WOW Classic will be released in summer 2019

Blizzard has announced that World of Warcraft Classic - a version of the game that restores it to how it was 14 years ago, before any of the expansions were released - will be released in summer 2019.

"Anyone with a World of Warcraft subscription can access it," announced WOW's new executive producer John Hight during the BlizzCon 2018 opening ceremony.

This implies that there'll be no separate business model or price for WOW Classic - you just need to subscribe to World of Warcraft to play. (The base version of WOW, excluding the latest expansion Battle for Azeroth, has no purchase price beyond the subscription fee.)

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