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What lingo comes with your gaming community?
Ever feel like joining a new gaming community requires learning a new language?
How important are progression systems in gaming, and what’s the ideal progression system to you?
While your exact definition may differ, to me, a progression system is any system in a game that allows you to accomplish a goal and gain something that feels rewarding.
What effect does the range of gender customization in a video game have on your interest in that game? How do those options impact your choice of in-game avatar?
Looking at my roster of characters in World of Warcraft and Diablo 3, I have almost exclusively chosen to create characters with female-presenting avatars.
How fast do you think content should release in an MMO?
Blizzard currently has two MMOs -- the venerable World of Warcraft, which has been in operation for 18 years (19 this November, and it's a little terrifying to realize WoW could vote if it were a person) and the more recent mobile MMO, Diablo Immortal. Now, over the years I've come to consider a certain pace of content delivery to be the norm, but in reality many MMOs release content at a much quicker pace than World of Warcraft.
Hearthstone Mercenaries gets its last hurrah with a final game update before going into maintenance mode
Hearthstone Mercenaries is getting one big final update, and then the game mode will go dormant.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: The overwhelming creep of multiple and confusing reward currencies
This week, we discuss Overwatch 2 reviving a retired reward currency as a new avenue for players to acquire Legendary skins, WoW’s new reward currency for the Trading Post feature, and the new talent tree system coming in Diablo 3’s Season 28 where, to the surprise of no one, the currency to unlock it is sacrifice.
Lore Watch Podcast: Dreaming of a Caverns of Time WoW expansion
This week, we explore the idea of a WoW expansion based on the Caverns of Time where we could adventure in Azeroth’s past, what could be next for the dragon flights after we conquer the threat of the primalists, and in the Diablo universe is there a world where Tyrael turns against humans?
What takes a game’s monetization from “reasonable” to “unreasonable” for you?
I'm on record as having said that Diablo Immortal was a fun game and that it was possible to play it without spending a cent on it, and I stand by those statements.
What we know about Blizzard’s upcoming survival game (not much!)
On January 25, 2022, Blizzard announced that they were "building a survival game in an all-new universe." The news was as exciting as it was shocking for many of us long-term Blizzard fans.
Blizzard Watch Podcast: Is the Dragonflight renown system too restrictive or too fast?
This week, we discuss our thoughts on the renown system in Dragonflight, our feelings on the new content coming for Wrath Classic, and our prayers for those playing Diablo 1 in Diablo 3’s annual Darkening of Tristram event.
