Blizzard Watch Podcast
Blizzard Watch Podcast: Should Diablo 4 steal the World of Warcraft trading post?
Join us as we discuss the idea of Diablo 4 making more cosmetics attainable through in-game activities, the Hearthstone 10th anniversary event in WoW along with all the limited-time shinies that it drops, the confusing dungeon difficulty changes coming to Dragonflight Season 4, the irony of the upcoming launch of WoW Cataclysm Classic, and the on-going mystery around WoW patch 10.2.6.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: The terrible treachery we’d undertake for trendy transmog
Join us as we discuss the latest Diablo 4 including the good (Vampiric powers!), the bad (more repetitive endgame content!), and the fabulous (dapper feather hats!).
Blizzard Watch Podcast: The low fun factor of the Diablo 4 early game
Join us as we discuss how slow leveling, complicated itemization, and lack of early game unique drops make for an unfun Diablo 4.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: What happened with Blizzard’s cancelled untitled survival game?
Join us as we discuss Diablo 4 coming to the Xbox Game Pass soon, the Nintendo Direct event this week, the launch of the latest ARPG competitor to Diablo, Last Epoch, and what we’ve learned about Blizzard’s ill-fated untitled survival game.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: Should every race be open to every class in WoW?
Join us as we discuss the new “no trading/no auction house” mechanic coming to WoW Classic Hardcore, Hearthstone’s 10th anniversary along with its just announced Whizbang’s Workshop expansion, and why all the race/class restrictions should be lifted from WoW.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: Why no PTR for WoW patch 10.2.6?
Join us as we discuss Blizzard’s efforts to maintain the secrets of WoW patch 10.2.6 by not hosting it on the PTR, why we approve Diablo 4’s delay in its new gauntlet and leaderboard feature, the new dragon riding mount armor in WoW’s current seasonal content, and why we love our transmog a little too much.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: Record profits and record layoffs at Blizzard
Join us as we discuss the devastating layoffs that hit Blizzard while Activision leadership exits with mind boggling payouts.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: The glory of respecs and robots in Diablo 4’s Season 3
Join us as we discuss the new features that have rolled out in Diablo 4 with the launch of Season 3 including the revamped respec system and the new robot companion.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: Should WoW have romanceable characters?
Join us as we discuss the charm and challenges of implementing a Bioware/Baldur’s Gate romanceable companion feature to WoW (and how Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO pulled it off.) We also cover Diablo 4’s upcoming Season 3 that grants you a robot companion, if WoW’s patch 10.2.5 Gilneas storyline redeems Genn Greymane’s cowardice during the Third War, and which Warcraft character would be which superhero in a Warcraft/DC/Marvel mashup.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: The age of community driven raid tier sets is upon us
Join us as we discuss the insane announcement that WoW players can vote on tier set bonuses and appearances for Dragonflight Season 4, the launch of the last Wrath Classic phase, Diablo 3 Season 30 mixing the three previous season themes together, and the winding down of Hearthstone’s Duels mode.