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Blizzard Watch Podcast: The Midnight cinematic was released and we have thoughts
🕑 Added 2025-08-21 21:03:10 +0000 UTCThis week's preshow is all about concrete. No, I am not joking. The crew touches on building in games and history and a few other things, but no really, it keeps coming back to concrete. That may seem as dull as watching concrete dry, but it's more interesting than I'm making it out to be. If you'd still like to skip straight to the main show, the preshow ends at 24:51.
If you thought this week's show would be entirely about the new Midnight trailer and the information we're getting out of gamescom, you would be right. Site writer Rob Flanagan (who we all call Flan) joined Joe, Matt, and Liz to discuss the news, which included a heated discussion of Blood Elf lore, and whether we'll miss our ol Delving buddy Brann. It's a split house on almost every topic this week, so expect to explore a lot of different perspectives -- with one notable exception. That sole exception was free transmog, which everyone was pumped at hearing, but unfortunately was reported a little hastily. You'll be able to assign certain outfits and hotswap to those outfits for free, and you'll be able to set conditional appearance swaps for free -- like when you enter combat, or a rested area, for instance -- but transmog is not full-on across the board free.
Well, maybe we'll find something else to agree on as the expansion gets closer.
We hope you enjoy the show, and as always, thank you for your support.
Comments
Luke
I fully expect we'll get the connecting fillins for things like the current storyline vs new xpac storyline + an explanation for what happened/is happening with Haronin. You don't develop an entire zone and allied race without having lore ready to go. We've got at least 5+ months before the new expansion is released. None of this storyline stuff is happening on September 1, 2024. If it was I'd be in a halo of light with Joe. ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Luke
OMG what is happening? Have I gone from the light to void like the crystal in Hallowfall? I suddenly find myself agreeing with Matt instead of Joe on the Midnight trailer reaction. And Liz has me all light torn like Anduin. She's right, This is the second game in a trilogy. picking up in the middle of the action in sequels is either a scenario where you're thrown right into the action or you have a quite opening and you get flashbacks or other fill in. They chose action, because it's a trailer to sell a game based on combat. This isn't a standalone like Dragonflight.
Verdigree
The transmog thing feels a little like the outfit systems of Elder Scrolls Online, or maybe more FFXIV's Glamour system, where first you go in and do the nitty gritty of building outfits and when you're out and about you can apply one
