When did you buy World of Warcraft, whats your story?

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i don’t remember actually purchasing the game, but i’ll never forget the first time i logged in, it was my first MMO and the feeling of a shared world with other players running around really blew my mind.
i remember creating a nelf hunter ( still my main today but i can’t post on the forum) and wandering around in teldrassil, when a guy asked me for directions in /s but i had no idea how to reply lol

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I’m from the UK, would be amazing if anyone else had this but who else bought the Battle-chest pack in 2007? Came with original WoW + TBC I believe! I got the game around 2007ish.

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This happened to me as well :joy::joy:.

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Don’t forget the Bradygames book that came with it…

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I saw and tried vanilla at my friend’s place after school. Druid looked amazing as it shifted into cat and became invisible, then attacked a mob finished it as a bear. That gameplay was so awesome that I asked my parents to get me a copy for Christmas and I did. We did tons of world pvp, some dungeons and leveling and soon after TBC hit. I was able to level with my friend, explore the new world and I got into raiding. I started doing more and more arenas and less and less world pvp and I grow bored as there was not much into world anymore just as my friend did. My class became less and less powerful at the end of expansion and I unsubbed after my friend left the game as well. I skipped wotlk, tried free weeks here and there after cata and decided to try out something new in legion. The game was actually fun when I played demonhunter with controller but then I decided to main priest again. And it was downhill and constant breaks again (I’m usually always a healer in any MMO). I leveled multiple characters and now that BFA hit, none felt fun and engaging to play. I unsubbed once again

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My boyfriend (now husband) used to play. He tried to get me interested in the game. I didn’t want to play and said it was a stupid game. I did play other games but the bulk of it was on console.

Eventually he changed tactic and told me I wouldn’t be able to master it. This was like a red rag to a bull and I was like fine, move and I’ll show you can learn that game. I tried a hunter on his account. Played for a while and then realised I’d rather do it on my own account. So I started my own warcraft account. I created a warlock and went off to start my adventures in Azeroth.

I started during the Burning Crusade. I had no idea what I was doing but I was determined to give it a go. Sadly I ran into a lot of horrible people who belittled my lack of understanding of how to play my class. After that I avoided anything that involved grouping up unless I could do it with my boyfriend, or I’d outlevel it and go back later. As a result of my own horrible start in WoW I always go out of my way to be extra kind to new players.

In Wrath of the Lich King I tried a paladin and I have mained that ever since. I was, and probably still am, the worlds worst warlock :rofl:

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I bought WoW when I was 15, and my family had gotten broadband. It was shortly after TBC released. I was always aware of WoW and kept up with developments from its inception until launch and during the Vanilla days, but due to my life circumstances at the time, was not able to play.

My family got broadband, and I could finally play. I’ve been hooked ever since, although I did skip the Legion expansion entirely due to new life circumstances that wouldn’t lend itself to me playing.

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It was back in 2005… I’d heard about it from some friends I had in a parallel class (this was in 9th grade and I was 15 years old).

I’d played lots and lots of Warcraft 3 so I knew about Warcraft, but I’d never tried World of Warcraft, barely heard about it at all. And I’d never tried any MMO beyond logging in, looking around and quitting.

So off I went to buy the game, get an account and install the whole thing with 5 different CD’s or however many were in the box back in the day.
I grew up in a rather rural area and broadband internet was rather new in our area, so I couldn’t play it until the day after as it took the whole night to update the damn game.

Anyway, I never started to play with my friends and I don’t really know why. I never checked with them what server they played on so I just picked on at random. (They weren’t close friends mind you).
Ahn’Qiraj was my original server.

I picked Alliance because Humans were my favorite faction in Warcraft 3, and I ended up playing a human as well.
I’d never played any MMO before, so I barely knew what “Rogue”, “Warlock” and “Mage” even meant. So I picked a “Warrior” because at least I knew what that was.

And off I went into my first ever experience of Azeroth.

I was told that warriors are supposed to tank, but I didn’t even know what that meant. So I was just told to grab a shield and hit the enemies first.
So I tanked in every dungeon I was in.

And I made friends with a Night Elf Shadow Priest, and we played together all the way to max level, we were an unbeatable duo with me tanking and the priest healing (out of shadow spec). Though I don’t know at what level we met. The priest was from Finland and I’m from Norway.
I played with that priest for two months until I got a notification that my friend had logged on.
After I whispered and said “hi” I got a message back that said “Sorry, it’s not your friend, I’m just on my sisters account.”
And that’s when I found out my friend was a girl. I was 15 and she was 18.

We actually played together for years, and for a long while she was my only friend whom I could confide anything in and I was hers. Because we were both “social outcasts”. We helped each other through many tough times. For example later on when we broke up with boyfriends/girlfriends and needed someone to talk to.

Then I was called into the army and when I had summer-leave I actually visited her and her boyfriend in Finland. Then I was 21 and she was 24.

We kept in touch for almost a decade I think, but we’ve since lost contact, which saddens me a bit. She has quit the game.
Last I heard she was married and had a daughter, and went to school so I understand real life keeps her busy.

Meanwhile I’m engaged with a wonderful woman with whom I play this game today, and now I’m 27.

Sorry for the extremely long read. This topic just brought back things I haven’t thought of in years. And brought a smile to my face.

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Ah yeah, came with WoW + TBC books. I remember learning all the terms for in-game chat word for the original WoW book lol.

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Big fan of Warcraft II and III, WoW was announced (2001?) so I looked for a pre-community for it in my country, found one, hyped for 4~ years, started playing during the Korean beta, never really stopped. Love this game.

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Awesome replies guys love reading everybodys story’s, looking forward to reading more :slight_smile:

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Oof, well, I actually came to WoW pretty late in life I guess, around 32 or so if I remember rightly. I’d always been into RPG’s, cut my teeth on the first edition (Yes, I’m that old) Dungeons and Dragons tabletop game, which, with all due respect to it’s age, was a pile of rubbish, 2nd edition is the daddy, but as a 12 year old sat around a table with mates it was awesome fun. Couple of years after starting to play it, I got my confidence up to actual be the boy in the big chair and start GM’ing events.

A life long love affair ensued :smiley:

I got a real kick out of setting the scenes, describing the world and watching my friends play out their heroic adventures, their victories and losses.
Fast forward a few more years, to when I was 18, and I was introduced to the big wide world of LARP. I don’t mean your comedy 12 nerds running through a forest yelling “Lightning bolt” stuff, I pretty much Mainlined it, going straight into Fest systems with thousands of players, massive battles, politics and a whole world setting.

It blew my tiny little mind.

Again, my love of being -in- the story, but helping to -tell- the story won out, and I ended up as a Faction leader, which basically means you have a character, but you also write the story for the hundred or so people in your faction, all the background, the plot, bad guys etc etc. You basically work for the company as staff, but you have a continual character. In fact why lie, I was basically Thrall, you drive the plot along with your character, but there is an overall ‘theme’ that the game organisers are going for. When I say ‘Thrall’ I don’t literally mean I played Thrall, WC: Humans and Orcs hadn’t come out yet…

So after more than a decade of doing these massive LARP events (Something I still do to this day) myself and my wife at the time ( Who I had met through LARP, its not all spotty nerds running through forests) were at a friends house, who helped run our Faction, we got all the nitty gritty business of what we were going to run next year out of the way, and he then said “We’ve got beers in, but I’m going to have to be uber nerdy, and log onto ‘Warcrack’ as I promised ‘X’ (another friend of ours, also a LARPer) that I would help them with a Dungeon”

Somewhat naively I said “What, are they coming round here?”

Both he and my wife at the time (one of the programmers for the initial ‘Total War’ games, if you ever had your archers fire arrows, that’s her work, she did the physics behind it and programmed it!) looked at me like I was mental.

I mean obviously I knew what the Internet was, I used it at work, and whilst it wasn’t a ‘thing’ when I was a kid it just wasn’t something I had associated with Computer games. Bear in mind when I was a kid, you put a tape cassette into a tape player and loaded your game up, could take up to half a bloody hour, I swear the loading screens took longer than you spent playing the game, so the idea that our mate a hundred miles away, and the mate sat next to me could play the same game at the same time and -see each others characters and interact- blew my mind…

I swear my ex-wife must have seen the cogs turning in my head as she simply said “Well I know what I’m getting -you- for Christmas then”

Cue Christmas and there was indeed a very happy Brigante, I logged straight onto a Roleplay Server and never looked back. It isn’t all a ‘happily ever after’ story, the marriage didn’t last, there wasn’t any acrimony, or affairs or anything like that, it wasn’t even spending time on WoW and not her, as she played also, we just drifted, as people sometimes do.

Ten years or so on, and I am still staggered by how far video games have come, I am amazed still, that in my guild I have people from Wales, France, Scandinavia, Poland and so on. I’ve run my guild for five years, a daring bunch of Sin’dorei Dragonhawk riders, and I still get the same kick out of telling the stories, setting the scene, and watching my friends have fun. WoW gives me such a huge world in which to tell those stories, such a huge backing of lore and story. I play on AD, and there are so many other Guilds who also roleplay and the interactions between them are just magnificent on both sides, there are epic clashes between foes, Alliances are forged and broken, Ours is a cycle of gaming…

You know the best thing? I’m a jaded old man of 44, and yet when I log in, and the adventures start?

I’m that 12 year old kid again, rolling dice on a tabletop.

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