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 and Final Fantasy XIV are exchanging jokes over Twitter, and it’s awesome… and significant
It began quite innocently. A streamer asked whether he should play World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XIV. That would have been the end...
Revelation Online spills more details on the Faerie’s Funland in-game themepark
If you're a real-life amusement park junkie as I am, you're probably looking forward to Revelation Online's next patch with interest, even if you...
World of Warcraft eases up on flight requirements
Great news today for World of Warcraft players stressed out over the last batch of requirements to regain their pilot's license. Blizzard announced on...
World of Warcraft suffers demonic assaults, welcomes marching tadpoles
When the skies go black and start raining down fel fire, you best know that there's some bad hoodoo going down. In the case...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 111: Secret World’s Destiny
Justin and Bree discuss The Secret World, City of Heroes vs. MxM, Paragon Chat, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2 SAB, April Fools' Day, WoW 7.2, Destiny 2, and Club Penguin, with reader mail on Funcom and MMO guilds.
Blizzard awarded $8.5M in Bossland WoW and Overwatch bot lawsuit
German bot company Bossland has lost another battle in its war with Blizzard, though that's to be expected since it didn't even show up...
World of Warcraft activates the mage tower, starts looking ahead to Patch 7.2.5
Now that Patch 7.2 is out for World of Warcraft, what's next on Blizzard's plate? Other than last night's hotfixes, that is. The studio...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO is the worst for ‘trash pulls’?
A week or two ago, Blizzard Watch had a post up polling its readers about which trash pulls in WoW they hated the most....
The Game Archaeologist: Rubies of Eventide
I can't say that Rubies of Eventide has been on my radar, like, ever. And yet practically every time I've asked for suggestions of...
One Shots: Avenging angel
When you push a player too far, commit too many crimes, and flaunt your evil with one of those tacky pre-battle speeches, you're going...
The Warcraft Tales add-on project has been shut down by Blizzard
If you were excited about the promise of the World of Warcraft add-on Warcraft Tales, the bad news is that the project has been...
Perfect Ten: More terminology the MMORPG genre needs
Many moons ago (so, a few months), I wrote a column about terminology that we need for the MMO genre. This made our Editor-in-Chief...
The Daily Grind: How much do you really care if your MMORPG is super successful?
Earlier this week, we reported on a SuperData revenue ranking report that showed World of Tanks pulling in more cash than World of Warcraft's...
Massively Overthinking: Competition vs. community in MMOs
Quantic Foundry, the games research group we've been tracking ever since it posted its original Gamer Motivation Model, has a new piece out this...
Why World of Warcraft’s item level scaling is really, really, dumb
This has been a very stupid week. I know this because any other week, World of Warcraft completely destroying the reason for acquiring new...
Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #12-7
It's starting to get serious now.
As we well know, people are highly opinionated about everything, but when it comes to music, there seems to...
World of Warcraft implements undocumented item level scaling in patch 7.2
The reward scaling in World of Warcraft has always been pretty straightforward. At the start of the expansion, everything at max level is a...
World of Warcraft 7.2: Tomb of Sargeras is now live
World of Warcraft 7.2: The Tomb of Sargeras is officially live! As we've previously covered (what feels like exhaustively), you can expect to dive into...
SuperData February 2017: World of Tanks perks up, Hearthstone is sinking
Happy SuperData day! That's the monthly holiday when we pore over the market analysis report, freak out over something doing well, freak over something...
League of Legends’ Ghostcrawler on diversity vs. politics in gaming
Don't think politics belong in games? Maybe your problem is a mangled understanding of what politics is. That's the gist of a blog piece...