Warcraft
In 2004, Blizzard Entertainment moved the series away from the real-time strategy genre and released "World of Warcraft", a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Requiring a subscription fee to be paid to play, it also introduced regular additional content to the series in the form of patches. "World of Warcraft" gained popularity worldwide, becoming the world's largest subscription-based MMORPG in 2008. The game reached a peak 12 million subscribers worldwide in October 2010. "World of Warcraft" has had seven expansions as of 2018. During the production of "", Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce stated that "If there's a team that's passionate about doing another "Warcraft" [real-time strategy], then that's definitely something we would consider. It's nothing that we're working on right now, we have development teams working on "", "", "Diablo III", and when those teams are all off the projects they're working on, they'll be intimately involved in the discussions about what's next".
Gameplay of World of Warcraft
The game of "World of Warcraft", or "WoW", is set in a fictional world known as Azeroth and in the expansion extended the game to another world called Outland. The expansion added Northrend, the frigid northern continent of Azeroth. In the expansion , the classic continents of Azeroth were drastically changed as some zones were destroyed and new ones were unveiled. The expansion added the southern continent, previously hidden behind a perennial mist cover, Pandaria. The expansion, added Draenor, which is an Outland was before its partial destruction. The expansion adds the Broken Isles, an island chain near the Maelstrom in the middle of the Great Sea, and the damaged planet Argus, the headquarters of the Burning Legion. The latest expansion adds 2 new continents to the center of the map of Azeroth and introduces 8 new races called Allied Races.