Taking place on Azeroth, the mythical world of Warcraft, the game begins approximately four years after the last title in the franchise, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, an RTS title like its predecessors. The game is a mainstay of Blizzard Entertainment 's successful Warcraft franchise, which even saw its first commercial film release last summer, was first released in 2004 and has steadily trucked along with six expansions in the ensuing years.
It remains the world's most successful, highly populed MMORPG with a peak of 12 million in 2010, and seven years later, clocks in at a healthy 5.5 million.
World of Warcraft - where all our MMO dreams began.
