Official Site: The Burning Crusade
Relevance: The first World of Warcraft expansion.
Launch Date:Â January 15, 2007
See: World of Warcraft
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WoW Factor: What the Season of Mastery says about WoW Classic
The fracturing has begun. That's what sticks out to me when I look at WoW Classic's Season of Mastery limited-time experiment.
Obviously, this is not entirely...
WoW Classic allows some free character transfers on legacy shards
Player characters who decided to stay on WoW Classic's "Classic Era" realms after Burning Crusade Classic came out this past summer knew they had...
World of Warcraft brings Brewfest around once more in both retail and The Burning Crusade
Do you feel like celebrating right now in World of Warcraft? No, not so much? Can't imagine why. Let's try a different question: Do you...
World of Warcraft promotes Overlords of Outland and Shadowlands 9.1.5 as labor organizers take the fight to Activision-Blizzard
The Blizzard currently pumping out videos, timelines, and recaps of impending content is not really a Blizzard we recognize, but uh, it's definitely happening....
WoW Classic’s upcoming LFG tool boasts a big improvement
While the modern version of World of Warcraft's looking for group tool really got going in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, many...
Perfect Ten: The top 10 non-traditional MMO fantasy races
Elves. Dwarves. Humans. Halflings. Gnomes. Hobbits. Dark elves. High elves. Half-elves. Wood elves. Keebler elves. Elvish impersonators.
Are you as tired as I am of...
Activision-Blizzard Day 14: Brack and Meschuk exits, fraud lawsuit, proto-union, and Q2 financials
It's been a helluva Tuesday in the swamps of the Activision-Blizzard sexism scandal: The day opened with the departure of J. Allen Brack from...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2021: Activision revenues are up, Blizzard MAUs are down amid sexism scandal
Back in May, we got quite a bit of unexpected attention here at MassivelyOP as the headline for our coverage of Activision-Blizzard's Q1 2021...
Craig Morrison announces his departure from Blizzard
It's time for the departure of yet another name you might recognize from Blizzard, but you might recognize him from other projects as well....
Casually Classic: Making the call to quit WoW or not
A week ago I didn't think I'd be sitting here and writing this, but I'm done with WoW Classic -- and with this column.
As...
Casually Classic: Why it’s so good to Zangarmarsh and chill in WoW Classic
Burning Crusade's Outland shows all the hallmarks of being a playground for developers to flex and try new things. I always was amused at...
Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s Burning Crusade entry ditch
With this year's Burning Crusade Classic, the dynamics of leveling in WoW Classic shifted just as they did originally. Before Burning Crusade came along...
The Game Archaeologist: Why 2008 was one of the wildest years for MMORPGs
In the relatively short history of MMORPGs so far, there have been a few years that I would say were watershed moments for the...
Massively Overthinking: Which of the summer MMO launches captured your time and attention?
OK folks: We're in the thick of summer now, a summer that's seen an endless parade of MMO launches, mobile ports, expansions, classic servers,...
Casually Classic: Why WoW Classic progression should end after Wrath of the Lich King
Considering that we are just in the early months of Burning Crusade Classic, I think it might be both premature and presumptuous to be...
Casually Classic: What retail WoW could (re)learn from Burning Crusade Classic’s class progression
Now that we're weeks into Burning Crusade Classic, players are discovering that despite many antiquated design elements, this expansion is still a whole lot...
WoW Classic triggers Burning Crusade’s first arena season
It's finally time for World of Warcraft Classic to step into a new (old) era of PvP, as the legacy MMO activated the first...
Casually Classic: What if you don’t want to raid in WoW Classic Burning Crusade?
If I had to sum up what my WoW Classic guild is doing in these first few weeks of Burning Crusade, it would be...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 325: The bards sing of Palia
Justin, Carlo, and Bree discuss Elyon, Swords of Legends Online, WoW Classic Burning Crusade, Elder Scrolls Online Blackwood, Aion Classic, Crowfall, Trove, Neverwinter, and Palia, with a mailbag topic on spiritual successors and Guild Wars vs. Guild Wars 2.
Casually Classic: The WoW Classic vanilla era is over, and I won’t miss it
With the launch of World of Warcraft Classic's Burning Crusade this past week, the door has been (mostly) closed on what is now being called...
