Sunset2018–2026
Turtle WoW
Turtle WoW team (community) · EU · Community Server
What happened to Turtle WoW?
Turtle WoW shut down in 2026 after launching in 2018. Vanilla-plus WoW with custom content and 20k+ concurrent players — the private-server ceiling until Blizzard's court injunction shut it down May 2026.
- Years
- 2018–2026
- Business model
- Free-to-Play
- Region
- EU
In context
It ran for 8 years (2018–2026).
Of the 12 MMOs on MMOlist that launched in 2018, 9 are still playable today.
Scratch the same itch — alive today
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More from the archive
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