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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WoW Factor: World of Warcraft is just coasting down the mountain
In November 1994, Marvel Comics launched a new comic book spin-off from the main X-Men series. Generation X, written by Scott Lobdell, was in...
World of Warcraft previews the multiple variants of Orc and Human heritage armor coming with 10.0.7
While World of Warcraft is not a game lacking in playable races by any stretch of the imagination, Orcs and Humans are the two...
The Daily Grind: What has the MMO genre lost in its push to progress?
Having played both World of Warcraft retail and WoW Classic pretty extensively over the past few years, I can conclusively say that, for me,...
World of Warcraft level designer issues second printing of tell-all development tome
Back in 2018, we reported on a Kickstarted coffeetable book written by World of Warcraft's first 3-D level designer, John Staats. The published work...
The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA
Sharp minds will recall that back in 2012, EA Mythic attempted to turn its declining MMO fortunes by repackaging Warhammer Online into a MOBA...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t
A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...
WoW Factor: Does World of Warcraft need more classes?
So how many classes are there in World of Warcraft? There are wrong answers, but there's more than one right answer.
If your answer was...
Games startup Elodie Games announces Project Skies, a ‘social cooperative action RPG game’
At this point, we all see a press release from a new startup studio with tons of investment money touting devs from the likes...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO events are not for the high-level playerbase
Let me start with a statement of fact: I actually really like limited-time events in MMORPGs. I don't like them as a means of...
Design Mockument: In which we do not design World of Warcraft 2
Over the course of my professional writing career on this site and that site we used to run before AOL screwed us all over,...
World of Warcraft’s 2023 Mythic Dungeon International esports event begins this weekend with Dragonflight dungeons in tow
It's part speedrunning, part esports event, and all World of Warcraft dungeons. It's the 2023 season of the Mythic Dungeon International, which is set...
World of Warcraft datamining suggests patch 10.0.7 will arrive in early April
World of Warcraft's most recent expansion, Dragonflight, arrived in late November. So when is the next major patch arriving? Later. When is the next...
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight sees its first level 70 character that has never left the boat to Exile’s Reach
The starting experience in World of Warcraft makes sense. You sail on a ship to Exile's Reach, you complete a bunch of quests, you...
Perfect Ten: Ranking 10 MMORPG map designs from worst to best
When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...
The MOP Up: SMITE delivers a ‘bonus’ update full of nerfs
SMITE delivered a "bonus update" to the MOBA's community this past week with several downward adjustments to various features. Speed buff got nerfed "by...
Global Chat: Where does WoW Classic go from here?
As Wrath Classic gets closer to its preordained expiration date, Priest with a Cause is asking a question that a lot of people are:...
Datamining finds new chat filtering options in World of Warcraft’s patch 10.0.7
Right now, filtering your chat in World of Warcraft involves either turning a mature language filter on or off, which counts as a blanket...
WoW Factor: Blizzard’s latest earnings report was mixed news for World of Warcraft
On one level, the most interesting thing that came out of the most recent earnings call for Activision-Blizzard was how much stuff the company...
World of Warcraft’s Chris Metzen: ‘I don’t think I’d ever make video games anywhere else than Blizzard’
Just before Christmas, Chris Metzen - who'd retired as Senior Vice President of Story and Franchise Development for Blizzard back in 2016 - rejoined...
Massively Overthinking: That moment when you realize an MMO is truly something special
MOP commenter Bruno tweeted something the other that that I thought would make a fun topic. Here's what he said, printed with permission:
"Wanna know...
