10 Old Video Games That Still Have Active Multiplayer Communities

While it certainly didn’t invent the genre, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft did bring MMORPGs to the masses with its carefully crafted quests, engaging gameplay and Leroy Jenkins. Unleashed to the world in 2004, this fantasy MMORPG sparked a generation of sleep-deprived gamers.

This titan of a game took the world by storm, with Blizzard having reported over 12 million active subscriptions during its peak in 2010, and over 100 million accounts created by 2014.

Though Blizzard has discontinued publishing data on the number of active subscriptions, Statistica Research predicts that there are around 4.88 million active WoW subscriptions as of 2020, and user estimates suggest that there are over 1.5 million users active on WoW servers every single day.

At $14.99 a month, it costs more than your average streaming service subscription to play World of Warcraft — and for good reason.

Since its release, Blizzard has constantly updated the game with refined textures, new content and reworked gameplay mechanics. With over four thousand hours of content split across seven expansions over the last sixteen years, there’s more than a few things to do in WoW. And if that doesn’t sound like enough, an eighth expansion, Shadowlands, is expected to drop later this year.