Watching Blizzard: No naps for you (Patreon)

Hey! You there! Wake up! After the craziness (and bugginess) of yesterday's pre-order hype and Allied Race rollout, today's been pretty quiet. (Well, as quiet as it can be to the sound of Blizzard's bug-stomping boots.) Here's what's been happening today.

Bugs, bugs, and more bugs

• You're now less likely to see a black character screen after logging in. I haven't had any trouble today, but if you do, try waiting it out. Sometimes characters just take a long time to load.
• Mac client crashes are gone in the latest patch. As a Mac user myself, I completely approve of this one.
• But you may still be seeing multiple charges if you tried to buy Battle for Azeroth yesterday. They should go away soon.

Your new character slots are here!

• In good news for everyone who couldn't roll a new Allied Race due to character limits, everyone — whether they've pre-purchased Battle for Azeroth or not — now has four additional character slots. 

The latest from the battlefront

• Datamining has brought us a ton of new info about the Zandalari... but beware, because spoilers abound.
• Updated models bring new life to old friends. Farewell, polygon prairie dog.

Hearthstone won't be left out of the excitement

• Starting tomorrow, a Hearthstone contest could give you a mountain of new cards. No, I mean it, a literal (virtual) mountain. One grand prize winner will get 3,000 packs, a thousand winners will receive 30 packs each, and 50,000 winners will receive 3 packs each. All you have to do to enter is complete quests in Hearthstone, so why not?
• PC Gamer did a neato feature on Ben Brode talking about how he came to be the face of Hearthstone. (Which is worth visiting for the photos of 2003-era Ben Brode looking very confused. It's pretty precious.)
• Be ready, because the card nerfs we learned about earlier this week should be going live soon. I'm looking forward to not being steamrolled by Priest decks.

That's all for now, but we'll see you right back here tomorrow with more news. (Or maybe more nap time! Who can say?)