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WoW Factor is Eliot Lefebvre’s column on an MMO you’ve probably never heard of: World of Warcraft. [Follow this column’s RSS feed]

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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...
Hey, dude.

WoW Factor: Blizzard’s week of bad decisions

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First of all, before you clever clogs start in down in the comments, yes, I realize that almost any given week in World of...
wait what

WoW Factor: Tarisland and the cargo cult of World of Warcraft

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We've all made jokes about Tarisland being "we have World of Warcraft at home." That's just a fun thing to make jokes about, and...
Looking closer.

WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s content problems aren’t about quantity

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So recently, we asked about what World of Warcraft could do to draw back players that it had lost. To be clear, that's a...
Meh.

WoW Factor: Dragonflight wasn’t a hit – so now what?

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All right, let's be real and acknowledge that the recent Activision-Blizzard earning report did not say outright that World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was an out-and-out...

Casually Classic: 20 tips for surviving the WoW Classic community’s hardcore mode

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"Just one more hour of WoW Classic. One more hour, then I'll go and play something serious. Or be a productive member of society....

Casually Classic: How permadeath runs are revitalizing WoW Classic

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While I don't have any hard data on the subject, just observing the World of Warcraft Classic scene (and ABK's financials) over the past...
Slightly disappointing context.

WoW Factor: Narrative justification for every missing class/race combo in World of Warcraft

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As I implied in a recent post about the most recent Ion Hazzikostas interview, the line about making sure that there was a narrative...
Chancu

WoW Factor: Everything we know about Embers of Neltharion – so far

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So at this point, we actually have a remarkably clear picture of what's going to be in the first major content patch for World...
Do you really want to hurt me?

WoW Factor: World of Warcraft is just coasting down the mountain

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In November 1994, Marvel Comics launched a new comic book spin-off from the main X-Men series. Generation X, written by Scott Lobdell, was in...
Whoops.

WoW Factor: Does World of Warcraft need more classes?

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So how many classes are there in World of Warcraft? There are wrong answers, but there's more than one right answer. If your answer was...
Meh.

WoW Factor: Blizzard’s latest earnings report was mixed news for World of Warcraft

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On one level, the most interesting thing that came out of the most recent earnings call for Activision-Blizzard was how much stuff the company...
Hey, dude.

WoW Factor: The state of World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight, two months in

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On Monday, I talked with MOP's Bree about the idea of doing a piece this week about how World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was doing...
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WoW Factor: Brian Birmingham’s ousting and the ever-deepening rot at Blizzard

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Talking about this company is always so exhausting, but let's do a quick recap: Brian Birmingham was, up until recently, one of the top...
This plan sure worked!

WoW Factor: Why is Dragonflight’s crafting not going over well?

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For a long time, World of Warcraft has suffered in the crafting department. Basically every single expansion for the game has promised overhauls and...
Those are people who died, died.

WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s mid-expansion endgame zone problem

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Hey gang, who wants to go explore new zones in Dragonflight? Does that sound exciting to you? That's great, and for the past several...
We all become done.

WoW Factor: Chris Metzen’s uphill road with World of Warcraft

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So, last week there was a bit of unusual timing. I had finished my column about World of Warcraft's Trading Post, and on the...
Get back.

WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s proposed Trading Post actually sounds good so far

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I could, in theory, spend today's WoW Factor talking about the launch of the first endgame season in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, but quite...
Hey, dude.

WoW Factor: The curious treatment of alts in World of Warcraft Dragonflight

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So now that first impressions are out of the way and I can focus on other things like making sure that my alts get...

Five things that excite me playing World of Warcraft: Dragonflight

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For most of 2022, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was so far down my list of "most anticipated releases" as to be falling off the...

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