World of Warcraft: Forever's magical opening week reminds us all about the power of the MMO, and the threat it poses to your free time
World of Warcraft: Forever is a time vampire. Since its release last Wednesday, I have spent 78 hours in Azeroth. Some of that I was AFK, sure.
Why am I seeing this Ranked on source trust — Eurogamer
It ranks mainly on source trust: Eurogamer is the most reliable outlet we track on this subject, and is the only one on the story so far.
Single-sourced. No second organisation has confirmed it yet.
Link-outLink-out, because only one organisation carries it and no first-party source is on it and the subject could not be identified from the text. Link-out means we point at the publisher and say nothing of our own.
| Factor | Weight | Score | Contribution | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corroboration | 0.35 | 0.39 | +0.135 30% | 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
| Source trustleads | 0.25 | 0.80 | +0.200 44% | Eurogamer is the highest-trust source on this story. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
| Pickup rate | 0.20 | 0.00 | +0.000 0% | One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate. |
| Freshness | 0.20 | 0.61 | +0.121 27% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
Corroboration counts distinct organisations, once each, and only from tiers 1 and 2. Freshness halves every 10 hours, so this ranking is a snapshot and will differ at the next build.
What happened
World of Warcraft: Forever is a time vampire. Since its release last Wednesday, I have spent 78 hours in Azeroth. But for many of those hours, I was lost, happily, in the rolling hills and vast planes of Blizzard's MMO - now enhanced, beautified, and given a new social energy that makes the old feel wonderfully new.
How this story arrived
Ordered by when each source was first observed, which is what the velocity figure is computed from. Publishers backdate; observed order does not.
- 01 Eurogamer first seen World of Warcraft: Forever's magical opening week reminds us all about the power of the MMO,
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