It's finally happening: World of Warcraft Classic is getting "Classic Plus," a version of the game based on its original design philosophy featuring brand-new, never-before-seen content.
After years of hopes and prayers from WoW Classic fans, including myself, we're finally getting a brand-new way to play a game we fell in love with over twenty years ago.
Officially titled World of Warcraft: Forever, servers are set to go live on November 4th, 2026. Beta will begin this Thursday.
We had a feeling this was coming after Blizzard began sending cease-and-desist notices to private servers delivering a Classic Plus-style experience.
It's been a long, strange journey for WoW Classic. At BlizzCon 2013, J. Allen Brack, then a Vice President for World of Warcraft, infamously told a fan who wanted to play older versions of the game, "You think you do, but you don't."
Four years later, it was J. Allen Brack, then Senior Vice President, who confirmed that legacy World of Warcraft Classic servers were in development. Two years later, they launched, proving that people 100% wanted to experience the iconic MMORPG as it once was.
Here we are, seven years later, with...
