World of Warcraft: Forever gets its beta, podcast and explainer

Nine uploads in the week, including a first podcast episode with streamer Xaryu unpacking the beta launch.

Channel: World of WarcraftStory of September 30, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

What is World of Warcraft: Forever?

World of Warcraft spent the week introducing something new: World of Warcraft: Forever, which entered beta and took over the official channel's nine uploads. The plain explainer, "What is World of Warcraft: Forever?", went up first and is closing in on a million views.

Around it came a new show. Episode 1 of The WoW: Forever Podcast brings in Xaryu, the streamer long known for his WoW play, to unpack the beta launch, and it has passed 600,000 views. Members of the dev team gave their own breakdown, and a short shorts thread promised rain-heavy weather in certain beta zones, with a gentle reminder that nobody needs to hurry when the game is called Forever.

The freshest energy belongs to "New Race & Class Combos | World of Warcraft: Forever," which drew well over a hundred thousand views in its first day, with a one-day-old short about a Forsaken Charger moving briskly behind it.

The channel as a whole ran below its usual daily pace, as did nearly every game publisher around it, Just Dance, Zenless Zone Zero and Bethesda Softworks among them.

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The videos drawing views on World of Warcraft right now

Unpacking Beta Launch ft. @Xaryu | Episode 1 - The WoW: Forever Podca…604,026 views · 2026-09-24 New Race & Class Combos | World of Warcraft: Forever144,026 views · 2026-09-28 Put a cloak on: increased weather effects are coming to certain WoW: …97,133 views · 2026-09-23 No need to hurry to your next adventure. You do have Forever, after a…51,561 views · 2026-09-24 Members of Forever’s Dev Team break down the Beta launch...50,275 views · 2026-09-25 Like a Forsaken Charger leaping into battle...28,276 views

The numbers

Here is how World of Warcraft's channel and its newest videos stood at the end of the week.

subscribers

1,980,000

total views

903,925,308

views per day

196,451

typical day: 321,349

this week's videos (first-day views)

New Race & Class Combos | World of Warc…

118,308

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Just Dance

2,430,000

PlayStation Access

2,180,000

CookieRun: Kingdom

2,110,000

Bethesda Softworks

2,100,000

World of Warcraft

1,980,000

Call of Duty League

1,970,000

The Sims

1,930,000

Zenless Zone Zero

1,860,000

OpTic Gaming

1,630,000

As of September 30, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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