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World of Warcraft (WoW) is a 2004 massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG) video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Windows and Mac OS X.Set in the Warcraft fantasy universe, World of Warcraft takes place within the world of Azeroth, approximately four years after the events of the previous game in the series, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. [3]
The "Battle.net" edition of Warcraft II was also the first to introduce the use of CD keys to the series, requiring each user online to have their own copy of the game in order to be able to connect. In 1998, an adventure game in the series, Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans , was announced as being canceled, having been previously delayed ...
In the United States, it was the second-best-selling computer game of 1996, again behind Myst. [57] The game sold 835,680 copies and earned $34.5 million in the region for the year. [ 58 ] To capitalize on this success, Blizzard released the Warcraft Battlechest on November 11, [ 59 ] which bundled Warcraft: Orcs & Humans with Warcraft II and ...
Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal is an expansion pack for the real-time strategy video game Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness for MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. It was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and Cyberlore Studios, [3] and published by Blizzard in North America and Europe in 1996.
Two new playable races were added to World of Warcraft in The Burning Crusade: the Draenei of the Alliance and the Blood Elves of the Horde.Previously, the shaman class was exclusive to the Horde faction (available to the orc, troll and tauren races), and the paladin class was exclusive to the Alliance faction (available to the human and dwarf races); with the new races, the expansion allowed ...
The four leveling zones that comprise the Shadowlands are ruled by "Covenants", similar to the Class Orders introduced in Legion.Each Covenant has its own campaign, similar to the War Campaign in Battle for Azeroth, with gear specific to the faction and abilities both universal and determined by class.
World of Warcraft Classic is a 2019 massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment.Running alongside the main version of the game, Classic recreates World of Warcraft in the vanilla state it was in before the release of its first expansion, The Burning Crusade.
The death knight is the first "hero class" introduced in World of Warcraft, and would be the only one available until the introduction of the demon hunter in Legion.Hero classes are those that start the game at a higher level than the regular level 1.