the burning crusade

Official Site: The Burning Crusade
Relevance: The first World of Warcraft expansion.
Launch Date: January 15, 2007

See: World of Warcraft

Slightly disappointing context.

WoW Factor: Narrative justification for every missing class/race combo in World of Warcraft

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As I implied in a recent post about the most recent Ion Hazzikostas interview, the line about making sure that there was a narrative...
Chancu

WoW Factor: Everything we know about Embers of Neltharion – so far

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So at this point, we actually have a remarkably clear picture of what's going to be in the first major content patch for World...

Legendary World of Warcraft narrator Earl Boen dies at 81

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It's our sad duty today to inform you that Earl Boen passed away this week at the age of 81 after a battle with...
Those are people who died, died.

WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s mid-expansion endgame zone problem

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Hey gang, who wants to go explore new zones in Dragonflight? Does that sound exciting to you? That's great, and for the past several...

Blizzard says it’s still working on finding a new Chinese publisher for World of Warcraft

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Blizzard General Manager John Hight has posted a video and now a written message to Chinese players in the wake of last month's announcement...
she YELL

First impressions of World of Warcraft Dragonflight, part one: Direction and narrative

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While it's not really what will serve as a foundational component of my evaluation of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight as a whole, I think...
It makes sense, given the context.

Global Chat: Turkeys terrorize New World

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While y'all eat turkeys this week, in New World, the turkeys terrorize you! Heartless Gamer navigated the gobble massacre in excruciating detail. "Over all the...

Massively Overthinking: Changing ‘mains’ in MMOs

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When I first started MMOs, the idea of mains and alts was bizarre to me. Why would I spend time on a second character...
ARAT

Massively Overthinking: Do you take vacation time to play MMOs?

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Back when Amazon was busy merging several dozen Lost Ark servers, I saw a comment thread where people were grousing about being locked out...
SUUUUUUUUURGE

WoW Factor: Updating our World of Warcraft expansion data set with the Dragonflight release date

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Aw yeah, who likes math? I like math. I really like math, and you all know it, and you have to consistently sit there...
Yeah, this is a thing.

WoW Factor: Just be honest about what WoW Classic is now

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So here's something funny to consider: No matter what happens, Blizzard has collectively backed itself into a corner with World of Warcraft expansions over...

World of Warcraft devs discuss raids, PvP, and faction populations for Wrath Classic

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WoW Classic is back in the headlines again, looking forward to some of the server's next steps in a group discussion with devs and...
Surprised? Really?

WoW Factor: Optimal choices in MMO talent trees don’t justify removing them

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So there's this funny persistent thing that goes around when it comes to talent trees in World of Warcraft. A certain coalition of players...

Activision-Blizzard Q2 2022: More revenue dips for WoW, ABK, and Blizzard in spite of Diablo Immortal

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Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials. As of this afternoon, we have Q2's results, comprising April, May, and June 2022; let's...
A journey already taken.

WoW Factor: How Blizzard squandered the potential and desire for WoW Classic

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With the upcoming release of Wrath of the Lich King Classic, I think it's now completely fair to say that World of Warcraft took...

The Burning Crusade Classic gets new dungeon mechanics to make boosting more difficult

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Regardless of the version you like to play, World of Warcraft has a problem with boosting. On retail, that involves people getting higher ratings...

WoW Classic promises character transfers from Season of Mastery to Wrath Classic

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It's no secret that the WoW Classic team has been more invested in the fresh start Season of Mastery ruleset servers than Burning Crusade...
Unseen.

WoW Factor: Looking at Dragonflight’s release schedule with math

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It's been a really long time since we've gotten to have some math up ins. You know by this point that I really like...
It was a different time.

World of Warcraft begins Midsummer Fire Festival, WoW Classic previews new group finder

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Ah, the Midsummer Fire Festival in World of Warcraft, the time of year when everything feels like it's already on fire so you might...
mmm whatchu saaaaay

Perfect Ten: The stupid reasons I have had for sacrificing sleep for MMOs

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One of the most useful pieces of advice that I've gotten regarding making decisions for the future is also the simplest: Imagine yourself taking...

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