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World of Warcraft
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Developer(s)Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher(s)Vivendi Universal
Release date(s)NA - 23 November 2004
EU - 11 February 2005
VersionWoW Icon 16x16.gif Patch 1.1.0 - Patch 1.12.2
ExpansionsTBC The Burning Crusade
WotLK Wrath of the Lich King
Cataclysm Cataclysm
Mists of Pandaria Mists of Pandaria (announced)
PlatformsMicrosoft Windows, Mac OS X, (Linux via Wine or Cedega)
Genre(s)MMORPG

WoW Icon 16x16.gif World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) set in the Warcraft universe. It is developed by Blizzard Entertainment and contains 3 expansion packs: TBC World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, WotLK World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and Mists of Pandaria World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria. The initial release is now sometimes know as "vanilla WoW" or "classic WoW".

As of 2010, World of Warcraft has more than 12 million monthly subscribers,[1][citation needed] and currently holds the Guinness World Record for the world's largest and most popular MMORPG.[2] 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.

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Features Edit

Note the following are the pre-expansion details:

Gameplay System Edit

General System
Quest and Honor Systems
Events
User Interface and Customer Support
  • Customize AddOn and Interface with some game commands support.
  • Client seamlessly supports both Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Linux users can play via Wine (MS Windows emulation), however this is not supported and can be buggy at times.

Availability Edit

  • 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[3] (Spanish, English?)

Video Edit

Official trailer

Trivia Edit

The original WoW is sometimes referred to as "vanilla World of Warcraft," "pre Burning Crusade (Pre BC)," or "classic World of Warcraft".

References Edit

See also Edit

External links Edit

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