World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment, set in the high-fantasy Warcraft universe. Players create characters from a wide variety of races and classes, exploring a vast persistent world filled with quests, dungeons, raids, and player-versus-player combat across continents like Azeroth and beyond.
The game features deep progression systems where players earn gear, level up their characters, and unlock new abilities. End-game content centers on large-scale raids requiring coordinated group play, competitive PvP arenas and battlegrounds, and seasonal content updates that expand the story and world.
WoW has received numerous major expansions over the years, including The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, and more recently Dragonflight and The War Within, each introducing new zones, classes, and storylines. A separate Classic mode allows players to experience earlier versions of the game as it existed at or near launch.