World of Warcraft Classic turned into a thing

World of Warcraft Classic started in August 2019 with wow classic gold many believing that player numbers would fall off radically once the rose-tinted glasses came off. Nevertheless, the original World of Warcraft experience continues to be a massive success for Blizzard and has actually doubled the number of players subscribed to WoW because before its launch last year.

Modern World of Warcraft is anticipating its eighth expansion, Shadowlands before the end of the year - exciting things if you have kept up with WoW over recent years. But if you've drifted away as the sport has undergone various - inescapable - changes and you're looking for an MMO experience that's a bit more gritty, you can do much worse than jumping into World of Warcraft Classic.

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World of Warcraft Classic turned into a thing when Blizzard finally gave in following years of players calling for  a return to the'vanilla' adventure of Warcraft. Players got their fix for years through various personal'heritage' servers but when Blizzard ordered Nostalrius, the biggest of these to close its doors back in 2016, fans once more called for an official'vanilla' server. Blizzard finally relented and declared World of Warcraft Classic through the opening ceremony of BlizzCon 2018.

When World of Warcraft initially launched back in 2004, it drew in a massive number of players and cheap classic wow gold rapidly grew to have tens of thousands of subscribers worldwide. Aside from the sheer scale of the game, a large force behind the success of the MMO was that the world where it had been set.