On this episode of The AIE Podcast...

(T) I see babies!

(M) AIE Celebrates its eighth year of existence

(T): Love is in the air

(M) We have a question of the week!

(T): Stigg and Ralff are here to talk about AIE’s 8 year anniversary

All that and more coming up right now...

Podcast Audio

Raw Video

http://youtu.be/I-spqYm9OhA

(M) Welcome to episode # 225 of the the podcast celebrating the Alea Iacta Est gaming community. This isMkallah- and there is some anniversary cake in the guild kitchen. And right over there, we have Tetsemi (Catch Phrase here ). This week we are joined by our amazingly special guests - Stigg and Ralff, who are here to talk to us about AIE’s 8th Anniversary! Welcome!

Ok, we’ll be digging into our big anniversary show shortly, but first, let’s cover this week’s news...

AIE NEWS

(T)- Huge Congrats to Alachaas and Leontine on the birth of their level 1 human, Aria Rose. Daddy is a Tank, Mommy is a Hunter- word has it, sweet little Aria will be getting her account soon and will learn to heal so they can LFG as a family. Shadow Priest was mentioned, but we’ll see how that works out for them.

(M) - AIE is also celebrating as it’s our 8 year anniversary.

If you want to share your history with AIE, the is a google doc linked in the show notes and on the forums.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mlRhV-ZZWEUHrUoBWFTiF-EYccBevfB0FJTW5N9cuVs/viewform

AIE in WoW had two weekend events to honor this momentous occasion:

The ever lovely Nevermore held an in game Meet and Greet event yesterday, to celebrate Valentines day and the Love of AIE! It was a massive success, and an impromptu Warcraft Trivial Pursuit game broke out.

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/55727-valentines-day-meet-greet-event/

And today, to share the love of PVP, Sparrow and crew ran an assault on Ashran with a might, fury and humor seldom seen on the field of battle. This event ran from 2-6 server time, and feedback from twitter indicates that this was an event enjoyed by all!

http://forum.myextralife.com/topic/55708-bloody-valentine-event-pvp/

(T) - In February 2007, Alea Iacta Est was formed by the creators and fans of several popular podcasts (a guy you may of heard of, Scott Johnston/Gerp -guy from The Instance and ELR, Randy/ Maui from the Instance, Veronica- Winema from Buzz out Loud, and Mahalo Daily, Len from Jawbone Radio, and the crew from WoW Addons.

AIE has gone through a few iterations- initially, the name of the guild was I Eat Babies, but that was quickly changed due to it not being family friendly- and Alea Iacta Est- Latin for “the Die has been Cast” was chosen as the new name. Before the start of Cataclysm, we were the largest guild in North America, though due to guild caps placed by Blizzard, we had to break into much smaller co-guilds. We are so large, we have 11 co-guilds, all bound together by the Greenwall created by our own robot and master planner, Stigg.

And with that, let’s get to Ralff and Stigg and talk about AIE in the past, present and future ...

GAME NEWS

Interiew/Discussion

Mkallah- Ralff and Stigg, thanks so much for joining us. Both of you have been in AIE for a long time, and have been a huge factor in our community - what brought you to AIE originally?

(Once they are done, the hosts can go around and answer the same topic)

Tetsemi - Due to our sheer number, AIE tends to be forced to create our own solutions to problems that Blizzard never anticipated - in fact, there are times that we have our own trending topic on Twitter, #AIIEproblems! Can you guys give us some insight on how we go about creating new tools, especially for AIE? What sort of iterative process do you go through from problem identification to solution and creation?

Mkallah- The fact that AIE is active, in and out of game, is a big part of our culture -

Stigg - what was your first real life AIE event and your most memorable?

Ralff - what was your first real life AIE event and your most ...