world of warcraft

Official Site: World of Warcraft
Studio: Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date: November 23, 2014
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

'Credit where it's due' actually means offering credit where it is due, even if it feels weird to offer that credit.

Gorge your mind on these World of Warcraft Patch 7.3 videos

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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

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Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column through which the Massively commenters can join forces to help solve the guild dilemmas of fellow readers....
Yes, money.

How to find the right MMORPG as a couple

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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?

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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

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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...
If we do get a new race, of course, everyone knows my biggest suggestion.

Get all of the World of Warcraft lore you need in a format for those unwilling to read

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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

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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

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Will there ever be a mobile MMORPG that handles the complexity and delivers the fun of a desktop or console experience? There have been...
Yeah, it doesn't say anything good.

Could Blizzard be working on offline modes for its games?

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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

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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...
oh no

Game Changers is a movie that follows a team seeking World of Warcraft firsts

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Here's an interesting little movie that may have slipped by your notice. There's a Comic Con trailer out for a film called Game Changers...
how DARE you

World of Warcraft announces $100K prize pool for Mythic Dungeon Invitational e-sports competition

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World of Warcraft is giving e-sports another go. In a blog post going live this afternoon, Blizzard has announced the Mythic Dungeon Invitational, an...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 126: Firefall gets extinguished

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Justin and Bree discuss Firefall's sunset, WoW's datamining, Wild West Online, Secret World Legends, Tibia, and Warframe, plus a mailbag question on how MMOs could ditch pure DPS roles.
This is good planning. We know what we're doing here.

World of Warcraft may be making big changes to Artifact Knowledge with its next patch

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Artifact Power is the big power mechanism behind making your Artifact weapon more powerful in World of Warcraft. That seems pretty straightforward; it's called...

The Daily Grind: How do you solve a problem like Maria (in MMOs)?

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OK, so there's no Maria, but I'm pretty sure everyone has that one guildie who is basically a goofball, screw-around, flibbertigibbet Leeroy. And yes...
Bones.

The Game Archaeologist: Where are all of the open-source MMOs?

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Recently we had an interesting question come in from reader and Patron Rasmus Praestholm, who asked me to do a little investigating: "What (if...
Stepping back across time.

How I got married through World of Warcraft

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I've mentioned a lot of times, in passing, how my wife and I connected in part through World of Warcraft. But I've never actually...

Massively Overthinking: MMO ragequitting

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Ragequitting. Most of us have probably done it once or twice from groups or single-player games or even MMO sessions in our time. My...

Hearthstone’s next expansion is Knights of the Frozen Throne

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Will Hearthstone have as much success in the frozen northlands as World of Warcraft did with Wrath? We're about to find out, as last night...
Really studying the heck out of a skull.

Datamining generates World of Warcraft expansion rumors

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Players have datamined a bit out of World of Warcraft's most recent test realm patch that hints at the destination of the next expansion, with...

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