Your birth year
2006
World of Warcraft
2004Role-playing (RPG)
World of Warcraft is 2 years older than you
It's from 2004, before you were born.
- Developer
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Genre
- MMORPG
- Debut
- 2004
- Setting
- Azeroth
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About
As of 2026, it's 22 years old.
World of Warcraft launched in 2004 and quietly absorbed millions of human lives. The massively multiplayer online world was so engrossing — so full of quests, raids, and friends you'd never met — that it became a genuine second life, occasionally to the alarm of the first one.
At its peak it had over 12 million subscribers, its own economy, its own slang, and a cultural footprint big enough to land an episode of South Park.
Addictive, communal, and time-devouring, World of Warcraft is the game that taught a generation that 'just one more raid' is the most dangerous phrase in the English language.
