Episode #470: Shackles of Fate!
The Starting Zone: The World of Warcraft Podcast!
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🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 128 minutes
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| 0:21.0 | You're listening to the Starting Zone, a podcast about World of Warcraft and the people who play it. And now, here are your hosts. |
| 0:24.0 | Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone the podcast about World of |
| 0:32.1 | Warcraft, the people about World of Warcraft, |
| 0:32.7 | the people who play it. |
| 0:33.7 | Today is August 11, 2021, and my name is Spencer Downey. |
| 0:37.6 | Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the podcast. |
| 0:40.2 | Today I'm joined as always by my co-host, |
| 0:42.3 | Jason, how have you been this past? Today I'm joined as always by my co-host Jason |
| 0:43.0 | Jason how have you been this past packed week in Azeroth? |
| 0:46.0 | Oh Spencer hello I've been doing well a bit of a lighter week of wow stuff for me because I was away for a few days on a brief vacation, but |
| 0:57.5 | productive. |
| 0:58.5 | I mean, I packed what I could and through the time I had to play. So that was good. You know we're obviously it's been a really weird time to be a wow player and also weirder to try to be some type of commentator in this space |
| 1:18.6 | over the last three weeks here. I have you know unfortunately we have now kind of devolved into the |
| 1:26.6 | conversation being about slamming individual developers and like targeting harassment at them and I don't know how this is an outgrowth of you know |
| 1:40.4 | revelations about a toxic work environment and a violation of labor law. |
| 1:48.0 | You know, this descends into, oh, we'll also harass the people who still work there. |
| 1:53.0 | I guess the answer is it's the internet and also, |
| 1:57.0 | you know, the broad wow player base |
| 2:01.4 | doesn't have the best reputation and probably with good reason. |
| 2:06.0 | So yeah, that's been that's been really disheartening to see over the last week like |
| 2:10.1 | whether you like the game or not there there's really no reason to track down people who make it and harass them out of band on weekends at night, whatever. |
| 2:22.0 | I mean, if you want to give feedback about the game |
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