That’s what hundreds of players look like when they’re all gathered in the same room, minutes away from accessing a brand new expansion. There’s just nothing like that moment, believe me.

We played the entire starting scenario during the night of Thursday to Friday and we went on to game on Friday evening and the entire week-end. This launch was the smoothest that we’ve ever seen, there was no lag, no crash and no bug. Big kudos to Blizzard for making it happen.

It is now Sunday evening and we’ve both reached max level a few minutes ago. We’ve completed most quests (if not all) of the two first zones and all I can say is that The War Within is shaping to become one of my favourite expansions. The zones are gorgeous and there’s a great variety in the quests. The main quest line is absolutely Magni-ficent (pun intended) and I can’t wait to see more, Xal’athat is already a better protagonist than Fyrakk ever was. Delving is very well done and we had a lot of fun running each of them (some more than once).

Below is a small screenshot gallery of this week-end.

If you purchase drinks in the right order at the Kaja Cola vending machine located in The Ringing Deeps, you’ll be rewarded a 34 slots bag 😉

How can a 20 years old video game still manage to have people countdown until the next time they can log in? I don’t know, but I can’t wait to be tomorrow to continue my adventures.

We’re only a few hours from The War Within‘s early access and we’re still discovering great stuff from Dragonflight. Last Monday evening, we’ve completed what we’ll remember as our favourite quest chain in the expansion. Learning the Furbolgs’ language to be able to quest and gain their trust was awesome! Also, SNOW! It felt so good to play in the snowy landscapes during this hell season.

My apologies for the small post and the eventual typos, but I’m typing this while watching the one on one interview with Chris Metzen and I just love that dude! I’m so glad he came back to work on WoW.

I can’t believe that WoW is already turning 20 in November. I’m so incredibly proud that we’ve both been part of it for so many years (decades). Long live Azeroth!

October 31st, 1977, Jack Delroy tries desperately to get the numbers of his talk show “Night Owls” up by hosting a Halloween special like no other.

A lot of TV-shows and movies royally fail capturing the 70’s vibe. Late Night with the Devil, however, successfully integrated the amazing 70’s aesthetics with the grainy, multi camera look and excellent costumes. The decor reminds me a lot of my dad’s paintings, and brought some nostalgia of my early childhood.

The movie was excellent, exceeding my expectations. It was original, part found footage, faux-documentary with tones of the Exorcist and a good use of the Halloween theme.

Good movies and a great casting go hand in hand. David Dastmalchian is a great lead for the role of Jack Delroy. The directors cast him after having read an article written by him about regional horror TV hosts for ‘Fangoria’ magazine. It’s a small world. The possessed little girl, Lilly, portrayed by Ingrid Morelli, was genuinely creepy, and reminded me a lot of Regan in the Exorcist.

Late Night with the Devil is entertaining to the end and well worth staying up for. I absolutely recommend this to anyone who wants to watch an original horror movie with a compelling story and amazing aesthetics.

Another hot summer week has come and gone. From people exhibiting their ugly flip-flop feet in the streets to the heat preventing me to game on my PC, this really isn’t my favourite season. We’ve almost watched five seasons of The Rookie in a few weeks and, while I really like Nathan Fillion, I could take a break from the LAPD and find back my life, which in normal times is absolutely great.

In other news, one of my Instagram accounts has been disabled. Not my main account, but a side one I was using to post World of Warcraft stuff. It’s not a great loss as there were only 5 posts but the way it happened confirms everything I always thought about social networks: you’re not controlling anything.

I woke up this morning to my account being deactivated with the possibility to appeal, which I directly did. After having provided many security codes and a video of my face tilting in every directions, I received a mail to tell me that, after review, my account was permanently disabled. My only way to get it back would be to go to court.

Apparently, the moderating AI identified my account as a bot and its decision is final, even after providing proofs that I’m a real human. I don’t really care since it was just an account to check other people’s World of Warcraft screenshots.

However, the way it happened makes me think that I shouldn’t put any effort in that platform anymore, since an account can be deleted without any form of appeal. Already being a social networks hater, this may be the final push to get me permanently disconnected.

So, starting today, instead of posting my pictures on my main Instagram account, I’ll post them here, as a blog post. Ultimately, after a few months, I’ll deactivate all my Instagram accounts and I’ll be entirely free from social networks. Long live blogging!

We’ve been spared! The weather cooled down for a few days, very conveniently during the first week-end of the Pre-Patch Event of The War Within. I honestly thought that Augustus would be too warm to spend hours on our PCs and that we wouldn’t have the time to complete the event.

I hate it when Blizzard releases temporary content around summer. I don’t care not being in the few firsts to reach max level in a new expansion, these people always end up burned out of the game anyway. However, I do care about temporary content and I would hate to miss on something that will never come back.

Fortunately, Blizzard had tuned the event so people could farm the Residual Memories non stop and that’s exactly what we’ve been doing on Saturday. By the end of day, we had enough resource to purchase all mounts, pets and craft the new heirloom ring. By doing so, we’ve also completed enough objectives for the Trading Outpost to get the monthly reward. On Sunday, we’ve continued to farm the echoes a bit further so we could purchase the remaining pieces of the mail set appearance (which is ugly, but completitionism and all…).

The event was fun and everything went smoothly, except for Dragonblight which was laggy as hell. Soforah ended a few times without getting her reward after killing the Lich King, which can easily get frustrating.

All in all, we had fun and we’re super happy to know that we won’t miss on anything, even if summer would return with a vengeance.

Oh, and cherry on the cake, Wakyn dropped from Warden Entrix exactly one minute before I had to log out. A welcome pat on my back during this God forsaken season!