WoWphiles World of Warcraft Blog and Podcast. A wow blog and podcast for World of Warcraft players.

can you please add the text of Icesnake’s addon emporium for episode 61? or just the names of the addons that are still good. Thanks again!

I just started listening to WoW podcasts, and I listened to yours for the first time a few days ago. I’ve played WoW for six years now, still love it, and am looking for good podcasts so I can listen to others who love WoW and want to talk about it. The name of your podcast drew me to it. The name WoWphiles made me think this would be a great listen to excite me and make me happy about the game.

I don’t think I’ll be back. At just over one hour into your podcast, I had to shut it off. I was so disgusted with it. I strongly believe your representation of the playerbase is way off. In my opinion, only a small fraction of players are disgruntled. WoW bloggers, podcasters, their readers and listeners tend to be in a world of their own, and it’s a very small world, perhaps representing just a fraction of one percent of the playerbase. Most people, like myself, are happier than ever with WoW, and I certainly don’t want to listen to the kind of negativity you spewed on your podcast.

Of course, constructive criticism is welcome every once in awhile. But, I read WoW blogs and websites to get excited to play my favorite game, not to read/listen to people tear it down. I want the same feeling from listening to podcasts. After listening to a WoW podcast, I should feel like I can’t wait to log in again. Listening to your podcast, however, I just wanted to spit.

Regarding on-board video cards: Usually these use Intel chipsets. While Intel video is fine for business purposes (e.g., editing documents, spreadsheets, and making PowerPoint crap), they are absolutely horrible for games. Either ATI/AMD or Nvidia video cards are the way to go for games. While I prefer Nvidia, I recognize that it’s largely a matter of personal opinion; if you like ATI better, get a Radeon. Go with 1GB or video RAM or better if you possibly can. There’s no such thing as too much memory.

Either way, if you’re using on-board video, you are unlikely to get the best possible performance.

@Taylor-Walker and @Danny Florida .. Go cry me a river. You guys want a podcast that merely reiterates your view of things. Go listen to any number of the other podcasts that kiss Blizzard’s ass with reckless abandon.

Modem’s rant echoed my sentiments of the game entirely. Perhaps you need someone to reinforce the belief that your game is still fun, but as someone who played since the beginning and has quit the game, I rarely if ever see or hear a podcast that echos my views. I’m sorry if they decided to go off the approved prescribed mantra of “YEAH BLIZZARD!!!” for one week. Friggin’ children.

I can only assume that the reason that there is no podcast this week is because they are rethinking themselves because they were honest with the community. God I hope they don’t retool and return to kissing Blizzard’s ass full-time.

Hi…. First time listening to the show was episode 61. I am a new WOW player and have been superpsyched about the game. I have been learning a ton by listening to those players who have been around the block. There are some great podcasts out there. I am close to getting to endgame content on my priest.

I have to say that this podcast can ruin a wet dream. This was a negative-cast from the rant to the answers given to email questions. I thought I had gotten the wrong podcast because “phile” means a love of.

Maybe I am a stupid noob, but I wouldn’t pay a monthly fee for something that I didn’t like. If you don’t like the game, why not make a RIFT podcast or something.

Thanks for raining on my enthusiasm!

Jim

I am amazed that so many fans are so shocked and shaken when a long-time player of the game suddenly finds fault with the game. You don’t know how prevalent this sentiment is with the player base. All the QQ posts on the forums since Cataclysm’s launch, fewer people in Stormwind or Orgrimmar, friend’s lists looking empty. All those things seem to indicate that something is indeed wrong with the game. I’m sorry if it breaks your hearts to hear someone acknowledge these things in the form of a podcast.

The reason Modem said those things is because he loves the game. Hell, I loved (notice past tense) it too. The fact that Blizzard week after week says nothing is wrong shows the great schism in how the game is perceived today. You want these guys to get up there week in and week out and reaffirm that the game is great. Just like with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, you eventually have to come to grips with the fact that your idolized little game isn’t perfect. Blizzard does not walk on water, nor is their product perfect.

Sorry so many of you get butt hurt sad when someone points out the faults with the game… Knowing these guys they will backtrack on their sentiments about the game and it will return to the Blizzard fanboy love page 24×7… but it was nice for a time, to see that people’s frustration with the game is shared by many others.

Back to your regularly scheduled podcast… next week most likely.

I have to agree with Modem.I loved the game too but I just stopped playing and closed one of my three accounts. I kept the other two for my kids but even they are barely playing anymore. WOW is starting to show it’s age, it’s time to let it die. I’ll keep listening to the Podcast because the hosts are articulate and informative.

OMFG! That was a long and painful rant! I hope this isn’t your day job! Seriously The point you were making can probably be done in 5 minutes. You just repeated the same sentences again and again and again and again and again and again and again (Get it?) for an hour.

It’s the first time I listen to this podcast and I don’t care if the entire world tell me this is the best podcast ever I ain’t listening to an other show! Hell! To make sure that I never listen to it again, intentionally or by mistake, not only will I delete it but I’ll be doing a secure deletion of my entire HDD before putting it in the microwave for about an hour…

The spontaneous mobs invading a town sounds so great! It almost gave me an erection! Not expecting Blizz to come up with something like that anytime (ever) soon. It seem that Blizz’s way of “fixing” the game includes charging $ for some new services and giving more free/freaking expensive pet thingy.

So… It’s been a couple of weeks and no show? C’mon guys, you don’t get someone addicted to your show then stop doing it regularly.. LOL

Hope all is well with you guys. We miss you guys!

i knwo im like crossing my fingers to what is goin on to have a new show listen to them all the time but is just stops at 61 which is a bad way to end the show and i sented in a segment that might me useful for people who are very new to the game

Hey Guys!!
We’ve been missing your podcasts!! Is something wrong? Why are you not broadcasting anymore? Our family hopes that you guys are ok and will surprise us with another awesome podcast very soon.

I just read on modems twitter that they are burnt out a bit, and have another podcast going, the show is on a break. No normal shows for now. so i guess just keep checking back.

yea same here

What’s the lyric? “I used to be disgusted, but now I’m just amused….” I should be astounded  by the obliviousness of,posters who ranted about the negativity of one specific episode of a podcast. Let’s hope they aren’t listening to any other podcasts or reading wow websites; their champagne dreams and caviar wishes are likely to be annihilated.
Let’s see… besides the Wowphiles gang feeling burned out and taking a break (following an episode where Modem laments the overwhelming negativity he is encountering in the game and how it’s bringing him down) we also have…

All Things Azeroth, in which Shade points out how the game (and LFD in particular) is getting dragged down by an overabundance of dicks (her word, not mine).

Derevka gave up on his Tales of a Priest blog, including among his list of issues that “there is an undeniable certain something in the WoW Community
that just feels negative.”

Matthew McCurley of WoW Insider, who on a recent podcast asserted that, after being sufficiently victimized in LFG’s, was going to automatically NEED on items when possible, because he had had enough.

Matthew Rossi, also of WoW Insider, has repeatedly said he refuses to queue as a tank for randoms due to the behavior of those he meets in them.

There are more, and the slimmest of saving graces came on a recent “Th Instance,” when Scott Johnson pointed out the Playstation online community was worse.

I find that to be a little like trying to be cheerful about brain cancer because it isn’t the Ebola virus.

So keep attacking the messengers because you don’t like the message, but remember you do so at your own risk. Walt Kelly said it as well as anyone when he put these words into the mouth of his character, Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.” The douchebaggery is out of control and it is undermining the soundness of the game. Blame Blizzard if you must for their contributions to encouraging (rewarding?) poor behavior online (they have had over FORTY toons named “Nigrig” listed in the armory for months; are you going to tell me that NOBODY at the company noticed?), but remember we’re the ones actually playing the game. Nobody forces you to be a jerkwad.

What we’re seeing isn’t just a natural burnout, but a response quite similar to one we make after touching something hot unexpectedly. We choose to avoid it. We certainly aren’t going to pay a monthly fee to feel disappointed and abused. Like families that fled urban decay and blight for grassier suburbs, what you are seeing and hearing in WoW today is the beginning of gamer flight.

Whatever the Wowphiles gang is doing now, I hope they’re having fun. That, after all, is what playing a game is all about. And should they find a way to find the fun in WoW again, I hope they tell us in this podcast. I always enjoyed their honest take on the game, even when I didn’t agree.

Cheers, guys.

@twitter-198017504:disqus  (if that *is* your name…): It should be noted that Rift came out during the time frame of Cata, and historically, some WoW players have wandered off every time a new MMO hit the digital streets. The vast majority of them come back.
And honestly, while 600K sounds like a lot of players, remember that it’s 600K of 12 million. Most MMOs out there would give 10 years of their founder’s lives to have 600K players, much less 12 million.

Yes, I’m still playing WoW. And loving it. There are things I would change, sure. It does not follow that what I would change needs changing to make WoW continue to be a success.