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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Global Chat: Are we gaming in the ‘Age of Diablo?’
With Diablo II's remake on the market, Diablo III's continuing seasons, Diablo Immortal's patches, and Diablo IV on the way this summer, it's not...
One Shots: Stop clowning around
Sometimes the music compels you. Sometimes people won't stop throwing peanuts at you until you do a jig for them. And sometimes you get...
WoW Factor: Narrative justification for every missing class/race combo in World of Warcraft
As I implied in a recent post about the most recent Ion Hazzikostas interview, the line about making sure that there was a narrative...
World of Warcraft will remove the Pathfinder requirement for Battle for Azeroth flight in patch 10.0.7
Inside of you are two wolves. One of them wants to be able to fly in Battle for Azeroth areas in World of Warcraft...
WoW Classic’s permadeath community may be prompting Blizzard to create a new ruleset
While the thrill and buzz around WoW Classic has fallen off sharply in the past half-year, there's a segment that's actually on the rise...
Massively Overthinking: When is localization itself the kiss of death for an imported MMORPG?
Last week, when I was poking around the internet trying to understand why Amazon was still making excuses for de-sexualizing some Lost Ark characters...
Vague Patch Notes: How WildStar’s first dungeon killed me
This is the story of a girl who ran a dungeon in WildStar's world, and while it looks all right in photographs, I absolutely...
WoW Classic makes it tougher to roll a Death Knight thanks to ‘malicious behavior’
Blizzard is rolling back one of its big changes that came with Wrath Classic, and Death Knight fans may not be too happy to...
Perfect Ten: 10 pieces of striking MMO cover art
Earlier this year, MMO Folklorist posted a rather intriguing article about the 10 best MMO box art designs -- at least in his opinion....
World of Warcraft promises more race-class combos, discusses affixes, cross-faction guilds, and cadence
Do you want more class and race combinations in World of Warcraft? Possibly the additional ones we already know exist, like Night Elf Paladins...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 413: Kentucky fried gaming
Justin and Bree discuss Bellatores, Final Fantasy XIV, Ghostcrawler and the Riot MMO, WoW's patches, Diablo IV's promos, and Star Citizen, with adventures in LOTRO, Star Trek Online, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on humble characters and healer aesthetics.
Former Trion boss Scott Hartsman illuminates the rise and fall of RIFT
Yesterday, we ran an editorial from MOP's Tyler focused on his reasoning that MMOs are better off showcasing their own special attributes than tearing...
The Soapbox: Hating on the competition is no way to promote an MMO
Recently, RIFTÂ was back in the news, offering free subscription time to new and returning players. While I salute Gamigo's generosity here, whenever the topic...
The Daily Grind: What could MMO studios do to add value to their subscriptions?
When Blizzard first announced World of Warcraft's trading post and yet didn't actually include anything particularly objectionable, pay-to-win, or RMT, I thought it seemed...
One Shots: Apparent trap
Against all odds, Scott found a doppelganger inside a fantasy world. And if movies have taught me anything, what follows will either be a...
WoW Factor: Everything we know about Embers of Neltharion – so far
So at this point, we actually have a remarkably clear picture of what's going to be in the first major content patch for World...
Interview: The Wayfinder team on group size, customization, monetization, and more
Perhaps you're interested in Wayfinder because you like the idea of a small-group dungeon-running game published by Digital Extremes. (The studio made another game...
Here’s how World of Warcraft is tweaking PvP in Embers of Neltharion
Hey PvPers, how's Dragonflight treating you so far? The World of Warcraft team is pretty happy with it for the most part, though Blizzard...
Massively Overthinking: The FOMO in our MMOs
World of Warcraft has become a very dump-on-able game lately, and Blizzard isn't making it any harder, as a tweet the company sent out...
World of Warcraft gives every inactive account free Dragonflight access for the weekend
So, how's World of Warcraft: Dragonflight doing? Well, the game is running a promotional campaign this weekend offering expansion access to every inactive account...
