Blizzard has announced World of Warcraft: Forever, its long-awaited Classic Plus project, at BlizzCon 2026. The new version of World of Warcraft will launch in six weeks, while its beta begins immediately following the announcement and is playable on the BlizzCon show floor.
World of Warcraft: Forever begins with the original Vanilla WoW experience, keeping the level cap at 60 while adding new content over time. At launch, Forever will add three new zones, alongside revamped versions of existing areas. The update also introduces the Skyborne Elves, more than 1,000 new quests, and nine new dungeons.
That's a substantial amount of new content for a project that is ultimately built around a version of WoW that's more than two decades old. Blizzard is effectively drawing a line under the original game and asking what it could have looked like if development had continued from Vanilla instead of moving on to The Burning Crusade.
Social features and the player journey are also a major part of Forever, according to Blizzard. That's notable given how different playing World of Warcraft was in 2004, when convincing your friends to start playing was practically part of the process. Forever appears to be chasing...
