Legion: The Setup & Features

So yesterday was the day we got to learn what comes next in World of Warcraft. Three of the developers, Tom Chilton, Ion Hazzikostas and Alex Afrasiabi took to the stage of Gamescom in Cologne in Germany to reveal the…

Why Expac 6 can’t, won’t and shouldn’t wait…

OK, so a bit of tinfoil hat theory time, what with the new expansion due to be announced in (checks watch….) just under 8 hours time. I posted this on Twitter this morning: Now to me, that makes perfect sense.…

Windows 10 gave me ideas…

Ok, so having had Windows 10 installed over the past 24 hours, I’ve pretty much fallen in love with it. Even though it’s sometimes buggy and the Start Menu had managed to crash on me completely yesterday necessitating a fix…

The Switching of a main…

So I’ve switched mains. Yep, for 6½ years man and boy I was a paladin tank. And I loved it. I loved the sense of responsibility. The control I had over the flow of the fight. The make or break mechanics…

An issued challenge, certain to be failed.

A challenge. To those who were against flight’s return. To those who took great joy in the thousands of posts and tweets of those expressing their dismay at flight’s removal. To those who cried “fucking whiners” repeatedly in response to…

Why is Flying like a Start Menu?

So, this thing happened last night… [blizzardquote author=”Ion Hazzikostas” link=”http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/376418-dev-watercooler-flying-in-draenor/” source=”http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/blog/19800551/dev-watercooler-flying-in-draenor-10-06-2015″] Dev Watercooler – Flying in Draenor We appreciate the spirited discussion on the topic of flying. The subject has brought out passionate viewpoints and sparked insightful conversations on our…

Content vs Consumption: The lie behind the spin.

Click it to get the original size graphic! Update: Forgot to include the Pandaren starter zone, so that takes Mists up to 11 zones! The Infographic says it all. I may have to take another run at those Wrath figures,…

Mythic Difficulty: Mythic failure?

So, looking at the stats released by MMO Champion it looks like Mythic Raiding has been an abject failure in terms of participation numbers. A few days ago I guesstimated that Mythic was catering to between 2 to 5% of…

#NoFlyNoSub #BringBackFlying

The 2 tags that defined my weekend 😛 And Wow. The last few days have been a flurry of activity on the website, all over the no-flying announcement by Watcher. Not least there was a real spike in site traffic…

Removing Flight in WoW: Why it’s suicidal by Blizzard.

So it happened. Blizzard, via Ion Hazzikostas (AKA Watcher) finally admitted that flight won’t be returning. Not just in WoD, oh no. That would be bad enough. But the big news here, and the one that has the players up…

Warlords has lost 3m subs in 3 months… WoW

Wow. Not the game, just pure unadulterated astonishment. Wow. 3 Million subscribers in 3 months since the last subs call. Thats….amazing, and not in a good way. If you want the full details straight from the horse’s mouth, you can…