Disambiguation:
– World of Warcraft
– Warcraft series, a series of video games that began in 1994
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Christie Golden writes the first World of Warcraft: Midnight novel, this time as a freelancer
World of Warcraft's current expansion, The War Within, isn't close to being over yet, but Blizzard's already ramping up excitement for the next chapter...
World of Warcraft promises its focus on mods is about better conveyance, not ‘smashing a bunch of addons’
When World of Warcraft announced that it would be taking steps to phase out several addons that Blizzard felt became mandatory for raid progression,...
WoW Factor: How could World of Warcraft reclaim the leveling journey?
If you flip back and forth between WoW Classic and World of Warcraft Retail, you will certainly agree that these are two very different...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO fans create divisions that do not exist
There is a constant debate in the World of Warcraft fan space that you have no doubt seen at this point, but it is...
Project Ghost’s Greg Street unwittingly ignites debate on Eastern vs. Western MMO design
Fantastic Pixel Castle's Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street has swung by Twitter with an offhand remark about Project Ghost's development that ignited a debate among some...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs try the hardest to win back lapsed players?
One of my biggest frustrations with certain top-tier MMOs is that most of them don't even pretend they particularly want veteran players back. They...
The MOP Up: Squirreled Away gives into player demands to create an unlimited treehouse mode
Co-op treetop survival sim Squirreled Away said that it's listened to player demands and is preparing a full-on creative mode for tree houses for...
World of Warcraft admits to dropping the quality bar and misreading player activity with patch 11.1.5
This past April saw World of Warcraft score an own-goal with the release of patch 11.1.5, which rankled players with its time-gated content and huge...
One Shots: Saving on electricity bills
Lucky Jinx's headlining World of Warcraft screenshot brings to mind an observation I've oft made in MMOs and RPGs over the years, which is...
Fight or Kite: Warborne Above Ashes blends fantasy and post-apoc for a structured PvP world
A couple of months ago, around the same time Havenhold caught my attention, another game also began to ping on my radar: Warborne Above...
Vague Patch Notes: What makes MMO monetization predatory?
I am really, really excited to be writing our limited series over in Gachapwned because I feel it's going to be an interesting deep-dive...
NCsoft Q1 2025: Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds bump is over, Aion 2 is finally getting a reveal date
Spring financial week continues here on MOP, as we now have the NCsoft quarterly report for Q1 2025. And it wasn't a great quarter,...
WoW Classic continues to resurrect hardcore characters, WoW Retail embraces Timewalking dungeoneering
As The Princess Bride taught us, there's dead... and there's mostly dead. This is especially true on WoW Classic's hardcore realms, where permadeath isn't...
The MOP Up: Valve shuts down a Classic Offensive mod after eight years of development
A CSGO mod -- Classic Offensive -- got shut down by Valve eight years into its development. The mod devs said, "We are devastated...
PAX East 2025: World of Warcraft confirms the development of Legion Remix
Were you a fan of how Mists of Pandaria got remixed in World of Warcraft last year? Well then you're in luck because Blizzard...
Massively Overthinking: Are you a random reward disliker in MMOs?
This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us via a phrase MOP's Eliot dropped back in April that leaped out at me. He was discussing...
Vague Patch Notes: Challenge and rewards in MMOs are made up
All right, folks, pop quiz. I want you to name for me the first major raid in Ultima Online. That was the first game...
Casually Classic: World of Warcraft retail vs. WoW Classic – which is better at what?
These days, I prefer to game with one foot in both versions of World of Warcraft. It's kind of like Almond Joy and Mounds;...
Perfect Ten: MMOs (and MMO moments) that live in infamy
To a certain degree, MMOs have always existed in a state of infamy. People assume that the game requires hours of sitting and scowling...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 517: We are EVE Legion
On this week’s episode of the Massively OP Podcast, Bree and Justin talk about EVE Online's upcoming expansion, the return of Camelot Unchained, WoW's...
