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Massively Overthinking: The minority playerbases inside MMORPGs

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Earlier this week, World of Warcraft Lead Game Designer Ion "Watcher" Hazzikostas weighed in on a player thread about Legion's in-game prices in a...

World of Warcraft offers a slew of activities in July

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With summer in full swing and plenty of people out of school and enjoying vacations, World of Warcraft figures that it had better darn...

World of Warcraft acknowledges ’emotional response’ to flying controversy

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The full story on Blizzard's decision and subsequent reappraisal of grounding flying mounts in World of Warcraft is still being revealed. In a new...

World of Warcraft: No flying in Draenor, perhaps forever

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World of Warcraft player pilots are officially grounded for the indefinite future. Lead Designer Ion Hazzikostas said that while Blizzard was originally looking at turning...

World of Warcraft dev attributes subscriber drop to ‘cyclical’ play patterns

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Losing three million subscribers? That might be a big thing to some people, but for World of Warcraft Lead Game Designer Ion Hazzikostas, it...

The factionless WoW player dings level 100

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World of Warcraft Shaman Doubleagent made headlines a year ago for leveling his Pandaren up to 80 and then 90 without ever choosing a faction. Now...

World of Warcraft dev spills the secrets of Patch 6.1

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We can't blame World of Warcraft fans for being in an excitement tizzy (that's a thing, right?) over the upcoming Patch 6.1, as it...

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