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WoW Factor: Excitement and trepidation about World of Warcraft bringing back talent trees
So you probably don't need me to tell you at this point that I'm looking forward to having talent trees back in World of...
WoW Factor: Is dragon riding in World of Warcraft Dragonflight borrowed power?
So there's a whole lot of stuff to talk about right now when it comes to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight; that's not under debate....
WoW Factor: Blizzard’s excuse for not adding housing to World of Warcraft convinces no one
One of the things I noted in my initial reactions to the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight announcement was that I had not expected to get...
WoW Factor: Good job torching Wrath of the Lich King Classic, my dudes!
All right, this is... actually just hilarious to me. Like, seriously, I caught this particular detail after I'd already finished writing my initial reaction...
WoW Factor: Initial thoughts on the World of Warcraft Dragonflight reveal
First things first, I want to clarify something: This is being dubbed an early response to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight because... well, it's a new...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft: Dragonflight isn’t going to fix everything that’s broken at Blizzard
I really wanted to write a different column this week. I really did. But wouldn't you know it, Activision-Blizzard had to remind everyone that...
WoW Factor: So let’s talk about World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight leak
Sometimes you just get handed a column, you know? No, you probably don't; you probably don't work in this insane profession. The point is that...
WoW Factor: Dissecting the Shadowlands story now that we’ve seen the end of it
Editor's note - Well, folks, it happened again: Eliot was unavailable to write his column again after falling into a reality-traversing portal. We'd ask...
WoW Factor: No one is attacking you for liking World of Warcraft
Let's just go ahead and give away the conclusion of this article right in the first line: There is no grand conspiracy of people...
Perfect Ten: World of Warcraft’s array of bear-based threats
Hey, if you've never played World of Warcraft, there's something you should know: This is a game with a lot of bears. You might not...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s next expansion needs to restore faith in the game
It's the next World of Warcraft expansion! Except it isn't. But it's the announcement of the date on which that will be announced! In a...
WoW Factor: Beyond the Spires, a speculative WoW expansion exercise
Let's get something weird going here for the last of these speculative exercises. I could keep doing this for a while now, if we're being...
World of Warcraft reveals Anduin’s ultimate fate in a new raid cinematic
All right. If you need to be told this from the header, this post and this cinematic is into El Spoilero territory. These are...
WoW Factor: Shards of Azeroth, a speculative WoW expansion exercise
Our story this time starts in a fight we don't yet know about, so I freely admit that there is the possibility that this...
WoW Factor: Flights Rising, a speculative WoW expansion exercise
The Dragon Isles are quite the storied location in World of Warcraft in that it's easy to pull them out and dust them off whenever...
WoW Factor: Winds of Change, a speculative WoW expansion exercise
We still have no idea what the next expansion for World of Warcraft will look like, which is kind of absurd. We didn't even have...
WoW Factor: Pulling the trigger on cross-faction play (in the weakest way possible)
At long last, World of Warcraft is finally pulling the plug on one of the dumbest system decisions that was ever made for the game...
WoW Factor: What could World of Warcraft’s next expansion do to save the game?
You know what I miss? Writing about World of Warcraft as a fun game to play. Not writing about the latest iteration of sexual harassment...
WoW Factor: Some thoughts on the Microsoft acquisition of Activision-Blizzard
At this point, keeping up with what's going on with Activision-Blizzard is far more of an involved project than keeping up with World of...
WoW Factor: Is World of Warcraft a good value for the money?
There are a lot of reasons to not be subscribed to World of Warcraft at the moment, although "the current state of the game...
