This post originally appeared on Massively from Editor-in-Chief Brianna Royce. At the end of every week, we round up the best and most popular news stories, exclusive features, and insightful columns published on Massively and then present them all in one convenient place. If you missed a big MMO story last week, you've come to the right post.

World of Warcraft's fifth expansion, Warlords of Draenor, launched on Thursday, and predictably, the combination of design blunders and brutal DDoS attacks turned the first few days of launch into a circus of clownshoes. So, you know, an MMO launch. Here are the highlights:

	Warlords of Draenor's rocky launch saga and Reddit controversy continue
	World of Warcraft hit by DDoS attack on expansion launch day
	World of Warcraft deals with downtime, bugs, DDoS attacks
	World of Warcraft vows faster expansion development
	You're too late: People are already 100 in WoW
	WoW's Iron Horde declares war on Times Square
	World of Warcraft's garrisons 'like a personal guild'
	Watch the unboxing of World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor's CE
	World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor launch-day roundup

Read on for the rest of this week's top MMO stories.

	WildStar slashes box prices by 33%
	NCsoft's third quarter report is glowing; WildStar's revenues are not
	WildStar gold exploiters may get lifetime bans
	WildStar is scaling Datascape down to 20 players
	WildStar's Mystery of the Genesis Prime is live

	Guild Wars 2 previews the Tangled Path for November 18th
	Learning from Tyria's past in Guild Wars 2

	An ArcheAge player found a way to kill the servers at will
	ArcheAge is going mobile

	Final Fantasy XIV's Yoshida on housing, test servers, and post-Fanfest
	Turbine pledges to act on LotRO player event griefing
	Lineage Eternal will be playable at G-Star 2014
	Star Citizen's crowdfunding total tops $61 million
	Lost Ark is an isometric action MMO built in Unreal Engine 3
	Watch the full World of Warcraft: Looking for Group documentary
	ZergID, an MMO social network, enters public beta today
	EVE Online turns manual control of ships over to players
	Blizzard fights Snail Games over panda design
	Blizzard wins lawsuit and shuts down Hearthstone clone
	Opinion: Niche MMOs vs. the everything box
	Meet the bosses of TERA's upcoming Fate of Arun expansion
	Diablo was once considered for an MMO, but no longer

	The Stream Team: Win goodies while playing Wizard101
	The Stream Team: Acquiring ArcheAge crafting mats is an adventure
	The Stream Team: Stepping into EQII's Altar of Malice
	The Stream Team: Starting out in Final Fantasy XIV
	The Stream Team: Whiling away Monday in WildStar

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Tags: archeage, guild-wars-2, massively, warlords-of-draenor, wildstar

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