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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The Warcraft movie gets a teaser for a teaser
What's up, Warcraft movie? Long time no talk. Oh look, your Twitter feed has a teaser for a teaser! It says that "enemies will...
Jukebox Heroes: An MMO Halloween playlist
Halloween is upon us, that spooky and magical time of year that exists both in real life and in many of our MMOs. While...
The Game Archaeologist: Seed
Seed is a game that I thought I must have dreamed up at some point. Do you ever have that happen? For years I...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Moral panic and online griefing
Welcome back to our ongoing exploration of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt’s book The Video Game Debate. As you can guess, the book itself focuses...
Perfect Ten: Ten really great races from MMOs
Here I go, here I go, here I go again. Girls, what's my weakness? Non-human races. But oh, so many MMOs let me down...
Take part in a BlizzCon auction for charity starting November 4th
Do you have a deep need to grab some rare Blizzard memorabilia? Do you have a large amount of disposable income? Do you want...
World of Warcraft highlights the haunted places of Azeroth
There's a lot of ghostly stuff in World of Warcraft. Some of it, of course, is quite obvious. You fight a lot of ghosts,...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Halloween 2015
Halloween is an unstoppable force in the MMO industry and will not be denied to developers and their players. It's that time of year...
Wisdom of Nym: The cancelled future of Final Fantasy XIV
Every game has stuff in it that's dummied out. There are ideas that the developers brought to a certain point without ever finishing, and...
The MOP Up: The secret history of Destiny (October 25, 2015)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
WoW Factor: A decade of Blizzard’s bad habits
The funny thing about World of Warcraft - and I should note here that I'm using "funny" in this case as a synonym for...
Massively Overthinking: WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and MMO raiding in 2015
Here we are in October, sandwiched between WildStar's F2P conversion and Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns launch, and it seems as if we're...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Online games and internet addiction
Massively OP's overview of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate last month was just the beginning of our coverage of the...
Perfect Ten: The most innovative RuneScape experiments
RuneScape seems to be an MMO that's incredibly easy to dismiss by the wider MMO community for being "too kiddy" or being a little...
World of Warcraft won’t have a hard Valor cap in 6.2.3
The return of Valor as a currency in World of Warcraft's patch 6.2.3 brings a lot of questions with it. Once you get past...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO beta (or alpha) made you the happiest?
Betas used to be a huge thing for me. I was deeply envious of those who got into testing when I was left on...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Last-minute hopes and preparation for Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns
I swear I've been waiting all year to say this: Heart of Thorns hits this Friday, everyone! Cue the massive in-game parties, mass orders...
Global Chat: Why your MMO pushed me away
Hey MMO developers, have you ever wondered why players are driven away from your games? Two bloggers took a stab at a list of features...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 34: Rollbacks and breakups
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR, WildStar, GW2, RuneScape, Marvel Heroes, Black Desert, Nexon/NCsoft, WoW, and Wakfu, with mailbag questions on expansion pricing and horizontal gameplay.
Linkin Park to perform at BlizzCon
BlizzCon 2015 has its big closing act: Linkin Park.
The rock group has signed on to perform a concert for Blizzard's community on Saturday night, November...
