Escapist Podcast: 093: World of Warcraft and Cupcakes

[The Escapist Staff]

093: World of Warcraft and Cupcakes

This week, the valiant Escapist crew discusses the future of World of Warcraft, cupcakes (because we are obsessed with food), and games that really disappointed us.

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[Eleuthera]

I only got to about a minute before my internet started crapping out and I'm waiting for the buffer to fill up enough to continue...
However already I have something to add to the conversation.

Between 1990 and 2010 I went to the doctor's office twice. One after being hit by a car, and once again years later when I noticed my eyesight was getting worse.
Nearing the end of 2010 I wasn't feeling too well, but I sucked it up and got better. Then for the next 6 months I kept getting sick and getting better, never bothering to go see a doctor (despite my friends telling me to do so). By July 2011 I finally relented and went to see my family doctor, a month later I was hospitalised and getting chemo treatments for stage IV Hodgekins Lymphoma. I'm doing fine now, but a whole lot of treatment (chemo and radiation and more chemo, and a stem-cell transplant) could have been avoided if I had gone and went to my doctor earlier.

So, morale of the story, don't just tough it out...

 

[Ashoten]

I think you guys are overestimating how money savey companies like Blizzard are. Whoever said that Blizzard would have switched to a FTP if they thought it would make more money. Company's can be timid as well as penny wise and dollar stupid. It is more likely that they are still used to getting the guarantee 15 dollars a month from subscribers. No amount of money projections for FTP you show them will make them want to give up that security blanket. It is because jobs are dependent on 1/4'ly statements of earning and no one wants to try to explain to share holders why the initial money dropped in half and they are waiting for the benefits of FTP to kick in.

 

[MorganL4]

Hey Paul, I bought it two weeks before launch too.... It was $240

 

[WMDogma]

Hey Paul, I bought it two weeks before launch too.... It was $240

I thought it had to be around that price point.

 

[puff ball]

i feel like you guys are a lot less focused and a little raunchier without Susan not saying that as a positive or negative just a thought i think i like the occasional change of pace.

edit: i really need to spell check better

 

[blackrave]

How can we fuck?

Well Greg, If you asked...
First you find nice location (with fireplace preferably)
Then you put on some nice music, drink some wine and get all moody (it is a word right?)
Then you all four undress and..
[CRAP I FORGOT, FOR A LOVE OF NON-EXISTENT GOD SWITCH OFF CAMERA, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE ONE AWKWARD PODCAT THAT WOULD FUEL NIGHTMARES OF AVERAGE ESCAPEE!!!]
..let your wildest imagination become reality.
Hope it helps

captcha: I'm yours
Dammit, captcha is flirting with me again :/

 

[shiajun]

Jack Shepard is the name of Mathew Fox's character in Lost.

 

[Greg Tito]

Jack Shepard is the name of Mathew Fox's character in Lost.

That's right! I knew I remembered it from something!

 

[Greg Tito]

i feel like you guys are a lot less focused and a little rancher without Susan not saying that as a positive or negative just a thought i think i like the occasional change of pace.

If you mean raunchier, then yes, I'd agree with that. And I'm not sure it's a good thing

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I've been playing WoW since the beginning and I can say this about Titan.

If Titan isn't free to play, I won't play it. I won't throw away all my hard work that I've put in my character(s) just to play Titan. Most of the WoW players think the same way because of all the time invested in it.

Also, the chance of Titan being another RPG and Fantasy setting (most probably Sci Fi) is very low. It would be stupid to make it the same as WoW but with a different universe.

I'm speculating it will be either a Third Person or First Person MMO.

 

[Ashoten]

I've been playing WoW since the beginning and I can say this about Titan.

If Titan isn't free to play, I won't play it. I won't throw away all my hard work that I've put in my character(s) just to play Titan. Most of the WoW players think the same way because of all the time invested in it.

Also, the chance of Titan being another RPG and Fantasy setting (most probably Sci Fi) is very low. It would be stupid to make it the same as WoW but with a different universe.

I'm speculating it will be either a Third Person or First Person MMO.

If Blizzard was smart they would have some way for your achievements and gear to carry over to Titan in the form of xp buffs or maybe a special mount. Like a jet motorcycle with a side car for your friends that goes faster then regular mounts.

 

[puff ball]

i feel like you guys are a lot less focused and a little rancher without Susan not saying that as a positive or negative just a thought i think i like the occasional change of pace.

If you mean raunchier, then yes, I'd agree with that. And I'm not sure it's a good thing

actually i meant you go better on salad and with wings.

 

[Lady Larunai]

I'm on Justin's team, I just don't feel the need to go to the doctor for every sniffle, I live in a partially social health care country as well.

 

[Marowit]

Community Acquired Pneumonia! Is what causes lingering chest colds.

Plus, preventative care saves a lot more money than just showing up when you're sick...just saying...

Also, over prescription of Abx is because that's what the vast herd wants (and is defensive against malpractice). If a patient shows up at a practice, don't get abx, and want it, well they'll just go to the practice down the road to the shill who'll give it to them. And you've just lost a patient. But, you're correct it is creating quite a few drug-resistant bugs. Scary-news flash: there's a rapidly spreading resistant Gonorrhea-strain 0.o

grumbles about people who treat these things so casually...

 

[silentNate]

No Susan this week... cue sad face

 

[Tanakh]

Mode 7 fantasy futuristic football! Drooling.

 

[Auzzie Taco]

Jack Shepard is the name of Mathew Fox's character in Lost.

That's right! I knew I remembered it from something!

As the brother of the asker, I can say that he only likes mass effect from a narcissistic standpoint, and lost bores him to tears. The worst one is Greys Anatomy

 

[Eppy (Bored)]

Vis a bus the discussion on ducks, I feel that it is important to point out that ducks are one of the only animal species that engage in forcible rape. They are also the only bird with external genitalia. These two variables may or may not be related.

 

[Lexxicator]

Well now... That PODCAT literary made my end of the day... and what not :3