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News - Blizzard’s long-awaited World of Warcraft Classic releases next summer - xSicKxBot - 11-05-2018
Blizzard’s long-awaited World of Warcraft Classic releases next summer
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/blizzards-long-awaited-world-of-warcraft-classic-releases-next-summer.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p><strong>Newsbrief</strong>: Blizzard has announced that its previously announced <em>World of Warcraft Classic </em>will officially go online next summer.</p>
<p>The revamped MMORPG<em> World of Warcraft</em> captures 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>
<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’s follow-up <a href="http://gamasutra.com/view/news/288037/Nostalrius_devs_relaunch_unofficial_WoW_legacy_server_under_Elysium_banner.php">Elysium</a>.</p>
<p>Blizzard’s 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’s digital ticket can explore an hour-long demo of <em>Classic</em> this weekend.</p>
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