world of warcraft

Official Site: World of Warcraft
Studio: Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date: November 23, 2014
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

Global Chat: What’s World of Warcraft Cataclysm’s best zone?

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Wilhelm over at The Ancient Gaming Noob kicks off our tour of various MMO essays as he lists and ranks all of the zones...

Massively Overthinking: Has the term MMORPG become toxic?

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Back in 2016, when the MMORPG genre had just suffered a brutal one-two punch of losing EverQuest Next and the gutting of WildStar's team,...
when does the party start though

Casually Classic: World of Warcraft’s delves have real evergreen potential

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Ever since World of Warcraft released back in 2004, there's been an tension in this game between casual, solo play and hardcore group progression. It was...
It's a tiny little sprout thing. It might kill you.

Vague Patch Notes: The dark side of meaningful MMO leveling

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We've been in Leveling Month over here in Vague Patch Notes, and I had intended for this particular column to close off that discussion...
There were some decent tabletop Star Trek games, but no.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that let you bring a whole squad of pets and minions

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Pet classes are not really my jam. I don't want my companion to be doing the tanking or damage or healing or whatever, and...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 487: Give me Throne and Liberty

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Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty's launch, the new book on Blizzard, ArcheAge 2's morph into ArcheAge Chronicles, and New World Aeternum's impending release, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, plus a mailbag topic on MMO history and games preservation.

Google’s Waze app adds World of Warcraft’s Thrall voice for road navigation

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This news story really took me back to the first few years I had a smartphone: Before I even worked for OG Massively, I...

Microsoft’s latest game division layoffs affect nearly 400 Activision-Blizzard employees

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The second week of September brought more bad news for game workers in Microsoft, as the company confirmed another 650 layoffs were coming that...

One Shots: Even monsters should brush their teeth

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Imaginations being what they are, I've spent perhaps too much time thinking about what sentient monster lives are like when we're not beating the...
Among all the many, many ways you are terrible.

Jason Schreier’s new book blames Activision – and the Titan MMO’s cancelation – for Blizzard’s degradation

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When Blizzard president Mike Morhaime announced he was stepping down from his 27-year-run at the company back in 2018, he didn't give much of...
every day i owlin'

Massively Overthinking: Do you expect compensation for MMORPG trainwrecks?

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Earlier this week, Blizzard admitted that a major bug had resulted in serious and permanent data loss for some World of Warcraft players, including...
goop

Vague Patch Notes: When leveling too quickly becomes a problem in MMORPGs

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Last week, I talked about how slow leveling design could become a problem. In that piece (and the one before it - it's become...

Perfect Ten: The MMO races that nobody ever seems to choose

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Just because an MMORPG offers a wide array of character options doesn't mean that player interest will be equally divided among them. We've long...

WoW Classic puts up the patch notes for Season of Discovery Phase 5’s trio of raids

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When Thursday arrives, nothing in WoW Classic will ever be the same... again. Well, that's if you're on the Season of Discovery server, which...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 486: Amazon’s daring October gambits

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Justin and Bree discuss Throne & Liberty's early access, World of Warcraft's data loss fiasco, SWTOR's Mac client, Guild Wars 2's new PvP mode, Pantheon's December early access, and New World's Aeternum and season, with adventures in GW2, WoW, and LOTRO.
Have some stuff.

The Daily Grind: Have you ever bumped into anyone in real life who plays your MMO?

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My husband just started up his fall semester, and every year he gets new students to advise. This year, he found out his newest...

World of Warcraft data loss fiasco deletes items out of guild banks – and Blizzard can’t fully restore them

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What can be worse than a bank being plundered by thieves? It's when that vault is robbed by the very game code that's supposed...

WoW Classic returns to Blackwing Lair and Zul’Gurub for Season of Discovery Phase 5

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The endgame of the endgame is almost here for World of Warcraft Classic's Season of Discovery servers, as Phase 5 heads our way next Thursday,...
Gosh, that was a mistake.

The Daily Grind: What’s your preferred MMO combat playstyle (as opposed to class or role)?

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MMO classes don't merely have to be divided into the traditional tank/DPS/healer categories. There are plenty of other ways to separate classes and even...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO memories we never want to repeat

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A random quote I saw buried in the comments on the MMORPG subreddit a while ago really hit hard. Extra_Midnight wrote, "Some of my most...

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