " I'm fine, I'm fine, everybody chill."}, {"start": 3510.68, "end": 3512.62, "text": " But like this was the instance where he's like,"}, {"start": 3512.62, "end": 3515.16, "text": " I'm not getting heals, I have no cooldowns,"}, {"start": 3515.16, "end": 3517.56, "text": " like he actually saved his life there."}, {"start": 3517.56, "end": 3519.66, "text": " If he didn't Petri, he was dead."}, {"start": 3519.66, "end": 3522.3399999999997, "text": " If he didn't Petri, he was dead."}, {"start": 3523.56, "end": 3525.08, "text": " He got the 700 life right here."}, {"start": 3525.08, "end": 3525.92, "text": " You mean Petri?"}, {"start": 3525.92, "end": 3528.0, "text": " I Petri, I Petri, I Petri, I Petri, I Petri, I Petri,"}, {"start": 3528.0, "end": 3530.3199999999997, "text": " I Petri, I Petri, I Petri, I Petri, I Petri, I Petri,"}, {"start": 3530.3199999999997, "end": 3532.04, "text": " I Petri, I Petri, I Petri, I Petri, I Petri, I Petri,"}, {"start": 3532.04, "end": 3532.96, "text": " Very clean."}, {"start": 3534.44, "end": 3536.56, "text": " Oh, shit, what the fuck?"}, {"start": 3537.16, "end": 3541.12, "text": " I don't have extra petri way more people could have died there"}, {"start": 3541.12, "end": 3544.48, "text": " You guys hey focus up focus up make sure you guys"}, {"start": 3545.3599999999997, "end": 3549.74, "text": " Repetri when you can okay boss is coming to me repetri if you need you bosses coming to me"}, {"start": 3550.16, "end": 3554.2, "text": " If you need a petri come take bike. I've got an extra petri on me"}, {"start": 3555.2, "end": 3557.2, "text": " adult petri"}, {"start": 3558.08, "end": 3563.06, "text": " Yeah, he had to Petri. Yeah. Yeah, no, I don't I don't think anyone can get mad at him for a meeting"}, {"start": 3563.06, "end": 3565.06, "text": " Like he absolutely had to Petri there"}, {"start": 3565.06, "end": 3566.06, "text": " There."}, {"start": 3566.06, "end": 3567.06, "text": " Dang."}, {"start": 3567.06, "end": 3568.06, "text": " Pops!"}, {"start": 3568.06, "end": 3570.38, "text": " Thanks for the tier one sub."}, {"start": 3570.38, "end": 3571.38, "text": " Pops!"}, {"start": 3571.38, "end": 3572.7799999999997, "text": " I'll be looking forward to seeing you at BlizzCon."}, {"start": 3572.7799999999997, "end": 3575.18, "text": " Wait, Pops, do I have you on Discord?"}, {"start": 3575.18, "end": 3576.82, "text": " Let me see."}, {"start": 3576.82, "end": 3579.9, "text": " You have Pops."}, {"start": 3579.9, "end": 3585.34, "text": " I don't think I have you on Discord."}, {"start": 3585.34, "end": 3590.54, "text": " We need to get connected so we can meet up at BlizzCon at some point."}, {"start": 3590.54, "end": 3592.82, "text": " Same here."}, {"start": 3592.82, "end": 3593.82, "text": " What's your Discord, Pops?"}, {"start": 3593.82, "end": 3595.02, "text": " I don't know if you want to, like, give that out."}, {"start": 3595.02, "end": 3597.8, "text": " Or I don't know if you can like I don't know if you're in my discord"}, {"start": 3597.8, "end": 3603.02, "text": " You could type in the general shout I can add you from that or something we got to get connected so we can chill at the con"}, {"start": 3605.34, "end": 3607.34, "text": " Whoo all right"}, {"start": 3608.34, "end": 3612.08, "text": " Yo, Karim thanks for the prime six months. Let's go. Oh"}, {"start": 3615.06, "end": 3621.58, "text": " Dude that CG death with drowning was brutal man brutal brutal"}, {"start": 3621.58, "end": 3628.58, "text": " Oh my gosh guys it's 10 a.m. too early to go to bed so I can wake up into tomorrow and"}, {"start": 3628.58, "end": 3630.58, "text": " go to Blizzcon."}, {"start": 3630.58, "end": 3635.58, "text": " Yeah I think it's a little too early."}, {"start": 3635.58, "end": 3643.58, "text": " I think I'm gonna wait a little longer."}, {"start": 3643.58, "end": 3649.58, "text": " There we go."}, {"start": 3649.58, "end": 3650.58, "text": " There we go."}, {"start": 3650.58, "end": 3653.2599999999998, "text": " Thoughts on Petri and Hardcore?"}, {"start": 3653.2599999999998, "end": 3658.2599999999998, "text": " I've actually had a little bit of a change of heart"}, {"start": 3658.7799999999997, "end": 3660.66, "text": " when it comes to Petri and Hardcore."}, {"start": 3661.62, "end": 3663.4, "text": " I have a kind of a nuanced answer to this,"}, {"start": 3663.4, "end": 3664.9, "text": " like everything I suppose,"}, {"start": 3664.9, "end": 3669.9, "text": " but as a viewer and as someone who watches Hardcore content"}, {"start": 3670.14, "end": 3675.14, "text": " it sucks because it removes the excitement of death, right?"}, {"start": 3675.42, "end": 3677.88, "text": " If you're watching someone raid and they just Petri out,"}, {"start": 3677.88, "end": 3681.12, "text": " like obviously that sucks."}, {"start": 3682.48, "end": 3686.04, "text": " So the easy answer is just to say screw Petruy's,"}, {"start": 3686.04, "end": 3687.26, "text": " they're stupid."}, {"start": 3688.5, "end": 3690.92, "text": " The reality with Petruy"}, {"start": 3690.92, "end": 3693.3, "text": " and the reality of hardcore rating is this."}, {"start": 3695.84, "end": 3698.04, "text": " If you go to Ironforge Pro"}, {"start": 3698.04, "end": 3703.4, "text": " and you go to classic era"}, {"start": 3703.4, "end": 3708.4, "text": " And then you go to Hardcore, where is Hardcore?"}, {"start": 3713.08, "end": 3714.34, "text": " Hardcore is merged with Aira."}, {"start": 3714.34, "end": 3716.6800000000003, "text": " How many weekly raiders do we have here?"}, {"start": 3719.08, "end": 3720.6800000000003, "text": " I wanna get this number right."}, {"start": 3724.1600000000003, "end": 3728.6, "text": " TBC, Sodmop, White Main Thunderfury, Biggles,"}, {"start": 3728.6, "end": 3731.1600000000003, "text": " Fairbanks, Anathema, Bluma."}, {"start": 3731.1600000000003, "end": 3732.34, "text": " Where is this?"}, {"start": 3733.4, "end": 3738.8, "text": " Is it not on here?"}, {"start": 3738.8, "end": 3739.8, "text": " It's not there anymore?"}, {"start": 3739.8, "end": 3740.8, "text": " Crap."}, {"start": 3740.8, "end": 3743.4, "text": " Maybe it was there, but they must have removed it."}, {"start": 3743.4, "end": 3744.4, "text": " Huh."}, {"start": 3744.4, "end": 3745.92, "text": " It's not on there."}, {"start": 3745.92, "end": 3746.92, "text": " Weird."}, {"start": 3746.92, "end": 3750.8, "text": " Anyway, I looked at it like a few weeks back or whatever."}, {"start": 3750.8, "end": 3755.44, "text": " There's basically like zero people actually rating on hardcore."}, {"start": 3755.44, "end": 3756.84, "text": " Like it almost doesn't exist."}, {"start": 3756.84, "end": 3762.2000000000003, "text": " And you, it's kind of, it's like a couple thousand a week globally or something."}, {"start": 3762.2000000000003, "end": 3764.1600000000003, "text": " like it's, or like even less, right?"}, {"start": 3764.1600000000003, "end": 3767.26, "text": " It's like very little people actually rate in hardcore."}, {"start": 3767.26, "end": 3769.88, "text": " So the practicality to answer your question,"}, {"start": 3769.88, "end": 3774.36, "text": " the practicality behind Petri is it lets a couple thousand"}, {"start": 3774.36, "end": 3777.2000000000003, "text": " people a week actually rate and without it,"}, {"start": 3777.2000000000003, "end": 3781.28, "text": " there would be probably like actually zero, right?"}, {"start": 3781.28, "end": 3785.0600000000004, "text": " It allows people to, allows guilds to have"}, {"start": 3786.1200000000003, "end": 3789.0800000000004, "text": " a proper churn rate in the sense of"}, {"start": 3789.0800000000004, "end": 3791.44, "text": " if you don't have them, too many people would die"}, {"start": 3791.44, "end": 3793.96, "text": " And there would be like basically zero people rating"}, {"start": 3793.96, "end": 3795.0, "text": " in hardcore ever."}, {"start": 3795.0, "end": 3796.96, "text": " And that's just how it would be."}, {"start": 3796.96, "end": 3800.04, "text": " Petri allows there to be some level of,"}, {"start": 3800.04, "end": 3802.0, "text": " if you mess up, you can save your character's life"}, {"start": 3802.0, "end": 3805.96, "text": " that you spent hundreds of hours on or days on or whatever."}, {"start": 3805.96, "end": 3809.2400000000002, "text": " So from a viewer's perspective, it sucks."}, {"start": 3809.2400000000002, "end": 3811.96, "text": " But if you're actually the one rating"}, {"start": 3811.96, "end": 3815.32, "text": " on hardcore every week, which is very few,"}, {"start": 3815.32, "end": 3818.32, "text": " couple thousand in the world or whatever,"}, {"start": 3818.32, "end": 3821.6000000000004, "text": " Then it's probably a good thing."}, {"start": 3823.6400000000003, "end": 3826.9, "text": " So I guess that's my opinion."}, {"start": 3826.9, "end": 3829.2400000000002, "text": " Like it sucks to watch,"}, {"start": 3829.2400000000002, "end": 3831.04, "text": " but for the people actually raiding,"}, {"start": 3831.04, "end": 3833.88, "text": " I think they'd be like, yeah, like stuff happens"}, {"start": 3833.88, "end": 3837.1200000000003, "text": " and you can still die with Petri on certain fights."}, {"start": 3837.1200000000003, "end": 3838.28, "text": " You can still die with Petri"}, {"start": 3838.28, "end": 3839.92, "text": " if you screw up the usage of it."}, {"start": 3839.92, "end": 3841.92, "text": " Like it doesn't, it's not a complete, get out of,"}, {"start": 3841.92, "end": 3843.28, "text": " you know, so I don't know."}, {"start": 3845.0800000000004, "end": 3846.96, "text": " There are guilds that raid without Petri"}, {"start": 3846.96, "end": 3848.84, "text": " and they stop rating after a month or two?"}, {"start": 3848.84, "end": 3850.68, "text": " Well, that's my point."}, {"start": 3850.68, "end": 3853.64, "text": " Hardcore rating wouldn't exist without Petri."}, {"start": 3853.64, "end": 3857.1, "text": " So I guess the answer is like, if you're anti-Petri,"}, {"start": 3857.1, "end": 3858.68, "text": " what that really means is like,"}, {"start": 3858.68, "end": 3859.6, "text": " you don't wanna see like,"}, {"start": 3859.6, "end": 3863.36, "text": " anyone rating in hardcore, essentially like basically zero,"}, {"start": 3863.36, "end": 3866.92, "text": " which like, that's a fair position to hold, I suppose."}, {"start": 3866.92, "end": 3869.2, "text": " You could just say like, yeah, no one should raid."}, {"start": 3869.2, "end": 3870.58, "text": " But like, I don't know."}, {"start": 3870.58, "end": 3872.4, "text": " I think it's kind of cool that it allows"}, {"start": 3872.4, "end": 3877.36, "text": " skills to to raid, make some mistakes, and people can like,"}, {"start": 3877.4, "end": 3880.96, "text": " they can they can still kind of exist. Right. And like I said,"}, {"start": 3880.96, "end": 3882.92, "text": " there's literally only a couple thousand people in the world"}, {"start": 3882.92, "end": 3883.7200000000003, "text": " doing it. So"}, {"start": 3886.6800000000003, "end": 3889.7200000000003, "text": " Oh, I do a pop some my discord pops just send me a message."}, {"start": 3890.52, "end": 3891.32, "text": " All right, sweet."}, {"start": 3902.4, "end": 3903.4, "text": " Okay, cool."}, {"start": 3909.2400000000002, "end": 3910.2400000000002, "text": " I was sick."}, {"start": 3910.2400000000002, "end": 3917.52, "text": " There's also, uh, I've just got invited to another discord with a bunch of people in here, too."}, {"start": 3918.2400000000002, "end": 3920.0, "text": " Oh, G-Bay's in here!"}, {"start": 3920.4, "end": 3921.4, "text": " Oh my gosh."}, {"start": 3922.84, "end": 3924.4, "text": " G-Bay is in this discord."}, {"start": 3925.6800000000003, "end": 3928.52, "text": " I just added G-Bay as a friend on discord."}, {"start": 3928.52, "end": 3933.52, "text": " Let me check to see if he's accepted."}, {"start": 3933.52, "end": 3937.08, "text": " Nope, not yet."}, {"start": 3937.08, "end": 3939.08, "text": " He's probably busy."}, {"start": 3939.08, "end": 3946.2, "text": " I'll check again in a minute, cool."}, {"start": 3946.2, "end": 3947.2, "text": " Yeah, let me see."}, {"start": 3947.2, "end": 3951.2, "text": " Yeah, he's probably doing something else right now."}, {"start": 3951.2, "end": 3952.2, "text": " Okay."}, {"start": 3952.2, "end": 3954.2, "text": " He'll probably accept soon, no stress?"}, {"start": 3954.2, "end": 3956.2, "text": " Yeah, true."}, {"start": 3956.2000000000003, "end": 3963.44, "text": " All right. All right. Sorry, take the hint. No, I like, dude, I just, I just sent it a"}, {"start": 3963.44, "end": 3969.0400000000004, "text": " second ago. I'm sure you'll get around to it. It's whatever, man. It's whatever. Check"}, {"start": 3969.0400000000004, "end": 3984.4, "text": " again. Maybe I'll just keep it open on my other monitor. Holy crap, dude. Wow."}, {"start": 3984.4, "end": 4002.4, "text": " I think there is like another reactor two from yesterday that we didn't get around to your true sound. Thanks so much for the prime dude am I alone but I feel like blizzards in a literal no win situation everyone wants different things and I feel like they're expecting classic plus to be their"}, {"start": 4002.4, "end": 4007.2400000000002, "text": " Am I alone but I feel like Blizzard's in a literal no win situation."}, {"start": 4007.2400000000002, "end": 4009.88, "text": " Everyone wants different things and I feel like they're expecting Classic Plus to be"}, {"start": 4009.88, "end": 4012.12, "text": " their savior and it just won't be."}, {"start": 4012.12, "end": 4015.12, "text": " I think you're absolutely right."}, {"start": 4015.12, "end": 4016.2400000000002, "text": " Yeah."}, {"start": 4016.2400000000002, "end": 4022.32, "text": " I think a lot of people are aware of this fact though that Blizzard's in this situation"}, {"start": 4022.32, "end": 4025.6, "text": " where no one can agree on what they want."}, {"start": 4025.6, "end": 4026.8, "text": " Everyone wants something different."}, {"start": 4026.8, "end": 4038.34, "text": " So that's why my saving grace is literally just let the people decide."}, {"start": 4038.34, "end": 4039.34, "text": " Put it to a pull."}, {"start": 4039.34, "end": 4041.1000000000004, "text": " It saves you, Blizzard."}, {"start": 4041.1000000000004, "end": 4043.0800000000004, "text": " Like it actually just saves you."}, {"start": 4043.0800000000004, "end": 4047.6800000000003, "text": " If you put it to a pull, it's just like, okay, we'll do what you guys want then."}, {"start": 4047.6800000000003, "end": 4049.5, "text": " But it has to be a majority."}, {"start": 4049.5, "end": 4050.5, "text": " Good luck."}, {"start": 4050.5, "end": 4051.5, "text": " Let's build this thing."}, {"start": 4051.5, "end": 4053.0600000000004, "text": " It just saves Blizzard instantly with the pull."}, {"start": 4053.06, "end": 4058.1, "text": " It's the only actual way forward without Blizzard just getting pummeled into the dirt because"}, {"start": 4058.1, "end": 4061.74, "text": " it's not what I want when everyone wants different stuff."}, {"start": 4061.74, "end": 4068.82, "text": " So that's why I keep saying that, but yeah, it's tough."}, {"start": 4068.82, "end": 4074.7799999999997, "text": " Um, um, um, um."}, {"start": 4074.7799999999997, "end": 4075.7799999999997, "text": " Sizzle!"}, {"start": 4075.7799999999997, "end": 4076.5, "text": " Thanks for the Prime, man."}, {"start": 4083.06, "end": 4090.06, "text": " All right, what else has happened here? What else has happened in here?"}, {"start": 4090.06, "end": 4101.0599999999995, "text": " We watched the G-Bay, the Willy, Elwynne, Preach. I wanted to watch this Aiki video."}, {"start": 4101.0599999999995, "end": 4105.0599999999995, "text": " We watched the Crandor. There was another Willy, and I think there's a new HC moments."}, {"start": 4105.0599999999995, "end": 4107.0599999999995, "text": " I kind of wanted to watch this one, though."}, {"start": 4107.0599999999995, "end": 4112.0599999999995, "text": " We are never going to stop doing the things people do."}, {"start": 4112.06, "end": 4114.06, "text": " I'm seeing a socks"}, {"start": 4115.860000000001, "end": 4117.860000000001, "text": " Let's go over here"}, {"start": 4120.18, "end": 4125.9400000000005, "text": " Who is the target audience for classic plus I would say anyone who has ever"}, {"start": 4126.42, "end": 4129.620000000001, "text": " played World of Warcraft or Warcraft in"}, {"start": 4130.22, "end": 4136.46, "text": " General Warcraft one two and three or World of Warcraft in their entire life and quit for any reason ever"}, {"start": 4137.14, "end": 4138.22, "text": " this"}, {"start": 4138.22, "end": 4140.22, "text": " this new product is"}, {"start": 4140.22, "end": 4143.9800000000005, "text": " Is there, oh, I quit because I didn't like this."}, {"start": 4143.9800000000005, "end": 4146.900000000001, "text": " Let me try this new thing, right?"}, {"start": 4146.900000000001, "end": 4149.820000000001, "text": " So anyone who's ever played wow and has quit,"}, {"start": 4149.820000000001, "end": 4150.820000000001, "text": " of course there could be,"}, {"start": 4150.820000000001, "end": 4153.06, "text": " it could attract new players as well,"}, {"start": 4153.9400000000005, "end": 4155.46, "text": " but that's gotta be the minority, right?"}, {"start": 4155.46, "end": 4159.02, "text": " Like it has to be, like how many people"}, {"start": 4159.02, "end": 4162.14, "text": " have played wow at one point in their life and then quit?"}, {"start": 4164.14, "end": 4165.860000000001, "text": " Like, I don't know."}, {"start": 4165.860000000001, "end": 4168.46, "text": " It has to be 100 to 200 million people, right?"}, {"start": 4168.46, "end": 4170.5, "text": " at least 100 million."}, {"start": 4170.5, "end": 4175.5, "text": " So that's, that is the target audience."}, {"start": 4176.26, "end": 4178.82, "text": " 100 million plus people globally"}, {"start": 4178.82, "end": 4182.9800000000005, "text": " that have quit Waufer one reason or another"}, {"start": 4182.9800000000005, "end": 4185.28, "text": " and are looking and waiting for a reason to come back."}, {"start": 4185.28, "end": 4188.22, "text": " That's the audience, pretty massive audience."}, {"start": 4188.22, "end": 4189.78, "text": " Orendia, thanks for the prime."}, {"start": 4194.7, "end": 4196.86, "text": " 120 million accounts were announced in WAD,"}, {"start": 4196.86, "end": 4197.78, "text": " so there's way more now."}, {"start": 4197.78, "end": 4199.5, "text": " Yeah, it's maybe like closer to $200 million."}, {"start": 4199.5, "end": 4200.34, "text": " I don't even know."}, {"start": 4205.259999999999, "end": 4207.139999999999, "text": " Smug, thanks for the 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"text": " guys it's got worth the same thing I do it's a like the black lulu lemon"}, {"start": 4278.02, "end": 4284.02, "text": " shorts black socks in a like gray or black t-shirt it's like the exact"}, {"start": 4284.02, "end": 4291.34, "text": " Same thing I wear every single day as locked in and dialed ask anyone on the street about world of warcraft and you'll hear the same sentence"}, {"start": 4291.700000000001, "end": 4296.02, "text": " Isn't that the game people used to replace their lives with and honestly?"}, {"start": 4296.02, "end": 4299.200000000001, "text": " That's fair an MMORPG can be your second life"}, {"start": 4299.820000000001, "end": 4301.620000000001, "text": " progress community"}, {"start": 4301.620000000001, "end": 4307.14, "text": " admiration a sense of purpose an identity rivalry or friendship and sometimes even love"}, {"start": 4307.780000000001, "end": 4309.860000000001, "text": " The reputation was earned 20 years ago"}, {"start": 4309.86, "end": 4313.48, "text": " ago, but the players who earned it are 20 years older now."}, {"start": 4313.48, "end": 4317.7, "text": " Not everybody has time like they did in the mid-2000s or during COVID."}, {"start": 4317.7, "end": 4322.88, "text": " For Blizzard, who has way stronger data than we have access to, the path seems pretty clear."}, {"start": 4322.88, "end": 4326.94, "text": " That's why Ian said, 20 years ago there was a sense that the game might be something"}, {"start": 4326.94, "end": 4331.599999999999, "text": " that appeared to them, but they don't have the time for it because it might be all consuming."}, {"start": 4331.599999999999, "end": 4333.4, "text": " That is not what we are anymore."}, {"start": 4333.4, "end": 4335.92, "text": " That is not what we've been for a long time."}, {"start": 4335.92, "end": 4340.8, "text": " And we've got the proof in the game itself, but not only in the last six pensions, no."}, {"start": 4340.8, "end": 4343.2, "text": " We've got the 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I think the movement is better"}, {"start": 4425.26, "end": 4430.74, "text": " I think the world is better like I like wow better than runescape. I think wow is just superior, but I"}, {"start": 4431.66, "end": 4436.34, "text": " Like a lot of the decisions that runescape has made it runescape was my first game before while my first time"}, {"start": 4436.34, "end": 4438.34, "text": " Oh before while I played"}, {"start": 4438.94, "end": 4443.62, "text": " Back then and I'm watching it now and like one of the things I really like about runescape is your ability to"}, {"start": 4444.0199999999995, "end": 4446.0199999999995, "text": " Play on your own terms"}, {"start": 4446.0199999999995, "end": 4449.94, "text": " So all of the endgame content and I'm not saying wow should copy this"}, {"start": 4449.9400000000005, "end": 4452.34, "text": " In fact, I'm probably saying that they shouldn't."}, {"start": 4452.34, "end": 4454.3, "text": " But one of the things that I like about RuneScape"}, {"start": 4454.3, "end": 4457.22, "text": " is that you can just log in and play when you want"}, {"start": 4457.22, "end": 4458.9400000000005, 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it's like a little bit of both I suppose."}, {"start": 4670.18, "end": 4675.3, "text": " the dungeon for 60 more minutes and then not get rewarded with an item. That's exactly"}, {"start": 4675.3, "end": 4677.780000000001, "text": " why they built more and more of the solo evergreen co-"}, {"start": 4677.780000000001, "end": 4685.5, "text": " Oh my gosh, guys, G-Bay just waived to me on Discord and at- G-Bay just added me on"}, {"start": 4685.5, "end": 4687.780000000001, "text": " Discord."}, {"start": 4687.78, "end": 4694.78, "text": " one sec guys."}, {"start": 4696.94, "end": 4703.94, "text": " okay"}, {"start": 4709.74, "end": 4716.74, "text": " one sec guys"}, {"start": 4717.78, "end": 4745.58, "text": " One second, I just have to type a quick message, guys."}, {"start": 4745.58, "end": 4746.82, "text": " I'll be done really soon here."}, {"start": 4747.78, "end": 4774.78, "text": " All right, yeah, just to send that for now, I have a lot more to say, but we'll just"}, {"start": 4774.78, "end": 4783.42, "text": " keep it short. Yeah, here we go. I'll just keep it real short. Yeah. Anyway, if you guys"}, {"start": 4783.42, "end": 4788.54, "text": " are just tuning in, we're actually mid-react right now. And it's the final stream for BlizzCon,"}, {"start": 4788.54, "end": 4793.259999999999, "text": " so it's kind of a big deal. Yeah, I'm tuned right now. Well, there is and always has"}, {"start": 4793.259999999999, "end": 4798.259999999999, "text": " been extremely difficult and rewarding content like Mythic Rating and Mythic Plus. They"}, {"start": 4798.259999999999, "end": 4802.42, "text": " want to give the option for the dead who has 45 minutes after the kids are in bed"}, {"start": 4802.42, "end": 4807.7, "text": " It's something meaningful. A delve, a bounty or just a new wall in their house."}, {"start": 4808.34, "end": 4812.82, "text": " And the important thing is they don't take away from you. 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5043.54, "end": 5046.9, "text": " It's a solo game, mostly, until you're at the endgame."}, {"start": 5046.9, "end": 5049.099999999999, "text": " Then the same formula as in Bao repeats."}, {"start": 5049.099999999999, "end": 5054.299999999999, "text": " Dungeons, raids, and like wow has now, more solo content, like housing."}, {"start": 5054.3, "end": 5062.06, "text": " of that under the umbrella of an MMORPG? How do you guys generally feel about this genre of MMO"}, {"start": 5062.06, "end": 5070.54, "text": " that is mainly solo play? Hardcore wow for the moat kind of runescape, FF it sounds like I've"}, {"start": 5070.54, "end": 5079.18, "text": " never played, L hate it, sucks, terrible. I actually kind of love it, but all you guys seem to hate"}, {"start": 5079.18, "end": 5086.14, "text": " it. Hardcore WoW is basically this in a sense, right? 99% of Hardcore WoW is hitting 60 solo"}, {"start": 5086.14, "end": 5093.58, "text": " and you obviously you have raids, or dungeons rather, most people don't raid. Interesting,"}, {"start": 5094.22, "end": 5102.06, "text": " interesting. I wonder why I like it. I've watched a few videos on the same exact topic where"}, {"start": 5102.780000000001, "end": 5107.900000000001, "text": " I can't remember who it was, but it was like a year ago now and it was basically like there's"}, {"start": 5107.900000000001, "end": 5112.38, "text": " more and more of these games that are like these single player MMOs in a sense where you're like"}, {"start": 5112.38, "end": 5116.780000000001, "text": " you're you're kind of grinding the content solo but you're in a world with other people also"}, {"start": 5116.780000000001, "end": 5121.660000000001, "text": " grinding the content solo so that gives meaning to the world right um you like it because you're"}, {"start": 5121.660000000001, "end": 5126.38, "text": " a streamer since you're not really playing alone maybe yeah maybe that's true um"}, {"start": 5129.18, "end": 5133.1, "text": " I play MMOs to play with other people if I wanted to play alone I'd play an RPG yeah yeah"}, {"start": 5133.1, "end": 5133.9400000000005, "text": " Yeah, yeah."}, {"start": 5133.9400000000005, "end": 5135.660000000001, "text": " Like I'm not saying one is better than the other,"}, {"start": 5135.660000000001, "end": 5137.26, "text": " but I'm saying like they're,"}, {"start": 5137.26, "end": 5140.620000000001, "text": " like playing a solo MMO is almost like an oxymoron,"}, {"start": 5140.620000000001, "end": 5141.96, "text": " but in a sense it's like,"}, {"start": 5142.9400000000005, "end": 5144.02, "text": " it's almost like you're,"}, {"start": 5144.02, "end": 5145.820000000001, "text": " it's okay, so Elden Ring is kind of like"}, {"start": 5145.820000000001, "end": 5147.54, "text": " a good example of this."}, {"start": 5147.54, "end": 5149.900000000001, "text": " Elden Ring is a single player game,"}, {"start": 5149.900000000001, "end": 5153.0, "text": " but you have the notes from other people"}, {"start": 5153.0, "end": 5155.780000000001, "text": " and you can leave notes to other people like 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5200.900000000001, "text": " Like needing other people is a core part of the game, right?"}, {"start": 5200.900000000001, "end": 5202.400000000001, "text": " Archer, thanks for the prime."}, {"start": 5208.3, "end": 5210.3, "text": " Absolute trash experience for an MMO."}, {"start": 5210.3, "end": 5212.34, "text": " MMO means that people have to be together."}, {"start": 5212.34, "end": 5213.820000000001, "text": " Well, that's why it's an oxymoron."}, {"start": 5213.820000000001, "end": 5214.9800000000005, "text": " That's why it's,"}, {"start": 5214.9800000000005, "end": 5216.66, "text": " that's why we're having the conversation."}, {"start": 5216.66, "end": 5218.82, "text": " That's why it's an interesting one, right?"}, {"start": 5218.82, "end": 5221.42, "text": " Because on a surface level, you're right."}, {"start": 5221.42, "end": 5224.099999999999, "text": " When you examine it more, it's actually quite fun."}, {"start": 5224.099999999999, "end": 5225.54, "text": " It's like, why?"}, {"start": 5225.54, "end": 5227.0199999999995, "text": " What's going on here?"}, {"start": 5227.0199999999995, "end": 5229.0199999999995, "text": " That's why we've seen a couple of these videos,"}, {"start": 5229.0199999999995, "end": 5231.139999999999, "text": " and it's really interesting to think about."}, {"start": 5233.66, "end": 5236.58, "text": " It's like that game Fellowship that came out."}, {"start": 5236.58, "end": 5239.0199999999995, "text": " Fellowship is Mythic Plus Simulator,"}, {"start": 5239.0199999999995, "end": 5240.62, "text": " so I don't think it would be anything like that."}, {"start": 5240.62, "end": 5242.62, "text": " In fact, it would be the complete opposite of that,"}, {"start": 5242.62, "end": 5243.46, "text": " I think."}, {"start": 5246.66, "end": 5253.0199999999995, "text": " MMO means different things to everyone. There's no set way to play at 5-6k hours around and have never rated in the current expansion"}, {"start": 5253.18, "end": 5255.54, "text": " Yeah, dude a lot of people play Wow solo"}, {"start": 5257.86, "end": 5262.0599999999995, "text": " Type one in the shot if you play Wow mainly solo like of course you you know"}, {"start": 5262.0599999999995, "end": 5268.7, "text": " You do this and that here and there but like mainly solo like there are so many of you guys that play Wow"}, {"start": 5268.7, "end": 5274.18, "text": " So low not all the time but like 90 plus percent of the time you're logging in and doing your own thing making gold"}, {"start": 5274.18, "end": 5278.66, "text": " leveling an alt, I've never rated in 20 plus years."}, {"start": 5278.66, "end": 5280.58, "text": " Wow, that's crazy."}, {"start": 5280.58, "end": 5282.5, "text": " Like so many of you, I would actually,"}, {"start": 5282.5, "end": 5284.62, "text": " like I wonder if there's more people"}, {"start": 5284.62, "end": 5287.3, "text": " that play, wow, mainly solo than play in groups."}, {"start": 5287.3, "end": 5288.14, "text": " I don't know."}, {"start": 5288.14, "end": 5289.6, "text": " I'm actually just curious."}, {"start": 5291.54, "end": 5293.88, "text": " If it was 2010 or back then,"}, {"start": 5294.900000000001, "end": 5296.68, "text": " MMOs used to be way more social."}, {"start": 5297.820000000001, "end": 5300.42, "text": " 99% of the time I do my own thing."}, {"start": 5300.42, "end": 5303.62, "text": " Like there's something like weirdly cool about that though,"}, {"start": 5303.62, "end": 5307.46, "text": " like you're in this world do a poll. I mean the poll is probably going to be really biased."}, {"start": 5307.46, "end": 5316.5, "text": " I could try to do it anyway. What do you do most of the time in WoW? 90% plus solo content,"}, {"start": 5317.7, "end": 5326.82, "text": " always grouping. I'll put most of the time grouped content. I'll just put mostly grouping."}, {"start": 5326.82, "end": 5329.599999999999, "text": " So Dungeon's Raids grouping."}, {"start": 5331.5199999999995, "end": 5332.74, "text": " So I'll do a two minute poll."}, {"start": 5332.74, "end": 5337.08, "text": " So, yeah."}, {"start": 5340.98, "end": 5343.94, "text": " I feel like this is like a bias poll"}, {"start": 5343.94, "end": 5346.34, "text": " since we've already been talking about it."}, {"start": 5346.34, "end": 5349.62, "text": " I can do the same poll on YouTube too if you guys want"}, {"start": 5349.62, "end": 5353.92, "text": " but I feel like the poll is a little bias here."}, {"start": 5353.92, "end": 5360.92, "text": " Most of the time, 90% plus solo content, mostly grouping."}, {"start": 5360.92, "end": 5373.92, "text": " Like, I think Blizzard has this data, and they have it in mind, and that's probably why Blizzard has done things like Story Mode, Delves, right?"}, {"start": 5373.92, "end": 5379.92, "text": " Like, let's give people ways to just, like most people are playing the game solo anyway, let's give people ways to play it."}, {"start": 5379.92, "end": 5387.26, "text": " it. Having said that, I totally understand why people would absolutely hate this. I get"}, {"start": 5387.26, "end": 5394.32, "text": " it because you're like, bro, it's an MMO, you idiot, right? Like, come on. Like, I get"}, {"start": 5394.32, "end": 5398.9, "text": " it, bro. I get it. That's why we're having the conversation. Like, I'm on the same page."}, {"start": 5398.9, "end": 5409.74, "text": " It's just a fascinating one, right? Super, super interesting. So on YouTube, the poll"}, {"start": 5409.74, "end": 5414.46, "text": " is like even more 75% solo, 27% mostly grouping."}, {"start": 5414.46, "end": 5415.58, "text": " YouTube is very similar."}, {"start": 5418.74, "end": 5420.98, "text": " Like most people do a mix of both, right?"}, {"start": 5420.98, "end": 5422.0599999999995, "text": " Obviously."}, {"start": 5422.0599999999995, "end": 5424.0599999999995, "text": " But there's actually like, at least from this,"}, {"start": 5424.0599999999995, "end": 5427.0199999999995, "text": " like a minority on Twitch and YouTube of people"}, {"start": 5427.0199999999995, "end": 5428.7, "text": " that are actually just like grouping all day,"}, {"start": 5428.7, "end": 5430.7, "text": " which is yeah, really, really interesting stuff."}, {"start": 5436.38, "end": 5438.38, "text": " You are literally going against everything you've said"}, {"start": 5438.38, "end": 5445.34, "text": " Previously you're being disingenuous and you avoid any comments about it. Sorry. I missed the comments. I didn't mean to what do you mean by that?"}, {"start": 5445.34, "end": 5446.34, "text": " I"}, {"start": 5446.34, "end": 5448.34, "text": " Authentically don't understand what you're trying to say"}, {"start": 5449.1, "end": 5451.1, "text": " But I would love to understand I"}, {"start": 5455.46, "end": 5458.32, "text": " Think you're the only one typing that's why I'm trying to this was from"}, {"start": 5461.18, "end": 5463.18, "text": " Tusker"}, {"start": 5463.18, "end": 5469.56, "text": " Holy angry boy dude got upset. Yeah, I think it might just be you. That's why I'm asking tusker"}, {"start": 5469.56, "end": 5471.56, "text": " I don't I don't know what I said"}, {"start": 5471.76, "end": 5475.76, "text": " How is he disingenuous? Yeah, I'm waiting to see what he says. I think it's one guy"}, {"start": 5486.08, "end": 5488.08, "text": " Just kind of just waiting a second here"}, {"start": 5493.18, "end": 5496.18, "text": " The reason I'm curious, he hasn't replied yet, so I'll keep talking."}, {"start": 5496.18, "end": 5499.9800000000005, "text": " The reason I'm curious is because I've talked about this exact thing many times before."}, {"start": 5499.9800000000005, "end": 5504.4800000000005, "text": " As an interesting thought experiment, once again, I'm not saying wow, should be a single-player game."}, {"start": 5504.4800000000005, "end": 5508.4800000000005, "text": " I'm not saying that, but I'm saying it's interesting that so many people play solo"}, {"start": 5508.4800000000005, "end": 5513.4800000000005, "text": " and that solo game play can be so fun, which I've said many times."}, {"start": 5514.4800000000005, "end": 5515.9800000000005, "text": " So I'm curious as to..."}, {"start": 5517.9800000000005, "end": 5519.9800000000005, "text": " We're still waiting. He hasn't said anything."}, {"start": 5520.9800000000005, "end": 5522.9800000000005, "text": " Okay, he said something. Let's read this."}, {"start": 5523.18, "end": 5532.3, "text": " What I mean is that you have been a champion for friction, seeing each other in the world,"}, {"start": 5532.3, "end": 5537.22, "text": " disliking retail features that make it simpler in a lobby game, hate flying, but now you"}, {"start": 5537.22, "end": 5540.9400000000005, "text": " suddenly are promoting all these simplifications that retail brings."}, {"start": 5540.9400000000005, "end": 5543.58, "text": " No, not promoting them."}, {"start": 5543.58, "end": 5550.38, "text": " I'm saying that for the audience, sometimes they can work and that wow, should not be"}, {"start": 5550.38, "end": 5555.14, "text": " be this way should not be this way should not be a single player game like RuneScape"}, {"start": 5555.14, "end": 5561.36, "text": " but it's fascinating that RuneScape has these things and that they can be fun but wow should"}, {"start": 5561.36, "end": 5566.3, "text": " not be that to be clear. Last room for BlizzCon seems to me you're softening us up for what"}, {"start": 5566.3, "end": 5571.62, "text": " you know Classic Plus will be. Okay so I think this is a simple case of miscommunication"}, {"start": 5571.62, "end": 5579.86, "text": " I never said this. Always a miscommunication classic yeah. Bro cooked us with a microwave"}, {"start": 5579.86, "end": 5586.0199999999995, "text": " on that one? Yeah, one of the things, like, there's a lot of nuance to these conversations,"}, {"start": 5586.0199999999995, "end": 5590.0199999999995, "text": " right? That's why it's important to, like, have them. Lots and lots of nuance."}, {"start": 5596.339999999999, "end": 5601.78, "text": " But yeah, just to be clear, I like that you need other people, and that's one of the things that"}, {"start": 5601.78, "end": 5607.139999999999, "text": " makes it wow, wow. That's why we're having the conversation of, like, how and why are these"}, {"start": 5607.14, "end": 5609.58, "text": " single-player players in MMOs."}, {"start": 5609.58, "end": 5610.46, "text": " Why do they exist?"}, {"start": 5610.46, "end": 5612.58, "text": " Why is it so many people and why is it so fun?"}, {"start": 5612.58, "end": 5614.02, "text": " Because it shouldn't be."}, {"start": 5614.02, "end": 5615.46, "text": " It doesn't make sense."}, {"start": 5615.46, "end": 5616.860000000001, "text": " Anyway, welcome to the conversation."}, {"start": 5616.860000000001, "end": 5618.660000000001, "text": " That's the conversation we're having."}, {"start": 5620.400000000001, "end": 5621.76, "text": " Hey, Mitt, thanks for the prime."}, {"start": 5621.76, "end": 5623.26, "text": " Honey, thanks for the prime."}, {"start": 5624.900000000001, "end": 5626.740000000001, "text": " That's why hardcore was so perfect."}, {"start": 5626.740000000001, "end": 5628.820000000001, "text": " It was perfect balance of doing solo content"}, {"start": 5628.820000000001, "end": 5630.900000000001, "text": " and choosing to level with someone,"}, {"start": 5630.900000000001, "end": 5631.820000000001, "text": " but it was just great."}, {"start": 5631.820000000001, "end": 5632.780000000001, "text": " Yeah, yeah, it's one of the,"}, {"start": 5632.780000000001, "end": 5634.14, "text": " like hardcore did it really well."}, {"start": 5634.14, "end": 5634.9800000000005, "text": " Yeah."}, {"start": 5634.9800000000005, "end": 5637.9800000000005, "text": " Or those, thanks for the prime."}, {"start": 5637.9800000000005, "end": 5646.9800000000005, "text": " One reason soloing is fun that maybe people don't think about is you're overcoming the intent of game design via creativity."}, {"start": 5646.9800000000005, "end": 5649.9800000000005, "text": " If you design for solo, that leads to a modernization."}, {"start": 5649.9800000000005, "end": 5658.9800000000005, "text": " So you're saying like it's fine if you do the content solo if it's not meant to be soloed."}, {"start": 5658.9800000000005, "end": 5664.46, "text": " but you can still try like kind of like hardcore but it's not good to just only"}, {"start": 5664.46, "end": 5667.820000000001, "text": " make solo content for solo content because it puts people in their own lane"}, {"start": 5667.820000000001, "end": 5672.860000000001, "text": " that's like an interesting take hey correlation thanks for the T1 bro"}, {"start": 5678.860000000001, "end": 5686.22, "text": " um um um last stream before classic plus hold who knows man who knows people"}, {"start": 5686.22, "end": 5689.9800000000005, "text": " myself started doing solo content as there is no risk of someone else wasting your time by"}, {"start": 5689.9800000000005, "end": 5696.06, "text": " griefing or raging and solo you can play on your own pace and not on the pace that is expected"}, {"start": 5696.06, "end": 5704.7, "text": " from you. So are you saying that like, yeah, like it really respects your time, right? Really"}, {"start": 5704.7, "end": 5710.9400000000005, "text": " respects your time. Why does RuneScape always get brought up in discussions about WoW? RuneScape"}, {"start": 5710.9400000000005, "end": 5714.7, "text": " is a fraction of the WoW's player base so clearly WoW has made better decisions overall"}, {"start": 5714.7, "end": 5720.46, "text": " for over the years. Why is RuneScape be treated as a meaningful benchmark for WoW at all? That is a"}, {"start": 5720.46, "end": 5728.54, "text": " great question and you're right. WoW overall is a bigger and more successful game than RuneScape."}, {"start": 5731.179999999999, "end": 5741.26, "text": " But I think WoW has better IP, right? I had Warcraft 3 before. WoW is I think a better game"}, {"start": 5741.26, "end": 5745.18, "text": " in the sense like it's just the way you move and feel and you're immersed right so wow so then you"}, {"start": 5745.18, "end": 5751.18, "text": " might be like okay so why compare why are you comparing to an underdog the reason the most compelling"}, {"start": 5751.18, "end": 5762.14, "text": " reason um for me let me see if i can find this if i can't maybe someone can help me oh i think"}, {"start": 5762.14, "end": 5763.64, "text": " I think I might have found it."}, {"start": 5769.240000000001, "end": 5771.400000000001, "text": " Yeah, this is close enough."}, {"start": 5771.400000000001, "end": 5772.240000000001, "text": " This is close enough."}, {"start": 5772.240000000001, "end": 5778.280000000001, "text": " So this is old school RuneScape average population over time."}, {"start": 5778.280000000001, "end": 5780.84, "text": " This chart is like the most compelling reason"}, {"start": 5780.84, "end": 5784.400000000001, "text": " that I think people bring it up for the most part."}, {"start": 5784.400000000001, "end": 5786.0, "text": " Not that it's a bigger game, it's not."}, {"start": 5786.0, "end": 5786.68, "text": " It's smaller."}, {"start": 5786.68, "end": 5788.12, "text": " Not that it's a better game."}, {"start": 5788.12, "end": 5789.240000000001, "text": " In my opinion, it's not."}, {"start": 5789.240000000001, "end": 5790.96, "text": " Although there's pros and cons."}, {"start": 5790.96, "end": 5792.52, "text": " But to answer your question,"}, {"start": 5792.52, "end": 5797.04, "text": " when old-school RuneScape launched in 2013, 2014,"}, {"start": 5797.04, "end": 5802.04, "text": " it had like less than 50,000 weekly average pop, right?"}, {"start": 5802.12, "end": 5806.4800000000005, "text": " Which is, you know, it was kind of doing its thing."}, {"start": 5806.4800000000005, "end": 5809.24, "text": " Or OSRS average pop was, yeah, 40,"}, {"start": 5809.24, "end": 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same thing."}, {"start": 5842.76, "end": 5845.6, "text": " Another uptick from a new patch."}, {"start": 5845.6, "end": 5846.92, "text": " Ups and downs are normal."}, {"start": 5846.92, "end": 5848.36, "text": " Another uptick from a new patch."}, {"start": 5848.36, "end": 5849.48, "text": " Ups and downs are normal."}, {"start": 5849.48, "end": 5851.28, "text": " Another uptick from a new patch."}, {"start": 5851.28, "end": 5853.32, "text": " Ups and downs, another new uptick."}, {"start": 5853.32, "end": 5856.24, "text": " This is why we're having the conversation."}, {"start": 5856.24, "end": 5858.44, "text": " So now in 2020, it's like, wait a minute."}, {"start": 5859.839999999999, "end": 5862.719999999999, "text": " There are more people playing RuneScape in 2020"}, {"start": 5862.719999999999, "end": 5865.0, "text": " than in 2014."}, {"start": 5865.0, "end": 5866.2, "text": " Think about just that."}, {"start": 5866.2, "end": 5867.679999999999, "text": " Like don't even look 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grew to the point where there's over"}, {"start": 5902.96, "end": 5906.639999999999, "text": " a hundred thousand average pop on the release"}, {"start": 5906.64, "end": 5914.12, "text": " is 40 or whatever. So over double. Are you following? It's a long answer. It's a great"}, {"start": 5914.12, "end": 5920.52, "text": " question. That's I'm giving you a long answer here over double almost triple of the population"}, {"start": 5920.52, "end": 5926.72, "text": " from launch. So if you put that to wow numbers, that would be 1.2 mil or something. It would"}, {"start": 5926.72, "end": 5931.8, "text": " be like it would be as if it just like went to the moon kind of like how raft did."}, {"start": 5931.8, "end": 5934.64, "text": " Actually this kind of this chart kind of works in the sense of a raft is in a sense"}, {"start": 5934.64, "end": 5940.4800000000005, "text": " kind of classic plus, right? The original. But that's not that's a slightly different conversation."}, {"start": 5940.4800000000005, "end": 5945.84, "text": " Anyway, let's continue. Even though it's a smaller game, less successful IP, less successful"}, {"start": 5945.84, "end": 5951.280000000001, "text": " game overall, you can still learn from smaller things. Because over time, they continue to do"}, {"start": 5951.280000000001, "end": 5959.12, "text": " the polls, continue to listen to the community. And then in 2025, they hit over 200,000"}, {"start": 5959.12, "end": 5970.48, "text": " and average weekly pop, which in 2014, over 11 years before, they were launched at 40,000."}, {"start": 5970.48, "end": 5974.84, "text": " So once again, you transfer this to WoW numbers, much bigger game, much larger IP, just listening"}, {"start": 5974.84, "end": 5979.5199999999995, "text": " to the community and putting in things the community actually wants and votes for."}, {"start": 5979.5199999999995, "end": 5986.24, "text": " You would have literally millions of weekly raiders playing era."}, {"start": 5986.24, "end": 5987.24, "text": " That's kind of the claim."}, {"start": 5987.24, "end": 5989.16, "text": " That's why it's a relevant conversation."}, {"start": 5989.16, "end": 5990.24, "text": " Does that make sense?"}, {"start": 5990.24, "end": 5992.28, "text": " That's why people always quote it."}, {"start": 5992.28, "end": 5993.94, "text": " That's why even though it's a small game,"}, {"start": 5993.94, "end": 5997.5599999999995, "text": " it's a beautiful micro sample of what's going on."}, {"start": 5997.5599999999995, "end": 5998.76, "text": " Crap, I forgot that guy's name."}, {"start": 5998.76, "end": 5999.8, "text": " I hope you're still in the chat."}, {"start": 5999.8, "end": 6004.5199999999995, "text": " Maybe I hope I answered your question."}, {"start": 6008.4, "end": 6009.76, "text": " Hopefully that makes sense."}, {"start": 6009.76, "end": 6012.4, "text": " Very, very, very, very good thing to study."}, {"start": 6012.400000000001, "end": 6035.360000000001, "text": " I think he fell asleep. Well, maybe, maybe. It was Tusker? No, I wasn't Tusker. Did I adequately"}, {"start": 6035.360000000001, "end": 6041.56, "text": " answer your condescending question? What movie is that from? Is that from social network?"}, {"start": 6041.56, "end": 6043.8, "text": " What's it called the Facebook movie? I think it is"}, {"start": 6044.740000000001, "end": 6046.740000000001, "text": " Yeah, I think I think it is"}, {"start": 6046.740000000001, "end": 6051.92, "text": " It was me. Thanks for explaining. What's it actually I'm going to your logs. I gotta I gotta be sure"}, {"start": 6052.96, "end": 6055.76, "text": " No, it wasn't you. Oh my gosh, you got me"}, {"start": 6064.06, "end": 6066.68, "text": " Why listen to underdog when bigger player is bigger"}, {"start": 6066.68, "end": 6075.08, "text": " Yeah, like so I guess the very, very short answer is even though something is on top,"}, {"start": 6075.08, "end": 6080.5, "text": " it can have a downward trajectory and that's scary."}, {"start": 6080.5, "end": 6085.4400000000005, "text": " And even though something isn't on top, it can have an upward trajectory and you can"}, {"start": 6085.4400000000005, "end": 6086.4400000000005, "text": " learn from it."}, {"start": 6086.4400000000005, "end": 6088.360000000001, "text": " That's the very short answer."}, {"start": 6088.360000000001, "end": 6094.700000000001, "text": " The top dog of wow is going down, the small game of runescape is going up."}, {"start": 6094.700000000001, "end": 6095.84, "text": " What can we learn?"}, {"start": 6095.84, "end": 6099.2, "text": " the short answer. I guess I could have just said that. That's the very short answer."}, {"start": 6101.76, "end": 6103.4400000000005, "text": " Is R you ever going to compete again?"}, {"start": 6106.4800000000005, "end": 6107.84, "text": " Probably not. Probably not."}, {"start": 6114.56, "end": 6116.8, "text": " Yeah, we just got five good members on YouTube from"}, {"start": 6117.6, "end": 6123.04, "text": " Anima. I actually technically was a League of Legends pro. About 10 days ago I did a"}, {"start": 6123.04, "end": 6125.84, "text": " Professional League of Legends tournament for money."}, {"start": 6126.84, "end": 6128.44, "text": " I lost, but uh..."}, {"start": 6130.14, "end": 6131.64, "text": " Technically I'm a professional."}, {"start": 6132.14, "end": 6138.84, "text": " And still, walk into Linsen L\u00fcm\u00fcnzule on any evening and you will find people not only standing around,"}, {"start": 6138.84, "end": 6140.94, "text": " but actually interacting with each other."}, {"start": 6140.94, "end": 6142.44, "text": " And please don't get me wrong."}, {"start": 6142.44, "end": 6146.14, "text": " I don't think Blizzard will make retail into a Final Fantasy XIV clone,"}, {"start": 6146.14, "end": 6148.84, "text": " making you watch cutscenes more than you get to play."}, {"start": 6148.84, "end": 6153.76, "text": " Vow's strength has always been the world, combat and auto-immersion."}, {"start": 6153.76, "end": 6158.0, "text": " What the data shows though is that they've moved the story out of the quest text, which"}, {"start": 6158.0, "end": 6163.56, "text": " most of us were more inclined to skip, and into cap scenes, which are more palatable"}, {"start": 6163.56, "end": 6165.56, "text": " to consume."}, {"start": 6165.56, "end": 6169.6, "text": " And even more than that, with law walking, they've included a way to experience the"}, {"start": 6169.6, "end": 6174.88, "text": " biggest stories Vow has to offer and to catch you up to speed in your own temper."}, {"start": 6174.88, "end": 6178.56, "text": " I think it's a building block for a whole new leveling experience, especially for new"}, {"start": 6178.56, "end": 6184.0, "text": " plays. Imagine one chapter per level, getting you through the whole Warcraft lore in an immersive"}, {"start": 6184.0, "end": 6188.56, "text": " way. And at the end, you get to experience the newest expansion with all it has to offer,"}, {"start": 6189.4400000000005, "end": 6194.96, "text": " including the systems that make retail so great. And even then, the final boss of an"}, {"start": 6194.96, "end": 6199.360000000001, "text": " expansion used to be the one thing in this game you needed to gather 20 people for."}, {"start": 6199.360000000001, "end": 6201.360000000001, "text": " Since the war within, every season's-"}, {"start": 6201.360000000001, "end": 6205.68, "text": " How would we feel about this? I never thought about that. What if on retail,"}, {"start": 6205.68, "end": 6210.68, "text": " You made a new character and it took you through,"}, {"start": 6212.360000000001, "end": 6213.76, "text": " I don't know, even know what would it be?"}, {"start": 6213.76, "end": 6216.4400000000005, "text": " Like the original trilogy of like a,"}, {"start": 6216.4400000000005, "end": 6219.240000000001, "text": " this like almost story experience"}, {"start": 6219.240000000001, "end": 6221.12, "text": " of like the original trilogy."}, {"start": 6221.12, "end": 6222.88, "text": " And then it spits you out of end game."}, {"start": 6222.88, "end": 6224.64, "text": " I mean, I guess that's what they try to do anyway,"}, {"start": 6224.64, "end": 6226.84, "text": " but it doesn't really work very well."}, {"start": 6228.280000000001, "end": 6229.12, "text": " I don't know."}, {"start": 6229.12, "end": 6229.96, "text": " I don't know."}, {"start": 6229.96, "end": 6231.0, "text": " Like, what do you do with retail, man?"}, {"start": 6231.0, "end": 6231.96, "text": " What do you do?"}, {"start": 6231.96, "end": 6233.04, "text": " I think that sounds amazing."}, {"start": 6233.04, "end": 6234.240000000001, "text": " Like it could be cool."}, {"start": 6234.24, "end": 6243.599999999999, "text": " like retails are so big man it's just so big final boss has a story mode now you"}, {"start": 6243.599999999999, "end": 6247.24, "text": " can go in alone kill the boss by yourself and see the end cinematic of the"}, {"start": 6247.24, "end": 6254.92, "text": " raid whenever you want so it fits into your life so every mmorpg nowadays has"}, {"start": 6254.92, "end": 6258.76, "text": " the same fate and game is the goal and the only option for real group play"}, {"start": 6258.76, "end": 6263.599999999999, "text": " nothing has permanence I mean Ian said it earlier this year midnight might be"}, {"start": 6263.6, "end": 6268.160000000001, "text": " the fastest expansion we've ever made. Every two months feels like about right to do something"}, {"start": 6268.160000000001, "end": 6275.120000000001, "text": " significant. But let's step back a bit. While we are getting faster expansions and faster seasons,"}, {"start": 6275.120000000001, "end": 6280.64, "text": " so it's resetting your gear every season, that's not new, since almost the beginning of the game."}, {"start": 6280.64, "end": 6285.200000000001, "text": " That's what a season is. And Blizzard never called it a problem, and neither do I."}, {"start": 6285.92, "end": 6289.84, "text": " But it does raise a question. What do you actually own in this game?"}, {"start": 6289.84, "end": 6295.360000000001, "text": " Not your gear, really. It's your pets, your titles, your toys, your transmog, your mounts."}, {"start": 6295.360000000001, "end": 6299.76, "text": " And look when the stuff arrived. Achievements 2008, transmog 2011,"}, {"start": 6299.76, "end": 6305.28, "text": " pet battles 2012, Trabux 2014, Warbands 2024, and it's now account-wide."}, {"start": 6306.16, "end": 6310.4800000000005, "text": " While your gear resets every season, Blizzard was building a second layer underneath."}, {"start": 6310.4800000000005, "end": 6314.56, "text": " The stuff that stays. That's actually true. Like, in WoW,"}, {"start": 6314.56, "end": 6321.6, "text": " If you can roll on the best in slot item or the mount like the mount will actually stay on your account forever"}, {"start": 6321.6, "end": 6324.400000000001, "text": " The best in slot item you're gonna replace next year no matter what"}, {"start": 6326.400000000001, "end": 6333.9400000000005, "text": " Like in a sense like the true endgame is like the transmog and retail the toys and the mounts because everything else gets reset every season anyway"}, {"start": 6334.4800000000005, "end": 6336.64, "text": " This guy this guy's got the ZAR fit. Yeah, he does"}, {"start": 6336.64, "end": 6345.64, "text": " And now they built the biggest ever green permanent progression system that even aims to combine all of them, giving it a place to be."}, {"start": 6345.64, "end": 6351.64, "text": " A place to take everything you have earned out of your menus. It's housing. Your pets already live there."}, {"start": 6351.64, "end": 6355.64, "text": " The big achievements hang on the wall. And monster transmogs, they're currently working on it."}, {"start": 6355.64, "end": 6361.64, "text": " Ian said, we're adding the biggest single feature that a WoW expansion has ever added to the game."}, {"start": 6361.64, "end": 6366.6, "text": " built not just to last for the launch of midnight, but for years to come."}, {"start": 6366.6, "end": 6372.08, "text": " And the numbers don't lie, 4 million hours played in the first two weeks of early access."}, {"start": 6372.08, "end": 6376.52, "text": " And that is also your non-wow players, maybe the people who have put in 2000 hours in the"}, {"start": 6376.52, "end": 6382.4400000000005, "text": " sims or in other MMR-peaches with housing that want to see what Blizzard has been cooking."}, {"start": 6382.4400000000005, "end": 6384.4800000000005, "text": " And boy they have."}, {"start": 6384.4800000000005, "end": 6388.6, "text": " It is something the players wanted since Vanilla, and for a good reason."}, {"start": 6388.6, "end": 6390.64, "text": " It is content to be permanent."}, {"start": 6390.64, "end": 6395.400000000001, "text": " It is content that persists through expansions, cosmic threats, good and bad patches, without"}, {"start": 6395.400000000001, "end": 6397.46, "text": " the fear of losing it."}, {"start": 6397.46, "end": 6402.08, "text": " It is literally coming home, doing it at your own pace today."}, {"start": 6402.08, "end": 6408.08, "text": " I've said this before, like I think housing makes a lot of sense for retail, and I think"}, {"start": 6408.08, "end": 6412.740000000001, "text": " Aki does a great job in this video explaining why all of the permanent stuff can be kept"}, {"start": 6412.740000000001, "end": 6418.6, "text": " in your house and it gives you a physical place to be like, look, this is all, this"}, {"start": 6418.6, "end": 6421.160000000001, "text": " This is my count progress in a sense, right?"}, {"start": 6421.160000000001, "end": 6422.08, "text": " It's pretty cool."}, 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6502.040000000001, "text": " But he continues, we have a lot of work to do,"}, {"start": 6502.040000000001, "end": 6504.320000000001, "text": " but it's a place where we want to land."}, {"start": 6504.32, "end": 6507.759999999999, "text": " Blizzard really is preparing for moving away from that desk."}, {"start": 6507.759999999999, "end": 6510.719999999999, "text": " They natively support a gamepad since 2020."}, {"start": 6510.719999999999, "end": 6514.88, "text": " Prune the classes for Midnight to drastically reduce the buttons you have to press"}, {"start": 6514.88, "end": 6518.5599999999995, "text": " and even implement a rotation assist with one button rotation."}, {"start": 6518.5599999999995, "end": 6523.44, "text": " And if that's not enough evidence, they don't want the players to rely on addons to play the game."}, {"start": 6523.44, "end": 6526.48, "text": " They radically limited the access addons have to the game."}, {"start": 6526.48, "end": 6530.0, "text": " Putting all of the game's combat events basically in a black box."}, {"start": 6530.0, "end": 6534.0, "text": " Making the design of endgame content not reliant on addons."}, {"start": 6534.0, "end": 6536.0, "text": " and Ian himself put it in writing."}, {"start": 6536.0, "end": 6541.84, "text": " Yeah, kinda, except the fact that the add-on devs found another way around"}, {"start": 6541.84, "end": 6544.72, "text": " and they made the add-ons work anyway somehow"}, {"start": 6544.72, "end": 6549.36, "text": " and now we have like basically all the same stuff it's just not called week-or is anymore, you know?"}, {"start": 6549.36, "end": 6553.92, "text": " He said, they never designed four addons, but they've had to design around them."}, {"start": 6554.56, "end": 6558.4, "text": " This is a great change in and of itself for everybody playing this game,"}, {"start": 6558.4, "end": 6560.16, "text": " including desktop players."}, {"start": 6560.16, "end": 6565.2, "text": " But this also enables Blizzard to give non-desktop players down the road access to the endgame"}, {"start": 6565.2, "end": 6570.4, "text": " without the need of setting up add-ons on console and the icing on the cake."}, {"start": 6570.4, "end": 6574.88, "text": " It also enables Blizzard to design their encounters with non-desktop players in mind."}, {"start": 6575.92, "end": 6579.2, "text": " So why can't people join your raid from their Xbox yet?"}, {"start": 6579.2, "end": 6583.44, "text": " Because there's one important block missing for them that you might not have thought about"}, {"start": 6583.44, "end": 6588.32, "text": " right now. Communication. They can't talk. However, even for that,"}, {"start": 6588.32, "end": 6594.719999999999, "text": " First building blocks are being implemented into the game with a ping wheel that has been implemented in 10.1.7."}, {"start": 6595.36, "end": 6597.36, "text": " And, you know, that's not all."}, {"start": 6597.44, "end": 6601.92, "text": " See, other mmorpgs are way further down the evergreen solar road than retailers."}, {"start": 6602.719999999999, "end": 6603.759999999999, "text": " Fine fantasy 14."}, {"start": 6603.759999999999, "end": 6608.719999999999, "text": " I'm just thinking like how mad these two blood elves are that he's just like sitting on the table."}, {"start": 6608.719999999999, "end": 6615.599999999999, "text": " Like imagine you're having coffee with your friend and some dude just sits there and starts recording a youtube video."}, {"start": 6615.6, "end": 6620.6, "text": " doesn't say a word to you, doesn't even like,"}, {"start": 6622.400000000001, "end": 6625.240000000001, "text": " like pretend you're not even there"}, {"start": 6625.240000000001, "end": 6628.56, "text": " and he's just talking to the camera, recording a video."}, {"start": 6629.8, "end": 6633.04, "text": " Like it's just a green screens are, no, no,"}, {"start": 6633.04, "end": 6635.1, "text": " I'm just saying, imagine how mad these blood elves"}, {"start": 6635.1, "end": 6638.0, "text": " would be though, like they've got to be pissed."}, {"start": 6638.0, "end": 6639.8, "text": " They're trying to pretend like it doesn't bother them"}, {"start": 6639.8, "end": 6641.68, "text": " and they're continuing their conversation."}, {"start": 6641.68, "end": 6643.4800000000005, "text": " But I'm thinking like, this guy is,"}, {"start": 6643.4800000000005, "end": 6646.14, "text": " This guy is griefing their whole coffee meetup right now."}, {"start": 6650.280000000001, "end": 6651.92, "text": " I feel for him."}, {"start": 6651.92, "end": 6654.72, "text": " And for example, was built with story in mind."}, {"start": 6654.72, "end": 6657.820000000001, "text": " In-engine cutscenes are the tool for telling that story."}, {"start": 6657.820000000001, "end": 6659.400000000001, "text": " For utilizing that correctly,"}, {"start": 6659.400000000001, "end": 6661.200000000001, "text": " you need an engine that supports it,"}, {"start": 6661.200000000001, "end": 6662.84, "text": " that was built for it."}, {"start": 6662.84, "end": 6664.200000000001, "text": " That's how you gain the ability"}, {"start": 6664.200000000001, "end": 6666.4400000000005, "text": " to create impactful in-engine cutscenes"}, {"start": 6666.4400000000005, "end": 6669.4400000000005, "text": " without it looking like, well, that."}, {"start": 6669.4400000000005, "end": 6671.76, "text": " And why do I bring that up right now?"}, {"start": 6671.76, "end": 6674.6, "text": " because the better animation system for in-game cutscenes"}, {"start": 6674.6, "end": 6677.320000000001, "text": " not only enabled Square Enix to tell deeper stories,"}, {"start": 6677.320000000001, "end": 6680.7, "text": " it also allowed them to let players communicate and role-play"}, {"start": 6680.7, "end": 6684.06, "text": " without the need to ever type a single word."}, {"start": 6684.06, "end": 6687.68, "text": " Not needing to type to communicate and interact with each other"}, {"start": 6687.68, "end": 6691.280000000001, "text": " opens up the possibility for ditching Morse and keyboard as a whole."}, {"start": 6691.280000000001, "end": 6693.08, "text": " And that's exactly what they did."}, {"start": 6693.08, "end": 6697.0, "text": " I've played the whole four or five, six hundred hours of the fine fantasy mainstay request"}, {"start": 6697.0, "end": 6699.8, "text": " without ever needing to use Morse or keyboard."}, {"start": 6699.8, "end": 6700.84, "text": " And it works."}, {"start": 6700.84, "end": 6706.4400000000005, "text": " It also works in raids, dungeons, housing, it even works in WoW with add-ons like console port."}, {"start": 6706.4400000000005, "end": 6710.08, "text": " Especially now with the prune classes in midnight and one button rotation,"}, {"start": 6710.08, "end": 6713.04, "text": " the character control aspect is completely solved."}, {"start": 6714.68, "end": 6718.04, "text": " And that is why I think the last Titan or the expansion after it"}, {"start": 6718.04, "end": 6721.56, "text": " will bring an overhauled animation and a mode system too."}, {"start": 6721.56, "end": 6725.6, "text": " On the one hand, let players communicate without the need for a mouse and keyboard"}, {"start": 6725.6, "end": 6728.84, "text": " and on the other hand, to make the in-game cutscenes more immersive,"}, {"start": 6728.84, "end": 6733.08, "text": " Shifting the focus more on the story told by that rather than quest texts"}, {"start": 6733.08, "end": 6738.76, "text": " And I think it is very likely that either with that upgrade or one expansion after that upgrade lands"}, {"start": 6738.96, "end": 6744.1, "text": " We will see the first console port for Xbox. It's Microsoft after all and"}, {"start": 6744.96, "end": 6749.84, "text": " I know I know but you might be thinking does this guy really want to tell me that in a few years"}, {"start": 6749.84, "end": 6753.28, "text": " I may play my mythic plus with a tank that plays on his phone"}, {"start": 6753.8, "end": 6756.08, "text": " No, thank you to which I say"}, {"start": 6756.8, "end": 6758.8, "text": " Doesn't he already play like that?"}, {"start": 6758.84, "end": 6762.74, "text": " In a true, but let me tell you about an encounter I've had a lot of classic"}, {"start": 6763.18, "end": 6765.78, "text": " We were in a dungeon and our heel did really well"}, {"start": 6765.78, "end": 6770.860000000001, "text": " I complimented him for that, but got a message from another guy in the party. He said"}, {"start": 6771.26, "end": 6775.3, "text": " Sorry, it's a little hard for him to reply. He's blind, but he's happy is doing well"}, {"start": 6775.9800000000005, "end": 6777.9800000000005, "text": " But it stuck with me and I got curious"}, {"start": 6777.9800000000005, "end": 6782.32, "text": " I researched it a little and this guy really was from a guilt for legally blind people"}, {"start": 6782.7, "end": 6787.38, "text": " They used an atom that told them exactly what was in front of them without ever seeing it"}, {"start": 6787.38, "end": 6792.88, "text": " And they even had a YouTube video explaining how it worked, but they heard instead of seeing while playing the game."}, {"start": 6792.88, "end": 6817.400000000001, "text": " And in the first moment it felt so alien."}, {"start": 6817.400000000001, "end": 6819.32, "text": " How could anybody play like that?"}, {"start": 6819.32, "end": 6820.96, "text": " But that is not the point."}, {"start": 6820.96, "end": 6821.96, "text": " It's not about me."}, {"start": 6821.96, "end": 6828.96, "text": " Who the f**k am I to tell people how they should perceive and play the game we all love because it's not the way I play?"}, {"start": 6828.96, "end": 6832.96, "text": " Especially if it was this performance that got me talking in the first place."}, {"start": 6832.96, "end": 6840.96, "text": " There are people that play better on Steam Deck and achieve higher ratings than I do on PC and I perceive myself as a certified gamer."}, {"start": 6840.96, "end": 6848.96, "text": " This situation has opened my eyes after thinking anything else than the desktop PC experience of what a forecaster was for me, not the foot experience."}, {"start": 6848.96, "end": 6850.96, "text": " I was wrong."}, {"start": 6850.96, "end": 6857.96, "text": " It is not the job of the people that come through those avenues to justify why they should be allowed to enjoy the same game."}, {"start": 6857.96, "end": 6863.96, "text": " It is Blizzard's job to integrate them seamlessly without taking away from the existing player base,"}, {"start": 6863.96, "end": 6870.96, "text": " giving everybody who wants to enjoy the game the opportunity to do so, in whatever way fits their life."}, {"start": 6872.96, "end": 6878.96, "text": " Great, now everything fits into your life, but how does that fit into World of Warcraft?"}, {"start": 6878.96, "end": 6884.16, "text": " True. Look at the timeline one more time. The plus line. Delfts, story mode, prey, housing."}, {"start": 6884.88, "end": 6888.72, "text": " That's a buffet. Every one of those made playing together optional."}, {"start": 6888.72, "end": 6893.68, "text": " Now look at the minus line. Every single entry on that side removed the reason to stand somewhere,"}, {"start": 6893.68, "end": 6898.4800000000005, "text": " and standing somewhere was the whole point. There is a study about this from 2006,"}, {"start": 6898.4800000000005, "end": 6903.52, "text": " so no nostalgia bias. 20 years before anyone argued about classic versus retail."}, {"start": 6903.52, "end": 6910.52, "text": " Researchers from Stanford and Xerox Park tracked 129,000 bar characters for months,"}, {"start": 6910.52, "end": 6913.52, "text": " taking a census of five servers every few minutes."}, {"start": 6913.52, "end": 6918.52, "text": " And this was 2005, during the absolute peak of this game replaces your life."}, {"start": 6918.52, "end": 6922.52, "text": " And what they found? Most people played alone."}, {"start": 6922.52, "end": 6925.52, "text": " Grouping didn't take over until the very last levels."}, {"start": 6925.52, "end": 6928.52, "text": " Solo players even leveled about twice as fast."}, {"start": 6928.52, "end": 6930.52, "text": " The title of the study is very fitting."}, {"start": 6930.52, "end": 6932.52, "text": " Alone, together."}, {"start": 6932.52, "end": 6936.6, "text": " Holy crap, this is exactly what we were just talking about."}, {"start": 6936.6, "end": 6939.92, "text": " Yeah, wow, yeah, pretty cool."}, {"start": 6939.92, "end": 6943.56, "text": " I feel like I might have heard about this"}, {"start": 6943.56, "end": 6946.0, "text": " in another video from months ago or something,"}, {"start": 6946.0, "end": 6948.76, "text": " but it was talked about in a different light."}, {"start": 6948.76, "end": 6949.8, "text": " Pretty rad, right?"}, {"start": 6949.8, "end": 6951.76, "text": " Like, it is interesting."}, {"start": 6951.76, "end": 6953.120000000001, "text": " Like I said, I just did a poll."}, {"start": 6953.120000000001, "end": 6955.92, "text": " How many of you guys play 90% alone?"}, {"start": 6955.92, "end": 6957.4800000000005, "text": " And it's like the majority of people"}, {"start": 6957.4800000000005, "end": 6958.8, "text": " kind of play wild alone."}, {"start": 6958.8, "end": 6960.4800000000005, "text": " Of course, you're gonna look for groups now and then"}, {"start": 6960.4800000000005, "end": 6962.4400000000005, "text": " and raids, but like, a lot of your journey"}, {"start": 6962.4400000000005, "end": 6967.240000000001, "text": " that solo experience, right? Super interesting. Alone Together's an OSRS"}, {"start": 6967.240000000001, "end": 6972.76, "text": " Iron Man thing, exactly, exactly. RuneScape does it very well, Hardcore wow"}, {"start": 6972.76, "end": 6976.52, "text": " does it very well, Plastic wow does it very well, I think Retail wow is trying to get that."}, {"start": 6976.52, "end": 6980.68, "text": " It's that third space video, yeah I think it was. Because that was the finding."}, {"start": 6980.68, "end": 6985.72, "text": " People don't play with each other, they play surrounded by each other. And that,"}, {"start": 6985.72, "end": 6991.080000000001, "text": " the researchers wrote, is the actual magic of this game. Playing wow is like playing"}, {"start": 6991.08, "end": 6996.5199999999995, "text": " pinball in a crowded arcade where spectators gathered around the machine. Level 60s were"}, {"start": 6996.5199999999995, "end": 7002.04, "text": " simply left standing in front of the auction house for everyone to admire. They even used an"}, {"start": 7002.04, "end": 7008.44, "text": " exclamation mark for that observation and then scientific paper. So the social aspect of while"}, {"start": 7008.44, "end": 7014.84, "text": " was- You don't play with other people, you play around them like going to an arcade. Wow,"}, {"start": 7014.84, "end": 7020.6, "text": " that is very well said. That's exactly what I was trying to put in words like 30 minutes"}, {"start": 7020.6, "end": 7025.6, "text": " to go when we started this video. It's way more true than you might think. Because everyone"}, {"start": 7025.6, "end": 7030.740000000001, "text": " is like, I asked you guys, like, do you like, like, should, should wow, what did I, what was"}, {"start": 7030.740000000001, "end": 7034.700000000001, "text": " the question? Everyone's like, no, like solo, wow, should not be a thing. Like it already"}, {"start": 7034.700000000001, "end": 7039.34, "text": " is. Like this is how the majority of people interact with the game. It's cool because"}, {"start": 7039.34, "end": 7043.400000000001, "text": " there's other people in the cities. It's not really playing solo as you're going"}, {"start": 7043.400000000001, "end": 7049.240000000001, "text": " on a solo journey, but there's other people in the world. Right? It's really interesting."}, {"start": 7049.24, "end": 7051.12, "text": " That's why playing on Dead Servers bores me."}, {"start": 7051.12, "end": 7052.36, "text": " Exactly."}, {"start": 7052.36, "end": 7056.5199999999995, "text": " You can be going on a solo journey on a Dead Server and it sucks because you don't have other"}, {"start": 7056.5199999999995, "end": 7058.639999999999, "text": " people around giving it meaning."}, {"start": 7058.639999999999, "end": 7062.16, "text": " Like you could play WoW offline on your own private server."}, {"start": 7062.16, "end": 7067.12, "text": " In fact, funny enough, people have done this recently where they make their own private"}, {"start": 7067.12, "end": 7072.76, "text": " server and play solo and then have thousands of AI bots play with them."}, {"start": 7072.76, "end": 7077.76, "text": " The AI bots are there to just populate the cities,"}, {"start": 7077.8, "end": 7080.14, "text": " the auction house, the world."}, {"start": 7080.14, "end": 7081.3, "text": " You can group with them,"}, {"start": 7081.3, "end": 7083.64, "text": " and people have been playing this way."}, {"start": 7083.64, "end": 7087.62, "text": " Where they're playing offline with AI bots,"}, {"start": 7087.62, "end": 7089.8, "text": " World of Warcraft and their own house."}, {"start": 7089.8, "end": 7092.72, "text": " It's like alone, but like with other AI bots,"}, {"start": 7092.72, "end": 7094.18, "text": " it's really, really interesting."}, {"start": 7094.18, "end": 7096.12, "text": " Anyway, yeah, well, I want to then server"}, {"start": 7096.12, "end": 7096.96, "text": " doesn't feel the same,"}, {"start": 7096.96, "end": 7099.96, "text": " because you want people around you when you're gaming."}, {"start": 7099.96, "end": 7101.12, "text": " Right?"}, {"start": 7101.12, "end": 7108.38, "text": " never only grouping up. It was having an audience. It was being seen. Look at the name, MMORPG,"}, {"start": 7108.38, "end": 7114.16, "text": " the second amp, multiplayer. If you believe the study, that one was always optional. Nobody"}, {"start": 7114.16, "end": 7119.5199999999995, "text": " lost anything when Blizzard made it official, but the first amp, massively, the crowd."}, {"start": 7119.5199999999995, "end": 7124.86, "text": " That one was never optional, and that's the one thing that is shrinking right now."}, {"start": 7124.86, "end": 7129.32, "text": " So what is the problem today? Why does the current expansion's capital not feel"}, {"start": 7129.32, "end": 7135.08, "text": " like Stormwind did in 2006. The problem is the room. Go to Silver Moon today and look"}, {"start": 7135.08, "end": 7141.32, "text": " at it. It's beautiful. But nobody really notices you anymore. And there are three reasons for"}, {"start": 7141.32, "end": 7146.679999999999, "text": " that. And every one of them is on that minus line. And the first one is flying. Everybody"}, {"start": 7146.679999999999, "end": 7153.48, "text": " sips past you, over you at supersonic speeds. And Blizzard says no plans to restrict flight."}, {"start": 7153.48, "end": 7157.4, "text": " So the second one is when you see somebody standing at a place in the city that has"}, {"start": 7157.400000000001, "end": 7162.76, "text": " no utility. It is because they bring their own utility to it. They sold a mount with an auction"}, {"start": 7162.76, "end": 7167.88, "text": " house and a mailbox on its back for 90 dollars, essentially making the flight let along the walk"}, {"start": 7167.88, "end": 7174.360000000001, "text": " to most NPCs in town pointless. And the third one is Sharding. Even if somebody does stand there,"}, {"start": 7174.360000000001, "end": 7180.68, "text": " you might not see them. There's a whole- This is a very good video. Absolutely. Those are-"}, {"start": 7180.68, "end": 7185.56, "text": " We've talked about these in the past. Top three, bro. You have Phasing, Sharding,"}, {"start": 7185.56, "end": 7190.280000000001, "text": " flying and no reason to actually go into a town in the first place because you can just use your"}, {"start": 7190.280000000001, "end": 7195.96, "text": " own auction house mount right like classic wow classic plus hopefully there's no flying"}, {"start": 7195.96, "end": 7200.280000000001, "text": " hopefully actually still need to go to storm when to use the auction house hopefully there's no"}, {"start": 7200.280000000001, "end": 7204.92, "text": " like layering i mean there probably will be but like you know like all of these systems that"}, {"start": 7204.92, "end": 7209.320000000001, "text": " take people apart you want you want the cities to feel like packed and crowded and exciting"}, {"start": 7209.320000000001, "end": 7214.52, "text": " to go into right and you actually see other people somebody does stand there you might"}, {"start": 7214.52, "end": 7219.080000000001, "text": " might not see them. There's a whole thread of role-players about 20 players in the Sizzle"}, {"start": 7219.080000000001, "end": 7224.76, "text": " Moon Inn they couldn't see. Back in 2012, Blizzard promised capital cities will not"}, {"start": 7224.76, "end": 7230.4800000000005, "text": " be set as cross-server. That rule is gone. And, to be fair, Classic has layers too."}, {"start": 7230.4800000000005, "end": 7236.4800000000005, "text": " So this one is not exclusive to retail only. And Blizzard probably knows all of this."}, {"start": 7236.4800000000005, "end": 7240.92, "text": " Holly Longdale again? This idea of third space in our online worlds. We can't even"}, {"start": 7240.92, "end": 7245.96, "text": " define what that means exactly. But we're working on figuring that out. We want people to come in,"}, {"start": 7245.96, "end": 7251.08, "text": " hang out and have birthdays, weddings, raids, grand adventures, play with their friends,"}, {"start": 7251.08, "end": 7256.04, "text": " meet new friends. That might be the most honest quote in this entire video."}, {"start": 7256.04, "end": 7260.84, "text": " And they are testing. The Argentina, for instance, is a tavern built for hanging out,"}, {"start": 7260.84, "end": 7265.8, "text": " with a stage for player performances. Players call it now a cozy ghost hall."}, {"start": 7265.8, "end": 7270.12, "text": " I don't find I have a reason to go there anymore, except to half, somebody wrote."}, {"start": 7270.12, "end": 7275.22, "text": " And the second test is neighborhoods. They said garrisons were isolating."}, {"start": 7275.22, "end": 7279.78, "text": " Neighborhoods exist to bring people together. But you can also fly there."}, {"start": 7279.78, "end": 7284.099999999999, "text": " There is no auction house and even if so, you could use your own auction house mod."}, {"start": 7284.099999999999, "end": 7288.38, "text": " And well, 50 houses is a street. It's not a capital city."}, {"start": 7288.38, "end": 7293.38, "text": " In addition, neighborhoods are in part asynchronous. Other players can visit"}, {"start": 7293.38, "end": 7297.7, "text": " your house even if you're offline, if you let them. They want to introduce guest books,"}, {"start": 7297.7, "end": 7303.62, "text": " upwards and so on. Your crowd will become a feed, which isn't in itself a bad thing."}, {"start": 7303.62, "end": 7309.5, "text": " It can be a great addition to the synchronous crowd the 2006 paper talked about. And asynchronous"}, {"start": 7309.5, "end": 7314.42, "text": " isn't one experiment. It's the design principle. The neighborhood makes progress together, but"}, {"start": 7314.42, "end": 7320.179999999999, "text": " nobody has to be there together. Your neighborhood becomes a decorated house and a progress bar."}, {"start": 7320.179999999999, "end": 7325.94, "text": " In 2005, players were alone together. In 2026, you're alone, with the evidence"}, {"start": 7325.9400000000005, "end": 7327.200000000001, "text": " that others exist."}, {"start": 7329.38, "end": 7332.200000000001, "text": " Remember Limsa-Lewenza from Final Fantasy XIV?"}, {"start": 7332.400000000001, "end": 7334.4400000000005, "text": " It's kind of a solo game up until the late game."}, {"start": 7335.000000000001, "end": 7337.9400000000005, "text": " They also have asynchronous stuff like housing with guest books."}, {"start": 7338.6, "end": 7341.1, "text": " But they also get a full square in their capitals."}, {"start": 7343.88, "end": 7346.34, "text": " Because the market bought the bank and the vendors"}, {"start": 7346.4400000000005, "end": 7348.38, "text": " all sit 20 meters around the etheride."}, {"start": 7348.540000000001, "end": 7349.88, "text": " That's a quick travel point."}, {"start": 7350.000000000001, "end": 7352.040000000001, "text": " And there are no mountains allowed in the city."}, {"start": 7352.64, "end": 7355.64, "text": " And I've been told old-school Runescape runs the same recipe"}, {"start": 7355.64, "end": 7360.740000000001, "text": " with the Grand Exchange, where the bank and the market are at one spot, reachable on foot."}, {"start": 7360.740000000001, "end": 7364.04, "text": " You don't have to stand there, but everyone does."}, {"start": 7364.04, "end": 7366.4800000000005, "text": " You can think about find a fancy what you want."}, {"start": 7366.4800000000005, "end": 7370.52, "text": " You can dislike the graphics, the out direction, the story, etc."}, {"start": 7370.52, "end": 7374.280000000001, "text": " But don't you agree that is freaking cool that people gather here and interact?"}, {"start": 7374.280000000001, "end": 7378.4800000000005, "text": " Yeah, so on the asynchronous side for World of Warcraft, there are building rooms"}, {"start": 7378.4800000000005, "end": 7383.200000000001, "text": " for people you know, and a feed for people you don't."}, {"start": 7383.2, "end": 7387.36, "text": " And for the people you know on the synchronous side, you also got your house and all the activities"}, {"start": 7387.36, "end": 7389.16, "text": " in the endgame you can do together."}, {"start": 7389.16, "end": 7394.4, "text": " But for the people you don't know, sure, you get matched with them, Mythic Plus, Raids,"}, {"start": 7394.4, "end": 7399.44, "text": " the group finder, but that's playing with strangers, in an instance for a task, and"}, {"start": 7399.44, "end": 7400.88, "text": " then the group dissolves."}, {"start": 7400.88, "end": 7405.12, "text": " What's missing is playing around strangers, the people standing right next to you,"}, {"start": 7405.12, "end": 7406.4, "text": " without a reason."}, {"start": 7406.4, "end": 7408.679999999999, "text": " The pinball machine."}, {"start": 7408.68, "end": 7414.9800000000005, "text": " My lobby is made of waiting and Blizzard spent 15 years removing the waiting, so it fits into your life."}, {"start": 7416.280000000001, "end": 7419.18, "text": " So, here's the experiment I would run if I were Blizzard."}, {"start": 7419.18, "end": 7419.68, "text": " Okay."}, {"start": 7419.68, "end": 7421.4800000000005, "text": " Don't create new artificial rooms."}, {"start": 7421.4800000000005, "end": 7423.18, "text": " We've got more than enough of them."}, {"start": 7423.4800000000005, "end": 7426.4800000000005, "text": " In the next expansion, create a capital that is smaller."}, {"start": 7426.9800000000005, "end": 7433.4800000000005, "text": " Make a fixed space in that capital where you have to walk to, auction house and bank there, as well as the main story NPCs."}, {"start": 7433.780000000001, "end": 7435.280000000001, "text": " One chart, no mounts."}, {"start": 7435.28, "end": 7439.9, "text": " Perhaps even move the dungeon finder window away from a hotkey and put the"}, {"start": 7439.9, "end": 7444.16, "text": " menu into an NPC you have to talk to. Make the people walk past each other and"}, {"start": 7444.16, "end": 7451.12, "text": " pay attention. I don't... I mean these are good ideas but I just think retail is"}, {"start": 7451.12, "end": 7454.719999999999, "text": " not in the position to really implement them in a meaningful way"}, {"start": 7454.719999999999, "end": 7461.46, "text": " because you do a smaller capital with an auction house and a bank and"}, {"start": 7461.46, "end": 7464.14, "text": " and whatever, but like at the end of the day,"}, {"start": 7464.14, "end": 7466.78, "text": " you could just fly to another bank"}, {"start": 7466.78, "end": 7469.42, "text": " on a flying mount that goes a billion miles an hour."}, {"start": 7469.42, "end": 7471.02, "text": " You can go to your auction house mount"}, {"start": 7471.02, "end": 7473.02, "text": " or someone else's auction house mount."}, {"start": 7474.62, "end": 7476.34, "text": " The Dungeon Finder on an NPC,"}, {"start": 7476.34, "end": 7477.86, "text": " like people would just queue for it anyway,"}, {"start": 7477.86, "end": 7478.9800000000005, "text": " even if there was an NPC."}, {"start": 7478.9800000000005, "end": 7480.22, "text": " So like it doesn't like,"}, {"start": 7480.22, "end": 7482.34, "text": " retail has like grown past all of this."}, {"start": 7482.34, "end": 7485.38, "text": " I think it's trying to like classify retail,"}, {"start": 7485.38, "end": 7487.62, "text": " classic-ify retail."}, {"start": 7487.62, "end": 7489.42, "text": " I don't know if you can do it anymore, man."}, {"start": 7489.42, "end": 7491.38, "text": " Like these are all good ideas."}, {"start": 7491.38, "end": 7492.38, "text": " Like I like them."}, {"start": 7492.38, "end": 7494.74, "text": " I just think retail is like past this."}, {"start": 7494.74, "end": 7497.26, "text": " Like you can't really go back in a sense."}, {"start": 7506.7, "end": 7510.42, "text": " Yeah, I don't know if any of this stuff would actually work."}, {"start": 7510.42, "end": 7512.54, "text": " I think they're good ideas."}, {"start": 7512.54, "end": 7514.46, "text": " It's too late, Bennett."}, {"start": 7514.46, "end": 7516.34, "text": " Like for something like a classic plus,"}, {"start": 7516.34, "end": 7518.34, "text": " you have so much from retail"}, {"start": 7518.34, "end": 7520.78, "text": " that we've learned to not do, right?"}, {"start": 7520.78, "end": 7524.56, "text": " Because it's fun, but it breaks the player experience"}, {"start": 7524.56, "end": 7527.06, "text": " a little bit and it breaks the social interaction."}, {"start": 7527.06, "end": 7530.02, "text": " Flying mounts great example, right?"}, {"start": 7530.02, "end": 7531.7, "text": " Auction house mounts great example."}, {"start": 7531.7, "end": 7533.38, "text": " Like you can't just add these things"}, {"start": 7533.38, "end": 7534.78, "text": " even though they're great quality of life"}, {"start": 7534.78, "end": 7536.06, "text": " and they can be short term fun"}, {"start": 7536.06, "end": 7536.9800000000005, "text": " because then it like,"}, {"start": 7536.9800000000005, "end": 7539.860000000001, "text": " now you're not running into other people, right?"}, {"start": 7539.860000000001, "end": 7543.3, "text": " So I think they're really fun lessons to learn from"}, {"start": 7543.3, "end": 7545.22, "text": " but it's some of these things,"}, {"start": 7545.22, "end": 7546.42, "text": " what's the analogy like?"}, {"start": 7546.42, "end": 7547.9800000000005, "text": " It's a cog that only goes one way."}, {"start": 7547.9800000000005, "end": 7550.02, "text": " you can't reverse it, you can't actually go back."}, {"start": 7550.02, "end": 7551.860000000001, "text": " And like, that's how like flying is,"}, {"start": 7551.860000000001, "end": 7553.8, "text": " I think that's how like these auction house mounts are."}, {"start": 7553.8, "end": 7555.120000000001, "text": " You can't just say, hey guys,"}, {"start": 7555.120000000001, "end": 7556.8, "text": " we're gonna take away the auction house mounts"}, {"start": 7556.8, "end": 7558.120000000001, "text": " and your flying mounts,"}, {"start": 7558.120000000001, "end": 7559.64, "text": " and we're gonna go back to like,"}, {"start": 7559.64, "end": 7560.64, "text": " how things used to be like,"}, {"start": 7560.64, "end": 7562.88, "text": " you can't really do that anymore, right?"}, {"start": 7562.88, "end": 7564.080000000001, "text": " We're past that,"}, {"start": 7564.080000000001, "end": 7567.040000000001, "text": " but a lot of good lessons for Classic Plus, definitely."}, {"start": 7569.320000000001, "end": 7570.56, "text": " You have to talk to,"}, {"start": 7570.56, "end": 7574.040000000001, "text": " make the people walk past each other and pay attention."}, {"start": 7574.040000000001, "end": 7575.64, "text": " I don't expect them to do it."}, {"start": 7575.64, "end": 7577.68, "text": " And I think that's the mistake."}, {"start": 7577.68, "end": 7580.92, "text": " But I think they will go somewhat into that direction."}, {"start": 7580.92, "end": 7585.4400000000005, "text": " At BlizzCon this year they will likely announce a new space for people together, directly linked"}, {"start": 7585.4400000000005, "end": 7587.6, "text": " to housing and neighborhoods."}, {"start": 7587.6, "end": 7591.360000000001, "text": " Maybe Guild Halls, maybe some place for celebrations or weddings."}, {"start": 7591.360000000001, "end": 7596.84, "text": " But those spaces will be secluded, small groups of people who already know each other."}, {"start": 7596.84, "end": 7601.400000000001, "text": " The second M stays, the first one gets smaller."}, {"start": 7601.400000000001, "end": 7606.240000000001, "text": " There are millions of players doing M-plus, park rates, guild rates, housing, PvP and"}, {"start": 7606.24, "end": 7609.2, "text": " And all the other great systems it has so often."}, {"start": 7609.2, "end": 7611.92, "text": " What got less is the random encounters in the world."}, {"start": 7611.92, "end": 7616.38, "text": " The names you recognize, the guilt you belong to, and that's okay."}, {"start": 7616.38, "end": 7620.24, "text": " This doesn't mean you have a worse experience than in classic."}, {"start": 7620.24, "end": 7624.0199999999995, "text": " World of Warcraft is getting renovated right now, and we can feel it."}, {"start": 7624.0199999999995, "end": 7629.92, "text": " Multiple ways of playing, solo or in a group, synchronous or asynchronous, PvE, PvP,"}, {"start": 7629.92, "end": 7634.44, "text": " or just collecting or doing housing, playing at a desktop PC or on the couch, on your"}, {"start": 7634.4400000000005, "end": 7640.080000000001, "text": " TV on your Xbox. It's letting you create your own experience. But when it is finished"}, {"start": 7640.080000000001, "end": 7644.4800000000005, "text": " for Classic with Classic Plus and for retail with the expansion after the last Titan, I"}, {"start": 7644.4800000000005, "end": 7650.320000000001, "text": " truly believe it can be as revolutionary again as it has been in 2004. But what do you think?"}, {"start": 7650.320000000001, "end": 7653.960000000001, "text": " Would that still be a world of forecraft for you? Let me know down below. I love"}, {"start": 7653.960000000001, "end": 7655.320000000001, "text": " reading your comments."}, {"start": 7655.320000000001, "end": 7662.72, "text": " So I used to think like this, where I was like, how can we turn WoW into what it"}, {"start": 7662.72, "end": 7668.56, "text": " used to be, right? That was like taking up so much of my headspace for so many years. How can we"}, {"start": 7668.56, "end": 7676.4800000000005, "text": " bring in the old into the new? How can we revive this thing into its former glory? That was my"}, {"start": 7676.4800000000005, "end": 7684.400000000001, "text": " question I was trying to answer. And what I've realized over the years is that people do like"}, {"start": 7684.400000000001, "end": 7690.72, "text": " retail with all of these modern things. But I might not be that population anymore as much,"}, {"start": 7690.72, "end": 7695.84, "text": " but that brings some really cool stuff like Mythic Plus and Mythic Raids and a lot of these modern"}, {"start": 7695.84, "end": 7700.400000000001, "text": " things are kind of cool in their own way, but it's just different. So instead of trying to make"}, {"start": 7701.68, "end": 7706.8, "text": " retail feel like classic, you just have two products. You have retail with all of its cool"}, {"start": 7706.8, "end": 7712.400000000001, "text": " modern offerings and you don't have to try to turn it into something it's not, right? Like"}, {"start": 7712.400000000001, "end": 7718.8, "text": " what's that quote? Like you love someone for who they are instead of trying to love someone for"}, {"start": 7720.72, "end": 7722.72, "text": " Who you want them to be?"}, {"start": 7724.360000000001, "end": 7727.740000000001, "text": " Maybe I botched that a little bit, but it's like if you like retail"}, {"start": 7727.740000000001, "end": 7733.2, "text": " It's like this is just who this is just what retail is so it's not trying to just change it into what it used to be"}, {"start": 7733.68, "end": 7739.88, "text": " Right, but we also have classic and I think that's why Blizzard wants to build classic plus to be like hey look"}, {"start": 7740.64, "end": 7743.96, "text": " Here's what all of you guys want right?"}, {"start": 7743.96, "end": 7748.9400000000005, "text": " This is the smaller world no flying no auction house mount no"}, {"start": 7748.9400000000005, "end": 7753.540000000001, "text": " no sharding, no modern conveniences of queuing"}, {"start": 7753.540000000001, "end": 7755.460000000001, "text": " from everything from a menu, right?"}, {"start": 7755.460000000001, "end": 7758.06, "text": " No, just like sitting in the city spam queuing."}, {"start": 7758.06, "end": 7761.38, "text": " It's like, let's make a space where we can do this stuff"}, {"start": 7761.38, "end": 7763.42, "text": " and let's leave retail alone."}, {"start": 7763.42, "end": 7765.06, "text": " So that's kind of where my mind's been"}, {"start": 7765.06, "end": 7766.22, "text": " at the last many years."}, {"start": 7766.22, "end": 7769.900000000001, "text": " It's like, let's give up trying to change retail."}, {"start": 7769.900000000001, "end": 7772.3, "text": " It's its own thing now and it's successful"}, {"start": 7772.3, "end": 7775.34, "text": " in its own way and it has its cool things about it."}, {"start": 7775.34, "end": 7778.34, "text": " But maybe I'm just more pessimistic than this guy"}, {"start": 7778.34, "end": 7780.12, "text": " or maybe I've just thought about it for longer."}, {"start": 7780.12, "end": 7782.38, "text": " I've been thinking about this for many years,"}, {"start": 7782.38, "end": 7784.0, "text": " but I was on that train for a long time."}, {"start": 7784.0, "end": 7786.88, "text": " How can we make retail into its former glory?"}, {"start": 7786.88, "end": 7789.5, "text": " I've left that behind, I'm sorry."}, {"start": 7790.5, "end": 7792.88, "text": " Retails its own new cool thing,"}, {"start": 7792.88, "end": 7794.9800000000005, "text": " and it might not be for everyone,"}, {"start": 7794.9800000000005, "end": 7798.1, "text": " but we have classic and classic plus is coming,"}, {"start": 7798.1, "end": 7801.32, "text": " so we have something else to look forward to."}, {"start": 7801.32, "end": 7803.360000000001, "text": " It just seems to me like a healthier mindset"}, {"start": 7803.360000000001, "end": 7807.12, "text": " than trying to continue to change this thing, right?"}, {"start": 7808.34, "end": 7813.9800000000005, "text": " Well that was like what two hours for this video. She's Louise catch. Good morning"}, {"start": 7815.26, "end": 7817.26, "text": " Good morning. Good morning"}, {"start": 7818.14, "end": 7820.14, "text": " Good morning. Good morning. Good morning"}, {"start": 7822.74, "end": 7824.74, "text": " That was all"}, {"start": 7828.62, "end": 7830.62, "text": " Classic plus hype"}, {"start": 7830.62, "end": 7840.46, "text": " Classic plus layers though. Yeah, I agree. Like I'm not a big fan of layers, but we'll"}, {"start": 7840.46, "end": 7851.98, "text": " see what happens. In shrouded hype in a month. Oh, you know about that. Have you seen Preachy's"}, {"start": 7851.9800000000005, "end": 7853.52, "text": " This video, yeah, it's really good."}, {"start": 7853.52, "end": 7854.52, "text": " It's very solid."}, {"start": 7861.72, "end": 7864.4400000000005, "text": " Why are you reading over classic plus confirmed comments?"}, {"start": 7864.4400000000005, "end": 7867.280000000001, "text": " Cause it's been confirmed for like over a year"}, {"start": 7867.280000000001, "end": 7869.76, "text": " and I'm getting tired of the people just keep saying that."}, {"start": 7869.76, "end": 7871.52, "text": " So it's like, all right guys, yeah,"}, {"start": 7871.52, "end": 7874.320000000001, "text": " we've known for like over a year."}, {"start": 7874.320000000001, "end": 7876.56, "text": " Guys, it's read the blue posts."}, {"start": 7877.8, "end": 7878.96, "text": " Good as gracious."}, {"start": 7878.96, "end": 7884.32, "text": " But there's always someone new who comes in that like hasn't been following it and they're"}, {"start": 7884.32, "end": 7889.92, "text": " like wait a minute what did I miss?"}, {"start": 7889.92, "end": 7896.28, "text": " Okay."}, {"start": 7896.28, "end": 7903.52, "text": " There was, oh yeah this willy video I haven't seen this one."}, {"start": 7903.52, "end": 7905.6, "text": " Can you show the blue post that confirms it?"}, {"start": 7905.6, "end": 7906.6, "text": " Yeah sure."}, {"start": 7906.6, "end": 7907.4400000000005, "text": " I have a command for it,"}, {"start": 7907.4400000000005, "end": 7909.740000000001, "text": " cause people come in and ask all the time."}, {"start": 7909.740000000001, "end": 7911.240000000001, "text": " It's linked in the chat, enjoy."}, {"start": 7930.68, "end": 7931.52, "text": " Sweet."}, {"start": 7931.52, "end": 7936.64, "text": " Okay, guys, we got to check our Discord messages here."}, {"start": 7936.64, "end": 7937.64, "text": " Okay."}, {"start": 7937.64, "end": 7938.64, "text": " All right."}, {"start": 7938.64, "end": 7942.64, "text": " Looks like, uh, sweet."}, {"start": 7942.64, "end": 7943.96, "text": " Okay."}, {"start": 7943.96, "end": 7950.320000000001, "text": " One sec, guys."}, {"start": 7950.320000000001, "end": 7967.080000000001, "text": " It would be great to be able to say hi at some point if you are available."}, {"start": 7967.080000000001, "end": 7975.080000000001, "text": " All right, there we go."}, {"start": 7975.080000000001, "end": 7977.080000000001, "text": " Nice."}, {"start": 7977.08, "end": 7979.08, "text": " Oh, yeah."}, {"start": 7981.08, "end": 7983.08, "text": " Oh, yeah."}, {"start": 7984.08, "end": 7986.08, "text": " I'm not fan-boying. I'm..."}, {"start": 7987.08, "end": 7989.08, "text": " I'm strategizing a..."}, {"start": 7990.08, "end": 7991.08, "text": " a meet-up..."}, {"start": 7992.08, "end": 7994.08, "text": " with, like, like, strat..."}, {"start": 7994.08, "end": 7996.08, "text": " I'm strategizing potential..."}, {"start": 7997.08, "end": 7999.08, "text": " things that could happen, right? Like, we're..."}, {"start": 8000.08, "end": 8002.08, "text": " Yeah. Networking. That's right. Yeah."}, {"start": 8003.08, "end": 8005.08, "text": " Every game that runs long enough is bound to leap."}, {"start": 8005.08, "end": 8022.28, "text": " bound to leave networking networking networking. Yep. Yep. Um, okay, cool. What else is happening"}, {"start": 8022.28, "end": 8028.5199999999995, "text": " guys? What else is happening? We got a $5 donor from larbson. He says, um, how do you"}, {"start": 8028.5199999999995, "end": 8031.96, "text": " convince Blizzard to revert the auction house amount? I assume it's the most sold mount."}, {"start": 8031.96, "end": 8033.76, "text": " how do you sit down until plus or the amount is bad?"}, {"start": 8033.76, "end": 8034.92, "text": " You can't."}, {"start": 8034.92, "end": 8035.88, "text": " That was kind of my point."}, {"start": 8035.88, "end": 8037.56, "text": " You can't go back."}, {"start": 8037.56, "end": 8039.76, "text": " You can't remove flying."}, {"start": 8039.76, "end": 8041.86, "text": " You can't remove, there's certain things"}, {"start": 8041.86, "end": 8043.8, "text": " you can only go in one direction on."}, {"start": 8043.8, "end": 8046.16, "text": " That's why I'm saying it's a much healthier mindset"}, {"start": 8046.16, "end": 8049.96, "text": " in my opinion to like go and build Classic Plus"}, {"start": 8049.96, "end": 8054.28, "text": " and drop the idea of trying to make retail"}, {"start": 8054.28, "end": 8056.04, "text": " into something it's not."}, {"start": 8056.04, "end": 8059.28, "text": " Right, I figured this out like three or four years ago."}, {"start": 8059.28, "end": 8063.48, "text": " So I've kind of dropped the idea of trying to bring back"}, {"start": 8063.48, "end": 8065.08, "text": " the classic feeling into retail."}, {"start": 8065.08, "end": 8067.84, "text": " It's like, you can't really do that anymore."}, {"start": 8067.84, "end": 8070.32, "text": " I don't know, do I sound really pessimistic when I say that?"}, {"start": 8070.32, "end": 8072.5599999999995, "text": " I think it's just the truth."}, {"start": 8072.5599999999995, "end": 8074.16, "text": " And I'm not hating on retail, by the way."}, {"start": 8074.16, "end": 8076.28, "text": " Like I think retail with Mythic Plus and Mythic Raids,"}, {"start": 8076.28, "end": 8080.16, "text": " like I played start of midnight, like it's fun."}, {"start": 8080.16, "end": 8081.04, "text": " It's just realistic."}, {"start": 8081.04, "end": 8082.44, "text": " Yeah, it's just like, it's just not,"}, {"start": 8082.44, "end": 8084.04, "text": " it's not gonna be that anymore."}, {"start": 8084.04, "end": 8086.28, "text": " I got, you know, you just can't."}, {"start": 8086.28, "end": 8089.639999999999, "text": " I'm not not trying to be a negative Nancy."}, {"start": 8089.64, "end": 8090.64, "text": " Yeah."}, {"start": 8090.64, "end": 8117.900000000001, "text": " So I mean, there's been lots of evidence for people."}, {"start": 8117.900000000001, "end": 8121.1, "text": " I've talked about this so much."}, {"start": 8123.420000000001, "end": 8124.620000000001, "text": " But we'll cover it again"}, {"start": 8124.620000000001, "end": 8125.820000000001, "text": " because there's some people in the chat"}, {"start": 8125.820000000001, "end": 8127.3, "text": " that haven't read this."}, {"start": 8127.3, "end": 8130.740000000001, "text": " This was like over a year ago now, BluePost,"}, {"start": 8130.740000000001, "end": 8133.700000000001, "text": " they shut down Season of Discovery"}, {"start": 8135.780000000001, "end": 8138.06, "text": " and said, and I quote,"}, {"start": 8139.660000000001, "end": 8141.700000000001, "text": " we've made the decision to slow down"}, {"start": 8141.700000000001, "end": 8144.52, "text": " on Season of Discovery and begin work"}, {"start": 8144.52, "end": 8155.56, "text": " on our next major project in the original WoW Design space from Blizzard themselves over"}, {"start": 8155.56, "end": 8163.96, "text": " a year ago, stopping Saad to work on the next major project in the original WoW Design space,"}, {"start": 8163.96, "end": 8171.320000000001, "text": " not WOD original WoW Design space, said in plain text over a year ago, we've had confirmation"}, {"start": 8171.320000000001, "end": 8183.320000000001, "text": " for a long time. Could this mean classic while mobile? Technically, yes. Welcome to the conversation."}, {"start": 8185.320000000001, "end": 8191.160000000001, "text": " There we go. But yeah, it's the next that's what this is the thing that people are calling"}, {"start": 8191.160000000001, "end": 8197.400000000001, "text": " the next thing. Classic plus is its name came a lot whatever. This is what we've known for a year"}, {"start": 8197.4, "end": 8203.4, "text": " over a year. So there we go. We've said this. All right, right when this came out, I was like"}, {"start": 8203.4, "end": 8209.16, "text": " screaming and running around my room. What was this like a year and a half ago? 2025."}, {"start": 8210.6, "end": 8214.119999999999, "text": " Yeah, almost a year and a half ago. I was like running around my room screaming like classic"}, {"start": 8214.119999999999, "end": 8218.52, "text": " plus confirmed in my whole chat. It's like, this guy's on some copium. And like, it's like,"}, {"start": 8218.52, "end": 8221.52, "text": " Well, I can read, too."}, {"start": 8221.52, "end": 8222.4, "text": " What class am I playing?"}, {"start": 8222.4, "end": 8225.24, "text": " Mage."}, {"start": 8225.24, "end": 8225.74, "text": " Yep."}, {"start": 8229.28, "end": 8232.52, "text": " Yep, yep, yep."}, {"start": 8232.52, "end": 8234.52, "text": " Zara's the copium critique fatigue."}, {"start": 8234.52, "end": 8237.16, "text": " Yeah, I mean, I know I am the copium guy."}, {"start": 8237.16, "end": 8238.6, "text": " Like, that's fine."}, {"start": 8238.6, "end": 8242.720000000001, "text": " Like, I have, like, I want wow to be good, you know?"}, {"start": 8242.720000000001, "end": 8244.44, "text": " Yo, Snooty, thanks so much for the promen."}, {"start": 8248.52, "end": 8252.76, "text": " Sorry, you have a Windows update to complete."}, {"start": 8252.76, "end": 8254.34, "text": " I'm not doing that."}, {"start": 8254.34, "end": 8256.08, "text": " No, I'm not doing it."}, {"start": 8256.08, "end": 8258.12, "text": " Absolutely not."}, {"start": 8263.12, "end": 8265.6, "text": " Don Lee, thanks for the front."}, {"start": 8265.6, "end": 8267.6, "text": " Does that mean they started at this point or was it"}, {"start": 8267.6, "end": 8268.76, "text": " in development before this?"}, {"start": 8268.76, "end": 8275.960000000001, "text": " I would assume content was started a little before this,"}, {"start": 8275.960000000001, "end": 8277.52, "text": " or at least at this,"}, {"start": 8277.52, "end": 8280.24, "text": " but probably a little before they officially announced things."}, {"start": 8280.24, "end": 8283.640000000001, "text": " So, yeah, I don't know."}, {"start": 8283.640000000001, "end": 8285.6, "text": " So this is what, like almost a year and a half."}, {"start": 8285.6, "end": 8287.08, "text": " It's probably like a couple of months before this."}, {"start": 8287.08, "end": 8288.640000000001, "text": " So it's been a while."}, {"start": 8289.6, "end": 8291.28, "text": " Sean Rowe, thanks for the run."}, {"start": 8298.32, "end": 8302.560000000001, "text": " Um, um, um, um."}, {"start": 8304.84, "end": 8307.5, "text": " It's the last stream before the con, yep, yep, yep."}, {"start": 8307.5, "end": 8312.5, "text": " Idle log, thanks for the prom."}, {"start": 8317.5, "end": 8319.56, "text": " Mafia, thanks for the prom."}, {"start": 8319.56, "end": 8321.5, "text": " Zara, what do you think about the iPhone Duo?"}, {"start": 8321.5, "end": 8323.5, "text": " I haven't looked at it too much."}, {"start": 8327.94, "end": 8329.02, "text": " If you guys didn't see this,"}, {"start": 8329.02, "end": 8330.86, "text": " it's like a phone like this,"}, {"start": 8330.86, "end": 8334.18, "text": " but it opens, like folds and like opens like that."}, {"start": 8334.18, "end": 8335.18, "text": " I don't know."}, {"start": 8335.18, "end": 8338.5, "text": " I, this might be like a real like boomer take."}, {"start": 8338.5, "end": 8340.380000000001, "text": " I just like, I don't know if I get it."}, {"start": 8340.380000000001, "end": 8344.7, "text": " Like, dude, this reminds me of my prediction on the iPad."}, {"start": 8344.7, "end": 8347.58, "text": " So when the iPad came out, I had my phone and I was like,"}, {"start": 8347.58, "end": 8349.26, "text": " iPads are stupid."}, {"start": 8349.26, "end": 8352.02, "text": " I would just rather use my phone or if I need a computer,"}, {"start": 8352.02, "end": 8353.42, "text": " I'd get my computer out."}, {"start": 8353.42, "end": 8356.14, "text": " So my prediction for the iPad is that it would fail,"}, {"start": 8356.14, "end": 8358.34, "text": " which I was terribly wrong about,"}, {"start": 8358.34, "end": 8361.74, "text": " because who the heck needs this middle size screen"}, {"start": 8361.74, "end": 8363.84, "text": " because just open up a laptop or use your phone,"}, {"start": 8363.84, "end": 8365.960000000001, "text": " one or the other, which by the way, that's what I still do."}, {"start": 8365.960000000001, "end": 8367.44, "text": " I still don't own a tablet."}, {"start": 8367.44, "end": 8369.08, "text": " So in my life, I was correct,"}, {"start": 8369.08, "end": 8371.04, "text": " but clearly not for everyone else."}, {"start": 8371.04, "end": 8372.32, "text": " This reminds me of the same thing."}, {"start": 8372.32, "end": 8375.36, "text": " It's like, okay, you have a phone."}, {"start": 8375.36, "end": 8376.880000000001, "text": " All right, that's already a phone."}, {"start": 8376.880000000001, "end": 8378.64, "text": " And now you have like this middle screen thing."}, {"start": 8378.64, "end": 8380.64, "text": " Like, why do you need a screen this big?"}, {"start": 8381.76, "end": 8383.08, "text": " It's not quite a tablet."}, {"start": 8383.08, "end": 8384.68, "text": " I don't know."}, {"start": 8384.68, "end": 8385.52, "text": " I don't know."}, {"start": 8385.52, "end": 8388.2, "text": " I think I'd rather just have a normal phone."}, {"start": 8388.2, "end": 8389.04, "text": " What do you guys think?"}, {"start": 8389.04, "end": 8389.880000000001, "text": " Am I wrong here?"}, {"start": 8389.880000000001, "end": 8390.72, "text": " Am I wrong again?"}, {"start": 8390.72, "end": 8391.92, "text": " I might be wrong again."}, {"start": 8392.88, "end": 8394.26, "text": " I was wrong with the iPad."}, {"start": 8394.26, "end": 8396.02, "text": " Maybe this will be crazy successful."}, {"start": 8396.02, "end": 8397.52, "text": " I just don't know if I see it."}, {"start": 8400.08, "end": 8401.42, "text": " I agree with you, not wrong."}, {"start": 8401.42, "end": 8402.56, "text": " Okay, maybe I'm right this time."}, {"start": 8402.56, "end": 8404.38, "text": " Or maybe all of us are wrong together."}, {"start": 8404.38, "end": 8405.38, "text": " That would be fun."}, {"start": 8405.38, "end": 8406.32, "text": " Maybe this is the phone"}, {"start": 8406.32, "end": 8408.32, "text": " that we're all gonna have 10 years from now."}, {"start": 8408.32, "end": 8410.3, "text": " I, yeah, I just don't know if I see it."}, {"start": 8410.3, "end": 8411.14, "text": " Like,"}, {"start": 8413.6, "end": 8417.06, "text": " has any of you guys had a thought recently"}, {"start": 8417.06, "end": 8417.9, "text": " where you're just like,"}, {"start": 8417.9, "end": 8421.34, "text": " oh man, I really wanna flip phone again."}, {"start": 8421.34, "end": 8422.880000000001, "text": " like the 2000s."}, {"start": 8422.880000000001, "end": 8424.880000000001, "text": " Have you guys thought that?"}, {"start": 8424.880000000001, "end": 8426.28, "text": " Cause I haven't."}, {"start": 8427.62, "end": 8429.9, "text": " No, yes, no, yes."}, {"start": 8429.9, "end": 8431.58, "text": " Cause like, who is this appealing to like,"}, {"start": 8431.58, "end": 8434.460000000001, "text": " the guy that's like, oh man, I want that flip phone back."}, {"start": 8434.460000000001, "end": 8436.12, "text": " Like, bro, I had a razor growing up"}, {"start": 8436.12, "end": 8438.24, "text": " and like, it was sick growing up,"}, {"start": 8438.24, "end": 8439.98, "text": " but like, I don't care now."}, {"start": 8439.98, "end": 8441.86, "text": " Like, I'm not like, oh, I want my flip phone back."}, {"start": 8441.86, "end": 8446.26, "text": " Like, bro, my iPhone is way better than my razor ever was."}, {"start": 8446.26, "end": 8449.02, "text": " Actually, in a sense, it's kind of nice"}, {"start": 8449.02, "end": 8452.220000000001, "text": " that the razor, you could just call people and like text."}, {"start": 8453.26, "end": 8455.18, "text": " iPhone is almost like two connected,"}, {"start": 8455.18, "end": 8457.18, "text": " but that's a whole different conversation."}, {"start": 8462.02, "end": 8465.18, "text": " Anyway, does anyone love this idea"}, {"start": 8465.18, "end": 8468.220000000001, "text": " and can convince me why it's the next best thing?"}, {"start": 8468.220000000001, "end": 8470.78, "text": " Is there anyone in the chat that's like, bro, this is it?"}, {"start": 8470.78, "end": 8475.060000000001, "text": " This is the sickest thing I can explain to you all"}, {"start": 8475.060000000001, "end": 8476.02, "text": " why it's great?"}, {"start": 8476.02, "end": 8481.02, "text": " No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no."}, {"start": 8483.460000000001, "end": 8485.380000000001, "text": " Yes, watch Apple's event from yesterday."}, {"start": 8485.380000000001, "end": 8487.1, "text": " It's actually not bad."}, {"start": 8487.1, "end": 8489.1, "text": " Watch the video, you'll understand."}, {"start": 8489.1, "end": 8490.58, "text": " So maybe I have to actually watch the video."}, {"start": 8490.58, "end": 8493.18, "text": " Maybe there's some cool features that I don't get,"}, {"start": 8493.18, "end": 8498.18, "text": " but apparently it has a worse camera than an iPhone,"}, {"start": 8498.26, "end": 8500.7, "text": " and it's $2,000 because it's bigger,"}, {"start": 8501.94, "end": 8504.220000000001, "text": " but it doesn't, it can't take as good of a picture"}, {"start": 8504.22, "end": 8507.779999999999, "text": " as an iPhone, so you'd still want like a,"}, {"start": 8507.779999999999, "end": 8509.34, "text": " I don't know, man, I don't know."}, {"start": 8509.34, "end": 8512.3, "text": " I just can't, I don't, I don't know."}, {"start": 8515.179999999998, "end": 8517.92, "text": " New Warcraft post 10 minutes ago, what is it?"}, {"start": 8520.699999999999, "end": 8523.779999999999, "text": " Yeah, like I said, maybe I'm just a complete boomer take."}, {"start": 8526.22, "end": 8527.82, "text": " Very, very, very possible."}, {"start": 8527.82, "end": 8537.74, "text": " Two-day countdown to BlizzCon, watch the AWC and MBI Grand Finals live as the 2026 champions"}, {"start": 8537.74, "end": 8538.74, "text": " are crowned."}, {"start": 8538.74, "end": 8543.5, "text": " Bro, I can't wait to watch an AWC."}, {"start": 8543.5, "end": 8547.539999999999, "text": " I know a lot of you guys don't care about PVP, but I do."}, {"start": 8547.539999999999, "end": 8553.3, "text": " I have my history as a PVP-er, and every year this is my Super Bowl then."}, {"start": 8553.3, "end": 8556.86, "text": " This was my Super Bowl, and I haven't seen one since 2019."}, {"start": 8556.86, "end": 8559.02, "text": " So quick math, it's been seven years."}, {"start": 8559.02, "end": 8562.460000000001, "text": " I can't wait to watch the AWC finals"}, {"start": 8562.460000000001, "end": 8564.460000000001, "text": " for the first time in seven years, bro."}, {"start": 8564.460000000001, "end": 8568.220000000001, "text": " It's like, imagine not having a Super Bowl for seven years"}, {"start": 8568.220000000001, "end": 8569.66, "text": " and then you get to go to the Super Bowl"}, {"start": 8569.66, "end": 8571.18, "text": " assuming you like football."}, {"start": 8572.34, "end": 8573.86, "text": " Like that's what this is for me."}, {"start": 8573.86, "end": 8574.980000000001, "text": " Like I can't wait."}, {"start": 8578.34, "end": 8580.460000000001, "text": " Why has it not been here in seven years?"}, {"start": 8580.460000000001, "end": 8584.2, "text": " COVID, then other things, it's been a while."}, {"start": 8586.86, "end": 8607.66, "text": " Hey, that's my Merciless Glad Eater's gavel."}, {"start": 8607.66, "end": 8610.58, "text": " He's got that thing."}, {"start": 8610.58, "end": 8616.300000000001, "text": " These videos always give me so high to have love on."}, {"start": 8616.3, "end": 8620.599999999999, "text": " Although I don't like the new models, Blizzard, I don't NOT like the new models, but I like the videos."}, {"start": 8620.6, "end": 8646.02, "text": " for the last time"}, {"start": 8646.02, "end": 8662.98, "text": " I guess I should explain these videos for a little bit for people who've never seen it."}, {"start": 8662.98, "end": 8670.74, "text": " Blizzard takes the armory characters of all the MDI and AWC competitors and they put"}, {"start": 8670.74, "end": 8678.66, "text": " them into a like little feature film here where like so this I don't know who it is maybe Calvish"}, {"start": 8678.66, "end": 8683.46, "text": " this is like Calvish's actual character with his same transmog and they have them all fighting"}, {"start": 8683.46, "end": 8687.3, "text": " so what's going to happen at Blizzcon and they have like they mock up like a fight"}, {"start": 8688.18, "end": 8692.5, "text": " it's pretty cool like it's pretty it's like I nerd out over it every time like these are"}, {"start": 8692.5, "end": 8695.86, "text": " actual like the characters of all the people that are going to be competing"}, {"start": 8695.86, "end": 8699.140000000001, "text": " Anyway, I nerd out on it."}, {"start": 8725.86, "end": 8732.86, "text": " Yes sir!"}, {"start": 8785.86, "end": 8815.74, "text": " I don't I don't follow MDI as much as maybe"}, {"start": 8815.74, "end": 8823.02, "text": " some of you guys but man I can't wait for the AWC. Wicked. Yes sir. There was one one"}, {"start": 8823.02, "end": 8828.38, "text": " year with peekaboo in it. I remember they did but I can't I don't know if I can find"}, {"start": 8828.38, "end": 8833.539999999999, "text": " the link of it but I think they had him like take a selfie in game was pretty sick. Brand"}, {"start": 8833.539999999999, "end": 8842.38, "text": " new. The classic plus leaks are too good to be true from Belialar. Oh my gosh. Django"}, {"start": 8842.380000000001, "end": 8844.380000000001, "text": " Thanks for the 2-1-Sum. Appreciate you."}, {"start": 8847.380000000001, "end": 8848.380000000001, "text": " Um..."}, {"start": 8848.380000000001, "end": 8850.380000000001, "text": " Mum-mum-mum."}, {"start": 8851.380000000001, "end": 8853.380000000001, "text": " Mum-mum-mum-mum."}, {"start": 8855.380000000001, "end": 8857.380000000001, "text": " Let's see the Pika Club. I don't know, man."}, {"start": 8858.380000000001, "end": 8860.380000000001, "text": " Don't know if I can find it."}, {"start": 8860.380000000001, "end": 8863.380000000001, "text": " There's the Ballylar fit and then Willy..."}, {"start": 8868.380000000001, "end": 8870.380000000001, "text": " Willy-Willy."}, {"start": 8870.380000000001, "end": 8882.7, "text": " What a macarons going dude XE year thanks for the Q1 appreciate you 48 hours until the real thing. Oh my gosh"}, {"start": 8892.36, "end": 8894.580000000002, "text": " So much hype yeah, all right"}, {"start": 8894.580000000002, "end": 8900.140000000001, "text": " Do you guys want the Belial our classic plus leaks to be true or the willy most defining moments a while's 20 year history?"}, {"start": 8900.380000000001, "end": 8902.380000000001, "text": " I might watch both, but which one first?"}, {"start": 8903.380000000001, "end": 8905.140000000001, "text": " Hmm, hmm, hmm."}, {"start": 8905.140000000001, "end": 8906.140000000001, "text": " Sauce, thanks LePrem."}, {"start": 8907.480000000001, "end": 8909.240000000002, "text": " Bellylar, Bellylar, Bellylar, Bellylar."}, {"start": 8909.54, "end": 8910.52, "text": " Okay, most people on Bellylar."}, {"start": 8910.52, "end": 8911.880000000001, "text": " Well, I think we'll do Willys too."}, {"start": 8912.320000000002, "end": 8913.34, "text": " But, let's see this one first."}, {"start": 8913.52, "end": 8915.84, "text": " Bellylar! Classic plus leaks are too good to be true."}, {"start": 8915.84, "end": 8916.84, "text": " What's going on B?"}, {"start": 8917.68, "end": 8920.18, "text": " The project codename Camelot is not what you think,"}, {"start": 8920.18, "end": 8923.34, "text": " and it may not even be the Classic Plus that we've all been expecting."}, {"start": 8923.54, "end": 8926.740000000002, "text": " It isn't a few zones stitched onto the edge of the world."}, {"start": 8926.94, "end": 8930.34, "text": " It isn't Blizzard dusting off unused outland maps."}, {"start": 8930.380000000001, "end": 8935.900000000001, "text": " and it isn't a dive back into the classic era as we've understood it. At least, all that will"}, {"start": 8935.900000000001, "end": 8942.380000000001, "text": " be the case if the recent flood of leaks is anything to go by. You see, like a submarine under pressure,"}, {"start": 8942.380000000001, "end": 8947.980000000001, "text": " the leaks are coming thick and fast, and what they show is something bigger and more ambitious"}, {"start": 8947.980000000001, "end": 8954.94, "text": " than we imagined. Well, we'll find out very soon at BlizzCon. But some dedicated sleuths have"}, {"start": 8954.94, "end": 8960.460000000001, "text": " been doing the digging and it certainly seems most of this stuff is true and that is why I give this"}, {"start": 8960.460000000001, "end": 8966.460000000001, "text": " video the heaviest of spoiler warnings because there's a very real chance that after you watch this"}, {"start": 8966.460000000001, "end": 8973.26, "text": " video what you understand classic plus to be will actually line up with what we see at Blacom."}, {"start": 8974.220000000001, "end": 8981.58, "text": " Wow! Wow that I mean wow Belialar is basically just saying it goodness gracious."}, {"start": 8981.58, "end": 8985.58, "text": " If the leaks, which do appear to be credible, end up being true."}, {"start": 8985.58, "end": 8992.58, "text": " Camelot may not be the Azeroth we know because it's very likely set in a different timeline or different time periods altogether."}, {"start": 8992.58, "end": 9001.58, "text": " The possibilities for when it's set will drive veterans out of their minds and they'll introduce a whole new generation to one of Warcraft's most important stories."}, {"start": 9001.58, "end": 9006.539999999999, "text": " stories. I was actually watching an S-Fan stream and he was talking about like"}, {"start": 9008.62, "end": 9015.98, "text": " it would be cool if you had a game set like Classic Plus or a different game or something set in"}, {"start": 9015.98, "end": 9023.42, "text": " like Warcraft 2 or like Warcraft 3 before WoW or this and that but then he was saying like"}, {"start": 9023.42, "end": 9026.539999999999, "text": " it would just be cool but doesn't know how good it would actually be. What do you guys think"}, {"start": 9026.54, "end": 9033.62, "text": " about this? What would you rather have like what what actually let me let me"}, {"start": 9033.62, "end": 9041.140000000001, "text": " re-ask what timeline would be the sickest timeline? Classic era after Nax is"}, {"start": 9041.140000000001, "end": 9048.94, "text": " the obvious timeline right? What happened after Nax? But you could also say like"}, {"start": 9048.94, "end": 9055.460000000001, "text": " what if it was like pre like Warcraft 2, Warcraft 3? Brand new world but looks"}, {"start": 9055.460000000001, "end": 9064.02, "text": " I wouldn't like that. I don't think um war of the ancients era yeah like that"}, {"start": 9064.02, "end": 9072.02, "text": " could actually go kind of hard pre-next post-rath no cata first war were the"}, {"start": 9072.02, "end": 9076.94, "text": " ancients like that could go kind of hard so with blizzcon a few days away I'm"}, {"start": 9076.94, "end": 9081.62, "text": " pulling all of these links together for a last look at what Camelot might be"}, {"start": 9081.62, "end": 9086.52, "text": " If nothing else you'll be impressed by the sheer scope of what we are hearing"}, {"start": 9087.320000000002, "end": 9089.160000000002, "text": " Leaks leaks leaks leaks. Okay"}, {"start": 9089.160000000002, "end": 9091.68, "text": " Let's get stuck in with the largest Camelot leak"}, {"start": 9091.68, "end": 9095.300000000001, "text": " Which is basically the thing that appears to confirm that this stuff's kind of true"}, {"start": 9095.300000000001, "end": 9100.060000000001, "text": " So back in the summer of 2025 a Redditor leaked a huge road map"}, {"start": 9100.560000000001, "end": 9104.78, "text": " Warcraft's future on behalf of their partner who had just been let go by Blizzard"}, {"start": 9104.86, "end": 9108.92, "text": " It had an arthus RPG on its TV shows and even an RTS"}, {"start": 9108.92, "end": 9113.56, "text": " And by the way, on the RTS game side of things, there was a whole separate rumor mill that"}, {"start": 9113.56, "end": 9120.16, "text": " does seem to suggest that Relic of all people could be doing that Warcraft RTS project."}, {"start": 9120.16, "end": 9124.6, "text": " Who knows about that, but let's refocus onto Camelot, because tucked in amongst all those"}, {"start": 9124.6, "end": 9128.36, "text": " cool things was something called Camelot."}, {"start": 9128.36, "end": 9130.12, "text": " Now it actually sat under the-"}, {"start": 9130.12, "end": 9133.12, "text": " Is there supposed to be the image up right here?"}, {"start": 9133.12, "end": 9141.44, "text": " radar for nearly a year until veteran dataminer Steven found heroic and epic licenses for it."}, {"start": 9141.44, "end": 9142.44, "text": " That was pretty crazy."}, {"start": 9142.44, "end": 9145.400000000001, "text": " Those are the game additions that Blizzard sells to us."}, {"start": 9145.400000000001, "end": 9148.640000000001, "text": " And that was effectively confirmation that Camelot was real."}, {"start": 9148.640000000001, "end": 9153.0, "text": " I mean, we literally have a leaked roadmap suggesting Camelot exists and then we have"}, {"start": 9153.0, "end": 9160.12, "text": " a veteran dataminer finding a reference to a Blizzard store product for Camelot."}, {"start": 9160.12, "end": 9167.820000000002, "text": " What is your guys' preferred monetization model for Classic Plus?"}, {"start": 9167.820000000002, "end": 9173.08, "text": " My preference is you do the same thing with Sod and it's free, but that's probably not"}, {"start": 9173.08, "end": 9174.560000000001, "text": " happening."}, {"start": 9174.560000000001, "end": 9175.560000000001, "text": " Just the Sub."}, {"start": 9175.560000000001, "end": 9179.26, "text": " So that's what they do with Classic or with Sod, it's just the Sub."}, {"start": 9179.26, "end": 9181.2, "text": " You have a Sub, you get to play."}, {"start": 9181.2, "end": 9183.880000000001, "text": " No box price."}, {"start": 9183.880000000001, "end": 9184.880000000001, "text": " There's options."}, {"start": 9184.880000000001, "end": 9187.76, "text": " There's a box price and a Sub."}, {"start": 9187.76, "end": 9189.5, "text": " There's just a Sub with no box price."}, 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plus box price"}, {"start": 9232.380000000001, "end": 9239.42, "text": " I've talked about this before and it seems like a lot of you guys are actually okay with a box price if"}, {"start": 9240.18, "end": 9242.18, "text": " It means no store"}, {"start": 9242.18, "end": 9246.58, "text": " You'd rather have a box price than a store, is that about right?"}, {"start": 9246.58, "end": 9252.9, "text": " I don't want to speak for everyone here, but I think a lot of people kind of, yeah, I'm"}, {"start": 9252.9, "end": 9256.94, "text": " okay with a box price, but there can't also then be a shop."}, {"start": 9256.94, "end": 9262.98, "text": " I think I agree with that, I think the store is like a big no-no, absolutely, that would"}, {"start": 9262.98, "end": 9263.98, "text": " be rough."}, {"start": 9263.98, "end": 9270.380000000001, "text": " I mean, come on, it does make sense, now that of course got our minds racing, Warcraft"}, {"start": 9270.380000000001, "end": 9273.900000000001, "text": " has always leaned heavily enough on Arthurian legends."}, {"start": 9273.900000000001, "end": 9280.300000000001, "text": " Medevis Marlin, Arthas is Arthur Uther, is Uther, you got the point."}, {"start": 9280.300000000001, "end": 9284.580000000002, "text": " So is this blizzard taking Warcraft back to its original inspirations?"}, {"start": 9284.580000000002, "end": 9288.34, "text": " Basically, Arthurian legend plus the art of Frank Frazetta."}, {"start": 9288.34, "end": 9291.740000000002, "text": " And if it is that, then think about the last time all those characters were on the"}, {"start": 9291.740000000002, "end": 9293.500000000002, "text": " main stage of Warcraft."}, {"start": 9293.500000000002, "end": 9295.220000000001, "text": " It was Warcraft 3."}, {"start": 9295.220000000001, "end": 9299.02, "text": " And Warcraft 3 is probably Warcraft's most important story."}, {"start": 9299.02, "end": 9305.98, "text": " At the time of those leaks and Steven's data mining, the speculation could only go so far."}, {"start": 9305.98, "end": 9310.02, "text": " Then came the Skyborne, or should I say, the Skyborne drama."}, {"start": 9310.02, "end": 9313.94, "text": " These are new elves in the setting because if there's something Warcraft needs, it is"}, {"start": 9313.94, "end": 9315.94, "text": " obviously more elves!"}, {"start": 9315.94, "end": 9316.94, "text": " Elves on?"}, {"start": 9316.94, "end": 9318.74, "text": " Millions of the buggers, everywhere!"}, {"start": 9318.74, "end": 9319.94, "text": " Now what were these elves?"}, {"start": 9319.94, "end": 9320.94, "text": " Where did they come from?"}, {"start": 9320.94, "end": 9321.94, "text": " Were they for retail?"}, {"start": 9321.94, "end": 9326.62, "text": " Well, the only data-mined evidence that we had was some data-mined housing assets."}, {"start": 9326.62, "end": 9327.62, "text": " Housing assets?"}, {"start": 9327.62, "end": 9329.62, "text": " detail. Maybe not, though."}, {"start": 9329.62, "end": 9332.78, "text": " Coonshot, thanks for the prime. Dr. Good-Loving thanks for the two and Evil thanks for the"}, {"start": 9332.78, "end": 9333.78, "text": " prime."}, {"start": 9333.78, "end": 9339.1, "text": " And that's because the first potential sighting of the Skyborne turned up on the classic sub"}, {"start": 9339.1, "end": 9340.1, "text": " Reddit."}, {"start": 9340.1, "end": 9345.54, "text": " Now we take a look at the model. It does seem a little too high-poly for a classic asset."}, {"start": 9345.54, "end": 9349.460000000001, "text": " But that may actually be the wrong way to think about it, because it might not"}, {"start": 9349.460000000001, "end": 9352.660000000002, "text": " be one or the other. It might actually be both."}, {"start": 9352.660000000002, "end": 9355.980000000001, "text": " Now why this gets more interesting is that things have locked into place over the"}, {"start": 9355.98, "end": 9359.58, "text": " past few weeks. Content creators from the retail mythic scene."}, {"start": 9360.38, "end": 9366.38, "text": " Jerome. You guys might know Jerome, we actually filmed from my same studio. There we go. The most"}, {"start": 9366.38, "end": 9372.3, "text": " real classic plus leak we've ever seen. I actually never saw that. Not classic. Started posting leaks"}, {"start": 9372.3, "end": 9376.38, "text": " that started to line up with each other. So here's the big stuff from those leaks."}, {"start": 9376.939999999999, "end": 9382.22, "text": " Camelot is apparently set in a different timeline. Warcraft 3 is so good. One is just"}, {"start": 9382.22, "end": 9388.38, "text": " before Warcraft 3, and the other is during the first war. And both are incredible possibilities for"}, {"start": 9388.38, "end": 9394.619999999999, "text": " the game. Next, it's apparently built using retail assets, but you'll be able to toggle between retail"}, {"start": 9394.619999999999, "end": 9400.859999999999, "text": " and classic graphics, which would at least explain the high- You guys already know how I feel about"}, {"start": 9400.859999999999, "end": 9409.66, "text": " this. I'm a big classic graphic kinda guy, alright? The toggle works, so like when I"}, {"start": 9409.66, "end": 9411.98, "text": " When I played Warcraft 3, you have the option."}, {"start": 9411.98, "end": 9414.98, "text": " Do you want the new stuff or the old stuff?"}, {"start": 9414.98, "end": 9415.98, "text": " Fine, fine."}, {"start": 9415.98, "end": 9418.98, "text": " You know, honestly, Biss, that makes everyone happy."}, {"start": 9418.98, "end": 9421.46, "text": " But like, yeah, that kind of works."}, {"start": 9421.46, "end": 9423.539999999999, "text": " A Polly Skyborne Elf."}, {"start": 9423.539999999999, "end": 9427.02, "text": " Graphics aside, it is apparently though still going to be classic."}, {"start": 9427.02, "end": 9431.9, "text": " And what I mean by that is that the combat, the talent trees, the vibe are all classic."}, {"start": 9431.9, "end": 9435.74, "text": " Now the big pointer towards our timelines and the ones that I've referenced here,"}, {"start": 9435.74, "end": 9440.86, "text": " Well that would be the claim the Dalaran features quite heavily in this game, and the Dalaran"}, {"start": 9440.86, "end": 9445.42, "text": " is still going to be on the ground in Hillsbrite, and that pretty much means it's got to be"}, {"start": 9445.42, "end": 9449.699999999999, "text": " set before the last mission of Warcraft 3's undead campaign because that's when our"}, {"start": 9449.699999999999, "end": 9451.94, "text": " command destroys Dalaran."}, {"start": 9451.94, "end": 9455.82, "text": " Okay, so there's that stuff, and it's coming from some content creators."}, {"start": 9455.82, "end": 9461.74, "text": " Now a second set of leaks landed on the MMO Champion forums as they tend to around"}, {"start": 9461.74, "end": 9462.74, "text": " the same time."}, {"start": 9462.74, "end": 9467.74, "text": " Now these said that it would be set during the first war right as the old Horde invades Azeroth."}, {"start": 9467.74, "end": 9476.14, "text": " That sounds pretty awesome, and hey, it could be two leakers looking at the same pre-3rd war world and just not knowing exactly where in the time I..."}, {"start": 9480.94, "end": 9488.539999999999, "text": " Does anyone else get annoyed by leaks with absolutely zero evidence?"}, {"start": 9489.34, "end": 9492.460000000001, "text": " Like, at least a lot, like, at least this image"}, {"start": 9492.460000000001, "end": 9494.460000000001, "text": " we looked at the start is like a screenshot."}, {"start": 9494.460000000001, "end": 9495.78, "text": " It's like, okay, now you can think,"}, {"start": 9495.78, "end": 9500.78, "text": " is this real, is this fake, is this part real?"}, {"start": 9500.94, "end": 9505.5, "text": " But like, when we see posts with just like,"}, {"start": 9505.5, "end": 9507.1, "text": " with just like a bunch of dashes,"}, {"start": 9507.1, "end": 9510.380000000001, "text": " like a four-changes, like, it's like, what, what?"}, {"start": 9510.380000000001, "end": 9511.94, "text": " What are you basing this on?"}, {"start": 9513.460000000001, "end": 9515.900000000001, "text": " Like, give me something."}, {"start": 9515.900000000001, "end": 9517.140000000001, "text": " Like say nothing at all"}, {"start": 9517.14, "end": 9524.3, "text": " Give me something that you're basing it on like one of the other and they would fit still sounds great blizzard send us back to you know"}, {"start": 9524.46, "end": 9527.779999999999, "text": " The wars that literally started war craft"}, {"start": 9527.82, "end": 9534.699999999999, "text": " I'm pretty down for that actually and it was honestly and especially with warcraft 3 the peak of blizzard storytelling and"}, {"start": 9535.019999999999, "end": 9541.24, "text": " Fundamentally that is the world we fell in love with and it is that world from which the world of warcraft grew"}, {"start": 9541.32, "end": 9544.039999999999, "text": " But here is where we need to take a bit of a sharp breath"}, {"start": 9544.04, "end": 9549.240000000002, "text": " apparently right? It launches with 10 zones and Kalimdor won't be on the"}, {"start": 9549.240000000002, "end": 9554.480000000001, "text": " world map. Yeah, no Kalimdor in Warcraft, which is actually a completely"}, {"start": 9554.480000000001, "end": 9557.76, "text": " understandable thing if you know the history of the real-time strategy games."}, {"start": 9557.76, "end": 9561.320000000002, "text": " Now it would mean initially..."}, {"start": 9562.720000000001, "end": 9568.240000000002, "text": " So it's before they took the boat over?"}, {"start": 9568.24, "end": 9573.24, "text": " Callumdor will not be in play. What is this paste off of?"}, {"start": 9575.24, "end": 9580.24, "text": " Is cool as that might be? Like, I want Callumdor. What?"}, {"start": 9581.24, "end": 9586.24, "text": " The works fled there? Right. They took the boats over."}, {"start": 9588.24, "end": 9592.24, "text": " I'm trying to think if I would even like that. No, Callumdor's got to be there."}, {"start": 9592.24, "end": 9597.24, "text": " That Callumdor, right? I'm trying to, like, stretch my mind a little bit here, but..."}, {"start": 9597.24, "end": 9599.24, "text": " But\u2026"}, {"start": 9599.24, "end": 9601.24, "text": " Old map."}, {"start": 9601.24, "end": 9603.199999999999, "text": " Yeah, no calendar."}, {"start": 9603.199999999999, "end": 9604.6, "text": " In Warcraft."}, {"start": 9604.6, "end": 9608.6, "text": " Which is actually a completely understandable thing if you know the history of the real-time"}, {"start": 9608.6, "end": 9609.6, "text": " strategy games."}, {"start": 9609.6, "end": 9614.36, "text": " Now, it would mean initially us imagining a Warcraft game without Night Elves, without"}, {"start": 9614.36, "end": 9615.36, "text": " Toren."}, {"start": 9615.36, "end": 9616.36, "text": " That seems suspicious."}, {"start": 9616.36, "end": 9620.4, "text": " But then the leaks really did just start to come in fast and loose."}, {"start": 9620.4, "end": 9623.84, "text": " Guild housing came up, Guild warships came up."}, {"start": 9623.84, "end": 9624.84, "text": " You know what?"}, {"start": 9624.84, "end": 9630.28, "text": " warships does not sound insane. Think about Warcraft 2, where there is a whole bunch of"}, {"start": 9630.28, "end": 9635.2, "text": " naval combat, and Blizzard pulling that kind of thing off would not be surprising to me."}, {"start": 9635.2, "end": 9639.2, "text": " Look at, say, all of the locomotion stuff they had to build for skyriding, look at the"}, {"start": 9639.2, "end": 9643.76, "text": " undermined driving system, and at player housing. They can clearly cook up new things"}, {"start": 9643.76, "end": 9646.12, "text": " that involve moving around in the world."}, {"start": 9646.12, "end": 9650.04, "text": " But here's the kicker. And it sure is a kicker. It apparently will have a third"}, {"start": 9650.04, "end": 9656.6, "text": " faction. And that is where we need to bring up another MMO. One conveniently involved in Camelot."}, {"start": 9656.6, "end": 9661.720000000001, "text": " It's called Dark Age of Camelot. Jeff Kaplan and other early developers said that it was an"}, {"start": 9661.720000000001, "end": 9666.84, "text": " inspiration for World of Warcraft, mainly because it defined the faction system. But where"}, {"start": 9666.84, "end": 9672.92, "text": " WoW has the Horde and the Alliance, Dark Age of Camelot has three factions. So the three faction"}, {"start": 9672.92, "end": 9687.88, "text": " play bro like I'm all for like likes like if we have something to talk about to have a reason to"}, {"start": 9687.88, "end": 9692.92, "text": " talk about it we can talk about it but if it's just straight up opposed with zero anything and"}, {"start": 9692.92, "end": 9697.56, "text": " it's just like three factions no Calum though it's just like what are we doing"}, {"start": 9697.56, "end": 9702.8, "text": " Oh my goodness gracious"}, {"start": 9705.32, "end": 9710.48, "text": " Okay, so let's pretend for a second there's no Kalim Thor it's before we took the boats over"}, {"start": 9711.72, "end": 9716.119999999999, "text": " Before Medivh was like yo go check this out to Thrall"}, {"start": 9717.68, "end": 9719.68, "text": " There's a third faction I"}, {"start": 9720.359999999999, "end": 9721.96, "text": " mean"}, {"start": 9721.96, "end": 9723.96, "text": " That's got to be"}, {"start": 9724.08, "end": 9726.08, "text": " Probably not great"}, {"start": 9726.08, "end": 9728.96, "text": " It was certainly not as mad as it sounds."}, {"start": 9728.96, "end": 9733.48, "text": " But still, at this point, it's hard to tell what's real, what's feasible, and what's"}, {"start": 9733.48, "end": 9735.32, "text": " just a wish list."}, {"start": 9735.32, "end": 9741.96, "text": " But if we strip away all the wild stuff, there is still a very solid core left, right?"}, {"start": 9741.96, "end": 9746.4, "text": " It would be a classic plus experience with the option for more modern graphics."}, {"start": 9746.4, "end": 9748.44, "text": " Not an option I would take personally."}, {"start": 9748.44, "end": 9749.44, "text": " And perhaps in a..."}, {"start": 9749.44, "end": 9750.44, "text": " Wait, hold on."}, {"start": 9750.44, "end": 9751.44, "text": " We..."}, {"start": 9751.44, "end": 9752.44, "text": " Wait, hold on."}, {"start": 9752.44, "end": 9753.44, "text": " Which one would you take?"}, {"start": 9753.44, "end": 9755.88, "text": " Still a very solid core left, right?"}, {"start": 9755.880000000001, "end": 9760.320000000002, "text": " It would be a classic plus experience with the option for more modern graphics."}, {"start": 9760.320000000002, "end": 9762.160000000002, "text": " Not an option I would take personally."}, {"start": 9762.160000000002, "end": 9767.880000000001, "text": " Wow, Belialar would go with the OG graphics, but he's more of a retail guy."}, {"start": 9767.880000000001, "end": 9771.36, "text": " Ah, okay, yeah, I'm just saying, yeah."}, {"start": 9771.36, "end": 9774.960000000001, "text": " And perhaps an entire new timeline to launch content from."}, {"start": 9774.960000000001, "end": 9778.84, "text": " That does sound like the kind of flex that Blizzard would have been able to pull off"}, {"start": 9778.84, "end": 9782.960000000001, "text": " back in their glory days, when they would look at expectations and somehow manage to"}, {"start": 9782.960000000001, "end": 9784.560000000001, "text": " blow them out of the water."}, {"start": 9784.56, "end": 9789.119999999999, "text": " Sounds like a dream come true to me. It sounds honestly more interesting than retail to me"}, {"start": 9789.119999999999, "end": 9792.6, "text": " And it sounds like a game. I would rather put my time into but whoa"}, {"start": 9793.119999999999, "end": 9798.119999999999, "text": " Whoa, wait, hold on guys. Bellylar is definitely a more modern like retail guy, right?"}, {"start": 9798.119999999999, "end": 9803.0, "text": " He just said he played with the OG graphics and it's more interesting than retail to him"}, {"start": 9803.88, "end": 9806.96, "text": " Whoa, I wasn't expecting Bellylar to say that"}, {"start": 9808.519999999999, "end": 9812.48, "text": " He's converted to a classic Andy recently. Oh, is it has he? Oh"}, {"start": 9812.48, "end": 9819.48, "text": " Oh, I actually didn't know that. I thought he was definitely way more of a retail guy than"}, {"start": 9819.48, "end": 9826.359999999999, "text": " Classic Guy. He's more of a lore guy in general. Oh, so he's nerding out over the old lore from"}, {"start": 9826.359999999999, "end": 9832.08, "text": " like the potential that it could be like Warcraft II, Warcraft III, and the story has him more"}, {"start": 9832.08, "end": 9837.92, "text": " excited than, oh, interesting. Okay."}, {"start": 9837.92, "end": 9842.960000000001, "text": " of Classic Plus, if the combat leveling and exploration are all fundamentally what we know,"}, {"start": 9842.960000000001, "end": 9849.76, "text": " then, yeah, the only thing to figure out is when we'll be playing. So let's dig in to these leaked"}, {"start": 9849.76, "end": 9854.48, "text": " timelines. Now, this might ring true for you, teaching gamers months of theory before they"}, {"start": 9854.48, "end": 9859.2, "text": " build anything interesting is a bit of a design failure. That certainly meets my experience,"}, {"start": 9859.2, "end": 9863.92, "text": " and this is today's video sponsored by Dot Dev, who take a bit of a better route,"}, {"start": 9863.92, "end": 9865.6, "text": " having us build."}, {"start": 9865.6, "end": 9866.8, "text": " Here we go."}, {"start": 9866.8, "end": 9870.0, "text": " This one is a guided Python project with 20 lessons."}, {"start": 9870.0, "end": 9871.2, "text": " It's about six hours."}, {"start": 9871.2, "end": 9874.24, "text": " And by the end, you'll have made a real arcade game"}, {"start": 9874.24, "end": 9875.56, "text": " using Pygame."}, {"start": 9875.56, "end": 9876.8, "text": " And as you do it, you'll be learning"}, {"start": 9876.8, "end": 9880.52, "text": " object oriented programming, vectors and collision detection,"}, {"start": 9880.52, "end": 9883.960000000001, "text": " all the proper like original way hand coded."}, {"start": 9883.960000000001, "end": 9885.64, "text": " And I'm gonna say from my experience coding."}, {"start": 9885.64, "end": 9888.44, "text": " Does anyone here use boot.dev?"}, {"start": 9888.44, "end": 9889.52, "text": " Like not sponsored?"}, {"start": 9889.52, "end": 9891.6, "text": " Like I'm curious."}, {"start": 9891.6, "end": 9897.2, "text": " The whole idea of it actually sounds kinda cool, but I'm not a coder."}, {"start": 9897.2, "end": 9907.92, "text": " I did, I do, me, it's great, no, I tried it, what do you guys think of it?"}, {"start": 9907.92, "end": 9918.880000000001, "text": " And the brilliant thing is that the whole platform of boot runs on that idea."}, {"start": 9918.880000000001, "end": 9923.68, "text": " itself is built like a game with XP, quests and boss fights. And when you're stuck, there"}, {"start": 9923.68, "end": 9928.44, "text": " is boots, they're a little wizard bear tutor who will nudge you towards the right answer"}, {"start": 9928.44, "end": 9934.04, "text": " instead of just handing it over. Seriously, boots is like unbelievably good for what it"}, {"start": 9934.04, "end": 9938.12, "text": " is. And look, if you want to start it is so easy, you just scan the QR code or you"}, {"start": 9938.12, "end": 9944.080000000002, "text": " head to boot.dev and use code value to get 25% off your entire first year on the"}, {"start": 9944.08, "end": 9945.08, "text": " the annual plan."}, {"start": 9945.08, "end": 9946.08, "text": " Hi."}, {"start": 9946.08, "end": 9951.64, "text": " Alrighty, we got two unique timelines to consider, just before the third war and during the first"}, {"start": 9951.64, "end": 9952.64, "text": " war."}, {"start": 9952.64, "end": 9956.12, "text": " Both of these are huge settings, but I'll start us off with the third war because I"}, {"start": 9956.12, "end": 9960.8, "text": " think it is the more exciting one to many people and it does leave a lot of room for"}, {"start": 9960.8, "end": 9962.56, "text": " future content."}, {"start": 9962.56, "end": 9966.84, "text": " And when I say future content, I'm talking about a fresh Azeroth between wars with"}, {"start": 9966.84, "end": 9970.6, "text": " later content taking us through Warcraft 3 itself."}, {"start": 9970.6, "end": 9976.5, "text": " So with that said, let's take a look at the state of Azeroth in this time period."}, {"start": 9976.5, "end": 9981.62, "text": " The old horde has been defeated, and most of the orcs are languishing in alliance internment"}, {"start": 9981.62, "end": 9982.62, "text": " camps."}, {"start": 9982.62, "end": 9986.92, "text": " A young orc named Thrall knows the horrors his people committed."}, {"start": 9986.92, "end": 9991.220000000001, "text": " He has no memory of Draenor or of shamanism, but he's convinced that the orcs once had"}, {"start": 9991.220000000001, "end": 9994.36, "text": " an honorable soul, and he wants to find that soul."}, {"start": 9994.36, "end": 9999.36, "text": " So he escapes the camp he grew up in, and flees to the Altaric Mountains to find"}, {"start": 9999.36, "end": 10006.720000000001, "text": " the rest of the Frostwolf clan. Their leader, Dracthar, teaches Thrall shamanism. Later,"}, {"start": 10006.720000000001, "end": 10013.0, "text": " a mysterious orc arrives at the Frostwolf camp and reveals himself as Doomhammer, Ugrim Doomhammer,"}, {"start": 10013.0, "end": 10018.36, "text": " the old warchief of the Horde. During a raid to free more orcs from an internment camp,"}, {"start": 10018.36, "end": 10023.86, "text": " Doomhammer takes a mortal wound. He gives Thrall his armor and his weapon, the Doomhammer,"}, {"start": 10023.86, "end": 10028.84, "text": " and names Thrall warchief of the new Horde. That is the very beginning of the Horde"}, {"start": 10028.84, "end": 10034.52, "text": " than we know in World of Warcraft. So if you're looking for an orcish capital in this timeline,"}, {"start": 10034.52, "end": 10040.6, "text": " it will actually be in the Altaric Mountains. Remember, this is before we all journey over"}, {"start": 10040.6, "end": 10047.960000000001, "text": " to Kalimdor. Now, doing the rest of the horde is hard, if not impossible, in a world where we are"}, {"start": 10047.960000000001, "end": 10053.0, "text": " initially in the Eastern Kingdoms. Here's why. Thrall only found the Darkspear trolls because"}, {"start": 10053.0, "end": 10056.84, "text": " of his journey to Kalimdor, and when he arrived in Kalimdor, he ended up getting near to"}, {"start": 10056.84, "end": 10061.12, "text": " Oh wow, these are the updated graphics for Warcraft 3, huh?"}, {"start": 10061.12, "end": 10064.6, "text": " They're actually better than I thought they would be, because I played with the OG graphics,"}, {"start": 10064.6, "end": 10066.36, "text": " but these actually looked east."}, {"start": 10066.36, "end": 10071.56, "text": " There he found the Torren who were getting themselves wiped out by the Centaur."}, {"start": 10071.56, "end": 10076.12, "text": " That would be pretty challenging to fit into this game, because Calvary hasn't been found"}, {"start": 10076.12, "end": 10077.12, "text": " yet."}, {"start": 10077.12, "end": 10080.6, "text": " Then though, there's the Forsaken, and they are obviously even harder."}, {"start": 10080.6, "end": 10086.2, "text": " Yes, their capital today is in the Eastern Kingdoms, but they did not exist."}, {"start": 10086.2, "end": 10093.12, "text": " They weren't a thing before the Frostmourne corrupted Arthas. Well, oh did I said that a little too soon? What is that?"}, {"start": 10094.6, "end": 10096.6, "text": " Arthas bro"}, {"start": 10098.52, "end": 10102.6, "text": " They could do it as like some some like like like what's it called?"}, {"start": 10102.6, "end": 10109.0, "text": " I don't know like makeup on or something that's I'm like like shiny forehead thing before goodness gracious arthas well"}, {"start": 10109.68, "end": 10112.08, "text": " Did his whole campaign in Warcraft 3?"}, {"start": 10112.08, "end": 10118.44, "text": " She's always forsaken only become a thing after the third war. I mean come on, bro"}, {"start": 10118.44, "end": 10122.88, "text": " Why is he so like like it looks like like pretty anime character or something like what?"}, {"start": 10123.44, "end": 10125.039999999999, "text": " What I"}, {"start": 10125.039999999999, "end": 10127.44, "text": " Was just saying it looked kind of nice"}, {"start": 10127.64, "end": 10133.16, "text": " Dang it man now in a way you could solve all this stuff with the bronze dragon flight think about it"}, {"start": 10133.32, "end": 10136.32, "text": " Legion remakes was actually a canon event and wow"}, {"start": 10136.32, "end": 10141.48, "text": " Now, basically it was the bronze and the infinites re-running the Legion campaign to basically"}, {"start": 10141.48, "end": 10143.08, "text": " see if we could do it better."}, {"start": 10143.08, "end": 10147.5, "text": " But I think patching in holes like that using the bronze would drain the energy out of a"}, {"start": 10147.5, "end": 10150.8, "text": " fresh adventure in a new but familiar world."}, {"start": 10150.8, "end": 10154.74, "text": " So it's a bit of a sticky problem, but if I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't really"}, {"start": 10154.74, "end": 10155.84, "text": " mind that much."}, {"start": 10155.84, "end": 10160.64, "text": " There is other stuff you could do for Horde races, and frankly, a classic plus that"}, {"start": 10160.64, "end": 10165.359999999999, "text": " is able to effectively follow the campaigns of Warcraft 3."}, {"start": 10165.359999999999, "end": 10168.9, "text": " Just sounds like pretty much the coolest thing ever."}, {"start": 10169.98, "end": 10171.099999999999, "text": " Kind of does, sounds pretty lit."}, {"start": 10171.099999999999, "end": 10172.24, "text": " Okay, The Alliance."}, {"start": 10172.24, "end": 10174.48, "text": " Whenever you think of The Alliance in-game right now,"}, {"start": 10174.48, "end": 10176.4, "text": " it's actually different to what was going on"}, {"start": 10176.4, "end": 10178.48, "text": " at this point in time."}, {"start": 10178.48, "end": 10181.779999999999, "text": " So like, I've always pictured for Classic Plus,"}, {"start": 10181.779999999999, "end": 10186.779999999999, "text": " it's just a continuation of where Classic Wow ends,"}, {"start": 10186.78, "end": 10193.26, "text": " Which does that automatically mean alternate timeline? Maybe not necessarily"}, {"start": 10194.300000000001, "end": 10200.2, "text": " Would you guys rather have a continuation after naps? It's like okay now what or would you rather have it just?"}, {"start": 10200.2, "end": 10207.24, "text": " Oh gee setting Warcraft 2 3 I haven't really spent too much time thinking about this, but like oh gee could be cool, too"}, {"start": 10208.720000000001, "end": 10210.720000000001, "text": " Why not both?"}, {"start": 10210.72, "end": 10216.72, "text": " OG setting sounds cool. Continuation. OG, OG, new. Either one."}, {"start": 10217.72, "end": 10220.72, "text": " Like, it could be a cool idea to do that, yeah."}, {"start": 10223.72, "end": 10227.72, "text": " OG is a different game. That wouldn't be Classic Plus. That's kind of true."}, {"start": 10227.72, "end": 10232.72, "text": " It's a cool idea though. I have to say that. It is a cool concept."}, {"start": 10232.72, "end": 10236.72, "text": " You see, the events of Warcraft 1 were all about a thing called the First War."}, {"start": 10236.72, "end": 10241.84, "text": " War. That's located basically at the south of Eastern Kingdoms. It's Stormwind just getting"}, {"start": 10241.84, "end": 10247.76, "text": " themselves completely steamrolled. Warcraft II then takes place way up north. It takes"}, {"start": 10247.76, "end": 10253.039999999999, "text": " place in Lordaeron. Now the alliance of Warcraft II, the alliance of the Second War, by the"}, {"start": 10253.039999999999, "end": 10258.96, "text": " time of Warcraft III had basically fractured because of infighting selfishness and greed,"}, {"start": 10258.96, "end": 10264.279999999999, "text": " but it was still quite powerful. So if Lordaeron was to feature and we were to have that"}, {"start": 10264.28, "end": 10270.2, "text": " whole region of Eastern Kingdoms fully realized it would be quite cool, because it would give"}, {"start": 10270.2, "end": 10274.52, "text": " us finally the chance to see all seven kingdoms of Lordaeron like never before."}, {"start": 10274.52, "end": 10276.84, "text": " So here's the state of play in those kingdoms."}, {"start": 10276.84, "end": 10280.52, "text": " Gilneas, by this point in time, had not built the wall."}, {"start": 10280.52, "end": 10286.560000000001, "text": " Dalaran hadn't yet pissed off into the sky, and Lordaeron, the central kingdom, is basically"}, {"start": 10286.560000000001, "end": 10292.26, "text": " seeing itself in a bit of a golden age under Tarenas Menethil, who of course has a son"}, {"start": 10292.26, "end": 10296.5, "text": " called Arthas who was set up to inherit- I mean that would be pretty cool."}, {"start": 10296.5, "end": 10300.02, "text": " Then there's Stromgarde which is honestly a bit of a backwater"}, {"start": 10300.02, "end": 10303.460000000001, "text": " and there's the kingdom of Altarec which was destroyed in the second."}, {"start": 10303.460000000001, "end": 10305.94, "text": " Dude I just thought of Gbay's most recent video."}, {"start": 10305.94, "end": 10309.380000000001, "text": " Guys we need to get Gbay to go into Lordaeron."}, {"start": 10310.1, "end": 10315.78, "text": " Like we need to get him or like we need to get him to to turn the music up and hear"}, {"start": 10316.66, "end": 10321.14, "text": " like the the bells and see the flowers on the ground we need him to get there man"}, {"start": 10321.14, "end": 10327.699999999999, "text": " does he he would love that so much war but with no scourge around to wipe out all the humans"}, {"start": 10327.699999999999, "end": 10333.539999999999, "text": " there is a bit of a bandit kingdom that still operates in and controls those mountains then"}, {"start": 10333.539999999999, "end": 10339.06, "text": " we've got cultur ass which might be a bit hard to fit in at first but if this is to be the base"}, {"start": 10339.06, "end": 10343.699999999999, "text": " for years and years of content set within this timeline then the sixth kingdom of order on"}, {"start": 10343.699999999999, "end": 10349.22, "text": " cultur ass would of course feature eventually especially if you believe that leak about"}, {"start": 10349.22, "end": 10352.34, "text": " warships because Kul'Thuras is all about warships."}, {"start": 10352.34, "end": 10357.06, "text": " Okay, our final kingdom is Stormwind. Now, Stormwind did not feature in the Third"}, {"start": 10357.06, "end": 10361.539999999999, "text": " War at all because it was still rebuilding. They were utterly screwed."}, {"start": 10361.539999999999, "end": 10364.66, "text": " But even if the human starting zone and the main stories are in Lordaeron,"}, {"start": 10364.66, "end": 10369.3, "text": " I've no doubt we will see the jewel of the modern alliance eventually."}, {"start": 10369.3, "end": 10372.5, "text": " Then we got the Dwarves. And there's not much to say about the Dwarves. They,"}, {"start": 10372.5, "end": 10377.3, "text": " at this point in time, are still split into three clans and they control Casmodan."}, {"start": 10377.300000000001, "end": 10382.900000000001, "text": " The gnomes, on the other hand, well, we might finally get to see what Nomergon looked like"}, {"start": 10382.900000000001, "end": 10388.820000000002, "text": " before it was gassed. Not a revamped Nomergon like the actual original one. Now that only"}, {"start": 10388.820000000002, "end": 10393.78, "text": " leaves us with the Night Elves who are a hard... I should know this, but at what point in the"}, {"start": 10393.78, "end": 10399.62, "text": " Warcraft history were the orcs hiding out in Blackrock Mountain?"}, {"start": 10407.300000000001, "end": 10409.300000000001, "text": " After the third war from"}, {"start": 10409.880000000001, "end": 10413.300000000001, "text": " That was after a third war wasn't it after the second?"}, {"start": 10413.7, "end": 10416.500000000002, "text": " Why would I think what I didn't think it was after the third?"}, {"start": 10419.62, "end": 10424.7, "text": " Second war some were captured in some head because like that could be kind of sick too"}, {"start": 10427.26, "end": 10432.7, "text": " That could be kind of sick too right like you just have the orcs in Black Rock Mountain that would go hard"}, {"start": 10432.7, "end": 10437.900000000001, "text": " I've got a lot of different answers. I've seen a bunch of people saying first, a bunch"}, {"start": 10437.900000000001, "end": 10441.58, "text": " of people saying second, and a bunch of people saying third. Nice."}, {"start": 10441.58, "end": 10446.460000000001, "text": " Harder fit, like, let's say, the Trolls and the Toren. Still, an outpost in Galax isn't"}, {"start": 10446.460000000001, "end": 10450.740000000002, "text": " completely beyond the lore for them. Now, with all that said, it does look like the"}, {"start": 10450.740000000002, "end": 10455.820000000002, "text": " perfect jumping off point for future content. We basically start with the Alliance fracturing,"}, {"start": 10455.820000000002, "end": 10460.960000000001, "text": " a new horde forming, and the Scourge getting going. Maybe then, over months and years,"}, {"start": 10460.960000000001, "end": 10465.6, "text": " We would see those stories unfold until Lordaeron is a wasteland and the orcs have settled in"}, {"start": 10465.6, "end": 10466.6, "text": " Durotar."}, {"start": 10466.6, "end": 10469.480000000001, "text": " The opportunity here is undeniable."}, {"start": 10469.480000000001, "end": 10471.880000000001, "text": " So that's the third war stuff."}, {"start": 10471.880000000001, "end": 10474.560000000001, "text": " Let's, though, do the first war."}, {"start": 10474.560000000001, "end": 10479.36, "text": " Because as much as so much of it is really cool, it is a lot easier to deny."}, {"start": 10479.36, "end": 10486.480000000001, "text": " Okay, the first war is the story of Warcraft I. Warcraft I was titled Warcraft Orcs"}, {"start": 10486.480000000001, "end": 10489.880000000001, "text": " versus Humans, and that is exactly what it was."}, {"start": 10489.880000000001, "end": 10495.28, "text": " had the Kingdom of Azeroth, which we now just call Stormwind, which is this sort of backwater"}, {"start": 10495.28, "end": 10500.04, "text": " farming nation that gets itself completely invaded by green monsters pouring through"}, {"start": 10500.04, "end": 10504.920000000002, "text": " a portal. At the time it didn't really have a lot of lore, but by the time Warcraft 2"}, {"start": 10504.920000000002, "end": 10510.000000000002, "text": " rolled around, Christmatsen got absolutely to town on the game's manual and some of"}, {"start": 10510.000000000002, "end": 10514.2, "text": " the in-game screens, which furnished it with a hell of a lot more story. Of course"}, {"start": 10514.2, "end": 10517.880000000001, "text": " by now we all know who those orcs were, we know where they came from, but back"}, {"start": 10517.880000000001, "end": 10523.800000000001, "text": " Back then they were basically just red-eyed, bloodthirsty, crazy bastards."}, {"start": 10523.800000000001, "end": 10529.480000000001, "text": " Now canonically in Warcraft 1, the Orcs won the war, burnt down Stormwind, and then regrouped"}, {"start": 10529.480000000001, "end": 10532.2, "text": " and marched north to invade Lordaeron."}, {"start": 10532.2, "end": 10535.160000000002, "text": " And it's fair to say there is huge story potential here."}, {"start": 10535.160000000002, "end": 10539.160000000002, "text": " You've got the likes of Gul'dan and his Shadow Council working in the background."}, {"start": 10539.160000000002, "end": 10543.800000000001, "text": " You have Anduin Lothar and his knights, you have Grona, Medivh, Khadgar, all"}, {"start": 10543.800000000001, "end": 10548.880000000001, "text": " these huge characters, and in this setting we would see them at their prime. But there"}, {"start": 10548.880000000001, "end": 10553.880000000001, "text": " are reasons why I think the first war leaks are a bit harder. Most of the leaks point to"}, {"start": 10553.880000000001, "end": 10559.480000000001, "text": " Dalaran still being on the ground and being central to Camelot. It's hard to believe"}, {"start": 10559.480000000001, "end": 10564.240000000002, "text": " that the real action of the game would be all the way down south, but the Dalaran,"}, {"start": 10564.240000000002, "end": 10568.76, "text": " all the way up north, would feature as a core place. That would be, unless, say,"}, {"start": 10568.76, "end": 10573.36, "text": " we start in the north and perhaps the end game is a war against the orcs in the south."}, {"start": 10573.36, "end": 10578.560000000001, "text": " But even then there are problems, like every orc being a rat-eye bloodthirster."}, {"start": 10578.560000000001, "end": 10584.16, "text": " It still is possible to make it work, but it seems to me that the leakers maybe don't have"}, {"start": 10584.16, "end": 10587.36, "text": " a full grasp of the lore from this period."}, {"start": 10587.36, "end": 10591.92, "text": " They maybe saw Dalaran on the ground and decided this means it must be right back."}, {"start": 10591.92, "end": 10595.04, "text": " Come on, they don't even know the entire lore."}, {"start": 10595.04, "end": 10600.16, "text": " Like, don't even try to speculate if you don't have a full grasp guys, because"}, {"start": 10600.16, "end": 10601.16, "text": " it's embarrassing."}, {"start": 10601.16, "end": 10607.32, "text": " Like, if you guys are missing bits and pieces, please sit to the side and let the real experts have the conversations."}, {"start": 10608.039999999999, "end": 10609.72, "text": " Don't know why this even needs to be said."}, {"start": 10609.96, "end": 10615.0, "text": " During the First War, even though, I would say, an around the Third War does make a lot more sense."}, {"start": 10615.32, "end": 10623.16, "text": " By being said, it is possible that this whole Camelot project is meant to take us through the first three games."}, {"start": 10623.4, "end": 10626.44, "text": " That would be the coolest thing ever, but it is just speculation."}, {"start": 10626.76, "end": 10630.44, "text": " Though if we're speculating, I do have one more option to offer."}, {"start": 10630.44, "end": 10632.980000000001, "text": " They will warn you, it's a bit crazy."}, {"start": 10633.78, "end": 10636.34, "text": " Wait, that actually would be kind of sick."}, {"start": 10638.66, "end": 10642.08, "text": " You have a world of Warcraft that starts with Warcraft 1"}, {"start": 10642.08, "end": 10644.32, "text": " and it kind of takes you through"}, {"start": 10644.32, "end": 10646.480000000001, "text": " and then you, you know, let's call it class,"}, {"start": 10646.480000000001, "end": 10648.12, "text": " let's call it Camelot or Class of Plus, whatever."}, {"start": 10648.12, "end": 10650.880000000001, "text": " And then it goes to Warcraft 2"}, {"start": 10650.880000000001, "end": 10653.0, "text": " and it goes through that kind of whole series of events."}, {"start": 10653.0, "end": 10654.6, "text": " Warcraft 3 goes through that"}, {"start": 10654.6, "end": 10656.12, "text": " and then you get to like present a while"}, {"start": 10656.12, "end": 10657.28, "text": " and maybe even do that stuff."}, {"start": 10657.28, "end": 10658.68, "text": " And then it kind of continues."}, {"start": 10658.68, "end": 10661.880000000001, "text": " I mean, that would be a lot of content, be a lot of content."}, {"start": 10661.880000000001, "end": 10663.12, "text": " That actually could be kind of sick."}, {"start": 10664.800000000001, "end": 10668.76, "text": " Say, for the sake of argument, the leakers have got the timeline thing wrong,"}, {"start": 10668.76, "end": 10672.28, "text": " and this is actually something driven fully by the bronze dragonflight."}, {"start": 10672.44, "end": 10676.48, "text": " So it's effectively revisiting the past rather than a different timeline that we play through."}, {"start": 10677.0, "end": 10681.04, "text": " I could see a classic plus where the world is mostly as we know it"}, {"start": 10681.04, "end": 10683.56, "text": " and they stitch on a few zones as is expected."}, {"start": 10683.76, "end": 10687.4, "text": " Maybe they just take all of those like little gaps of land"}, {"start": 10687.4, "end": 10692.48, "text": " between all the different zones in like classic warcraft and they beef them out and make them"}, {"start": 10692.48, "end": 10697.84, "text": " full places. That could totally be done. And that would certainly resemble a classic plus"}, {"start": 10697.84, "end": 10703.0, "text": " because it would presumably be built off the bones of classic as we now understand it."}, {"start": 10703.0, "end": 10707.88, "text": " But what then what would you do then? Well, perhaps instead of going forward, maybe"}, {"start": 10707.88, "end": 10712.56, "text": " you could go back. Now I bring this up for a very specific reason. A while ago,"}, {"start": 10712.56, "end": 10715.92, "text": " I believe it was an entry of the Azucosis, but they basically said that they kind"}, {"start": 10715.92, "end": 10721.04, "text": " box themselves in, with the idea that every expansion had to go to a new place."}, {"start": 10721.04, "end": 10727.0, "text": " That basically made a bunch of aspects of the world of Warcraft bit just feel harder"}, {"start": 10727.0, "end": 10728.0, "text": " to execute."}, {"start": 10728.0, "end": 10732.2, "text": " Now, if it's to be Classic Plus, then presumably it won't be Classic Plus and also there's"}, {"start": 10732.2, "end": 10734.48, "text": " the Dark Portal go have fun in Outland."}, {"start": 10734.48, "end": 10739.36, "text": " That wouldn't really make much sense unless, say, it was covering the Outland campaign"}, {"start": 10739.36, "end": 10744.52, "text": " that is, of course, part of Warcraft 2, Beyond the Dark Portal, and Warcraft 3."}, {"start": 10744.52, "end": 10749.34, "text": " But ultimately my point here is that you get to Anchorage and then we all know what happens"}, {"start": 10749.34, "end": 10750.34, "text": " next."}, {"start": 10750.34, "end": 10755.060000000001, "text": " It's WoW's first expansion and for a classic plus they obviously wouldn't want to do something"}, {"start": 10755.060000000001, "end": 10756.720000000001, "text": " that feels like that."}, {"start": 10756.720000000001, "end": 10761.640000000001, "text": " So you can go super far forward, you can explore the state of the world at that point in time"}, {"start": 10761.640000000001, "end": 10762.640000000001, "text": " in great depth."}, {"start": 10762.640000000001, "end": 10767.78, "text": " But what you could actually do is go back, you could go somehow back to the third"}, {"start": 10767.78, "end": 10772.92, "text": " war and maybe see Arthas as a noble paladin before we follow his trail."}, {"start": 10772.92, "end": 10776.92, "text": " Dragonflight could be involved. We could go back to the First War for a brutal fight again."}, {"start": 10776.92, "end": 10780.92, "text": " I personally don't like this idea as much as the other ones."}, {"start": 10780.92, "end": 10787.92, "text": " I don't really like the whole like, oh let me go back in time and see what happened as much as like actually just doing it."}, {"start": 10789.92, "end": 10792.92, "text": " Yeah, not a fan of this one."}, {"start": 10792.92, "end": 10797.92, "text": " Hence the Horde. We could go back to the Black Empire and fight the old gods at the height of their power,"}, {"start": 10797.92, "end": 10804.4, "text": " power, but where they feel more classic-y. And there is, of course, one other option."}, {"start": 10804.4, "end": 10810.1, "text": " The Empire of Arathor, which does fit the name Camelot rather nicely. Basically, we would"}, {"start": 10810.1, "end": 10814.88, "text": " go back to humanity's first empire, fight the Amani and ally with the High Elves. But"}, {"start": 10814.88, "end": 10820.24, "text": " most importantly, we meet figures like Meraldaur, the first human to wield the light. And"}, {"start": 10820.24, "end": 10824.2, "text": " she did more than introduce the light. You see, after a vision from the Naro, she"}, {"start": 10824.2, "end": 10829.08, "text": " letter followers all the way across the world to found the Arathi Empire, which is by the"}, {"start": 10829.08, "end": 10833.28, "text": " way now canon and that's all stuff that we get from World of Warcraft the War Within."}, {"start": 10833.28, "end": 10836.880000000001, "text": " That basically means that there is indeed a whole empire of half elves on the other"}, {"start": 10836.880000000001, "end": 10841.44, "text": " side of Azeroth. We've not heard much of them since the War Within and I guess this"}, {"start": 10841.44, "end": 10846.04, "text": " would be a perfect chance to properly build something big like that into the modern"}, {"start": 10846.04, "end": 10850.240000000002, "text": " lore. Now certainly that one is a stretch and if I was making a call on this"}, {"start": 10850.24, "end": 10855.24, "text": " project, I would actually veto it. Because when people say they want Classic Plus, it"}, {"start": 10855.24, "end": 10863.76, "text": " means they want Classic Plus. That means Warcraft 1, 2, 3, World of Warcraft. And maybe not"}, {"start": 10863.76, "end": 10868.48, "text": " necessarily the expansions. Okay, so is any of this stuff true? Well, what I can say"}, {"start": 10868.48, "end": 10875.48, "text": " is this game does exist. The roadmap leaked over a year ago and then heroic."}, {"start": 10875.48, "end": 10879.119999999999, "text": " I still hope this isn't the actual roadmap. Goodness gracious."}, {"start": 10879.12, "end": 10883.320000000002, "text": " Epic Editions turned up in the game files, and now we've got separate leaks all lining"}, {"start": 10883.320000000002, "end": 10888.800000000001, "text": " up on the same thing. And from what I understand from the rumor mill, from the deep rumor"}, {"start": 10888.800000000001, "end": 10896.2, "text": " mill, there is very credible, real stuff floating around there. The sort of thing that gets"}, {"start": 10896.2, "end": 10900.160000000002, "text": " talked about in Whisper Networks. I've heard rumors of that. I haven't actually"}, {"start": 10900.160000000002, "end": 10906.36, "text": " seen the core stuff myself, but I do actually believe that it is actually real. And I'm"}, {"start": 10906.36, "end": 10912.52, "text": " I'm fairly sure that some of the more recent leaks are basically stemming from-"}, {"start": 10912.52, "end": 10914.52, "text": " Wait, what was the-"}, {"start": 10914.92, "end": 10919.24, "text": " Wait, what's the claim here? That he's heard stuff, but he can't-"}, {"start": 10920.12, "end": 10923.560000000001, "text": " There's nothing to share, but he- it's a whisper network?"}, {"start": 10924.92, "end": 10927.0, "text": " Wait, what- from what I've heard about the-"}, {"start": 10929.16, "end": 10930.44, "text": " What?"}, {"start": 10930.44, "end": 10932.44, "text": " From that core source."}, {"start": 10932.44, "end": 10936.74, "text": " So, I do believe that that is real, I have not seen it."}, {"start": 10936.74, "end": 10940.34, "text": " Of course though, what I have seen and what we've all seen is the stuff that lines up"}, {"start": 10940.34, "end": 10945.26, "text": " in public with Camelot appearing in the data mining and appearing in that leak of a road"}, {"start": 10945.26, "end": 10946.26, "text": " map."}, {"start": 10946.26, "end": 10952.140000000001, "text": " And I should also say that whenever we talked about this story, shortly after Jez Corden"}, {"start": 10952.140000000001, "end": 10956.62, "text": " was talking about it for his writing in Windows Central, he is very well connected"}, {"start": 10956.62, "end": 10961.7, "text": " with Blizzard and what he said certainly did lend more credence to the idea that"}, {"start": 10961.7, "end": 10965.54, "text": " that slate document was indeed a real thing."}, {"start": 10965.54, "end": 10969.58, "text": " So ultimately, Camelot is happening, I am happy to say that."}, {"start": 10969.58, "end": 10974.900000000001, "text": " I can't tell you when it is set, but if I was to place a bet, it would be before the"}, {"start": 10974.900000000001, "end": 10979.380000000001, "text": " Third War, where Dalaran is still on the ground, where Thrall is building his horde"}, {"start": 10979.380000000001, "end": 10985.820000000002, "text": " up in Altaric, and where Norderon is having its last few good years without knowing"}, {"start": 10985.820000000002, "end": 10988.26, "text": " how bad it's all shortly going to go."}, 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" All right, all right, wow, cool, that was a video."}, {"start": 11049.98, "end": 11053.880000000001, "text": " I will say this, I have not spent that much time thinking"}, {"start": 11053.880000000001, "end": 11057.8, "text": " about this setting of, oh, what about Warcraft II,"}, {"start": 11057.8, "end": 11060.64, "text": " Warcraft III era, Warcraft I era?"}, {"start": 11060.64, "end": 11064.08, "text": " And I've gotta be honest, that idea is quite intriguing."}, {"start": 11064.08, "end": 11065.06, "text": " Like that could be cool."}, {"start": 11065.06, "end": 11068.72, "text": " I've spent most of my attention thinking about"}, {"start": 11068.72, "end": 11072.36, "text": " like, turtle wow, season of discovery,"}, {"start": 11072.36, "end": 11078.6, "text": " Ascension like these concepts of like you have wow as it is right like Max is still there"}, {"start": 11078.6, "end": 11082.68, "text": " Molten core is still there Kalimdor azeroth and then you add new content like you know"}, {"start": 11082.68, "end": 11089.960000000001, "text": " I haven't really put my headspace into that I have to say it actually seems kind of like it could be"}, {"start": 11089.960000000001, "end": 11099.400000000001, "text": " kind of a cool idea though right um Bell you are kind of hinting that this sounds almost"}, {"start": 11099.4, "end": 11104.359999999999, "text": " more interesting to him as a lore nerd and as more of a retail guy is quite fascinating as well."}, {"start": 11106.359999999999, "end": 11113.16, "text": " So, so yeah. What else is happening guys?"}, {"start": 11116.199999999999, "end": 11118.84, "text": " What else is happening? What else is happening?"}, {"start": 11122.6, "end": 11126.52, "text": " Some stuff went down in Max last night. I have two insane Oscar clips. I'm down to watch."}, {"start": 11126.52, "end": 11130.78, "text": " I just watched the Oscar clip and oh, no, I yeah, I want it. I don't know the saffron"}, {"start": 11130.78, "end": 11136.800000000001, "text": " Yeah, I just I watched a saffron Oscar clip this one already. This one was sick. I didn't see the other one though"}, {"start": 11137.74, "end": 11140.560000000001, "text": " You you can get these to get out with it. Yes"}, {"start": 11145.12, "end": 11147.12, "text": " It's really bad"}, {"start": 11150.16, "end": 11152.16, "text": " Yes, send on this"}, {"start": 11156.52, "end": 11158.52, "text": " Kicks. Lots of kicks."}, {"start": 11158.52, "end": 11159.52, "text": " They have a West back here if you get a kill."}, {"start": 11159.52, "end": 11160.52, "text": " Patrick?"}, {"start": 11160.52, "end": 11161.52, "text": " Kicks, Kicks, Kicks."}, {"start": 11161.52, "end": 11162.52, "text": " A lot of kicks, a lot of kicks."}, {"start": 11162.52, "end": 11163.52, "text": " Slide it out."}, {"start": 11163.52, "end": 11164.52, "text": " Patrick, you're low."}, {"start": 11164.52, "end": 11165.52, "text": " Stop, Patrick, it's everything."}, {"start": 11165.52, "end": 11166.52, "text": " Patrick, you're low."}, {"start": 11166.52, "end": 11167.52, "text": " That's your low."}, {"start": 11167.52, "end": 11168.52, "text": " He's running."}, {"start": 11168.52, "end": 11169.52, "text": " Tom, Aveda."}, {"start": 11169.52, "end": 11170.52, "text": " He kicks out, kicks out."}, {"start": 11170.52, "end": 11172.52, "text": " She says hi to the watch."}, {"start": 11172.52, "end": 11174.52, "text": " She says hi to the watch."}, {"start": 11174.52, "end": 11175.52, "text": " Longleys, are you close?"}, {"start": 11175.52, "end": 11176.52, "text": " Patrick?"}, {"start": 11176.52, "end": 11178.52, "text": " Stay, Patrick, stay, Patrick."}, {"start": 11178.52, "end": 11179.52, "text": " Patrick, stay, Patrick, stay, Patrick."}, {"start": 11179.52, "end": 11180.52, "text": " Oscar is such a shad."}, {"start": 11180.52, "end": 11182.52, "text": " Oscar is such a shad."}, {"start": 11182.52, "end": 11183.52, "text": " Stay, Patrick."}, {"start": 11183.52, "end": 11188.380000000001, "text": " Main take energy right here. This is what I wish I could be man look at this"}, {"start": 11196.84, "end": 11200.300000000001, "text": " Oscar is a Chad bro. No one dies there"}, {"start": 11201.1, "end": 11205.84, "text": " What a beast that guy legit one HP. Yeah, I think his"}, {"start": 11206.220000000001, "end": 11210.78, "text": " When he petrious Titans falls off or something swaps the floss goes to one. Yeah"}, {"start": 11210.78, "end": 11213.18, "text": " Yeah, minus 35 petries."}, {"start": 11213.18, "end": 11215.58, "text": " Yeah, zero deaths there though is legendary."}, {"start": 11219.42, "end": 11220.5, "text": " Crazy, I didn't see this clip."}, {"start": 11220.5, "end": 11221.84, "text": " I saw the Saf one."}, {"start": 11229.820000000002, "end": 11231.460000000001, "text": " Did I see this, Annie's big announcement?"}, {"start": 11231.460000000001, "end": 11233.1, "text": " She said she was pregnant, right?"}, {"start": 11233.1, "end": 11235.060000000001, "text": " I don't know if I actually saw the stream."}, {"start": 11235.060000000001, "end": 11236.140000000001, "text": " All right."}, {"start": 11236.140000000001, "end": 11237.060000000001, "text": " I don't know how to say it,"}, {"start": 11237.060000000001, "end": 11239.02, "text": " so I'm just gonna say it"}, {"start": 11239.02, "end": 11244.02, "text": " and I'm just gonna, I'm, I'm pregnant."}, {"start": 11246.66, "end": 11248.7, "text": " Yo, I actually haven't seen the clip."}, {"start": 11248.7, "end": 11249.7, "text": " Grats to her."}, {"start": 11251.42, "end": 11252.26, "text": " I heard about it."}, {"start": 11252.26, "end": 11253.94, "text": " I haven't, I didn't see the clip."}, {"start": 11253.94, "end": 11256.48, "text": " And does anyone know how long is she?"}, {"start": 11257.66, "end": 11259.02, "text": " I know that's awesome."}, {"start": 11259.02, "end": 11261.1, "text": " I almost shed a little tear for a second there."}, {"start": 11261.1, "end": 11262.1, "text": " That's exciting."}, {"start": 11262.1, "end": 11263.78, "text": " Yo, captain, next to the prime."}, {"start": 11263.78, "end": 11264.62, "text": " Yeah."}, {"start": 11269.02, "end": 11273.460000000001, "text": " And it's reaching a point where I can't really hide it anymore."}, {"start": 11273.460000000001, "end": 11274.58, "text": " Yeah, yeah."}, {"start": 11275.140000000001, "end": 11276.220000000001, "text": " Good to say stuff."}, {"start": 11276.220000000001, "end": 11277.060000000001, "text": " Yeah, cool."}, {"start": 11277.060000000001, "end": 11278.1, "text": " Well, massive grads."}, {"start": 11278.1, "end": 11280.300000000001, "text": " I wanted to let you guys know."}, {"start": 11282.02, "end": 11282.58, "text": " Cool."}, {"start": 11282.7, "end": 11283.62, "text": " Well, thanks for sharing."}, {"start": 11283.62, "end": 11284.74, "text": " I did hear about this."}, {"start": 11284.74, "end": 11286.380000000001, "text": " This was like a few weeks back, I think."}, {"start": 11288.42, "end": 11289.9, "text": " Massive, massive grads."}, {"start": 11293.58, "end": 11294.42, "text": " Huge, huge, huge."}, {"start": 11295.18, "end": 11296.66, "text": " Um, um, um, um."}, {"start": 11296.66, "end": 11301.66, "text": " We've got, we've got Willie."}, {"start": 11305.539999999999, "end": 11306.58, "text": " We've got Willie."}, {"start": 11308.94, "end": 11311.14, "text": " As fan finding out of gamescom was hilarious."}, {"start": 11311.14, "end": 11312.44, "text": " Was there a clip of that?"}, {"start": 11313.94, "end": 11315.68, "text": " She got the achieve unlocked clap."}, {"start": 11315.68, "end": 11316.74, "text": " Nice."}, {"start": 11322.42, "end": 11324.1, "text": " Did I cry when I found out I was gonna be a father?"}, {"start": 11324.1, "end": 11326.42, "text": " Yes, yes."}, {"start": 11326.42, "end": 11328.9, "text": " I almost shed a little tear watching that little clip too."}, {"start": 11328.9, "end": 11330.62, "text": " It's, yeah, it's a big moment, man."}, {"start": 11330.62, "end": 11333.94, "text": " It's a very big moment, very, very big."}, {"start": 11338.94, "end": 11340.84, "text": " Okay, okay."}, {"start": 11346.06, "end": 11348.94, "text": " I refreshed and the audio came back, welcome back."}, {"start": 11348.94, "end": 11350.54, "text": " Being a father is a dream of mine, can't wait."}, {"start": 11350.54, "end": 11352.86, "text": " It is phenomenal, man."}, {"start": 11352.86, "end": 11354.18, "text": " Preach us a good video on Classic Plus."}, {"start": 11354.18, "end": 11355.9, "text": " Yeah, we watched it yesterday."}, {"start": 11356.42, "end": 11361.94, "text": " Being a dad definitely softens you in this way."}, {"start": 11361.94, "end": 11364.54, "text": " Yeah, yeah, I've noticed that."}, {"start": 11364.54, "end": 11372.06, "text": " You know, it's also harder like from being a parent is like watching movies where like"}, {"start": 11372.06, "end": 11380.98, "text": " or like stories or like video games where there's a like child or like a son or daughter"}, {"start": 11380.98, "end": 11385.26, "text": " and you're, you're watching it through the lens of like a, you know, your father and"}, {"start": 11385.26, "end": 11389.880000000001, "text": " And it's like really emotional or like hard to watch or like hard to do like playing through"}, {"start": 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There was like another couple. Oh, Game of Throne, not Game of Thrones."}, {"start": 11419.22, "end": 11430.22, "text": " House of the Dragon in multiple ways was like really weird, being a parent, very weird in a lot of ways."}, {"start": 11430.22, "end": 11439.22, "text": " Yeah. Interstellar. So I actually haven't seen interstellar since becoming a father. I've seen interstellar,"}, {"start": 11439.22, "end": 11444.82, "text": " But that was like when it came out a long time ago, so I would need to rewatch it as a father"}, {"start": 11445.82, "end": 11447.82, "text": " Trying to think what else"}, {"start": 11449.099999999999, "end": 11452.3, "text": " Probably like a bunch of them anyway, it's definitely way different"}, {"start": 11463.539999999999, "end": 11465.939999999999, "text": " Last of us I'm I'm I'm play last of us"}, {"start": 11465.94, "end": 11472.94, "text": " AWC Selfie Clip from Pica. Oh, oh, you found it? Let me watch this real quick."}, {"start": 11482.74, "end": 11488.460000000001, "text": " So this is like the AWC trailers I was talking about. What they used to do, which I don't"}, {"start": 11488.460000000001, "end": 11491.880000000001, "text": " think they did in this recent one, is put the team names on their back so you could"}, {"start": 11491.880000000001, "end": 11495.880000000001, "text": " tell which team they were from, which was really cool."}, {"start": 11503.880000000001, "end": 11505.880000000001, "text": " This was in 2020, yeah."}, {"start": 11505.880000000001, "end": 11507.880000000001, "text": " And this is Picaboo."}, {"start": 11509.880000000001, "end": 11511.880000000001, "text": " This is the Cloud 19."}, {"start": 11511.880000000001, "end": 11522.960000000001, "text": " He could have taken a selfie with the whole team and he's in his PJs."}, {"start": 11522.960000000001, "end": 11527.720000000001, "text": " I thought that was so sick dude."}, {"start": 11527.720000000001, "end": 11528.720000000001, "text": " So cool."}, {"start": 11528.72, "end": 11545.66, "text": " Yeah, why didn't they do the flags on the back?"}, {"start": 11545.66, "end": 11549.66, "text": " I don't know if you guys agree, but like the new video and not having the flags on the"}, {"start": 11549.66, "end": 11553.98, "text": " back actually made it way less exciting because the flags you could tell what team they're"}, {"start": 11553.98, "end": 11556.939999999999, "text": " from and you can like root for your guy, you know?"}, {"start": 11556.94, "end": 11558.94, "text": " That was sick."}, {"start": 11558.94, "end": 11560.94, "text": " That's personal, yeah."}, {"start": 11570.94, "end": 11572.94, "text": " This one was really good."}, {"start": 11586.94, "end": 11611.94, "text": " Peek-a-boo would be in his pajamas, man. Unbelievable."}, {"start": 11616.94, "end": 11624.980000000001, "text": " This this this was a good one, bro"}, {"start": 11625.94, "end": 11631.060000000001, "text": " Holy crap that's sick and they're all just kind of like sitting here. This is the trophy you get for winning"}, {"start": 11631.300000000001, "end": 11637.18, "text": " They're all just sitting at like the foot of the trophy you have all their flags like cloud nine cold and guardians"}, {"start": 11637.86, "end": 11639.86, "text": " This is before"}, {"start": 11640.94, "end": 11643.380000000001, "text": " All the sponsors pulled out of wow PvP"}, {"start": 11646.94, "end": 11650.5, "text": " I shout it to you every time."}, {"start": 11650.5, "end": 11658.5, "text": " This was fun to watch, fun to watch, fun to watch."}, {"start": 11658.5, "end": 11665.62, "text": " Oh gosh, I have too many tabs open."}, {"start": 11665.62, "end": 11668.220000000001, "text": " Okay, here it is, really."}, {"start": 11668.220000000001, "end": 11672.12, "text": " Yo, Kruthalis, thanks for the tier one."}, {"start": 11672.12, "end": 11673.980000000001, "text": " Why did the sponsors pull out?"}, {"start": 11673.98, "end": 11685.46, "text": " It turns out, believe it or not, that WoWPVP is actually not a profitable space for sponsorships,"}, {"start": 11685.46, "end": 11686.46, "text": " I guess."}, {"start": 11686.46, "end": 11691.98, "text": " So a lot of the teams actually stopped sponsoring teams."}, {"start": 11691.98, "end": 11697.859999999999, "text": " It actually, like I joke about it, but I actually, it actually does hurt to say that."}, {"start": 11697.859999999999, "end": 11698.859999999999, "text": " It actually sucks."}, {"start": 11698.859999999999, "end": 11700.779999999999, "text": " It's like, WoWPVP is such a big part of my life."}, {"start": 11700.779999999999, "end": 11703.06, "text": " And I feel like, it sucks."}, {"start": 11703.06, "end": 11704.34, "text": " It does suck."}, {"start": 11704.34, "end": 11705.82, "text": " I love it so much."}, {"start": 11705.82, "end": 11707.66, "text": " It's like sucks that it can't."}, {"start": 11707.66, "end": 11711.14, "text": " Yeah, it is what it is, I guess, you know?"}, {"start": 11713.539999999999, "end": 11714.98, "text": " Kind of all eSports went down."}, {"start": 11714.98, "end": 11718.24, "text": " Yeah, in a sense, there was like an eSport bubble, right?"}, {"start": 11718.24, "end": 11720.14, "text": " Like, I actually didn't realize this"}, {"start": 11720.14, "end": 11721.939999999999, "text": " except until I was in it,"}, {"start": 11721.939999999999, "end": 11725.14, "text": " is that nearly every eSports organization"}, {"start": 11725.14, "end": 11726.98, "text": " was running at a loss"}, {"start": 11728.1, "end": 11729.82, "text": " and had to cut like,"}, {"start": 11729.82, "end": 11731.06, "text": " like this was like a few years back,"}, {"start": 11731.06, "end": 11732.46, "text": " had to cut like all the costs,"}, {"start": 11732.460000000001, "end": 11736.34, "text": " like cut all of their streamers, cut all of their pro players."}, {"start": 11736.34, "end": 11738.300000000001, "text": " Like you've seen all of these teams"}, {"start": 11738.300000000001, "end": 11739.820000000002, "text": " just like drop all of their teams."}, {"start": 11739.820000000002, "end": 11740.86, "text": " And you're like, what the heck, man?"}, {"start": 11740.86, "end": 11742.12, "text": " I loved watching that."}, {"start": 11742.12, "end": 11745.62, "text": " It turns out like pretty much every eSports org"}, {"start": 11745.62, "end": 11749.900000000001, "text": " was losing money across the board, like all of them."}, {"start": 11749.900000000001, "end": 11752.900000000001, "text": " I think that only one that was not losing money was like"}, {"start": 11752.900000000001, "end": 11755.18, "text": " TSM, but they were not losing money"}, {"start": 11755.18, "end": 11759.86, "text": " because of another investment they had in an app"}, {"start": 11759.86, "end": 11761.580000000002, "text": " that they created or helped create."}, {"start": 11761.58, "end": 11764.78, "text": " like they made their money through that and that wasn't actually anything to do"}, {"start": 11764.78, "end": 11768.36, "text": " with like the actual org but like so it showed profitability but like the point"}, {"start": 11768.36, "end": 11774.36, "text": " is it wasn't profitable for like anyone. Oh thanks Ben. I was watching a YouTube"}, {"start": 11774.36, "end": 11782.3, "text": " video. It hasn't started yet. I'm doing stuff in here. It's important, it's"}, {"start": 11782.3, "end": 11789.12, "text": " important stuff. Shannon comes in she's like why is your screen black? What are"}, {"start": 11789.12, "end": 11797.320000000002, "text": " you doing? So you just sitting there all day? Guys, I'm not sitting here all day. I'm doing"}, {"start": 11797.320000000002, "end": 11807.92, "text": " important stuff in here, alright? Oh my gosh. Anyway, like I was saying, I actually didn't"}, {"start": 11807.92, "end": 11813.08, "text": " realize that until I was in it, but yeah, every eSports award was just losing money."}, {"start": 11813.08, "end": 11818.2, "text": " So not even just wow, like across the board, that's why like, if you guys notice,"}, {"start": 11818.2, "end": 11820.320000000002, "text": " they all, a lot of them just like don't exist anymore."}, {"start": 11820.320000000002, "end": 11822.36, "text": " Like a lot of teams just got cut"}, {"start": 11822.36, "end": 11824.04, "text": " it's because they were just bleeding out money"}, {"start": 11824.04, "end": 11824.960000000001, "text": " all over the place."}, {"start": 11830.92, "end": 11833.36, "text": " Overwatch, boom."}, {"start": 11834.640000000001, "end": 11836.400000000001, "text": " How does that even make sense?"}, {"start": 11836.400000000001, "end": 11838.2, "text": " It was all borrowed money."}, {"start": 11838.2, "end": 11839.6, "text": " It was all borrowed time."}, {"start": 11839.6, "end": 11844.12, "text": " Like it was all like VC, money, pumped in."}, {"start": 11844.12, "end": 11845.480000000001, "text": " Ooh, this is gonna be big."}, {"start": 11845.480000000001, "end": 11846.880000000001, "text": " And then like a lot of people do watch"}, {"start": 11846.880000000001, "end": 11849.52, "text": " but it wasn't like as profitable as people thought."}, {"start": 11849.52, "end": 11851.800000000001, "text": " So like way more money was being pumped into it"}, {"start": 11851.800000000001, "end": 11855.820000000002, "text": " than all the money dried up and it was like, wait, maybe not."}, {"start": 11856.960000000001, "end": 11859.740000000002, "text": " So yeah, loans, exactly."}, {"start": 11862.76, "end": 11864.660000000002, "text": " Well, find out if you see money."}, {"start": 11874.480000000001, "end": 11875.76, "text": " Does your wife know how big you are"}, {"start": 11875.76, "end": 11878.16, "text": " the WoW stream, the WoW realm."}, {"start": 11879.56, "end": 11881.92, "text": " I've told her once or twice that I'm a"}, {"start": 11881.92, "end": 11884.16, "text": " 20 plus time rank one player,"}, {"start": 11884.16, "end": 11886.04, "text": " that I'm a gold high elo,"}, {"start": 11886.04, "end": 11889.62, "text": " awry main in League of Legends."}, {"start": 11890.800000000001, "end": 11891.800000000001, "text": " Maybe once or twice."}, {"start": 11893.72, "end": 11894.56, "text": " Well."}, {"start": 11899.4, "end": 11900.24, "text": " All right."}, {"start": 11902.68, "end": 11904.880000000001, "text": " I'm gonna play this one guys"}, {"start": 11904.880000000001, "end": 11906.880000000001, "text": " and continue eating. Let's enjoy."}, {"start": 11906.880000000001, "end": 11911.480000000001, "text": " Every game that runs long enough is bound to leave behind some major points during its development"}, {"start": 11911.480000000001, "end": 11914.54, "text": " where it changes significantly going forwards."}, {"start": 11914.54, "end": 11919.04, "text": " And oftentimes with games it's difficult to pinpoint exactly when those moments are."}, {"start": 11919.04, "end": 11925.04, "text": " However, this isn't really the case with World of Warcraft as Blizzard have always worked on an expansion basis."}, {"start": 11925.04, "end": 11931.04, "text": " And during every expansion they tend to push some new feature onto the game which is going to modify it significantly."}, {"start": 11931.04, "end": 11934.800000000001, "text": " And I was thinking what would be the largest feature which has been added in every single"}, {"start": 11934.800000000001, "end": 11937.52, "text": " World of Warcraft expansion so far."}, {"start": 11937.52, "end": 11942.36, "text": " All the way back from Vanilla to today in Midnight, some of these were very much successes right"}, {"start": 11942.36, "end": 11946.640000000001, "text": " from the get go, others had to undergo a bit of development shall we say before they"}, {"start": 11946.640000000001, "end": 11948.560000000001, "text": " were in their best possible state."}, {"start": 11948.560000000001, "end": 11952.960000000001, "text": " But with that said, these have to be some of the most defining moments of World of Warcraft's"}, {"start": 11952.960000000001, "end": 11954.6, "text": " 20 year history."}, {"start": 11954.6, "end": 11958.36, "text": " Starting off with Vanilla is a bit of an odd thing because it is the very beginning"}, {"start": 11958.36, "end": 11961.0, "text": " they really didn't have anything else to go off of."}, {"start": 11961.0, "end": 11964.92, "text": " These were a bunch of guys making a game which they thought sounded cool, and that really"}, {"start": 11964.92, "end": 11966.16, "text": " is all there was to it."}, {"start": 11966.16, "end": 11970.44, "text": " But what had to have gotten back then was just the scope of how big this game was actually"}, {"start": 11970.44, "end": 11971.44, "text": " going to be."}, {"start": 11971.44, "end": 11975.68, "text": " Over the middle of the launch late 2004 the team reportedly considered somewhere around"}, {"start": 11975.68, "end": 11981.32, "text": " 500,000 subscribers a massive success, and they hit that amount and then just never"}, {"start": 11981.32, "end": 11983.08, "text": " stopped climbing."}, {"start": 11983.08, "end": 11987.36, "text": " Within months there were millions of players who had stepped into Azeroth and were experiencing"}, {"start": 11987.36, "end": 11988.72, "text": " it first hand."}, {"start": 11988.72, "end": 11993.8, "text": " of the MMO had ever come close to this level of success. The trouble was the development"}, {"start": 11993.8, "end": 11998.76, "text": " team had to scramble to match the game's own popularity. The launch was a wall of multiple"}, {"start": 11998.76, "end": 12004.16, "text": " hour long log-in queues, constant server crashes, brutal latency, and hardware that"}, {"start": 12004.16, "end": 12008.88, "text": " simply wasn't fit for purpose, and Blizzard were having to constantly adapt to see how"}, {"start": 12008.88, "end": 12013.16, "text": " they could meet this ever-growing demand. I don't think any moment-driven era encapsulates"}, {"start": 12013.16, "end": 12019.18, "text": " this better than the opening of the gates of Anchorage. It was a crazy ambitious idea."}, {"start": 12019.18, "end": 12023.9, "text": " A server-wide war effort event where one singular player would rise above all others and be the"}, {"start": 12023.9, "end": 12028.46, "text": " person to really open the raid. On paper it was probably the coolest thing the game had"}, {"start": 12028.46, "end": 12033.74, "text": " ever attempted. In practice when rounds actually started opening the gates individually, it"}, {"start": 12033.74, "end": 12039.26, "text": " was a technical disaster. Her renders-like server crashes throughout days and nights,"}, {"start": 12039.26, "end": 12043.460000000001, "text": " dying in getting fun from random graveyards on the other side of the world, it was in"}, {"start": 12043.460000000001, "end": 12048.04, "text": " equal parts ambitious and crazy. I'm really thinking forwards to World of Warcraft so"}, {"start": 12048.04, "end": 12052.68, "text": " many years later Blizzard have never quite attempted something like this, on this scale"}, {"start": 12052.68, "end": 12057.02, "text": " that brings so many different people together. This is why I think it's the perfect moment"}, {"start": 12057.02, "end": 12061.66, "text": " to start off with for vanilla. It was really Blizzard realizing how big this game could"}, {"start": 12061.66, "end": 12065.5, "text": " potentially be, and how they needed to approach it in the future, if they were"}, {"start": 12065.5, "end": 12070.24, "text": " going to be meeting this massive demand. And then we move through the dark portal into the"}, {"start": 12070.24, "end": 12071.92, "text": " burning crusade of the first."}, {"start": 12071.92, "end": 12078.52, "text": " Bro, I can only imagine if you're blizzard and you just see this happening. Like he said"}, {"start": 12078.52, "end": 12085.48, "text": " that your expectation is like here of a mass like this, this is a massive success like"}, {"start": 12085.48, "end": 12090.48, "text": " 500,000 subs is a massive success. It's like, wow, we made it. We're the biggest"}, {"start": 12090.48, "end": 12095.48, "text": " MMO in the market and it just like goes to like here."}, {"start": 12095.48, "end": 12097.6, "text": " I bet like you're just, you're going through the moon."}, {"start": 12097.6, "end": 12099.16, "text": " Like you're just like over the moon excited."}, {"start": 12099.16, "end": 12100.4, "text": " You're like, holy crap."}, {"start": 12100.4, "end": 12102.199999999999, "text": " And then it just like doubles again."}, {"start": 12102.199999999999, "end": 12103.52, "text": " And then it doubles again."}, {"start": 12103.52, "end": 12105.56, "text": " And it's like, and then it's just like the eight mil."}, {"start": 12105.56, "end": 12108.06, "text": " You're probably just like, what the heck?"}, {"start": 12109.24, "end": 12111.24, "text": " I think this is, we talked about this before,"}, {"start": 12111.24, "end": 12115.32, "text": " but this is probably why Blizzard completely dropped the"}, {"start": 12115.32, "end": 12118.56, "text": " ball on Dota, Dota two, I guess,"}, {"start": 12118.56, "end": 12121.279999999999, "text": " because they were just in the midst of this."}, {"start": 12121.279999999999, "end": 12123.859999999999, "text": " It was just complete chaos of like, holy crap,"}, {"start": 12123.859999999999, "end": 12125.84, "text": " we were onto the biggest thing ever."}, {"start": 12125.84, "end": 12129.46, "text": " And then like, TVC launches and then,"}, {"start": 12129.46, "end": 12130.619999999999, "text": " and then the whole like League of Legends"}, {"start": 12130.619999999999, "end": 12132.72, "text": " Dota thing started and like Blizzard basically"}, {"start": 12132.72, "end": 12134.119999999999, "text": " could have like won that race too,"}, {"start": 12134.119999999999, "end": 12135.96, "text": " but they focused on a while I guess."}, {"start": 12140.039999999999, "end": 12141.46, "text": " Where were we?"}, {"start": 12141.46, "end": 12143.519999999999, "text": " Well, we were all stuck to the floor,"}, {"start": 12143.519999999999, "end": 12145.1, "text": " but the burning crusade changed that"}, {"start": 12145.1, "end": 12147.84, "text": " with something that the game had never seen so far,"}, {"start": 12147.84, "end": 12153.34, "text": " Unless you were taking a flight path that was, flying, once you hit level 70 or as a druid"}, {"start": 12153.34, "end": 12158.460000000001, "text": " at level 68, you could unlock flying, and finally take to the skies without just being"}, {"start": 12158.460000000001, "end": 12163.98, "text": " on a flight path, an epic flying back then would say you back a huge 5000 gold, which"}, {"start": 12163.98, "end": 12169.78, "text": " was an unimaginable volume of gold back then, and flying absolutely changed how Blizzard"}, {"start": 12169.78, "end": 12174.62, "text": " had to design the world fundamentally forevermore, Outland zones were fractured"}, {"start": 12174.62, "end": 12179.660000000002, "text": " chance of rock floating in the twisting nether and several endgame destinations tempest keep"}, {"start": 12179.660000000002, "end": 12184.7, "text": " among them required you to have flying to reach them during the start. I don't know if I was a"}, {"start": 12184.7, "end": 12193.5, "text": " weirdo in TBC like OG TBC, but a lot of the time that I spent was just spent flying around farming"}, {"start": 12193.5, "end": 12200.060000000001, "text": " gold. Like I did my gold farm back then was I would fly around and get adamentite ore and"}, {"start": 12200.06, "end": 12203.699999999999, "text": " and I believe I coupled it with clouds or something,"}, {"start": 12203.699999999999, "end": 12205.98, "text": " clouds and ore or something."}, {"start": 12205.98, "end": 12207.82, "text": " And I would just fly around like all night,"}, {"start": 12207.82, "end": 12210.06, "text": " just chilling and farming gold."}, {"start": 12210.06, "end": 12212.98, "text": " And so I ended up getting my Epic Mount,"}, {"start": 12212.98, "end": 12216.46, "text": " which was like pretty cool back then, like the fast one."}, {"start": 12216.46, "end": 12217.3, "text": " I didn't get it right away."}, {"start": 12217.3, "end": 12218.98, "text": " It took many months of farming that I got it."}, {"start": 12218.98, "end": 12220.38, "text": " And I was like super stoked."}, {"start": 12220.38, "end": 12223.34, "text": " And then I ended up getting a ton more 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Like I just really don't like it."}, {"start": 12378.2, "end": 12381.560000000001, "text": " But when you think of like some of the stuff that they were trying in Draenor, it was actually"}, {"start": 12381.560000000001, "end": 12386.36, "text": " really ahead of their time. So this was like about 10 years ago or a little more. And they"}, {"start": 12386.36, "end": 12391.400000000001, "text": " were trying the concept of how about no flying in our new expansion to get people back on the"}, {"start": 12391.400000000001, "end": 12396.44, "text": " ground and playing how we used to. Another key selling point of Draenor was like, let's"}, {"start": 12396.44, "end": 12403.300000000001, "text": " Actually take abilities away and get back to simpler rotations where people just have a few key abilities kind of how it was like in classic"}, {"start": 12403.36, "end": 12410.08, "text": " Like they actually had some really good ideas in Draenor ten years ahead of their time, but it was really um"}, {"start": 12411.44, "end": 12413.44, "text": " One I think the execution was quite poor"}, {"start": 12415.08, "end": 12419.4, "text": " Like they they took away like wrong abilities, I think from classes so that you didn't actually feel good"}, {"start": 12420.16, "end": 12424.68, "text": " But two I think it proves the point that we were talking about earlier with like flying"}, {"start": 12424.68, "end": 12430.6, "text": " It's not something that you can just like give to someone and then take it away because once you have it you always want it"}, {"start": 12430.6, "end": 12433.64, "text": " It's like giving a kid candy and then taking it away"}, {"start": 12434.800000000001, "end": 12436.800000000001, "text": " They're not gonna be happy, right?"}, {"start": 12437.48, "end": 12439.48, "text": " like uh, I"}, {"start": 12439.92, "end": 12443.68, "text": " Mean I have a little two-year-old so I got I know how that goes if you give him something"}, {"start": 12443.68, "end": 12446.32, "text": " You can't just like take it away right away. Look he's gonna start crying"}, {"start": 12446.880000000001, "end": 12451.32, "text": " Right, you can't give a wow player a flying mountain to take it away. They're gonna cry in the forums"}, {"start": 12451.32, "end": 12455.74, "text": " But if you never had it in the first place the game does feel pretty darn nice"}, {"start": 12455.74, "end": 12459.26, "text": " But you can't give it and take it away, so it doesn't really work for that reason either"}, {"start": 12459.26, "end": 12461.9, "text": " But I have to say they were like ahead of their time and just didn't really work"}, {"start": 12463.44, "end": 12466.02, "text": " But when Blizzard put flying in the game in TBC"}, {"start": 12466.02, "end": 12469.14, "text": " It made the game a whole lot more complicated for them"}, {"start": 12469.26, "end": 12474.74, "text": " Next up is no friend with Rafa the Lich King and Rafa's remembered as the peak of World of Warcraft's popularity"}, {"start": 12475.18, "end": 12481.02, "text": " And the big reason for that is it's because when Blizzard made the game the easiest to play that it's ever been"}, {"start": 12481.32, "end": 12488.32, "text": " There are so many examples of what they did in patch 3.3 join the final patch they introduced the cross round dungeon finder."}, {"start": 12488.32, "end": 12496.32, "text": " Before that I remember trying to get my daily's dungeon raffle a lich king sitting in Dauran and hoping that a tank popped up so I could scoop him up and go get the dungeon."}, {"start": 12496.32, "end": 12503.32, "text": " Raffle also had dual talent specializations you could swap between different specs albeit it cost a thousand gold back then."}, {"start": 12503.32, "end": 12518.32, "text": " There were airlands on top of that, Blizzard squished the amount of experience you needed to level up, classes got far more powerful, way more classes got interrupts or defensive cooldowns or offensive cooldowns or mobility, it was truly an absolutely massive time for change."}, {"start": 12518.32, "end": 12530.32, "text": " Well I think if you played Wrath Classic looking back to it, then you may come to appreciate that Wrath of the Lich King was really quite a big turning point in Warcraft's history, especially when it came to convenience."}, {"start": 12530.32, "end": 12538.32, "text": " It's no surprise that during Wrath of the Lich King the old school players started to call a newer crowd Wrath Babies. They haven't grown up with how difficult it was."}, {"start": 12538.32, "end": 12543.32, "text": " Wrath Babies bro, they don't understand what we went through."}, {"start": 12543.32, "end": 12549.32, "text": " Slow and grindy the game used to be, this new age world of Warcraft was something different."}, {"start": 12549.32, "end": 12553.06, "text": " Sure it was popular, but it wasn't quite the same either."}, {"start": 12553.06, "end": 12557.88, "text": " Onwards though we head through to the cataclysm and the whole entire old world was revamped."}, {"start": 12557.88, "end": 12562.84, "text": " And Cater absolutely gets a rough reputation, however right towards the end of the expansion"}, {"start": 12562.84, "end": 12568.44, "text": " it introduced arguably one of the most impactful updates World of Warcraft has ever seen."}, {"start": 12568.44, "end": 12573.980000000001, "text": " In patch 4.3 that's alongside Dragon Soul, yet that disaster of a raid, Blizzard also"}, {"start": 12573.980000000001, "end": 12578.76, "text": " introduced transmogrification, for the first time you could change the appearance of your"}, {"start": 12578.76, "end": 12583.1, "text": " weapons and armor whilst keeping the stats of whatever you were actually wearing."}, {"start": 12583.1, "end": 12587.24, "text": " Prior to this the way your character looked was dedicated entirely by how effective the"}, {"start": 12587.24, "end": 12592.84, "text": " gear was in PvE or PvP, and by whatever put out the best numbers, and in doing so"}, {"start": 12592.84, "end": 12597.24, "text": " created a whole new reason to run old content and farm old gear."}, {"start": 12597.24, "end": 12601.5, "text": " with transmog people are running molten core again to try and get their tier 1 or figuring"}, {"start": 12601.5, "end": 12604.98, "text": " out just how many old raids can I possibly solo."}, {"start": 12604.98, "end": 12609.66, "text": " I think transmog for retail has definitely been one of the most successful updates ever"}, {"start": 12609.66, "end": 12613.78, "text": " and it's really something that stood the test of time."}, {"start": 12613.78, "end": 12618.18, "text": " I know people like it and I know it's one of the most successful things in the game"}, {"start": 12618.18, "end": 12621.5, "text": " with the biggest, one of the biggest things in the game and one of the reasons people"}, {"start": 12621.5, "end": 12625.18, "text": " play the game but I still don't like it man."}, {"start": 12625.18, "end": 12630.66, "text": " I like to see what people actually look like, I'm not a big transmog guy, no thank you."}, {"start": 12630.66, "end": 12635.08, "text": " I, I know, I, I want to see what, what, what you're working with."}, {"start": 12635.08, "end": 12639.9, "text": " If you want to naturally then put on your tier three in AFK in a city, go for it."}, {"start": 12639.9, "end": 12642.7, "text": " But, ah, shh, just saying."}, {"start": 12642.7, "end": 12646.78, "text": " And it's allowed tons of players to express different ways for their characters to lock."}, {"start": 12646.78, "end": 12651.98, "text": " But if Cataclysm planted the cosmetic seed, Mr. Pandaria was where collection became"}, {"start": 12651.98, "end": 12654.82, "text": " a fully fleshed out part of the game."}, {"start": 12654.82, "end": 12659.3, "text": " The groundwork was laid in the pre-expansion for map on patch 5.04."}, {"start": 12659.3, "end": 12662.699999999999, "text": " Wimbles and a pets mouse and achievements account wide."}, {"start": 12662.699999999999, "end": 12666.38, "text": " Everything you've been working to on your main was now accessible across so many different"}, {"start": 12666.38, "end": 12671.06, "text": " characters, and this made farming a multiple characters view or appealing as well."}, {"start": 12671.06, "end": 12675.86, "text": " Pandaria then lay on top the pet battle system, a complete hand-based minigame with its"}, {"start": 12675.86, "end": 12679.94, "text": " own progressions, rarities and hundreds of creatures to catch and level."}, {"start": 12679.94, "end": 12683.26, "text": " And there were so many open world treasures to find from things which were actually"}, {"start": 12683.26, "end": 12687.22, "text": " effective in combat to things which would change your appearance. And to add it all off"}, {"start": 12687.22, "end": 12692.460000000001, "text": " at the end of Missa Pandaria was the Timeless Isle, the ultimate go and do stuff here when"}, {"start": 12692.460000000001, "end": 12696.82, "text": " you've got nothing else to do place to go. And in future expansions Blizzard would very"}, {"start": 12696.82, "end": 12703.26, "text": " much replicate the Timeless Isle in zones such as Tanahm Jungle, Sarumar, Argus, and"}, {"start": 12703.26, "end": 12704.78, "text": " many more zones in the future."}, {"start": 12704.78, "end": 12711.9, "text": " But none of them were as good as the Timeless Isle. Timeless Isle is like, so like,"}, {"start": 12711.9, "end": 12717.18, "text": " it's nostalgia talking this place was so fun so much little detail like walking on"}, {"start": 12717.18, "end": 12720.9, "text": " the ropes you could do that use that item that made you like hostile to all"}, {"start": 12720.9, "end": 12727.539999999999, "text": " factions and PvP people bunch of stuff to collect rares world bosses like I"}, {"start": 12727.539999999999, "end": 12731.779999999999, "text": " remember after school or like I think this is college after maybe I was a"}, {"start": 12731.779999999999, "end": 12735.18, "text": " senior in high school or freshman in college and I would just like hang out"}, {"start": 12735.18, "end": 12739.46, "text": " and like on this island is PvP all day like oh it was fun bro"}, {"start": 12739.460000000001, "end": 12744.660000000002, "text": " Future. Typically at Engen now a mod of Warcraft you'll find there's a zone with just loads"}, {"start": 12744.660000000002, "end": 12749.54, "text": " of collection stuff, and I think the timeless aisle was the original one, but overall Mr"}, {"start": 12749.54, "end": 12754.26, "text": " Pandaria for me was really the rise of collection as a form of Engen content."}, {"start": 12754.26, "end": 12759.220000000001, "text": " And then after Mr Pandaria we went back in time to Warlord's of Draenor in a rather"}, {"start": 12759.220000000001, "end": 12764.86, "text": " strange twist of fate following along Garrosh's journey to the past I suppose. 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Now Mythic Raiding has actually"}, {"start": 12798.02, "end": 12801.94, "text": " brought in during the wall or to drain or prepatch and technically the first ever"}, {"start": 12801.94, "end": 12806.18, "text": " mythic raid was the siege of Orgrimmar during this subhandariah however it was"}, {"start": 12806.18, "end": 12810.5, "text": " during the ward prepatch so uncounting it as a ward piece of content blizzard"}, {"start": 12810.5, "end": 12814.060000000001, "text": " had been going back and forth with how they wanted raiding to work for years"}, {"start": 12814.060000000001, "end": 12819.060000000001, "text": " at this point in time we had 40 or 20 player aides in vanilla 25 or 10 in"}, {"start": 12819.060000000001, "end": 12824.32, "text": " TBC then in wrath we had 25 and 10 we had hard modes we had heroics we had"}, {"start": 12824.32, "end": 12828.72, "text": " staggered what kind of fluid had attained. 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One of the key things to know about mythic is that it was 20"}, {"start": 12861.44, "end": 12866.720000000001, "text": " player only, so no longer did Blizzard have to bounce bosses for differing raid size groups between"}, {"start": 12866.720000000001, "end": 12871.68, "text": " 10 or 25, because when they had to do this on some old bosses, some of them would be much"}, {"start": 12871.68, "end": 12876.48, "text": " easier with 10 and some much easier with 25. For instance imagine you have a mechanic that"}, {"start": 12876.48, "end": 12880.24, "text": " gradually fills up the room with something on the floor you have to avoid. 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Like, you know, it was just like Mitch Jones,"}, {"start": 12935.28, "end": 12938.26, "text": " You know, like it was just crazy, it was fun, it was sick."}, {"start": 12938.26, "end": 12942.68, "text": " And then Wad came out and it was just like pretty miserable,"}, {"start": 12942.68, "end": 12945.12, "text": " I would say for like most people,"}, {"start": 12945.12, "end": 12947.44, "text": " like all the content creators just kind of stopped."}, {"start": 12947.44, "end": 12950.320000000002, "text": " I think Wreckful stopped streaming and Wad"}, {"start": 12950.320000000002, "end": 12951.640000000001, "text": " and so did the other stuff."}, {"start": 12951.640000000001, "end": 12953.720000000001, "text": " And like everyone was just like, okay,"}, {"start": 12953.720000000001, "end": 12957.640000000001, "text": " this just isn't that good, which sucked like a lot."}, {"start": 12957.640000000001, "end": 12959.400000000001, "text": " And then Legion came out and like Legion"}, {"start": 12959.400000000001, "end": 12962.560000000001, "text": " was actually like a little better than Wad."}, {"start": 12962.560000000001, "end": 12963.960000000001, "text": " It was like, it was kind of like this cool little"}, {"start": 12963.960000000001, "end": 12967.36, "text": " Revival it's like oh nice the game actually isn't awful again soda came back"}, {"start": 12967.92, "end": 12970.880000000001, "text": " I think Refl might have came back a bit Mitch came back a bit"}, {"start": 12971.92, "end": 12976.94, "text": " I think so do you even got rank one and lesion like it was like it was like good enough to actually want to play"}, {"start": 12977.160000000002, "end": 12979.160000000002, "text": " It's like whoa cool"}, {"start": 12979.92, "end": 12983.76, "text": " And then we had I mean we'll get to it then we had another"}, {"start": 12984.36, "end": 12989.000000000002, "text": " Series of events, but it was kind of nice, you know to get the get the game back a little bit"}, {"start": 12989.0, "end": 12995.48, "text": " Yes, your artifact power farming, all your new artifact weapons to unlock the Soromar storyline,"}, {"start": 12995.48, "end": 12998.36, "text": " hidden artifact appearances and so much more."}, {"start": 12998.36, "end": 13001.84, "text": " I think this is one of the reasons why Legion is so well remembered."}, {"start": 13001.84, "end": 13005.8, "text": " People were so bored off the back of all of the drain or Legion just threw all this stuff"}, {"start": 13005.8, "end": 13008.72, "text": " at them to do, and people were so ready for it."}, {"start": 13008.72, "end": 13012.52, "text": " One of the biggest new features that Legion would bring in would be Mythic Plus."}, {"start": 13012.52, "end": 13016.44, "text": " And Mythic Plus had very much been an idea that had been gradually growing for"}, {"start": 13016.44, "end": 13018.68, "text": " Blizzard over several expansions."}, {"start": 13018.68, "end": 13023.36, "text": " whilst raiding content had remained relevant through transmogrification, dungeons were kind"}, {"start": 13023.36, "end": 13027.28, "text": " of falling off kind of fast, people would do them to level up, they'd do them for the"}, {"start": 13027.28, "end": 13031.64, "text": " first week or two at Endgame, and then they'd be largely forgotten. Blizzard wanted to keep"}, {"start": 13031.64, "end": 13036.960000000001, "text": " this content relevant. 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Blizzard had changed this system significantly since then."}, {"start": 13083.9, "end": 13087.199999999999, "text": " However it was Legion that laid the groundwork for this to happen."}, {"start": 13087.199999999999, "end": 13095.6, "text": " And these days Mythic Plus is even more popular than raiding content. It really has taken over as a cornerstone at the endgame of World of Warcraft."}, {"start": 13095.6, "end": 13098.699999999999, "text": " And because of that I think it absolutely deserves a mention."}, {"start": 13098.7, "end": 13102.380000000001, "text": " following a huge win that was legion we went into the battle of Razoroth."}, {"start": 13102.380000000001, "end": 13107.26, "text": " An expansion where things unfortunately did not continue so successfully for Blizzard."}, {"start": 13107.26, "end": 13111.820000000002, "text": " And unfortunately I think the next two expansions are gonna be too hard to lessons that Blizzard"}, {"start": 13111.820000000002, "end": 13113.18, "text": " have had to learn."}, {"start": 13113.18, "end": 13117.02, "text": " So I'm sure if you play back then or even if you haven't you may have heard the term"}, {"start": 13117.02, "end": 13119.18, "text": " borrowed power in Ward of Warcraft."}, {"start": 13119.18, "end": 13122.62, "text": " The whole idea of this is based around the fact that during an expansion"}, {"start": 13122.62, "end": 13126.380000000001, "text": " you gained tons of power and then at the start of the next expansion"}, {"start": 13126.380000000001, "end": 13130.460000000001, "text": " your character loses that power and sometimes it's replaced with something else."}, {"start": 13130.460000000001, "end": 13132.94, "text": " By the end of Legion, our characters were the most powerful."}, {"start": 13132.94, "end": 13136.140000000001, "text": " Um, this is like a, a slightly different conversation,"}, {"start": 13136.140000000001, "end": 13140.060000000001, "text": " but I was listening to the Ampy Savics podcast, some of the clips from it,"}, {"start": 13140.060000000001, "end": 13144.86, "text": " and Ampy actually said something that I really agree with, um, to Savics."}, {"start": 13144.86, "end": 13148.140000000001, "text": " He said that the big reason he doesn't like world buffs,"}, {"start": 13148.140000000001, "end": 13152.140000000001, "text": " or at least the, he said that world buffs are very problematic,"}, {"start": 13152.14, "end": 13159.539999999999, "text": " is because that it gives your character way too much borrowed power."}, {"start": 13159.539999999999, "end": 13165.74, "text": " So he gave like the example of like a warrior who has no world buffs versus a warrior with world buffs."}, {"start": 13165.74, "end": 13171.34, "text": " He said that world buffs are like more valuable than like all your gear."}, {"start": 13171.34, "end": 13174.439999999999, "text": " Like world buffs are like stronger than your character itself."}, {"start": 13174.439999999999, "end": 13179.84, "text": " Like you're gaining more DPS through the world buffs than you are through like all of your armor."}, {"start": 13179.84, "end": 13192.24, "text": " Like you could have a previous warrior with full world buffs doing more damage than like a warrior with like pretty solid gear, but no world buffs like that's the problem is that they're so darn good."}, {"start": 13192.24, "end": 13194.2, "text": " So he's like, yeah, probably just like get rid of them."}, {"start": 13194.2, "end": 13199.0, "text": " So it's it's just a very problematic thing to have that much power put into a buff."}, {"start": 13199.72, "end": 13201.56, "text": " So I thought that was really well said by Anthony."}, {"start": 13201.56, "end": 13207.92, "text": " Full they have ever been, in World of Warcraft and probably, will ever be, people were doing"}, {"start": 13207.92, "end": 13212.72, "text": " millions and millions of DPS, I'd be surprised if we see those numbers again you know."}, {"start": 13212.72, "end": 13217.38, "text": " And a lot of that was centered around our artifact weapon and just how inflated gear had become."}, {"start": 13217.38, "end": 13221.6, "text": " So drawing BFA Blizzard wanted to hit the reset button, however they also wanted to keep"}, {"start": 13221.6, "end": 13226.18, "text": " this idea of borrowed power around since it had gone well during Legion, and the"}, {"start": 13226.18, "end": 13230.519999999999, "text": " brand new idea they had was Azorite Armor, these were pieces of armor that had certain"}, {"start": 13230.52, "end": 13234.640000000001, "text": " bonuses on which you will be able to unlock. But in reality Azurite ammo was just never"}, {"start": 13234.640000000001, "end": 13239.32, "text": " quite as exciting as artifact weapons were, and many of the bonuses were just sort of"}, {"start": 13239.32, "end": 13244.4, "text": " plain and things which occurred passively in combat. But your NBFA was even further"}, {"start": 13244.4, "end": 13249.12, "text": " than that would borrow power, later adding on Azurite essences which were really powerful"}, {"start": 13249.12, "end": 13253.640000000001, "text": " and finally during the end of the expansion they even had corruptions. 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I really think. It was fun."}, {"start": 13314.1, "end": 13319.38, "text": " EPS, your actual rotation. It's probably one of the most weird and stupid errors of World"}, {"start": 13319.38, "end": 13324.02, "text": " of Warcraft we've ever seen when it came to performance individually. Yet it was so wacky"}, {"start": 13324.02, "end": 13327.58, "text": " that I know a lot of people did enjoy it at the same time just because it was so"}, {"start": 13327.58, "end": 13328.58, "text": " unserious."}, {"start": 13328.58, "end": 13333.02, "text": " Yeah, that's kind of why. It was so crazy that it's like, wait a minute, this is"}, {"start": 13333.02, "end": 13339.02, "text": " actually kind of fun that's kind of that's kind of how it was for me but I think the"}, {"start": 13339.02, "end": 13344.060000000001, "text": " big lesson for Blizzard during BFA in the turning point here was the fact that borrowed power can"}, {"start": 13344.060000000001, "end": 13349.34, "text": " only go so far people generally don't want to get to the expansion of feelers that a character has"}, {"start": 13349.34, "end": 13354.54, "text": " got vastly weaker what makes your class and spec enjoyable has to be down to its own rotation"}, {"start": 13354.54, "end": 13359.26, "text": " and to some extent it has to be things that can be carried over into the next expansion"}, {"start": 13359.26, "end": 13363.42, "text": " And then as the second part of the one-two punch we now have the Shadowlands."}, {"start": 13363.42, "end": 13370.1, "text": " You know when Shadowlands was underway it had so much hype and it looked as though Blizzard were really going to be turning a corner after BFA."}, {"start": 13370.1, "end": 13373.86, "text": " People were cautiously optimistic about this expansion."}, {"start": 13373.86, "end": 13379.1, "text": " And then it began and, well, pretty much immediately things started going rather pear shaped."}, {"start": 13379.1, "end": 13384.5, "text": " I think there are two real learning points from Shadowlands which are equally both as important as one another."}, {"start": 13384.5, "end": 13387.460000000001, "text": " The first of which has to be the brand new Covenant system."}, {"start": 13387.460000000001, "end": 13391.140000000001, "text": " So during Shadowlands there's several reputations called Covenants."}, {"start": 13391.140000000001, "end": 13395.800000000001, "text": " You can only pick one of these at once and when you pick them they give you some new powerful abilities."}, {"start": 13395.800000000001, "end": 13400.1, "text": " However these abilities are not necessarily as good in all areas of content."}, {"start": 13400.1, "end": 13403.7, "text": " For example for one Covenant they may give you the best thing from Ithic Plus."}, {"start": 13403.7, "end": 13406.18, "text": " Another one for PvP and another one for Raiding."}, {"start": 13406.18, "end": 13410.02, "text": " This force players to make a choice of which Covenant they wanted to side with,"}, {"start": 13410.02, "end": 13413.02, "text": " and which brand new ability was most important to them."}, {"start": 13413.02, "end": 13416.140000000001, "text": " But people did not like being locked into that decision"}, {"start": 13416.14, "end": 13419.72, "text": " because it just meant that whilst they were good at one thing, they would then be sub-powered"}, {"start": 13419.72, "end": 13422.519999999999, "text": " over things compared to people who are pigs on the other car."}, {"start": 13422.519999999999, "end": 13428.16, "text": " Bro, I think there's so many things I'm excited for in Classic Plus, but I think the number"}, {"start": 13428.16, "end": 13435.519999999999, "text": " one thing I'm excited for is to have, and maybe I shouldn't make this as an assumption,"}, {"start": 13435.519999999999, "end": 13442.0, "text": " because maybe this won't be the case, but, is to have a home again."}, {"start": 13442.0, "end": 13445.32, "text": " Like to have a home again."}, {"start": 13445.32, "end": 13449.48, "text": " I feel like retail for so long was that for me."}, {"start": 13449.48, "end": 13451.48, "text": " And I think at some point I was just like,"}, {"start": 13451.48, "end": 13453.64, "text": " okay, well, let me do all the seasonal stuff"}, {"start": 13453.64, "end": 13456.6, "text": " and have fun here, have fun there, have fun there."}, {"start": 13456.6, "end": 13458.48, "text": " But I haven't had a WoW to just,"}, {"start": 13458.48, "end": 13460.039999999999, "text": " like we don't know what's gonna happen to MoP."}, {"start": 13460.039999999999, "end": 13462.24, "text": " We don't know what's gonna happen to TBC."}, {"start": 13463.24, "end": 13465.68, "text": " I want a WoW to be able to just be like, yeah,"}, {"start": 13465.68, "end": 13468.4, "text": " here we go, man, we're playing WoW, you know?"}, {"start": 13469.72, "end": 13472.539999999999, "text": " You have a home in Arizona, bro."}, {"start": 13472.539999999999, "end": 13473.8, "text": " Housing, lol."}, {"start": 13475.32, "end": 13479.56, "text": " Nice guys. Nice. You got it."}, {"start": 13479.56, "end": 13483.68, "text": " Overnance. Blizzard ended up sticking pretty firm with this system for a long time before"}, {"start": 13483.68, "end": 13487.8, "text": " finally allowing you to just pick whichever covenant you wanted to. But I think it was"}, {"start": 13487.8, "end": 13493.08, "text": " a lesson in not forcing players into a decision where too much power is tied into it. Arguably"}, {"start": 13493.08, "end": 13497.039999999999, "text": " the even bigger learning point from the Shadowlands though was that, you know what,"}, {"start": 13497.039999999999, "end": 13501.36, "text": " lore in this game, kind of matters. The story of Shadowlands was just honestly"}, {"start": 13501.36, "end": 13505.92, "text": " some more baffling with Sylvanas coming out to every single corner and outsmarting everyone"}, {"start": 13505.92, "end": 13510.6, "text": " whilst being infinitely powerful and our super-new Ultima bag-guided Jailer who have been planning"}, {"start": 13510.6, "end": 13515.76, "text": " everything that had gone bad since, well, just about the dawn of World of Warcraft apparently,"}, {"start": 13515.76, "end": 13516.76, "text": " somehow."}, {"start": 13516.76, "end": 13519.12, "text": " It never been mentioned before but, uh, yeah he did."}, {"start": 13519.12, "end": 13523.08, "text": " And the big payoff for all these new villains and the story unfolding was, well, there'll"}, {"start": 13523.08, "end": 13526.6, "text": " be something worse that'll happen but we're not going to tell you what it is."}, {"start": 13526.6, "end": 13530.480000000001, "text": " All in all it was just a disappointment for lore fans both of those who are die-hards"}, {"start": 13530.48, "end": 13534.76, "text": " of the subject, and those were really trying to get invested into it for the first time."}, {"start": 13534.76, "end": 13538.939999999999, "text": " And honestly during this expansion I think a lot of people lost a lot of faith with Blizzard's"}, {"start": 13538.939999999999, "end": 13540.779999999999, "text": " ability to tell a story."}, {"start": 13540.779999999999, "end": 13545.52, "text": " But then we head on to Dragonflight and things start picking up again for World of Warcraft."}, {"start": 13545.52, "end": 13550.199999999999, "text": " In some ways this is a bit of a spiritual successor to TBC because whilst TBC gave"}, {"start": 13550.199999999999, "end": 13553.68, "text": " us flying, the flying version that it gave us was very rigid."}, {"start": 13553.68, "end": 13556.92, "text": " You'd hop on your mount, you point them in a direction and then you'd just go"}, {"start": 13556.92, "end": 13560.119999999999, "text": " to get a drink or something for 30 seconds and come back."}, {"start": 13560.12, "end": 13564.140000000001, "text": " Dragonflight had there was brand new was Dragonriding, a brand new way to see the"}, {"start": 13564.140000000001, "end": 13569.44, "text": " skies wheel mouse going to be far more dynamic, customizable, fast and just more"}, {"start": 13569.44, "end": 13573.400000000001, "text": " fun in general to use rather than pointing it in a direction. Now mouse"}, {"start": 13573.400000000001, "end": 13576.52, "text": " working that this was not exactly something novel to World of Warcraft"}, {"start": 13576.52, "end": 13580.44, "text": " to Guild Wars 2 had done it many many years before however it was pretty"}, {"start": 13580.44, "end": 13584.68, "text": " much an instant hit all the same and over time was a little more Dragonriding"}, {"start": 13584.68, "end": 13589.0, "text": " type features for many old mouse too. Like this this reminds me the"}, {"start": 13589.0, "end": 13594.16, "text": " conversation we were having a couple hours ago where we were watching the Aiki video"}, {"start": 13594.16, "end": 13598.6, "text": " like maybe an hour or two ago and he was talking about like how to make retail"}, {"start": 13598.6, "end": 13603.08, "text": " feel small and homey again so you actually walk into your and walk around"}, {"start": 13603.08, "end": 13607.08, "text": " and meet your fellow wow player and like when I see stuff like this it reminds"}, {"start": 13607.08, "end": 13614.24, "text": " me of like you can't eat like you have dragon riding bro like you can't you"}, {"start": 13614.24, "end": 13619.92, "text": " can't do that. Like you could build that in Classic Plus, but like for retail, you're"}, {"start": 13619.92, "end": 13629.08, "text": " moving so fast, like you can't turn an apple into an orange. An apple is always going to"}, {"start": 13629.08, "end": 13637.64, "text": " be an apple. No matter how much you want your apple to be an orange, it won't be an orange."}, {"start": 13637.64, "end": 13643.64, "text": " It's an apple. Right. That's kind of like this. Does that make sense? Is RU 2026?"}, {"start": 13643.64, "end": 13647.5, "text": " Many different things in your collection suddenly became way more interesting to use."}, {"start": 13647.5, "end": 13651.779999999999, "text": " It was a good albeit unexpected update and I think Dragon Riding was the main thing to"}, {"start": 13651.779999999999, "end": 13653.939999999999, "text": " highlight for Dragon flights."}, {"start": 13653.939999999999, "end": 13654.939999999999, "text": " Next is the war within."}, {"start": 13654.939999999999, "end": 13657.859999999999, "text": " So for the most of Lord of Warcraft's life cycle, the anger-"}, {"start": 13657.859999999999, "end": 13661.82, "text": " Okay yeah, you could paint the apple orange."}, {"start": 13661.82, "end": 13665.58, "text": " And it technically would be orange."}, {"start": 13665.58, "end": 13666.58, "text": " That's not the point."}, {"start": 13666.58, "end": 13667.58, "text": " You guys missed the point."}, {"start": 13667.58, "end": 13669.14, "text": " Alright, forget it."}, {"start": 13669.14, "end": 13670.14, "text": " Forget I even said it."}, {"start": 13670.14, "end": 13676.039999999999, "text": " AIM had 3 different departments you had raiding, Mythic Plus, and PvP, if you wanted to play"}, {"start": 13676.039999999999, "end": 13680.22, "text": " seriously on your own you were kind of a bit out of luck at max level, unless you were"}, {"start": 13680.22, "end": 13682.539999999999, "text": " a cosmetic farmer of course."}, {"start": 13682.539999999999, "end": 13686.26, "text": " That finally changed with a brand new feature called DELVS."}, {"start": 13686.26, "end": 13690.14, "text": " DELVS are small instances that you can run solo or you can even team up if you want"}, {"start": 13690.14, "end": 13691.14, "text": " to."}, {"start": 13691.14, "end": 13694.42, "text": " They're designed to not take too long and you have an NPC helper to come along,"}, {"start": 13694.42, "end": 13696.66, "text": " who spec you can 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" they've allowed them to experience challenging content once again,"}, {"start": 13727.080000000002, "end": 13729.68, "text": " whilst being on a bit more of a limited time schedule."}, {"start": 13729.68, "end": 13731.84, "text": " Which finally brings us to Midnight."}, {"start": 13731.84, "end": 13734.320000000002, "text": " And whilst Midnight's not quite at its end yet,"}, {"start": 13734.320000000002, "end": 13739.44, "text": " its most impactful feature is without a doubt already released and that is player housing."}, {"start": 13739.44, "end": 13744.44, "text": " You know even during World of Warcraft's beta and alpha Blizzard were experimenting with player housing."}, {"start": 13744.44, "end": 13748.68, "text": " There's that huge portcullis with the blue swirly portal behind it in Stormwind,"}, {"start": 13748.68, "end": 13751.240000000002, "text": " that was supposed to be the housing district of that."}, {"start": 13751.24, "end": 13757.24, "text": " This is something Blizzard have wanted to do essentially forever, and, they finally did it."}, {"start": 13757.24, "end": 13763.24, "text": " After doing a bit of research on Google, it says that you can in fact make an apple taste like an orange."}, {"start": 13769.24, "end": 13773.24, "text": " To midnight, so our last players can finally build something of their own."}, {"start": 13773.24, "end": 13774.24, "text": " Alright, I guess I'm wrong."}, {"start": 13774.24, "end": 13777.24, "text": " And then there's a ton more customization and collection into the game."}, {"start": 13777.24, "end": 13780.24, "text": " There's even housing neighborhood you can share with multiple other people."}, {"start": 13780.24, "end": 13786.24, "text": " I think all in all housing has been the biggest feature of the expansion and the most heavily advertised on that's for sure"}, {"start": 13786.24, "end": 13791.24, "text": " And it's something that will continue to grow significantly as each new expansion comes by"}, {"start": 13791.24, "end": 13798.24, "text": " And though we have it, there's what I think are some of the most impactful moments during World of Warcraft's 20 plus year history"}, {"start": 13798.24, "end": 13802.24, "text": " Rain due from the explosive growth of vanilla through to the convenience of wrath"}, {"start": 13802.24, "end": 13806.24, "text": " All the way to modern expansions where new impactful features keep on coming out"}, {"start": 13806.24, "end": 13812.24, "text": " And I think whilst World of Warcraft definitely has its formula now in terms of what new content will be in each expansion,"}, {"start": 13812.24, "end": 13817.92, "text": " it's still always exciting to look out for that brand new feature which changes the game once again forever."}, {"start": 13817.92, "end": 13822.08, "text": " So what do you think? What would you have as the most impactful feature of each expansion?"}, {"start": 13822.08, "end": 13823.84, "text": " Let me know in the comments down below."}, {"start": 13823.84, "end": 13828.48, "text": " And as always, thank you all so much for watching and listening in, and I'll see you all in the next one."}, {"start": 13828.48, "end": 13829.44, "text": " Very soon."}, {"start": 13829.44, "end": 13837.0, "text": " I love Willy's content man. It's just chill relaxing. It's just like little fun facts. It's great"}, {"start": 13837.640000000001, "end": 13839.16, "text": " Thank You Willy"}, {"start": 13839.16, "end": 13844.92, "text": " All right guys, I don't I don't think I can react any longer. I my brain is turned to mush that is like I"}, {"start": 13846.16, "end": 13848.16, "text": " Think we got every video on here"}, {"start": 13850.84, "end": 13855.92, "text": " Yeah close enough I'm gonna jump around on World of Warcraft"}, {"start": 13855.92, "end": 13862.08, "text": " No, Gbay, I already watched Gbay yesterday."}, {"start": 13862.08, "end": 13863.08, "text": " Like the video?"}, {"start": 13863.08, "end": 13864.08, "text": " I think I did give it a like."}, {"start": 13864.08, "end": 13869.64, "text": " Did I miss the thumbs up?"}, {"start": 13869.64, "end": 13873.52, "text": " I saw Esfan playing the new NoPixelGTARP and heard Soda is going to try it."}, {"start": 13873.52, "end": 13876.52, "text": " Did you get invited?"}, {"start": 13876.52, "end": 13884.52, "text": " Yeah, guys, of course I got invited to play, obviously."}, {"start": 13884.52, "end": 13891.86, "text": " I got invited I I actually can't I actually can't make it though is what I told them and"}, {"start": 13894.380000000001, "end": 13896.380000000001, "text": " Cuz I'm because I'm busy"}, {"start": 13897.0, "end": 13901.34, "text": " But yeah, obviously could go to that if I felt like I wanted to"}, {"start": 13902.18, "end": 13904.94, "text": " Which I don't really feel like I do currently"}, {"start": 13908.5, "end": 13912.0, "text": " All right, let's clear out the inventory just a little bit and"}, {"start": 13912.0, "end": 13916.68, "text": " And head over to Stratholm"}, {"start": 13942.0, "end": 13961.52, "text": " That's probably fun there off with yeah is this era or TBC TBC you get your ten games"}, {"start": 13961.52, "end": 13968.76, "text": " in this week yeah I did but we went four and nine which looks bad but that does make"}, {"start": 13968.76, "end": 13977.4, "text": " me one of the highest rated Prott Paladins in the entire world. Black temple time? Um,"}, {"start": 13978.92, "end": 13985.960000000001, "text": " I guys, I think the black temple dream is pretty dead. Um, I've been looking for weeks and there"}, {"start": 13985.960000000001, "end": 13991.56, "text": " is no daytime groups. So that's just what it is. It's not that my care. Look, look, guys,"}, {"start": 13991.56, "end": 14000.48, "text": " My character is juiced to the gills in gear man. We are juiced to the gills in the gear"}, {"start": 14000.48, "end": 14003.84, "text": " It's not about that. It's just at this point. It's cheese. You know what I'm saying?"}, {"start": 14006.0, "end": 14008.439999999999, "text": " I'm sorry sorry, but you're so delusional"}, {"start": 14013.4, "end": 14015.4, "text": " What do you mean by that"}, {"start": 14016.72, "end": 14018.4, "text": " What's up, sir, how's it going Jack?"}, {"start": 14018.4, "end": 14022.64, "text": " Hey, we got a $10 super chat from player a lot and says hey man any last predictions or"}, {"start": 14023.6, "end": 14025.6, "text": " Expectations going into blizzcon"}, {"start": 14026.6, "end": 14028.6, "text": " Hmm I"}, {"start": 14031.0, "end": 14033.5, "text": " Want classic plus I"}, {"start": 14036.039999999999, "end": 14038.039999999999, "text": " Want it to not suck I"}, {"start": 14041.199999999999, "end": 14044.359999999999, "text": " Want it to be good enough to where I want to play multiple characters"}, {"start": 14048.4, "end": 14053.4, "text": " Yeah, it's pretty much, yeah, it's pretty much that."}, {"start": 14060.4, "end": 14064.4, "text": " Guys, there is no Classic Plus, it's the Starcraft MMO."}, {"start": 14064.4, "end": 14068.4, "text": " There is something on the Starcraft website that looks really interesting."}, {"start": 14078.4, "end": 14090.619999999999, "text": " Starcraft fall I want Wow on console come on I play the heck out of a Starcraft"}, {"start": 14090.619999999999, "end": 14104.94, "text": " MMO dude I've made that claim it's not even a claim I've made the what word am I"}, {"start": 14104.94, "end": 14121.460000000001, "text": " looking for here. Assessment that all popular MMOs are fantasy based. They have mages and"}, {"start": 14121.460000000001, "end": 14128.78, "text": " warriors and hunters and archers not okay not all but most all popular MMOs are fantasy"}, {"start": 14128.78, "end": 14135.380000000001, "text": " based. So I've made the claim from what I've witnessed and I don't know if there"}, {"start": 14135.380000000001, "end": 14139.1, "text": " can be a Starcraft MMO that could be bigger than like a WoW one."}, {"start": 14139.1, "end": 14143.54, "text": " You should take your 1 to 15 experience on Eera and do a retrospective on it before BlizzCon."}, {"start": 14143.54, "end": 14147.300000000001, "text": " Final thoughts before CL Plus and stuff you know."}, {"start": 14147.300000000001, "end": 14153.34, "text": " Yo Moose, I'm flying out like tomorrow. So I don't even know if I could do a"}, {"start": 14153.34, "end": 14162.02, "text": " a one through 15. Yeah, thanks for the fine, Ben. There was a Star Wars MMO. Yeah, what"}, {"start": 14162.02, "end": 14174.78, "text": " happened to it? That's my point. Every time you see it, you see like all, you see all"}, {"start": 14174.78, "end": 14182.42, "text": " of the popular MMOs follow the same trend. Right? I'm not saying it can't exist. I'm"}, {"start": 14182.42, "end": 14186.34, "text": " I'm saying to rival the popularity of the top ones,"}, {"start": 14186.34, "end": 14189.38, "text": " my claim is that they're all fantasy games, man."}, {"start": 14189.38, "end": 14192.38, "text": " And I was trying to understand why the other month,"}, {"start": 14192.38, "end": 14195.66, "text": " like why is it the case that you see fantasy games"}, {"start": 14195.66, "end": 14196.9, "text": " at the top of the MMO genre?"}, {"start": 14196.9, "end": 14201.9, "text": " It's not like a lot of like Starcraft-themed games."}, {"start": 14201.98, "end": 14203.42, "text": " And someone in my chat said,"}, {"start": 14203.42, "end": 14205.8, "text": " it's because we're all humans"}, {"start": 14205.8, "end": 14210.8, "text": " and going back to primitive human survival is really cool."}, {"start": 14210.800000000001, "end": 14212.800000000001, "text": " And I think that guy was right."}, {"start": 14213.800000000001, "end": 14232.800000000001, "text": " It's like going back to fighting with swords and bows and I mean magic is a bit of a stretch, but still magic and that kind of stuff is like just this really cool experience as a human, whereas fighting in space is cool, but not as cool for an MMO setting."}, {"start": 14232.800000000001, "end": 14233.800000000001, "text": " So I think that's why."}, {"start": 14236.800000000001, "end": 14238.800000000001, "text": " I said that, that was you? Well, you were right then."}, {"start": 14238.800000000001, "end": 14239.800000000001, "text": " Or I think you were right."}, {"start": 14241.480000000001, "end": 14246.12, "text": " It's all things to token maybe do you like runescape? I love runescape. Yeah, I"}, {"start": 14248.52, "end": 14251.04, "text": " Said that no I said it"}, {"start": 14253.76, "end": 14260.240000000002, "text": " Did brother get golden quit or just taking a break for the con no I didn't quit because I peaked that is not what happened I"}, {"start": 14262.36, "end": 14264.36, "text": " Am taking a break for the con"}, {"start": 14270.800000000001, "end": 14275.480000000001, "text": " Have you still not read Lord of the Rings?"}, {"start": 14275.480000000001, "end": 14278.12, "text": " I have not."}, {"start": 14278.12, "end": 14282.2, "text": " I have not."}, {"start": 14282.2, "end": 14283.76, "text": " I have not."}, {"start": 14283.76, "end": 14284.76, "text": " I have not."}, {"start": 14284.76, "end": 14287.000000000002, "text": " Aren't you also taking a break from RuneScape?"}, {"start": 14287.000000000002, "end": 14294.880000000001, "text": " Guys, any game that I'm not currently playing right now, I'm taking a break from."}, {"start": 14294.880000000001, "end": 14296.380000000001, "text": " It's pretty much all you need to know."}, {"start": 14309.76, "end": 14311.12, "text": " RIP New World, bro."}, {"start": 14311.12, "end": 14314.44, "text": " I've been watching New World streams at night."}, {"start": 14314.44, "end": 14317.720000000001, "text": " I swear I'm like kinda itching to play some New World."}, {"start": 14317.720000000001, "end": 14319.000000000002, "text": " I don't know where this came from."}, {"start": 14319.000000000002, "end": 14320.34, "text": " It came out of nowhere."}, {"start": 14320.34, "end": 14322.34, "text": " And"}, {"start": 14322.34, "end": 14328.18, "text": " I've been like itching to like play some new like the wars in that game were so fun like the world PvP"}, {"start": 14328.18, "end": 14333.14, "text": " Like it probably wouldn't be like what I envisioned it to be after playing and probably get bored in 20 minutes"}, {"start": 14333.14, "end": 14335.14, "text": " But like it still seems like kind of fun"}, {"start": 14339.42, "end": 14344.82, "text": " New world's last patch was fire. I didn't play it. I was actually going to and then"}, {"start": 14345.22, "end": 14348.54, "text": " They they it was so the timing is so awkward"}, {"start": 14348.54, "end": 14354.94, "text": " They basically dropped a new patch that was like really good and people liked it and then right after they said"}, {"start": 14355.220000000001, "end": 14357.220000000001, "text": " They are shutting the game down"}, {"start": 14358.34, "end": 14360.34, "text": " So like I was about to play it"}, {"start": 14360.660000000002, "end": 14364.740000000002, "text": " Showback was playing if you guys remember and he said it was good and I was talking to show back and he's like yeah, bro"}, {"start": 14364.740000000002, "end": 14365.640000000001, "text": " Try it. I'm like, okay"}, {"start": 14365.640000000001, "end": 14369.62, "text": " I'll try it and then I was gonna play it and then they said they're shutting the game down"}, {"start": 14369.62, "end": 14371.62, "text": " And I'm like well, what's the point now?"}, {"start": 14378.54, "end": 14383.42, "text": " Same boat for me, yeah."}, {"start": 14383.42, "end": 14384.42, "text": " It shut down."}, {"start": 14384.42, "end": 14387.220000000001, "text": " It's shutting down in January of next year."}, {"start": 14387.220000000001, "end": 14391.1, "text": " So it wasn't like an immediate shutdown, it'll be like a one-year shutdown and we're getting"}, {"start": 14391.1, "end": 14397.460000000001, "text": " close to the end of that."}, {"start": 14397.460000000001, "end": 14400.820000000002, "text": " You got Thunder Fury since when?"}, {"start": 14400.82, "end": 14407.3, "text": " I did a molten core like six months ago or something and got a thunder fury."}, {"start": 14410.3, "end": 14412.14, "text": " Oh, yo, Denver is doing the same thing I'm doing."}, {"start": 14413.46, "end": 14415.14, "text": " What's my slash plate on this guy?"}, {"start": 14415.34, "end": 14419.3, "text": " We're at 21 days on this character, which isn't like that crazy."}, {"start": 14419.3, "end": 14419.82, "text": " Right."}, {"start": 14424.98, "end": 14426.779999999999, "text": " I emphasis on a molten core."}, {"start": 14426.82, "end": 14428.66, "text": " Yeah, yeah, I did a molten core."}, {"start": 14428.94, "end": 14429.46, "text": " That's right."}, {"start": 14430.82, "end": 14435.779999999999, "text": " It's the one where his GM friends helped him. I don't have GM. Well, I"}, {"start": 14437.26, "end": 14440.8, "text": " If I had GM friends, I would never ask them for help"}, {"start": 14448.18, "end": 14450.18, "text": " Final answer"}, {"start": 14460.82, "end": 14478.26, "text": " Can I get the- if I run right away can I get this guy?"}, {"start": 14478.26, "end": 14479.74, "text": " No I don't think so huh?"}, {"start": 14479.74, "end": 14485.18, "text": " Oh maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe,"}, {"start": 14485.18, "end": 14488.5, "text": " maybe with a speed plot?"}, {"start": 14488.5, "end": 14492.5, "text": " I know what the mage you can, if with blink, but I don't know if the panel you can."}, {"start": 14493.5, "end": 14499.5, "text": " Skill issue, that is not a skill issue, it's a limitation of the spec that I'm playing."}, {"start": 14518.5, "end": 14521.94, "text": " Link and Rocket Boots? Oh, we got Rocket Boots."}, {"start": 14521.94, "end": 14524.1, "text": " Not that I even need it though, like, what's the point?"}, {"start": 14529.34, "end": 14531.1, "text": " Oh, Numbers."}, {"start": 14544.7, "end": 14546.82, "text": " Numbers, Numbers, Numbers."}, {"start": 14548.5, "end": 14550.5, "text": " Very big numbers"}, {"start": 14552.9, "end": 14558.06, "text": " Use full flame I don't like to I happen to my bank, but I don't like to use it"}, {"start": 14578.5, "end": 14583.4, "text": " What level can I do this with my panel? You can do it at 70. If you don't have good gear, you do have to min-max"}, {"start": 14584.26, "end": 14591.76, "text": " and get certain items. Like if you have bad gear, you want to use Demonforged breastplate and Skullflame shield or like Petrified Lichenguard."}, {"start": 14592.06, "end": 14596.1, "text": " But if you have good gear, it doesn't really matter what you have. As long as you have"}, {"start": 14596.82, "end": 14598.82, "text": " figurine of the Colossus you're set."}, {"start": 14599.34, "end": 14602.02, "text": " But with worse gear, you'd also want to use"}, {"start": 14602.02, "end": 14609.02, "text": " use DeBiri's enigma for extra block chance on use."}, {"start": 14620.42, "end": 14624.92, "text": " The bug where I can't scroll down the loot on most of these mobs is so annoying. What's"}, {"start": 14624.92, "end": 14627.92, "text": " causing that?"}, {"start": 14632.02, "end": 14639.02, "text": " Okay, there we go."}, {"start": 14639.02, "end": 14646.78, "text": " I'll take it."}, {"start": 14646.78, "end": 14649.1, "text": " What's the add-on that shows what buffs you need to put on, like food buff?"}, {"start": 14649.1, "end": 14657.460000000001, "text": " Um, yeah, what is that, Nova buff tracker or something?"}, {"start": 14657.460000000001, "end": 14660.34, "text": " Nova Consume Helper."}, {"start": 14660.34, "end": 14666.02, "text": " I swear that's actually just such a nice add-on to have when you're flying classic WoW."}, {"start": 14666.02, "end": 14682.34, "text": " Nova Consume Helper."}, {"start": 14682.34, "end": 14683.34, "text": " Early flight tomorrow for the Khan?"}, {"start": 14683.34, "end": 14687.94, "text": " Yeah, I'm actually gonna get off early today so we can just like pack up and chill out"}, {"start": 14687.94, "end": 14711.460000000001, "text": " I mean it never really gets old."}, {"start": 14711.460000000001, "end": 14718.460000000001, "text": " It never really gets old."}, {"start": 14718.460000000001, "end": 14727.42, "text": " Nah, I'm going solo tomorrow, Spectre."}, {"start": 14727.42, "end": 14729.140000000001, "text": " This looks like a satisfying way to make gold."}, {"start": 14729.140000000001, "end": 14734.660000000002, "text": " Oh, it's great, yeah."}, {"start": 14734.66, "end": 14746.02, "text": " right or is worse yeah it is I was actually surprised to find out that was the case but"}, {"start": 14746.02, "end": 14751.26, "text": " I did the math and it's like so much of your damage comes from consecration that like 10%"}, {"start": 14751.26, "end": 14761.46, "text": " more damage on consecration is better how come you don't play European TBC seems like"}, {"start": 14761.460000000001, "end": 14766.960000000001, "text": " the raid times would line up better. I was talking about that yesterday. I absolutely should"}, {"start": 14766.960000000001, "end": 14772.060000000001, "text": " achievement earned pocket change. Actually download an add-on that gives like TBC some"}, {"start": 14772.060000000001, "end": 14777.460000000001, "text": " like achievement tracking. It's called Big Number Good. Where it'll tell you like what"}, {"start": 14777.460000000001, "end": 14783.460000000001, "text": " you've done. Haven't really looked at it too much. Writing skill, I don't know. It's"}, {"start": 14783.460000000001, "end": 14788.1, "text": " kind of sick. Would you want area looting and classic plus? I actually like don't care"}, {"start": 14788.1, "end": 14795.380000000001, "text": " that much but I don't know. I was talking to Ampy the other year about a wee looting and Ampy"}, {"start": 14795.94, "end": 14801.86, "text": " seemed to not like it. I feel like it's one of those things I'm indifferent about. If they add it"}, {"start": 14801.86, "end": 14806.74, "text": " I'd probably be like oh nice and if they don't add it I'd probably be like oh that's fine."}, {"start": 14807.300000000001, "end": 14810.82, "text": " Like there's so many so many things like that that I don't care about and I'm more focused"}, {"start": 14810.82, "end": 14817.62, "text": " on like some big things that I do care about. Oh what I got all the way through there I"}, {"start": 14817.62, "end": 14821.300000000001, "text": " I even know you can do that. I ran all the way through in one go. We'll take it"}, {"start": 14831.460000000001, "end": 14833.68, "text": " Got a set up in EU tune. Yeah, like so"}, {"start": 14834.54, "end": 14836.220000000001, "text": " If I could do it all over again"}, {"start": 14836.220000000001, "end": 14838.300000000001, "text": " I probably would make an EU TBC tune"}, {"start": 14838.300000000001, "end": 14843.26, "text": " But it is what it is like I actually have way more of a schedule that lines up with European rating"}, {"start": 14843.26, "end": 14847.9, "text": " than NA raiding and it's not even close like I haven't really been able to find"}, {"start": 14847.9, "end": 14854.34, "text": " too many NA raids but when TBC came out I was playing with all my friends and"}, {"start": 14854.34, "end": 14861.5, "text": " they played but now they all quit so that's kind of why too"}, {"start": 14873.26, "end": 14875.26, "text": " Oh, yeah."}, {"start": 14877.62, "end": 14883.460000000001, "text": " Like Savvix and Amp were playing on my realm when TBC came out, so I had like a daytime raid team. It was great."}, {"start": 14895.98, "end": 14898.98, "text": " Honestly, I probably could plop wings since I never really need to bubble."}, {"start": 14898.98, "end": 14905.939999999999, "text": " But it's kind of nice having 12-hole chest in case."}, {"start": 14905.939999999999, "end": 14907.06, "text": " Is that max rank Holy Shield?"}, {"start": 14907.06, "end": 14910.619999999999, "text": " Nah, I'm just using rank 1."}, {"start": 14910.619999999999, "end": 14911.859999999999, "text": " Is the farm really profitable?"}, {"start": 14911.859999999999, "end": 14913.619999999999, "text": " It's about 50 gold a run."}, {"start": 14913.619999999999, "end": 14923.619999999999, "text": " Runs take about 10 minutes, so I guess pretty good."}, {"start": 14923.62, "end": 14939.060000000001, "text": " I think he's just taking a short break pre Blizzcon doing some IRL stuff."}, {"start": 14939.060000000001, "end": 14942.86, "text": " He's been working on a podcast, which has been awesome."}, {"start": 14942.86, "end": 14943.86, "text": " I was on the show."}, {"start": 14943.86, "end": 14951.460000000001, "text": " We had Joker and Ampey, but I think he plans to get back to it soon."}, {"start": 14951.460000000001, "end": 14968.34, "text": " Cool."}, {"start": 14968.34, "end": 14971.660000000002, "text": " Minecraft broke him."}, {"start": 14971.660000000002, "end": 14974.94, "text": " Was it the Ender Dragon guy since he couldn't kill the Ender Dragon and he's just like I'm"}, {"start": 14974.94, "end": 14975.94, "text": " out of here?"}, {"start": 14975.94, "end": 14978.460000000001, "text": " Is that really what it comes down to?"}, {"start": 14978.460000000001, "end": 14988.54, "text": " I've been loving the Savick's podcast. Yeah, they're great man."}, {"start": 14988.54, "end": 14997.460000000001, "text": " Ampies was so long that he changed my mind on 40 man raids versus 20. I actually watched"}, {"start": 14997.460000000001, "end": 15004.500000000002, "text": " Ampies snippet on the 40 man raids versus 20. He basically was saying like 40 man raids"}, {"start": 15004.5, "end": 15012.9, "text": " make guilds into little village states or like tribes because you actually need more people to"}, {"start": 15012.9, "end": 15018.18, "text": " come together for one common reason and it like means that guilds exist but not only that do they"}, {"start": 15018.18, "end": 15026.1, "text": " exist because of that like they they you have like a DKP guy you have an enchanter you have like"}, {"start": 15026.1, "end": 15030.26, "text": " the person that organizes the groups like it's part of the soul of the game and like I actually"}, {"start": 15030.26, "end": 15036.82, "text": " think he's right on all of that? But he still didn't change my opinion. I still like 20 man raids"}, {"start": 15036.82, "end": 15045.300000000001, "text": " more in practicality. But I do think everything he said was true. So he had a lot of good reasons"}, {"start": 15045.300000000001, "end": 15050.74, "text": " for it. I think like in practicality though, 40 man raids are still like really brutal to set up."}, {"start": 15051.54, "end": 15056.82, "text": " It's really, really, really tough to actually pull off 40 man raids unless you're like an"}, {"start": 15056.82, "end": 15061.98, "text": " ampy and want to do all of the group building and forming and stuff and like"}, {"start": 15061.98, "end": 15065.779999999999, "text": " 20 man raids or 25 men are just so much more manable to actually manageable to"}, {"start": 15065.779999999999, "end": 15075.06, "text": " actually do but I think you had a good point"}, {"start": 15078.14, "end": 15081.66, "text": " 40 man raids are great when you're the best player and everyone wants to play"}, {"start": 15081.66, "end": 15085.26, "text": " with you I mean despite being the best player and having everyone wants to"}, {"start": 15085.26, "end": 15092.26, "text": " play with me like I still prefer like the smaller like 20 to 25 man thing believe it or not"}, {"start": 15115.26, "end": 15134.26, "text": " I bait. That's not good. He was talking about ampy? No, I don't think that's what he meant."}, {"start": 15134.26, "end": 15136.26, "text": " I don't think he meant that"}, {"start": 15155.1, "end": 15157.64, "text": " Lots of blood, oh Bruno, thanks for the problem"}, {"start": 15164.26, "end": 15177.74, "text": " I miss our slap in the rift we'll be back to the rift at some point just not not right now"}, {"start": 15177.74, "end": 15187.42, "text": " what's the gold per hour in this it's about 50 gold or run runs take about I think about"}, {"start": 15187.42, "end": 15197.7, "text": " 10 minutes. I think so I think it's like like 250 to 300 ish golden hour. Depends how like"}, {"start": 15197.7, "end": 15204.02, "text": " optimized you are and how much downtime and this and that and RNG on your drops. It's"}, {"start": 15204.02, "end": 15205.02, "text": " not bad."}, {"start": 15205.02, "end": 15216.54, "text": " Am I going to IRL stream at Blizzcon? I don't think so, no."}, {"start": 15216.54, "end": 15220.480000000001, "text": " charge her attempt on the streamer client could if we're gonna go for a"}, {"start": 15220.480000000001, "end": 15225.060000000001, "text": " mount though dude I like the Zulean Tiger man"}, {"start": 15232.78, "end": 15238.7, "text": " Blizzcon is this Saturday and Sunday start to like 10 a.m. I think"}, {"start": 15246.54, "end": 15258.980000000001, "text": " PST, yeah."}, {"start": 15258.980000000001, "end": 15262.34, "text": " Do you have a nice layer?"}, {"start": 15262.34, "end": 15267.7, "text": " I'm actually on dream side, man."}, {"start": 15267.7, "end": 15268.7, "text": " What about a vlog?"}, {"start": 15268.7, "end": 15271.660000000002, "text": " A vlog is kind of like up in the air right now."}, {"start": 15271.66, "end": 15274.66, "text": " I'll kind of see with like my schedule what we can lock it and dial."}, {"start": 15284.66, "end": 15289.66, "text": " Let's do a main tank high shell run. We cleared high shell two days ago."}, {"start": 15289.66, "end": 15291.66, "text": " What was it, like two stairs or something?"}, {"start": 15301.66, "end": 15307.96, "text": " Was there a reasoning for a PvE server this go around?"}, {"start": 15307.96, "end": 15313.2, "text": " Yeah, it's the first time I've ever rolled on a PvE realm."}, {"start": 15313.2, "end": 15317.56, "text": " The main reason is because I was going to main tank on a Paladin and I was like, I don't"}, {"start": 15317.56, "end": 15320.84, "text": " really care to world PvP on a tank."}, {"start": 15320.84, "end": 15324.44, "text": " The other reason is this character was my character from hardcore and you can only"}, {"start": 15324.44, "end": 15327.44, "text": " transfer to PvE realms."}, {"start": 15327.44, "end": 15332.4, "text": " So those were basically the two reasons."}, {"start": 15332.4, "end": 15347.12, "text": " If I could have transferred to a PVP one, I might have just sent it anyway."}, {"start": 15347.12, "end": 15357.12, "text": " Okay."}, {"start": 15357.12, "end": 15365.800000000001, "text": " Aren't hardcore servers basically PvE realms?"}, {"start": 15365.800000000001, "end": 15373.68, "text": " That's kind of true, yeah."}, {"start": 15373.68, "end": 15376.68, "text": " Furbogs would be hype. I don't know about Furbogs, man."}, {"start": 15378.18, "end": 15380.68, "text": " What are we farming? Just getting some gold. Yep."}, {"start": 15381.18, "end": 15386.68, "text": " I've spent, like, over 2,000 gold rating in the last 10 days on this character."}, {"start": 15387.68, "end": 15390.68, "text": " Which is kind of crazy."}, {"start": 15392.18, "end": 15393.18, "text": " So..."}, {"start": 15394.18, "end": 15396.18, "text": " I was like, might as well farm some."}, {"start": 15396.18, "end": 15403.18, "text": " Sounds about right, yeah."}, {"start": 15403.18, "end": 15406.18, "text": " Yup."}, {"start": 15406.18, "end": 15408.18, "text": " Yup"}, {"start": 15436.18, "end": 15443.18, "text": " Actually, I could maybe bubble pull this pull if I felt like I wanted to."}, {"start": 15443.18, "end": 15452.18, "text": " Yeah, actually, we might."}, {"start": 15452.18, "end": 15460.18, "text": " Hmm, is this smart?"}, {"start": 15460.18, "end": 15466.48, "text": " I can't really tell if that was smart or not."}, {"start": 15466.48, "end": 15469.48, "text": " Should be fine now."}, {"start": 15469.48, "end": 15483.48, "text": " Yeah, that's probably fine."}, {"start": 15483.48, "end": 15498.88, "text": " play? What trinket am I using for this? It's uh figuring it across this. Basically every"}, {"start": 15498.88, "end": 15505.119999999999, "text": " time I block I get healed for 120 and I just block a lot with this many low level mobs"}, {"start": 15505.119999999999, "end": 15511.56, "text": " so they heal me for more than they hurt me with the trinket up so I go to full HP"}, {"start": 15511.56, "end": 15518.68, "text": " with the trinket and it's on a two-minute cooldown so I can basically never die I mean if I screwed"}, {"start": 15518.68, "end": 15527.16, "text": " up hard enough I could die but it's pretty hard to die."}, {"start": 15527.16, "end": 15533.08, "text": " ERP you gonna level a Pali tank what is this?"}, {"start": 15533.08, "end": 15537.68, "text": " Yeah dude there's so many Pali tanks outside of Strat and like some of them have like"}, {"start": 15537.68, "end": 15546.32, "text": " funny names like gold printer lull or like gold farmer or whatever gold farmer X"}, {"start": 15546.32, "end": 15551.32, "text": " like you don't even need like that good a gear to do this like you do need to be"}, {"start": 15551.32, "end": 15555.08, "text": " proud you need you do need to be 70 and you do you need like a couple key items"}, {"start": 15555.08, "end": 15562.04, "text": " like some basic tanking gear but it's not even that hard to make it work"}, {"start": 15567.68, "end": 15582.32, "text": " Okay, not bad."}, {"start": 15582.32, "end": 15585.36, "text": " So I do need to clear out the inventory now."}, {"start": 15585.36, "end": 15590.84, "text": " If I get lucky enough, maybe someone outside has a..."}, {"start": 15590.84, "end": 15592.880000000001, "text": " Dang it."}, {"start": 15592.880000000001, "end": 15594.2, "text": " They didn't have a multi-loop back then?"}, {"start": 15594.2, "end": 15595.2, "text": " They did not."}, {"start": 15595.2, "end": 15601.16, "text": " Oh crap, I don't know about instance helper on."}, {"start": 15601.16, "end": 15603.0, "text": " Is anything cool drop doing this farm?"}, {"start": 15603.0, "end": 15605.08, "text": " I did it a few months back and got an epic."}, {"start": 15605.08, "end": 15609.560000000001, "text": " I thought it was like a flurry axe or like a, I was a crow blade maybe."}, {"start": 15609.560000000001, "end": 15613.960000000001, "text": " And when something like that drops, it's real nice on the gold per hour."}, {"start": 15613.960000000001, "end": 15614.960000000001, "text": " Not running a vendor shield."}, {"start": 15614.960000000001, "end": 15624.720000000001, "text": " Yeah, I pretty much never run a vendor shield."}, {"start": 15624.720000000001, "end": 15628.480000000001, "text": " When you solo the last boss for the mount, I haven't tried, but I feel like you could"}, {"start": 15628.480000000001, "end": 15629.980000000001, "text": " definitely solo it."}, {"start": 15629.980000000001, "end": 15634.04, "text": " Yeah, I feel like it wouldn't be that bad."}, {"start": 15634.04, "end": 15635.720000000001, "text": " I'm grinding for that trinket tonight now."}, {"start": 15635.720000000001, "end": 15638.6, "text": " Oh yeah, this is a must-have from Shattered Halls."}, {"start": 15638.6, "end": 15641.840000000002, "text": " If you're a prop Polly and you want to do any type of solo farming, this trinket's"}, {"start": 15641.840000000002, "end": 15644.340000000002, "text": " awesome."}, {"start": 15644.340000000002, "end": 15646.580000000002, "text": " Pop it, full HP, done so."}, {"start": 15646.580000000002, "end": 15652.720000000001, "text": " And if you have bad gear, I would pair it with Dabberies and Nigma to get, like,"}, {"start": 15652.720000000001, "end": 15656.760000000002, "text": " If you use Dabberies at the same time as Figuring, you go full HP like instantly."}, {"start": 15656.760000000002, "end": 15658.560000000001, "text": " Like literally instantly."}, {"start": 15661.2, "end": 15662.920000000002, "text": " Oh hey, look at that!"}, {"start": 15662.920000000002, "end": 15663.920000000002, "text": " Repairbot."}, {"start": 15665.28, "end": 15666.560000000001, "text": " Let's go."}, {"start": 15668.920000000002, "end": 15670.04, "text": " No!"}, {"start": 15670.840000000002, "end": 15671.720000000001, "text": " It's gone."}, {"start": 15672.720000000001, "end": 15673.560000000001, "text": " Is that enough?"}, {"start": 15674.720000000001, "end": 15675.720000000001, "text": " For another run?"}, {"start": 15677.400000000001, "end": 15679.52, "text": " Yeah, I think I have enough room for another run now."}, {"start": 15679.52, "end": 15685.68, "text": " Hey! Another repair bot. Yo, I could snipe his scrolls, but I'm not going to."}, {"start": 15690.44, "end": 15695.36, "text": " So enough pallies are out here doing this exact farm that like..."}, {"start": 15697.0, "end": 15700.6, "text": " Oh crap, I want to make sure I'm not vending the stuff I want to keep."}, {"start": 15700.6, "end": 15712.24, "text": " I know I can like make the rune cloth into bandages to then sell for like slightly more"}, {"start": 15712.24, "end": 15716.140000000001, "text": " gold but it's just not worth the time I don't think."}, {"start": 15716.140000000001, "end": 15722.66, "text": " Aquamarines are worth selling."}, {"start": 15722.66, "end": 15723.98, "text": " Time is money friends."}, {"start": 15723.98, "end": 15725.36, "text": " I think my scroll is worth selling."}, {"start": 15725.36, "end": 15726.800000000001, "text": " Aquamarinas we're selling."}, {"start": 15730.560000000001, "end": 15732.36, "text": " Yeah, what's nice about this is there's so many"}, {"start": 15732.36, "end": 15734.5, "text": " pallies out here doing this that like a lot of the time"}, {"start": 15734.5, "end": 15736.640000000001, "text": " someone will drop a repair bot or you could bring"}, {"start": 15736.640000000001, "end": 15738.52, "text": " your own repair bots and be that guy that helps"}, {"start": 15738.52, "end": 15742.08, "text": " everyone else or you could run back to the town"}, {"start": 15742.08, "end": 15743.68, "text": " if there isn't a repair bot."}, {"start": 15745.04, "end": 15745.880000000001, "text": " Oops."}, {"start": 15756.32, "end": 15762.32, "text": " Or or or you put your hearthstone in chat wait it is in chat. What do you mean?"}, {"start": 15764.84, "end": 15768.560000000001, "text": " Prop Halley's causing inflation. Oh Gabby now I'm the problem, huh?"}, {"start": 15768.6, "end": 15775.6, "text": " Now I'm the problem because I'm playing the game how I want to and that was my prop okay. Yep. Sorry Gabby my bad"}, {"start": 15776.36, "end": 15778.36, "text": " my bad"}, {"start": 15778.36, "end": 15786.6, "text": " Or you could get handed out one to 2,000 gold from random players."}, {"start": 15786.6, "end": 15787.6, "text": " I mean that could happen."}, {"start": 15787.6, "end": 15799.6, "text": " Or we could just farm our own gold with the old-fashioned way, man."}, {"start": 15799.6, "end": 15801.6, "text": " Oh"}, {"start": 15820.76, "end": 15824.44, "text": " Old fashion way even the 2019 way yeah"}, {"start": 15824.44, "end": 15833.74, "text": " Use Thunderfury, dude the Caval, Merciless Caval is so good for this, it just gives you"}, {"start": 15833.74, "end": 15835.42, "text": " so much spell power."}, {"start": 15835.42, "end": 15838.9, "text": " Bellylar just said a great video, yeah we watched it."}, {"start": 15838.9, "end": 15843.54, "text": " I think I've watched like every, uh, Classic Plus, uh, actually that's not true."}, {"start": 15843.54, "end": 15844.54, "text": " There's so many of them."}, {"start": 15844.54, "end": 15846.380000000001, "text": " I've watched like a lot of them though."}, {"start": 15846.380000000001, "end": 15848.460000000001, "text": " Man, I love Pallies."}, {"start": 15848.460000000001, "end": 15852.140000000001, "text": " This is where Pallies are fun, Pallies are fun in Dungeons, Pallies are less"}, {"start": 15852.140000000001, "end": 15860.54, "text": " fun in raids I think for the most part at least are so fun like this though man"}, {"start": 15871.900000000001, "end": 15876.7, "text": " go for me yo deck thanks for the problem"}, {"start": 15882.140000000001, "end": 15893.820000000002, "text": " Does nobody want to take this man to Black Temple even as an off tank?"}, {"start": 15893.820000000002, "end": 15895.86, "text": " No, it's not."}, {"start": 15895.86, "end": 15897.820000000002, "text": " It's not what's going on."}, {"start": 15897.820000000002, "end": 15903.62, "text": " There's a lot of groups that want me, but it's a scheduling conflict."}, {"start": 15903.62, "end": 15905.820000000002, "text": " It's a scheduling conflict."}, {"start": 15905.820000000002, "end": 15910.420000000002, "text": " As the main tank, there's been many groups to hit me up, many, so many that I lost"}, {"start": 15910.42, "end": 15916.14, "text": " actually but uh the scheduling conflicts are really getting the best of me here"}, {"start": 15916.14, "end": 15923.1, "text": " that's pretty much it actually I don't even really care to be black temple"}, {"start": 15923.7, "end": 15933.02, "text": " it's not even that big of a deal it matters to like main tank Illidan so"}, {"start": 15933.02, "end": 15941.12, "text": " like it would be awesome to see that fight from the main tank perspective, it's not a big deal"}, {"start": 15941.12, "end": 15950.1, "text": " to me. Do you think they announced Wrath this weekend? I don't know man, I feel like that's"}, {"start": 15950.1, "end": 15956.98, "text": " like the big thing that less people are talking about is what's happening to TBC and what's"}, {"start": 15956.98, "end": 15961.82, "text": " happening to Mr. Pandaria. I know a lot of people just don't care compared to the"}, {"start": 15961.82, "end": 15968.82, "text": " a hype of plastic plus, but like, I'm still so darn interested, man."}, {"start": 15991.82, "end": 16020.82, "text": " Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, thanks for the product dude."}, {"start": 16021.82, "end": 16051.68, "text": " I'm excited. I'm excited for the con."}, {"start": 16051.68, "end": 16066.76, "text": " Come on dude, I'm excited to get moving."}, {"start": 16066.76, "end": 16068.960000000001, "text": " Blue mood."}, {"start": 16068.960000000001, "end": 16074.16, "text": " Lute 5 rare quality items."}, {"start": 16074.16, "end": 16075.16, "text": " Nice."}, {"start": 16075.16, "end": 16084.28, "text": " Oh, I had a flask on this whole time from my raid yesterday."}, {"start": 16084.28, "end": 16086.28, "text": " 80."}, {"start": 16086.28, "end": 16090.6, "text": " Holy damage about to go away."}, {"start": 16090.6, "end": 16092.4, "text": " How much time do you need to travel to BlizzCon?"}, {"start": 16092.4, "end": 16093.6, "text": " It's like a one hour flight, bro."}, {"start": 16093.6, "end": 16097.44, "text": " I'm in Arizona, so I'm just flying up to LAX."}, {"start": 16097.44, "end": 16100.12, "text": " I should get into like, yeah, like an hour or something,"}, {"start": 16100.12, "end": 16100.960000000001, "text": " pretty quick."}, {"start": 16121.04, "end": 16122.2, "text": " Why am I flying into LAX"}, {"start": 16122.2, "end": 16125.12, "text": " and not John Wayne rookie mistake?"}, {"start": 16125.12, "end": 16126.58, "text": " Dude, I like John Wayne way better,"}, {"start": 16126.58, "end": 16129.48, "text": " but there's no flights from Tucson to John Wayne."}, {"start": 16129.48, "end": 16131.48, "text": " I'd have to go to Phoenix, which is like brutal"}, {"start": 16131.48, "end": 16136.16, "text": " or have like a massive layover, which can also be brutal."}, {"start": 16156.58, "end": 16169.96, "text": " I think I'm just gonna bubble again like last time."}, {"start": 16169.96, "end": 16183.9, "text": " I think I kinda like the bubble there."}, {"start": 16183.9, "end": 16191.9, "text": " I think"}, {"start": 16191.9, "end": 16201.9, "text": " they"}, {"start": 16201.9, "end": 16203.9, "text": " Gasparter, thanks for the drop, let's go to hold!"}, {"start": 16212.9, "end": 16215.9, "text": " Ah crap. Oh no, they all just evaded and got healed!"}, {"start": 16218.4, "end": 16219.4, "text": " And I have no bubble!"}, {"start": 16219.9, "end": 16221.4, "text": " I think we're still fine though."}, {"start": 16221.9, "end": 16223.9, "text": " Yeah, I think we're still fine for sure."}, {"start": 16228.4, "end": 16228.9, "text": " Pink."}, {"start": 16229.9, "end": 16230.9, "text": " We're still fine."}, {"start": 16231.9, "end": 16233.9, "text": " I think"}, {"start": 16243.46, "end": 16247.74, "text": " Okay, that was that was sketchy they all got healed from when I got knocked up on the ledge from that evade spot"}, {"start": 16261.9, "end": 16268.98, "text": " why not vengeance spec I could respect yeah I think that spec is a bit better"}, {"start": 16268.98, "end": 16275.18, "text": " there's actually like a couple points I could change but my second spec right now"}, {"start": 16275.18, "end": 16279.34, "text": " was a PvP one a prop highly PvP build I've been experimenting with successfully"}, {"start": 16279.34, "end": 16285.5, "text": " successfully experimenting with and it's been it's been a good time so I"}, {"start": 16285.5, "end": 16289.58, "text": " don't really have a room for a third spec right now unfortunately"}, {"start": 16291.9, "end": 16315.82, "text": " Okay, clean."}, {"start": 16315.82, "end": 16318.22, "text": " Isn't there an add on the instant loot so you can loot faster?"}, {"start": 16318.220000000001, "end": 16322.140000000001, "text": " I have like fast looting on in nitrix plus, but maybe there's something else"}, {"start": 16322.140000000001, "end": 16325.740000000002, "text": " I don't know of someone said there's an item called like fast loot, which I think it does like the same thing"}, {"start": 16326.460000000001, "end": 16332.7, "text": " But looting is like bugged right now from what I can tell when I spam loot it like stops every time"}, {"start": 16333.820000000002, "end": 16336.140000000001, "text": " So something with a new patch messed it up. I think"}, {"start": 16338.62, "end": 16344.62, "text": " Any interesting rares we got magisters boots and wildheart gloves, but besides that pretty standard"}, {"start": 16348.220000000001, "end": 16361.900000000001, "text": " I'm okay either way on it man."}, {"start": 16361.900000000001, "end": 16363.060000000001, "text": " I'm okay either way."}, {"start": 16363.060000000001, "end": 16367.060000000001, "text": " Like I'm 100% fine with no A.O.E. looting if they add it."}, {"start": 16367.060000000001, "end": 16371.720000000001, "text": " I'm not like so much of a purist where I would be like oh gosh this is not my classic"}, {"start": 16371.720000000001, "end": 16377.02, "text": " plus but yeah there's so many so many things like that that like I can go either way on"}, {"start": 16377.02, "end": 16385.18, "text": " It doesn't change the game enough for me to be upset about it."}, {"start": 16385.18, "end": 16403.7, "text": " Okay, there is no...pender out there."}, {"start": 16403.7, "end": 16404.9, "text": " My rating today?"}, {"start": 16404.9, "end": 16408.88, "text": " The plan was to maybe check out a Black Temple, but there was some scheduling conflicts, so"}, {"start": 16408.88, "end": 16417.7, "text": " um, we're actually not gonna do Black Temple due to those previously mentioned conflicts."}, {"start": 16417.7, "end": 16425.02, "text": " Gotta make a Disenchant all for your Blues and Greens."}, {"start": 16425.02, "end": 16426.02, "text": " I'm actually an Enchanter."}, {"start": 16426.02, "end": 16427.7, "text": " I can Disenchant them here."}, {"start": 16427.7, "end": 16431.54, "text": " I don't think it's worth Disenchanning, well maybe it is."}, {"start": 16431.54, "end": 16437.58, "text": " I think the blues are worth this enchanting if you can't fender them for more than like"}, {"start": 16437.58, "end": 16446.82, "text": " four gold and then I think greens are pretty neutral, you can do either one."}, {"start": 16446.82, "end": 16449.82, "text": " Oh, skull!"}, {"start": 16449.82, "end": 16451.82, "text": " may look a rare spawn."}, {"start": 16479.82, "end": 16493.82, "text": " and it's time to go full HP. I was selling large drill for 10 G and P1. Dude, they go for like 4, 4 and a half now, 4, 4 and a half, so it's barely any net profit for..."}, {"start": 16495.82, "end": 16499.82, "text": " but it depends. Like, so, like this blue here..."}, {"start": 16500.82, "end": 16502.82, "text": " actually does this blue even give a large..."}, {"start": 16502.82, "end": 16509.32, "text": " charismatic I think that all blues do or oh no they might give small it's like blue"}, {"start": 16509.32, "end": 16519.16, "text": " weapons actually I can't quite remember I got shot across nice the silk market is"}, {"start": 16519.16, "end": 16522.5, "text": " like it's better than I mean you can auction it for like slightly more but"}, {"start": 16522.5, "end": 16529.4, "text": " yeah from level 55 onwards it gives large so these are 54 these are 52 these"}, {"start": 16529.4, "end": 16556.16, "text": " These are 54."}, {"start": 16556.16, "end": 16558.16, "text": " Might as well just keep loading."}, {"start": 16558.16, "end": 16578.48, "text": " It's one mob is like taking more time than that entire last pull man."}, {"start": 16578.48, "end": 16580.079999999998, "text": " Have they not nerfed solo dungeon farming?"}, {"start": 16580.079999999998, "end": 16585.68, "text": " They actually did nerf it, but it didn't affect this one or something?"}, {"start": 16585.68, "end": 16590.2, "text": " I remember reading a blue pose where I was like, oh, this got nerfed."}, {"start": 16590.2, "end": 16592.52, "text": " Well, this definitely still works."}, {"start": 16592.52, "end": 16594.52, "text": " Source, I am still doing it."}, {"start": 16598.12, "end": 16602.52, "text": " Here, let me try to disenchant this and see what it turns to."}, {"start": 16602.52, "end": 16605.760000000002, "text": " So it is large brill, which is definitely more gold."}, {"start": 16608.48, "end": 16612.48, "text": " Yeah, they're all large brill."}, {"start": 16612.48, "end": 16619.52, "text": " These though like I don't think this is worth like some of the greens like this vendors for 65 silver"}, {"start": 16620.48, "end": 16628.8, "text": " by DE it it's 39 it's like a slight increase I think but I think it's kind of a gamble on some of them"}, {"start": 16629.76, "end": 16632.88, "text": " like this swords have vendor for three gold 60 silver"}, {"start": 16632.88, "end": 16643.36, "text": " This is turned to a creator eternal so it's 5g. I don't know maybe disenchanting is better than I think"}, {"start": 16653.0, "end": 16658.16, "text": " It's a gamble because it's whether you get greater nether or eternal right right right"}, {"start": 16658.16, "end": 16664.9, "text": " Like sometimes you'll come out a little ahead sometimes you're coming a little behind it does it does save bag space, which is nice"}, {"start": 16665.96, "end": 16671.8, "text": " But then you have to think about like the auction house cut and if it doesn't sell and then reposting it and all that"}, {"start": 16672.16, "end": 16674.86, "text": " First it's just like making a gold right there"}, {"start": 16688.16, "end": 16703.84, "text": " Oh yeah true it is free to post it is free to post uh enchanting bats true true"}, {"start": 16718.16, "end": 16720.16, "text": " I"}, {"start": 16722.4, "end": 16724.4, "text": " Bade"}, {"start": 16732.44, "end": 16736.82, "text": " Any items are for 1.5p you just sell any weapons you just sell except guns"}, {"start": 16738.28, "end": 16742.46, "text": " The vendors for two gold. Yeah, like everyone has their own little formulas that sounds about right"}, {"start": 16748.16, "end": 16756.56, "text": " I tried to auction enchanting auction slips doing disenchanting greens, but I did not play the game very well"}, {"start": 16756.88, "end": 16758.88, "text": " rip dude"}, {"start": 16762.56, "end": 16764.56, "text": " What is making them I've made there I have no idea"}, {"start": 16765.4, "end": 16768.079999999998, "text": " Day 16 of asking why not kill Baron for the mount?"}, {"start": 16768.079999999998, "end": 16773.64, "text": " I like this willian mount even better and it's not like super time efficient to go over there. I"}, {"start": 16773.64, "end": 16799.239999999998, "text": " I actually do think I could probably solo it though, I would think."}, {"start": 16799.24, "end": 16807.600000000002, "text": " for hours like it's like 250 to 350 like ish depends how like lucky you are to"}, {"start": 16807.600000000002, "end": 16814.960000000003, "text": " AOS are without parkour do you have any tips for a fun character in TBC with"}, {"start": 16814.960000000003, "end": 16821.920000000002, "text": " world PvP rogue or mage for world PvP every time there's some other fun ones"}, {"start": 16821.920000000002, "end": 16828.320000000003, "text": " but man is it fun to be a rogue or a mage in world PvP when I did on my"}, {"start": 16828.32, "end": 16832.82, "text": " Polly is like two to three in a chain hour. Yeah, that's still about right. Nice. I ran all the way through this time"}, {"start": 16858.32, "end": 16875.32, "text": " I don't even think I need to bubble this time around for whatever reason, nice."}, {"start": 16875.32, "end": 16893.36, "text": " The problem with Warlock World PvP is you're not very mobile."}, {"start": 16893.36, "end": 16897.1, "text": " Robes can literally like, you can mess with people and then even if they bring their friends"}, {"start": 16897.1, "end": 16901.28, "text": " you just vanish out, it's like so sick."}, {"start": 16901.28, "end": 16906.28, "text": " You can always just slow and run forever, no matter what."}, {"start": 16906.28, "end": 16913.28, "text": " The loft are really good, but there's like five dudes to gank you."}, {"start": 16913.28, "end": 16916.28, "text": " You can't really just banish out like a rogue good."}, {"start": 16931.28, "end": 16944.039999999997, "text": " Why is it not bad?"}, {"start": 16944.039999999997, "end": 16948.739999999998, "text": " Why do I need the gold for?"}, {"start": 16948.739999999998, "end": 16950.36, "text": " I was just stacking up some gold."}, {"start": 16950.36, "end": 16957.84, "text": " I've spent like 2,000 gold in the last 10 days of raiding and I haven't made any."}, {"start": 16957.84, "end": 16960.6, "text": " I went from like 3,000 down to 1,000."}, {"start": 16962.24, "end": 16964.58, "text": " Just from buying random consumes."}, {"start": 16965.6, "end": 16968.0, "text": " Now we're back up to 1,800."}, {"start": 16968.0, "end": 16970.34, "text": " And I have a bunch of stuff to sell too, so."}, {"start": 16974.920000000002, "end": 16976.4, "text": " As a Pali, it's not too bad."}, {"start": 16976.4, "end": 16979.88, "text": " Like since you can do this, it's like a raid"}, {"start": 16979.88, "end": 16983.32, "text": " with a flask being 100 gold and like food and everything."}, {"start": 16983.32, "end": 16986.88, "text": " Like I could probably raid for like 150 gold on a Pali"}, {"start": 16986.88, "end": 16989.54, "text": " Assuming I'm not using like too many nightmare seeds."}, {"start": 16991.620000000003, "end": 16992.920000000002, "text": " Plus repair bill."}, {"start": 16992.920000000002, "end": 16994.36, "text": " I mean, I guess it depends how many times"}, {"start": 16994.36, "end": 16996.4, "text": " we wipe and this and that."}, {"start": 16996.4, "end": 16997.24, "text": " Maybe a little more,"}, {"start": 16997.24, "end": 16999.0, "text": " because I'll find you the FAP and iron shield."}, {"start": 16999.0, "end": 17001.460000000003, "text": " Maybe close to two-winner gold."}, {"start": 17001.460000000003, "end": 17004.74, "text": " So it's basically like, if this is 50 G a run,"}, {"start": 17006.280000000002, "end": 17008.68, "text": " maybe three or four runs will pay for a raid."}, {"start": 17008.68, "end": 17021.4, "text": " Didn't they nerf solo farms like this dude I was saying like I swear they did but I can"}, {"start": 17021.4, "end": 17040.600000000002, "text": " still do it so maybe not."}, {"start": 17040.6, "end": 17046.44, "text": " boots that'll be basically 5g"}, {"start": 17047.719999999998, "end": 17056.399999999998, "text": " cool I think they nerf the one pull in here interesting now there was another"}, {"start": 17056.399999999998, "end": 17061.879999999997, "text": " nerf after it could talk I thought at least it went from the mage farm to the"}, {"start": 17061.879999999997, "end": 17067.359999999997, "text": " Pali farm true the reality is if you nerf the Pali farm it'll turn into like"}, {"start": 17067.36, "end": 17074.36, "text": " a hunter farm or something else. Like players will always find a way."}, {"start": 17077.440000000002, "end": 17084.440000000002, "text": " Oh, field repair bot. Go, go, go, go, go!"}, {"start": 17088.48, "end": 17092.48, "text": " Scroll of strength, I actually might buy back."}, {"start": 17092.48, "end": 17096.88, "text": " Um..."}, {"start": 17105.36, "end": 17107.2, "text": " Um..."}, {"start": 17109.2, "end": 17111.2, "text": " Okay, I think I'm gonna DE the rest of this stuff."}, {"start": 17113.84, "end": 17115.84, "text": " Or Auction House the rest."}, {"start": 17115.84, "end": 17119.04, "text": " The Skrulls' All Auction House, the Greens' All DE."}, {"start": 17119.04, "end": 17125.04, "text": " The Aquamarina auction house."}, {"start": 17125.04, "end": 17131.04, "text": " Yeah, that looks about right."}, {"start": 17131.04, "end": 17132.04, "text": " Cool."}, {"start": 17132.04, "end": 17143.04, "text": " I've actually been getting pretty lucky with the repairbots from the other paladins, nice."}, {"start": 17143.04, "end": 17158.0, "text": " guys we got banned they think I'm a bot rip nope nevermind just ran disconnect"}, {"start": 17158.0, "end": 17187.08, "text": " Okay let's do it. So this turns into one gold into like one gold fifty silver. This turns"}, {"start": 17187.08, "end": 17196.480000000003, "text": " into, oh that was like 70 silver into 5 gold. Man it's just such a gamble on the disconnect"}, {"start": 17196.480000000003, "end": 17203.84, "text": " on the disenchance. 4 gold 50 silver so this goes for 3 gold and it just turned into this"}, {"start": 17203.84, "end": 17210.18, "text": " which goes for 5. It seems like disenchanting is worth it like most of the time with the"}, {"start": 17210.18, "end": 17218.04, "text": " prices right now so that's pretty good I guess."}, {"start": 17218.04, "end": 17223.920000000002, "text": " Read cord."}, {"start": 17223.920000000002, "end": 17225.48, "text": " Want my gold I quit months ago."}, {"start": 17225.48, "end": 17230.96, "text": " Guys I have a friend that's offering me free gold because he quit."}, {"start": 17230.96, "end": 17238.24, "text": " Um look I don't really take handouts is the thing you know I'm a self-made man."}, {"start": 17238.24, "end": 17243.02, "text": " All right, like I'm a self-made gamer. I don't really know how much gold you have"}, {"start": 17260.960000000003, "end": 17262.960000000003, "text": " Getting kind of worked here"}, {"start": 17268.24, "end": 17274.84, "text": " The thing is, guys, if I accept gold, it tarnishes my sterling reputation of this character being"}, {"start": 17274.84, "end": 17275.84, "text": " self-made."}, {"start": 17275.84, "end": 17278.84, "text": " That's the thing, right?"}, {"start": 17278.84, "end": 17293.84, "text": " I'll take it for you, don't worry."}, {"start": 17293.84, "end": 17317.36, "text": " over qualified, there we go."}, {"start": 17317.36, "end": 17333.64, "text": " It's like two or two or three hundred golden hour with this yeah"}, {"start": 17334.84, "end": 17341.440000000002, "text": " The add-on for achievements is big number good. I was just kind of testing it. It's kind of kind of a cool concept"}, {"start": 17343.16, "end": 17345.16, "text": " Release this our files"}, {"start": 17345.16, "end": 17347.16, "text": " True."}, {"start": 17351.16, "end": 17357.42, "text": " Can you do this on a mage? I don't know if you can do this farm on a mage. This seems kind of tough on a mage."}, {"start": 17375.16, "end": 17403.36, "text": " All right."}, {"start": 17403.36, "end": 17405.760000000002, "text": " What's your opinion on the WoW token being added to Classic Plus?"}, {"start": 17405.760000000002, "end": 17409.8, "text": " I definitely do not want the WoW token."}, {"start": 17409.8, "end": 17418.2, "text": " It actually is kind of a complicated conversation because people buy gold anyway and the WoW token..."}, {"start": 17418.2, "end": 17419.2, "text": " What was the argument?"}, {"start": 17419.2, "end": 17425.96, "text": " Like the WoW token makes it less inflated because of the numbers or something?"}, {"start": 17425.96, "end": 17428.760000000002, "text": " But like, I don't know, I still don't like it."}, {"start": 17428.760000000002, "end": 17430.16, "text": " It just feels so weird."}, {"start": 17430.16, "end": 17433.9, "text": " I think in an ideal world no one buys gold and no one..."}, {"start": 17434.82, "end": 17437.2, "text": " over here, her singer."}, {"start": 17437.2, "end": 17439.579999999998, "text": " No one buys gold and no one will token."}, {"start": 17439.579999999998, "end": 17443.12, "text": " So an ideal world like Closer gets better at banning bots."}, {"start": 17443.12, "end": 17446.02, "text": " There's less bots, there's less..."}, {"start": 17449.66, "end": 17452.22, "text": " Cold Buyers, less cold sellers."}, {"start": 17452.22, "end": 17453.66, "text": " That would just all own, but..."}, {"start": 17454.78, "end": 17455.76, "text": " ... I'll see."}, {"start": 17455.760000000002, "end": 17467.04, "text": " I've actually made the claim that I think that Blizzard should crack down on gold buyers"}, {"start": 17467.04, "end": 17471.04, "text": " harder."}, {"start": 17471.04, "end": 17474.000000000004, "text": " Sorry guys, I do."}, {"start": 17474.000000000004, "end": 17480.52, "text": " The people buying gold right now, if you get caught, it's like a slap on the wrist, like"}, {"start": 17480.52, "end": 17484.56, "text": " I think if you get caught buying gold, like remember back in the day bro, if you got"}, {"start": 17484.56, "end": 17489.52, "text": " caught buying gold your account was gone like it was brutal people were afraid it"}, {"start": 17489.52, "end": 17494.16, "text": " was scary nowadays people just buy gold and if you get caught it's like oh like"}, {"start": 17494.16, "end": 17498.0, "text": " two weeks whatever like I think there should be way less tolerance for gold"}, {"start": 17498.0, "end": 17501.88, "text": " buyers I want people to be scared again to buy gold so that people don't buy"}, {"start": 17501.88, "end": 17506.640000000003, "text": " gold so that there's way less demand and that helps fix the economy a little"}, {"start": 17506.640000000003, "end": 17513.600000000002, "text": " bit I think that'd be sick but it's not even two weeks how how would you"}, {"start": 17513.600000000002, "end": 17515.600000000002, "text": " No, how long is it?"}, {"start": 17531.760000000002, "end": 17533.760000000002, "text": " Says the streamer with benefits"}, {"start": 17535.000000000004, "end": 17541.56, "text": " True counter-argument. I play most of my characters self-found and I'm currently farming gold"}, {"start": 17543.600000000002, "end": 17555.600000000002, "text": " but still true still a fair point 21 fire damage it's actually a lot of fire"}, {"start": 17555.600000000002, "end": 17557.840000000004, "text": " damage"}, {"start": 17563.04, "end": 17567.04, "text": " what if you were a warrior I was actually thinking about that like what would I do"}, {"start": 17567.04, "end": 17572.320000000003, "text": " if I was like if I'm because I've always played like mages you get a we farm or"}, {"start": 17572.32, "end": 17576.76, "text": " Pallies you get a we farm or like I mean I guess I have done professions in the past"}, {"start": 17576.76, "end": 17580.22, "text": " I used to do a lot of gold making with inscription and with jewel crafting"}, {"start": 17581.0, "end": 17583.56, "text": " Trying to think what I would do if I was like a warrior. I"}, {"start": 17584.56, "end": 17586.56, "text": " Probably pick up a profession"}, {"start": 17587.76, "end": 17589.76, "text": " Tank for gold"}, {"start": 17591.28, "end": 17593.28, "text": " Will tank for gold"}, {"start": 17594.7, "end": 17599.2, "text": " Starving warrior out here sell PvP carries. Yeah, true"}, {"start": 17599.2, "end": 17606.2, "text": " I actually think that it's one of the most lucrative ways to make gold in World of Warcraft."}, {"start": 17606.2, "end": 17612.2, "text": " If you're good at the game you just sell carries. It is disgustingly lucrative."}, {"start": 17614.2, "end": 17619.2, "text": " You sell mid-plus carries, raiding carries."}, {"start": 17619.2, "end": 17624.2, "text": " Dude, the raiders in retail make so much gold from raid carries. It's wild."}, {"start": 17629.2, "end": 17658.72, "text": " This pull is definitely looking a little shaky here."}, {"start": 17658.72, "end": 17684.72, "text": " I don't know why this pool is so troll, I think it's going to work out for us though."}, {"start": 17684.72, "end": 17698.2, "text": " Nice."}, {"start": 17698.2, "end": 17699.2, "text": " What's healing me?"}, {"start": 17699.2, "end": 17701.02, "text": " It's just my Tranger, bro."}, {"start": 17701.02, "end": 17707.04, "text": " After getting handed 7k for flying or 23 to 28 hours of farming, that's 3.5 to 4 full"}, {"start": 17707.04, "end": 17709.4, "text": " streams and only farming gold, you would never do that content nowadays."}, {"start": 17709.4, "end": 17715.800000000003, "text": " I mean, fair enough, like, gold farming content isn't as fun to do as some other content that we could be doing."}, {"start": 17715.800000000003, "end": 17717.300000000003, "text": " Like, yeah, I guess that's true."}, {"start": 17722.300000000003, "end": 17724.5, "text": " And all of this is possible because of one trinket."}, {"start": 17725.2, "end": 17725.7, "text": " Yeah."}, {"start": 17726.600000000002, "end": 17729.5, "text": " I do think it's possible without figuring out a Colossus."}, {"start": 17729.5, "end": 17731.300000000003, "text": " You would just have to pull, like, a little smaller."}, {"start": 17731.300000000003, "end": 17734.300000000003, "text": " Like, right now, we're doing the dungeon in three pulls."}, {"start": 17734.3, "end": 17741.78, "text": " If I had like a little better gear, so like a couple more pieces of tier six, and I didn't have this trinket"}, {"start": 17741.78, "end": 17745.079999999998, "text": " Like I actually think it is still possible. You just have to play like a little"}, {"start": 17745.559999999998, "end": 17750.579999999998, "text": " More careful maybe instead of three pulls you would four and you would have to like bubble heal"}, {"start": 17750.579999999998, "end": 17752.66, "text": " And like maybe use some more consumes and stuff"}, {"start": 17752.66, "end": 17757.559999999998, "text": " But it would probably be like like we're pretty close to being able to do the pulls without the trinket in other words"}, {"start": 17757.56, "end": 17766.36, "text": " Try it without the trinket? Well, like you can basically just see, right? Like when I'm"}, {"start": 17766.36, "end": 17770.24, "text": " doing the pull, like that first pull, I think it's pretty doable without the trinket. Like"}, {"start": 17770.24, "end": 17775.920000000002, "text": " we almost everything is dead by the time we pump it, right? That third pull is a big one."}, {"start": 17775.920000000002, "end": 17777.920000000002, "text": " I'm sure it gets pretty clutched"}, {"start": 17795.68, "end": 17797.58, "text": " Oh"}, {"start": 17797.58, "end": 17802.54, "text": " Arena boost on this Pali. I don't know if I'm gonna be the one selling the boost on this Pali man"}, {"start": 17802.920000000002, "end": 17805.160000000003, "text": " But yeah, this Pali is"}, {"start": 17805.920000000002, "end": 17811.4, "text": " Definitely not in boosting shape right now, unfortunately."}, {"start": 17811.4, "end": 17817.920000000002, "text": " Definitely not."}, {"start": 17817.920000000002, "end": 17823.920000000002, "text": " I think that might have been my full lockout."}, {"start": 17823.920000000002, "end": 17832.120000000003, "text": " Yeah, we're full locked out."}, {"start": 17832.12, "end": 17836.46, "text": " Milidari rune shield black temple trash sick"}, {"start": 17853.12, "end": 17855.12, "text": " 1850"}, {"start": 17855.12, "end": 17861.32, "text": " They've lost the stuff to vendor. Let's go to Stormwind."}, {"start": 17861.32, "end": 17868.239999999998, "text": " Are we allowed to stream BlizzCon? I don't know exactly how it works. I think so."}, {"start": 17868.239999999998, "end": 17876.64, "text": " If I don't BT yet and Annie, I've only killed the first three bosses. It's just super hard to"}, {"start": 17876.64, "end": 17881.28, "text": " find a daytime raid team. I've cleared Haishul and I've done three bosses of Black Temple."}, {"start": 17881.28, "end": 17887.68, "text": " Like I said, if I were to do it again, I'd probably just play in Europe since there's like a million Europe raids that happen right now"}, {"start": 17888.12, "end": 17890.12, "text": " But yeah, I'm in a it's like"}, {"start": 17890.76, "end": 17895.36, "text": " brutal like if you look at any of these groups and trade chat or discord"}, {"start": 17895.44, "end": 17900.68, "text": " They're all at like 6 p.m. Server right like in the evening, which makes sense like people work that the"}, {"start": 17901.399999999998, "end": 17907.36, "text": " The raids happen at night, but I haven't found like basically any daytime raids"}, {"start": 17911.28, "end": 17918.28, "text": " Greetings."}, {"start": 17918.28, "end": 17925.28, "text": " Greetings."}, {"start": 17925.28, "end": 17943.199999999997, "text": " That's nice."}, {"start": 17943.199999999997, "end": 17944.199999999997, "text": " That's nice."}, {"start": 17944.199999999997, "end": 17946.399999999998, "text": " That's nice."}, {"start": 17946.4, "end": 17950.08, "text": " making bandages with ring cloth if you're vendering I respectfully completely"}, {"start": 17950.08, "end": 17955.280000000002, "text": " disagree respectfully because of the time it takes to make the bandages and"}, {"start": 17955.280000000002, "end": 17962.52, "text": " time is money friends okay and it does net a profit but I don't think the"}, {"start": 17962.52, "end": 17965.56, "text": " profit is worth the time"}, {"start": 17976.4, "end": 17983.800000000003, "text": " Well between yesterday's runs and today's runs I mean we were at like 1100 gold"}, {"start": 17983.800000000003, "end": 17991.920000000002, "text": " there for a second and now we're at 1866 with a ton of stuff to sell. Probably"}, {"start": 17991.920000000002, "end": 17997.440000000002, "text": " put us like 19 or gold. I am not mad about that."}, {"start": 17999.72, "end": 18005.120000000003, "text": " Eight stacks of one. Let's do that."}, {"start": 18006.4, "end": 18015.280000000002, "text": " How much are dark ruins on my realm like six geopop people have been doing like scoloman's farming, but I haven't really tried that"}, {"start": 18022.760000000002, "end": 18025.600000000002, "text": " Six gold for a scroll of strength what"}, {"start": 18030.600000000002, "end": 18032.600000000002, "text": " Wow"}, {"start": 18032.600000000002, "end": 18039.600000000002, "text": " It's crazy."}, {"start": 18039.600000000002, "end": 18060.280000000002, "text": " Dude, this 15 stamina gem still hasn't sold, brah."}, {"start": 18060.28, "end": 18061.62, "text": " I feel like such an idiot."}, {"start": 18066.579999999998, "end": 18068.02, "text": " Yeah, I don't know how much all of that adds to,"}, {"start": 18068.02, "end": 18070.5, "text": " but probably like another 50 or something."}, {"start": 18071.86, "end": 18073.059999999998, "text": " Not bad, not bad."}, {"start": 18074.02, "end": 18075.379999999997, "text": " Ever been an auction house flipper?"}, {"start": 18075.379999999997, "end": 18076.899999999998, "text": " Yeah, I actually have been."}, {"start": 18076.899999999998, "end": 18078.059999999998, "text": " I actually have a little,"}, {"start": 18078.059999999998, "end": 18079.26, "text": " I've told this story before,"}, {"start": 18079.26, "end": 18081.899999999998, "text": " but this is actually kind of like a,"}, {"start": 18081.899999999998, "end": 18085.86, "text": " a complete troll situation that happened to me."}, {"start": 18085.86, "end": 18088.5, "text": " So I was, I don't remember what expansion,"}, {"start": 18088.5, "end": 18089.899999999998, "text": " I think it was like TBC or Wrath."}, {"start": 18089.9, "end": 18094.9, "text": " I was quite young and I wanted to learn how to make gold on WoW."}, {"start": 18094.9, "end": 18102.38, "text": " So I guess back up, in RuneScape, what I did to make gold in RuneScape was played like Bot Low,"}, {"start": 18102.38, "end": 18104.82, "text": " sold high, that's what I like to do in RuneScape."}, {"start": 18104.82, "end": 18109.02, "text": " I'd buy like a D-Helm for like 800k and sell it for like 1.1 mil."}, {"start": 18109.02, "end": 18110.66, "text": " And I'm like, woohoo, we made some money."}, {"start": 18110.66, "end": 18112.420000000002, "text": " Like I just thought it was fun."}, {"start": 18112.420000000002, "end": 18116.74, "text": " I actually showed that to my dad and he thought it was kind of cool because I was like 12 or 10 or something."}, {"start": 18116.74, "end": 18119.140000000003, "text": " And he's like, oh wow, there's like an economy and everything."}, {"start": 18119.14, "end": 18121.18, "text": " Anyway, I started playing WoW and I was quite young"}, {"start": 18121.18, "end": 18123.8, "text": " and I started doing the same thing."}, {"start": 18123.8, "end": 18125.46, "text": " But I wasn't very good at it in WoW,"}, {"start": 18125.46, "end": 18128.059999999998, "text": " because WoW's economy seemed to be a lot more complex."}, {"start": 18128.059999999998, "end": 18129.34, "text": " I was like, what the heck?"}, {"start": 18129.34, "end": 18131.94, "text": " So I met a friend along the way,"}, {"start": 18131.94, "end": 18135.94, "text": " and he seemed to not speak super great English,"}, {"start": 18135.94, "end": 18139.1, "text": " but for some reason, I knew he was always selling stuff"}, {"start": 18139.1, "end": 18140.7, "text": " in trade shots, so I started talking to him."}, {"start": 18140.7, "end": 18141.899999999998, "text": " Like, where are you getting all this stuff?"}, {"start": 18141.899999999998, "end": 18144.02, "text": " And he goes, oh, I'm buying it and reselling it."}, {"start": 18144.02, "end": 18145.78, "text": " And I was like, what?"}, {"start": 18145.78, "end": 18146.899999999998, "text": " We gotta be friends, bro."}, {"start": 18146.899999999998, "end": 18148.02, "text": " So I started talking to this guy,"}, {"start": 18148.02, "end": 18149.54, "text": " I added them to my friends list"}, {"start": 18149.54, "end": 18152.98, "text": " and he started helping me on what to buy and sell."}, {"start": 18152.98, "end": 18156.22, "text": " So he told me to start buying things like enchanting mats"}, {"start": 18156.22, "end": 18157.54, "text": " or like low level items"}, {"start": 18157.54, "end": 18159.58, "text": " that like people would use to level up professions."}, {"start": 18159.58, "end": 18162.260000000002, "text": " And I was like, really, this is gonna sell no way."}, {"start": 18162.260000000002, "end": 18164.98, "text": " But I listened to him and it worked."}, {"start": 18164.98, "end": 18167.66, "text": " I actually started making like hundreds of gold,"}, {"start": 18167.66, "end": 18169.100000000002, "text": " which at the time was like a good amount."}, {"start": 18169.100000000002, "end": 18171.82, "text": " I was like, oh my gosh, this guy's a legend."}, {"start": 18171.82, "end": 18175.14, "text": " He told me exactly what to buy, what to sell it for."}, {"start": 18175.14, "end": 18178.34, "text": " and it was great, like this guy owned."}, {"start": 18178.34, "end": 18181.26, "text": " And then as I started making more gold,"}, {"start": 18181.26, "end": 18183.739999999998, "text": " he started teaching me to buy bigger items."}, {"start": 18183.739999999998, "end": 18186.86, "text": " So like as I made like a couple thousand gold,"}, {"start": 18186.86, "end": 18191.02, "text": " I started buying blues and epics, like high level stuff."}, {"start": 18191.02, "end": 18194.7, "text": " And it worked, I made even more gold, it was great."}, {"start": 18195.66, "end": 18198.1, "text": " And then I started making like a lot of gold,"}, {"start": 18198.1, "end": 18201.18, "text": " like many, many thousands, which was like,"}, {"start": 18201.18, "end": 18202.66, "text": " I was like kind of rich for the time."}, {"start": 18202.66, "end": 18203.579999999998, "text": " I was like, this is awesome."}, {"start": 18203.58, "end": 18210.34, "text": " I was all thanks to my friend who taught me what to buy and what to sell. It was legendary. I think this was maybe end of wrath"}, {"start": 18210.34, "end": 18212.34, "text": " I want to say"}, {"start": 18212.980000000003, "end": 18215.5, "text": " Can't quite exactly remember I think end of wrath era"}, {"start": 18216.22, "end": 18221.7, "text": " But it was pretty cool. All right. I talked to this guy a lot back and forth. He taught me a lot"}, {"start": 18222.620000000003, "end": 18224.620000000003, "text": " anyway, I was going out of town for the weekend and"}, {"start": 18226.18, "end": 18229.420000000002, "text": " One of the big lessons that he taught me was like as you"}, {"start": 18229.420000000002, "end": 18234.9, "text": " make more gold you have the potential to make more gold because with the gold you"}, {"start": 18234.9, "end": 18242.420000000002, "text": " can buy bigger things and make a margin on a larger item so that was a good"}, {"start": 18242.420000000002, "end": 18246.660000000003, "text": " lesson right if you have gold you can make more gold I was like great that's"}, {"start": 18246.660000000003, "end": 18252.7, "text": " pretty cool I can you know use that to to my advantage anyway I was going out"}, {"start": 18252.7, "end": 18259.22, "text": " of town for the weekend and since I knew that took gold to make gold he"}, {"start": 18259.22, "end": 18265.7, "text": " he actually, he asked if I could, if he could take all of my gold for the weekend and use"}, {"start": 18265.7, "end": 18271.300000000003, "text": " it to flip items and he would give me half of whatever he made from my gold stack and"}, {"start": 18271.300000000003, "end": 18275.58, "text": " I was like, sure man, I'll give you all my items too and see if you can sell them and"}, {"start": 18275.58, "end": 18281.82, "text": " all my gold because like I said, this guy taught me everything and I made, I think"}, {"start": 18281.82, "end": 18284.66, "text": " it was like tens of thousands of gold at that point, it was a lot of money for the"}, {"start": 18284.66, "end": 18289.96, "text": " time and I had a ton of like epic items it was great like I was I was rolling"}, {"start": 18289.96, "end": 18295.44, "text": " in tow and I went away for the weekend I gave him everything didn't even think"}, {"start": 18295.44, "end": 18298.5, "text": " about it came back"}, {"start": 18298.82, "end": 18313.86, "text": " dudes gone the final lesson he took everything he took it all and all my"}, {"start": 18313.86, "end": 18323.7, "text": " gold all my items gone. It was brutal. One final lesson to not trust strangers on the internet."}, {"start": 18325.06, "end": 18331.940000000002, "text": " The good news is I continued doing what he taught me and I made all the gold back."}, {"start": 18331.940000000002, "end": 18338.34, "text": " I went in the cataclysm eventually, used that same gold farming method to flip dark moon cards"}, {"start": 18338.34, "end": 18346.74, "text": " and to flip trading card mounts like Magic Rooster and some of the TCG, like, limited mounts,"}, {"start": 18346.74, "end": 18351.06, "text": " and I ended up making hundreds of thousands of gold and then buying myself a Magic Rooster"}, {"start": 18351.06, "end": 18357.3, "text": " and some other trading card game items, and that's how I made gold. So he actually taught me a lot"}, {"start": 18357.94, "end": 18364.5, "text": " about making gold and wow through flipping items. And stole everything I have or had."}, {"start": 18364.5, "end": 18373.9, "text": " Show us the rooster. It's on my retail account. Yeah, I could show it. Why don't you do that now?"}, {"start": 18373.9, "end": 18379.9, "text": " I haven't done it in a long time. I'd have to probably relearn a lot of it, but I guess I could."}, {"start": 18379.9, "end": 18387.9, "text": " That was what I loved to do in WoW. I was a gold maker for a long time. That is a lot of what I did"}, {"start": 18387.9, "end": 18400.18, "text": " in my early WoW years was make gold. I did AoE farming, I did high sell low, I did jewel"}, {"start": 18400.18, "end": 18406.18, "text": " crafting, I did inscription, I just logged in and made gold all day. Actually, there's"}, {"start": 18406.18, "end": 18413.06, "text": " probably no one here, but from my first few streams in 2012, they were actually gold making"}, {"start": 18413.06, "end": 18418.74, "text": " streams, they weren't even PvP streams. I would just log in, turn my stream on, I'd"}, {"start": 18418.74, "end": 18424.7, "text": " have like one viewer, like three viewers, and I would just buy and sell things and show"}, {"start": 18424.7, "end": 18430.34, "text": " my process of making gold. That was like, that was actually what we did for a little"}, {"start": 18430.34, "end": 18437.260000000002, "text": " bit. And we started forming rank one titles instead and people found that much more interesting."}, {"start": 18437.260000000002, "end": 18445.460000000003, "text": " So yeah, all of that to say, if anyone has any extra gold laying around and you want"}, {"start": 18445.460000000003, "end": 18457.22, "text": " me to make gold for you, I'll take all your gold and items, and just let me know."}, {"start": 18457.22, "end": 18469.82, "text": " Um, yeah, cool."}, {"start": 18469.82, "end": 18471.82, "text": " Trust me, bro."}, {"start": 18471.82, "end": 18475.420000000002, "text": " Oh, gosh."}, {"start": 18475.420000000002, "end": 18480.66, "text": " Dude, I have way too much fun with streaming sometimes."}, {"start": 18480.66, "end": 18482.66, "text": " It's actually just the best."}, {"start": 18482.66, "end": 18487.66, "text": " just mess around with you guys all day, that is great."}, {"start": 18487.66, "end": 18493.66, "text": " Okay, I think that's about it."}, {"start": 18493.66, "end": 18501.66, "text": " I think it's about right."}, {"start": 18501.66, "end": 18504.66, "text": " Yo, Kaasin, thanks for the problem."}, {"start": 18504.66, "end": 18506.66, "text": " Whoa!"}, {"start": 18506.66, "end": 18508.66, "text": " Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!"}, {"start": 18508.66, "end": 18511.66, "text": " Whoa, holy gravy!"}, {"start": 18511.66, "end": 18519.62, "text": " holy gravy whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa yeah I was kidding man you"}, {"start": 18519.62, "end": 18529.72, "text": " should keep your gold thank you but it's all it's all good really slash love"}, {"start": 18529.72, "end": 18539.86, "text": " what a legend bro um oh my gosh oh my gosh what a beast what a beast streamer"}, {"start": 18539.86, "end": 18546.4, "text": " privilege, man. I actually think that streamer privilege doesn't exist, but that's a very"}, {"start": 18546.4, "end": 18555.62, "text": " long conversation that we'll save for another time, because it's hard to explain. That's"}, {"start": 18555.62, "end": 18575.5, "text": " That's why, yep."}, {"start": 18575.5, "end": 18577.86, "text": " Turns out all the hot takes can't be explained."}, {"start": 18577.86, "end": 18583.18, "text": " Well, no, like I said, I could explain it, just now is not the time because it's hard"}, {"start": 18583.18, "end": 18595.420000000002, "text": " to explain. So that's what's going on there. But I could if I wanted. I don't really feel"}, {"start": 18595.420000000002, "end": 18602.98, "text": " like it. What is your take on new race class combos? I think new race class combos where"}, {"start": 18602.98, "end": 18607.1, "text": " they make sense is probably fine, yeah. I don't want new classes, but new race class"}, {"start": 18607.100000000002, "end": 18618.38, "text": " combos I think are pretty chill. Longest I not like super overboard. Any upgrades? We got those"}, {"start": 18618.38, "end": 18626.54, "text": " tier six gloves and they are absolutely disgustingly overpowered man. These things are legit."}, {"start": 18626.54, "end": 18635.440000000002, "text": " Alright guys, we're ending it quite early today."}, {"start": 18635.440000000002, "end": 18641.34, "text": " I am going to chill for a bit, pack up and get ready for my flight tomorrow morning."}, {"start": 18641.34, "end": 18644.22, "text": " The next time you see me will be at the LISKON."}, {"start": 18644.22, "end": 18646.34, "text": " Oh my gosh!"}, {"start": 18646.34, "end": 18648.66, "text": " Oh my gosh!"}, {"start": 18648.66, "end": 18650.82, "text": " Oh my gosh, I can't wait."}, {"start": 18650.82, "end": 18652.3, "text": " I can't wait."}, {"start": 18652.3, "end": 18653.940000000002, "text": " Oh my gosh, I can't wait."}, {"start": 18653.94, "end": 18658.039999999997, "text": " I'll be streaming live there. The meet and greet is Saturday"}, {"start": 18659.78, "end": 18663.34, "text": " evening ish. I'll put the details. If you miss them, they were on the"}, {"start": 18663.34, "end": 18666.34, "text": " blue post from today. I'll put them in my discord and on Twitter as well."}, {"start": 18666.699999999997, "end": 18669.239999999998, "text": " So I'll see you at the meet and greet if you want to say hi."}, {"start": 18669.78, "end": 18673.44, "text": " I'll be streaming here. I think I'll also be streaming on Twitch and YouTube."}, {"start": 18673.44, "end": 18678.379999999997, "text": " I'm trying to get the multi stream details set up to stream live from the con."}, {"start": 18679.579999999998, "end": 18681.68, "text": " I'll be there Saturday, Sunday, of course, for the event."}, {"start": 18681.68, "end": 18685.36, "text": " I'll be flying home Monday, so no stream Monday and we'll see how I'm feeling Tuesday"}, {"start": 18687.2, "end": 18690.98, "text": " Um, are you streaming opening ceremony? I think I should be yeah"}, {"start": 18691.64, "end": 18694.84, "text": " Save travels. Thank you guys. Thanks for all the support all the love"}, {"start": 18694.84, "end": 18698.46, "text": " Thanks for hanging with me today and always isn't did it's a good time just uh"}, {"start": 18700.08, "end": 18703.84, "text": " Hang out chill out. I'm good time man, so I"}, {"start": 18705.24, "end": 18710.32, "text": " Will see you guys live from blizzcon in two days"}, {"start": 18711.68, "end": 18715.68, "text": " round here peace"}]}