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World of Warcraft Classic launches August 26, with CBT tomorrow and stress tests beginning next week

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Here we go, folks: World of Warcraft Classic is now set to launch on August 27th - actually, in the US, it's the evening...
Bear bomb!

World of Warcraft is putting its Recruit-a-Friend program on hiatus

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Farewell, Recruit-a-Friend program. You've helped us introduce a small number of friends to World of Warcraft and helped a large number of multiboxers boost up...

The Daily Grind: Are you concerned about the future of Amazon’s New World?

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When Amazon Game Studios announced last week that it was taking New World's always-on alpha offline "to design major new features" that are "large...

One Shots: What am I looking at here, exactly?

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I guess I was asking for pure nightmare fuel when I issued a challenge last week to create the most disturbing and deformed avatars...
Just absolute galaxy brain

WoW Factor: Guessing at the next World of Warcraft expansion announcement using math

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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...

The Daily Grind: Are we watching the AAA video game market burst?

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About four years ago, I wrote one of the pieces I'm still most proud of: It essentially argued that the MMO industry was suffering...

Massively Overthinking: Do you play MMO characters you like – or characters that are objectively good?

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Earlier this week, some Massively OP writers were hanging out in team chat talking about favorite City of Heroes powersets from back in the...

MMO Business Roundup: Bonfire Studios’ new multiplayer game, EA Access on PS4, and Pokebrains

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Welcome back to another quick roundup from the land of games industry business... Remember in 2016 when former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo...

The Daily Grind: What would get you to throw money at your MMO?

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Forget sparkleponies and loot boxes: Sometimes what game studios try to monetize isn't even remotely close to what we truly would like to buy....

Massively OP Podcast Episode 219: The 64-bit generation

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Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard financials, City of Heroes, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, WoW Classic, EVE Online, LOTRO, and Guild Wars, with mailbag topics on Blizzard, everythingboxes, genderlocking, and dad jokes.

Gamers warn that the AXS Mobile App needed to enter BlizzCon is ‘spyware level bad’

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Those who are headed to this year's BlizzCon event are being required to use the AXS Mobile App as part of efforts to deter...

The Game Archaeologist: Minions of Mirth

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While large teams with big budgets and studios backing them are expected to push out smash hit MMORPGs, to me it's always vastly more...
This plan sure worked!

WoW Factor: Why Legion 2 wouldn’t win back the World of Warcraft crowd

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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...
It only became real very recently.

World of Warcraft Classic will allow up to 50 characters, regardless of your existing character count

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Imagine for a moment that you have 50 max-level characters in World of Warcraft right now. However, you also need to have 50 alts in World of...

Massively Overthinking: Super wrong snap judgments of MMORPGs

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The year was 2004, and the month was May. My guild was growing increasingly frustrated with Star Wars Galaxies' slow development pace, so we...

Activision-Blizzard Q1 2019: Revenue has dropped by nearly a quarter since last quarter

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It's now pretty clear that Activision-Blizzard's days of limitless growth and endless record-setting are over, at least for now, as the company's now-released financials...
So, bye.

Vague Patch Notes: MMOs are not the same as your single-player games with servers

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Recently, I've been trying to get into Bloodborne. This isn't a result of my disliking the Souls franchise as a whole, just that it's never...

Blizzard decides to skip Gamescom 2019 as part of cost-cutting efforts

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The con circuit has always been a sort of expected course for games companies to run, like the Tour de France except with less...

TERA is turning seven – here’s what it’s getting you for the occasion

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Wow, it's hard to believe TERA is turning seven in May, but here we are. En Masse has plenty of fun planned too, including...

Not So Massively: Yearning for an MMO future free of loot

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Throughout all of the Drama over Anthem's loot issues, I've just been rolling my eyes. Not because I think Bioware screwed up -- arguably...

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