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WoW Factor is Eliot Lefebvre’s column on an MMO you’ve probably never heard of: World of Warcraft. [Follow this column’s RSS feed]

When leveling alts was already the plan...

WoW Factor: A decade of Blizzard’s bad habits

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The funny thing about World of Warcraft - and I should note here that I'm using "funny" in this case as a synonym for...
Yeah, this is a thing.

WoW Factor: Cataclysm was bad, but revamping the world isn’t

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For about four years, Cataclysm handily defended its title of Worst World of Warcraft Expansion, coming in behind all of the actual expansions as...
Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays

WoW Factor: A wishlist for World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion

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We're going to find out a lot about World of Warcraft: Legion in November. Not just because I expect that'll be around the time we...
This is less annoying, sure.

WoW Factor: Between now and Legion

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I'm going to be very surprised if we see World of Warcraft: Legion before June 2016. The odds are good that a beta announcement is...
Some elves have no eyes any more. Be sensitive.

WoW Factor: Wild guessing about Demon Hunters

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So what's the deal with World of Warcraft's Demon Hunter? We just don't know yet. But the space to speculate is pretty awesome. I mentioned...
When it comes.

WoW Factor: Analyzing Legion with a critical eye

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All right, let me just say for the record that when it comes to this expansion, my speculation last week was meant as just...
Here we go again, unfortunately.

WoW Factor: Speculating on WoW’s next expansion

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On August 6th, we now know, we'll be hearing the name and some details on the next World of Warcraft expansion. What we don't...
Oh boy, not ready.

WoW Factor: Draenor’s imminent content drought

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We know that Hellfire Citadel is going to be the last raid in World of Warcraft's current expansion. We know that the expansion wasn't...
Would you like to see something unsettling?

WoW Factor: What the flight changes portend for WoW’s future

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Did anyone else get flashbacks to the Xbox One launch with World of Warcraft's flying announcement? I pictured a lot of arm-folding and sulking...
lol

WoW Factor: A three million loss lesson

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It's been a little while, hasn't it, friends? In the time since I last penned WoW Factor (which missed an installment purely due to...
I don't miss the days without blood elves, not at all.

WoW Factor: The WoW token and the upcoming patch

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Since the last edition of WoW Factor, two big things hit World of Warcraft in quick succession. The first is that the much-discussed WoW...
AHHHH

WoW Factor: Flying ruined everything and shouldn’t be removed

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Allowing flying mounts in World of Warcraft was a terrible mistake that should never have been corrected. For those not up on their history, here's...
We're actual size, but it seems much bigger to see.

WoW Factor: In praise of Warlords of Draenor

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I've made no secret of the fact that I consider Warlords of Draenor to be a sub-par expansion. My opinion on that has not...
You may be my old favorite, but you don't get a free pass.

WoW Factor: The design slide from start to present

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After more than a decade of operation, a curious thing has happened to World of Warcraft: It's circled back around on an awful lot...
When leveling alts was already the plan...

WoW Factor: A self-defeating genre

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Remember when World of Warcraft launched? I sure do. I remember when the game's developers strapped into a helicopter and broke into the building...
Looking closer.

WoW Factor: The Iron Docks and the bare level cap

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I really didn't want Massively Overpowered's inaugural column about World of Warcraft to focus on the negatives. But I can't in good conscience ignore the...

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