World of Warcraft
The definitive MMORPG — millions of players adventuring across Azeroth for two decades.
🌤indoor
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
indoor
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