Patch 1.12

WoW Classic moves further and further away from being a 100% accurate recreation of the original World of Warcraft with every moment that passes -- not that it was ever really going to be able to recapture what it was like to play WoW those years, but I digress.

If you are like most World of Warcraft players who started playing more recently -- say, after Cataclysm -- you've probably heard a lot of horror stories about Alterac Valley back in Classic WoW, and I'm here to tell you two things.

World of Warcraft launched in North America and Australia on November 23, 2004.

We sat down at BlizzCon with Executive Producer of WoW John Hight and Lead Software Engineer Brian Birmingham to learn how WoW Classic came to be and what their vision of it will look like.

In a recent Dev Watercooler feature, Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft Classic realms will run with a specific patch.

In a surprise Friday blog post, Blizzard discusses something I think we've all been waiting for: Classic WoW servers.