Welcome to the Frozen Sodium Throne Podcast, this podcast hosted by Rurikhan and Accolonn focus on gaming with a heavy bias towards MMOs like WoW, FFXIV and More. Today we got a packed discussion for you guys, hopefully you’ll enjoy it!
Check out Accolonn:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAccolonn/
https://www.twitch.tv/Accolonn
More Rurikhan:
Main Channel: http://youtube.com/Rurikhan
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/rurikhan
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rurikhan
Discord: https://discord.gg/rwXHkNQ
#WorldOfWarcraft #FFXIV #Podcast
Chapters:
0:00 Frozen Sodium Throne Origins
11:13 WoW’s Storytelling Strengths & Weaknesses
20:31 WoW’s Forced Chores Design
24:14 Elden Ring Open World Design & Optional Areas
30:24 Directing Players Organically
35:06 FFXIV Quest Structure
37:44 Blizzard’s Development Strengths, Warhammer, Rift, Banter
47:42 FFXIV Borrowed Heavily from WoW
49:55 Do Developers Need to be Gamers?
1:00:21 Dispatching NPCs in Souls
1:03:04 Final Fantasy XIV has Something for Everyone
1:07:43 Discovery and Wowhead
1:09:38 Cross-Faction Discussion
1:12:46 Accolonn’s Alliance Adventure & WoW Races
1:14:57 Segregating Playerbases and Faction Balance
1:19:54 Logic of Factions in Modern WoW
1:23:39 Accolonn’s Endtimes Baine Theory
1:25:35 Cross-Faction Guilds Needs to be a Feature
1:31:25 Blizzard Reaction Time and Cross-Faction Guild Ideas
1:37:31 Blizzard’s Hiring a Narrative Director & Old Blizzard Culture
1:49:55 Optional VS Mandatory Grinds, WoW VS FFXIV & Old Content
1:54:32 Do Developers Need to Play Their Own Games
2:00:57 The Importance of Culture in Game Development. Is there Hope for Blizzard?
2:11:18 Psychology of Addiction in MMO Games
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hell ya love to see them together agian
Yes! I have dreamed of this podcast. For a whole 9 days
My Friday is now complete.
If you guys like this format, I absolutely would keep an eye on a streamed live version of the podcast on a channel where I could pull up old ones from a library. Maybe a thought for later. Thanks for the content to listen to while at work <3
You guys work well together. Like watching blood brothers talk about their favorite games. 😆
i always thought the real irony of modern Blizzard is they got to the top by being the casual friendly MMORPG. Nothing about classic WoW was groundbreaking in an real way, they just cut so much of the complexity that sunk a lot of RPG's at the time.
Now they're drowning under the weight of their own complexity…
Huzzah!
I am very happy to see this is a series.
great podcast again.
kinda wanna jump into WoW again.
stoped playing at the launch of MoP.
Also I would really like if you would do a discussion on WoW or MMOs in general with Asmongold. Definitely would be very interesting.
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