This is quite a feat, especially to stay relevant for so long in a technological age that saw many MMO titles fail since WoW‘s inception.Įven though WoW has been one of the most successful games of its kind, and has spawned many viral instances, such as the fame given to one Leeroy Jenkins that has made World of Warcraft larger than even its own community, other games have appeared to take the top spot away from Azeroth. The largest community for the past two decades has been the Blizzard phenomenon, World of Warcraft, with an annual average breaking the 10 million player mark for the past five years in a row. Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games have been a gaming centrepiece for many years, as titles come and go relatively quickly with short or extended shelf life. Look for population type info here.Since World of Warcraft took the world by storm in 2004, many MMOs have come out in hopes of success that rivals Blizzard’s juggernaut, and there’s now a new top dog. Realms notes – Put comments about realms here.Please do not put comments by realm names. Migration of European English realms – EU English Realms migrations.EU English realms info – EU English realms information (launch date, purpose, location, IP address).Timeline of the creation of US realms – The dates at which specific US realms were started up.US realm list by datacenter – US realms organized by geographic location.Realm name lore – Summary lore on some realm names.This article is a realms list (aka servers list) and is as much up-to-date as possible. Characters also cannot normally move between realms. You can interact with all the players on your realm but you cannot interact with players on other realms (the exception being players from other realms in your battlegroup while in BGs or the Random Dungeon Finder added in patch 3.3). Each realm is a complete version of the game world, but each realm has its own player characters who are tied to that particular realm. 3.6 Region 6, China (Beijing, China Netcom)Ī realm is a game world that exists only for the few thousands of players within it.3.5 Region 5, China (Shanghai, China Telecom).3.4 Region 4, China (Guangdong, China Telecom).3.3 Region 3, China (Sichuan, China Telecom).3.2 Region 2, China (Beijing, China Netcom).3.1 Region 1, China (Shanghai, China Telecom).

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