I saw that Blizzard is now hiring The GM of Call of Duty to become the President of Blizzard. Do you have any thoughts on that? Personally, I think it's a disaster. Call of Duty is a mess.
There's another, great side effect of having a level cap : It creates an endgame in a completely different environment. Items, dungeons, professions, everything really becomes a different endgame meta, the best items and farms are completely different and so are the relevant zones. It's amazing! Each time the level cap is raised, it's an all new adventure!
For sure! I have never had as much fun in wow since Vanilla and TBC as now with Season of Discovery. It has made me fall in love with just messing around and having fun in an mmo again! Becouse I dont have to get to that elusive lvl 60 as fast as possible. It is great work from the SOD team! They are legends
@@OneTwoMarkcould definitely be. But if they work in other twists and content packages, they'll just use a magnificient foundation to build up on. Additional installments of an IP are usually doing exactly this! Imagine if a Mass Effect 2 or an Uncharted 2 was vastly different to the first games.
Thanks Mads, enjoyed the video and thanks for the update. Been clean of wow for over a year now, glad to see SoD is doing good, but have no intention of coming back. Keep up the great quality vids and take it easy :)
Been on RU-vid for 16 years. Stop apologizing for not being active, it will kill your channel! Just post good content and the people will jump at each video! If you apologize on every video it starts to get disingenuous and people lose trust in you. Just a tip great vids!
My friend and I joined Season of Discovery pretty late. He hasn't played WoW since Warlords, and never had the opportunity to play the re-released Classic. This has been a really fun time in my WoW journey because he and I are on even ground and really exploring the world together for the first time. I play retail and have been since BC, but this has just been a ton of fun. We're actually working on one of his runes as phase two launches.. the warlock meta rune! It's great to go all over the world and really feel like we're progressing with each quest. Classic isn't for everyone, but if you're not sure if you want to play or not, give it a shot! We've had a ton of fun just leveling and collecting runes, and we haven't stepped foot into the raid. Thanks for the video, MadSeason! Great as always :)
Glad to see you back enjoying the game! I've been having fun in SoD as well. I love the phase-approach they''ve taken here. Lots of positives from this so far.
Great to see you back mate. Watching a fantastic creator again, after an hiatus, and that wonderful FFX, Calm before the Storm, soundtrack was beautiful.
I played SoD last month for about a week, got my runes and did some dungeons. After getting to 22 I just stopped playing. The main negative of the version for me is that despite the name there's little to no discovery. As someone that played vanilla back in 2005 and got thru that content leveling alts several times in the following years, the only fresh things for me were the runes. To experience all of them it would require making multiple alts and walking around the world with each one of them for hours and hours and that makes me exhausted just thinking about it. The only other "new" things are getting oneshotted in Ashenvale and the revamped instances; personally I don't particularly care about BFD and surely I'm not going to waste my nights babysitting people that quit WoW after wiping twice at Valiona HC in Gnomeregan. It's less of a love letter to old players and more of a necessity to keep geriatric ward patients paying the sub.
Bro I watched all of your vids! I was sad when you announced your retirement... Seeing your new vid made me happy ! Please continue doing vids! I'm looking forward to your new ones!
In 2019 i was lucky enough to have a group of friends who all had played WoW, but none had played vanilla. i dragged them from pillar to post in that game showing them every cool nook and cranny i could possibly think of. we 4-manned all the content up to LBRS. I'm so glad that i got to enjoy an untainted run with friends through one of my favourite games. I'm not sure I could do it again and with how things changed only mere months after classic dropped. it was quite a serendipitous turn of fate that we all had free time at just the right time and we all worked similar hours. love your videos man
I love how often you use the Battletoads/Double Dragon soundtrack in your videos. Thanks for the review, Mad. I haven't jumped into Season of Discovery yet, but I'm considering it.
MadSeason on the topic of botting and why they don't fix it I HIGHLY recommend the interview Meta Goblin did with a former Blizzard GM like a month or so ago now, he gives us the insider perspective on how being a GM works now & why they don't fix botting. Also loving the streams, keep it up man.
I haven't even watched the video yet, But im just happy that u have a new one out. I have loved ur stuff for years and I hope ur doing well. Now let me watch the video. :)
Blizzard Customer Service takes TWO DAYS to get back with you and they ALWAYS cut and paste responses which are ALWAYS that they CANT HELP YOU or there is no way to do what you ask, which is a LIE.
I've had a similar story with Trading post. When it was first announced - I was legit warning everyone they would absolutely monetize it and then crank up the cost of items to manipulate players into buying more of the trading post tokens. I was mass reported for being suicidal. PM'd that I'm just an idiot that doesn't know how the world works etc... Nearly a year later and blizzard has shoved their foot in the door SEVERAL times to monetize the trading post. They've release the currency for trading post in bundles with items. They've also dramatically increased the price - trying to force everyone into a deficit. This is how blizzard does it - they normalise something (being in a deficit) and then try to swoop in and "Fix" the problem. Edit: The more I interact with the WoW Community re: Predatory bussiness practices - the more i'm convinced that WoW players have some form of stockholm syndrome.
One way to combat bots is for both factions to work together in their extermination. When found in contested territory, just inv the other faction over for free honor :) if I remember correctly, Thor of Pirate Media, being an ex Blizz employee said they were purging bots once every few months never in the same day of the month or at the same hour so as to not let the users of bots predict their moves!
I had my early excitable wow phase, then a handful of 'coming back' phases, then a few nostalgic reunion phases. At this point, the idea of coming back again makes me ill. No matter how many times the new Blizz tries to change it up, they are not recreating the gold they used to have
That's why I always wondered why MadSeason did the high marshal grind in Classic. To make himself so sick and burnt out of the game he would never come back. Almost worked too.
Hey Mad. Been there for a lot of your Season of Discovery streams and it really warms my heart to see your renewed passion for the game. Never change brother.
Madseason, I'm late to the party but I'm always glad to see your releases. I quit Classic around the same time you posted your goodbye video. I hadn't thought about playing again but your description of SoD piques my interest. Decisions... Anyways, thabks for the content!
"People have forgotten the journey". Phase 2 hits and most people seem to be just spamming Stockades -> SM graveyard - SM Library -> SM armory - SM Cathedral and then raid logging
I appreciate the New World comparisons. That game was honestly the most fun I have had in years during the first 2 weeks while nolifing it with a couple friends. But as soon as I hit max level and the core gameplay loop of max level raised its head, I no longer was having fun and quit.
i think one of the coolest aspects of SoD is these 'weird' level caps each phase that cause these unique situations with gear farms almost like twink brackets (the good part of it) it really makes each phase completely new in a way if you ask me
Watching the intro made me realize all the guides and vids I watched of you : teaching me how to play the game etc. these experiences are in the past. I’ll never be there again. Even your voice sounds more mature. 😅
The "is it too late" question is not because people want to start fresh, it s because they all want/ think endgame is the wholegame,which sucks. Scrap leveling alltogether, make then happy. Instead of having an experience, enjoying a story, you just grind some useless gear that will be thrown away the second a better gear appears. It s consumerism and it s the opposite of meaningful experiences.
The only way to get a company like bliz/activision/literally any publicly traded company to actually care about users rather than shareholders is to do something impossible like repeal the law that states a company's first duty is to shareholder profits.
In original re-release of classic I reported 45+ bots, and nothing came from it. I was like fck it okay. Used a fishing bot for 30 minutes and was banned for 6 months.
Your content is absolutely top notch. You have experience to add weight to your opinions, regardless of that you keep it straight with the facts. It is rare and a breath of fresh air to be able to see people discuss things as adults like you, including good humor and overall good intended nature. Take your time with the burnout, relax as much as you need. Good content will continue bringing us back, I wish you all the best!
Here's my question: wouldn't blizzard developed classic+ basically just turn into retail? Like, it's modern blizzard that works on it, not some private server team.
Love the overview, I have been too lazy to research this. The level waves seem cool, we just had them on DAoC Eden private server and I love the time gated stuff since I have a job/kids/etc.
Regarding the level brackets: Remember what Classic 2019 was like? Burst to max level, get pre-BIS and log in once per week for buffs and raiding. With the split up levels at least I personally saw more of the world. I have been a horde player sind 2004 and never saw Redridge Mountain - until my Troll Rogue decided to farm some honor there. Same goes for other zones like Sunrock Mountains. And now with P2, that will be even more the case with Desolace and Dustwallow Marshes, zones that I previously never took any greater interest in.
