The Instance: Forever is a long time
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How did COVID‑19 affect the hosts' plans for BlizzCon and the episode intro?
So I think because we didn't get press passes to BlizzCon, we actually dodged a bullet.
What? Were there oh that I was about to go in a dark direction. Um what bullet did we dod
Dutch? Uh the COVID uh nineteen new variant bullet. Uh 'cause everybody I know who went, not everybody, because they haven't confirmed what they have, but a lot of people that went That I have talked to since the con are all now uh in bed with fevers. And testing positive for this new variant. So
that we learn anything. No. Cover your mouth when you sneeze. Don't touch your face. Wash your hands and stay six feet away from each other at a convention.
Yeah. And do not spend any time in the Overwatch arena.
Hello and welcome to the instance. Uh Bobby If it's it's it's probably been since Wrath of the Lich King, since I've felt the palpability of the world of Warcraft uh permeate the culture the way it is right now. For a thing that neither of us really thought too much about before. Before this thing happened. It does feel exciting, doesn't it? But This is gonna come up today. World of Warcraft forever, you know?
Yeah, it'll
come up forever. Did you so okay, I gotta show you something. Look at this. I made a dude in there. He's a nice he's an undead man. I went with newer models because F the old shit. Undead Mage and the priest? Yeah. Mage Mage. And uh his name is Gurp Johnson, and you may say to yourself I forgot. Already forgot we are gonna get surnames. Yeah, we get surnames. So you could have a whole family of Johnsons or, you know, Frankenbergers or whatever you want. And uh I think that the way it works is you can have if as long as you've got that surname in there, I think you can name anybody anything you want, even if someone else has that first name, just like in real life. Right? You know a few bobbies or bobs. That is like real life.
Yeah. How you determine which one you're talking to is often their surname, so I think that's pretty cool. Um none of this matters today though because you can't actually register for good the name you want until I think it's a week before. The the actual release on the fourth or something like that? So Anything people are scrambling to do, like I saw a dude named Comic Sands yesterday. That was pretty cool.
That's pretty good, yeah.
Yeah. Ibit says, Well, we ought to do all the fonts like I don't know.
Time.
Tell Vedica. That could be like a That's pretty good. Maybe that'll be my uh my uh what would be Helvetica? Demon hunter? No, it would be like a Death Knight.
Death Knight or this No
warlock.
Maybe a warlock. Okay. What about an undead paladin? Because that's now a thing for you to do in this game. Not even in retail. You can't play that in retail. But you can play it in this forever business, which is a little crazy to say, but
I think I am gonna do an undead paladin is what I w is my plan. I mean you always go paladin, so why wouldn't you go paladin here? And my very first cause and the reason s I have to do paladin, I love paladin too much, but Not only have I always w wanted an undead paladin Um I just think the I think the lore behind it is really cool. I think the the theming behind it. I there's a lot of r that I really like about the idea of an undead paladin, but it's it's just perfect to me. It's so full circle because WoW Forever is uh is going back to the beginning. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And my very first World of Warcraft character was an undead rogue, so it was undead, and I played an undead for a really, really long time.
So it feels like s sort of like a a m marriage of my first character and my my favorite class, you know. Mm-hmm. And so Undead Paladin it is. But what would my undead paladin's name be? I don't know.
So you
gotta work on.
that. You gotta think about it. Now I have beta access. I know you don't neither of us are beta testers by tradition. I don't love doing it. Um That's the back. Why don't why don't you like doing it? Undead Paladin. Um Couple of reasons. One It all gets wiped on day one. Or maybe even before. But you're not gonna get to keep any progress you do or anything you've done.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did COVID‑19 affect the hosts' plans for BlizzCon and the episode intro?
0:00–6:44
2
Why are the hosts excited about creating an undead paladin in WoW Forever?
6:44–14:30
3
What are the main concerns the hosts have about beta testing WoW Forever?
14:30–21:55
4
How will Blizzard monetize WoW Forever – subscription, expansion price, or extra content?
21:55–29:32
5
Which existing games illustrate the horizontal‑progression model that WoW Forever aims for?
29:32–35:52
6
How do influencers and community perception impact the launch of WoW Forever?
35:52–43:36
7
What new class concepts do the hosts propose for WoW Forever?
43:36–50:44
8
When do the hosts expect WoW Forever to be playable and what are their final thoughts?
50:44–56:40