Elizabeth Harper

Thursday keeps coming around, and even though time ostensibly runs in one direction it’s also cyclical. Somehow it’s always Thursday, and we’re always here in the Queue.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I do my very best to answer your gaming questions. Let’s get to it.

After two weeks of eight-hour maintenance, I'm pleased to announce that all World of Warcraft servers will be offline for just an hour this morning.

While there were plenty of happenings last week — with a new Hearthstone expansion and a new phase for The Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary realms — I think all eyes are on World of Warcraft: Forever, which launches next week, and it's a little hard to get excited about anything else.

It’s a sad day in video games, as we mourn the loss of BioWare, which is so crushing there are barely words for it.

That doesn’t mean I’m not going to write words about it, but none of those words encompasses the scope of what we’ve lost.

But let’s get down to business. This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I do my best to answer your questions and sometimes write lengthly soliloquies to my favorite games.

It's a long maintenance day in World of Warcraft no matter what you play.

World of Warcraft patch 12.1.5 has been live for just under a week, so of course it's already time to talk about patch 12.1.7, which Blizzard revealed last week.

This week is patch 12.1.5 in World of Warcraft, which isn't a big patch but it has some story content we aren't happy about and Labyrinths that we are happy about.

It’s patch week in World of Warcraft, for better and for worse, and I’m just checking in to see how everyone is doing out there. Hitting up the new raid? Checking out the Labyrinths? Experiencing perfectly wonderful new content that does nothing but spark joy?

…no? Well, we’ll have to work on that. Maybe while writing angry fanfic and waiting for the latest round of hotfixes.

But that’s the patch cycle for you. Ups and downs and downs and ups. The world keeps rolling onward regardless.

This is the Queue, our daily Q&A column where I, Lizdormi, attempt to answer your questions with what wisdom of the Dragonflights I may have. It’s not always much, but let’s get to it anyway.

One of the most interesting things about World of Warcraft: Forever is the possibility for new story development, and that's how we got tangled up in the question of an NPC named Shadowsong in the beta.

It's patch day for Midnight servers, and that means extended maintenance for World of Warcraft.