Hot Topic introduces new WoW merchandise, cute model
by Michael Sacco 
Dec 17th 2009 at 5:00PM
Included among the many newcomers to the line are "spray-painted" Alliance and Horde logo shirts, faction insignia wallets, Starcraft II and Diablo III shirts, hoodies with a neat piece of art depicting an Alliance/Horde battle (replete with male model rocking a worrisome mustache) and, for the ladies in your life, a cute purple "Fight Like a Girl" t-shirt with a set of the highly feminine night elf hunter and blood elf paladin. That's right -- now you too can have a qtbelf on your chest, or the chest of a female WoWer near and dear to your heart. As long as she's a size small or medium, anyway. The other sizes are sold out.
Speaking of near and dear to my heart, that model! Aye aye aye. For her, if that shirt was available in mens' sizes, I'd buy it even if it said "I play as a female character in World of Warcraft." I mean, I do. Several of them, but. You know. Still.
All the new pieces are available at HotTopic.com or at your local Hot Topic store. Remember, those places are guarded by level 14 elite scenesters. Bring friends.
Filed under: Tailoring, Odds and ends, Blizzard, News items, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
epik.phailure.gamer Dec 17th 2009 5:05PM
You should have no provided the links... I think we broke their website. At the time this was wrote their website reads:
Hey Everyone,
Due to scheduled maintenance, you'll experience some interruption when visiting hottopic.com.
Kind of a pain, we know.
Have no fear! We're just working to make your shopping experience even better.
If you have any questions, please phone us anytime at 1.800.892.8674 (international +1.626.709.1189).
Thank you for your patience!
Barinthos Dec 17th 2009 5:12PM
"Do to SCHEDULED maintenance"
If wow.com broke it it wouldn't really be scheduled.
Mutak Dec 17th 2009 5:15PM
What sounds better to your bosses:
Scheduled maintenance just happened to coincide with the time when WoW.com pimped our products - we didn't know they were about to run that story.
or
Our webserver broke because we never imagined more than a few dozen people at a time would want to buy our crap online.
SithLlenniuq Dec 17th 2009 5:16PM
OMG, It was a joke.
Really, as I copied and pasted that, I did not read nor understand what I read. Neither am I working on a PhD in I.T. So I can not comprehend what the words "Scheduled Maintenance" mean.
Serious. IT WAS A JOKE.
LMFAO at Captain Obvious pointing out the... obvious.
jealouspirate Dec 17th 2009 5:16PM
This kind of stuff is always happening when wow.com advertises wow related sites. We overpopulate them and destroy them!
Conclusion?
My "promoting" other wow-related sites, the real goal of wow.com is ultimately to destroy them, thereby eliminating their competition. We, the readers, are their the vessels of their destruction and the instruments of their victory.
Rohannor Dec 17th 2009 5:26PM
Somewhere, in a room full of servers, some guy who does IT for HotTopic just turned to his buddy and asked... "Dude?"
His buddy responded with a solemn "Dude."
Jamus Dec 17th 2009 5:29PM
Holy Internal Server Error, Batman!
...I don't think they're coming back up anytime soon, but for a shopping website you'd think they can handle spike traffic better than this...
Bunnah Dec 17th 2009 6:02PM
No worries, they're just further promoting World of Warcraft by imitating "scheduled maintenance." Someone just needs to clue them in that they're supposed to do that on Tuesdays, not Thursdays.
Supdawg herd u liek kipz Dec 31st 2009 3:44PM
Wow.
We just move from site to site, devouring all dataz and memoryz in our path and then move on to the next site.
We are like freaking viruses to sites.
Matrix reference, but a bloody literal one.
Also, lol at all the "I think wow.com broke it" when we're the ones actually going on to the site.
Its like a fat girl blaming the person who sent her to the park when the see-saw brakes.
Lastly, one the topic of big girls, why are all the L and XL shirts for females sold out?
Especially considering that the main consumers of these shirts are WoW players :S
turkchris Dec 17th 2009 5:06PM
But of course the site is down!
Warvanov Dec 17th 2009 5:07PM
Did wow.com break hot topic's website? Their site is down.
reillymarkw Dec 17th 2009 5:09PM
Breaking even commercial sites now … that's pretty impressive.
Tori Dec 17th 2009 5:09PM
Lmao, we broke it. xD
Sippa Dec 31st 2009 3:44PM
Gz, you broke it.
(Reference to trying to get on a non-existing page on the blizzcon site, go ahead try it out ;)
t0xic Dec 17th 2009 5:11PM
"Speaking of near and dear to my heart, that model! Aye aye aye. For her, if that shirt was available in mens' sizes, I'd buy it even if it said "I play as a female character in World of Warcraft." I mean, I do. Several of them, but. You know. Still."
Easy there captain hormone. Your belf is showing.
(for the record I have 4 belf 80s, so I can say this =)
Ranguskhan Dec 17th 2009 5:14PM
"That's right -- now you too can have a qtbelf on your chest, or the chest of a female WoWer near and dear to your heart. As long as she's a size small or medium, anyway. The other sizes are sold out."
I lol'd at the thought of a horde of nerd big 'uns.
Erikr Dec 17th 2009 5:16PM
More like Insanely hot model...
Hangk Dec 17th 2009 5:17PM
Hoookay... you boys have at her. She looks to me like the product of an unholy union between a vat of eyeliner and an eating disorder.
elvendude Dec 17th 2009 5:39PM
I have to agree with Hangk. I didn't actually *look* at the image until after I'd read the "really hot" part, then I went..."Really?"
Not my cup of tea. If she weren't wearing any makeup, that might be a different matter. I despise makeup on a woman.
Eddy Dec 17th 2009 5:42PM
I think she's doing a sort of faux-anime girl-cutsey look with her eyes and it is really not as flattering as I think she thinks it is. D: