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Casually Classic: Why vanilla Classic’s quest system was an industry revolution

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In every retrospective covering World of Warcraft's explosive success out of the gate, there's a lot of effort spent trying to put a finger...

Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s 20th anniversary servers should’ve started at Burning Crusade

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Two months. It's now been two months since WoW Classic did a huge re-launch of its progression servers under the widely mocked "Classic Classic"...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite classic World of Warcraft dungeon?

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Last week, WoW Classic Classic pushed along with its planned release timetable, adding in two old world bosses, refurbing the honor system, and opening...

Scars of Honor speed-runs you through four years of its MMO development history

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Coming in hot in the new year with some self-promotion after a quieter period of development is Scars of Honor, a classic-feeling MMORPG in the...
Every so often.

Casually Classic: What does WoW Classic’s future look like?

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Welcome to 2025, WoW Classic fans! What began as a somewhat reluctant legacy version of this MMO a little over five years ago has...

WoW Classic players manage to recreate the infamous Corrupted Blood event

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One of the most notable community-sparked events of vanilla World of Warcraft in 2005 came back again in 2024. This would be the Corrupted Blood...

Casually Classic: WoW Classic Classic is more than just another hit of nostalgia

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Out of all of the things that I didn't expect to be on my 2024 MMO bingo sheet was "Getting absolutely sucked into a...

WoW Classic Classic launches tonight with fresh progression servers and some changes

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It's (re)launch day for WoW Classic, as Blizzard opens the doors this evening to a batch of fresh start megaservers around the globe starting...
Hardly lonely.

Vague Patch Notes: Going solo isn’t a problem in MMORPGs

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So I'm wrapping up a month of talking about how MMORPGs are by necessity social games. These are games in which you need other...

WoW Factor: Thoughts on World of Warcraft getting housing and Classic Classic fresh start servers

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With no BlizzCon this year and a pretty full and constantly updating roadmap for World of Warcraft unfolding (including this month's 20th anniversary activities),...

Massively Overthinking: How long should it take to level to endgame in MMORPGs?

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Right after New World's Aeternum launched, we did a piece looking into how the game was faring - and one complaint I saw over...

Casually Classic: Looking back at my 20+ year journey in World of Warcraft

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When was the first time you ever heard of World of Warcraft? As a fan of the three Warcraft RTS titles, I became aware of...

Stars Reach is testing its very Star Wars Galaxies-esque ranger skill tree and combat in this weekend’s playtest

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Whether or not - and it's probably not - you're in Stars Reach's upcoming playtest, this week's blog post will be of interest to...
This is not Permea.

Global Chat: Does the MMO genre need a good rebranding?

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As we all seem to love the topic of MMO definitions, it's with little surprise to see blogs discuss it as well. Contains Moderate...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO memories we never want to repeat

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A random quote I saw buried in the comments on the MMORPG subreddit a while ago really hit hard. Extra_Midnight wrote, "Some of my most...
Still here!

Perfect Ten: Underrated MMOs that deserve a second look in 2024

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We've all been there at one time or another. We've been playing the same-old favorite MMO for a long time and then suddenly feel...
fine

Vague Patch Notes: The problem with numbers in MMORPGs

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I recently saw a post on the official World of Warcraft forums noting that if not for the game's almost infamous level squish, players...

Perfect Ten: My 10 favorite MMO pet classes of all time

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I've had to face the fact that among the MOP team, I'm in somewhat of a minority who actually likes -- nay, passionately loves...

Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go Fest 2024 aimed straight at the wallet

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If functional is the bar for Pokemon Go players, Niantic almost cleared it for Go Fest 2024, but damn if that isn't a depressing...

WoW Classic players petition Blizzard to revert the server to its original state without any changes

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It would appear that a small segment of WoW Classic players have a bone to pick with Blizzard and the way the era servers...

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