Europe Gets Midnight: WoW Forever Launch Times
Blizzard's own launch table for WoW Forever: 3:00 p.m. PST on Wednesday, November 4 in the Americas, which is midnight in Europe (CET), 7 a.m. in Taiwan, 8 a.m. in Korea and 10 a.m. in Australia and New Zealand on Thursday, November 5. One launch minute for the planet. An obituary for Europe's Thursday, and one request for next time: a Friday.
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Europe (CET) ... 12:00 a.m. ... November 5
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Blizzard Entertainment (news.blizzard.com) · Blizzard Entertainment · 2026-10-29
Americas (PST) Brazil (BRT) UK (GMT) Europe (CET) Taiwan (CST) Korea (KST) ANZ (AEDT) UTC 3:00 p.m. 8:00 pm 11:00 p.m. 12:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 23:00
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- 1Up Quinn: “WoW Forever Beta: Launch Day Queue Boss & Skyborne Shaman Creation!” (YouTube, 2026-09-17)
Transcript
Obituaries — time of death
Europe gets WoW Forever at midnight, twelve a.m. on Thursday the fifth, and I'm reading that off Blizzard's own launch table, not a rumour1. So, an obituary for Europe's Thursday, which died at midnight of a login screen.
Obituaries — survived by
It's survived by Australia at ten on a Thursday morning, Korea at eight and Taiwan at seven1, and I hope they like their breakfast in a queue. The Americas got three in the afternoon. Weird, that.
Obituaries — cause of death
I logged into the beta at four in the morning once, half expecting a ghost town, and there were thirty people fighting over one boar, so Europe, you'll have company. Next time, you lot, launch on a Friday.
I'll be here. Forever.