When the servers came back up for week two of Player Housing, World of Warcraft interior decorators were pleasantly surprised to find that their exterior decor budget had been increased from 200 to 250 at or above House XP Level 3.

It's easy to overlook the other features that dropped with World of Warcraft's patch 11.2.7 because Player Housing has taken up all of our playing time, but when you need a break from interior decorating you can spend some time with Lorewalker Cho brushing up on Elvish history in preparation for Midnight.

Khadgar hates this euphemism. It’s a good thing I haven’t really built my bedroom yet, then we might really be in trouble.

This is The Queue, the daily column where you ask us questions, and we’re going to spend the next 15 minutes pretending we’re on MTV Cribs.

Let's say you've gotten settled into your nice new house in World of Warcraft.

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.