Their RTS games already leaned heavily on RPG elements via hero mechanics. And there was a thriving mod community building games centered on the RPG elements (such as DotA). So I wouldn't say they really made any huge gambles. More like they correctly identified a huge opportunity and capitalized on it. And they did indeed win.
My fondest memory was the day I logged in to my 47 paladin, leveling in the Searing Gorge... Just like any other day, questing, going through the tough 1-60 as a retribution paladin. Hard days, and one of those days just so happened to bring me to an undead, skull level mage. (Skull is 10 levels or higher, so he was level 57 or 60, 60 being maximum at the time.) He saw me, and I saw him, and those were the days when griefing and camping started. I took it upon my alliance self to do my duty and attack him, whether I would live or die. For all of those who have died to gankers and corpse campers. Our fight lasted for nearly fifteen minutes, back and forth, halfway down the map south of Thorium Point. I remember jumping from scaffolding to scaffolding, and going in and out of the mines in order to LoS (Line of Sight) the mage. Fifteen minutes of the most memorable reasons why I loved the game, and why I played alliance. Between the fifteen minute mark and twenty minutes, I killed that sucker, and went on with my day. Shit mage, but hell I killed him. LOL
I remember being an orc in ashenvale, around level 25 I was. Had some higher level alliance on my tail, but he had no mount. He was chasing me for about 20 minutes through the forests. I tried to hide in bushes and behind trees. And after a while i successfully managed to hide away and escape.
Back when WoW was nails, when every other player was a Night Elf Hunter, when saving up for your epic mount took weeks (if not months), back when you had to sell a testicle just to afford the fire enchant! Man those were the days! :)
The narrator says "in a land of mighty kingdoms" when the lordaeron banner is shown, where is that meant to be on the map? I feel like its either Menethil Harbour, or southshore, any speculations? Also what was happening/ being done to the orc in Stormwinds keep?
I'm thinking it's Theramore Isle, seen from its entrance facing the Dustwallow Marsh. The building on the left reminds me Foothold Citadel. The banner you talk about shows two symbols: the Lordaeron one is the smaller one in the upper left corner, whereas the symbol at the center (the anchor) represents the nation of Kul Tiras, i.e. the nation where Jaina Proudmoore (whom during Vanilla WoW resided at Theramore) hails from ;)
when i first started wow, aeons ago i preferred thottbot over wowhead. i was like, 8 years old and thought wowhead was to complicated and i was afraid of change, so i stayed with thottbot. good times, real good times.
I feel bad for anyone who didn't experience the early stages of WoW, when the meta was more about world exploration and a fitting into a legit server society. These days the WoW experience feels so much more singular and contrived. I think everyone who says they miss vanilla is actually saying they miss when the game had soul.
Edward Ecker Exactly this. It wasn't the raids or the combat really that made the game it was the people you did them with. I remember just chilling in the starting zone for taurens on my first character making friends by the fireplace. Now everyone might as well be a bot.
Edward Ecker But also take a look to other MMOGs/Games in general. Even on websites it's always the same. As soon as a community creates a hivemind, they turn to shit. In general all online communitys are a pool of idiots today.
Edward Ecker Yea vanilla wasn't just "omg vanilla was great" .... it was more so that WoW was the first of it's kind. With the internet just starting out it was possibly the best mmo out there to get attached with other people.
Edward Ecker True. I think the game lost it when they implemented the cross-server dungeon finder. It's a really nifty tool, granted. But by making it so easy for players to enter instance after instance, they forgot to be grateful for a fitting group of players that accompanied them in their perils and helped them to overcome obstacles. Man, I remember my first time in Blackrock Depths. Back then, we spent a whole day exploring every nook and cranny of that darned place. Today: 2 or 3 separate instance parts, 2 mandatory bosses each and that's it. they even cut out the trash mobs in the in-between passages...
when i was young i thought you could unlock flying gryphons by taming them as pets as hunters, so i tried leveling one but was confused when i couldn't do it
+Leonel Diaz I was healing the rogues with JoL and maintaining an infinite mana pool with 1h SoW while requiring no outside healing. Good luck convincing the guild leader though. I blame the palidans.
One of my fondest memories was when I was leveling my human rogue in Westfall, and I was handing in some quests at Sentinel Hill, then a wave of level 60 Horde completely decimated the place, it was my first time experiencing enemy players in the outside world, and it was epic seeing level 60 Ally's come and try to help, it gave the world a sense of community and open world.
Remember when we would actually build socially interactive relationships when looking for groups to complete quest, do dungeons, raids, and even make guilds? Now that interactive part is automated and numb.
that's exactly it, and putting multiple servers into 1 battlegroup instead of just dropping a few servers and putting players together in the real world...of warcraft.
Since Legion hit, I've actually been doing this a lot. Mythic Dungeons aren't in the queue, so you actually have to get a group together. While I've made no permanent friendships yet, I've had a ton of fun with the people that I now interact with.
Remember when gaming was at a totally different time and if vanilla WoW came out today it would flop? Now that part has adapted and a smart move. Seriously take off your rose tinted glasses for a second and really REALLY think about it. Wildstar tried to be like vanilla WoW endgame and guess what? That killed the game. They had to go F2P because no one gave two fucks about doing lengthy quests just to do a raid. And Wildstar tried its best to pander to Vanilla WoW players. So I think that alone shows how archaic vanilla was and how it was good because of when it came out. Most people who played WoW vanilla were kids or teenagers, meaning they had all the time in the world to play whenever and do all the lengthy shit. Now? Are you seriously saying you would come back after a hard day of work to grind for items all night long? Secondly, the socialization is still there. Youre logic implies the only reason people socialized was because they have to. They had to stand in a town and spam "need a tank/healer". Technically thats still in the game. Its called Mythic+. Mythic+ doesnt use LFG and you need to manually make a group. But your logic is implying people socialized because they wanted to. If this were the case, LFG and LFR would have been a complete utter failure. So your logic doesnt hold up and just to remind you, LFG was made during the time where the game was at its highest number of subs ever (WoTLK). Questing? In Legion, some WQs require a group, but not all. Dungeons and raids? I believe I covered that. Had to make a guild? What would dictate you to make a guild? I dont see why any piece of content would absolutely require you to be in a guild unless of course you were doing Mythic raiding. But other than that? I know vanilla guilds had perks to them. But you have to ask yourself this; are you joining/making a guild for the community? Or the perks it just gives?
Maybe it's just me but WoW's classic zones felt a LOT bigger back then. Maybe the access of flying mounts makes me think that but even when running around on a level 1 in the Night Elf starting area... I just don't feel so lost in the world any more. I miss having to either use a flight path or ride on your mount to different zones. It made us keep contact with areas we barely visited. Now we just fly the feck over. Not the same. Also I hate how Cataclysm changed a lot of areas. I miss the old quests.. I miss Westfall and old school Darkshore!
I think its just because those areas actually got used for multiple things - PVP, looking for groups for dungeons, leveling gathering. There were always people in all the zones doing all sorts of different things, and that made it feel like....a world...of warcraft.
Dandy Candy Yea I know, it's definitely had potential but very poor implementation. If it were me I would have made a housing district, where it populated phases with online players to maximize the sense of population and community, and integrated it with a main city. I would have put way less focus on the "garrison chores" and focused more on customization, and stuff you can interact with... you know RPG things.
lol, this has been up a while, so probably no one will see this, BUT my fondest memory was when I first started playing. I started a week before BC was released. I rolled a night elf hunter (after a few failed attempts at other classes). I leveled enough and finally got out of Teledressil and onto Darkshore, I noticed the map went way south and I wanted to see what was out there... so I ran. I ran until I got into Ashenvale, I was mesmerized by all the trees, the music was so soothing and I remember thinking "I didn't know a world this big could exist in a game". Then I got my ass handed to me by an aggressive stag who was ten levels above me... :P
My fondest Vanilla memory: It was a late evening in 2005 at my friends house. I was 15 years old. My friend started talking about World of Warcraft. And me, being the typical "sporty" kid in school who never played video games and was all about playing sports and chasing girls was like "wtf are you even talking about!?" I didn't understand jack shit of what he ranted on about. All these wow terms, raid this and raid that. He then told me it would be easier to see it for myself. He then put on a warcraft pvp movie called "Sorrow Hill 1" By Otherguy, the undead mage. (The inventor or pvp videos). At that moment, I thought to myself; "This is the absolute coolest shit I have ever seen" I bought the game the next day, and created an Undead Mage Here I am, 10-11 Years later. Still playing an Undead Mage. I mean holy shit.
I remember back in 2005-2006, everyone was playing WoW. I was working at a grocery store at the time and i remember this 40yo mother playing WoW. She was working in the deli department and everytime i was walking by she was telling about her hunter lol
It was a time where passion and vision were priority one and money making second. Surely everybody has to get paid for their work, but there is little passion in todays releases most of the time.
In my POV I agree. I was surprised what technology based on silicon transistor can achieve. I always thought about it as new genre of culture. New stories which can be told in the way which was never before even thinkable. I don't this current young generation think about it that way. It was a pure technological magic!
I remember being lvl 7-8 human paladin.standing near the river separating elwynn forest and duskwood and watching those wolves with skulls instead of their lvl in awe.
Dat feeling when you had to explore to quest, quest to level, and level to explore more. IDK when you guys started playing, but "BACK IN MY DAY", as us old men say, you had no databases or search engines that would give you a position on a map that told you what was good, where certain creatures were, what creep, minion, or boss would drop you a certain ingredient and where that was. You had to ask in chat, or read through pages upon useless, clunky pages in blizzard forums. Or, like me, have buddies who were ahead of you and knew by coincidence where something was. I have so much useless information stored in my head from those days, because helping someone else find something in chat felt great.
HaploidCell You nailed it mate, those were the "little" things what made classic WoW a real massive multiplayer game. Where you had to explore the World of Warcraft, socialise with people. Not this abomination it has became, everyone sitting in freaking instanced solo garrisons.
I can't believe the WoW developers did not preserve the data from the original version of WoW. This is perhaps the most important bit of gaming history right here.
Takashi 125 I specifically recall them (incl. Morhaime) say that one of the biggest issues with legacy servers was in fact that Blizzard had not saved the orginal data, as they had just let it be overwritten as the game progressed. Which is why Nostalrius and every other "Blizzlike" private server had to datamine everything themselves. It's not that I don't believe you, but I would love to hear a source.
I can bet your left nut that they still have the main source and changes they have done, and can easily put it all back together, but it's very time consuming. And Nostalrius didn't datamine anything. People already datamined everything they needed since 2005. They've just fixed bugs and perfected everything else.
My fondest memory in WoW Taking part in my servers (emerald dream) largest ever raid, I think there's still videos of it but we were in the hundreds, I'm pretty sure I was a lower level player at this point so was pretty clueless but got invited into the raid party because I was in the guild, I had never been in a raid party before and suddenly seeing all these players popping up blew my fucking mind, everyone was in the raid chat yelling over each other, other raid groups were forming and everyone started grouping outside of orgrimmar Everyone was spamming trade chat: WE ARE TAKING SW, EVERYONE OUTSIDE ORGRIMMAR! - and the whole city man.. every player low or high, we were taking up arms, we were going for the alliance and we started to gun towards Ratchet to catch the boat. It was phenomenal, all these players mounted or running, spamming yell, FOR THE HORDE!, I mean I had NEVER experienced something on this level before from games or well anything to be honest. hundreds of players pouring onto the boat in ratchet as we headed into booty bay, I had never even been to the eastern kingdoms at this point so this whole thing was so new to me. we trekked through stranglethorn picking up other horde players from booty bay and onwards and also alerting the alliance to our presence, we destroyed every alliance Homebase we saw en-route to the Elwyn forest, wiping gold shire in moments and preceding to Stormwind, my first time seeing it in game we tore through the city, hundreds of us, some stopping to raid shops, slaying every NPC and PvP enabled player in sight, city guards littered the streets as we finally made it to the palace stairs and up into stormwind keep, we downed the king (cannot for the life of me remember who it was) and killed every alliance player that came to aid their king, it was insanity Im pretty sure I cried. We then, as we were still in the literal hundreds, decided we wouldn't stop there.. oh no, we took every single alliance major city in the game, I had never seen any of these places before, I was given this grand tour of Azeroth whilst we pillaged our way through every city and upon finally returning to orgrimmar after hours of battle and siege we returned to our city and the trade chat exploded, everyone was celebrating people were dancing in the street, setting off fireworks... it was an unforgettable moment, I didn't know a game could achieve so much emotion, it was actually alive, teeming with real people, all really rejoicing and connecting from all across the real world, taking part as a community in this other world Vanilla and TBC for me were just golden, I'll never get it back even with the new vanilla servers blizzard announced, it was a moment in time you can't recapture, a moment of my childhood you know? you'll never really get that back, I've seen the whole game, I've also lived more of my life and it'll never be relived the way it was back then but thats fine, I'm glad I have this memory and so many others of this game of all games.
Wait until they come up with something to extend the universe. Soon it's all going to be master plan of Jailer's evil trans brother who then turns to be actually good, it's just he was manipulated by some elden void dragon murlocks.
vanilla wow was magical like entering a new world i had never experienced, it was unfair in some situations just like real life, TBC with still awesome and had been imporved for the best, woltk then made the game noob friendly but it was still a REALLY good game just not as amazing as it once was, then cata came along and fucking shit on the game and ever since cata the game sucks so bad, they changed waaaaaaaay too much.
I think the game sucks now. I still enjoy playing, and I started in BC. Yea it's not what it once was, but sometimes you just have to adapt to change. It is definitely targeted at a more casual audience and blizzard does get lazy on some of the content. But overall, its still a decent game, and I would no doubt recommend it over most MMO's now.
Game like this can't exist today. First the audience will complain how there is PVP in open world. Then they complain how many spells there are. Then they complain how they can't compete with gamers. Then they complain how raids are too hard and they can't get same rewards as those who are more experience. Then they complain how their friend is in X faction while they are in Y faction. Once you fix all the complaints you end up is something like Tarisland.
Fondest memory? Got two: Reaching Ashenvale (my favourite zone) and doing my first dungeon as a nelf warrior: Black fathom Deeps. And even when it was a total mess (mage was tanking, i was using 2 h weapon and never using taunts, priest doing dps, hunter using melee...) it was so damn fun, you didnt cared about loot and meeting quotas, you cared about the experience/adventure and seeing new things. And second one: My first Onyxia fight with my Undead Warlock. It was my guilds 1º try, Stygia, second attempt in the entire server. it was a wipe and we wiped many times before downing her, but boy it was epic. Even when you didnt get any loot, it was epic enough to jsut go and do it again. Probably cause you werent worn out of doing heroics for the currency points back then.
+Simón Salgueiro Black Fathom Deeps was the first instance I ever did too ! Man how awesome , the part when you get to the beach setting hidden at the top of Ashenvale, and then go past all the naga down the chasm and through the cave to get to the instance ! it really felt like discovering something epic :))
+Simón Salgueiro I was using fury stance and whirlwind with a two-hander at the start in vanilla for tanking, too. The bloody mage still stole aggro from every mob, but i was able to not get everyone else in trouble at least. Then at the end, nobody had any quest. And the mage ninjaed my plate helmet.
first one i ever did was ragefire chasm with a guild group and I was a lock and i thought that only using spells would drain me of mana and i should auto attack the mobs... (why else would i have auto attack and a melee weapon, right?)
Onyxia was my first raid too. It was something special when it first came out and we all had to figure out what the hell we were doing by smashing ourselves into her all night long. LoL :)
seriously what the fuck was going on in this video? tons of worgen in gurubashi arena? archaedas in gurubashi arena? was it initially some sort of endless-waves thing? also nice touch with the human hunters
I can't even describe of epic it was, seeing teldrassil for the first time as 12 year old, or durotar. It was a feeling i never had since then..why? What was this feeling? The feeling of exploring a game one of a kind, it was new, it was big and there were other players..we were young and didn't know anything about games, til we saw WoW in the TV...
I was hooked. The game was insane, like nothing I had played before. Seemed like another world I was living in. Made some great friends. Crazy experience
I started leveling an orc warrior in early 2005 (UK release) and stayed at the starting zone for absolutely ages killing boars and scorpids. I thought The Den was the entire world. Oh how I was sorely mistaken
I want them to bring back the world that made us talk and explore with each other. Not this grind from 1 - 100 so I can farm gear and then stand around bored.
I played until about a year ago on Emerald Dream. There aren't as many, but a much higher percentage are skilled, so there's plenty of raiding guilds. I don't do much pvp and i heard it took a while to start a bg, like one every 30 mins or so.
Proof of too much can spoil; this game lost so much of it's soul with time. You know when you've got a touch of the vanilla when you miss /LFG. Blizzard got fat and forgot about their WoW-born player-base, opening their arms to casual players by introducing fast-travel mechanics like the Dungeon Finder. Because of this, you no longer had to move from where you logged in, exploring became obsolete and with that killed world PVP too. It was these core features that ironically took the World out of Warcraft, so it soon became boring for Blizzard's original audience -- an audience they should of listened to.
+YTCENS0R WoW became what it is today because of the incredible vanilla community and the word of mouth reputation that the community created. the best video game community in history imo. Blizzard got greedy and changed the game to draw in a bigger amount of people and gradually lost the hardcore audience that made it what it was in vanilla. the community went from outnumbered but never outgunned to being the other way around. and as Blizzard will inevitably find out, the corporate, passion-less way of doing things they have adopted and the noob-driven community of casuals they had created can only take the game downhill into oblivion. its a very similar thing like what happened with Nintendo in mid 2000s . they chose to cater to the casuals with the Wii and the retarded motion control gimmicks, and had great success for a limited time, but after a while the casuals just moved on the to next flavor of the year thing and left them in the dust. they barely survived, mostly due to the hardcore fans that grew up with them in the pre Wii era and are just now beginning to see the mistakes they made in that period.
Look how unapologetically brutal this trailer is. Its all epic music, roars of anger and clash of steel. If they had the technology the back then the game would look more like spacemarine 2 trailers look than the current softie style clearly aimed at stunted childlike adults. It looks like its for kids 12 years old. Yet it is too complicated for them. So its for manchildren... Twitter freaks... Stunted adults.
the nostalgia is crazy, I got goosebumps. I remember running around looking for an actual group to kill Hogger, now anyone can solo it. I remember needing a group in the fargodeep mine south of goldshire because those damn kobolds came out of nowhere. I remember needing a group to kill the boar Princess because she was a pain. I remember having to literally run to every damn dungeon after hours of searching for a group. I remember meeting amazing people and making incredible connections with complete strangers because you had to interact with the WORLD, with the COMMUNITY. I can honestly say, this game is always gonna be a part of me I'll never forget. Thank You Blizzard! *sobs*.. I'm not crying! you're crying!
When I was standing in a line of a store, waiting with my mother to get my copy of WoW vanilla charged, a guy behind me put a hand on my shoulder. When I turned around I saw a warm smile accompanied by the legendary words: ''Your life is over.'' And he was right. I have over 1200 days /played across my characters in 18 years.
0:49 gloria! Having played warcraft 3, I remember playing this E3 trailer countless of times until the very end of 2004 when i finally got a beta invitation for vanilla :D people had no idea of the game or any strategies back than, it took you months to even reach 60. Everybody was keen to explore every inch of this world, the quests&secrets. It wasnt about efficiency at all, just having fun exploring stuff. Countless hours pvping at tarens mill, endless wipes within the molten core of black rock mountain. The absolut peak of Blizzard. A true masterpiece, truely unique, never played any addon. Private servers got me this nostalgia 12years later, eager to conquer Ahn'quiraj and Naxxramas, thank you lightshope, thank you catalysts! Unfortunately classic could not compete to this nostalgia as I already knew all strategies and areas. I still had fun, but the meta was totally different...
Dark Age of Camelot, Shadowbane, SWG, WoW... I spent countless days and nights in that addiction, and it was glorious! those were best days for MMORPGs.
SaltyShanker Best times. It died with Lich King. Cataclysm ruined everything, not just the world, but the need to actually work with other players. From and indepth mmorpg with social interactions and player driven world to a pseudo rpg with click a button and you get everything for free. *Sigh*.
SaltyShanker Best times. It died with Lich King. Cataclysm ruined everything, not just the world, but the need to actually work with other players. From and indepth mmorpg with social interactions and player driven world to a pseudo rpg with click a button and you get everything for free. *Sigh*.
Imagine going back and seeing this...could anyone have imagined the behemoth of a game this was about to become? The calm before the absolute storm. The imminent addiction, future nostalgia, friends and memories seared in our collective experience... If there is one thing in gaming I could go back and experience for the first time again - it would be this. Take me back D:
Warcraft then, and now, it's so funny how times change. I've been playing on a Vanilla server, and for like the first time in ages, I can actually get lost in the game. I could spend hours, and I'll be thoroughly enjoying myself. Even leveling one level at time felt so good, and even finding green items made me feel awesome. Dungeons and questing are a large part of the game, and leave you with stories to tell. It doesn't feel like you are compelled to get to 60 as fast as humanly possible, as a matter of fact, I enjoy leveling to my own speed. Like just going through the dungeons in retail, you just queue up and go through the dungeon, and you won't even say a word to those helping you as you just ram your face into your keyboard. But dungeons in Vanilla, it feels awesome to socialize with everyone, I feel good about giving them random things that I happened to craft. Overall it just feels great. The delayed satisfaction of the climb to level 60 is just awesome, and it allows me to under Warcraft just that much better. Don't get me wrong, I still play retail, and retail still has some awesome elements to it. The raids are very nicely designed (SoO, ToT, HFC), they contain such great boss fights and have a lot of intensity to it. The leveling in Legion looks very high quality and the raids look even better. Overall, then and now are both great in their own elements, but my God, Vanilla is definitely a gem in it's own rite.
I am so sad that I never got to experiance the start of WoW. But that was just not possible for me at that time. At the time vannila was released I didn't even own a computer. I got my first computer around 2006 and first time I got proper internet connection was around 2010 I belive. Before that I used dial-up internet for 4 years. Tough life living in a village in middle of nowhere in a crap country. :/
One of my best memories was when I was playing my Dwarf hunter in Dun Morogh and all of a sudden I saw an orc rogue with armor and glowing daggers, I thought to myself whoaw I need to hide quick, so I hide behind a tree I was so freaking scared, and another memory when I finally went to Ironforge for the first time I ran up the mountain leading to the gates and running past me were these mounted players with tigers and I stopped and thought to myself that whoaw this is so freaking cool, I wonder when I get to have a mount, these are one of the earliest memories I've had when I created my first character, the experience and the feeling has not been felt in another game today, it was truly magical, unique, special and unforgetable.
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I would gladly turn back time and reset my memory just to experience those days again.
Kronos
Turn back time, don't reset memory. Tell Blizzard to never release anything after Wrath, or BC.
The way you use to have to play the game back then you'd have to regain your virginity as well
elysium-project.org/ Server launching December 17th
as if he lost it
Optimus Prime presents: World of Warcraft
Dick Blister most lovely comment ever.
LOL i was thinking the same thing
Bleex he voiced Orgrim in Warcraft adventures.
damn you beat me to it
I was just gonna say "Optimus is that you?" lol XP
In 2003, Blizzard rolled the dice that people would want to experience their RTS as a RPG.
I say they won that bet.
Too bad they've removed just about all their RPG elements in favor of convenience.
Dalton Joshua true dat.
But i have 57 jobs 12 kids and only one microsecond to play! Make the game progressable for me!
Their RTS games already leaned heavily on RPG elements via hero mechanics. And there was a thriving mod community building games centered on the RPG elements (such as DotA).
So I wouldn't say they really made any huge gambles. More like they correctly identified a huge opportunity and capitalized on it. And they did indeed win.
My fondest memory was the day I logged in to my 47 paladin, leveling in the Searing Gorge... Just like any other day, questing, going through the tough 1-60 as a retribution paladin. Hard days, and one of those days just so happened to bring me to an undead, skull level mage. (Skull is 10 levels or higher, so he was level 57 or 60, 60 being maximum at the time.) He saw me, and I saw him, and those were the days when griefing and camping started. I took it upon my alliance self to do my duty and attack him, whether I would live or die. For all of those who have died to gankers and corpse campers. Our fight lasted for nearly fifteen minutes, back and forth, halfway down the map south of Thorium Point.
I remember jumping from scaffolding to scaffolding, and going in and out of the mines in order to LoS (Line of Sight) the mage. Fifteen minutes of the most memorable reasons why I loved the game, and why I played alliance. Between the fifteen minute mark and twenty minutes, I killed that sucker, and went on with my day.
Shit mage, but hell I killed him. LOL
+Corbin “Dunshin” McGhee tl;dr
I remember being an orc in ashenvale, around level 25 I was. Had some higher level alliance on my tail, but he had no mount. He was chasing me for about 20 minutes through the forests. I tried to hide in bushes and behind trees. And after a while i successfully managed to hide away and escape.
Corbin McGhee this is not a true story
Paladins, back then, were hard to kill. Lay on hands was crazy op, balanced only by forbereance wich lasted 20 25 min, if i remember corectly
+crashyburny MIT there was no forbearance )
Back when WoW was nails, when every other player was a Night Elf Hunter, when saving up for your epic mount took weeks (if not months), back when you had to sell a testicle just to afford the fire enchant! Man those were the days! :)
"Everything was better when I was 16"
Pretty much summarizes 80% of UA-cam comments.
The very first mount you obtained after saving up for god knows how long for it!
The narrator says "in a land of mighty kingdoms" when the lordaeron banner is shown, where is that meant to be on the map? I feel like its either Menethil Harbour, or southshore, any speculations? Also what was happening/ being done to the orc in Stormwinds keep?
I'm thinking it's Theramore Isle, seen from its entrance facing the Dustwallow Marsh. The building on the left reminds me Foothold Citadel. The banner you talk about shows two symbols: the Lordaeron one is the smaller one in the upper left corner, whereas the symbol at the center (the anchor) represents the nation of Kul Tiras, i.e. the nation where Jaina Proudmoore (whom during Vanilla WoW resided at Theramore) hails from ;)
I was in college when it first came out...my homework did cease to exist for Weeks yo....
i remember waiting 15minutes for nefarian to respawn between tries .... we often /rolled for gold so that we don't get bored..... got broke real fast.
So much nostalgi, but play wow now, since 2006 and what a wonderful sound in trailer, i think his name legendary of Azeroth, but not sure
The Feels.....
MY NAME IS SODA AND I CRY A LOT
If you remember Thottbot you're real guy.
BrahUAware ouch, that hurts noob.
lmao
when i first started wow, aeons ago i preferred thottbot over wowhead. i was like, 8 years old and thought wowhead was to complicated and i was afraid of change, so i stayed with thottbot. good times, real good times.
Spent waaay too much time on Thottbot
I was really happy to see the Quest Helper in BC. Thottbot did make me get a second screen tho ^^
I feel bad for anyone who didn't experience the early stages of WoW, when the meta was more about world exploration and a fitting into a legit server society. These days the WoW experience feels so much more singular and contrived. I think everyone who says they miss vanilla is actually saying they miss when the game had soul.
Edward Ecker Well said.
Edward Ecker Exactly this. It wasn't the raids or the combat really that made the game it was the people you did them with. I remember just chilling in the starting zone for taurens on my first character making friends by the fireplace. Now everyone might as well be a bot.
Edward Ecker But also take a look to other MMOGs/Games in general. Even on websites it's always the same. As soon as a community creates a hivemind, they turn to shit.
In general all online communitys are a pool of idiots today.
Edward Ecker Yea vanilla wasn't just "omg vanilla was great" .... it was more so that WoW was the first of it's kind. With the internet just starting out it was possibly the best mmo out there to get attached with other people.
Edward Ecker True. I think the game lost it when they implemented the cross-server dungeon finder. It's a really nifty tool, granted. But by making it so easy for players to enter instance after instance, they forgot to be grateful for a fitting group of players that accompanied them in their perils and helped them to overcome obstacles.
Man, I remember my first time in Blackrock Depths. Back then, we spent a whole day exploring every nook and cranny of that darned place. Today: 2 or 3 separate instance parts, 2 mandatory bosses each and that's it. they even cut out the trash mobs in the in-between passages...
I love how they made gryphon taxis look like flying mounts
Probably alot of guys got fooled for that.
when i was young i thought you could unlock flying gryphons by taming them as pets as hunters, so i tried leveling one but was confused when i couldn't do it
gryphon taxis?......really?.....who tf even says that!
you must be new here
They actually had planned to have flying mounts at launch
this hurts my heart... it actually pains... so many memories... early-teen years.. awwwww
I hear you brother.. I do..
***** Yeah, its over and wont come back :(
***** Nostalrius
Argionelite >implying that's the same
Illnathftfw >assuming im implying its the same
"Blizzard entertainment proudly invites you" I just got goosebumps.
When they still had pride...
Careful, you might get sexually assaulted
Yes me 2 - such words will never be said again (and meant)...
8 years after this post it's "Blizzard entertainemt doesn't give a fuck, give us your addiction money ASAP scrub"
Yep. that shot of the priest at 0:58 is what made me roll a priest main back in 2004 which i still play today.
why was that paladin swinging his sword and not buffing me.
Leonel Diaz KICK EM FROM THE GROUP.
+Leonel Diaz I was healing the rogues with JoL and maintaining an infinite mana pool with 1h SoW while requiring no outside healing.
Good luck convincing the guild leader though. I blame the palidans.
KRASHIM WTFFFF
Leonel Diaz more importantly was the the sword of a thousand truths?
/gkick
Wondering into duskwood as a lvl 5 human and aggroing ghouls from a hundred yards away. Good times
haha exactly. Or having no clue and travel from the barrens to the Tanaris at level 13. Traveling and swimming along the east coast.
travel 18 lvl from Duskwood to Booty Bay, dying from animals, undeads, gorrilas... Those days~~
i remember the harvest golems that would aggro from 30 light years away
Oh yeah, you didn't care what level you were, you just ran anywhere and died a couple 100 times just to explore new cool places
It was fun and exciting.
One of my fondest memories was when I was leveling my human rogue in Westfall, and I was handing in some quests at Sentinel Hill, then a wave of level 60 Horde completely decimated the place, it was my first time experiencing enemy players in the outside world, and it was epic seeing level 60 Ally's come and try to help, it gave the world a sense of community and open world.
man Sentinel Hill!!! We ganked so much over there lol
Remember when we would actually build socially interactive relationships when looking for groups to complete quest, do dungeons, raids, and even make guilds? Now that interactive part is automated and numb.
that's exactly it, and putting multiple servers into 1 battlegroup instead of just dropping a few servers and putting players together in the real world...of warcraft.
Since Legion hit, I've actually been doing this a lot. Mythic Dungeons aren't in the queue, so you actually have to get a group together. While I've made no permanent friendships yet, I've had a ton of fun with the people that I now interact with.
Orion Crawford
Same, I've been playing with all my old friends. It's like we never left the game.
Remember when gaming was at a totally different time and if vanilla WoW came out today it would flop? Now that part has adapted and a smart move.
Seriously take off your rose tinted glasses for a second and really REALLY think about it. Wildstar tried to be like vanilla WoW endgame and guess what? That killed the game. They had to go F2P because no one gave two fucks about doing lengthy quests just to do a raid. And Wildstar tried its best to pander to Vanilla WoW players. So I think that alone shows how archaic vanilla was and how it was good because of when it came out.
Most people who played WoW vanilla were kids or teenagers, meaning they had all the time in the world to play whenever and do all the lengthy shit. Now? Are you seriously saying you would come back after a hard day of work to grind for items all night long?
Secondly, the socialization is still there. Youre logic implies the only reason people socialized was because they have to. They had to stand in a town and spam "need a tank/healer". Technically thats still in the game. Its called Mythic+. Mythic+ doesnt use LFG and you need to manually make a group. But your logic is implying people socialized because they wanted to. If this were the case, LFG and LFR would have been a complete utter failure. So your logic doesnt hold up and just to remind you, LFG was made during the time where the game was at its highest number of subs ever (WoTLK).
Questing? In Legion, some WQs require a group, but not all. Dungeons and raids? I believe I covered that. Had to make a guild? What would dictate you to make a guild? I dont see why any piece of content would absolutely require you to be in a guild unless of course you were doing Mythic raiding. But other than that? I know vanilla guilds had perks to them. But you have to ask yourself this; are you joining/making a guild for the community? Or the perks it just gives?
FYI I'm playing Legion and I'm really enjoying it as much as I did BC...
Maybe it's just me but WoW's classic zones felt a LOT bigger back then. Maybe the access of flying mounts makes me think that but even when running around on a level 1 in the Night Elf starting area... I just don't feel so lost in the world any more. I miss having to either use a flight path or ride on your mount to different zones. It made us keep contact with areas we barely visited. Now we just fly the feck over. Not the same. Also I hate how Cataclysm changed a lot of areas. I miss the old quests.. I miss Westfall and old school Darkshore!
And that's why there wont be flying in Dreanor!
Bjorn van Gelder..for a month
Sam E But the Barrens was so big it had to be split into 2!
i agree completely.
I think its just because those areas actually got used for multiple things - PVP, looking for groups for dungeons, leveling gathering. There were always people in all the zones doing all sorts of different things, and that made it feel like....a world...of warcraft.
What I want to know is how we went from this amazing world with loads of other players to pissing about in a Garrison on our own.
Hubert Benmeratherdinghat III Activision, probably and sadly.
Hubert Benmeratherdinghat III Because player housing has been in demand since WoW Beta.
Michael Broetje
I can assure you Facebook App was not what we had in mind.
Dandy Candy Yea I know, it's definitely had potential but very poor implementation. If it were me I would have made a housing district, where it populated phases with online players to maximize the sense of population and community, and integrated it with a main city. I would have put way less focus on the "garrison chores" and focused more on customization, and stuff you can interact with... you know RPG things.
Michael Broetje I have been wanting this since vanilla. Like a guild lounge with the very essential vendors within the major cities.
I see Optimus Prime likes abit of gaming after kicking ass
+Martin Snoeij damm, i've just comment this and not saw your comment before XD i'll not gain likes
well no shit lol
only kids born in 80s or 90s know this feeling
I was born in the 70's and know this feeling ;)
@@butcherjsy8then you werent a kid
@@lotusroot4087 But I know the feeling!
lol, this has been up a while, so probably no one will see this, BUT my fondest memory was when I first started playing. I started a week before BC was released. I rolled a night elf hunter (after a few failed attempts at other classes). I leveled enough and finally got out of Teledressil and onto Darkshore, I noticed the map went way south and I wanted to see what was out there... so I ran. I ran until I got into Ashenvale, I was mesmerized by all the trees, the music was so soothing and I remember thinking "I didn't know a world this big could exist in a game".
Then I got my ass handed to me by an aggressive stag who was ten levels above me... :P
Ashenvale had that effect on a lot of folks. Myself included. Be well cujoedaman
My fondest Vanilla memory:
It was a late evening in 2005 at my friends house. I was 15 years old. My friend started talking about World of Warcraft. And me, being the typical "sporty" kid in school who never played video games and was all about playing sports and chasing girls was like "wtf are you even talking about!?" I didn't understand jack shit of what he ranted on about. All these wow terms, raid this and raid that. He then told me it would be easier to see it for myself. He then put on a warcraft pvp movie called "Sorrow Hill 1" By Otherguy, the undead mage. (The inventor or pvp videos). At that moment, I thought to myself; "This is the absolute coolest shit I have ever seen"
I bought the game the next day, and created an Undead Mage
Here I am, 10-11 Years later. Still playing an Undead Mage.
I mean holy shit.
i hope you laid some chicks tho?
I remember back in 2005-2006, everyone was playing WoW. I was working at a grocery store at the time and i remember this 40yo mother playing WoW. She was working in the deli department and everytime i was walking by she was telling about her hunter lol
Good. U got ur shit together. No more chasing girls and sport lol
You still playing UD mage?
Optimus Prime approves this game!
Back when WoW was good.
Man the early 2000s were really the golden age of technology. I miss those times
The mid 90s to the end of the 2000s was a grand time to be a gamer
@@kaydee66781 Yes I agree. Grand time to be alive as well, lol
Agreed 98-2008 was the best decade
It was a time where passion and vision were priority one and money making second. Surely everybody has to get paid for their work, but there is little passion in todays releases most of the time.
In my POV I agree. I was surprised what technology based on silicon transistor can achieve. I always thought about it as new genre of culture. New stories which can be told in the way which was never before even thinkable. I don't this current young generation think about it that way. It was a pure technological magic!
LF1M healer for UBRS!!! :)
ALLYS ATTACKING CROSSROAD!!! NEED LVL 60S HERE PLZ
dude sounds like optimus prime, is it the same voice actor?
yes
I remember being lvl 7-8 human paladin.standing near the river separating elwynn forest and duskwood and watching those wolves with skulls instead of their lvl in awe.
lol i have the same memory
Vanilla WoW, the golden age of online gaming. Definitely some of the best years of my life.
amen brother 💯 nothing comes close !
Sacrificed way too many college semesters playing Vanilla and TBC. And I would do it all over again.
back in the day we would say this looks better than real life lal
And now; the cinematics *actually do* look better than real life.
@@DeathComesQuick666but the game isnt and will never be again..
Dat feeling when you had to explore to quest, quest to level, and level to explore more.
IDK when you guys started playing, but "BACK IN MY DAY", as us old men say, you had no databases or search engines that would give you a position on a map that told you what was good, where certain creatures were, what creep, minion, or boss would drop you a certain ingredient and where that was.
You had to ask in chat, or read through pages upon useless, clunky pages in blizzard forums. Or, like me, have buddies who were ahead of you and knew by coincidence where something was.
I have so much useless information stored in my head from those days, because helping someone else find something in chat felt great.
HaploidCell You nailed it mate, those were the "little" things what made classic WoW a real massive multiplayer game. Where you had to explore the World of Warcraft, socialise with people. Not this abomination it has became, everyone sitting in freaking instanced solo garrisons.
I have no idea how those "garrison" things work, what they are, or what they do. And I'm not even sure I want to find out. ;D
HaploidCell This was true for only a while before Thottbot became a thing.
well we had thot bot remember
Vaguely ^^ I remember trying to use it .....
I remember being in a guild with my step dad but now he passed
+Da Lich king I'm sorry for your loss.
+Da Death Wing oi
least he doesnt have to suffer the whats to become of the game of now
THE END
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+Skabbalabba dingdong you have problems
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oi
YOUR MOTHER IS A MOTHERLESS GOAT!!1
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I can't believe the WoW developers did not preserve the data from the original version of WoW. This is perhaps the most important bit of gaming history right here.
Dude they've already confirmed that they have kept it preserved.
Takashi 125 When?
Back when everyone was going crazy over legacy servers earlier this year.
Takashi 125 I specifically recall them (incl. Morhaime) say that one of the biggest issues with legacy servers was in fact that Blizzard had not saved the orginal data, as they had just let it be overwritten as the game progressed. Which is why Nostalrius and every other "Blizzlike" private server had to datamine everything themselves. It's not that I don't believe you, but I would love to hear a source.
I can bet your left nut that they still have the main source and changes they have done, and can easily put it all back together, but it's very time consuming. And Nostalrius didn't datamine anything. People already datamined everything they needed since 2005. They've just fixed bugs and perfected everything else.
I miss when hillsbrad foothills world pvp
Damn this game is going to be awesome when it comes out!
My fondest memory in WoW
Taking part in my servers (emerald dream) largest ever raid, I think there's still videos of it but we were in the hundreds, I'm pretty sure I was a lower level player at this point so was pretty clueless but got invited into the raid party because I was in the guild, I had never been in a raid party before and suddenly seeing all these players popping up blew my fucking mind, everyone was in the raid chat yelling over each other, other raid groups were forming and everyone started grouping outside of orgrimmar
Everyone was spamming trade chat: WE ARE TAKING SW, EVERYONE OUTSIDE ORGRIMMAR! - and the whole city man.. every player low or high, we were taking up arms, we were going for the alliance and we started to gun towards Ratchet to catch the boat. It was phenomenal, all these players mounted or running, spamming yell, FOR THE HORDE!, I mean I had NEVER experienced something on this level before from games or well anything to be honest. hundreds of players pouring onto the boat in ratchet as we headed into booty bay, I had never even been to the eastern kingdoms at this point so this whole thing was so new to me. we trekked through stranglethorn picking up other horde players from booty bay and onwards and also alerting the alliance to our presence, we destroyed every alliance Homebase we saw en-route to the Elwyn forest, wiping gold shire in moments and preceding to Stormwind, my first time seeing it in game we tore through the city, hundreds of us, some stopping to raid shops, slaying every NPC and PvP enabled player in sight, city guards littered the streets as we finally made it to the palace stairs and up into stormwind keep, we downed the king (cannot for the life of me remember who it was) and killed every alliance player that came to aid their king, it was insanity Im pretty sure I cried.
We then, as we were still in the literal hundreds, decided we wouldn't stop there.. oh no, we took every single alliance major city in the game, I had never seen any of these places before, I was given this grand tour of Azeroth whilst we pillaged our way through every city and upon finally returning to orgrimmar after hours of battle and siege we returned to our city and the trade chat exploded, everyone was celebrating people were dancing in the street, setting off fireworks... it was an unforgettable moment, I didn't know a game could achieve so much emotion, it was actually alive, teeming with real people, all really rejoicing and connecting from all across the real world, taking part as a community in this other world
Vanilla and TBC for me were just golden, I'll never get it back even with the new vanilla servers blizzard announced, it was a moment in time you can't recapture, a moment of my childhood you know? you'll never really get that back, I've seen the whole game, I've also lived more of my life and it'll never be relived the way it was back then but thats fine, I'm glad I have this memory and so many others of this game of all games.
I miss vanilla/TBC!
I forgot Optimus Prime voiced the trailer for this.
Remember: you don't miss the game, you miss that part of your life and the experiences attached to it that have passed and will never return
:,(
So true. I feel that way about many things
wrong.
Nah, I think it's both chief.
Don't forget, this was all the Jailers plan.
Wait until they come up with something to extend the universe. Soon it's all going to be master plan of Jailer's evil trans brother who then turns to be actually good, it's just he was manipulated by some elden void dragon murlocks.
vanilla wow was magical like entering a new world i had never experienced, it was unfair in some situations just like real life, TBC with still awesome and had been imporved for the best, woltk then made the game noob friendly but it was still a REALLY good game just not as amazing as it once was, then cata came along and fucking shit on the game and ever since cata the game sucks so bad, they changed waaaaaaaay too much.
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spunkflunk Fresh take right here. No one has ever put it into words quite like this...
greg singson ⏰_⏰
I think the game sucks now. I still enjoy playing, and I started in BC. Yea it's not what it once was, but sometimes you just have to adapt to change. It is definitely targeted at a more casual audience and blizzard does get lazy on some of the content. But overall, its still a decent game, and I would no doubt recommend it over most MMO's now.
spunkflunk game isn't bad legion is fun af
Took me 7 days to install all 5 discs on my VPR Matrix with my 256kb/s modem, boy how times have changed.
Who is watching this in 2024 for nostalgia sake. /RaiseHand
And so that, kids, is why I never met your mother.
Game like this can't exist today. First the audience will complain how there is PVP in open world. Then they complain how many spells there are. Then they complain how they can't compete with gamers. Then they complain how raids are too hard and they can't get same rewards as those who are more experience. Then they complain how their friend is in X faction while they are in Y faction. Once you fix all the complaints you end up is something like Tarisland.
You can run your own wow server easily in 2024. With bots who quest and raid with you. I show you how. Come with me.
Fondest memory? Got two: Reaching Ashenvale (my favourite zone) and doing my first dungeon as a nelf warrior: Black fathom Deeps. And even when it was a total mess (mage was tanking, i was using 2 h weapon and never using taunts, priest doing dps, hunter using melee...) it was so damn fun, you didnt cared about loot and meeting quotas, you cared about the experience/adventure and seeing new things. And second one: My first Onyxia fight with my Undead Warlock. It was my guilds 1º try, Stygia, second attempt in the entire server. it was a wipe and we wiped many times before downing her, but boy it was epic. Even when you didnt get any loot, it was epic enough to jsut go and do it again. Probably cause you werent worn out of doing heroics for the currency points back then.
+Simón Salgueiro Black Fathom Deeps was the first instance I ever did too ! Man how awesome , the part when you get to the beach setting hidden at the top of Ashenvale, and then go past all the naga down the chasm and through the cave to get to the instance ! it really felt like discovering something epic :))
+Simón Salgueiro I was using fury stance and whirlwind with a two-hander at the start in vanilla for tanking, too. The bloody mage still stole aggro from every mob, but i was able to not get everyone else in trouble at least. Then at the end, nobody had any quest. And the mage ninjaed my plate helmet.
first one i ever did was ragefire chasm with a guild group and I was a lock and i thought that only using spells would drain me of mana and i should auto attack the mobs... (why else would i have auto attack and a melee weapon, right?)
I remember the first time I did wailing caverns when the game had came out. I think it took like 3 hours or something. It was a fucking mess.
Onyxia was my first raid too. It was something special when it first came out and we all had to figure out what the hell we were doing by smashing ourselves into her all night long. LoL :)
seriously what the fuck was going on in this video? tons of worgen in gurubashi arena? archaedas in gurubashi arena? was it initially some sort of endless-waves thing? also nice touch with the human hunters
Hurts that Blizzard ruined the game after all these years
Low poly models... Stretched textures... Poor VFXs...
But you still get goosebumps if you watch this... truly impressive.
bro its 2024 and this thing just dropped in recomended videos🤩
The Game of the century, to say the least
I was 14-15 in 2005, i biked home frome school to lvl my warr in the Wetlands on my lunch break for 30min and then i biked back 😄
Remember when you got a mount at 40? And it took months to get there? Remember when you first flying mount was 60%? Good times...
mastuhcowz yes and it felt good
No because I played a warlock and got my free ground mounts. Lololol :D
KiyokaMakibi warlock in classic?
R00KIET yes, Warlock, warrior, priest, mage, paladín, shaman, druid, rogue and hunter. Vanilla classes
I can't even describe of epic it was, seeing teldrassil for the first time as 12 year old, or durotar. It was a feeling i never had since then..why? What was this feeling? The feeling of exploring a game one of a kind, it was new, it was big and there were other players..we were young and didn't know anything about games, til we saw WoW in the TV...
You can only smoke crack the first time once.
I was hooked. The game was insane, like nothing I had played before. Seemed like another world I was living in. Made some great friends. Crazy experience
100% Game was amazing
I started leveling an orc warrior in early 2005 (UK release) and stayed at the starting zone for absolutely ages killing boars and scorpids. I thought The Den was the entire world. Oh how I was sorely mistaken
lol
stake your claim, live your legend... that doesnt apply anymore :(
Wow is dead
I want them to bring back the world that made us talk and explore with each other. Not this grind from 1 - 100 so I can farm gear and then stand around bored.
I`m really sad that i couldnt feel the experience of Vanilla ;/
iThoughtSheHad18 There are several Vanilla Blizzlike private servers that are 99% of the vanilla experience
Chronos how populated are they?
I played until about a year ago on Emerald Dream. There aren't as many, but a much higher percentage are skilled, so there's plenty of raiding guilds. I don't do much pvp and i heard it took a while to start a bg, like one every 30 mins or so.
Chronos gotcha, well it would be cool to check out. Might go give it a shot.
Randy Moye Check out Nostalrius. Haven't ran into one bug. I once saw 6k+ people online and took a screenshot. Probably the best out right now.
The best gaming experience I've ever had ♥️
Proof of too much can spoil; this game lost so much of it's soul with time. You know when you've got a touch of the vanilla when you miss /LFG. Blizzard got fat and forgot about their WoW-born player-base, opening their arms to casual players by introducing fast-travel mechanics like the Dungeon Finder. Because of this, you no longer had to move from where you logged in, exploring became obsolete and with that killed world PVP too. It was these core features that ironically took the World out of Warcraft, so it soon became boring for Blizzard's original audience -- an audience they should of listened to.
+YTCENS0R WoW became what it is today because of the incredible vanilla community and the word of mouth reputation that the community created. the best video game community in history imo. Blizzard got greedy and changed the game to draw in a bigger amount of people and gradually lost the hardcore audience that made it what it was in vanilla.
the community went from outnumbered but never outgunned to being the other way around. and as Blizzard will inevitably find out, the corporate, passion-less way of doing things they have adopted and the noob-driven community of casuals they had created can only take the game downhill into oblivion.
its a very similar thing like what happened with Nintendo in mid 2000s . they chose to cater to the casuals with the Wii and the retarded motion control gimmicks, and had great success for a limited time, but after a while the casuals just moved on the to next flavor of the year thing and left them in the dust. they barely survived, mostly due to the hardcore fans that grew up with them in the pre Wii era and are just now beginning to see the mistakes they made in that period.
stake your claim, live the legend
and here i am still playing. anyone else??
holy ... playing wow for over 10 years now but have never seen the original trailer of vanilla o.o
#epicAF
Look how unapologetically brutal this trailer is. Its all epic music, roars of anger and clash of steel. If they had the technology the back then the game would look more like spacemarine 2 trailers look than the current softie style clearly aimed at stunted childlike adults. It looks like its for kids 12 years old. Yet it is too complicated for them. So its for manchildren... Twitter freaks... Stunted adults.
I'm pretty sure I remember watching this on TV
the nostalgia is crazy, I got goosebumps. I remember running around looking for an actual group to kill Hogger, now anyone can solo it. I remember needing a group in the fargodeep mine south of goldshire because those damn kobolds came out of nowhere. I remember needing a group to kill the boar Princess because she was a pain. I remember having to literally run to every damn dungeon after hours of searching for a group. I remember meeting amazing people and making incredible connections with complete strangers because you had to interact with the WORLD, with the COMMUNITY. I can honestly say, this game is always gonna be a part of me I'll never forget. Thank You Blizzard! *sobs*.. I'm not crying! you're crying!
To this day, This trailer looks 10x better than the wow we have today.
This trailer is showing so much that never existed like that in the 2004 release.
i miss this version of WoW.
Travek Maxwell play on a private server then.
Private servers don't have the proper scripting so everything is buggy and encounters don't work properly.
Travek Maxwell
The one I play on seems fine but I havent gotten that far.
I was there, Gandalf...
When I was standing in a line of a store, waiting with my mother to get my copy of WoW vanilla charged, a guy behind me put a hand on my shoulder. When I turned around I saw a warm smile accompanied by the legendary words: ''Your life is over.''
And he was right. I have over 1200 days /played across my characters in 18 years.
I remember switching to maces and had to spend an house hitting stuff with maces before i missed
Usually just went into the vault in Stormwind until it was lvl 200, hoping for rare drops to sell to pvp twinks lvl 19 - 29 . Oh these days.
Best gaming experience ever. 2004-2006.
LIRIK
LEEWEEK
Kids will never know what an adventure that was.
0:49 gloria! Having played warcraft 3, I remember playing this E3 trailer countless of times until the very end of 2004 when i finally got a beta invitation for vanilla :D people had no idea of the game or any strategies back than, it took you months to even reach 60. Everybody was keen to explore every inch of this world, the quests&secrets. It wasnt about efficiency at all, just having fun exploring stuff. Countless hours pvping at tarens mill, endless wipes within the molten core of black rock mountain. The absolut peak of Blizzard. A true masterpiece, truely unique, never played any addon. Private servers got me this nostalgia 12years later, eager to conquer Ahn'quiraj and Naxxramas, thank you lightshope, thank you catalysts! Unfortunately classic could not compete to this nostalgia as I already knew all strategies and areas. I still had fun, but the meta was totally different...
Dark Age of Camelot, Shadowbane, SWG, WoW... I spent countless days and nights in that addiction, and it was glorious! those were best days for MMORPGs.
R.I.P World of Warcraft. 2004-2010
SaltyShanker Best times. It died with Lich King. Cataclysm ruined everything, not just the world, but the need to actually work with other players. From and indepth mmorpg with social interactions and player driven world to a pseudo rpg with click a button and you get everything for free. *Sigh*.
SaltyShanker Best times. It died with Lich King. Cataclysm ruined everything, not just the world, but the need to actually work with other players. From and indepth mmorpg with social interactions and player driven world to a pseudo rpg with click a button and you get everything for free. *Sigh*.
Dandy Candy Yeah :(
Dandy Candy Wotlk ruined that, not Cataclysm ;P
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LFD was introduced in the last patch of wotlk. Everything else came in cataclysm.
the power of friendship and family!
We are back booooooiiiiisssssss blizzcon 2k17
Still remember how unbelievably excited I was waiting for this to launch. Fond memories ❤️
Imagine going back and seeing this...could anyone have imagined the behemoth of a game this was about to become? The calm before the absolute storm. The imminent addiction, future nostalgia, friends and memories seared in our collective experience...
If there is one thing in gaming I could go back and experience for the first time again - it would be this. Take me back D:
Wow classic literally has a part of my soul.
Warcraft then, and now, it's so funny how times change.
I've been playing on a Vanilla server, and for like the first time in ages, I can actually get lost in the game. I could spend hours, and I'll be thoroughly enjoying myself. Even leveling one level at time felt so good, and even finding green items made me feel awesome. Dungeons and questing are a large part of the game, and leave you with stories to tell. It doesn't feel like you are compelled to get to 60 as fast as humanly possible, as a matter of fact, I enjoy leveling to my own speed. Like just going through the dungeons in retail, you just queue up and go through the dungeon, and you won't even say a word to those helping you as you just ram your face into your keyboard. But dungeons in Vanilla, it feels awesome to socialize with everyone, I feel good about giving them random things that I happened to craft. Overall it just feels great. The delayed satisfaction of the climb to level 60 is just awesome, and it allows me to under Warcraft just that much better.
Don't get me wrong, I still play retail, and retail still has some awesome elements to it. The raids are very nicely designed (SoO, ToT, HFC), they contain such great boss fights and have a lot of intensity to it. The leveling in Legion looks very high quality and the raids look even better. Overall, then and now are both great in their own elements, but my God, Vanilla is definitely a gem in it's own rite.
lets be honest yall, vanilla naxx thoe.... fun and tough as shit
I am so sad that I never got to experiance the start of WoW. But that was just not possible for me at that time. At the time vannila was released I didn't even own a computer. I got my first computer around 2006 and first time I got proper internet connection was around 2010 I belive. Before that I used dial-up internet for 4 years. Tough life living in a village in middle of nowhere in a crap country. :/
+Francisco Palumbo Nostalrius is wonderful. It's the WoW I remembered back in '07-'08.
How the mighty have fallen..
One of my best memories was when I was playing my Dwarf hunter in Dun Morogh and all of a sudden I saw an orc rogue with armor and glowing daggers, I thought to myself whoaw I need to hide quick, so I hide behind a tree I was so freaking scared, and another memory when I finally went to Ironforge for the first time I ran up the mountain leading to the gates and running past me were these mounted players with tigers and I stopped and thought to myself that whoaw this is so freaking cool, I wonder when I get to have a mount, these are one of the earliest memories I've had when I created my first character, the experience and the feeling has not been felt in another game today, it was truly magical, unique, special and unforgetable.
A slice of life we'll never get back.
Years later... Still gives me goosebumps.
“Live the Legend” - it was truly a Legend