WoW Classic

If you are like most World of Warcraft players who started playing more recently -- say, after Cataclysm -- you've probably heard a lot of horror stories about Alterac Valley back in Classic WoW, and I'm here to tell you two things.

There were a lot of excellent quests in the old days of World of Warcraft.

The WoW Classic beta has been going for a while now, but the entire game is locked behind a level cap for concentrated testing.

I can't get over how much I love WoW Classic not despite its warts, but because of them.

When WoW Classic launches globally on August 26, you'll want to be equipped to jump straight into the re-made game and start leveling up your character.

I mean, I knew it was always this bad.

This login screen brings back a lot of memories — and that's probably good, since the login process only occasionally makes it any further than than this screen.

The login queues weren't long enough.

We talk a lot about all the things WoW Classic doesn't have.

With WoW Classic dominating everything lately -- here's where I hysterically shout it's coming out in August aaaargh -- it's an interesting bit of serendipity that Justin and Sydnee McElroy's podcast Sawbones touched on the Corrupted Blood plague recently.