Macworld - USA (2019-10-B)

26 MACWORLD OCTOBER 2019

MACUSER

IMAGE: LEIF JOHNSON

F

ew of us ever get a chance to
start over from scratch, but
recently World of Warcraft players
got exactly that with the launch of
WoW Classic (go.macworld.com/wowc).

Blizzard Entertainment’s “newest”

game is essentially the popular massive

multiplayer online roleplaying game

exactly as it played in 2004, right down to

molasses-paced quest text, a dearth of

WoW Classic is a step back

in time—and a step back for

World of Warcraft

The 2004 revival splits the MMO into two different games, and so shatters

its unique sense of history and community.

BY LEIF JOHNSON