Dan Olson

Oh... joy... extremist radicalization attaching itself to any remotely gaming adjacent video. Yay.https://twitter.com/Roland00Address/status/1180233905741414405?s=20 …

No secret A/B testing. It's 48fps throughout, 60fps for gameplay. You just eventually get used to it. And I move less towards the end of the video, because recording is a lot of work and I get tired.https://twitter.com/Nate_Buck/status/1180241470411796480?s=20 …

So far for classic I've been playing Enhancement Shaman as a tank, and it's really interesting in retrospect because it's like 3/4 of a good spec.

It's really kinda fascinating to look at the class kit and be like oh, just a tweak here, a nudge there, and you'd actually have a really solid tank spec that would be both viable and fun to play.

I'm really glad that so far people have taken some of my cheekier bits (everything sucks, so do whatever you want) for the emotion they're meant to convey and not just the literal words.

Also shoutout to the commenter who was like "No, you don't get it, you imbecile, you utter cretin, it was so much better in classic because it was really simple and straightforward, where BfA is too many things to do"

This was one of the things that I really wanted to try and communicate: that all these "organic" systems add a huge variable into peoples' experiences: other people.https://twitter.com/Dash2956/status/1180420590936760320?s=20 …

It's really easy to be hype about Classic when your memories are all Good Time With Friends and Meeting New and Interesting People, but a lot of people experienced WoW as leveling alone, when the zones were empty, and getting kicked from groups when they admitted they were new.

I was in a weird spot in 2005/06 because I was in a progression raid guild, reading the forums and dev updates daily, fully immersed, but my dad was playing solo, at a much slower pace, on another server, and having a *vastly* different experience.

And dad, by his own admission, is only so-so at the game. Reflexes aren't great, and he's not good at/doesn't enjoy anything that really taxes multi-tasking. But he likes it. Played on and off, at least a few months a year, all the way up into Legion.

And it was good that I had that in my periphery because it's really easy, when you're immersed in the competitive content, to assume that the majority of players are just like you, but somewhere else on the curve, when in reality Dad is much closer to the median than I ever was.

“You don’t have that ability you only use once per minute bound to shift+control+F1!? Clearly a complete scrub.”

At one point I thought about recording a bit where I empty my action bars and do an entire dungeon casting out of the spellbook and using consumables straight from my bags specifically to troll the comments.

The only reason I didn't is because I'd need to put it all back.