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Global Chat: Would Secret World have done better if it had been set in the 1920s?
Thanks to a recent piece by MMO Folklorist, I learned something that I had never known about The Secret World: Apparently, in early development...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO expansions and updates of 2022
One of the underrated aspects of being an MMO player is that our games get more updates and expansions than almost any other type...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2023
Nobody can see the future, but it sure is fun guessing, and that's exactly what we're going to do for (to?) the MMO genre...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2022
You might not know this about me, but I literally spend all year jotting down in my little notepad file all the quirky stuff...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO design is not value-neutral
It's rare for me to find myself actively yelling at my computer screen while watching something, but it does happen every so often. The...
Five things that excite me playing World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
For most of 2022, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was so far down my list of "most anticipated releases" as to be falling off the...
How WoW Classic became a ‘hellscape of instrumental practices’
Are other people jerks when they decry your poor World of Warcraft performance, or is it your fault? That's the general topic being taken...
Wrath Classic tests Titan Rune dungeons, while WoW posts Dragonflight short story
With all of the attention and hype being focused on World of Warcraft: Dragonflight this month, a fan of the franchise might be forgiven...
WoW Factor: So Blizzard just lost China
Sometimes it's not fun to work in this particular industry. Not in the sense that it's horrible, but in the sense that you've written...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2022: Blizzard MAUs and revenues are up as NetEase dispute looms on the horizon
Welcome back to our trimonthly coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials. As of this afternoon, we have Q3's results, comprising July, August, and September 2022....
Hearthstone announces March of the Lich King expansion for December 6
Hearthstone is basically built on top of Warcraft universe lore, so Blizzard's announcement today - that the game's net expansion is called March of...
Global Chat: Landing boots on WoW Classic’s Wrath shores
With WoW Classic's Wrath expansion officially out, plenty of veterans of the Northrend Wars of '08 returned for another tour of duty. Among these...
China celebrates the launch of WoW’s Wrath Classic with a dazzling drone light show
No matter how excited you may have been for the launch of World of Warcraft Classic's Wrath of the Lich King expansion (assuming you...
Massively Overthinking: Do you take vacation time to play MMOs?
Back when Amazon was busy merging several dozen Lost Ark servers, I saw a comment thread where people were grousing about being locked out...
World of Warcraft Classic opens additional server transfers while changing gold limits for transferred characters
So, how're you doing over there, WoW Classic? You doing all right? Everything going all right with your servers? We joke, of course, because...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 390: All systems go for MMO launches
Justin and Bree discuss Star Citizen's crowdfunding, Wrath Classic's launch, Dual Universe, Mythic, Ultima Online's 25th birthday, Tibia, and LOTRO Before the Shadow, with adventures in SWG Legends and Truck Simulator, plus a voicemail topic on MMO systems proliferated across the genre.
Casually Classic: The Death Knight starter experience is still the best WoW ever did
Recently, along with what seemed like half the population of the globe, I rolled up a brand-new Death Knight in WoW Classic to take...
WoW Classic’s Wrath of the Lich King launch dumped people into the sea – if they made it past the towering queues
Even though Blizzard opened the doors to WoW Classic's Wrath of the Lich King expansion slightly ahead of schedule last night, that was about...
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic is live now
No king rules forever, folks... unless that king rules and then stops ruling and then someone decides to plop him back on the throne...
WoW Factor: Just be honest about what WoW Classic is now
So here's something funny to consider: No matter what happens, Blizzard has collectively backed itself into a corner with World of Warcraft expansions over...
