- 8 years ago Sticky: A New Warchief!
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The War Within Beta Test Now Live
Over the course of the test, we’ll be inviting community veterans, press, fansites, friends, and family to check out the upcoming expansion and give us feedback. Players who purchase or who upgrade to the Epic Edition of The War Within will also gain immediate access to the beta and will be able to gain a minimum three-day early access to the expansion.
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Meet the Earthen, A New Playable Allied Race in World of Warcraft
A new playable race arrives in The War Within™—the Earthen. Unlock playable Earthen characters after completing their quests and the overall level-up campaign. Enlist this titan-forged race made of living stone by aiding them in their endeavors.
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WoW Classic Season of Mastery Goes Live on November 16
Blizzard have officially announced the dates for the new Season of Mastery realms to go live which will happen in about two and a half weeks from today. Starting on November 11th you'll be able to reserve character names, with the global launched planned for November 16th.
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The perfect storm striking World of Warcraft
There's trouble in the World of Warcraft. Not from a rampaging dragon or a demon army attacking the land of Azeroth, but from some unhappy players who, after 17 years, have had enough. On YouTube, Reddit and Twitter, there are stories about people leaving the game. Some cite long delays for new content in a game that charges a monthly fee; others are annoyed at a lack of communication.
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TBC Classic: This is How Blizzard Should Release It
WoW Classic has now been out for almost a year, and as we get closer and closer to the end of that content more and more people are thinking about a Classic release of The Burning Crusade. While TBC Classic news has been somewhat limited, there has been some things…
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Blizzard Needs to Revisit the Idea of Pristine Servers for WoW Shadowlands
Back in April of 2016 the demand for a legacy version of Vanilla WoW was at its peak. Eventually fans were able to prevail and thanks to some talented developers at Blizzard WoW Classic was successfully released. What you may not know is that at that time J. Allen Brack,…
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BlizzCon 2020 is Officially Canceled: About Shadowlands and Other Plans
With E3 and other major gaming events getting canceled, postponed, or partially moved online this year, the news of BlizzCon 2020 being officially canceled may not be all that surprising. Still, with EA, CD Projekt Red, Xbox, Ubisoft, and others scheduling some livestreams and events online, there was a lot…
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WoW Classic: Zul’Gurub and More Now Available!
Deep within the jungles of Stranglethorn, an ancient troll city full of untold peril awaits. Do you have what it takes to delve into its mysteries? Assemble a band of hardy explorers and make your way to Zul’Gurub. a max-level, 20-player raid instance with 120 new rare and epic items to procure from its verdant tree-lined avenues and lost temples.
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WoW Classic BWL released… and cleared within the hour
Yesterday, on February 12th 2020, at 23:00 UTC, Blackwing Lair, perhaps the most popular raid in the Classic World of Warcraft, went live. No more than seven minutes afterwards, the first raid boss, Razorgore the Untamed was brought down by three different guilds! https://youtu.be/l7ivDtWjzQg Blizzard monitored the player…
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Paid character transfers are now available in WoW Classic
Today Blizzard enabled paid character transfers for World of Warcraft Classic. This service allows players to migrate their characters to a different realm as long as it's in the same region. This has been a service many players were looking forward to after the phase 2 honor system release and…
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WoW Classic Warsong Gulch, Alterac Valley released the week of December 10th
Kaivax, a Blizzard Community Manager, posted today on the official WoW Classic forums that they've moved up some of the content release from phase 3 to the week of December 10th. Phase 3 was originally planned with the following content: Blackwing Lair Darkmoon Faire Darkmoon deck drops begin Alterac Valley…
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Blizzard is releasing Dire Maul on October 15th in WoW Classic
This just in! Ion Hazzikostas has announced during an official content preview video that on October 15th Blizzard will be releasing Dire Maul ahead of the Phase 2 launch! Dire Maul was originally slated for a phase 2 release, however due to player feedback they have moved just the Dire…
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Some World of Warcraft Classic servers already have hour-long queues to get in
The WoW experience is being replicated faithfully.
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'World of Warcraft's' virtual gold is seven times more valuable than Venezuela's real money
How worthless is the bolivar, Venezuela's currency? You'd be better off investing in fictional currency from a video game. The virtual gold in "World of Warcraft," the online role-playing game, is now almost seven times more valuable than real cash from Venezuela, whose economy is in shambles. As the South American country suffers an economic crisis due to extreme inflation, the value of bolivar has cratered.
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Your WoW subscription buys Blizzard less than two weeks of toilet paper
Blizzard is a pretty big company, but thankfully, its games seem to be bringing in enough to keep the lights on, and the bathrooms well-equipped. But just how much money does that require, and what kind of impact are you, a single player having on Blizzard’s ongoing ability to operate?
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World of Warcraft: Classic set to launch on August 27
World of Warcraft fans who remember the original iteration of the game — or are ready to experience it for the first time — can jump in on August 27. World of Warcraft: Classic will be included for all World of Warcraft subscriptions. It’s set to roll out in stages that slowly introduce all of the appropriate raid content to allow for a similar endgame to the original progression of the game.
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Itemization in WoW Classic explained by Blizzard
Blizzard Community Manager Kaivax posted on the WoW Classic forums today the plans they have for itemization in World of Warcraft Classic. The information should not be a surprise to anyone who's been keeping up to date with news and information being release. Effectively all items will have the stats…
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Blizzard releases the PVP content plan for WoW Classic
Today Bornakk posted the PVP content plan for WoW Classic. It will be rolled out across the previously mentioned phases with only world PVP and no honor system being in place at launch. Also worth noting is that when the honor system does release they will be including Dishonorable Kills.…
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My disabled son - ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the detective’
"We were really very traditional. We didn't want him turning his daily rhythm upside down." Sitting in a cafe by his office at Oslo City Hall, Robert Steen describes how he used to worry about his son staying up late into the night. "In retrospect, I think we should have been more interested in the game world, where he spent so much time," says 56-year-old Robert. "By not doing so, we robbed ourselves of an opportunity that we didn't know we had."
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Restoring History: Creating WoW Classic Panel Recap
At BlizzCon 2018, the WoW community got their first chance to experience World of Warcraft Classic for themselves. To help players understand what goes into bringing a Blizzard-quality experience like this to life, software engineers Brian Birmingham and Omar Gonzalez along with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas took the stage Saturday…