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Well, hello and welcome to the starting zone.

The podcast about World of Warcraft and people who play it today is January 25th,

2026, 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 snowy Sunday? Oh, Spencer, hello. I'm doing okay. Yeah, we are in the midst of it right now.

So I will be spending quite a bit of time after we record and probably for the next like day or so, you know, digging out and everything. So, but you know, so far seems fine. We seem to be a bit below the projections that they thought we might get around here. So hopefully everybody's making out okay. I know there's a bunch of ice and stuff with the storm, which is always really dangerous and disruptive. So yeah, it's just, it's massive. It's like, it's like the entire, you know, the entire eastern seaboard of the U.S., I think, and then all the way up to you guys. Yeah. Yeah, it's, it's, uh, it's massive. It's the biggest one in a while, I feel like. So good times. It's always interesting to see a storm that is, as you, you can actually see like, okay, it's ice here, it's, it's snow here, then ice here, and then rain here, and then rain here. And then, like, wow, it covers so much space that it goes through all these different climates you see all the

different bands it's like oh these are the uh the stages of water vapor in the air when it comes to

weather yeah it's like it's like a cross section um i i do want to before we get into the meat of the

show i got to i there is something i got to to ding Blizzard on right now at the very top,

which is the end of Legion Remix was so terrible. And how did they do this? How did they let this

happen? And I feel complicit in it because I did, I looked at the in-game calendar and I put in the

show notes and we told all of you who listen that Legion Remix would be ending at 1 p.m. Eastern

Monday because that's what the calendar

said. It did not. It ended at 10 a.m. Eastern Monday, 7 a.m. Pacific, which is not anywhere near

anything else. It wasn't like there was some maintenance or anything around it. They just shut

it off early morning shut it off.

Early morning for West Coast. And hours earlier than they had publicized in the way that they

publicized it, I went back and looked at the blog post about the event ending. They had just

at one Legion remix blog post that continuously updated as things changed with the event. And they mentioned that you could get the feet of strength for logging in after the 18th or whatever until the event ends. They didn't publicize the end date and time of the event in that blog post. No. The only thing sorry, I'm supposed to say, the only thing they gave us in that blog post, the only thing they gave us in that blog post was to be sure to spend your bronze before the 18th, is what they said. Yeah. So, so they were very clear of like, okay, if you're going to spend bronze, do it before the 18th, which was weird, which we talked about on the show, because the thing's supposed to end midway through the 19th, so why are they telling us to spend stuff by the 18th? So we weren't really sure what was happening. That was the only thing they gave us. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Now, there was the in-game, like on the login screen, there was the timer that said how many days remaining, which flipped over to hours inside the last 24 hours.

But I think even if you mouseed over it, it didn't give you like a cutoff time.

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