Last Week on Massively: Warcraft related stories
by Dan O'Halloran 
Dec 9th 2007 at 5:34PM
Once again, it's time for the weekly round up of WoW-related stories posted in the last seven days on our sister site Massively. If you can't wait for the round up post, you can always check out all posts tagged WoW on the site or subscribe to the RSS feed.On with the show!
First official confirmation of new Blizzard MMO
CM Drysc confirmed that Blizzard is working on a "Next Gen MMO", but which one? Is "World of Starcraft" on the horizon?
Cinemassively: Machiniplex to hold Q & A for "Among Fables and Men"
Warcraft Movies' 1st place Drama winner in their recent Fabled Few contest was the awesome Among Fables and Men. Machiniplex is holding an online screening with remastered audio and an interview with the director over Skype.
The most influential MMOG moments
WoW's Toyota commercial made the list for showing that MMO's have gone mainstream. Check out the other watershed moments, but I don't know if any of them equal four wheels of FURY!!
Analyst talks World of Warcraft's churn rate
A Gamasutra article analyzes WoW's revenue gain in the last year as well as its ability to retain customers.
As the Worlds Turn: Neverending Stories
Adam Schumacher continues to explore the intersection of lore and MMOs, this time looking at how Warcraft's backstory affects gameplay.
Behind the Curtain: Making your own lore with Fan Fiction
Craig Whithers continues his weekly column, this time talking about using Fan Fiction to engage in roleplaying of the WoW universe (and others.)
WoW 3v3 tournament ended, videos from the finals
Team Pandemic won the $45,000 grandprize in the 3v3 tournament at Dreamhack in Sweden. Check out the details.
Building a Better MMOusetrap: Buildings, barrens and beyond (Part 4)
Dave Moss completes his 4 part series on MMO environments. Having covered architecture, cities and landscapes, he jumps into dungeons in his latest column.
Gamer Interrupted: Duos are good for relationships
Robin Torres talks about those who play together, stay together. But it isn't as easy as it looks.
Social currency and giving in MMOs
Is giving a gift in-game the same as giving it to a person in RL?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, News items, Features
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
vlad Dec 9th 2007 6:31PM
who cares. we play wow
Charlie Taylor Dec 9th 2007 7:47PM
um, exactly. That's why this post is here, because they're wow related articles.
Reading ftw...
Megalomaniac Dec 9th 2007 8:09PM
I've got a crazy idea here that I'm sure will be grayed out, deleted, or taken as obscenely trollish- how about instead of posting "Last Week on Massively" you guys just post the wow related stories on wowinsider and then on massively post a "Last Week on WoWinsider"? I know that you want to promote massively and all, but in all honesty, it's already an annoyance to sort through 1 blog's worth of fluff to find actual wow "insider content," I don't want to have to do it two times. Additionally, I'm wondering why the 3v3 tourney stuff didn't make a big splash on WoWinsider? Is the 3v3 tourney and dreamhack resurrection of paid wow arena tournaments really "general" mmorpg news? It looks pretty specific to wow to me, and it certainly looks more important than half of the dec 6th posts on wowinsider (If I'm missing a wowinsider post to the tourney please correct me- I don't remember seeing one and a search for 3v3, arena, and dreamhack turned up nothing on wowinsider).
Wulfhere Dec 9th 2007 11:21PM
If it's such a damn chore, why don't you spare US the chore of having to read YOUR drivel?
Koskun Dec 10th 2007 2:09AM
I was just getting ready to make a reply in the same view as Megalomaniac.
Some sort of cross posting is fine, but perhaps if Massively gets something that WoWInsider hasn't yet then just post that story with a "Massively" tag instead of just spamming WoWInsider with it all at once, regardless if it is all WoW specific, which just so happens to be the case this week.
Pucechan Dec 10th 2007 5:09AM
I totally agree. Surely the WoW related articles should be posted primarily on WoWInsider and then referenced on Massively.
Unless of course they are planning to do away with WoW Insider like they did SL Insider.
Since they started focussing primarily on Massively they have "forgotten" to post a few "important" scene happenings here, perhaps they are posted on Massively but a lot of the readers who visit here DO NOT and WILL NOT visit Massively as they JUST want WoW news and discussion.
Matt Warner Dec 10th 2007 12:50PM
WoW Insider is not going anywhere. These weekly link posts do all the sorting for you.
Ken Dec 9th 2007 9:23PM
Last week on Massively:
- a billion Second Life articles
sezmra Dec 10th 2007 9:21AM
I find it peculiar that there's WOW news/articles/whatever that ISN'T posted on WOW Insider, but is instead posted on a generic MMO blog.
Yes, you need to give WOW players a reason to read Massively, that's how that works, but...
I don't read Massively, I won't read Massively, and I will not read it even if WOW Insider is retired. It was a neat idea, but the implementation of it has been messy.
If we're ever allowed a more thorough sign in feature with the ability to customize the news we see, then maybe I'll give it another chance... until then, it's just Second Life Insider(which I do not approve of being lumped in as an MMO - this was your chance at fostering the new genre of "worldbuilding" software, whoops) with other MMO news weeded throughout to make it seem like a new blog.
Matt Warner Dec 10th 2007 12:37PM
Do you use RSS reader? You can subscribe to the WoW category, and make shiny happy people happy again.
http://www.massively.com/category/world-of-warcraft/rss.xml
Savant Dec 10th 2007 7:02PM
Ken wrote:
Last week on Massively:
- a billion Second Life articles
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EXACTLY. Massively is the new 'Second Life Insider', half of the posts are related to an MMO that only a small number of people play. I checked out Massively a couple times, but stopped reading when I realized that it was just a Second Life spam fest. I don't have time to wade through all that.
Ghen Dec 10th 2007 9:34AM
Once again "Last week on massively" delivers in spades =)
Matt Warner Dec 10th 2007 12:32PM
This will happen every week.
mcclary Dec 10th 2007 9:51AM
Massively is blocked here at work and wowinsider isn't. So my selfish vote goes for posting more stuff on wow insider! If I am at home, I would rather use my time to play wow, than chase down articles on the internet.