You're listening to the starting 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 and people who play it.

Today is September 14th, 2025, and my name is Spencer Downey.

Thank you so much for listening and

subscribing to the podcast. I am joined, as always, by my co-host, Jason Lucas. Jason, how are you

doing on this fine Sunday morning? Oh, Spencer, hello. Good morning to you as well. I'm doing well.

I just wanted to just start the show by saying thank you to everybody for the kind words about

700 episodes last week

wherever I saw stuff come through on Discord. I saw stuff on Twitter and other places.

So yeah, thanks. It was a cool milestone. And, you know, we didn't make a huge deal about it

for the episode or anything, but it was really, it's cool to cross a And, uh, it was nice to hear from a bunch of people who just said, hey, you know, great job. Keep it going. Love the show. Whatever. Means a lot. It's, it's not why we do this, but it is certainly validating. So, yeah. Thanks, everybody who checked in. And I'm glad glad you liked the show i am also very much honored

that there's so many folks out there who listen in and enjoy the show and enjoy the content and

want us to keep going and there was a few like here's to 700 more episodes and whatnot that

happened in there and yeah well uh well keep doing them man it's people keep supporting patrons you know, doing all right. I'm glad to see new people join in every now and then and support the show. So, you know, thanks so much to all the listeners out there. And we'll keep making them. I don't see a stop in sight at the moment. And we got BlizzCon coming up next year, which is going to be super exciting. So lots exciting so lots of fun stuff going on there okay assume that wow will be around long enough for 700 more

episodes weekly to be a possibility i don't it doesn't seem like it's going anywhere anytime soon

so you know we'll see what happens i mean i guess like once upon a time, 20 plus years and going strong seems ridiculous, right?

In 2004 or 5, nobody ever would have thought that it would get to this point.

But now it's like, well, what would it, you know, if it weathered the BFA in the Shadowlands storm, like, what would it take?

I think analysts back then would be like, oh, we'll be on like, wow, six by the time it's been 20 years or something, right? Like whatever new iteration of the game or whatever it is that that would look like, I think would be what they would assume we'd moved on to based off of the trends of gaming back then. Yeah, true, because, I mean, the market leader at the time was EverQuest, right?

And EverQuest, too, had just come out.

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