world of warcraft

Official Site: World of Warcraft
Studio: Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date: November 23, 2014
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you spend the most time modding?

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A few weeks ago, MOP's Andy pinged me and asked for recommendations for Lord of the Rings Online, knowing how persnickety I am about...

All your favorite MMORPG subreddits went dark over Reddit’s ruinous anti-app plans

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Discord must be loving this: All the big MMORPG subreddits have been flagged private right now in protest over Reddit's planned API switcharoo, with...

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs as Jell-O flavors

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During last year's April Fools' Day, I wrote about the important topic of MMO NPCs as muffins. At the time, I felt my work...
Nothing else has worked.

WoW Factor: The WoW Token, selling gold, and institutional power

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Last week, I wrote about the addition of the WoW Token to the classic version of World of Warcraft, and I noted at the...

World of Warcraft’s tweaked community Discord terms are better but still problematic

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Back in May, the World of Warcraft community erupted over Blizzard's announced plans to crown certain fan Discords as part of its new "community...

Massively Overthinking: When an MMO has everything and so much of it

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Last week, when No Man's Sky released its native Mac client, MOP's Chris and I fell into a discussion about the game being so...
Can't keep it up.

Vague Patch Notes: Paying customers in MMOs aren’t voting shares

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So let's take a tour back to the dewy slopes of 2010, when I bought the collector's edition of Final Fantasy XIV. That would...
Our faith has been rewarded!

Perfect Ten: MMOs that ghosted us after talking a big game

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There's nothing worse as a fan of games to buy into all of the hype and previews of a promising-looking project only to see...
So here's your problem.

World of Warcraft preps ‘welcome back’ gifts for lapsed characters

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Another promotion is in the works to lure lapsed World of Warcraft players back to the fold. According to the updated patch notes on...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 424: Blue Protocol, red Diablo

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Justin and Bree discuss Diablo IV, Elder Scrolls Online Necrom, Blue Protocol's delay, Swords of Legends Online's sunset, WoW Classic's WoW Token, PSO2 housing, Tarisland CBT, and Embers Adrift's new model, with adventures in LOTRO, plus MMOs for families.

World of Warcraft announces price hikes on subscription plans for Turkiye and Ukraine

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Fans of World of Warcraft who live in Turkiye and Ukraine are seeing some bad news this week, as Blizzard has confirmed that the...

Diablo IV fixes PC stuttering, balances classes and glyphs, releases Halsey-SUGA vid

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While the wider playerbase is still a day away from Diablo IV's launch, the game has been getting patches for its biggest and earliest...

Tarisland begins its global closed beta for PC and Android on June 27

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Tencent's modern WoW clone Tarisland is on the way - maybe sooner than you thought, as the company announced today the global beta will...
Darky Dark-Dark

Subreddits for FFXIV, Guild Wars 2, WoW, and more MMORPGs plan blackout protests over Reddit’s API access changes

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If the subreddit feeds you follow seem especially on-fire recently, it's not just because it's a Tuesday; it's because many Reddit communities are angry...

The Daily Grind: What is your favorite non-minipet pet in an MMO?

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I've mentioned in the past that it took me a long, long time in MMOs before I became a "pet" person, largely because pet...
Sulking.

World of Warcraft Classic pulled Black Temple down temporarily, presumably over gold farming

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So let's take a look at something that seems pretty innocent on the surface. Blizzard announced on the official World of Warcraft forums that...
Yeah, we're getting into the stones here.

Storyboard: Managing the escalating stakes in MMO storytelling

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Everyone who has at least passing familiarity with stories, whether they be in MMOs or elsewhere, roleplayed or canonical, realizes that stories need stakes....

Activision-Blizzard offers (some) hard numbers on its harassment and discrimination problem

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Within the Variety puff piece on Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick earlier this week, Kotick insisted that the volumes of harassment accusations against the company...
Now my stats are good!

Former World of Warcraft dev claims he was fired over greedy goblin text lines

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So good old Bobby Kotick's interview yesterday made him look really great, if we're using very inaccurate definitions of the words "great" and also...

Bobby Kotick decries ‘aggressive labor movement’ trying to ‘destabilize’ Activision-Blizzard

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We're just a few days from the launch of Diablo IV, so naturally Variety has offered up a mushy interview with... Activision-Blizzard's Bobby Kotick,...

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