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World of Warcraft's 'immortality' levelling experience is a bug, with a fix coming soon

Blizzard confirmed to us today that the inability to die in World of Warcraft's new levelling experience is a bug, with a fix rolling out soon to patch their "cheat death" mechanic for new players.

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World of Warcraft director says leaning on games like Warcraft 3 to make the MMO's most iconic villains means that Blizzard has "struggled" to create new bad guys since

The Worldsoul Saga is here to "build up a threat and give it the time that the story deserves"

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WoW game director Ion Hazzikostas says they're already drafting up plans for The Last Titan's patches—that's 2 expansions after The War Within, in case you're keeping score

Look to the future now, it's only just begun.

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World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas says the Worldsoul Saga is letting Blizzard give its villains some much-needed character: 'Dragons are really cool, but it's hard to grasp the motivations of a being the size of a city'

"What if we give this some time to breathe and give us some time to let the story go where it ought to go?"

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'It's time to rebuild some foundations': Shadowlands forced Blizzard to rethink World of Warcraft's oldest ideas to make it a better MMO, director says

Player feedback has fueled several core changes to the MMO as it nears the release of its 10th expansion.

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WoW's devs will continue to use private auras, which limit UI addon functionality, in The War Within: though they'd like to be selective to avoid cures 'worse than the disease'

"A lot of what it boils down to is reclaim some design space."

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'The concerns about claustrophobia were a major aspect' of desiging World of Warcraft: The War Within's underground zones, says director

Blizzard didn't want Azeroth's caves to be drab.

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The next World of Warcraft expansion features an ancient race of spider people, so ahead of The War Within, the MMO is getting an arachnophobia mode to turn them into crabs instead

That's good news for WoW fans and plenty on the development team

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Blizzard quietly had World of Warcraft players test run The War Within's biggest new feature last year: underground zones

Dragonflight's Zaralek Caverns were the blueprint for what's coming in the next expansion.

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No matter how many years you've been away, World of Warcraft: The War Within is a perfect jumping on point for the MMO

After playing The War Within alpha, I'm almost certainly going to renew my subscription to the famed MMO later this year

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WoW: The War Within will tell its main story via delves and dungeons 'when it makes sense', giving me hope for an escape from 2 decades of raid-centric storytelling

That's the World of Warcraft that you play (on YouTube).

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The state of WoW going into 2024: Blizzard had to deliver the best year ever for World of Warcraft, and it did

Dragonflight’s roaring success (and Classic's staying power) saved the 20-year-old MMO.

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World of Warcraft's disjointed story 'is something that we need to improve', says MMO's director, 'I can completely acknowledge that is a weakness'

World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas aims to fix problems with the MMORPG's story structure.

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WoW's game director says he's keen on organising its scattered story for new players: 'that is a weakness ... Chris Metzen and I chatted [about it] a bunch'

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World of Warcraft's director says the game is 'letting go of old stubbornness' after the fumbles of Shadowlands

Out with the old, in with the new.

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Announcing all three Warcraft expansions at once 'helps set expectations'

Warcraft's game director announced all three expansions at once to prove to fans that there are 'big ambitious plans'.

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Warcraft’s game director explains why Blizzard debuted three expansions at once: 'Speaking it out loud makes it real'

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WoW: The War Within director says there's "no long-term advantage" to buying the controversial $90 early access edition

Blizzard says it's doing "everything" in its power to make the expansion's different editions fair

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World of Warcraft director says players who pay for early access to the next expansion won't have a 'long-term advantage'

Players are not happy that WoW is hopping on the special edition early access trend with its next expansion.

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Will World of Warcraft ever come to Xbox, PlayStation, or Nintendo Switch? Blizzard gives us an update.

Now that Microsoft owned Activision-Blizzard, the firm may be willing to invest in finally bringing the legendary, near-20-year-old MMO to consoles. Here's the latest info.

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World of Warcraft director shoots down console port rumors

Ion Hazzikostas clarifies that the MMORPG isn't leaving PC.

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World of Warcraft interview: Eternity’s End patch 9.2, patch 9.2.5 and the future of the game

We spoke with Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas about the future of the Shadowlands expansion – and beyond.

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