The Warcraft Forever Collection includes Forsaken Kingdom, a new Warcraft III campaign, but Forever itself needs no upgrade

Blizzard published an announcement about Forever's upgrade editions at 21:28 UTC on 11 November. It says three optional editions are on sale now in the Battle.net Shop, and it describes Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom, a campaign it calls "all-new", with a story set around the fall of Lordaeron, the founding of the Undercity and the first Forsaken Paladin. The campaign is part of the largest edition, the limited-time Warcraft Forever Collection, but it can also be bought on its own. And none of it is needed to play Forever.

Forever comes with your subscription

The post says Forever access "will be included with your World of Warcraft Subscription or Game Time", and calls the editions optional. Its small print puts it the other way round: World of Warcraft, Forever included, requires a subscription or game time. The Skyborne Epic Pack and the Warcraft Forever Collection each add 30 days of game time to your account, and once those days run out, playing needs a subscription or more game time, sold separately. No edition replaces the subscription.

What each edition lists

The Skyborne Heroic Pack lists:

• Access to the new Skyborne race and their Zephras Isle starting experience
• The Cerulean Prideclaw ground mount, though you still have to buy the riding skill in the game to use it
• Shen'dorei Skyseer's Garb
• The Veteran Adventurer's Rucksack
• The Shen'dorei Windwell toy
• Skyborne housing decor for modern World of Warcraft

The Skyborne Epic Pack has everything in the Heroic Pack, plus 30 days of game time, more Veteran Adventurer–inspired cosmetics, tabards, and pets for your Forever collection.

The Warcraft Forever Collection has everything in the Epic Pack, plus Warcraft III: Reforged, the Forsaken Kingdom campaign, and Forsaken and Human figurine decor for housing in modern World of Warcraft.

The editions themselves aren't new: Blizzard's October name reservation terms tied early name reservation to pre-purchases of the same three, as our name reservation checklist explains. The post doesn't say what the rucksack holds or what the toy does, and it doesn't say whether any item on these lists is being added now.

Three ways to get Forsaken Kingdom

The post says the campaign is "also available as a digital purchase for Warcraft III players", and gives three routes: the campaign on its own, a combo that adds Warcraft III: Reforged, or the Collection, which puts the campaign and the Forever upgrade benefits in one limited-time bundle. The Collection's own description talks of "the origins of the Forsaken Paladins, the Undercity, and more".

That is all the post says about the story. The post doesn't name the first Forsaken Paladin, doesn't say how long the campaign is, and doesn't say whether it connects to Unbowed, Blizzard's earlier Forever short story about a Forsaken paladin.

The January deadline is for the bundle

"Warcraft Forever Collection will be available through January 11, 2027," the small print says. That date belongs to the Collection. The post gives no end date for buying Forsaken Kingdom alone or with Reforged, so the deadline matters if you want the campaign and the Forever benefits together in one purchase.

Blizzard's post gives no prices, and we haven't been through the shop or played the campaign. Apart from the links to our earlier articles, everything here comes from the announcement itself.