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]
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WoW Factor: In the wake of BlizzCon’s Legion content
Well, folks, we're officially living in a post-BlizzCon world. Until the next one. The point is, we're done with that convention, and all that's...
WoW Factor: What WoW Legion needs from BlizzCon
It's go time tomorrow: BlizzCon is almost here, and I'm going to be liveblogging my way through most of the event. And boy, it's coming at...
WoW Factor: A decade of Blizzard’s bad habits
The funny thing about World of Warcraft - and I should note here that I'm using "funny" in this case as a synonym for...
WoW Factor: Cataclysm was bad, but revamping the world isn’t
For about four years, Cataclysm handily defended its title of Worst World of Warcraft Expansion, coming in behind all of the actual expansions as...
WoW Factor: A wishlist for World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion
We're going to find out a lot about World of Warcraft:Â Legion in November. Not just because I expect that'll be around the time we...
WoW Factor: Between now and Legion
I'm going to be very surprised if we see World of Warcraft:Â Legion before June 2016. The odds are good that a beta announcement is...
WoW Factor: Wild guessing about Demon Hunters
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...
WoW Factor: Analyzing Legion with a critical eye
All right, let me just say for the record that when it comes to this expansion, my speculation last week was meant as just...
WoW Factor: Speculating on WoW’s next expansion
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...
WoW Factor: Draenor’s imminent content drought
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...
WoW Factor: What the flight changes portend for WoW’s future
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...
WoW Factor: A three million loss lesson
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...
WoW Factor: The WoW token and the upcoming patch
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...
WoW Factor: Flying ruined everything and shouldn’t be removed
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...
WoW Factor: In praise of Warlords of Draenor
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...
WoW Factor: The design slide from start to present
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...
WoW Factor: A self-defeating genre
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...
WoW Factor: The Iron Docks and the bare level cap
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...
