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Players Say World Of Warcraft: Forever’s PvP Realms Are Super Lopsided Right Now, And Blizzard Is Finally Stepping In
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 3 reports
- Momentum
- New
0 in the 3 before
Rising
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 4 to 5 newsrooms by 11:48am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 76% of the past week’s 3844 stories, and number 40 of 299 in Games.Part of a bigger story
World of Warcraft: 3 developments since Thu 5 Nov.Related
WoW: Forever is the biggest launch in World of Warcraft history, says Blizzard (shares World of Warcraft and WoW Forever)Why it’s moving
- Spreading3 of its 4 newsrooms picked it up in the last 3 hours, 2 in the last hour.
- ScoopGamesRadar+ had it 4 hr before anyone else.
1Blizzard is restricting character creation temporarily to try to even the numbers
In Kotaku’s words.2
The bigger story: World of Warcraft
3 developments since Thu 5 Nov.
- World of Warcraft: Forever devs know faction restrictions in PvP are "frustrating," but are doing them anyway
2 newsrooms. Linked by World of Warcraft, forever, devs
Blizzard Can't Stop Tweaking WoW: Forever and It's Only Been 6 Days
You’re here5 newsrooms. Linked by World of Warcraft, know, forever
The story so far
4 newsroomsRising- Reports
- 5
- Newsrooms and sources
- 4
- Last 3 hours
- 3
Rising: more reports in the last three hours than the three before (3 in the last three hours, 0 in the three before).
First with it: GamesRadar+, 4 hr 26 min before anyone else.
Reported by 4 newsrooms.
Counted as one newsroom each, because they ran the same copy: GamesRadar+ and Steam news hub (the same headline).
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 4
- Over
- 6.9 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 6.7 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 10:48pm AEDT | GamesRadar+ | 1 |
| 3:14am AEDT | IGN | 2 |
| 5:30am AEDT | Kotaku | 3 |
| 5:42am AEDT | Polygon | 4 |
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