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.

After a shockingly long content drought and disappointing expansion previews, World of Warcraft proved that no one cares about content droughts and disappointing expansion previews by resecuring over 10,000,000 subscriptions, just in time for its 10th anniversary celebration. To compensate for the trainwreck launch of Warlords of Draenor, Blizzard granted the entire playerbase five extra days of gametime.

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

	Elite: Dangerous considers granting even more refunds
	Elite: Dangerous has begun issuing refunds over offline play debacle
	Braben clarifies Elite: Dangerous' lack of an offline mode
	Elite: Dangerous won't feature offline play after all

	Guild Wars 2's Tangled Paths update is now live
	Guild Wars 2's revamped sPvP rewards skillful play, not just wins

	In praise of SWTOR's 12X experience
	Concerns about SWTOR's 3.0 combat
	BioWare explains SWTOR's commendation changes
	SWTOR's Sentinel, Marauder discipline changes detailed

	Economy exploits plague ArcheAge
	Hartsman addresses ArcheAge APEX exploit: 'There isn't a dupe bug'
	Which aspect of ArcheAge needs immediate attention?

	'This is EVE,' and it's pretty slick
	Is WildStar's raid size change too late?
	Lost Ark is a full-featured MMO; check out the new trailer
	Raph Koster explains how WoW changed MMOs
	Superdata CEO: F2P audience has 'reached its limits'
	The Game Archaeologist investigates Perpetual's Star Trek Online
	TOME: Immortal Arena MOBA has landed on Steam
	TERA's Fate of Arun expansion is coming December 16th
	Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is now taking donations through Patreon
	Final Fantasy XIV has been besieged by DDoS attacks
	NCsoft releases more Project HON trailers for G-Star 2014
	Blade & Soul and Aion mobile games announced
	NCsoft promises a simultaneous global release for Lineage Eternal
	Big Destiny patch adds expansion stuff, shaders, and more
	Goat MMO Simulator boasts one level more than World of Warcraft
	Activision Blizzard resolves class action lawsuits
	New WoW video is proof that Blizzard hates Gnomes
	WoW's Dark Portal has reopened in a Shanghai subway

	The Stream Team: World of Warcraft has a new thing
	The Stream Team: Joining the Shards Online dev playtest
	The Stream Team: No more Landmark tour deaths!
	The Stream Team: Experiencing SWTOR's massive XP bonus
	The Stream Team: Poking around in ArcheAge's PvP lands
	The Stream Team: What really happened to EQII's Isle of Refuge?

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