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Title: World of Warcraft Turns 20

Link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/11/18/162...

An anonymous reader shares a report: Blizzard Entertainment first released
World of Warcraft in November 2004, so The New York Times celebrated the
anniversary by outlining the many ways we can still see the massively
multiplayer online roleplaying game's influence's 20 years later. For one
thing, while multiplayer games and early social networks such as MySpace
already existed, WoW provided a real preview of a future where everyone would
connect to friends and strangers online. For another, the game made billions
of dollars with a business model combining monthly subscriptions with in-game
purchases (including for pets and animals that players could ride), becoming
a massive cash cow for Blizzard and pointing the way to future internet
business models.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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