Scott Johnson

I want to say it was 20% of your XP. Regardless, that was gone. No matter what, that was gone. But also your stuff, your gold, your items, your equipables were all left there in a pile, kind of Diablo 2 style. And you had to run, you had to corpse run, not in some ethereal realm where you're dead and you're a ghost and nothing can hurt you, but in the real world. And so you're very vulnerable.

And then when you get out there, I just almost had it again. Dark Age of Camelot, that's it. Hey. You ever have a thought just go, oh, shit, I didn't catch its face. And then it runs by again. It was like that. Anyway, then you'd have to run up to your thing. You'd get a little bit of your XP back. I don't think it was all of it. And you get your stuff back.

But now you had to go grind out the XP you lost. Yeah. Now, I understand the value that some may place on that kind of punishment. I think there's a place for it, and I'm glad that there is.

There you go. Exactly. Or something like, I don't know, Souls likes today. They're punishing on purpose. It's part of the experience. I think that's wonderful that those exist. But if you want to capture a very large part of a subscribing game model market, you've got to be more approachable than that.

So it's a small example with the death thing, but there are a lot of things in WoW that I really appreciate that others did not do. Here is a quick email. No, this is a voicemail. This came to us at 801-471-0462. This is about when things started way back in the day.

All right. So if you don't recognize the voice, that is Andrew Konietzky, the original co-host of The Instance back in 2006. And he was there for about a year. Also did a little ELR with me. And it was just great to hear from him. So I wanted to make sure I played that. Brings us full circle. That was a long-ass time ago. A long time. It seriously was. Yeah. And we started the guild together.

I think I probably first complained about wow bugs then because we were doing the Gates of Encarage back then. It's just a wild. And then I saw Randy last week, so I got a little bit of that. And, you know... There's been a lot of people, a lot of stuff in between, but here we are now today doing a thing with this guy that looks like Jesus, and it's great. I love it.

No, you can't. You're like Samson. Don't do it. I don't even know how that story goes, but Samson couldn't cut his hair for some reason. What was the deal?

Oh, was that it? All right. Yeah. I thought it was something more like all his money went away or something like that.

That shows what I know. All right. Returning player after a long time away. He has a question about writing animation. Here you go.

All right, so... I was thinking about this the other day because my, um, one of these mounts I was trying to remember what it was. Oh, I know what it is. The Diablo, the Diablo death something mount. It's the one you got for Diablo fours pre-order. It's awesome. By the way, one of the best like tie-in mounts they've ever done.

And it's got this amazing wingspan, super demonics got like three headed dog in the front. It's very cool. But I noticed that when my orc is sitting there, he's holding like, he's supposed to be holding like a, like a, what are those called on horses? Hilt or whatever it is. Uh,

Yeah. What's that called?

Is it pommel? No. It's not. It's not.

So this is like whatever that little handle is. And he's holding it with his two hands, but there's nothing there. He's just in the midair holding nothing because the reins of this thing are all in a different place. And so he's just very stiffly sort of stuck there. I mean, clearly it's not a priority.

But you'd think for a company that really prides itself on smooth transitions and animation and all that stuff, maybe would have had a look at that. I don't know. Maybe there's some old code that just prevents this from ever looking right. But he's right. If it isn't a horse, you all look funny.

There's no momentum.

and like so you step forward a little bit so the mount like tilts you forward but like really fast yeah and so it's like you're waving around like like a stick like yeah like paper you really you should launch off the front of that thing nobody's asking for like hyper realistic physics here but i do think they i think they could go right like revisit this you know yeah tweak it a

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