{"id":59888,"date":"2018-11-02T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/329890"},"modified":"2018-11-02T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T19:26:00","slug":"blizzards-long-awaited-world-of-warcraft-classic-releases-next-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/02\/blizzards-long-awaited-world-of-warcraft-classic-releases-next-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard&#8217;s long-awaited World of Warcraft Classic releases next summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief<\/strong>: Blizzard has announced that its previously announced <em>World of Warcraft Classic <\/em>will officially go online next summer.<\/p>\n<p>The revamped MMORPG<em>\u00a0World of Warcraft<\/em>\u00a0captures a version of the game as it was 14 years ago before various updates and expansions changed the landscape and certain features of the massive online fantasy world.<\/p>\n<p>A throwback version of <em>World of Warcraft<\/em> has been something wanted by players of the long-running MMORPG for a while now. Fans have unofficially tried to set something up on their own through standalone projects created by reverse engineering Blizzard code like Nostalrius, which was met with a legal threat from Blizzard, and it\u2019s follow-up <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/288037\/Nostalrius_devs_relaunch_unofficial_WoW_legacy_server_under_Elysium_banner.php\">Elysium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard\u2019s own take on a vanilla <em>World of Warcraft <\/em>server is now set to go live during the summer of 2019, though folks that are attending Blizzcon either in-person or through the event\u2019s digital ticket can explore an hour-long demo of <em>Classic<\/em> this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Blizzard has announced that its previously announced World of Warcraft Classic will officially go online next summer. The revamped MMORPG\u00a0World of Warcraft\u00a0captures a version of the game as it was 14 years ago before various updates and expansions changed the landscape and certain features of the massive online fantasy world. A throwback version of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}