The Queue: Behold!

The next time someone asks you why Blizzard doesn’t just do X, and tells you why it should be simple to do X, show them this screenshot. WoW is an intensely complicated game, with code that has been changed and edited and tweaked over the course of twelve years. You can make one change, and end up with that.

This is the Queue. Let’s talk Blizzard.

Back in 1997 I moved to Washington DC. I lived there for about two years. In that time, I made some friends (I know, in retrospect it seems unusual anyone would want to do that) and I ended up house sitting for one of them for a month after he went on his honeymoon. He had two things – an original PlayStation, and a copy of Diablo for said PlayStation. Interestingly enough, the PlayStation port of Diablo was published by Electronic Arts.

I must have played this every day for the entire time I was there. I may not have slept.

So that’s pretty much my ‘first Blizzard game’ story.

See? It looks even worse when you can see it stretching out.

Ashkandi didn’t want to. Her exact words were stab stab slash chop reave rend asunder kill kill split bone and sinew and I took that to mean she just wanted to nap today.

I just started playing Diablo 3 again. So I can answer this.

Barbarian.

What? Come on, what else was I going to possibly say to this question? Ashkandi? If it were playable, sure, I’d play an Ashkandi.

As many people pointed out, it’s been 10,000 years since the War of the Ancients. Plenty of time to rebuild and even expand the city, especially when it’s been populated by powerful magicians for all that time. Dalaran got destroyed during the Third War and the Kirin Tor took less than a decade to not only rebuild it but also put the thing up in the sky, so I have little difficulty in believing that the ancestors of the Nightborne could use their magic to rebuild any damage to Suramar in the amount of time they had to do it.

Furthermore, it’s possible that Brox and Rhonin didn’t get to see all of Suramar. A large city is, well, a large city — many parts of London were bombed into looking like moonscapes during World War II, and anyone in those areas might well think the city itself utterly destroyed, but it wasn’t.

But really, I think it’s easy enough to say “it’s been 10,000 years” on this one. A lot of time to rebuild and expand Suramar.

Seriously, she can do that I’m not putting fixing a wall past her.

If my character is dumb enough to leave Gul’dan with an intact skull after we kill him, we deserve Double Juiced In Badness Illidan.

I still can’t believe my response upon finding Gul’dan trapped and helpless in the Suicide Mission on Draenor wasn’t to hit him with every sharp pointy thing I could find until he was a greasy smear on the floor.

A partial list of games besides WoW that I have played in the past month:

• Diablo 3
• Dragon Age Origins
• Dragon Age 2
• Dragon Age Inquisition
• Fallout 4
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Seriously this game was actually really good and it’s a shame what happened with 38 Studios, the mismanagement killed a solid potential franchise)
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines

Games I want to play but haven’t gotten around to yet include Pillars of Eternity, Siege of Dragonspear, and I’m looking forward to Torment: Tides of Numenera when it comes out. Also I hit the Legion alpha like once a day, usually for at least an hour.

Okay, that’s the Queue for today. I’ll see y’all next Tuesday. Maybe Ashkandi will be feeling friendlier next week.