The Queue: Mondays are fun days
by Adam Holisky on April 23, 2018 at 12:00pm @adamholisky
In other life I work in publishing and tech, and Mondays always seem to be a day full of 9am emails and 10am meetings. Can we get a support group going in The Queue today for those of us that have to deal with such Monday things?
I’m honestly surprised there isn’t some virtual therapy or website to commiserate about the horrors that are Monday mornings.
Blizzard Balance can now be gifted, but not from your own Blizzard Balance pool
by Rachelle Riddle on April 23, 2018 at 11:00am
Figma Reaper now available for pre-order, may be best-looking Overwatch Figma yet
by Alex Ziebart on April 23, 2018 at 10:00am @AlexZiebart
🔒 Watching Blizzard: A sad news day
by Elizabeth Harper on April 20, 2018 at 11:06pm @faience
Battle for Azeroth’s Warfronts look fun, but they leave us with a lot of questions
by Mitch on April 20, 2018 at 4:00pm
BlizzCon costume contest winner finds herself in the Stormwind Stockades
by Anne Stickney on April 20, 2018 at 3:00pm @Shadesogrey
Know Your Lore: What if Bolvar Fordragon never became the Lich King?
by Matthew Rossi on April 20, 2018 at 2:00pm @MatthewWRossi
Ben Brode is leaving Blizzard and we are not okay with this
by Elizabeth Harper on April 20, 2018 at 12:36pm @faience
The Queue: Desideratum
by Matthew Rossi on April 20, 2018 at 12:00pm @MatthewWRossi
It’s not a secret that I was both very happy with and very disappointed with Warlords of Draenor. I felt, and I still feel, that the 90 to 100 game was nearly perfect — the premise was executed well, it was easy to follow considering it was an alternate timeline we were visiting, the voice acting was superb. The cracks only started to show once I hit level 100 and it felt like there wasn’t anything else to do once I got there. We never got to see the zone I was the most excited about, for example. Farahlon never made it to the live game, and we never even tried to explore the southern continent on the original Draenor maps Blizzard produced for Warlords.
Time has, to a degree, vindicated Warlords — without it, we wouldn’t have had Legion, and this has been exactly what we needed from an expansion. I’m a bit leery that Battle for Azeroth has some huge shoes to fill in that regard. But as of right now, I’m sitting here remembering Warlords of Draenor and how that expansive, broad, astonishing world ended up not quite measuring up. Maybe it couldn’t. Maybe my expectations were too high.
Let’s talk about stuff.



