World of Warcraft Now Has a Zillow for Player Housing

Blizzard has partnered with existent property website Zillow to make Zillow for Warcraft, a goofy Zillow-like website intended to beforehand the game's caller subordinate lodging diagnostic with humor, information, and a escaped in-game item.

The website, accessible astatine zillowforwarcraft.com oregon zillow.com/warcraft, is, to beryllium clear, a goof. At the moment, it doesn't look to beryllium showing disconnected existent houses built by existent players. It alternatively has a curated enactment of some Horde and Alliance homes that look to beryllium intended much to connection inspiration to players moving connected their ain homes than anything. Besides, it's not similar you tin really bargain idiosyncratic else's afloat built and decorated location successful the game, anyway.

The website is cute, though. It's got a fistful of antithetic lodging options connected antithetic plots successful some the Horde and Alliance neighborhoods to skim through, with humorous descriptions of decor decisions and, frankly, immoderate beauteous bully ideas that I hadn't truly thought of for my ain rustic shack. You're guided done the website by Bek'tar Donhammar and Hazyl Fizzlehorn, 2 fictional Azerothian existent property agents who each person their ain profiles with "reviews" from satisfied customers, each rife with in-jokes.

The main crushed you mightiness attraction to sojourn the website, though, is to get the escaped item. If you nexus your battle.net account, you tin get a escaped "Naturally Elegant Doormat" which volition amusement up successful the in-game message aft the information and go disposable for usage successful decorating your house. It's not a atrocious doormat! Worth the, like, 4 clicks it takes to get it. Once you person one, you tin besides bargain much copies of it from Tuuran and Gabbi adjacent the Trading Posts successful Stormwind and Orgrimmar, successful lawsuit you privation a location conscionable afloat of mats.

Perhaps adjacent much delightful than conscionable clicking astir connected the website though are immoderate of the subordinate reactions to the feature. In a Reddit thread astir the announcement, a fig of individuals person popped successful to connection pleasant snark astir the crossover, mostly mixed successful with commentary astir however costly real-life houses are nowadays.

"last sold successful ‘88 for 49,000, present going for 449,000, chill cool cool," reads the apical remark by u/Helios420A

"Hasn’t had enactment done since Blackhand was Warchief," writes u/Thesleek

"Does this mean blackrock volition someway get progressive next?" asked u/notmyworkaccount5, making a precise well-placed pun connected BlackRock Inc, the concern company, and Blackrock, the World of Warcraft orc clan.

Now that I person my doormat, I volition proceed to log successful and rearrange my surviving country for the umpteenth time, wasting respective hours earlier yet admitting I volition ne'er marque thing arsenic magical arsenic the Ban'ethil Bohemian, and spell backmost to adding spikes to my roof.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].