Pour one out for World of Warcraft characters who are still in the last place you logged out. They could be on a mountain in the Dragon Isles, standing in a spaceship on Argus, or neatly tucked away in the Lion’s Pride inn in Goldshire. No matter where they are, they don’t know you’re not planning on coming back. They’ll wait eternally for you to make your return, standing guard on your gear and your poorly chosen transmog from a decade ago. If you did want to check them out again, however, Blizzard has just announced a free weekend, which means you can log in to your abandoned WoW characters without a subscription.

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