Warcraft 2 world map10/10/2023 November 23rd marks the official ninth anniversary of World of Warcraft's North American release. And nine years ago tomorrow, it completely changed the face of MMO gaming. That game, of course, was World of Warcraft. While sequels to Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo were all in development (and hotly anticipated), the company had also quietly started work on a brand-new massively-multiplayer online game set in one of the studio's existing game universes. However, something else was brewing behind closed doors at Blizzard's Irvine campus. Riding high on hits like Diablo, Warcraft II, and the barely-a-year-old StarCraft, Blizzard had established itself as a purveyor of quirky, well-made, and entertaining games mostly of the RTS variety. In 1999, Blizzard Entertainment was well on its way to becoming something of a titan in the PC gaming space.
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