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This plan sure worked!

WoW Factor: The mulligan problem in World of Warcraft’s narrative

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In World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, Illidan Stormrage gets killed. This isn't actually a surprising end for the character. Illidan as a person...
Get back.

WoW Factor: Blizzard started listening to World of Warcraft players for a reason its leadership doesn’t want to say

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I have a few different conflicting thoughts when it comes to the most recent interview with World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas, or...
The outfits are an oddly mixed bag.

World of Warcraft’s Ion Hazzikostas reflects on a ‘a time of introspection and reexamination’ for the MMORPG

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World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas has a lot to say regarding the changes that the game's development staff is making moving forward...
The gates are closed to me.

WoW Factor: Is The War Within going to be ready for its launch?

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The surprise announcement of the date for World of Warcraft: The War Within prompted what I'm sure is a lovely reader with a large...
Ominous.

WoW Factor: The streak The War Within needs to break for World of Warcraft

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On November 13th, 2008, World of Warcraft's second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, was released to an eager population. The prior expansion, The...

Second Wind: World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight story dragonflies right off a cliff

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We come now to the third part of our four-part Second Wind series on revisiting World of Warcraft after quitting at the end of...
Chancu

WoW Factor: Guessing at World of Warcraft’s The War Within’s release date using math

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Oh yeah. It's time. I actually have some thoughts to share about World of Warcraft's current Remix leveling event, which are complicated and multilayered...
Slightly disappointing context.

WoW Factor: How World of Warcraft makes you cheer for removing features

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Yesterday, MOP's Justin wrote a column about The Elder Scrolls Online that detailed its key virtues. It's a good column, and one of the...

World of Warcraft GDC presentation claims ‘record post-launch stability and growth’ for Dragonflight

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The World of Warcraft community is abuzz about a new Blizzard GDC 2024 presentation that relays some trends -- if not specific numbers --...
It just keeps happening.

WoW Factor: Steve Danuser was not really the problem with World of Warcraft

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So I don't want to sit here and say "oh, things were going so great" before the news that Steve Danuser had actually left...
SUUUUUUUUURGE

WoW Factor: Evaluating World of Warcraft’s 2023 progress and performance

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So 2023 is not completely in the rear view yet, but at least in terms of major developments for World of Warcraft we can...

Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions

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We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...
I circle the waterfront, I'm watching the sea.

WoW Factor: Just by existing, the Worldsoul Saga delivers something World of Warcraft desperately needed

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Last week, I argued that a lot of the elements of World of Warcraft: The War Within that at least sound good on paper....
hey girl

BlizzCon 2023: Everything we learned about The War Within in World of Warcraft’s What’s Next panel

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This year's opening ceremony for BlizzCon did not feature the usual kickoff of a new major World of Warcraft reveal followed by a lengthy...
NO NEXT THING

Vague Patch Notes: Default MMORPG genre features change over time, and that’s OK

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I want you to picture a nonexistent MMO in your head right now. Not one that hasn't released yet; one that hasn't even been...
This is not hard to do.

WoW Factor: The dungeon finder really did muck up World of Warcraft’s leveling – but not the way you’re thinking

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So if you missed Justin's recent column, he mentioned how bad leveling feels these days in World of Warcraft and some of the reasons...
Meh.

WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s exhausting constant hype cycle

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When I saw that there was an event happening on Thursday for World of Warcraft's next patch, I had to do a double-take. I...
SUUUUUUUUURGE

WoW Factor: Long-shot potential additions for World of Warcraft’s next expansion

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Last time we were here, I wound up just talking about potential class and race additions for the next World of Warcraft expansion. As...
Through the fire and the flames

WoW Factor: Potential destinations for the next World of Warcraft expansion

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We have a BlizzCon coming up in November. This strikes me as a phenomenally bad idea, like someone proposed it in a meeting to...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: Every expansion era of World of Warcraft ranked

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For a long time, I have been considering this particular column just because, well, it's an obvious one. If you have a column whose...

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