Are WoW Professions Too Casual? - After Dark Ep24 (video)

Written by: (@MikeSchaffnit) | March 13, 2013 11:30 am

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In this week’s episode of AfterDark, a viewer brings up the casual nature of WoW professions.

The more World of Warcraft evolves, the more it seems like it embraces the casual player-base. For example, the necessity of leveling WoW professions is becoming less and less pivotal to the player experience. Could this be hurting the overall reception of the game?

Mike Schaffnit and Josh Allen talk about the new design philosophy that could be hindering previous player experiences that so many are fond of. The two also speculate on Keanu Reeves involvement with the Warcraft movie and Eduardo is back with the wacky questions like “Is training Pokemon animal cruelty?”

The lines are open and the volume is up, so listen up! Caller lines open every Tuesday night at 9PST on Skype… so be sure to tune in live and let YOUR voice be heard!  And, if you missed last week’s

A complete list of questions in this week’s show follows.

  • What will we see first, a live action Cowboy Bebop, or a Warcraft movie? Should either feature Keanu Reeves?
  • Are you excited for Richard Garriot’s new IP, the Shroud of the Avatar?
  • Is it worth spending money every year on a new installment of a game franchise when the changes are so minor?
  • Do you feel that WoW professions have become too casual?
  • After only a few missions in HotS it feels like Blizzard is setting up for something huge. Does it support the Titan = Starcraft project?
  • Does DRM have a place in the future of gaming?
  • What are your thoughts on the Steam Box PC being worse than a PlayStation 3 for lounge room gaming? Would you buy one?
  • Is training Pokemon animal cruelty?
  • Would Josh Allen shave his head on a livestream for a charity event?
  • Do you think that people who don’t raid or do Looking For Raid are going to be disappointed that World of Warcraft isn’t putting in new 5 mans in Mists of Pandaria?
  • How do you feel about the PlayStation 4? What are your favorite features? Do you think it will have any console exclusives? And what will Xbox have to do to compete?

If you have questions for AfterDark, be sure to join the guys every Tuesday night.  Or, if you can’t make it to the show, you can still send questions via twitter using the #gbafterdark hashtag.

And, if you missed last week’s episode, be sure to check it out here.

Are WoW Professions Too Casual? - After Dark Ep24 (video)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=754168227 Len Hobbel

    If a WOW movie is going to be made. Which VERSION of WOW will it be  Vanilla, BC, LK, reboot of the entire games lore / cannon cata? Or Panda bear kung fu…version…Or will they change all the LORE / cannon and make their own version?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=754168227 Len Hobbel

    Also remember UO and EQ had a HUGE influence on WOW….WOW is for the most part EQ with UO and FF11 in it….90% of everything at WOW launch was just a minor graphic upgrade from EQ and a kiddie version with no pvp and still no real pvp.

  • http://www.facebook.com/robert.f.deleon Robert Francis DeLeon

    With ya Lore on not supporting game companies with the recent business changes.  Example of this is I no longer play EA Games as it started for me with Mass Effect 3 with day one DLC, firing a lot of the original staff of Bioware, DLC content for future titles, and of course making the worse Free to play model with SWTOR.  I hope I am not the only one not playing EA game titles but I will not support them in the direction they are going.

  • Xizta

     That last caller owned Mike Shaffnit ;)

  • Tommy_NOR

    Damn… you hair is getting long now Lore :P

  • Dekin

    I miss Darnell…..Y’all need a zany co-host that derails the show…..Get Klaus! He could be all like in the game and then be like “I am Klaus” I cant do a European accent but you know what I am talking about.

    Klaus Laughingdeer for the third panel!

  • Dekin

    I commented already…..but EDUARDO YOUR AWESOME!

    • EduardoPaperShaper

      Ty BD you have an awesome perception for the awesome and that makes you awesome as well.

  • Joe Tartaglione

    “Do you feel that WoW professions have become too casual?”

  • http://www.facebook.com/ashley.m.conrad.1 Ashley Miles Conrad III

    Dear gamebreaker please stop saying Titan will be a new franchise because Blizzard said so. When we started seeing that the new WoW expansion was going to be MoP, blizzard outright said NO. We can see that this was an outright lie. IM LOOKING AT YOU LORE!!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/TheMovement112 TheMovement

    DRM doesn’t stop pirating there’s a simcity torrent and crack already out there

  • EduardoPaperShaper

    lol that’s quite a decent little game, I checked PeTA’s reddit and it seems that they are used to be trolled all the time with game related stuff, there was a post about zerglings on the front page.

  • robotadventures

    love the show… but i was playing guildwars 2, drinking chu-hi and watching this at the same time. and i thought … why is lore wearing a dreamcatcher on his forehead. and then i was like… oh…. its not a dreamcatcher

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