Last Thursday the time finally came to set sail for Northrend, as the new expansion of World of Warcraft released. To celebrate the release and give players the opportunity to start playing wow the second it came out, Blizzard organized big release parties around Europe. At these release parties, which were held in Rotterdam, Paris, Madrid, London, Berlin and Stockholm, you could buy WotLK at 0.00h. Besides that there were also some events and various things going on. Wednesday morning I decided that the event would actually make a good cover article for the Arisen Times (or Azure Times, or Stormreaver Chronicles). So I called Dennis to come help me, borrowed my dad’s camera and talked to a friend from school in an attempt to learn to shoot photo’s in 4 hours.
That night me and Dennis took the 10 o’clock train to Rotterdam. Finally at the event place it was still a bit quiet. There was a crowd but it was not stacked with people like I expected. There were screens displaying WotLK movies and music and free fries. All in all not very exciting (although free fries omnomnom), but we took some pictures anyway. We decided to go for a beer and come back later. When we came back they had just started a Question round for a developer, a cosplay competition and a small quiz. All hosted by dutch pop game crew Gamekings. However the sound was too low to actually hear what they were saying.
When the time finally came closer people started counting down and… Bang! Glittery explosions of even more glitters and epic music. It was pretty cool in fact.
Comedic relief came when we looked at the video screens wel…. look for yourself 
