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Dragonflight could soar if it wasn’t saddled with World of Warcraft’s messy storylines
A great expansion with an unsure future
World of Warcraft’s Leeroy Jenkins invades historic Speaker of the House vote
Congress is getting punchy and impatient, just like our favorite WOW player of all time
Wrath of the Lich King Classic’s Changes Make World Of Warcraft’s Best Expansion Even Better
World of Warcraft’s Wrath of the Lich King expansion is often regarded as the high point in the history of Blizzard’s long-running MMORPG, and all the changes, both big and small, Blizzard made to the expansion for its 2022 re-release make the beloved expansion even better.
The 2008 release of Wrath of the Lich King is viewed as peak WoW for good reason. It introduced the game’s first new class, the iconic Death Knight, and starred the franchise’s most well-known villain, Arthas. 2010, at the height of the expansion, is also when the game’s subscription numbers peaked at over 12 million active players. For many fans, when they think of WoW, they think of Wrath of the Lich King.
Blizzard had two options for this year’s re-release of the expansion, Wrath of the Lich King Classic: Keep Wrath of the Lich King largely as it was, or introduce changes. Nostalgia is a powerful tool, and too many changes could ruin what players remembered about playing the original. It was a mostly no-changes approach that the WoW Classic team used when it re-released the original, vanilla version of the MMO in 2019, which by all accounts seems to have been a much bigger success than even Blizzard predicted.
World Of Warcraft’s past magic lies buried in YouTube comments
I’d argue that Azeroth’s unending expansion has taken the shine off a world that used to positively sparkle. Still, no matter what I think about World Of Warcraft today, it still holds a special place in my heart as an important formative experience.
Even the time capsule that’s Classic WoW probably couldn’t capture the same buzz of the past, mainly because I, as a being of flesh and bone, am not a teenager anymore. But I’d argue there’s one place that still captures the essence of WoW more than WoW itself nowadays: YouTube. Or to be more specific, channels which provide hour-long music and ambience from some of the game’s most memorable zones.
Blizzard’s Holly Longdale on World of Warcraft’s intergenerationality
World Of Warcraft’s Dragonflight expansion lifts off on November 28th
Blizzard have revealed that the next expansion for World Of Warcraft, Dragonflight, will launch on November 28th. Dragonflight hits at 11pm GMT/3pm PST, and 12am CET on November 29th. The expansion opens up the Dragon Isles region, which is populated by dragonkind, as you might expect from the name. Mount your favourite flying lizard and watch the trailer below.