As is our wont here at GI.n, we like to check in on Massively Multiplayer games from time to time to see how they're doing. The current grandaddy of MMOs is World of Warcraft, better known as WoW. Claiming the evenings of millions worldwide, WoW has grown to epic proportions. What exactly is WoW after 9 months of growth and changes?
In November of 2004 Blizzard Entertainment released "World of Warcraft" to record sales. As time went on they've continued to add to it via content patches, including adding Battlegrounds in patch 1.5 on June 7th, 2005, and the latest content patch (1.6) which arrived on July 12th, 2005.