Blizzard has partnered with actual property web site Zillow to create Zillow for Warcraft, a goofy Zillow-like web site supposed to advertise the sport’s new participant housing function with humor, info, and a free in-game merchandise.
The web site, accessible at zillowforwarcraft.com or zillow.com/warcraft, is, to be clear, a goof. In the meanwhile, it would not appear to be exhibiting off precise homes constructed by actual gamers. It as a substitute has a curated choice of each Horde and Alliance properties that appear to be supposed extra to supply inspiration to gamers engaged on their very own properties than something. Apart from, it is not like you may truly purchase another person’s totally constructed and embellished home within the recreation, anyway.
The web site is cute, although. It is obtained a handful of totally different housing choices on totally different plots in each the Horde and Alliance neighborhoods to skim via, with humorous descriptions of decor choices and, frankly, some fairly good concepts that I hadn’t actually thought of for my very own rustic shack. You are guided via the web site by Bek’tar Donhammar and Hazyl Fizzlehorn, two fictional Azerothian actual property brokers who every have their very own profiles with “evaluations” from happy clients, all rife with in-jokes.
The principle motive you may care to go to the web site, although, is to get the free merchandise. For those who hyperlink your battle.internet account, you will get a free “Naturally Elegant Doormat” which can present up within the in-game mail after the actual fact and develop into out there for use in adorning your home. It isn’t a unhealthy doormat! Well worth the, like, 4 clicks it takes to get it. After you have one, you too can purchase extra copies of it from Tuuran and Gabbi close to the Buying and selling Posts in Stormwind and Orgrimmar, in case you need a home simply full of mats.
Maybe much more pleasant than simply clicking round on the web site although are some of the participant reactions to the function. In a Reddit thread in regards to the announcement, a quantity of people have popped in to supply nice snark in regards to the crossover, usually combined in with commentary about how costly real-life homes are these days.
“final offered in ‘88 for 49,000, now going for 449,000, cool cool cool,” reads the top comment by u/Helios420A
“Hasn’t had work finished since Blackhand was Warchief,” writes u/Thesleek
“Does this imply blackrock will by some means become involved subsequent?” asked u/notmyworkaccount5, making a very well-placed pun on BlackRock Inc, the funding firm, and Blackrock, the World of Warcraft orc clan.
Now that I’ve my doormat, I’ll proceed to log in and rearrange my lounge for the umpteenth time, losing a number of hours earlier than lastly admitting I’ll by no means make something as magical because the Ban’ethil Bohemian, and return to including spikes to my roof.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Obtained a story tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.