THE STORIES BEHIND THE GAME
Good reads for your next queue.
Guides, big moments, and the people behind them.
World of Warcraft: Forever rebuilds every talent tree, drops realms, adds nine dungeons and a thousand quests, and keeps level 60. We went through every change against Classic, and we kept the collection we wrote before the reveal.
A paid leveling guide addon was advertised during the Forever Open broadcast, and two Blizzard forum threads passed 880 posts arguing over whether it breaks the add-on policy. What Journey and RestedXP actually sell, what Blizzard's policy says word for word, and why Blizzard hasn't answered.
Asmongold's Olympus grew past 30,000 members across 30+ guilds in the WoW Forever beta. Then an addon to mute all of them passed 34,000 downloads. What the addon does, what Asmongold said, both sides of the forum fight, and Blizzard's silence.
Every answer from the September 17 WoW Forever developer Q&A with Josh Greenfield, Nora Mills and Tim Jones: GDKP, addons, raid sizes, single difficulty, Oceanic servers, surnames, PvP, transmog, the Skyborne, and what they skipped.
Nora Mills confirmed at the September 17 Q&A that Forever uses the modern (Midnight) addon API, with a built-in damage meter, cooldown manager and a swing timer coming. What still works, what does not, and why.