Addon War! | The Grinding Gear Podcast #133

The Grinding Gear Podcast

Garrett Weinzierl and Kyle Fergusson

Nexus, Games, Video, Ffxiv, Gaming, Pc, Games & Hobbies, Diablo, Warcraft, Blizzard, Ff14, Final, Starcraft, Mmo, Console, Hots, Fantasy, Video Games

4.9 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 167 minutes

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Summary

The World of Warcraft news cycle has begun with the approach of their Midnight expansion Cinematic. WoW plans to get rid of Addons, going the FFXIV route and freeing themselves of their ever escalating arms race. WoW has also claimed massive success with their recent One Button rotation option. Final Fantasy XIV has sales down by 23%, but what does that even mean? We watched Kpop Demon Hunters, Dandadan and more.

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0:00.0	Happy Monday. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. Happy Monday.
0:22.8	Happy Monday.
0:24.1	Happy first day of kindergarten.
0:26.6	Oh, my God.
0:29.5	Oh, my God.
0:30.1	We made it.
0:30.9	We made it, everybody.
0:32.2	I feel so old.
0:34.5	I luckily don't.
0:36.8	I was afraid I would feel older.
0:39.1	But I'm not actually ancient.
0:41.0	You know, my generation, they're having kids much later.
0:43.0	I was really worried I was going to walk in that.
0:44.5	Dude, you're ahead of the curve if you're thinking like, if you're thinking like,
0:50.1	what am I thinking of?
0:52.0	It's particularly like L.A. scheduling.
0:55.1	If you live in Southern California, you're having babies when you're like 68.
1:00.7	Everyone out there is the oldest parents you've ever seen in your life.
1:04.5	Well, you know, I'm in the South now.
1:06.4	I was expecting more of like a military family kind of vibe, like a lot of, you know, people in their 20s.
1:10.6	And I wass and I was
1:11.1	pretty I was pretty middle of the road honestly in the room so I mean I know we have military bases
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