I'm suspicious of WoW's mostly short maintenance cycle this week.

The longest-awaited feature in World of Warcraft history, Player Housing, is here for players who have pre-ordered the Midnight expansion, and with these new zones come a new collection of Azeroth's fauna.

In a big surprise, Blizzard sponsored the Saturday night Edmonton Oilers game. Even more surprising was that they invited me to attend as their guest! I got my first-ever taste of the luxury box lifestyle thanks to Midnight. I ate jumbo shrimp, drank delicious drinks, and got to watch a great game of hockey with my favorite person, and another local Warcraft content creator, Kesslive. There were even some Blood Elves in attendance! They were kept pretty busy filming some fun stuff around the arena and appearing on a celebrity lookalike segment, but I did manage to get a picture with them (forgive me for Instagram’s terrible cropping).

This was truly the weirdest thing I’ve ever gotten to do, thanks to World of Warcraft, and I’m very thankful to the team at Blizzard who made it happen. A little birdy has told me that there’ll be another sponsored Oilers game in March, and I’m crossing my fingers really hard that I get another invite for that one. Also, if anyone on the Warcraft team is reading this and wants to come up with something weirder for me to do as a promotion, I’m game.

While I savor the memory of the Oilers victory (and the jumbo shrimp), it’s time for — The Queue!

The World of Warcraft community has been all about Player Housing for the last few months.

Oh, what a week.

Player Housing Early Access is now live in WoW, and one of the many things now on our to-do list is to harvest the lumber required to craft decor items.

Player Housing has only just begun (in fact, it hasn’t even officially started yet) and I already find myself thinking “I wanna play some WoW, but I don’t wanna do anything ‘serious’ right now… guess I’ll just mess with my house for a few minutes.”

This is great. I like this.

Welcome to The Queue, where we talk about an assortment of things, and also our very very very fine houses.

We very wisely started off the podcast this week with all the other news.

While I am admittedly biased as a Hunter main, Trueshot Lodge was by far my favorite Class Hall in Legion.

In the midst of the great Azerothian Real Estate Rush of patch 11.2.7, a possible clue has been discovered that has the World of Warcraft secret finding community dusting off their Monocles of Investigation.