Re-released in August 2019 as World of Warcraft: Classic, a version of the game running with the entire structure of the game as it was up until the release of The Burning Crusade (save for a couple of minor patches, shorter release schedules for the raids and some under-the-hood improvements).

New content was added regularly up until the first expansion the final released dungeon was Naxxramas, the lair of the lich Kel'thuzad.

The original, or 'Vanilla' game, featured a level cap of 60 and was played in the two continents of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms.

It has gone through several iterations and has seen the release of no less than eight expansion packs, with no signs of stopping the dev team claims to have the course of the game planned out several expansions ahead. One of the few MMORPG Long-Runners, WoW has been around for more than a decade and has consistently been the industry leader of the genre since its launch in 2004. There are two factions: the Alliance and the Horde (though neither is automatically good or evil - and in trope terms, both are The Alliance), twenty-three playable races, twelve classes, eleven primary professions, and three secondary professions.

World of Warcraft is based in the world of Azeroth, on four main continents: Kalimdor, the Eastern Kingdoms, Northrend, and Pandaria a group of islands known as The Broken Isles as well as the former planet of Draenor, now known as Outland, whence the Orcs originate, the past of an alternate timeline version of Draenor proper, and several pocket dimensions somehow connected to Azeroth.

It's based on Blizzard Entertainment's popular Warcraft Real-Time Strategy game series and was originally set four years after the conclusion of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, with later expansions advancing the game's plot and timeline. World of Warcraft (2004) is easily the most popular subscription-based Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game ever made.

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