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'World of Warcraft: Midnight' Season 1 story end suggests to me that Blizzard really needs to rethink its story design processes — This could be much better, and far more satisfying with only a few tweaks.

SPOILERS: World of Warcraft's latest expansion is already proving controversial for re-treading some of the game's most hated lore. But is Blizzard trying to fix it, or will they end up making it worse?

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World of Warcraft lead asks how players would feel about playing the MMO on controller with a dedicated UI, but fans "fear that the PC experience will get worse"

They community does think it's likely to happen, however

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Former Overwatch lead Jeff Kaplan has "over 5,000 hours" in Rust and calls it "the pinnacle of PvP games," but his own survival game takes cues from World of Warcraft

"The game that we're making is not like Rust in many ways"

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World of Warcraft secret hunters perform synchronized dance in a 40-player raid group to finally solve a year-old puzzle, proving they will do anything for a new outfit

You can't even get 40 people into a raid anymore.

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Some are celebrating, but World of Warcraft's move away from the "Horde" and "Alliance" faction split will be seen as a historic mistake

Not only does it undermine decades of lore and world-building, but player identity is how you reach your audience when they're not gaming. WoW's iconic faction split is under threat, and that's a bad thing, actually.

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Blizzard is finally giving World of Warcraft fans an official Pride event in a new Midnight update, after 12 years of a community-led run: "Sounds gay, I'm in"

Final Fantasy 14 fans hope their beloved MMO will "follow suit"

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WoW to get an official pride event, based on a community run that's raised money for 12 years

We be runnin', mon.

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World of Warcraft guild known for raid-busting exploits disqualified from new Midnight Mythic race by Blizzard after hitting 1 boss for 300 million damage: "Absolute gamers"

A short-lived reign in the raid's Hall of Fame

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World of Warcraft: Midnight review

Gorgeous, ambitious, and messy—but far from a dark night of the soul.

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Doom co-creator John Romero worked on a Pokemon-like MMO that taught you maths, but "felt like you were playing World of Warcraft"

Project Redwood had ideas to spare

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World of Warcraft: Midnight review — This dark middle act has immense ambition, but Blizzard is spreading itself thin at the cost of quality

The high bar Blizzard has set itself has given us more "stuff" to do in WoW than ever, but there's a variety of quality issues that are compounding into frustration.

Windows Central

World of Warcraft: Midnight's class balancing is steering the MMO headfirst into a mistake that's been haunting FF14 for years

Two minute terror.

PC Gamer

World of Warcraft players go back to work on a year-old mystery after one of them accidentally unlocks the 10th orb in a puzzle hidden in the new Midnight expansion

Players suspected their job wasn't finished and now they finally know there's more to find.

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"Typical hubris" led to one of WoW's "s**ttiest" quests, admits creator Jeff Kaplan, who thought he was a clever designer but was "actually a dips**t"

Jeff from the Overwatch team, how could you?

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Blizzard's canceled World of Warcraft follow-up was a "1 server, 1 world" MMO with GTA and Animal Crossing influences, ex dev says, but it was so big it "could never ship"

Project Titan was a "gargantuan, huge undertaking" that eventually paved the way for Overwatch

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WoW's Horde/Alliance split was 'really controversial', says Jeff Kaplan, to the point where it was only locked in 9-12 months before the game's launch

"He liked the fact you were instantly on a team."

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World of Warcraft: Midnight review: "My devotion to this world has been renewed thanks to solid RPG storytelling, and questing that feels more varied than ever"

PC Gamer

WoW's new allied race in Midnight, the Haranir, has a model clipping issue with dozens of gear items—a problem that's been on the PTR for months

Does this outfit make my butt clip?

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The PC game releases we're most excited about in March

This month's calendar gets a little crowded.

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World of Warcraft players are once again slaying hundreds of frogs, this time to skin their hides before Blizzard catches them

Frog farming is back.

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Blizzard squashes major World of Warcraft XP exploit less than an hour before the MMO's Midnight early access begins, sending power levelers back to the drawing board

"Endeavor XP is temporarily disabled in Midnight Early Access"

PC Gamer

Here's when World of Warcraft: Midnight launches in your time zone

The dawn of a new era approaches.

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"We've got this whole huge world": Blizzard is revamping World of Warcraft's "decades" old zones for new expansion Midnight, because "we should be able to use them, and we want to"

"...all these places that have such strong memories for us"

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Blizzard preps patch for World of Warcraft housing in Midnight, but players seem to want more from the MMO's hot new feature: "Digital dollhouse with no basic functionality"

Midnight approaches

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Blizzard is so concerned with World of Warcraft expansion Midnight completely changing the MMO's meta that it's already loading over a month of balance patches

The team will try to "avoid being overly disruptive to progression"

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