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WoW Classic’s 20th anniversary servers move into phase three later this month

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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...
Oh look, quick development.

WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery servers have ‘many many many months of content left,’ says Blizzard

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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?

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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...
This was not excitement.

The Daily Grind: Do you have way too many mounts in your MMOs?

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It's bizarre to play WoW Classic and realize how few mounts are actually in that version of the game, especially when compared to the...

World of Warcraft Classic goes into its final Cataclysm phase today with Hour of Twilight

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Whether you love it or hate it, WoW Cataclysm Classic is on the way out the door. But before it trades places with a...

WoW Cataclysm Classic outlines currency conversions and updates happening this week

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This Tuesday, February 18th, will see a fresh patch to WoW Cataclysm Classic, which is bringing with it some changes to currencies and rewards...

Casually Classic: Why vanilla Classic’s quest system was an industry revolution

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In every retrospective covering World of Warcraft's explosive success out of the gate, there's a lot of effort spent trying to put a finger...

WoW Classic Cataclysm heads into its final hour… of Twilight

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The original WoW Classic servers -- how weird it is to type that -- now are cruising down the final stretch of Cataclysm Classic's...

World of Warcraft kicks off Lunar New Year, Season of Discovery phase 7, and Mythic+ revision

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World of Warcraft is having a busy week in multiple versions of the game, but let's start with the holiday: the Lunar Festival is...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 503: The Quinfail

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Justin and Bree discuss The Quinfall's messy early access, Camelot Unchained's worrisome future, New World's broken servers, and Throne and Liberty's server merge, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallout 76, WoW Classic, Guild Wars 2, and Playnite, plus a mailbag topic on what kind of MMO character template we have IRL.

One Shots: Weird place for an AirBnB but OK

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Listen. I know it had great reviews and a Super Host. I know that it offers wifi and a full granola bar. But there's...

Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s 20th anniversary servers should’ve started at Burning Crusade

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Two months. It's now been two months since WoW Classic did a huge re-launch of its progression servers under the widely mocked "Classic Classic"...

WoW Classic outlines PTS testing changes for Season of Discovery’s Naxxramus and sanctified gear

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As the seventh phase of the Season of Discovery draws closer for WoW Classic, Blizzard has been testing and tuning some of the arguably...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 502: Chronicling all the non-combat content in MMOs

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Justin and Bree host the first MMO theme show of 2025 with a deep-dive into the wide range of non-combat content in our genre, plus adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, Stars Reach, and Aloft.

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite classic World of Warcraft dungeon?

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Last week, WoW Classic Classic pushed along with its planned release timetable, adding in two old world bosses, refurbing the honor system, and opening...

Massively Overthinking: What will be your three most played MMOs in 2025?

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So here we are at the top of another year, looking ahead at what we think we're going to play. Consider this week's Massively...
Took you long enough.

World of Warcraft Classic will add the Karazhan Crypts with the next phase of Season of Discovery

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Well, they did it. They finally freaking did it. Years after players were finding the hidden crypt segment beneath Karazhan in World of Warcraft that...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 501: Moving, money, and modding

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Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's new server plan, Stars Reach's Kickstarter plan, PlanetSide 2's limbo, Elder Scrolls Online's new DLC, and roadmaps for EverQuest and EverQuest II, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, Guild Wars 2, SWG Legends, and a ton of smaller games, plus a mailbag topics on modding and MMOs.

WoW Factor: Ranking all 10 of World of Warcraft’s expansions from worst to best

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Now that I've played through the entirety of The War Within, I have some strong opinions where this expansion lies in the grander tapestry...
Actually call it a comeback.

WoW Factor: The ‘tactical era’ of World of Warcraft dungeons kind of wasn’t

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One of the things that I like to do, in both this column and elsewhere, is push back against myths that have grown up...

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