Countdown To Classic

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, listen in as Whats, Hunk and I go over the changes that we were seeing on the fly as people were tearing through the revamped version of Molten Core we're getting for Season of Mastery. Molten Changes w/...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we discuss the huge mage/dungeon changes incoming for Season of Mastery and whether or not Blizzard has gone far enough, or too far, in attempting to kill off mage boosting/farming. Wanna Root? w/ Markyma...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we make a delayed check in on how things are going with Phase 2 of TBC thus far with the raiding scene and more with previous guest of the show, Yolo. After that, the show goes down a brave, new path by n...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we dive deeper on the Classic Fresh news as we get a new blue post covering the design philosophies behind the Season of Mastery and an announcement on how loot will be handled.  Will this lead to a diffe...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, we got some huge news about WoW Classic Fresh servers, or should I say the 'WoW Classic Season of Mastery'.  Listen in as myself, North, Duranasaur, and some guest callers break down the news and discuss...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today, I sit down with some musically inclined guests and compose the TBC playlist to end all TBC playlists.  Need some tunes to melt faces to in SSC? Need some bangers to mash with in the Arena? We've got you c...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today,  Madseason & Chill - 2:10 Making JRPG's & Quartet w/ Something Classic Games - 1:22:25 Support the Quartet Kickstarter campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/somethingclassic/quartet-0 Follow...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Listen in each episode as Josh sits down for lengthy chats with passionate people about the things we love. Today,  That Classic Fresh List w/ FahQ - 1:40 The FFXIV Economy - 55:10 FFXIV Gil Making Tips -  2:52:40 Support Josh & Countdown today over at Patreon, including bonus 'Countdown After Dark' podcast content: h...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the MMO and gaming community on the latest issues. Today, I speak with Jessica Gonzalez, who currently works for Activision Blizzard in their QA department.  Jessica and I discuss the  The ins and outs of Quality Assurance - 2:35 Change at Activision Blizzard in the wake of the lawsuit - 1...

Welcome to the gaming podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the MMO and gaming community on the latest issues. Today, we cover a bit of everything from TBC's imminent Phase 2 to story time with Hunk as we review FFXIV's ARR story.  Check out the time stamps below to head to the chats that you're interested in! SSC + TK PTR Testing w/ Caranthir - 2:...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. Today, Josh speaks with Zzav to go over the plethora of great MMO options available in the gaming space right now. Support Josh & Countdown today over at Patreon, including bonus 'Countdown After Dark' podcast co...

I just wanted to say a few things about the Blizzard lawsuit.

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. We've got even more PvP news to digest hot off the press.  Josh and the callers break down the new BG testing taking place that looks to get the Alliance back into the game. Guests include Ayle, Babaganoosh, Balo...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. Today, we go deeeeeeep into the hugely controversial decision made by Blizzard to introduce inter-faction BG's to alleviate the Horde BG queueing issue in TBC Classic.  Listen to four hours (!) worth of back and...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. Today's episode kicks off with a 40 min chat about Seed of Corruption and how Warlocks should learn to play with their new favourite toy.  After that we get broad, and touch on issues such as the pvp landscape, f...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. TBC is here and we gather a bunch of callers to discuss some early observations and fun that is going on in Outland.  We touch on getting to 70, raiding, professions, economies, and bugs amongst other things as i...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. TBC TOMORROW BABY!!! Let's get excited and discuss all the fun things we want to do in game over the next few days and the shenanigans that we expect to see from the players upon launch.  It's a power hour of Cou...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. Today we talk about a big issue that on face value seems to only affect one region of the world, but actually might have much more wide spread ramifications.  The Oceanic PvP battlegroup was stealth merged with t...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. Today, Josh is joined by Ayle, Caranthir, Costin, Hunk, and Roand to discuss the state of the pre-patch. Starting with the PvP honor roller coaster ride and working through a list of notable bugs, we talk about t...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. Grinding a Paladin or Shaman over the next few days/weeks? Need a boatload of epic content to keep you covered while you tune out and do so? I've got your back with 4 (!!!!) hours of show today.  So, what's in it...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. Something heavy, something light today as we go all in on the phenomenon that GDKP's have become in WoW Classic, for better or for worse, and discuss their place in TBC. After that, I talk with some TBC noobs who...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. It's a variety episode today as we touch on the coming AH closure, an exciting new speed running community initiative, and some thoughts on the player to player service meta. Guests include: Prof Weaver, Actriev,...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. Well, the tea leaves were somewhat correct and we finally got our release date and pre-patch date.  Along with a lot of other interesting launch related information. Join Josh and a cavalcade of seventeen (17!!!!...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. In this episode, we smash that emergency meeting button and start accusing people left, right and centre as the rumour mill goes ballistic with pre-patch and launch dates. Listen in to hear the guests speculate o...

Welcome to the TBC Classic podcast where it's not my opinion that counts - but yours! Each episode Josh chats with the WoW Classic community on the issues surrounding The Burning Crusade. In this episode, we break down the huge drums news with the tinnitus debuff that's coming our way, as well as discussing potential deluxe editions of the game. Then we turn our minds to Warriors, as a crew of pla...