Less than a week after the announcement, the WoW: Forever beta has begun, and I have been playing it whenever I have the chance. My background with Warcraft goes all the way back to the original strategy games (you can listen to me wax nostalgic on this episode of Flashback 64). I participated in the original beta for World of Warcraft and was there day one for the launch of the game in 2004. Since then, I’ve played WoW casually (Classic and Retail) on and off, relatively consistently. Despite everything, World of Warcraft is a top-5 of all time game for me, so needless to say, I was stoked for Forever.
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