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.

Well, hello and welcome to the

starting zone the podcast

about World of Warcraft,

the people who play it today is October 25,

2022 and my name is Spencer Downey.

Thank you so much for listening and subscribing to the podcast.

I'm joined today as always by my co-host Jason Lucas Jason.

How are you doing on this patch day of Tuesday?

Wow we've played 9.X for the last time. We will never play it again.

Yes, it is it is gone and know, I, a lot of people are celebrating this and I understand that.

I feel a little weird because I feel like the second year of Shadowlands was so much better

than the first year that it was actually pretty good despite all of the

drubbing that it took and the first year was was maybe one of the worst years of the game's existence

we've ever had but credit words do I think you know it went out kind of with a bang and it's not going to be remembered probably very fondly, but I don't know how fair that is.

That said, you know, if you turn players off initially, they're not going to want to come back to see what else you're cooking up.

So that's, you know, I think that's a lesson that they learned the hard way the last couple times out, but, you know, it's about 1230 Eastern on the 25th as we record this.

We don't have servers.

We probably won't have servers for a few more hours at least,

if anything is functional at any point today.

But as we speak, like the client side patch has been deployed, like my local version of WOW is updated to 10.0.

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