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In defense of tab-targeting: MMO devs have been trying to put dodge rolls in their games for 10+ years to avoid WoW, and it's never worked

Only difference is, we still need a new game to prove 'em wrong.

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Blizzard's reason for adding premium currency to World of Warcraft after 21 years of doing just fine without one has everyone worried about player housing

Nobody's buying it.

PC Gamer

WoW's game director says they don't want combat AddOns to do anything the base UI doesn't: 'The overarching goal of the changes in Midnight is to level the playing field'

Interface-off.

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World of Warcraft director says it's not getting easier in Midnight because it's coming to consoles: 'There's no reason for us to hide anything about this'

WoW will remain a PC game first and foremost.

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World of Warcraft director says Blizzard has no plans to bring the MMO to consoles: "Our focus remains on the PC-based experience"

"There is no reason for us to hide anything about this"

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It sure looks like World of Warcraft is getting its first premium currency after 21 years to monetize player housing in its next expansion

Azeroth's interior designers better start saving up.

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No, World of Warcraft isn’t being dumbed down for consoles — Ion Hazzikostas sets the record straight

From addon restrictions to simpler rotations, Blizzard says Midnight’s changes are about making WoW easier to learn, not dumbing it down.

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Final Fantasy 14 and World of Warcraft are starting to meet in the middle on modding, and it's a strange new world for MMOs and their AddOn communities

Two households, both alike in genre, in fair AddOn-a, where we lay our scene.

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With a lawsuit looming, World of Warcraft private server Turtle WoW has issued a formal plea for a fan server licensing: 'We hope that Blizzard embraces fan‑driven content as its own legacy, rather than alienate this passionate community'

The letter cites community-driven servers in games like EverQuest and Minecraft.

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Blizzard is giving everyone a chance to try out World of Warcraft's new player housing for free next week

You won't need to own the upcoming expansion to give it a shot.

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Blizzard will break WoW's most popular combat mods sooner than expected, kickstarting a new era for the MMO's boss design in the next major patch

Boss mechanics will have to be dealt with the old-fashioned way starting very soon.

PC Gamer

As World of Warcraft winds down its combat AddOn support, director Ion Hazzikostas is all composure about rule-breakers because 'Frankly, this is far from the first time'

"Going back 20 years, people used to be able to use AddOns like Decursive … we broke that functionality."

PC Gamer

World of Warcraft's new Player Housing system might be its most important new feature in over a decade — and not for reasons you might think

At Gamescom 2025, I tried out World of Warcraft's exciting new Player Housing feature. This is why I think it could end up being the maturing MMO's most important feature in years.

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Blizzard filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against one of World of Warcraft's biggest private servers, but the team behind it is putting on a brave face: 'Challenges come to us often, and each time we are prepared to face them'

Turtle WoW, one of the most popular fan-run takes on World of Warcraft's "classic" era, has been named in a lawsuit for its use of Blizzard's code and art.

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5 Old Navy Items Retirees Should Avoid This Fall

Retirees shopping for fall fashion at Old Navy should beware, as certain sweaters, leggings and jeans suffer from poor fit or cheap fabrics.

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Blizzard promises to add 'speed, power, and fun' back to WoW Legion Remix after disappointing players with a time-gated grind

Nobody is happy with what felt like a complete 180 from Mists of Pandaria Remix.

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WoW devs want to 'step back' from the 'world-ending' stakes where you get called a pitiful mortal lots, and back to quests like 'oats for Blanchy'—presumably without sending the horse to hell afterwards

"Housing is going to be another place where we start to do that."

Destructoid

The big WoW Midnight interview: Endeavor System, Black Blood, Beledar, and uniting the scattered tribes

Everything leads to Midnight.

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World of Warcraft takes home decorating in MMOs like Final Fantasy 14 and adds the freedom of The Sims 4 building to it, letting you "resize and rotate stuff" using 3D software made to look more "WoW-like"

World of Warcraft's in-depth home decorator originally looked "too much like a software," so Blizzard "changed the art to feel like magic"

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World of Warcraft design lead says the upcoming housing feature is a "challenge" for performance and accessibility because it's not "anything like existing zones and the kinds of content that we've had before"

Blizzard wants to make WoW housing both deep and accessible

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World of Warcraft: Midnight's new intro cinematic is overflowing with elves and their abnormally long eyebrows

What's the maintenance like on those things?

PC Gamer

WoW players are losing their minds over a 19-quest long chain about bees, and while it is a bit much, I remember far worse

Eco-drone.

PC Gamer

WoW's Legion Remix won't make you choose between transmogs and gear—adds harder world content, Mythic+ style dungeons, and enough cool stuff to make me almost forget about Mage Tower

I never got to play it, but I might be okay with that.

Benzinga

WOW! Stock Rockets Nearly 48% After-Hours As DigitalBridge, Crestview Strike $1.5 Billion Deal To Take Broadband Provider Private

WideOpenWest Inc. (NYSE:WOW) shares surged 47.93% in after-hours trading on Monday following the announcement of a $1.5 billion all-cash acquisition by DigitalBridge Group Inc. (NYSE:DBRG) and Crestview Partners. The deal values WOW! at $5.20 per share, representing a 63% premium to Friday’s closing price.

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An anti-FOMO approach would be unthinkable for most MMOs and live service games, but it's the secret to Old School RuneScape's new peak of 240,000 players: "Everything you earn matters forever"

12 years after launch, evergreen MMO Old School RuneScape passes 240,000 concurrent players

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