World of Warcraft: Legion Brings 6 Reasons to Revisit the Game

The best reason to revisit World of Warcraft by way of its new Legion expansion, out August 30 for PC and Mac, is that you're a lapsed devotee. You already grasp exactly the sort of rock-rolling footslog you're signing up for, though maybe a year or three or five away from the game was enough to bleed off any lingering longing to return. And to think: five years would be less than half the time Blizzard's online fantasy opus has been with us (of upwards of 12 million concurrently subscribed in 2010, and over 100 million if we're talking discrete accounts). Released in November 2004, it predates YouTube, Hurricane Katrina, Angela Merkel's chancellorship, Twitter, the Wii, the 2008 global financial crisis, Barack Obama's presidency, both the iPhone and iPad, the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Edward Snowden's leaks, Brexit, and of course, Donald Trump's candidacy. Which bring us to Legion, the sixth expansion to a game that's managed to buck all attempts at shelf life prognostication.