The Queue: I’m just so happy

When I was telling Liz that I wouldn’t be able to contribute much to BlizzCon coverage, but I would jump on if there was a Heroes of the Storm announcement, I didn’t expect to have to get to work for the first major news out of the opening ceremonies! I also told her that the article would just be me laughing and then end with an “I told you so.” However, I did manage to contain myself just enough that I kept all of my “I told you so” moments to Discord chats.

Heroes is back, baby! I’ve got my Xal’atath bundle bought, my PTR updated so when she goes live today I can jump on, and I’m ready to shout from the mountaintops that this game continues to deserve your support. It’s the best thing in the MOBA space, hands down, and I love it so much. It’s wonderful to see support for it from the highest point of Blizzard, and it was great to see the crowd pack the seats for the exhibition match between Gen.G. and Dignitas.

While I go hang out in the Nexus, it’s time for — The Queue!

Oh… y’know.

It’s clearly because they all know the story of the King in Yellow and are behaving accordingly. There can be no other response to a yellow parasol, either on the beach or anywhere else. Now, a green parasol, those are all right.

I’m surprised that C’thun doesn’t have some sort of astronaut helment/sunglass combo for his beach trips. That’s a lot of eye to shade. I shudder to think of the sunburn. I guess that’s just going blind though.

It’s a long time for sure. That’s so far away; I don’t know what I’ll be doing at the end of the decade. Maybe I’ll have given up playing video games! Unlikely, but you never know.

With Diablo 4 just into another expansion, it’s both the right time to announce a sequel and too soon. There’s a lot of time between D4 now and Diablo 5 then. So much time that it feels like you could squeeze one more expansion in between to better set up the cataclysmic conflict that has occurred to get us to D5. I’m not saying that defeating Mephisto isn’t a good way to end D4, but I wouldn’t say no to a few more breadcrumbs over the other Prime Evils showing up again in full force.

Also, just another “we told you so”; it was on our BlizzCon Bingo Card. Is Mitch a prophet? Sources are pointing to yes.

They really needed a bunch of data for long-time Heroes of the Storm players, because my Hearthstone stuff is just sad. Also, it’s told me that I’ve earned a bunch of gold in Classic, but I’ve never played Classic. So unless it’s talking about original Warcraft — I think some Goblins got their wires crossed.

It’s a neat feature, and I do really like seeing that I am in the 99th percentile for HoTS players. That felt great! Especially because it’s higher than Mitch.

WRemix. The W is silent.

Not wrong at all.

Class fantasy is important, and getting your hands on the biggest, baddest, and most awesome armor out there is a good way to tie yourself in with the legends of old. It was a bold design choice to move away from class sets in D4, and I understand what they were going for — it just didn’t wind up working out. People like having the aspirational four-piece and six-piece armor bonuses to build towards. I understand that it meant that there could be more variety in builds because you weren’t tied to most players having the same six pieces going, but it wound up not being as cool. Which is kind of the whole point, I thought!

Usually it’s the food trucks, burgers, pizza, bowls of stuff, or food on a stick are all great portable meals and can be nice and filling. They’re going to be portable and hopefully less expensive than whatever convention vendors are built into the actual building. It’s like going to the airport sometimes: just because I’m in a building through a security checkpoint doesn’t mean you should get to charge 20 bucks for a gas station sandwich. I do say hopefully less expensive because I’ve seen some outrageous food truck prices out there. Which is a symptom of food inflation in general, but it doesn’t mean I have to like it. As always, the best bang for your buck is smuggling in smaller snack-type things you could buy in bulk from Costco.

Just make sure it doesn’t need to stay cool; those lines get hot.

Today’s Bacardi is completely unbothered by all of the big video game news out there. It’s all the same to him; he’ll do his job, and you do yours, and maybe you’ll get a shiny Epic skin in your Heroes box. Just make sure you keep the treats flowing and the attention mostly on him.

Would you rather: 

Get to go to the big convention for free, but always have to wait in a line for the bathroom

Or

Watch the live streams of the big convention, but have no bathroom lines.

Today’s Anna Earworm: I’m So Excited

Have an excellent week, everybody! Help Anna have a relaxing Queue after the business of the weekend by leaving her lots of questions for tomorrow.