Hi all.
What was your reason to start WOW during the initial 6 years?
I’m mostly interested if another game (what game) had lost it’s appeal and WHY? Any similarities to what WOW 2021 looks like now?
Friends got me into WoW PvP during TBC, it was the game everyone played in middle school.
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Frankly, I was into high fantasy, coming seeing The Lords of the Rings movies, and my classmates started playing it so I got it recommended. It totally delivered.
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World, professions, exploration, gathering, building a character and then adventuring with it.
PVP was an organic addition, dungeons and raids - to an extent, as a side activity, but all these multiple difficulty levels and go-go-go and farm-farm-farm and rio-bla bla bla absolutely not.
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My boyfriend at the time played it and i wanted to try. I was hooked from the start.
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2005 was the EU launch, some could have played on a US account.
I started in June 2005, I saw someone playing the game and it was the first MMORPG I got into.
I was given a paper 10 or 7 day guest pass.
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I already played tibia and knight online and was looking for a new mmorpg and I had already played warcraft since the first one. Was in the EU beta and decided to go for wow and started playing at launch.
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Just saw the box in a game store and picked it up. Didnt take me until WotLK to really get into it though. Id max a character, delete it and start another.
Already played MMOs (albeit PSO on the Dreamcast) but took me a while to get deep into WoW as I did PSO
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I remember that during 2004, while being 18yo, I’ve installed the game, downloaded from random forum and I was just looking at the login screen for long periods of time and listening to the theme music, imagining how it would be to actually play the game.
I’ve tried some grotesque private servers just to see how the zones look etc. but mobs were all flying arround, nothing scripted, all a big mess.
So in 2005 may I bought Guild Wars 1 to substitute my feelings for WoW, played it for 2 months, dull and booring game. Then I got a job, and actually bought WoW and played it ever since.
The first half of my WoW life was within guilds, with players, raiding etc. Heh, can’t stop thinking about those wow “CVs” we used to write when we applied to top 5 realm guilds, and doing 1-2-3 Heroic Dungeon runs just to test me, ability to CC, aggro etc.
I would never do something like that, not with my actual real life (wife, 2 kids, and lots of quests and challanges 
), but I would prob play classic after I will retire and have nothing else to do.
The second part of my WoW gaming life is SOLO, my own guild with my ALTs for every class, both on horde and alliance. The game is not as enjoyable as it was, but it is normal, if you eat pizza 5 days in a row, pizza will not be that great the 6th or 7th day.
I would love to see #SOLOQUEUE for PvP (Arena and RBGs), and ALTs being ultra friendly. These 2 things are interdependable and I think I would be subbed and playing WoW for longer period of times then I actually am in the past 4 years.
FIRST: Atm I was “forced” to waste half of my gaming time in the LFG just to get a partner to 2s with. Then after 20 games played and 1000CR, I was already facing 90% of the players with 50k HP players, ~240ilvl. Well, that was a good day when I actually got a player to play a couple of hours, but most days I need to wait 20-30mins for a partner, just to play 1-2-3 matches and him quitting.
All that with a 50% winrate enforced by blizzard. Well, if that is the purpuse, to be 50% winrate, max 60% and min 40%, why not having a #SOLOQUEUE, since trust me, I and most like me, we are not picky when it comes to classes or players. After 30mins of waiting a healer, I invite the first healer that applies, without checking anything (rating, winloss%, old seasons etc.).
SECOND: If I want to play an ALT, I need to redo all quests, renowns, and waste 50% of that ALT time on things that are tedious, that I already done on main and should not do again. All I wish to do on any ALT, after leveling it, is to HAVE FUN while playing the content I love, be it PvP BGs Arena, RBGs, or PvE M+ raiding etc. Hope that blizzard will make ALTs ultra friendly, since I want to play them all, after doing my MAIN’s stuff (repetitive weekly quests, but at least it takes 2 hour for all repetitive weekly quests and torghast runs) + weekly CAP conquest or M+ weekly run.
For example:
Last Played Sep 30, 2021 (also uninstall date)
Expiration Date Oct 16, 2021
The reason I’ve subbed in the first place, after 2 months of brake since 1st july, a silly and quite embarassing one, is to post a comment on an ALT friendly related topic.
P.S. bought Age of Conan on day one, passed it on day 2 Tried SWToR, ESO, Rift, but nothing offers the GAMEPLAY that WoW offers. I don’t care about story, I care about being able to do anything with my character, and jumping from a mount, while dotting a opposing faciton member and killing it mid air, and after gliding to safety or using Warrior’s Heroic LEAP or Hunter’s Disengage, or Druid’s Fly Mounth in air mount etc. You get the ideea, you can do whatever you think with your character and I’ve not met this freedom in any other MMO.
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Girlfriend at the time was a Warcraft & Blizz fan, wanted to try WoW, didn’t want to play solo, so we played together.
I’ve always played multiple games, never did I dedicate all my gaming time to a single game, never will. Sometimes - often, really - games change, but there’s never just a single one. Mind you, most games I play, I play once, and replay it a few years later maybe, so they naturally rotate. Some genres (hi Civ!) stay, although which iteration of it, changes over the years.
We still have gnomes. Two kinds of gnomes, even. I consider that a net win over old WoW.
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I was playing SWG. Soon after WoW launched they dumbed it down and killed it
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Played Diablo 2, Warcraft 2 and 3 and joined WoW during TBC launch. I only stayed up till beginning of Cata as I couldn’t keep up with sub. I was back then a teen who could hardly afford his own money for subs.
Came back during BFA and I’m in SL right now (just back after 3 months break)
Warcraft universe if very rich of history and fun, and when you are back then around 14yo, you have just a lot of free time with no stress to just play and enjoy and not think of anything adult like bills and job and stuff … So even if we get back the prime of WoW, it won’t be as it was before as we can’t go back to the stress free life 
Well now with 8 hours work 5 times a week, I hardly have time to keep up with the game, but I play it for the fun I had before.
Bottom line, after playing several MMOs and other offline games, WoW is the most iconic and has the biggest impact
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I was playing Dark Age of Camelot in the US on the co-operative server and I watched it die. Swore I wouldn’t play another MMOPRPG but missed it. I tried Shaiya online (sp?) but the micro-transactions were three times as much as a subscription.
Hubby begged me not to get WOW and certainly not to buy the expansion TBC. So I just bought the original game, and seriously he bugged the heck out of me while I played. What are you doing?, What’s that?, Are you eating that corpse?..
He went out and bought himself the game and the ruddy expansion pack on his lunch hour one day, and let me tell you, that went down famously, after he asked me not to!!
Looking back at achievements 2008 seems to be the earliest, but only sure we started when TBC was current.
Hubby and I still play, as a couple, we have been in great guilds, now we play just together, some friends are looking to join soon as we enjoy it so. I stress we are the worst WORST kind of casuals, we just play for fun…
We still love it, it’s our place…
btw we are old marrieds (46) we play this because it allows casual play, cutting corners, and the ability to relax. We aren’t here for challenge, for grind, responsibility and chore, that’s what we have in real life.
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A friend of mine laughed at me for playing Runescape and told me I should try a “real” game so I did and he abandoned me to level my little human rogue alone 
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Some really wholesome replies here. By the way, those lucky chaps who allege ‘me and my partner/ex/girlfriend played etc’ You had / have what I describe as a 'Relationship Unicorn" 
Or did it get boring when she would repeatedly say 'Nah I don’t want to go out - I would rather play WoW with you…" or maybe the housework just didn’t get done by anyone?
Change my mind
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I was a Star Wars Galaxies player and the game had just dropped an update that ruined it (NGE), so I jumped on the WoW train a year into it’s launch and never looked back.
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Wow - literally. Would you mind having a same-age player in your posse / guild? Where, What, When? You sound like-minded. (No funny business - promise )
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I enjoyed the Warcraft series, so when they announced a live world of warcraft, i was sold and it didnt disapoint.
It was huge.
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Myself and Hubby consider ourselves uber geeks, and supremely lucky to be together. We met in 2000 and at our first date I astounded him when I spoke of X Men comics, my love of Nightcrawler and actually was aware of Batman’s kryptonite gauntlets.
He knew I was the girl for him, and he it quickly became apparent he was the guy for me. Now 21 years on we still game together, we still are geeks, it’s not all roses the housework sometimes doesn’t get done as we have a child with very complex additional needs that requires a lot of time, finesse and instant attention when needed.
One of the reasons we love WOW and we play primarily together is to avoid annoying anyone else with lots of breaks to care for our son when he calls, or needs something. We don’t mind waiting for the other, no matter how long…but would never, ever enforce that on another player (smiles)
So maybe not a unicorn, but certainly a equine with some kind of horn!!
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Shamonnaise you are more than welcome to friend request either of us, and we would be happy to have you in our guild, as small and quiet as it is.
We play sporadically when we get time, but we are always happy to meet new friends!!
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