The thing that may have made me cry the most this year is the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (you can find it on Netflix), which tells the story of a teenager with a degenerative disease who found a way to do good in the world, make friends, and even fall in love in World Of Warcraft. It is emotional, beautiful, unique, special, and reminds us that beyond the screen there are people, people who want to do good, friends you may only know from a couple of lines. Ibelin would have loved to know that now he could stay and live there, literally.
It’s cheaper than a real house
We know that World Of Warcraft is not real because players will be able to buy a house. Twenty years after its launch, one of the most common requests from fans of the most famous MMO in history is finally going to become real. In the next expansion, Midnight, which will appear in 2026 (if we’re lucky), Blizzard has already announced that it will meet expectations.
In fact, they are announcing it now to, literally, “be able to have more open conversations about it that are not possible when it is a secret feature.” Basically, what they want is to know the community’s opinion: what they expect, what they want, what they would not tolerate. So that, when World of Warcraft: Midnight is released, no one will be disappointed.
“It’s an idea that has been with us for a while, but we knew that if we wanted to do it, we needed to be able to do it right. It’s tremendously big.” Now, Blizzard has developed the technology that can make it a reality, so as part of the saga’s revival (which will include the remasters of the three original Warcrafts that resulted in the well-known WoW), soon we will be able to decorate our home to our liking. Who said that forming alliances and slaying beasts was at odds with playing Animal Crossing?
