World of Warcraft (2004)
World of Warcraft is a 2004 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Blizzard Entertainment.
Blizzard's 2004 massively multiplayer RPG drops you into Azeroth, a continent-spanning world built from twenty years of Warcraft lore, where thousands of players share the same persistent sky. You pick a faction, a race, a class, and then start moving: killing, questing, trading, and forming guilds with strangers who become regulars. The game set the template for an era of online RPGs, not through any single feature but through the accumulated texture of a world that always had something going on around the next corner.
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What is World of Warcraft about?
Blizzard's 2004 massively multiplayer RPG drops you into Azeroth, a continent-spanning world built from twenty years of Warcraft lore, where thousands of players share the same persistent sky. You pick a faction, a race, a class, and then start moving: killing, questing, trading, and forming guilds with strangers who become regulars. The game set the template for an era of online RPGs, not through any single feature but through the accumulated texture of a world that always had something going on around the next corner.
When was World of Warcraft released?
World of Warcraft was released on 23 November 2004.
Who made World of Warcraft?
World of Warcraft was made by Blizzard Entertainment.
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