Disambiguation:
– World of Warcraft
– Warcraft series, a series of video games that began in 1994
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Perfect Ten: MMO critters so cute it makes your teeth hurt
I vividly remember a conversation I had with my then-girlfriend's parents back in 1996 about the potential of this growing "internet" phenomenon. With my...
PSA: World of Warcraft Classic prepares to discontinue the character clone service on July 26
The character clone service in WoW Classic was an interesting approach to how the game handled The Burning Crusade Classic vs. the vanilla experience;...
Diablo III dev shares behind-the-scenes stories for its 10th anniversary
First of all, it's been 10 years since Diablo III launched on May 15th, 2012, and that makes us all so old. Second, it's...
WoW Classic interview doubles down on Wrath Classic’s lack of a dungeon finder
If fans hoping that community pressure might convince Blizzard to change its mind on the controversial decision to exclude a dungeon finder from the...
Warcraft Arclight Rumble starts closed beta testing Down Under
Are you ready to Warcraft Arclight Rumble? Blizzard's newest mobile game is still a ways out by all reckoning, but that doesn't mean you...
Storyboard: The fatal flaw of overreaching villain plans in MMOs plotlines
So the other day, a friend and I were talking about villainous schemes in MMO storylines. Specifically, we were talking about why World of...
World of Warcraft is testing a ‘social contract’ for its players in 9.2.5
"For the love of the Titans, please be a decent person to your fellow players."
That is not what the new social contract in World...
Massively Overthinking: If you could change one thing about an MMO…
Back in April, MOP's Colin posed us an interesting challenge on the MOP Podcast: change one thing about an MMO you don't like that...
Global Chat: How you can help your MMO’s community
Are you a net positive or a negative for the MMORPGs you inhabit? If you'd like to be the former, MMO Folklorist has 10...
WoW Factor: Excitement and trepidation about World of Warcraft bringing back talent trees
So you probably don't need me to tell you at this point that I'm looking forward to having talent trees back in World of...
An untitled prequel novel for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight has surfaced on Amazon
One of the things that was conspicuously missing from World of Warcraft: Dragonflight's initial announcement was the concurrent announcement of anything that might be...
Perfect Ten: The many-colored dragon rainbow of the MMO sphere
Dragons are ubiquitous. When I wrote a Perfect Ten describing every single MMO bestiary, I noted that no matter what game you're playing, no...
Burning Crusade Classic opens the Sunwell Plateau raid, starts a new arena season
Even as all eyes in WoW Classic turn to the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion for later this year, the game isn't...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMO bestial races you wish you could play?
Yes, Embers Adrift, I would totally play as a war gecko if I had half the chance. Forget your weird emo obsession with darkness;...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 372: Blizzard’s great mobile hope
Justin and bree discuss Blizzard's quarterly financials, Diablo Immortal, Warcraft Arclight Rumble, Forsaken World's sunset, ZeniMax's rumored Star Wars MMO, and EVE Fanfest and its COVID outbreak, with adventures in LOTRO and SWG Legends, plus a voicemail topic on MMOs moving from fantasy to sci-fi.
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite healing style in an MMO?
If I could only pick one healing style forever in an MMO, it's anything that hooks me up with a Grid-like healing tool. That...
WoW Classic’s Wrath of the Lich King beta is coming later this summer
While Blizzard's announcement that Wrath Classic is coming to World of Warcraft came as a surprise to absolutely no one, perhaps not everyone...
World of Warcraft ‘experiments’ with raid rewards in preparation for Dragonflight
It's always a super-comforting happenstance when a game studio decides that it wants to wildly monkey with the current MMO to prepare for an...
Vague Patch Notes: The negatives of MMORPG rogue servers
Last week, we began a discussion about the ups and downs of rogue servers in the MMO space, by which I actually mean we...
World of Warcraft discusses Dragonflight crafting and finally removes the School of Hard Knocks achievement
It's been more than a decade since players first began searching for the Violet Proto-Drake mount from World of Warcraft's holiday event meta-achievement, and in...
