Official Site:Â World of Warcraft
Studio:Â Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date:Â November 23, 2014
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Massively Overthinking: Toxic positivity in the land of MMORPGs
As I type this, we've been watching the Lord of the Rings Online transfer situation unfold for over a week now, and I've personally...
Not So Massively: Comparing the grinds of World of Warcraft and The First Descendant
Lately most of my gaming time has gone into two games: World of Warcraft and The First Descendant. They're both very grindy games, but...
Vague Patch Notes: Learning to hate the MMORPGs you love
I had to teach myself how to hate Star Trek Online. It didn't come naturally to me.
If you've read the stuff that I've written...
World of Warcraft teases its housing decoration tools, including 3-axis rotation and dyes
When Blizzard last talked about World of Warcraft's housing, it was a vague overview of the studio's philosophies that left a lot of players...
World of Warcraft previews Update 11.1.5 and arrests Brann’s tanking spec for being too much fun
World of Warcraft's Update 11.1 hasn't lost its new Goblin car smell yet, but Blizzard's already testing the next patch right now.
In a preview...
Perfect Ten: The strangest weapons you wind up using in MMORPGs
Human beings have been using things as weapons for about as long as human beings have had hands and needed to hit stuff. That's...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 509: Lord of the Transfers
Justin and Bree discuss the LOTRO transfer mess, the return of APB Reloaded and Fallen Earth, Throne and Liberty's Wilds of Talandre, Guild Wars 2's Repentance, Elder Scrolls Online's Fallen Banners, and Fractured's new owners, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, Diablo 3, and Farm Together 2, plus a mailbag topic on gating story beats with raiding.
One Shots: Clean up on aisle everything
If you came here hoping to find beauty and wonder encapsulated in a single picture, look away, for Minimalistway is bringing you nothing but...
World of Warcraft releases Undermine(d)’s end-of-raid cinematic, applies a hotfix for several dungeons
Have you been enjoying World of Warcraft's Undermine(d) update enough that you've already plowed through its recently added raid? Then you've likely already seen...
Massively Overthinking: What should MMO corpse runs look like in 2025?
A couple of years ago - yeah, I save weird things in my "ideas bin" folder - MMO designer Damion Schubert tweeted about a...
Vague Patch Notes: The MMO starter experiences that fear new players
Last week, I talked a bit about power creep. But buried in there was something that you could easily miss as a guideline for...
WoW Classic’s 20th anniversary servers move into phase three later this month
The 20th anniversary servers for WoW Classic continue to barrel forward through the now-quite-familiar phases of vanilla content, with two of these stages already...
WoW Factor: Undermine(d) highlights World of Warcraft’s chaotic silly side
World of Warcraft Update 11.1: Undermine(d) is finally here, and it's certainly got the community buzzing. I kind of suspected this would be the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 508: Stars Reach fires up crowdfunding
Justin and Bree discuss Stars Reach's Kickstarter, LOTRO's U43 and server transfers, Jake Song departing ArcheAge Chronicles, Dauntless' sunset, and Monster Hunter Wilds' debut, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Undermined, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on the Elder Scrolls Online difficulty situation.
WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery servers have ‘many many many months of content left,’ says Blizzard
The future of WoW Classic's experimental Season of Discovery servers may be more rosy than once imagined. In a lengthy post, the project lead...
The Daily Grind: How do you define what counts as a ‘classic’ MMORPG?
Readers know that every year, we give an award for the classic MMO of the year. And every year there's a fresh debate over...
The MOP Up: Elder Scrolls Online lays out its March plans
Elder Scrolls Online published its schedule for March activities, which includes a set of PvP-focused login rewards, new endeavors, a Deathmatch weekend, the Jester's...
A fan mod for Baldur’s Gate 3 recreates Tirisfal Glades from World of Warcraft
Recreating a thing in a totally different thing is a time-honored tradition and we are happy to report that Baldur's Gate 3 has now...
WoW Factor: Six player-created challenges to spice up your World of Warcraft leveling
It seems almost impossible to play video games for extended periods of time and not fall into some sort of rut or routine. We...
Vague Patch Notes: Talking about power creep in MMOs
"Power creep" is a nasty term when talking about video games, and usually whenever it gets brought up, it gets brought up as a...
