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|January 2018
Why WORLD OF WARCRAFT is officially embracing vanilla.
After years of mounting pressure, Blizzard has finally announced that it will be making official servers for World of Warcraft as it first existed at launch in 2004. Called World of Warcraft Classic, the teaser trailer shown at Blizzcon 2017 sent the crowd into a frenzy. I sat down with Blizzard vice president and executive producer J. Allen Brack to get more details, starting with “why now?”
This story is from the January 2018 edition of PC Gamer.
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