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 is considering WoW Classic Cataclysm, according to new survey
We are not even to the official launch of Wrath Classic, but Blizzard Entertainment apparently is already considering the next steps for the legacy...
Massively Overthinking: Have you ever returned to an old MMO and fallen in love?
Earlier this month, MOP's Eliot penned a WoW Factor that doesn't quote but certainly does evoke the ol' Heraclitus quote about how you cannot...
Get ready for Wrath Classic with global release schedule, survival guide
Crazy queues and jam-packed servers or no, Wrath Classic will hit our world (of warcraft) in a little over a week from now. The...
World of Warcraft Classic opens new fresh start realms, offers free transfers to relieve population crush
The chaos and crush of incoming players for Wrath Classic's prepatch has resulted in a bevy of emergency measures by Blizzard. As some servers...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 388: Elyon descends through finite care
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic's Wrath pre-patch, New World's new servers, Elyon's sunset, Bless Unleashed's sunset, EVE Online Uprising, Star Trek Online's Wil Wheaton, and Temtem's launch, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and SWG Legends, with a lightning round of MMO questions from the mailbag.
World of Warcraft adds the option to place more Fated modifiers onto raids if you want
Some people just like making things harder on themselves. They see games like Dark Souls 3 and say, "Yeah, this is pretty hard... but...
WoW Classic’s abruptly started Zombie Plague event is already over
Last Friday night, the WoW Classic servers experienced some unexpected timing for its Scourge Invasion event, with the whole affair starting off hours ahead...
The Game Archaeologist: The legacy of Ultima Online
Last week in The Game Archaeologist, we traced the history of Ultima Online’s origin, development, and testing -- not to mention one pesky in-game...
One Shots: A line-up of champions
You know that you've finally made it as a bona fide hero when you are asked to line up in a dramatic group pose....
Wrath Classic servers unexpectedly experience the Scourge Invasion ahead of schedule
In one of those "happy accidents" that Bob Ross liked to talk about, WoW Classic's servers experienced what's described by the devs as "a...
Massively Overthinking: The weirdest ways we’ve leveled in MMOs
One of my favor flavors of fluff post we do occasionally is report on folks who have accomplished fame by leveling "wrong" in MMOs,...
WoW Factor: What makes World of Warcraft in particular appealing?
I've been covering MMOs professionally for about 13 years now. That's a long while. And it's kind of strange to me that I've been...
Vague Patch Notes: The MMORPG industry shockwaves that still reverberate
A thought occurred to me the other day regarding World of Warcraft and the way that it deformed the MMO industry: People who are...
World of Warcraft plops Dragonflight’s pre-patch with talent and UI overhaul on the PTR
If sitting in interminable queues for WoW Classic isn't bringing you joy, how about doing some scouting and testing for that other fall World...
Blizzard begs WoW Classic players to transfer away from queues as tech can’t resolve capacity chaos
As we've been noting for the last week, the WoW Classic Wrath of the Lich King pre-patch launch hasn't gone to plan, largely thanks...
Global Chat: How can MMOs help us navigate better?
Contains Moderate Peril recently tackled a subject that is very near to my heart, which is the tools, difficulty, and art of navigating around...
Perfect Ten: Recent promising MMOs that died before they were born
Is there anything more agonizing to an MMO fan than to get excited about a promising title and then see that title cancelled before...
World of Warcraft Classic players are still dealing with server queues even after a week
It would be a pretty safe assumption to make that players of WoW Classic are eager for the Wrath of the Lich King expansion's...
World of Warcraft players freak out about what they thought was a spirit healer change
World of Warcraft players sent a weird and confusing message to Blizzard this week: You can change our classes, you can change our UI,...
The Game Archaeologist: How Ultima Online got made
You know how there’s that yokel in every global chat channel that likes to troll players by claiming that World of Warcraft was the...
