Disambiguation:
– World of Warcraft
– Warcraft series, a series of video games that began in 1994
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Here’s Blizzard’s rationale for changing some of World of Warcraft’s emotes, art, and names
In the wake of the ongoing investigations into and lawsuits over Activision-Blizzard's sexual harassment and discrimination scandal, the teams at Blizzard have said very...
WoW Factor: The disjointed state of World of Warcraft
Right now, it feels like World of Warcraft is kind of a mess. This is not exactly a surprise. It's also not exactly helped...
Working As Intended: Brute-forcing the MMO industry
If you're a music fan, and you probably are since you're a human, you've probably come to grips with the sense that somehow the...
Blizzard is launching new WoW Classic fresh-start servers for its ‘Season of Mastery’
On a previous MassivelyOP Podcast, we joked about whether WoW Classic needed its own Classic version. Apparently, that's not too far off from what...
Vague Patch Notes: The problem with flight and flying maps in MMOs
The other night, I found myself inevitably funneled into a mistake. There wasn't much I could do about it, sadly;Â Guild Wars 2 had decided...
World of Warcraft continues to cut abusive emotes in upcoming update
Even as World of Warcraft players grapple with the high drama that is PictureGate, there's another part of the game that's being phased out...
Perfect Ten: It’s time to end all dragons in MMORPGs
If a genie ever appeared to grant me three wishes, I would not hesitate. I would not be selfish by asking for more wishes...
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 will add glowing hand customizations to Nightborne characters in patch 9.1.5
Do people refer to your Nightborne character in World of Warcraft as "Ol' Glowyhands" or "McGlowhands" or "Captain Glow of the Hand Brigade"? Of course...
Global Chat: Going back to EverQuest Online Adventures
While so many EverQuest fans are eagerly awaiting word of the next entry in the legendary franchise, at least one player is going back...
Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster on why avatars traipsing across the metaverse are a major tech challenge
Virtual worlds... how the eff do they work? Playable Worlds' Raph Koster has an idea or two, and he's dishing them out in a...
World of Warcraft nerfs several Legion raids for solo play
Let's take a moment to close our eyes and think back to several years ago when Legion was the current landscape of World of...
Massively Overthinking: Would you play your favorite MMO without its IP?
Nonameplease recently posed us an interesting topic, inspired by a thread on the Star Trek Online subreddit. "It seems most people don't think the...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft replacing sexualized artwork misses the point
So World of Warcraft has been on a bit of a tear with replacing achievement names, artwork, and so forth recently. At the time I'm...
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...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 339: Kitchen sinks and the Tao of MMOs
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Funcom, Mortal Online 2, WoW Classic, EverQuest II, Star Trek Online, and Final Fantasy XIV, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on the direction of Guild Wars 2 and WoW and what's going on with LOTRO's dead servers.
The Daily Grind: Is Blizzard right to ‘desexualize’ art in World of Warcraft?
Last week, there was a big social media hubbub over World of Warcraft, as Blizzard quietly changed out a pair of obscure paintings in...
World of Warcraft makes the Ignore function account-wide in patch 9.1.5
So let's say you ignore someone on World of Warcraft with the poetic name of Clownfart. This is probably a sensible reaction just to the...
Global Chat: New World beta pleases some, fails to grab others
The buzz around MMO Town these days is on New World, and specifically, the open beta that wrapped up last week. So far, the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs have you played most excessively?
I saw a fun thread on Reddit a while back I thought would be fun to pitch to our community too. The question asked...
