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Based on a wholly informal poll based on what's going around the community right now, I've compiled most of the agreed-upon positives for the...

Here's a fun question for you: How do you count discrete activities in World of Warcraft? It's a more complex concept than you...

At one point, I loved the Old Gods of World of Warcraft. At this point, they disappoint me. And since we're not that far away from the game's next raid that brings them into center focus again, it seems like it's time to talk about them a little bit and why the dang things have not just become so endlessly boring but so misused.

So how did this year go for Blizzard Entertainment? Well... badly. You cannot have missed all of that. But it also went badly in...

Vallin stroked his beard absently for the dozenth time. Just like the first several times, he had forgotten about the rings of his glove,...

I want to talk about the community in WoW Classic because I think it's interesting and it's been on my mind ever since the

Last time around in WoW Factor, we took a nice healthy look back at how itemization has evolved in World of Warcraft...

Huh. You know, I really thought I'd written about the whole Corruption system in World of Warcraft's upcoming 8.3 before now in a format...

All right, calm down, this is not actually going to be done in the same format as a brief history of flight, if...

Gosh, I love doing these math columns. Not just because I enjoy math, although that's definitely a part of it; there's...

Flight has been a part of World of Warcraft as long as the game has existed. No, not just flying mounts, even though you...

Remember just yesterday when I was all like, "Let's get hyped for Shadowlands, yo!" Well, here's the thing. As much as I'm genuinely...

That title up there isn't sarcasm, folks. I want to actually get hyped up about the next World of Warcraft expansion and talk...

Well, dear readers, I was totally wrong. All of you predicting that this expansion was a waste of time were right and I was...

So we all knew that this year's BlizzCon needed to be bigger than last year's BlizzCon. That was, on one level, not...

BlizzCon 2018 was a pretty unnecessary disaster for Blizzard. It managed to demolish any hopes people had about Battle for Azeroth rounding the bend and...

All right, I guess we're doing this now. Yes, this column isn't just about how Blizzard screws up so badly that a lot...

Let me write about the day that the Cataclysm arrived. I wasn't going home. I just happened to be in Elwynn Forest, really, visiting an old trainer and introducing him to my boyfriend at the time. We were sharing a glass of wine, he was laughing about the way that an early exercise had me toppling into the water in the freezing cold of early winter. My laughter was of the shamed sort, but still warm; it was a funny story, one told with love rather than loathing. The sky was bright.

So, you all know that there's a Yelp equivalent in World of Warcraft, right? An awful lot of people forget about that, but Yelpcraft is seriously right there. It's been in the game since beta, which is why you can still look at it and see reviews about how zones would be much better if Paladins had talents and some ancient references to some terrible action star of the 1980s. Can't remember which one. Dolph Lundgren, probably.

Last time we were here, we discussed the intensely shoddy ethics of Blizzard's behavior surrounding the banning of Hearthstone professional Ng "Blitzchung" Wai...