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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Blizzard devs lament talent bleed and Diablo IV support capacity following return-to-office mandate
Last month, we reported on a producer for World of Warcraft who expressed his frustration about seeing developers leave Blizzard, saying the team has...
Perfect Ten: Romantic ideas for an MMO virtual date
While MMOs may not last forever -- or even a few years, in some cases -- the relationships forged in them can endure long...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 421: Beyond time and space
Justin and Bree discuss Star Trek Online Unraveled, SWTOR Old Wounds, Gamigo's move out of MMOs, Chrono Odyssey's reveal, EVE's 20th anniversary, LOTRO's new raid, and Villagers and Heroes' housing patch, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on WoW's wild lore.
World of Warcraft reviews Community Discord program following backlash over non-disparagement and tracking software clauses
On May 5th, Blizzard introduced a new feature on the European community site, the Community Discord program for World of Warcraft. The idea seems...
Lawful Neutral: What if Activision-Blizzard just… sold Blizzard?
Last week, Activision-Blizzard and Bobby Kotick got a bad surprise: The UK moved to block the acquisition of ABK by Microsoft, citing concerns over...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s content problems aren’t about quantity
So recently, we asked about what World of Warcraft could do to draw back players that it had lost. To be clear, that's a...
WoW Classic begins testing Trial of the Crusader today as Blizzard toys with ChatGPT
Why ask players what they want out of World of Warcraft when you could ask the fancy auto-complete tool known as ChatGPT? I assume...
Perfect Ten: What FFA PvP has to offer the MMO space
Before any of you look at the title, the author, and then at your screen again in disbelief, let me disabuse you of any...
The Soapbox: MMO housing is so much more than a frivolous feature
When The Sims launched in 2000, what seemed like a dull and laughable concept on paper proved to be one of the most compelling...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 420: The New, Mad World of Warcraft
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's content cadence, the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard buyout, Blizzard's messy financials, WoW's 10.1 patch, the end of forums for New World and Lost Ark, the death of a whole class in MapleStory, the messy launch of Mad World, and the surprise return of Fractured, plus adventures in LOTRO and Star Trek Online.
World of Warcraft patch 10.1, Embers of Neltharion, goes live today
It's just about time for some underground fun in World of Warcraft, depending on when you're reading this. Sure, Dragonflight has had a lot...
PSA: World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is now 40% off through May 15
So how are things going on the World of Warcraft team after the most recent set of financial results for Blizzard showed off that...
World of Warcraft shares patch notes for Embers of Neltharion and the May Trading Post rewards
Patch notes! Get your patch notes here! Piping hot patch notes for World of Warcraft! You want some Embers of Neltharion notes! Right here,...
WoW Factor: Dragonflight wasn’t a hit – so now what?
All right, let's be real and acknowledge that the recent Activision-Blizzard earning report did not say outright that World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was an out-and-out...
World of Warcraft’s Hazzikostas discusses cross-faction queued content and class combinations
Let's not bury the lede on this particular World of Warcraft Q&A with game director Ion Hazzikostas: Yes, the team is aware of the...
World of Warcraft’s Ion Hazzikostas discusses Mythic+ keystones, reputation, and communication
After today's surprise unpleasantness with the latest Activision-Blizzard financial report, it might be a touch surprising to see World of Warcraft's game director Ion...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2023: ABK revenues are up as Blizzard MAUs fall back down to reality
Activision blinked:Â Activision-Blizzard wasn't supposed to release its Q1 2023 financials until tomorrow after the bell, but it's just done it this morning out of...
Casually Classic: Eight legacy MMOs to satisfy that old school craving
It was just five years ago in 2018 that MassivelyOP formally recognized an interesting and heartening trend in the MMO space: the rise of...
That NetEase lawsuit against Blizzard turns out to have been a… bizarre clerical error?
Yesterday, we - and just about everyone else in the industry - picked up a Wowhead story about a lawsuit being lodged by NetEase...
The Daily Grind: How could Blizzard make World of Warcraft more appealing to former players?
Eliot's column about World of Warcraft feeling like a dead mall struck a chord with our commenters, many of whom agreed with the feels...
