According to Blizzard's John Hight, World of Warcraft unexpectedly suffered "historically higher churn", with figured only returning to stable growth with Dragonflight. Hight analyzed how they got back.
During BlizzCon 2023, the World of Warcraft team announced that the next few expansions would be released faster than players are used to, highlighted by the fact that the MMO developer showcased the next three expansions on stage. The team's development process to do so apparently results from feedback from Shadowlands' glacial pace of content releases, according to the developers in a group interview over the weekend.
With Season 4 of Shadowlands going on now, Blizzard has released a new list of activities and rewards that will become difficult or even impossible to obtain once Dragonflight launches.
Blizzard is trying to entice players back to World of Warcraft, or at least to Shadowlands before Dragonflight releases this fall. The company is offering a free Base Edition copy of the most recent expansion just in time to take part in Season 4.
With Shadowlands Season 4 coming, World of Warcraft has a 50% XP bonus for levels 10-59, and a round of Weekly Quests with bonuses for all.
Now that the story of Shadowlands is complete, Robin takes a step back to reflect on the story, and details what kind of Big Bad she's looking for in the next expansion.
The story of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands will be coming to its conclusion with the release of Update 9.2, Eternity's End. With it will come a new zone, take on a new raid and see the return of class tier sets.
Robin, our resident World of Warcraft expert, has dove headlong into FFXIV. Again. Only for some reason this time feels different.
The latest World of Warcraft update, 9.1.5 is live on the PTR and the update brings new character customization options, new quests, weather effects, balance changes for classes, and more.
World of Warcraft Shadowlands 9.1.5 is going into PTR next week and brings with it some long-requested community features.
Robin takes a look at World of Warcraft's 9.1 patch as well as Classic's Burning Crusade in this edition of Arlee in Azeroth.
World of Warcraft is gearing up for its major content update for Shadowlands, called Chains of Domination, and today it decided to just drop the content notes to dissect ahead of time. Launching on June 29th, WoW's 9.1 update will include a new zone, dungeon, raid as well as the normal balance tweaks major patches come with.
With World of Warcraft's Chains of Domination update fast approaching, players are getting ready for what the upcoming content update will throw at them. Here is a handy little list for those looking for ways to prepare themselves for the Shadowlands update.
In a new post, Blizzard has detailed how the May is being updated with the upcoming 9.1 update for World of Warcraft's Shadowlands.
Flying in MMOs can be a divissive topic, but for better or worse, depending on your angle, its here to stay. Blizzard took to its website to detail just how it will work when Chains of Domination, the 9.1 patch for World of Warcraft Shadowlands, hits later this year.