WoW: Forever Is More Than Classic+, It’s WoW 2

Going into BlizzCon 2026, World of Warcraft Classic fans, myself included, were hoping for what the community coined as Classic+. Instead, what we got is essentially WoW 2, an alternate vision for what Blizzard's legendary MMORPG called World Of Warcraft: Forever. It wasn't long after Blizzard re-released WoW Classic, the original version of its genre-defining MMO, in 2019 that players started to dream about what might come next. A community that was at one time dominated by calls for Blizzard to make "no changes" to WoW Classic and keep the game as it was two decades ago gave way to an entirely different desire: more. Sure, it was fantastic and nostalgic to return to the original version of Azeroth and old-school WoW's slower and more methodical gameplay, but what if there were substantial changes and additions? What if there were major class balance changes to make more playstyles viable? What if Blizzard finished zones that were infamously half-baked in the original game? What if some of the zones long teased on the original WoW's map, like Mount Hyjal, were actually accessible? What if there were new dungeons and endgame content instead of the same Molten Core and Onyxia raids…