Official Site:Â World of Warcraft
Studio:Â Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date:Â November 23, 2014
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Perfect Ten: MMO novel tie-ins
When I was a kid and only slightly more nerdy than I am today, I used to read movie novelizations like crazy. I don't...
Global Chat: The verdict on Landmark
Landmark's launch hasn't gone unnoticed by the MMO blogging community. Several players have decided to use the game's official release as an opportunity to...
Battle Bards Episode 77: Spirit of Adventure 2
Steff has decreed the return of spirit of adventure -- and so it shall be! In the second part of this theme, the Battle...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 71: Falling to the Force
Justin, Bree, and Larry talk SWTOR's Dark vs. Light campaign, plus ESO, WoW, SOTA, WildStar's character boosts, EQII's $400 guild halls, and LOTRO's new raid, with a mailbag question on the Steam summer sale.
What the Titanforged gear will mean for World of Warcraft: Legion
World of Warcraft players recently got an eyeful of information about Titanforged items and how the game's item levels will work through Legion (and...
Nostalrius team releases vanilla World of Warcraft survey summary
The Nostalrius team's journey to Blizzard and back may be complete, but the details are still coming forth from the large player survey that...
Overwatch, League of Legends, and World of Warcraft top May Superdata charts
Probably no big surprise here, but according to Superdata Research in May, Blizzard and Riot Games are still kings of the online PC gaming...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever learned about major world news while playing an MMORPG?
Last week when news of Brexit took over the western world, a Star Citizen Redditor made a comment about the weirdness of learning that...
The Game Archaeologist talks to the Asheron’s Call super-fan
A little while back, I received a rather passionate email from Massively OP reader Diego regarding Asheron's Call. He had quite a lot to...
World of Warcraft devs want to bring more flavor to professions in Legion
A new expansion is as good an excuse as any to stir the pot and make big changes to an MMO, since players are...
Massively Overthinking: Is every MMORPG with a cash shop pay-to-win?
This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us from one of our dear Patreon Patrons, Duane.
"There seems to be an ever broadening attitude towards what...
World of Warcraft kicks off the Midsummer Fire Festival
Do you remember the heady days of this time last year, when World of Warcraft had a big meaty content patch dubbed "Patch 6.2"...
The MOP Up: League of Legends fights in-house toxicity (June 19, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
MMO Mechanics: Zonation and scaling mechanics in MMORPGs
The recent E3 hubub about The Elder Scrolls Online new level syncing mechanics being extended has got me thinking all about the mechanics behind zones in MMOs,...
One Shots: Cave art
True fact: One of the earliest attempts to screenshot the action in an MMORPG took place as prehistoric cave paintings in France. Another true...
The Game Archaeologist: The Shadow of Yserbius
Really, I blame my parents for not being filthy rich.
If they had been, we could've afforded the $130/month unlimited subscription fee to the ImagiNation...
World of Warcraft: Legion’s expansion cycle will be longer with more patches
Remember all of those times that Blizzard said that it was going to speed up the rate at which it produced World of Warcraft expansions?...
Blizzard introduces an incredibly simple one-button authenticator
When it comes to safety, people often weigh the security of taking preventive measures against the annoyance of having to use them. The more...
Guild Wars 2 debates deleting the Desert borderlands map, discusses raid boss fight
Guild Wars 2's fourth and final developer video on the Stronghold of the Faithful features ArenaNet Game Designer Jason Reynolds discussing the design of...
Global Chat: Which mobs do you love killing in MMOs?
Everyone has mobs that they particularly enjoy offing in MMORPGs -- sometimes so much so that we go out of our way to get...
