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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World of Warcraft begins Visions of N’Zoth countdown, WoW Classic preps Blackwing Lair
Are you ready to rumble with the old gods and old dragons? There's a whole lot happening with both World of Warcraft and WoW...
World of Warcraft server blades that were sold for charity arrive to players with various signs of damage
In a rather unfortunate turn of philanthropic events, the World of Warcraft server blades that were being sold to support Pencils of Promise have...
Perfect Ten: Upcoming MMOs to watch in 2020
There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn't there? All that promise and potential spread out in...
World of Warcraft previews the upcoming bosses and rewards of Ny’alotha, the Waking City
Pop that Cypress Hill CD in the boombox because it's time for adventurers to just go out of their minds in World of Warcraft. Or... wait,...
Rend studio Frostkeep has apparently suffered a round of layoffs
It looks as if Frostkeep Studios is suffering some downsizing this week. Evan "Scapes" Berman, a producer for the MMO studio and a figure...
World of Warcraft gets mounts and a new PvP season ready for next week’s update
World of Warcraft players are about to start off the new year with a bang, thanks to next week's release of Patch 8.3: Visions...
One Shots: Unlicensed fantasy motorists
I've been saying it for years, but just because these are fictional virtual worlds doesn't mean that MMOs should be free from regulations and...
Into the Super-verse: What superhero MMOs offer that other games don’t
When I was in high school, the Console Wars were heating up between SEGA and Nintendo. I'm afraid to report that many of my...
RIFT players sponsor an elaborate contest to build cave dimensions
Yesterday, we watched in bemusement as our piece about MMOs people want to play in 2020 blew up on Twitter, specifically with former RIFT...
The best MassivelyOP community Daily Grinds of 2019
Last year, I counted it up: The first Daily Grind on Massively was written on November 3rd, 2007, one day after Old Massively was...
YouTuber examines why vanilla World of Warcraft dungeons were so long
For the old and grizzled World of Warcraft vets, dungeon delves were a longer process than they are nowadays. Why was that, exactly? A...
Fun fact: Google search trends don’t tell you bupkis about MMO popularity
You know what the surest sign of an MMO's popularity is? Whether or not World of Warcraft fans are defensive about its popularity. That apparently...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2020
All right, 2019. We're done with you. We're moving on. We're in a whole new decade. We've got a brand-new year full of new...
Vague Patch Notes: How to make your corner of the MMO space more pleasant
It's 2020, people - let's do this. What do I mean by this? Unscrew our MMO living space. That one's a lot more fun...
World of Warcraft botches its third Battle for Azeroth PvP season
"Oops" is not something you want to hear from your surgeon, your kids in another room, or your MMO development team. But an "oops"...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2019
The down side of doing these columns at the end of the year every year is that there's a certain challenge of writing the...
The best Massively OP community polls of 2019
Time for another annual tradition here on Massively OP: the counting of the polls! Yes, we run a bunch of polls in our irregular...
MassivelyOP’s 2019 Golden Yachties: Schlag meme of the year
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards end today with our pick for Schlag meme of the year. For those who never dip down into the comments,...
Leaderboard: What’s the best classic MMORPG still running at the end of 2019?
We've noted before that while our awards are pretty good at identifying the big modern MMORPGs and the indie gems, it's much harder to...
MMO Cartographer: Reminiscing on the MMOs we toured in 2019
It is that time of the year when retrospectives abound and people set their resolutions for the upcoming year. That seems like exactly the...