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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Vague Patch Notes: Being there or getting there in MMORPGs
Here's an interesting fact to consider: It took me ages to hit the level cap in Final Fantasy XI. Absolute ages. And no, it's...
World of Warcraft reveals Embers of Neltharion while planning for its next patch before the end of the month
First things first: If you're looking forward to World of Warcraft's patch 10.0.7, you won't have to wait a whole lot longer. The patch...
Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street leaves Riot – and the Runeterra MMO he was spearheading
Greg Street aka Ghostcrawler, formerly of Blizzard and World of Warcraft fame and lately of Riot Games, has apparently decided to leave Riot -...
The Daily Grind: Do you experience MMO ‘expansion endorphins’?
Back in December, MOP's Justin wrote an article about being excited to play World of Warcraft Dragonflight, and in that piece, he wondered whether...
Battle Bards Episode 222: World of Warcraft Dragonflight
Will our fascination with giant, skyfaring, flame-belching lizards subside? World of Warcraft bets not, as it’s currently soaring through its Dragonflight expansion. Will the...
One Shots: Welcome to your adorable nightmare
So where do you come down on the subject of Final Fantasy XIV's Lalafells? There's no middle ground here; either you're in love with...
Global Chat: How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine impacted EVE Online?
While the effects of real-world events on video games certainly isn't as important as the lives, livelihoods, and freedoms of actual people, it is...
World of Warcraft previews the new adventures on the Forbidden Reach in patch 10.0.7
Raszageth is gone in World of Warcraft. She's not here any more. But her legacy lives on... specifically, her legacy of being the reason...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft is just coasting down the mountain
In November 1994, Marvel Comics launched a new comic book spin-off from the main X-Men series. Generation X, written by Scott Lobdell, was in...
World of Warcraft previews the multiple variants of Orc and Human heritage armor coming with 10.0.7
While World of Warcraft is not a game lacking in playable races by any stretch of the imagination, Orcs and Humans are the two...
The Daily Grind: What has the MMO genre lost in its push to progress?
Having played both World of Warcraft retail and WoW Classic pretty extensively over the past few years, I can conclusively say that, for me,...
World of Warcraft level designer issues second printing of tell-all development tome
Back in 2018, we reported on a Kickstarted coffeetable book written by World of Warcraft's first 3-D level designer, John Staats. The published work...
The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA
Sharp minds will recall that back in 2012, EA Mythic attempted to turn its declining MMO fortunes by repackaging Warhammer Online into a MOBA...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t
A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...
WoW Factor: Does World of Warcraft need more classes?
So how many classes are there in World of Warcraft? There are wrong answers, but there's more than one right answer.
If your answer was...
Games startup Elodie Games announces Project Skies, a ‘social cooperative action RPG game’
At this point, we all see a press release from a new startup studio with tons of investment money touting devs from the likes...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO events are not for the high-level playerbase
Let me start with a statement of fact: I actually really like limited-time events in MMORPGs. I don't like them as a means of...
Design Mockument: In which we do not design World of Warcraft 2
Over the course of my professional writing career on this site and that site we used to run before AOL screwed us all over,...
World of Warcraft’s 2023 Mythic Dungeon International esports event begins this weekend with Dragonflight dungeons in tow
It's part speedrunning, part esports event, and all World of Warcraft dungeons. It's the 2023 season of the Mythic Dungeon International, which is set...
World of Warcraft datamining suggests patch 10.0.7 will arrive in early April
World of Warcraft's most recent expansion, Dragonflight, arrived in late November. So when is the next major patch arriving? Later. When is the next...
