The early days of the World of Warcraft
Posted on 2009 under 5th-anniversary, WOW News, anniversary, background, blogs, early-days, gamespot, history, ign, mmo, posts, release, reviews, warcraft-iii, wow-5, wow-5-year-anniversary, wow-5th-anniversary | Comments23 Nov

It’s been five years since this game launched, and it’s changed so much that you might have forgotten what life was like back then. But thanks to the magic of the Internet, those times are saved in clear HTML. Let’s dig up some memories of the early game.
It’s interesting to think what Blizzard was like before World of Warcraft. Today, the two are almost synonymous — while they have two other major franchises (and one secret IP hiding in the works), it’s almost impossible for anyone to think of Blizzard without thinking of WoW, and vice versa. The company has become almost solely defined by what they’ve done with this game. But of course, before the release, that wasn’t the case.
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