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WoW Factor: Why do people remember classic WoW being so much harder than it actually was?
As much as there's a moment of schadenfreude in the people compiling lists specifying that no, World of Warcraft: Classic being classic is not...
WoW Factor: Crazy speculation on turning back the clock for World of Warcraft
There's a game I like to play - wait, no, that's a lie. There's a game IÂ do play called "Oh, I Made Myself Sad."...
First impressions: World of Warcraft Classic is exactly what it says on the tin
The simplest analogy I can think of for World of Warcraft: Classic is being served a breakfast of toasted plain white bread with a...
WoW Factor: Thoughts on the impending arrival of WoW Classic
So now we have a date at the end of August for World of Warcraft: Classic. That's actually a lot later than I had expected, but...
WoW Factor: Guessing at the next World of Warcraft expansion announcement using math
Here's the genesis of this particular article: I saw speculation over on Blizzard Watch that we were about a year too early for a World...
WoW Factor: Why Legion 2 wouldn’t win back the World of Warcraft crowd
Let's talk about fan expectations and naked fanservice for a bit. In fact, let's start with the Power Nine from Magic: the Gathering, and...
WoW Factor: What could win back the crowd for the next World of Warcraft expansion?
So the conclusion to the Azshara raid has been mined out, and I'm just going to link it to you here. I don't want...
WoW Factor: The level squish isn’t the whole solution for World of Warcraft
To be entirely honest, you might have expected this column a little bit earlier because it's been a hot minute since Ion Hazzikostas once...
WoW Factor: Why people are mad at Battle for Azeroth, part 5: Conclusions and peeling the mask
This week, after some 7000 words on this particular topic, I'm starting off by acknowledging what should be a rather obvious fact: My series...
WoW Factor: Why people are mad at Battle for Azeroth, part four: Story
The fun thing about bringing up the story of World of Warcraft is that you inevitably have some folks who will immediately crop up and claim...
WoW Factor: Battle for Azeroth’s alternative story experiment
As part of a WoW Factor column experiment relating to our March 2019 article, we've taken a stab at an alternative version of WoW's plotline.
WoW Factor: The good and (very minor) bad of World of Warcraft patch 8.1.5
We've spent three weeks explaining, in no small amount of detail, why people are unhappy with the current state of World of Warcraft. We're going...
WoW Factor: Why people are mad at Battle for Azeroth, part three: Leveling and scaling
Remember earlier this week when I was talking about the difference between leveling as a part of the game vs. leveling as a chore?...
WoW Factor: Why people are mad at Battle for Azeroth, part two: The Heart of Azeroth
We're continuing on in our tour of why people are upset about the current World of Warcraft expansion, and I think it's important to note...
WoW Factor: Why people are mad at Battle for Azeroth, part one: Combat
One of the complicated challenges of writing about World of Warcraft is sorting out the stuff that's happening now from the stuff that's been happening...
WoW Factor: No, Activision is not the reason you’re unhappy with World of Warcraft
There's a narrative that's been making the rounds for a little while now among the World of Warcraft community, buoyed a lot by the fact...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s most underused zones in Classic
No, I'm still not done with thinking about the game's zones and how they relate to Classic. Because while I've already covered the zones...
WoW Factor: The zones that changed the most from Classic, Kalimdor edition
Yeah, so Kalimdor has changed a bit in World of Warcraft.
I'm going to be honest and say that I've never actually liked Kalimdor very much...
WoW Factor: The great Superdata fall-off
The one down side to working ahead is that sometimes your schedule gets nudged around more than expected. I promise that a further look...
WoW Factor: The zones that changed the most from Classic, Eastern Kingdoms edition
We've got a little while until World of Warcraft actually drops its Classic server, but the nice thing is that those of us who have...
