World of Warcraft

The definitive MMORPG — millions of players adventuring across Azeroth for two decades.

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What is World of Warcraft?

World of Warcraft is Blizzard Entertainment's massively-multiplayer online role-playing game, launched in November 2004. At its 2010 peak it had 12 million monthly subscribers — the largest MMORPG audience in history. Its Horde-vs-Alliance faction war, high-end raiding, PvP arenas and steady expansion cadence made it the benchmark against which all other MMORPGs are measured. Twenty years on, it remains one of the most-played MMORPGs in the world.

Quick facts

Category

Video Games

Type

Team sport

Players

1–40

Where played

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Country of origin

🇺🇸 United States

Estimated origin

2004, Blizzard Entertainment — the MMORPG that defined the genre

Olympic

No

Popularity

global

Sources & provenance

Last verified 2026-08-24.verified