About 0hp

0hp is a World of Warcraft: Forever site first. The tools are the front door: a talent calculator, a hunter pet reference and Blizzard's patch notes restructured by class, each generated from the game's own data or Blizzard's own posts and dated on its face. The calendar keeps the dates, Forever's at the top. Other online games stay covered as the secondary beat, with a publisher source beside each date. We publish independently, link out freely to Wowhead, the wikis and the official pages, and label our own analysis.

The name is zero hit points. The moment the fight is over and the numbers are in.

How a fact gets on a page

A tool page is generated from the client's own tables or Blizzard's own posts, never typed, and it says which build it read and when. A stale reading is refused by our own checks. Every date is announced or estimated, and the page says which; an estimate is never dressed up as a confirmed date, in the words on the page or in the structured data underneath it.

The only things read while writing are the publisher's own: patch notes, developer blogs, press releases, their own forums and their own Steam news posts. Other outlets are read for leads and are never a source.

Credit is not optional here. Where a creator, a guild, a wiki, a dataminer or a rival outlet found or explained something first, they get named and linked in the body of the piece. We state the fact in our own words, point at the people who did the work, and send you to them.

Every article is pegged to a publisher announcement, links it in the first hundred words, and carries at least one section the announcement does not have: a table, a timeline, a before and after, or the part they left out.

Where we stand

We have a point of view and we would rather tell you what it is than pretend to have none.

We are old school at heart. We like worlds over lobbies, power that was earned over power that was bought, servers with names and reputations, and games that respect the fact that you have a life. That is a preference, not a rule, and we cover the secondary beat fairly whether or not it shares it.

We are against pay-to-win. Cash shops that sell power, paid progression, loot-box odds and "convenience" that turns out to be a paywall get called what they are, with the specifics, every time a source touches one. When a publisher ships something generous we say that just as plainly, and we do.

Our criticism aims at publishers and systems, never at players. The audience for a piece about a game is the people who play it. We will be sharp about a decision, and sometimes funny about it, and we will not make a joke that needs one of you as the punchline. A game can have died three times under three publishers without a word against the people who loved it.

Opinion always sits on top of a sourced fact, never instead of one, and the section carrying it is headed Our take so you can see where the reporting stops and we start.

The art

Every article leads on an original painted scene made for it: the landscapes, weather and mood of a game's world, never its characters, its logos or its interface. We do not use publisher screenshots, because that art belongs to the studios that made it, and we would rather make something of our own than borrow badly.

Who writes it

0hp publishes under the brand, with no personal bylines. How the writing is actually done is set out in full on the AI disclosure page, which is deliberately blunt about it.

0hp is independent. It is not affiliated with any game publisher and does not speak for one. Every trademark named here belongs to its owner, and the notices those owners ask for are reproduced on the legal page.

Corrections

Write to [email protected]. A wrong date is the worst thing that can happen to a page like this, so corrections go to the front of the queue and are fixed the same day they can be confirmed. Say which page and what changed. The contact page has the rest.

How to follow this site

Every road out is free, needs no account and asks for nothing.

• RSS or Atom. /feed.xml carries every article in full, so a reader app shows you the whole piece without sending you anywhere.
• JSON Feed. /feed.json is the same list in the format newer apps and tools prefer.
• One section only. Each section has its own feed: /news/feed.xml, /patches/feed.xml, /launches/feed.xml.
• Updates and new dates, on the trackers. /calendar/feed.xml, /sunsets/feed.xml and /releases/feed.xml carry one entry per row, keyed on the day we last updated it. An update arrives as a new entry rather than a quiet edit, which is the whole point of following a tracker rather than re-reading it. Each entry says whether it is new on the tracker or one we updated. None of them claims a date moved, because the day we changed a row cannot tell you whether a studio moved a date or we sharpened a detail, and we do not record which it was. The row's note and the publisher's page it links are what to read.
• Bluesky. We post there as @0hp.com, and we reply.
• The newsletter. One email a week: what we added, what we updated, and what we wrote up. Where a subscribe box appears on this site, that is what it signs you up for.