World of Warcraft 7th anniversary Celebration Package

By Robert Purchese Published 21 November, 2011

You must be Thralled.

World of Warcraft is seven years old on 23rd November.

To celebrate, Blizzard will give players a feat of strength achievement and a Celebration Package item.

Using the Celebration Package item sets off fireworks, applies a visual tabard and grants a 7 per cent bonus to experience and reputation gains.

To claim your package, log into the game between 20th November and 3rd December.

World of Warcraft didn't launch in Europe until February 2005. How many of you have been playing since launch? And, dare we ask, what is your played time?

World of Warcraft will expand again with Mists of Pandaria.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or getting whupped at FIFA.

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  • Zozzilla #1 2d ago

    Dear paying customers,

    Thanks for all your hard earned cash for the past however long you've played, instead of a pet have a shitty purple tabard with the WoW logo on that gives something 99% of 85's don't need any more.

    Lots of love,

    Blizzard

  • Benno #2 2d ago

    I MUST reactivate my subscription for this!!!

  • yupyup #3 2d ago

    Needs more pandas.

  • gruntboy #4 2d ago

    @Zozzilla It's a step up from the nothing they dished out during the 6 year anniversary! ;)

  • Zozzilla #5 2d ago

    @gruntboy Oh yeah, I forgot about that - all we got was a letter. Bloody cheapskates!

  • Markitron #6 2d ago

    I swear to god, when some bloke told me about the Panda expansion I thought he was taking the piss. Couldnt believe it when I googled it

  • Daeltaja #7 2d ago

    Played since beta, but quit 2 years ago. Play time on main character was 185 days. Yes, 185 days, or 4440~ hours. Not to mention a combined 120+ days on alt characters. Addiction much?

    I don't regret it, it was an amazing experience, but I've done my time and won't be touching MMO's again, at least until I retire, ha!

  • berelain #8 2d ago

    Wow, I need to come back. Tabard and fireworks and pitiful XP boost? Sold!

  • dsmx #9 2d ago

    I played for 3-4 months got to level 80 and tried every instance once, tried playing them drunk, tried playing with friends, tried playing drunk with friends and I was still bored out my mind. Am I missing something why the hell is WoW so popular?

  • Jolly_Armadillo #10 2d ago

    @dsmx

    It used to be better (before first expansion)

  • DeadlyByDesign #11 2d ago

    Yeh....ill stop playing Skyrim and log in for this.........

    *sarcasm may be included*

  • Hellion83 #12 2d ago

    I have played this game since beta, played in Europe, played in America. They ruined it after Burning Crusade. Heck no one even goes to Northrend anymore. There is nothing about this game that makes me want to invest all that time all over again. heck I never did reach 85 because I got bored so quickly of the classes. Waste of time and waste of money. Now that we got pandas coming its going to get even sillier.

    I am having doubts over Diablo 3 because of that auction/pay service. I really don't see anything great coming outta blizzard once the Starcraft 2 trilogy is completed..only game universe from them I care about which has remained somewhat like Blizzard probably because its the game Morhaime loves.

  • Canyarion #13 2d ago

    I quit when TBC came out. At the end of Vanilla, I was growing really tired of the concept.
    I played a bit of TBC/Cataclysm afterwards, but it was just more of the same. Count me out.

  • Sharzam #14 2d ago

    I played vanilla WoW till Wrath (with some gaps in between). Tried a bit of Cata but quit soon after hitting 85 as was just bored.

    I think Burning Crusade was the pinnacle. Vanilla WoW was fun and msot of my memorys are there (first time seeing ashenvale as an orc, the Baron run etc) but it did have problems such as Feral Druids didnt really work and pointless faction grinds. Alot of the niggles were fixed with burning crusade and as much as i hated it at the time i think giving paladin/shaman was a good idea in the long run. The problem was once they had fixed all the major problems they started to tweak and fiddle to bring 'new' things to the game play which in turn dumbed it down more and changed it into something else. As a result it lost something.

  • darkmorgado #15 2d ago

    @Markitron

    The Pandarens have been hinted at for YEARS. And they're not a new invention, they date back to Warcraft 3.

  • Dave #16 2d ago

    Played on and off since launch, really quit about a year ago. I didn't like Cataclysm at all and I was getting pretty burnt out overall with WoW. I put over 5600 hours in this, had a lot of fun, made some RL friends too. I don't regret a single hour. But it has been enough. I'm going to try Star Wars TOR, but I doubt I will put many hours in it. I'm just fed up with this kind of MMO's. Where's the next big thing?

  • the_inchworm #17 2d ago

    I have played since '05 - never been brave enough to check my /played time. I've literally never done it. I don't regret the time I have spent with Warcraft. Gaming history will judge it as a phenomenon. Probably one that will never be repeated. I am glad to have been a part of that. My first gryphon ride in 05 blew my mind. Just epic.

    I will soon stop (no kung fu panda for me) as there is no community in the game anymore and innovation and age are finally catching up to the old master. But regardless, it's one hell of a game.

  • Arrahant #18 2d ago

    Early august I said goodbye to the game... Think its for real this time! Started playing the game in november 2004 during a european beta. Around 380 days played in total... But no regrets at all, 25 man raiding remains the best multiplayer gaming experience Ive had! Simply unable to spend a couple of nights a week on raiding nowadays. But for gamers with free time a plenty: its grand!

  • Hellion83 #19 2d ago

    The next best thing is free-to-play. Just look at DC universe. great idea. What made me quit wow was just the sheer amount of money i'd spent. Just take all those months and times it by the charge.. In the years on and off (04/04-now) playing ive spent a total of 1200 dollars.

  • VicViper #20 1d ago

    @the_inchworm your right about the lack of community, the cross server dungeon finder has meant you never really get to know the people of your server, it's all very straight to business and impersonal now.

    Haven't /played in a while, might be around a 90-100 days plus what ever time I put into alts, barely play it at all now with Skyrim and some of the recent console release also with star trek going F2P I'll have even less reason to go back.