As someone who got an early copy of the WoW Dairy (And made 2 videos on it) Its a surprising good read and dispels a lot of myths people have about how the game is made/was made. I'd highly recommend it once it comes out. For now only the kickstarter people have a copy though, still gotta wait for a full release.
I just started watching your videos about a month ago and can honestly say they are one of the things I look forward to the most every week. Love the way you mix humor with delivering actual WoW news; these weekly videos are as fun to watch as they are informative. Big kudos!!
@@Gebirges Sorry man, its a habit. I usually do it just in case the video really sucks so I can save some time. lmao Or sometimes I kinda want to get to the best parts of a long video.
@@Gebirges I'll try. I don't know how that habit came about but its been there. Its even to the point now that if comments are disabled on a video I won't watch it.
I felt Preaching showing up brought the video down. He's been far too whiny of late about everything to enjoy seeing him at all. Now Asmongold as Dadghar? That was a plus.
@@prima164 preach does dverything off of a script , while asmon taalks about wow on stream. Sure it sounds more like whining without planning. But.. they agree on most things if not all if you listen to both.
@@romanjohnson75 his most recent video was 45minutes of complaining about BiS and catch up mechanics. Usually he is pretty good but just not lately on most videos.
Who ever that gal was? It was Hazel from Hazelnuttygames! She has a weekly WoW vlog (Almost Saturday) and is best known for her pet battle guides (and the colour of her hair). She reminds me very much of a RL friend of mine. :D On the other hand I don't know who that guy was... XD
@@popelgruner595 She also streams on YT on Tuesday mornings, mostly her weekly mount runs. Currently she is trying for the Gurubashi Raptor. She is pretty damn good about not only being able to do her runs but keep up on the stream chat and keeping people interacting.
Your opening skits are always great, but my absolute favorite part is the endings where you just chat more casually and I always laugh with the amazing silliness, you seem nice people "IRL" :D
The opening bit was one of my favourites , it’s a case “oh look all my favourite UA-camrs know each other” and it definitely made me make a taliesin eeeeee. Also great vid
I'll be skipping because I hate the huge ass mount model types. I hope you get one though! Waiting for a half off on that vulpine familiar later in the year.
I always admire the passion for truth is shown in these videos. T&E ALWAYS say their sincere opinion regardless of possible backlash even when they stand against the opinion of many (which in the latest time is quite major). And quite frankly I didn't see any hatred and negativity or high dislike ratio on any video. It's interesting to me to listen out to different opinions and yours usually is the most argumented one. Keep it up! (And these hilarious introductions, they're this nice "jam" to spice up the mood, always smiling or laughing, thanks!)
Crossarch It’s nice to have a wow channel with a positive outlook and great community in the comments, not that I don’t love other channels or appreciate when he criticises blizzard but the comedy, passion and positivity is always welcome. Loved the cameo in the intro as well
I’m 100% behind the in-game store IF they stop monthly subscription to wow. We both know they won’t so there for I’ll never be ok with the in-game store
I support all your opinions. I’m just stating mine. I love WoW and it’s lore since I played the first Warcraft on my Grandma’s PC when I was 11 lol 😂. No game is perfect in everyone’s eyes. I’ll always play this game and take breaks to play others. I welcome your words whether it’s disagreement or slight differences I’m unable to see at times. Whether you are all playing WoWor another game till your satisfied with the new changes, I hope you’re enjoying it! 😊
Fabrício Reis I feel the same way. I don’t mind it and somethings in the store are cool but their cost are ridiculous for a game you already have to pay a membership for ( I don’t mind the monthly game fee but those store prices are really overpriced)
You can use in game gold to buy mounts, pets and other things from the shop. Go to AH and buy a WoW Token. You'll then have the option to redeem it as subscription time, or shop credit. The credit acts as real money to purchase these items.
Fabrício Reis Seriously? Overpriced?! No...no that is objectively incorrect. The amount of time it takes to farm up enough gold to buy enough tokens to buy literally anything on that store is significantly less than the amount of time it takes to farm enough gold to buy the spider, frog, or light forges warframe mounts (not to mention the brontosaur) yet no one gripes about that. Hell, for the amount of time Taliesen (and many others)spent grinding pvp for the hippo mount, he probably could’ve farmed up enough gold to buy enough tokens to buy every single mount in that damn store. I’ve literally spent weeks of my life farming for Invincible’s reins to drop and am still technically no closer to getting it than before I started...would you not disagree if I tried to claim that Invincible is way overpriced???
Preach and Hazel, I'll upvote everytime! Sort of redundant on this vid though; I haven't touched wow for half a year and I still watch them all. It's nice, to be able to keep up with something/one you love without having to be a part of it :D Keep up the good job! The intro had me laughing my ass off! (And... That is the least Warhammer 40k Bolter i have ever seen! :D)
So they delay a raid because it needs some more work until a later minipatch, but then they release this raid before the minipatch. What have they been testing on ptr if they are not going to patch in the changes.
@@prima164 Last time I checked the game had a Subscription fee. Even the WoW token, requires a certain amount of gold to be purchased, and even when purchased has an optional currency (reflecting to real life money) value that can be added to your wallet for the purchase of varied services/future Blizzard games/expansions. ANYWAY you look at it the game requires a currency to be played. Not to mention gold doesn't magically appear in your inventory. You have to invest time and have a certain knowledge of the game to make the extra 200k needed each month without having your gaming experience suffer for it.
@@prima164 oh I love how disingenuous you people are. Nothing in WoW is free. Those tokens don't materialize from thin air on the AH. Someone pays, more than what a sub costs btw, for them and if you convert them to bnet credit you get less than what the original buyer paid. Stop using this argument, you only make yourself look stupid.
Again you're either being facetious or you simply have no idea how the token system works. Someone has to pay REAL LIFE MONEY for that token to be there on the AH for you to buy. The actually get more money out of this than they would out of subs since the damn token is 20 euros while the sub is only 11.
People have been complaining for a while that their subs and expansion costs go towards game features that they aren't interested in. While it's not the most validest of points I can kind of see where they are coming from. And eSports is definitely something that not everyone is interested in or enjoying, so I actually like the idea that its cost will at least partially be covered by the people that actually want to do so. Blizz also has the opportunity to gauge how much is that and make a better assessment whether or not they should double down on esports or back off. Though I'm not really sure they'll use their opportunity for good, they might just use it as a way to justify toys on cash shop, which won't be the worst thing in the World but I definitely don't see it as the right way forward.
I understand that in season 2 the pvp bar can be completed multiple times, being able to obtain mounts from previous seasons. So now it is or it is not the last chance to get the hipo?
Thanks for putting a smile on my face at 6am, Kudos for Evitel for accepting Jaina as the third person in the T&E Marriage :D Bonus Faecal jokes from Tali this week too. Feel likes its going to be a really great day :D
Its that one word they slipped into the crowdfunding pets a 'portion' meaning that they still intend to profit off it so essentially its not complete crowdfunding they are still making money off people... If they are going down this rout then all of the money spent on the toy should fun the prize pool even games like LOL didn't want to do it as it felt like begging to them and that is coming from a free to play. I'm not against crowdfunding but when you pay monthly for a game and try to crowbar crowdfunding in, if the players aren't getting all of it, to is just another cash grab plain and simple...
That part is the only part that really bothers me at all as well. Like, they want to sell optional extra cosmetics? Fine, that's extra stuff that wouldn't be there without a shop, and there's plenty of shit you can get in game as well so who cares. But if they're gonna do a crowdfunding thing, they should be putting the profits on that one to the thing its meant to be funding. They have the sub to support the game, and the other shop items to support the shop. Going for profit here as well feels a touch greedy.
@@GameFreak7744 Exactly, like I get where Taliesin is coming from but all the money your giving isn't for the Esports a lot of it is going in their back pockets that is what I don't agree with plus it is not a free to play game and ik people complain about it because they don't watch the Esports and it is coming out of their subscription but not everyone does everything in Warcraft and your still paying for it so it is the same thing. I do PVP and Mythic plus I don't do raiding but I still pay for it out of my subscription. The same principle applies to the Epsorts.
Thank you Taliesin for motivating me to go get our favorite round boy Maurice! My friend has been bugging me to PVP since the start of legion and I finally got on my warrior and DPSed for the first time since MOP. First pvp season for me ever! God Bless you!
@@Darkmortal100 its a choice you can make you fucking dumbass, you can either opt in to support or not. Nobody is saying "IF YOU DONT SUPPORT THIS IN 10 DAYS A CRANE WILL SMASH YOUR HOUSE" holy fucking shit, how bland can you be.
Hahaha...Archmage Asmondgold cracked me up. I love the intros to your Weekly Resets. You've had some hilarious ones lately and this is up there as one of my favs. And happy early birthday, Taliesin. I'm still getting my head wrapped around the fact you're four years older than me. You look a lot younger than me, and I do not look as old as I actually am (them's good Welsh genes, let me tell you, as someone who is also of Welsh descent).
Does anybody really think that if Blizz can save money on E-sports that the saved money will go towards the development of the game? or the next “Thanks for being here” bonus for a guy that does not even play video games?
Also, that slight shade towards a certain youtuber in this for their title on their videos I think was well deserved, I love your videos guys because you show you have love for games but also can be objective and try very hard to see all points and show different sides to it. I literally can't wait for the next video each time! You always have such a good quality!
10:55 Trying to distort the fact that blizzard is just expanding the fucking ingame shop it's a pretty bad move. Ingame shop and microtransactions are NEVER EVER a good think in a p2p game, and even less good when you pay a monthly suscription. Blizzard has enough money to organise this without more microtransactions. This is just another excuse to give them more and more money at the expense of game quality. And the excuse "They do this so blizzard don't have to take money of the suscriptions" is plain bullshit as they will do it anyway.
Lovely, calm takes, thank you for always helping the community to pause and take a breath. I've never been a fan of e-sports or Let's Play and I've had to grudingly admit that it's a "thing" for a while now. Seems to me a nice way to go about raising funds, and hey, if the toy is kind of neat and like 5 bucks I might even spring for it! Oh, the horror!
I think what is pissing alot of ppl off about the toys added to the shop to help pay for prize for esports is the fact that blizz is asking ppl to help fund it when they just paid new CFO 15 MILLION dollars as a bonus.
that is not quite true. He was paid 3 million, with 12 million in stock options depending on performance. To put those number in perspective, he is directly responsible for multiple billions of dollars of loss or gain for the company and had significant experience in the field. The issue is not blizzard paid that much, its that the top end CEO jobs across the board earn insane amounts of money compared to the majority of workers
Midwaypick 710 it’s going to be barred behind a microtransaction and a portion of money is going to be spent on disabled black lesbian transgender women
These people are serious when they say that Blizzard are earning this much. I've heard- so don't quote me, quote a more valid source- that Activision Blizzard earns $4 Billion USD a year on microtransactions alone. Not only that, but they toss around millions of dollars like it's nothing, having given $15 to their new CFO as *incentive* to take the job. There's no point defending the cash shop at this point, especially if it's for the esports prize pool. I imagine that the winner of mythic will be very disappointed. But hey, I'll be watching at least one round anyway. Edit: A shame that they're putting so much effort into shilling WoW eSports, but not even giving any attention to improving HotS and perhaps fixing the eSports scene. stup being meen pls ;(
So it's not enough that WoW are making money off toys in the shop, NOW they have their own dairy herd (WoW CoWs) and they're gonna be selling milk?? WTF BLIZZ!!!
Not 3 days ago u agreed with Preach that blizz was doing a poor job, yet here u are, swinging ur opinion again ^^ My my, u turn more often than the wind...
Played only Pve and this expansion, just like you, i tried myself in pvp zone, im stuck at 1750 with 73% hippo ;___; I hope I can get it before season end... so little time left... btw it was you who motivated me to try pvp, thanks a lot, winning hard matches feel soooo good
@@TaliesinEvitel Nearly every comment about WoW you err on the side of Blizzard. For example: About the battle pet and the fact it is paying for some part of the Tournaments. You said you don't really give a shit because you'd rather it not come out of your subscription... that doesn't really make sense. So are you implying that the price of a Sub will now go down? If you think that this battle pet fee will somehow "free up" money to be used elsewhere you are sorely mistaken. The funding for things like tournaments are budgeted and decided long before any random pet is added to the store. In other words, Blizzard's balance sheet and therefore budget on "development" has nothing to do with how well a battle pet sells. These are ancillary benefits to the company. This is just one example of the way you push a false narrative in order to show ActiBlizzard in good light. It just gets really boring really fast. Also they way you cast off any negative comment about the game as people being babies just crying for their bottle shows to me that you are either really jaded and genuinely out of touch with the player-base or possible you are just content with whatever is spoon fed to you in this game. I'm sorry, I'm really trying to stay positive and provide criticism that doesn't come off too obtuse but your cheery demeanor just calls for a Joker-like antithesis in responses.
15mil $ for a CFO they fired and hire again. Yeah buddy they are clearly going to use the amount gained from the toys just in "e-sports". *laughs in spanish*
Just a little note but Durkin was not fired, he moved up in the company. To become CFO he's again he's actually stepped down, which is probably why they had to make it a pretty sweet deal :)
Just “WoW”! So many streamers and youtubers use the term “content creators” when in actuality the are nothing more than “commentators”. The WoW community is blessed with several amazingly talented content creators and, in my opinion, you are the cream of the crop! The quality and cleverness of your show continually surprises to the upside with content, insights and first class entertainment. Keep it up! ... now if only we had an expansion worthy of such wit..... Don’t let us down Blizz!
A-freakin'-gree! It's as if Taliesin and Evitel are the late night talk show hosts gleefully and irreverently skewering anything and everything while others, like Bellular, are the oh-so-serious mainstream news media. They're both amazing at what they do, but Taliesin and Evitel give WoW news a life that nobody else can. If Blizzard wanted to hire any of the content creators to keep them honest, it should be these two.
Starcraft did this with their warchests and have had alot of success but idk how its going to affect wow will they have unlocks maybe turns into a mount or something
David Murray Why u mad? Nothing on there that increases player power or can’t be bought with in-game gold. It’s so pathetic you people bickering about Blizzard providing players who want to buy stuff with money the opportunity to do so, especially since anyone who wants that crap but doesn’t want to pay for it can buy it with gold...
I the Kickstarter book will be on amazon and other third party sites but he isn’t releasing them to the companies until all kickstarters have their books and whatnot. The books still will be limited to what they have left over from the Kickstarter I believe . But won’t have the Kickstarter backer logo.
Holy shit, amazing intro! I never expected Preach and Hazel to show up! That asmongold floating head though.
made me spit-take on my keyboard. perfect
His derpface was the best part of the intro :D
Keep Asmongold away! He and his "herd" are toxic to wow. I understand being upset with a game...but he takes it to another level of NOOB.
but hazel plays alliance o.o
There was a hard cut after she said "You were very brave"... so how many takes did she take to say that with a straight face?
As someone who got an early copy of the WoW Dairy (And made 2 videos on it) Its a surprising good read and dispels a lot of myths people have about how the game is made/was made. I'd highly recommend it once it comes out. For now only the kickstarter people have a copy though, still gotta wait for a full release.
Is it still orderable from kickstarter? I planned to order one soon but with the holidays I've been strapped for cash
Didn't know Blizz got into the dairy business, huh...
Hiru shoutout on T&E!
WoW cheese? Any almond milk?
@@TheOutsider69 Blizz didn't, John Staats did
Hazel and Mike? That was unexpected and awesome!
Edit: Thanks for almost 400 likes!
unexpected ?
@@Drkladd yes i just jumped into the vid
but hazel plays alliance o.o
@@sundertooth1666 it would be much better with actucal asmon voice
Knowledge is Power xd
I initially subscribed just for the intros. "Horde are gathering cloth you say? Hmm that does sound serious..."
333gale LMAO
10/10 Opening!
I love the Priest guy !
I just started watching your videos about a month ago and can honestly say they are one of the things I look forward to the most every week. Love the way you mix humor with delivering actual WoW news; these weekly videos are as fun to watch as they are informative. Big kudos!!
Asmongold's "khadgar" head completely annihilated me :D
Time stamp would be nice for us who read comments before watching the video.
@@KNByam don't read comments before watching a video - dark red spoiler alert!
@@Gebirges Sorry man, its a habit. I usually do it just in case the video really sucks so I can save some time. lmao Or sometimes I kinda want to get to the best parts of a long video.
@@KNByam Try to start/watch the video while scrolling through the comments? That way you won't miss a thing
@@Gebirges I'll try. I don't know how that habit came about but its been there. Its even to the point now that if comments are disabled on a video I won't watch it.
Oh man that surprise Asmon.
And notice how they didnt link to his channel LOL
Shadowforge why didn’t they?
@@arvidtonning6348 not enough hair to qualify. preach barely made it in.
@@arvidtonning6348 he'll probably do a response video to this anyway. why bother?
Preach and hazel increase the quality of this video by 200%
I felt Preaching showing up brought the video down. He's been far too whiny of late about everything to enjoy seeing him at all. Now Asmongold as Dadghar? That was a plus.
No...it actually pushed the quality...over 9000!!!!! (I’ll see myself out and take that dislike)
@@prima164 preach does dverything off of a script , while asmon taalks about wow on stream. Sure it sounds more like whining without planning. But.. they agree on most things if not all if you listen to both.
Corey M damn preach is either a shill or whiny man can never win
@@romanjohnson75 his most recent video was 45minutes of complaining about BiS and catch up mechanics. Usually he is pretty good but just not lately on most videos.
so when khadgar changes factions he turns in asmongold?
Hazel and Preach Weekly Reset would be awesome.
THAT OPENER IS MOST AMBITIOUS CROSS OVER EVENT IN HISTORY
When i saw Preach and Hazel i spit out my soda
Omg that beginning was amazing xD
That intro threw me for a loop! Kudos on getting Preach and whoever that gal was to participate!
Who ever that gal was? It was Hazel from Hazelnuttygames! She has a weekly WoW vlog (Almost Saturday) and is best known for her pet battle guides (and the colour of her hair). She reminds me very much of a RL friend of mine. :D
On the other hand I don't know who that guy was... XD
@@popelgruner595 She also streams on YT on Tuesday mornings, mostly her weekly mount runs. Currently she is trying for the Gurubashi Raptor. She is pretty damn good about not only being able to do her runs but keep up on the stream chat and keeping people interacting.
The intro alone 👏🏻
Most unexpected intro gag, that is absolutely expectable in hindsight.
:D
I feel like a Hazel/Preach team up MUST happen, please internet make it real!
You shouldnt wish for something like that on the internet..
Same!
Your opening skits are always great, but my absolute favorite part is the endings where you just chat more casually and I always laugh with the amazing silliness, you seem nice people "IRL" :D
Knowledge is BALD
Well played
The opening bit was one of my favourites , it’s a case “oh look all my favourite UA-camrs know each other” and it definitely made me make a taliesin eeeeee. Also great vid
You should get a cat in case they invite you back to wowhead weekly
Oh god asmangold as kadgar was the best lmao
Time stamp would be nice for us who read comments before watching the video.
@@KNByam 1:45 ask and u shall receive lol
@@bluntslayer Thanks. I totally missed the Asmongold/Kadgar thing until I read the comment section and I could not find it. lol
Some one even more pasty and white then kadgar
@@KNByam was that not the best or what? Lmfao I died laughing at that
BEST INTRO EVER
That intro was probably my favorite you've done in a long time lmao
First again, but I paid UA-cam for "First viewer" tokens from the shop.
Cheater >_> hahaha
This is one of your best intros yet
The way YT changed the last month, this soon could be an option :)
What a shill blizzard shill
Pay 2 Win..
Best intro ever.
Eeeeeeeeeee!!!!! It was Hazel!!!!😆
Yeah... the moment she went on about electricity being how the Light is made and that is why Void Elves should be Paladins... yeah... no.
That Khadgar faction change to Asmongold...BRUH, made me lose it lol.
Eh, I'll just wait until the Hippo is sold at the mount store. :D Hehehehe.
If that is true im down for it :D
I'll be skipping because I hate the huge ass mount model types. I hope you get one though! Waiting for a half off on that vulpine familiar later in the year.
Do you get the Jania picture in yet? I would like to see it on your stream so it can show the dimensions with some perspective in size.
I always admire the passion for truth is shown in these videos. T&E ALWAYS say their sincere opinion regardless of possible backlash even when they stand against the opinion of many (which in the latest time is quite major). And quite frankly I didn't see any hatred and negativity or high dislike ratio on any video. It's interesting to me to listen out to different opinions and yours usually is the most argumented one. Keep it up! (And these hilarious introductions, they're this nice "jam" to spice up the mood, always smiling or laughing, thanks!)
Crossarch It’s nice to have a wow channel with a positive outlook and great community in the comments, not that I don’t love other channels or appreciate when he criticises blizzard but the comedy, passion and positivity is always welcome. Loved the cameo in the intro as well
I was looking for a comment that showed what I feel with T&E videos. Yours is amazing, I couldn't have explained it better!
No, it was a shit show, obviously.
@@pollettart4407 now I read it out like Taliesin would D: That was a nice catch lul.
@@pollettart4407 I read that in his voice! ROFLMAO Damn near lost my tea. :D
Residuum is dead. Long live the Talitoken!!!
I’m 100% behind the in-game store IF they stop monthly subscription to wow. We both know they won’t so there for I’ll never be ok with the in-game store
So you prefer. Micro transactions over a monthly subscription? You do understand that that route can only lead to pay to win right.
I support all your opinions. I’m just stating mine. I love WoW and it’s lore since I played the first Warcraft on my Grandma’s PC when I was 11 lol 😂. No game is perfect in everyone’s eyes. I’ll always play this game and take breaks to play others. I welcome your words whether it’s disagreement or slight differences I’m unable to see at times. Whether you are all playing WoWor another game till your satisfied with the new changes, I hope you’re enjoying it! 😊
Fabrício Reis I feel the same way. I don’t mind it and somethings in the store are cool but their cost are ridiculous for a game you already have to pay a membership for ( I don’t mind the monthly game fee but those store prices are really overpriced)
You can use in game gold to buy mounts, pets and other things from the shop. Go to AH and buy a WoW Token. You'll then have the option to redeem it as subscription time, or shop credit. The credit acts as real money to purchase these items.
Fabrício Reis
Seriously? Overpriced?! No...no that is objectively incorrect. The amount of time it takes to farm up enough gold to buy enough tokens to buy literally anything on that store is significantly less than the amount of time it takes to farm enough gold to buy the spider, frog, or light forges warframe mounts (not to mention the brontosaur) yet no one gripes about that. Hell, for the amount of time Taliesen (and many others)spent grinding pvp for the hippo mount, he probably could’ve farmed up enough gold to buy enough tokens to buy every single mount in that damn store. I’ve literally spent weeks of my life farming for Invincible’s reins to drop and am still technically no closer to getting it than before I started...would you not disagree if I tried to claim that Invincible is way overpriced???
I had to pause the video after the intro and come read the comments about how amazing it was.
Thanks for making this year way better
That cameo by Preach though 🤣🤣
I love that Hazel and Preach are your other versions. Great work T and E
Preach and Hazel, I'll upvote everytime!
Sort of redundant on this vid though; I haven't touched wow for half a year and I still watch them all. It's nice, to be able to keep up with something/one you love without having to be a part of it :D
Keep up the good job! The intro had me laughing my ass off!
(And... That is the least Warhammer 40k Bolter i have ever seen! :D)
Man, when Tal was talking about those in-game shop toys...he went full welsh right at the end there.
Couldn’t hit the like button fast enough after seeing Hazel and Mike!
I loved the ending of the intro skit! 10/10
Preach and Hazel (and Asmo)! LOL!
Beard watch 2019. Still here! Yay
Great vid as always, loved the switcheroo in the intro, bought a smile to my grizzled old lady face.
Ok, so i just Saw A new video pop up on my feed from you two, but then it was instantly removed. Why?
Best part about the intro is i knew exactly what races hazel and preach were in my head.
i got the mounts yesterday morning
Mass destruction weapons
DOOOD!!! WAS NOT EXPECTING THE CALLAB WITH HAZEL AND PREACH!! that was awesome, no wonder why you, Taliesin and Evitel are epic AF!!! love yall :P
So what does our $15 a month pay for again?
Servers, and so you don't have to buy XP potions, rez tokens, bag space or raid consumables like you have to in F2P MMOS.
So they delay a raid because it needs some more work until a later minipatch, but then they release this raid before the minipatch. What have they been testing on ptr if they are not going to patch in the changes.
I think the esports idea is ok... if the game didn't have a sub. Since it does, it's the same BS as the store services are to me. :/
@@prima164 Last time I checked the game had a Subscription fee. Even the WoW token, requires a certain amount of gold to be purchased, and even when purchased has an optional currency (reflecting to real life money) value that can be added to your wallet for the purchase of varied services/future Blizzard games/expansions. ANYWAY you look at it the game requires a currency to be played. Not to mention gold doesn't magically appear in your inventory. You have to invest time and have a certain knowledge of the game to make the extra 200k needed each month without having your gaming experience suffer for it.
@@prima164 oh I love how disingenuous you people are. Nothing in WoW is free. Those tokens don't materialize from thin air on the AH. Someone pays, more than what a sub costs btw, for them and if you convert them to bnet credit you get less than what the original buyer paid. Stop using this argument, you only make yourself look stupid.
@@prima164 You're simply wrong. There's no "game" to "play" anymore, just a cash sink filled with lovely people like you, heh.
Again you're either being facetious or you simply have no idea how the token system works. Someone has to pay REAL LIFE MONEY for that token to be there on the AH for you to buy. The actually get more money out of this than they would out of subs since the damn token is 20 euros while the sub is only 11.
People have been complaining for a while that their subs and expansion costs go towards game features that they aren't interested in. While it's not the most validest of points I can kind of see where they are coming from. And eSports is definitely something that not everyone is interested in or enjoying, so I actually like the idea that its cost will at least partially be covered by the people that actually want to do so. Blizz also has the opportunity to gauge how much is that and make a better assessment whether or not they should double down on esports or back off. Though I'm not really sure they'll use their opportunity for good, they might just use it as a way to justify toys on cash shop, which won't be the worst thing in the World but I definitely don't see it as the right way forward.
This was the best opening skit you guys have ever done. Good work
"bfa far distant second after getting married" I see Taliesin is learning
Woo, cinematics tomorrow. Also happy birthday Taliesin.
Archmage Asmongold
totally caught me off guard and i spit water on my keyboard.
I understand that in season 2 the pvp bar can be completed multiple times, being able to obtain mounts from previous seasons. So now it is or it is not the last chance to get the hipo?
I DIED ON THE CHARACTER CHANGE!!! XD
Thanks for putting a smile on my face at 6am, Kudos for Evitel for accepting Jaina as the third person in the T&E Marriage :D
Bonus Faecal jokes from Tali this week too. Feel likes its going to be a really great day :D
Its that one word they slipped into the crowdfunding pets a 'portion' meaning that they still intend to profit off it so essentially its not complete crowdfunding they are still making money off people... If they are going down this rout then all of the money spent on the toy should fun the prize pool even games like LOL didn't want to do it as it felt like begging to them and that is coming from a free to play. I'm not against crowdfunding but when you pay monthly for a game and try to crowbar crowdfunding in, if the players aren't getting all of it, to is just another cash grab plain and simple...
That part is the only part that really bothers me at all as well. Like, they want to sell optional extra cosmetics? Fine, that's extra stuff that wouldn't be there without a shop, and there's plenty of shit you can get in game as well so who cares. But if they're gonna do a crowdfunding thing, they should be putting the profits on that one to the thing its meant to be funding. They have the sub to support the game, and the other shop items to support the shop. Going for profit here as well feels a touch greedy.
@@GameFreak7744 Exactly, like I get where Taliesin is coming from but all the money your giving isn't for the Esports a lot of it is going in their back pockets that is what I don't agree with plus it is not a free to play game and ik people complain about it because they don't watch the Esports and it is coming out of their subscription but not everyone does everything in Warcraft and your still paying for it so it is the same thing. I do PVP and Mythic plus I don't do raiding but I still pay for it out of my subscription. The same principle applies to the Epsorts.
Thank you Taliesin for motivating me to go get our favorite round boy Maurice! My friend has been bugging me to PVP since the start of legion and I finally got on my warrior and DPSed for the first time since MOP. First pvp season for me ever! God Bless you!
Wait, people are complaining about the esports funding? Did everybody just forget about Heroes of the Storm already?
Heroes of what?
f2p-ish vs p2p with sub fee. hmm wonder why?..
Did you pay $15 a month for HotS?
@@Darkmortal100 its a choice you can make you fucking dumbass, you can either opt in to support or not. Nobody is saying "IF YOU DONT SUPPORT THIS IN 10 DAYS A CRANE WILL SMASH YOUR HOUSE" holy fucking shit, how bland can you be.
I wish they would make a founding for HotS
Hahaha...Archmage Asmondgold cracked me up. I love the intros to your Weekly Resets. You've had some hilarious ones lately and this is up there as one of my favs. And happy early birthday, Taliesin. I'm still getting my head wrapped around the fact you're four years older than me. You look a lot younger than me, and I do not look as old as I actually am (them's good Welsh genes, let me tell you, as someone who is also of Welsh descent).
Goddammit I was going to go to bed. Make worse videos so I don't have to watch right away.
Exact same here buddy haha
Did the VA for Khadgar sign that pic to the left/your right on the wall during the end sofa part? How did that come about?
Archmage Asmongold Hazel and Preach Lets go!
I think I like watching you guys talk about WoW more than I like playing it at the moment. That intro was Gold!
Does anybody really think that if Blizz can save money on E-sports that the saved money will go towards the development of the game? or the next “Thanks for being here” bonus for a guy that does not even play video games?
Maybe another CFO will get a $15 mil paycheck bfor leaving again.
Thank you patreons and Taliesin & Evitel!
Hazel
Also, that slight shade towards a certain youtuber in this for their title on their videos I think was well deserved, I love your videos guys because you show you have love for games but also can be objective and try very hard to see all points and show different sides to it. I literally can't wait for the next video each time! You always have such a good quality!
Knowledge is balding.
Hazel and Preach! Love you all working together, great to see.
Haha evitel turned into a fat baldie whahaha.
Joke i love you preach.
The Fogbreaker looks great. Sadly, frills are not on the Shamans' loot table.
10:55 Trying to distort the fact that blizzard is just expanding the fucking ingame shop it's a pretty bad move. Ingame shop and microtransactions are NEVER EVER a good think in a p2p game, and even less good when you pay a monthly suscription.
Blizzard has enough money to organise this without more microtransactions. This is just another excuse to give them more and more money at the expense of game quality.
And the excuse "They do this so blizzard don't have to take money of the suscriptions" is plain bullshit as they will do it anyway.
Exactly
Hear, hear. Why I unsubscribed from this channel. At least Bellular is capable of criticizing Blizzard.
Haven't had a chance to even start the hippo farm :( I think I have 37 hours before 2am Wednesday morning but I'm at work for most of it...
I almost want to leave a hate comment on a vid or forums just so I can get featured on the show
Boy, oh boy, 2 videos for me with my morning office coffee!
Easily the most legendary intros to any wow vids I've watched. wp
This is already the best video of 2019 from that opening skit. This is your bar. Lets see you raise it! haha
Residuum is meant to be pronounced like Continuum. Not like Vacuum or Aluminium.
Lovely, calm takes, thank you for always helping the community to pause and take a breath. I've never been a fan of e-sports or Let's Play and I've had to grudingly admit that it's a "thing" for a while now. Seems to me a nice way to go about raising funds, and hey, if the toy is kind of neat and like 5 bucks I might even spring for it! Oh, the horror!
I think what is pissing alot of ppl off about the toys added to the shop to help pay for prize for esports is the fact that blizz is asking ppl to help fund it when they just paid new CFO 15 MILLION dollars as a bonus.
that is not quite true. He was paid 3 million, with 12 million in stock options depending on performance. To put those number in perspective, he is directly responsible for multiple billions of dollars of loss or gain for the company and had significant experience in the field. The issue is not blizzard paid that much, its that the top end CEO jobs across the board earn insane amounts of money compared to the majority of workers
I like how people just ignore a very important part of that story for the sake of it being more dramatic. :|
Anyone know when the new goblin and worgen model coming out?
Midwaypick 710 it’s going to be barred behind a microtransaction and a portion of money is going to be spent on disabled black lesbian transgender women
Sfidt1 I know that’s not what’s going to happen.
These people are serious when they say that Blizzard are earning this much. I've heard- so don't quote me, quote a more valid source- that Activision Blizzard earns $4 Billion USD a year on microtransactions alone. Not only that, but they toss around millions of dollars like it's nothing, having given $15 to their new CFO as *incentive* to take the job. There's no point defending the cash shop at this point, especially if it's for the esports prize pool. I imagine that the winner of mythic will be very disappointed. But hey, I'll be watching at least one round anyway.
Edit: A shame that they're putting so much effort into shilling WoW eSports, but not even giving any attention to improving HotS and perhaps fixing the eSports scene.
stup being meen pls ;(
The CFO is their old one they let go. That was to get him back
Happy birthday Tali. That WoW Dairy looks interesting I will have to check it out.
So it's not enough that WoW are making money off toys in the shop, NOW they have their own dairy herd (WoW CoWs) and they're gonna be selling milk?? WTF BLIZZ!!!
Not 3 days ago u agreed with Preach that blizz was doing a poor job, yet here u are, swinging ur opinion again ^^ My my, u turn more often than the wind...
Played only Pve and this expansion, just like you, i tried myself in pvp zone, im stuck at 1750 with 73% hippo ;___; I hope I can get it before season end... so little time left... btw it was you who motivated me to try pvp, thanks a lot, winning hard matches feel soooo good
You git this mate, Tali went from 72-100% in one night you can too!
"I couldn't give a shit" - not surprising seeing as you shill for Blizz every chance you get.
+D K Hi hi what did you think was shilling in this vid? Ok thanks xx
@@TaliesinEvitel Nearly every comment about WoW you err on the side of Blizzard. For example: About the battle pet and the fact it is paying for some part of the Tournaments. You said you don't really give a shit because you'd rather it not come out of your subscription... that doesn't really make sense. So are you implying that the price of a Sub will now go down? If you think that this battle pet fee will somehow "free up" money to be used elsewhere you are sorely mistaken. The funding for things like tournaments are budgeted and decided long before any random pet is added to the store. In other words, Blizzard's balance sheet and therefore budget on "development" has nothing to do with how well a battle pet sells. These are ancillary benefits to the company. This is just one example of the way you push a false narrative in order to show ActiBlizzard in good light. It just gets really boring really fast. Also they way you cast off any negative comment about the game as people being babies just crying for their bottle shows to me that you are either really jaded and genuinely out of touch with the player-base or possible you are just content with whatever is spoon fed to you in this game. I'm sorry, I'm really trying to stay positive and provide criticism that doesn't come off too obtuse but your cheery demeanor just calls for a Joker-like antithesis in responses.
The cameo's from Hazel and Preach were freaking awesome! Loved it.
15mil $ for a CFO they fired and hire again. Yeah buddy they are clearly going to use the amount gained from the toys just in "e-sports".
*laughs in spanish*
Just a little note but Durkin was not fired, he moved up in the company. To become CFO he's again he's actually stepped down, which is probably why they had to make it a pretty sweet deal :)
Also they didn't give him 15 mil.
3 mil was in money, the rest 12 mil was in stock. Effectively locking him to the company.
The transformation of race in the intro... dying! 🤣
Just “WoW”! So many streamers and youtubers use the term “content creators” when in actuality the are nothing more than “commentators”. The WoW community is blessed with several amazingly talented content creators and, in my opinion, you are the cream of the crop! The quality and cleverness of your show continually surprises to the upside with content, insights and first class entertainment. Keep it up! ... now if only we had an expansion worthy of such wit..... Don’t let us down Blizz!
A-freakin'-gree! It's as if Taliesin and Evitel are the late night talk show hosts gleefully and irreverently skewering anything and everything while others, like Bellular, are the oh-so-serious mainstream news media. They're both amazing at what they do, but Taliesin and Evitel give WoW news a life that nobody else can. If Blizzard wanted to hire any of the content creators to keep them honest, it should be these two.
Starcraft did this with their warchests and have had alot of success but idk how its going to affect wow will they have unlocks maybe turns into a mount or something
You know you game has some problems when people can't even be bothered to flame it. Outrage has become apathy and apathy is the real killer.
Or when excited youtubers making news channels or salty parody on Part 2 Survival Guide like SoulSoBreezy did.
So for the Hippo watch..
I have done exactly 0% for the Glorious Boi and I still have 9 hours of work before getting to it. Can I still do it ?
Tali sticking up for the new shop made this hard to watch...
David Murray
Why u mad? Nothing on there that increases player power or can’t be bought with in-game gold. It’s so pathetic you people bickering about Blizzard providing players who want to buy stuff with money the opportunity to do so, especially since anyone who wants that crap but doesn’t want to pay for it can buy it with gold...
Won't we be able to buy the hippo in season 2 with a vicious saddle?
This show turned from a fun show into a Blizz weekly damage control compilation lol.
AKA, it sucks
notice it also says "SOME" of the money made from the toys will go to the prize pool
Blizzard isn't a "multi-million dollar company". It is a multi-BILLION dollar company. 😁
I the Kickstarter book will be on amazon and other third party sites but he isn’t releasing them to the companies until all kickstarters have their books and whatnot. The books still will be limited to what they have left over from the Kickstarter I believe . But won’t have the Kickstarter backer logo.