World of Warcraft (commonly acronymed as WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). It is Blizzard Entertainment's fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994.World of Warcraft takes place within the world of Azeroth, four years wow gold after the events at the conclusion of Blizzard's previous release, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Blizzard Entertainment announced World of Warcraft on September 2, 2001.The game was released on November 23, 2004, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise. It is currently the world's largest MMORPG in terms of monthly subscribers,and holds the Guinness World Record for the most popular MMORPG.World of Warcraft currently holds 62%[citation needed] of the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) market at 10 million subscribers.

The first official expansion pack of the game,ok WoW Gold The Burning Crusade, was released on January 16, 2007. On August 3, 2007 during the 2007 BlizzCon event, Blizzard announced a second expansion pack called Wrath of the Lich King,to be released on November 13, 2008.

Unlike previous games in the Warcraft series, World of Warcraft is a MMORPG, not a real-time strategy game. There are some similarities with previous games in the series, including the use of the same setting of the world of Azeroth as well as following a similar art direction.As with other MMORPGs, players control a character avatar within a game world, exploring the landscape, fighting monsters, completing quests and interacting with NPCs or other players. In common with many other MMORPGs, World of Warcraft requires the player to pay for a subscription, either by buying World Of Warcraft Gold game cards for a WoW Gold amount of playing time from a retailer, or by using a credit or debit card to pay on a regular basis.

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