{"id":91500,"date":"2026-10-16T14:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91500"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:40:47","slug":"you-can-play-wow-forever-for-free-next-week-but-theres-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91500","title":{"rendered":"You Can Play WoW: Forever For Free Next Week (But There\u2019s A Catch)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/wow-forever-is-more-than-classic-its-wow-2\/\">World of Warcraft: Forever&#8217;s<\/a> beta will be free for a limited time next week, giving players who want to check out the new version of Blizzard&#8217;s old-school MMORPG but don&#8217;t want to pay $60 for beta access a chance to see what all the hype is about.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blizzard announced a WoW: Forever stress test will begin October 19 at 2 PM PT\/ 5 PM ET, with no WoW subscription or beta access needed to play. The goal is to put the game&#8217;s servers through their paces ahead of launch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is a highly valuable event, since you&#8217;ll participate in our discovering of issues that would have otherwise happened on launch day,&#8221; Blizzard said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-us\/article\/24302072\/join-the-world-of-warcraft-forever-stress-test\">post<\/a> announcing the stress test.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dvueCoFTkCk&amp;t  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To install the test, players will need the Battle.net launcher installed and an account. After selecting WoW: Forever from the list of games, players can select to install the stress test under the &#8220;Game Version&#8221; drop-down menu. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is, however, a catch. The stress test will only run for a &#8220;few hours,&#8221; according to Blizzard. Exactly how long the test will last is still unclear. Blizzard said the test window &#8220;may end earlier or run later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft: Forever&#8217;s beta will be free for a limited time next week, giving players who want to check out the new version of Blizzard&#8217;s old-school MMORPG but don&#8217;t want to pay $60 for beta access a chance to see what all the hype is about.\u00a0 Blizzard announced a WoW: Forever stress test will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":91502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91503,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91500\/revisions\/91503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}