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Many players had asked developer Blizzard Entertainment to revive the original version of the game, known as "classic" or "vanilla" WoW.While not identical to the original, WoW Classic will replicate a majority of the features from the first game.World of Warcraft is a fantasy game in which players roam the virtual world, fighting monsters and completing quests.
Blizzard said some players who had been given early access to the classic version - which is released at 23:00 BST on Monday - mistakenly thought some of the original features were errors.WoW's launch was a significant moment," says Piers Harding-Rolls, from the IHS Markit consultancy. "It had a broad impact on the gaming sector as a whole and especially the online gaming scene.
"The appeal and accessibility of the game meant it soon grew to millions of users in the West and broadened the audience for this type of game significantly."It was so popular in the US that Blizzard - then part of Vivendi - ran ads on TV with celebrity endorsements. This was pretty much unheard of back in 2004."
Oli Walsh, editor of video-game website Eurogamer, said: "The quality of the execution set it apart, along with Blizzard's ability to make this previously rather intimidating style of game approachable to a broad audience.
"It was, and remains, so well done that nothing has really supplanted it in 15 years - although many tried. Arguably, it was the first truly mass-market online game."Luciano Frias-Andrade, who has played WoW since it was released in the UK in 2005, said the game had evolved considerably.
"Back then it was a very different world, with no short cuts. I remember spending a day 'walking' by foot from the human capital to the elven home town, just to be the first human there," he told the BBC. "When I arrived, it caused a sensation. Everyone said: 'A human, here? How?'"
He fondly remembers a bug that affected gameplay back in 2005, now known as the corrupted blood incident."One of the high-level bosses had a spell that damaged high-level players. Problem was, it was infectious and the programmers didn't count on players warping back home.
"The capital cities were littered with dead players and skeletons, because it instantly killed low-level players. They would respawn and instantly die again. It was like a real virus until the developers fixed it."
Many players had asked developer Blizzard Entertainment to revive the original version of the game, known as "classic" or "vanilla" WoW.While not identical to the original, WoW Classic will replicate a majority of the features from the first game.World of Warcraft is a fantasy game in which players roam the virtual world, fighting monsters and completing quests.
Blizzard said some players who had been given early access to the classic version - which is released at 23:00 BST on Monday - mistakenly thought some of the original features were errors.WoW's launch was a significant moment," says Piers Harding-Rolls, from the IHS Markit consultancy. "It had a broad impact on the gaming sector as a whole and especially the online gaming scene.
"The appeal and accessibility of the game meant it soon grew to millions of users in the West and broadened the audience for this type of game significantly."It was so popular in the US that Blizzard - then part of Vivendi - ran ads on TV with celebrity endorsements. This was pretty much unheard of back in 2004."
Oli Walsh, editor of video-game website Eurogamer, said: "The quality of the execution set it apart, along with Blizzard's ability to make this previously rather intimidating style of game approachable to a broad audience.
"It was, and remains, so well done that nothing has really supplanted it in 15 years - although many tried. Arguably, it was the first truly mass-market online game."Luciano Frias-Andrade, who has played WoW since it was released in the UK in 2005, said the game had evolved considerably.
"Back then it was a very different world, with no short cuts. I remember spending a day 'walking' by foot from the human capital to the elven home town, just to be the first human there," he told the BBC. "When I arrived, it caused a sensation. Everyone said: 'A human, here? How?'"
He fondly remembers a bug that affected gameplay back in 2005, now known as the corrupted blood incident."One of the high-level bosses had a spell that damaged high-level players. Problem was, it was infectious and the programmers didn't count on players warping back home.
"The capital cities were littered with dead players and skeletons, because it instantly killed low-level players. They would respawn and instantly die again. It was like a real virus until the developers fixed it."
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