Blizzard gets more and more communicative every week recently. I love it. They recently announced that they’re seeking questions for a community question and answer series, with a separate thread for each class. They’ll be going through the class threads in order, answering questions and generally being awesome (one hopes). Afterwards everything will be gathered into one big blue pile of answers and presented to the community.

Nethaera is going to be the organizer of this little event, it seems. She warns us that it is “probably going to be a couple of weeks” before we start getting answers, because they want to give sufficient time for WoW players around the world to get their questions in. She also says she’s going to try to get “the most prominent questions” answered, as well as questions that have been around for a long time without being addressed.

This is a great time to get your class questions and concerns addressed, so if you have anything you’ve always wanted to ask a dev, go find the Q&A thread for your class (in your class forum) and post away.

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Blizz wants your class questions originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 29 May 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Later this year Microsoft will release its next major desktop operating system, Windows 7. After deciding now was the time to expand my hard drives (because I really need 3TBs of space), I took the opportunity to install the “release candidate.” The release candidate of Windows 7 is just that – it’s a version of the operating system that while still in development, has all the bells and whistles, and is essentially the exact same thing that’ll be sold on the shelves.

The installation and configuration of Windows 7 went very smoothly. My computer has four gigs of RAM and operates off of two dual-core Intel Core2 processors. I have an nVidia GTX 260 graphics card, which is the latest generation. There’s a bunch of other bells and whistles that I have as well, but those are the big things relevant to what I do every day here at WoW.com and how I play WoW.

Prior to installing Windows 7, I used Windows Vista updated to the latest patches. I got about 60 FPS on average, with a maximum of around 100 while idling in some far off place with not a lot of traffic, and a minimum of about 50 while in some of the more graphic intensive raids / battlegrounds. After installing Windows 7 I was running at about 75 FPS average, with a maximum still of around 100. However more importantly my FPS during raids / Wintergrasp shot up to 70.

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Features, Guides, Hardware

World of Warcraft on Windows 7 RC originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 29 May 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Welcome back to The Queue, WoW Insider’s daily Q&A column where the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky will be your host today.

There’s a few good questions today of various voluptuous varieties: raiding, legal ToS (TNG > ToS, by the way), and new gaming hardware. Yummy.

Start me off, Delks…

Edit: Please be sure to listen to Fly Me To The Moon by Ol’ Blue Eyes during today’s Queue, or you can listen to the title’s name sake song.

Delks asked…

“What’s the point of running old world raids and instances?“

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The Queue: You ain’t nothin’ but a Core Hound originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 29 May 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yes, after a short and tumultuous journey into the world of video last week, our podcast returns to its audio roots, and this week, Turpster and I welcome a special guest host, direct from Brigwyn’s Child’s Play charity auction. Listener Kevin D. was kind enough to step up and donate a very generous amount of money to Child’s Play, and for that (and because he’s a cool guy), we’ll be welcoming him on the show. He’s got a few things he wants to talk about, including how guilds work together, how to balance WoW and life, and why people are or aren’t shy as they play the game. And of course we’ll answer a few of your emails (you can send those to theshow@wow.com now), and during the meat of the show, we’ll talk about the most popular posts from the last week.

Should be a lot of fun, and hey here’s this: by the time we go live, we’ll all know whether we have BlizzCon tickets or not. Scary, no? Join us over on the our Ustream page at May 30, 2009 3:30 PM EDT , or you can jump after the break to see an embedded feed. And if you don’t make it, don’t worry — we had some unfortunate issues with all of the video last week, but I can guarantee that this week, our audio will be back in the feed ready for your ears on Monday.

Should be a lot of fun — we’ll see you on Saturday afternoon.

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Filed under: Tips, How-tos, Podcasting, Humor, Guides, Interviews, WoW Insider Show

WoW Insider Show live tomorrow featuring special guest host Kevin D. originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 29 May 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Who’s Watching Me in World of Warcraft is a short but absolutely wonderful video by Keenamor. It’s a parody of a very popular commercial floating around out there, so it probably needs no explanation to get set up. Keenamor was inspired by a similar video based in the Halo universe. He did all the voice acting himself, and claims the video was created spontaneously when the inspiration struck him.

Like I said, it’s short. Keenamor probably could have done fancier graphics, but I’m not sure that’s necessary. If you know the source material, then you’ll instantly recognize the joke. You don’t really need anymore explanation or fine-tuned images to get the punchilne.

Ultimately, it was funny, and I would LOL again. Click here to see it for yourself.

If you have any suggestions for WoW Moviewatch, you can mail them to us at machinima AT wowinsider DOT com.

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, WoW Moviewatch

WoW Moviewatch: Who’s Watching Me in World of Warcraft originally appeared on WoW.com on Fri, 29 May 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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