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
#gaming #Blizzard #WorldOfWarcraft
Chapters:
0:00 Monster Hunter
05:46 Gaming Industry Recession
36:44 Comfort Games & Habit Gaming
41:13 Gaming Industry Self-Regulation has Failed Us
54:24 FFXIV Massive Upcoming Content & WoW
1:04:58 Will Dragonflight Alpha & Beta Spoil the Game?
1:06:40 The Problem of Early Access in Content Creation
1:21:27 Blizzard Buys Spellbreak Studio to Work on WoW
1:34:38 Why a WoW Dragonflight Delay Would be a Bad Thing
1:38:10 Is WoW Dragonflight Ready?
1:48:00 Battlefield Single Player
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Love your MH content on the other channel and also loved hearing you talking about gaming in general! Keep going!
Warlords of Draenor was the last time they actively showed subscribers, after that they entirely stopped.
honestly this is a great podcast, hope to see it get bigger
Hey Ruri, HoTS is finally in maintance mode, are you considering making a vídeo as a send off about It? You always say How It that game meant to you
This is why i play mostly indie games and visual novels. Still a ton of creativity in those markets so it feels like all we can do is support them instead of p2w garbage
I still believe people will pay for digital goods in lieu of decent food. They'll shift down to ramen, cheap and over sweet crap, like the bald man does, value menu items, etc. before they stop flushing money down the toilet. They are screwed.
WildStar shirt..never forget.
This was kind of therapeutic. The gaming industry honestly makes me sad specifically blizzard.. but you guys are right there's other games out there that do respect you it's just.. sad.
Dont know about other games if they do this the same but Wow is literally running on beta version from start till end expansion…a non finished game and ur paying for it monthly…
I will not preorder. I will not play so far. I just can’t.
I'd be interested to see what WoW's subscription and Blizzard's revenue was like after the 2008 financial crisis.
Hey, I know that when you said that you had no respect for people that spend $1,000+ and such on mobile games, I think I should say something. There are a lot of neuro-atypical folk like those on the autism spectrum where your brain basically actively hurts you for not getting 'the full experience'. It's by design, the terrible monetization models are the issue, not the people that fall prey to them. It makes it to where there are certain games we just can't play at all because the microtransactions are just way too numerous and unavoidable.
For most people, it's pretty easy to just decide not to pay that much. Which means you're not the one they're targeting. It's basically specifically trying to exploit people that already have plenty of other issues.
They did have a closed beta you could openly talk about for WotLK, I even have a physical burned CD with the installer for it lying around somewhere
I'm torn on betas, with game expansions like WOW I don't want them. But I am very very stingy with my money and games. I probably never would have bought Nioh, if it wasn't for the betas. now its one of my favorite game series of all time. I will never take a risk on a game. unless I'm at least 80% certain I will enjoy it.
Two of my fave wow content creators; I appreciate your perspectives & commentary! YAH bless 🙏🏻
About game pass, i belive sony will kill it easy if they know how to mkt that shit, the new PS+ have like 90% of sony exclsuvies right now, even newer like spider man, miles morales and returnal, Microsoft give games day one but between the shit that microsoft create vs sony games even if you have to wait 1/2 years sony games ARE SO MUCH BETTER!
All of the companies he said will have trouble during the recession probably knows about the recession and if they're smart they'll print money by making the games people actually want instead of GaS. EA for example will make a lot of money with Jedi Fallen Order 2, they can make a lot of money by making a good Battlefield game, Mass Effect or Dragon Age. All Ubisoft has to do is announce an Assassin's Creed game focusing on social stealth that has Altair or even Ezio as the main character. Like, Take Two is making GTA 6 dude… everybody wants the new NBA 2K game.
Same goes with any company that has huge franchises under their care.
Really like the podcast, just a small nitpick.. the cohost is a tiny bit annoying trying to predict and be right about everything, like he says Blizzard stocks are plummeting but Ruri pulls up Blizzard stock numbers and says "it's rising" and he immediately goes into "but but but it's plummeting I'm sure, it's rising right now because of this and that… here's the thing". Like, his takes and comments are very predictable but it's not a big deal, it's fun listening to you two talking video games in general.
I still think Accolonn's understanding of what causes recessions, and this one, is a bit…. wrong lol. Or I should say, incomplete. A lot of it is LITERALLY unregulated corporate greed running rampant. Oil prices are insanely high purely due to corporate greed. They even are bragging how they've been able to raise prices for gas to higher levels than before and profits are higher than ever. Despite the fact last time oil barrels were at the price they were, gas was cheaper. That has really impacted trucks, trains, planes, ships, etc since those oil barrels are refined further or sold at a higher price to companies for their own use which adds to cost to move things which all adds up.
Bro, I live in Florida near Orlando. Going to the movies is like $15-20 a ticket, sometimes marked down for multiple people. If you want popcorn and food, you're sometimes just doubling your price tag. I typically won't ever need popcorn or a drink or anything for a 2 hour escapade to watch a movie in the theatres, so for me, the entertainment value of around 2 hours is literally $15.
The average video game that costs $60 can give me anywhere from 40 to 100 hours on the low-end average. And that's pretty much unlimited access that I want to that video game. So it's infinitely worth more to buy a video game, whereas going to the movies.
A movie is honestly a monetary rip-off compared to video games…
I think the other reasonable thing about the Monster Hunter paid cosmetic stuff is that it's really really cheap compared to what a lot of other games try to do. Most of the stuff is a couple bucks, and the steam sales for the game generally apply the same percentage discount to those. I feel less gross spending two dollars on a cash shop item than I do spending 10-20.
I'm a bit sad that dragonflight will have a alpha and beta. Was hopping to finally get a spoiler free expansion </3
honest question: Why is Genshin considered Pay to Win? Like what are you winning? Yes you can more easily get all the Waifus and Husbandos you want but thats it.