Official Site:Â World of Warcraft
Studio:Â Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date:Â November 23, 2014
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 128: Geeks at Disney World
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends, World of Warcraft, Dark and Light, RuneScape, RIFT, and Star Trek Online, with mailbag questions on when an MMO "clicks" (specifically, FFXIV) and what non-fantasy MMOs still exist.
RuneScape is a massive hit on Twitch
Time and again, we here at Massively OP have noted how RuneScape seems to be incredibly underestimated by the larger MMO community. For how...
SuperData June 2017: ROBLOX, GTAV, and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds are making bank
SuperData's global digital games revenue summary for June 2017 is out, and it's a strange melange of huge shifts and no changes at all.
On the...
World of Warcraft’s Burning Crusade emulator shut down by Blizzard cease-and-desist
Well, what did you think was going to happen?
As they have no legal legs on which to stand, MMORPG emulator projects operate on the...
Gigantic devs liken their graphics to candy and plastic toys
If you love to hate on brightly colored cartoony-stylized graphics of games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, and even Wildstar, know that...
The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest II East
Publishing a video game globally is a monumental task, more so if it is a live online game such as what you'd find with...
Blizzard adds a Diablo III senior designer, lays off audio director, and ends XP and Vista support
From zombies to demons, game designer Harrison G. Pink is no stranger to bizarre apocalypses. Pink formerly worked on Telltale Games' hit Walking Dead...
World of Warcraft expands Patch 7.3 testing to include final Argus zone and new dungeon
Just when you think you've seen everything that World of Warcraft's massive Patch 7.3 has to offer on the test server, here comes even...
Global Chat: Are MMO side quests worth it?
Apparently I am a pot-stirrer. On my side blog, Bio Break, I like to throw out conversation starters every now and then, and one...
Check out previews of two areas coming in World of Warcraft patch 7.3
If you've missed the memo, World of Warcraft is taking players to Argus in patch 7.3. That's the former home of the Draenei, a...
Gorge your mind on these World of Warcraft Patch 7.3 videos
Once the gates of the World of Warcraft Patch 7.3 test servers opened up, no secret or scrap of information was safe from the prying...
Guild Chat: What to do when your MMO guild is close to imploding
Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column through which the Massively commenters can join forces to help solve the guild dilemmas of fellow readers....
How to find the right MMORPG as a couple
People seemed to quite like my piece last week about how my wife and I wound up married in no small part due to...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most interesting MMO city to explore?
There's a line drawn between MMO cities that mostly exist as empty set pieces and ones that live and thrive with NPCs, details, and...
LOTRO Legendarium: Mordor’s pre-order is flat-out ridiculous
Outrageous. Ridiculous. Exciting. Exploitative. Controversial.
This past week's announcement of Lord of the Rings Online: Mordor's launch date and pre-order packages set ablaze discussions and...
Get all of the World of Warcraft lore you need in a format for those unwilling to read
There's a lot of lore behind World of Warcraft. Part of that is because the game has had plenty of time to develop it,...
Global Chat: Learning from Master X Master
We've certainly remarked several times on Massively OP how much like an MMO Master X Master is, even though it firmly checks the "MOBA"...
Crusaders of Light launches globally on iOS with Android coming next week
Will there ever be a mobile MMORPG that handles the complexity and delivers the fun of a desktop or console experience? There have been...
Could Blizzard be working on offline modes for its games?
Imagine one day sitting down at your computer, firing up the Blizzard launcher, and choosing to play World of Warcraft or Diablo III... offline....
Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid on ‘vertical interdependence,’ WoW killers, and attracting nontraditional MMO players
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's July newsletter is one of its better ones, featuring a Q&A with Visionary Realms' Brad McQuaid himself. A few highlights:
McQuaid...
