Disambiguation:
– World of Warcraft
– Warcraft series, a series of video games that began in 1994
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SuperData December 2020: World of Warcraft is dethroned again, and people still love Among Us
While SuperData has already put a bow on the entirety of games earnings in 2020, there's still the December 2020 breakdown to cover, which...
The Daily Grind: Do you make use of votekicking in MMOs?
Not long after Shadowlands released, there was a heavily upvoted thread on the World of Warcraft subreddit in which a player related a story...
Blizzard absorbs 200 Activision employees following merge of rumored Diablo II remaster team
The Blizzard family got a whole lot bigger this past week. Games Industry reported that the World of Warcraft developer absorbed 200 employees from...
WoW Factor: Does Blizzard have a messaging problem or a message problem?
A recent post over at Kaylriene's blog got me originally thinking about this one. The original posting here is actually about a different issue...
World of Warcraft gamers move 21B gold through the player economy every day
IT-centric Splunk's .conf is not generally an event we cover here on MOP, but the .conf20 edition held back in October had a presentation of...
Vague Patch Notes: What makes MMO leveling feel good?
A shine of light, a sound effect, a screen graphic. Sometimes you get more fanfare than elsewhere. In Final Fantasy XIV, the game's victory fanfare...
WoW Classic starts testing a significant spell batch change
While WoW Classic players continue to hold their breath as to what Blizzard has planned for the legacy version of the game, they are...
WoW Lore TLDR gets a major functionality and content upgrade for catching up on World of Warcraft lore
You really do want to follow the lore in World of Warcraft, honestly. But sometimes the storytelling and the overall quality of the game makes...
Perfect Ten: The 10 types of MMO loot I’m always thrilled to get
Loot's not something that I see discussed much these days among MMO players. It's probably because loot's been around since the beginning of online...
World of Warcraft hints at delving deeper into Shadowlands in 2021
I can't be the only person wondering about what World of Warcraft has up its sleeve for 2021. Now that Shadowlands is going on...
The MOP Up: Valorant welcomes Yoru to the roster
With the new character of Yoru joining up in Patch 2.0, Valorant's getting more interesting by the day. The team's also helping to clarify...
One Shots: The magical land of candy
We would all like to think that, given the opportunity, we would be brave adventurers in fantasy lands, venturing forth to slay dragons and...
LOTRO Legendarium: It’s long past time to delete legendary items from Lord of the Rings Online
Mines of Moria was easily the most ambitious expansion that Lord of the Rings Online created. Not only did it implement the largest underground...
The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO class crusader?
The other night I was running a PUG in World of Warcraft (I'm a masochist, what can I say?), and I ended up in...
Vague Patch Notes: In defense of easy fun, in MMOs and elsewhere
I don't play video games to be challenged. I play them to have fun.
This isn't to say that these are inherently separate propositions. People...
Blizzard prepares to roll out a major Battle.net upgrade
The biggest upgrade to Battle.net in a long time is on the cusp of coming to players' screens everywhere. For those of you who...
WoW Factor: The Shadowlands gameplay loop problem
A friend and I were discussing World of Warcraft the other night, which is something we do fairly often. This is especially relevant for me...
World of Warcraft kicks off the Beasts of Prodigum event in Torghast
There's already a fair amount of randomness in Torghast runs in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, but the new Beasts of Prodigum event adds a whole...
Perfect Ten: The 10 tiers of MMO system complexity
MMOs can be complicated things, as I am pretty sure we have discussed on multiple occasions now. There are no known means to prevent...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 304: League of MMORPGs
Justin and Bree discuss Riot's new MMO, RuneScape, Neverwinter, Crowfall, and Path of Exile, with adventures in Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft, Torchlight II, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on losing hype and legal complexity in MMOs.
