World of Warcraft: Classic is a MMORPG video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment . Which is a recreation of "vanilla WoW" as a server option for World of Warcraft released globally August 26, 2019. The goal of Classic is to let players experience World of Warcraft as close as possible to what it was before World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.
With the addition of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Classic, existing characters must choose whether to stay in Classic or move on to the expansion. A character can be activated for use in both versions via the Activate Clone service, which creates a copy of the character as they were when the expansion choice was made.
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Activision Blizzard was the subject of a lawsuit from the California Department of Fair Employment and Housin in July 2021,As a result of the California lawsuit and of delays and release issues with their more recent games, Activision Blizzard's stock faced severe pressure. Subsequently, Microsoft seized the opportunity to become one of the largest video game companies in the world and announced its intent to acquire Activision Blizzard and its subsidiaries, including Blizzard, for $68.7 billion in January 2022. The deal is expected to close by mid-2023, during which Activision Blizzard will remain its own company and, once finalized, will be moved into the Microsoft Gaming division.