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Currently Playing: Playing World of Warcraft in 2024 (ft. Day9) - The PoddyC Ep. 46

Howdy Folks! Welcome to the PoddyC, episode 46!!!! in this episode we had the fantastic, legendary Day9 on the podcast! You guys have asked for a really long time to have a more casual perspective on the podcast and we couldn't think of a better guest to bring it. Day9 started playing WoW in 2024, but has a deep history with gaming at a high level, as well as game design so he brings a super unique and cool perspective - as well as a good platform to talk about things like being the first guy with a sub button on twitch! Anyways hope you enjoy! Thanks to Day9 for coming on the show and having this great talk! https://twitter.com/Day9tv https://www.twitch.tv/day9tv https://www.youtube.com/@day9tv SUPPORT THE PODCAST ON PATREON AND ENJOY SOME BANGER BONUS CONTENT: 📺 https://patreon.com/PoddyC Hope you enjoy todays episode "Playing World of Warcraft in 2024 (ft. Day9)"! Audio only listeners: 🎧 Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/SpottyPoddyC 🎧 Apple: https://tinyurl.com/ApplePoddyC 🎧 Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/AmazonPoddy 🎧 Google: https://tinyurl.com/GooglePoddy Socials: The PoddyC: https://twitter.com/ThePoddyC Maximum: https://twitter.com/maximum Dorki: https://twitter.com/Dorkiboar Dratnos: https://twitter.com/Dratnos Produced & Edited by Fronk: https://twitter.com/aceanfronk For Business Inquiries: Poddymanagement@gmail.com 0:00 - ANOTHER DRATNOS INTRO! 0:56 - Introducing our guest! 3:17 - Who is Dratnos? 4:40 - we woke up early for this 5:36 - Who is Max? 6:09 - Who is Dorki? 7:13 - Explaining M+ 8:24 - How Day9 avoided playing World of Warcraft 12:48 - Finishing explaining M+ 13:08 - Retail WoW being played as competitive game 13:50 - Why people got into WoW 16:22 - Why Day9 preferred Classic over Retail 18:13 - Day9 notices Max's Horses 19:17 - More Retail vs Classic Experiences 21:09 - People just want to have fun in games 24:22 - Is World of Warcraft actually a bad product? 25:58 - Meaningful Choice in World of Warcraft 32:56 - Minmaxxing changed WoW a lot 35:42 - World of Warcraft's playerbase 40:15 - NEVER LOG ON TO TWITTER.COM 41:20 - Wow's a great game when someone isn't telling you it's bad 41:45 - Devs have to design with Tier Lists in mind 43:32 - How do you make sure players aren't overwhelmed? 49:51 - Complexity isn't bad. 51:20 - Games are what you make them 52:56 - Delves 54:12 - Mole People 54:52 - Issues with reward driven players 58:05 - Dorki's experience with WC3 59:00 - Wow's making a game for everyone 59:33 - Plunderstorm 1:02:40 - Controversial is better than bland. 1:08:10 - How does this compare to Blizzard's philosophy? 1:11:22 - Turning your Hobby into your job (Streaming) 1:18:51 - Getting stuck streaming 1 game 1:19:35 - Being an esports caster/host 1:23:25 - Dratnos fleeced himself 1:24:45 - Streaming is still so volatile 1:26:54 - People do this cuz they love games 1:27:35 - Backups gives Peace of mind. 1:29:54 - Becoming a "streamer" in 2024 1:38:13 - Being a good streamer is a skill 1:39:56 - PUTTING DAY9 ON THE SPOT TO ASK US QUESTIONS 1:40:47 - What's your favorite dumb fun thing to do in WoW? 1:43:08 - Dorki's dark past 1:44:37 - Do people expect too much from games these days? 1:48:15 - THE PATREON QUESTION OF THE WEEK 1:48:25 - If you had to do something else, what would it be? 1:49:30 - What would Dorki be doing? 1:50:09 - Dratnos' answer 1:50:35 - What would Day9 do? 1:52:55 - Max's Answer 1:55:10 - THANKS SO MUCH DAY9 PODBYE GUYS I'm not gonna lie i was very smitten by day9 #thewarwithin #thepoddyc #podcast