WoTLK Classic Gold: Burning Crusade Classic is part of any WoW subscription.

Certain concepts and assumptions about the nature of World of Warcraft is, which range from character advancement to faction rivalries, have considered to be inscribed on the rock, baked into the game's early days. It may have taken two decades, but some those beliefs are beginning to shift.

Blizzard's cult MMORPG is almost 20 years old. Plenty has changed in the past 18 years since the game first was released, both inside the game and out. WoW has received many expansions including eight new dungeon and raiding challenges, as well as new classes including new races, cross server play, visual updates and many more. Although many aspects of WoW have evolved over time, much of the core concept behind the game remains the same. Certain of the fundamental concepts that have long defined WoW are now changing, at what can be described as an important point in the game's history. With ongoing discrimination and harassment claims within Activision Blizzard and a planned purchase of $69 billion by Microsoft, the WoW team is trying to forge a new path that challenges traditional notions about what WoW is and how it's played and for whom it's intended. The results so far are promising.

There is no better example of old ideas which hold the game back than the divide between the game's two factions that are those of Horde as well as the Alliance. For the past 20 years, WoW has been defined by the Cold War-esque battle between Azeroth's two superpowers, to the point that the WoW part at Blizzard's annual BlizzCon convention would often begin by a game between players in the jam-packed arena to see which faction was the loudest. The faction rivalry, at least in the mind of Blizzard is one of the main elements of WoW's DNA. It's not a surprise that both the Horde and Alliance have teamed up in the story of the game to fight the world's most destructive threats over and over again, going all the time back in World of Warcraft. Don't forget that both leaders frequently work together and are sometimes even friends with one another. The war between the factions, and also the divide between the two players had to be maintained because that's exactly what buy WoTLK Classic Gold was all about when it began its first launch in 2004.