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    • 4.5 • 162 Ratings

Podcast by Blizzard Watch
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    Dragonflight Season 4 is upon us

    Dragonflight Season 4 is upon us

    Join us this week as we discuss the recently rolled out Dragonflight Season 4 including its reverse squish dungeon difficulty change. Also our WoW Remix: Mists of Pandaria beta experiences, Hearthstone’s quest difficulty identity crisis, and WoW’s return to China.
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    • 59 min
    Everything we know about The War Within

    Everything we know about The War Within

    Special guest site writer Nick Marino joins us as we discuss the massive amount of news that dropped this week about WoW’s next expansion The War Within. We cover arguably one of the biggest quality of life improvements coming to the game in the form of Warbands as well as the alpha test, dynamic flight, Delves, the new Earthen allied race, new classes coming to the Dracthyr, a major in-game event that has already been spoiled (really, people, let's not), and the new mode that turns spiders into crabs. Though not crabs with tiny hats so there is obviously still some improvement to be had there.
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    • 1 hr 23 min
    The crushing weight of too much content

    The crushing weight of too much content

    Join us as we discuss the smaller delights found in WoW Classic Season of Discovery Phase 3, trying to keep up with all of the seasons/battle pass/limited time event grinds across multiple games, and what recent single player fantasy games (other than Baldur's Gate 3) is equivalent to Cyberpunk 2077’s engaging mix of massive world building, story driven quests, and modern graphics. Hint: Not enough.
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    • 59 min
    Noblegarden has gone to the ducks and we're here for it

    Noblegarden has gone to the ducks and we're here for it

    Join us as we discuss the new adorable duck reward from this year’s Noblegarden event, Diablo 4’s first PTR, what we’d like to see in the future for WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery, how Overwatch introduced a new hero but without all the extra stories usually surrounding the launch of a character, and we end on a deep discussion about Pirate Stitches and shark guns. You’re welcome.
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    • 57 min
    Less time sorting, more time slaying

    Less time sorting, more time slaying

    Join us as we discuss the recent Diablo 4 dev chat revealing the many quality of life improvements coming to the gearing system, the massive Dragonflight meta achievement that rewards the goodest of boys, and the new raid content coming to WoW Classic Season of Discovery and Wrath Classic. Plus, the flower-hatted duck that is destined to be our new best friend.
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    • 1 hr 12 min
    Welcome to the Plunderdome!

    Welcome to the Plunderdome!

    Join us as we discuss Plunderstorm, the surprise 60-person Battle Royale mode Blizzard just dropped for WoW (but not for WoW, it’s a thing.) We also cover our varying levels of excitement and disappointment over the new Hero specializations revealed for The War Within, wax nostalgic for the new 10th anniversary Hearthstone cards referencing the game’s past, and wrap up with the question we’ve been asking ourselves a lot lately, "Does Overwatch even know what it's trying to be anymore?"
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    • 1 hr 3 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
162 Ratings

162 Ratings

memelvin ,

Fantastic

Thank you Joe, Liz, and Matt for being informative, entertaining, and consistently worth listening to.

Headshot walk ,

Ummm ok

I started listening to the show about two years ago as someone who mainly plays console games and wanted to understand Blizzard better. For the most mart the show is good, some great convos, likable hosts and interesting topics but… I noticed that when they speak about Microsoft they do it with a certain level of disdain and that bothered me. I have no love for corporations but if you’re going to slander the company than you have to at least point me to something factual as to why, not opinions but concrete facts from reputable sources.

Microsoft according to Forbes year in and year out is voted the number 1 company in the world to work for and as far as Xbox goes Phil and his team has given all their studios time and freedom to do what they want. Since the acquisition was finalized i’ve seen nothing but happiness and rejuvenation from Activision and Blizzard devs on twitter for the future of their jobs but these three didn't bring anything like that up.

If you guys are so worried about culture and working conditions than maybe talk about how devs are feeling at this time and not what your personal bias is towards a company. 343 was mentioned as a sort of caution tale but interestingly enough what wasn't mentioned was that they were given 7 years to make a game and when the issues were identified they were corrected with new leadership.

I don’t think these three are a bad listen but people need to tell the whole story and not slices of a pie that makes you’re narrative work.

Rockdwg ,

Great show

Long time listener first time reviewer I think…..
I have been listening since the beginning when the show was named that of which we don’t mention ( like Voldemort)
Any way I listen to the show while at work driving a garbage truck, an the show never fails to entertain me. Thank you and keep up the great work

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