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Was J. Allen Brack right about fans not wanting WoW Classic?
It was back in 2013 that now-Blizzard President J. Allen Brack issued his infamously condescending line of "You think you do, but you don't"...
Visions of N’Zoth boosted World of Warcraft subs, but it’s lost tons since WoW Classic’s 2019 peak
SuperData's January 2020 games industry revenue rankings are up, with only mild shakeups since December 2019. On the PC side, Red Dead Redemption 2 dropped...
Leaderboard: Four months after the Blitzchung Hong Kong mess, are you still boycotting Blizzard?
MOP reader Pepperzine recently dropped us an email about Blizzard that we've put off until today very intentionally. Why? Because tomorrow, Activision-Blizzard releases its...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2019
When we sit back to look at the biggest headlines of the year, we don't have to look far. These are the stories that...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2019
It's long-since become a multi-year and fun tradition on Massively OP to do an end-of-year recap of the best and worst MMO dev quotes...
J. Allen Brack says the Blitzchung incident ‘exposed some immaturity’ in Blizzard
It's a bit long in the tooth now with BlizzCon well behind us, but the Esports Observer published an interview with Blizzard's J. Allen...
BlizzCon 2019: Here’s Blizzard’s apology for its Hearthstone esports disaster
Blizzard's Hearthstone Hong Kong fiasco was very much on our minds this morning as the Massively OP team prepared for BlizzCon, and we were...
Mike Morhaime waxes nostalgic about the crunch of early Blizzard
Do you miss Mike Morhaime? The former Blizzard president stepped off the main stage last fall as he handed the reins of the studio...
Blizzard’s Mike Morhaime will leave planned advisory role in April
Back in October, Blizzard announced that Mike Morhaime was stepping down as president of the company after 27 years working there. While World of...
Mike Morhaime steps down as Blizzard president; J Allen Brack takes over
Looks like there's a changing of the guard over at Activision Blizzard: The company just announced that World of Warcraft Executive Producer J. Allen...
World of Warcraft Classic progresses: ‘This is the right decision’
Desperate for some World of Warcraft Classic news now that the BlizzCon high has faded? Forbes has an interview up with Blizzard Executive Producer...
World of Warcraft Classic announcement sends shockwaves through the vanilla emulator community
As the World of Warcraft community grapples with the surprise BlizzCon announcement of a classic server, one subset of players in particular are feeling...
BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft’s classic server will be a ‘massive effort’
In the process of picking yourself up off of the floor following Friday's announcement of World of Warcraft Classic at BlizzCon 2017? As your...
BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft ‘Classic’ finally delivers on legacy servers
World of Warcraft delivered a jaw-dropping surprise to its loyal community with an amazing announcement at this weekend's BlizzCon. Blizzard took to the stage...
The Daily Grind: Would you play Blizzard’s idea of a ‘pristine’ WoW server?
Yesterday's big news in the ongoing Nostalrius saga was a message from Blizzard's J. Allen Brack, who suggested to players that in lieu of...
Blizzard responds to vanilla WoW server requests, considers ‘pristine realms’
The shutdown of the Nostalrius private server happened some time ago, but the debate it started hasn't stopped, and today the World of Warcraft...
