Matthew Rossi

As of right now, I see two contradictory paths that patch 8.3 could take.

Some of us loved the Warcraft movie, some of us did not -- but if that film did anything, it proved that you could absolutely realize Azeroth and the Warcraft series in a live action/digital effects milieu and it could absolutely work.

Obviously no one at Blizzard is silly enough to tell me which race they're thinking about for their next Allied Race, so when speculating about what would be a good fit, there are quite a few variables to keep in mind.

One of the things the Elder Scrolls series does pretty well is carving out huge swaths of time between games. For example, The Elder Scrolls Online is set more than a thousand years before the events of Skyrim, with two eras having ended and started between them. Of course, the Elder Scrolls timeline is not what I would call uncomplicated, but it’s got nothing on World of Warcraft when it comes to complicated timelines.

But I really think that we should get a Warcraft 4, and I think it should be a game set hundreds of years after the game we have now, when the Horde and Alliance as we understand them are long gone and everything is different. Orcs and Humans staunch allies! Night Elves an expansionist power, the Forsaken and Scourge combined into a new faction called The Unliving ruled by Bolvar and Calia, all sorts of new stuff.

Let’s talk, Queue Believers.

This doesn't have to be merely about new zones that we get during an expansion like Mechagon or Nazjatar, but what do you most enjoy or look forward to in a new zone?

I've argued in the past that we should get a Diablo 3 expansion.

Some people, like me, think WoW Classic should only have what original World of Warcraft had -- nothing added in later expansions should be included.

The WoW Classic beta ended on the 12th, and since then we've been waiting for the last stress test, which was scheduled for July 25th.

Sometimes it just feels like it needs to be said.

Lately, World of Warcraft patches alternate between x.x and x.x.5, such as the current patch 8.2 and the upcoming patch 8.2.5.