Elizabeth Harper

Just another day waiting to play video games, am I right?

Well, while we’re all waiting here together, let’s chat.

I have bad news and good news.

This week's World of Warcraft maintenance isn't too bad, but The War Within servers are getting a slightly extended two-hour downtime.

It's a once-in-a-lifetime heist: to sneak into the biggest game convention around (celebrating much loved baking sim and MOBA Heroes of the Dough) and steal the esports trophy (which happens to be made of pretzels) from under everyone's noses (both literally and metaphorically).

It's Tuesday Thursday maintenance day, and The War Within servers were scheduled for a quick one-hour downtime, which has been extended for an extra hour.

With the right look, I’m always ready to tackle any challenge. The sunglasses, of course, tie the whole thing together, as is only right and proper.

So now that I have my sunglasses on, let’s get to some questions. This is the Queue.

Tuesday maintenance was a long one for modern World of Warcraft placers, but servers came back up about an hour early with WoW patch 11.1.5 launching relatively smoothly.

This week we're bringing you another game Pigeon's 11, in which our feathered cast of criminals dives into the world of esports and culinary delights at MetzlCon.

It’s Wednesday afternoon and the Queue is not late, I meant to post it right now. This exact moment! The moment of arriving!

That’s a roundabout way of saying we’re planning to push the Queue back an hour permanently, scheduling it at 11am pacific/12pm mountain/1pm central (site time)/2pm eastern. (I have to write it out like that to try to stick the change in my own head.) It’s about standardizing post scheduling every day and keeping posts spread out throughout the day rather than clumped together (which tended to happen on podcast days when the podcast went live a half hour before the Queue). We’ll see how it goes.

Now, this is the Queue. Let’s talk.

The original Guild Wars launched in April 2005, so the game turns 20 years old this month, joining a venerable club of classic MMOs including EverQuest (1999 and yes, it's still going), EverQuest 2 (2004), and World of Warcraft (2004).