World of Warcraft | |
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Developer(s) | Blizzard Entertainment |
Publisher(s) | Vivendi Universal |
Platforms | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, (Linux via Wine or Cedega) |
Release |
NA - 23 November 2004 EU - 11 February 2005 |
Latest release | 4.0.3a |
Genre(s) | MMORPG |
World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW (refer to the game without expansions: vanilla, classic, pre-tBC or pre-BC), is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) set in the Warcraft universe. It is developed by Blizzard Entertainment and contains 2 (and soon 3) expansion packs, including World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, and soon World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
As of 2010, World of Warcraft has more than 12 million monthly subscribers, and currently holds the Guinness World Record for the world's largest and most popular MMORPG.[1] It also continues its further story development throughout its franchising, other than online media, such as Warcraft novels, comics, manga, RPG books, TCG, and board games.
Features
Note the following are the pre-expansion details:
- Uses and expands the storyline from the Warcraft series of games.
- Customizable characters:
- 2 factions: Horde and Alliance.
- 8 races: Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Night Elf, Orc, Troll, Undead, Tauren (expansions: Blood Elf and Draenei, Goblin and Worgen).
- 9 classes: Mage, Warlock, Priest, Rogue, Druid, Hunter, Shaman, Warrior, Paladin (expansions: Death Knight).
- 9 professions, enabling resource gathering and item crafting (expansions: Jewelcrafting, Inscription)
- 4 secondary professions: Cooking, Fishing, First Aid, Riding (expansions: Archaeology)
- 2 class-based professions:
Lockpicking(revamped with patch 4.0.1),Poisons(removed with patch 3.0.2) (expansion: [Runeforging])
- The Talent (and Glyph) system allows further customization of the character's skills and stats.
Gameplay System
- General System
- A casual-friendly character progression system.
- Quests occur frequently, and being offline (resting) increases your experience points gain.
- In-game trading, mail service and auction system.
- Four server types: Normal (PvE), RP, PvP, and RPPvP.
- Quest and Honor Systems
- A PvP [Honor] system, 6 (soon 8) Battlegrounds
- A variety of World Events including:
- 67 Instanced Dungeons, ranging from The Deadmines to Zul'Gurub to Ulduar.
- User Interface and Customer Support
- Customize AddOn and Interface with some game commands support.
- Client seamlessly supports both Mac and Windows operating systems. Linux users can play via Wine, however this is not supported and can be buggy at times.
Availability
- Oceania (English - Australia, Hawaii, New Zealand)
- North America (English - US & Canada)
- Europe (English-UK, French, German, Spanish, Russian)
- South Korea
- China (Simplified and Traditional Chinese; including Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau)
- Latin America[2] (Spanish, English?)
Video
Official trailer |
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See also
- Loading screen
- A listing of World of Warcraft-related sites.
- World of Warcraft Mac OS X Icons
- Timeline (World of Warcraft) for a timeline of game milestones since its announcement.
Trivia
The original WoW is sometimes referred to as "vanilla World of Warcraft," "pre Burning Crusade (Pre BC)," or "classic World of Warcraft".
References
External links
- World of Warcraft Community Site World of Warcraft F.A.Q.
- World of Warcraft Europe World of Warcraft F.A.Q. (en)
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