World or Warcraft turns 20 this month, of course you've played it havent you?

Have you played World of Warcraft?

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Have you played GAF?
 
I really don't want to know my /played on the official and unofficial accounts and chars i played over the years. Just the thought of it scares me. For all WOW fans here have some of the remastered starting areas:



 
I received a free trial back in the day when I purchased a blizzard game. I installed the game, and then waited a billion years as it patched itself. I kept encountering a bug during character creation that crashed the game, I never did get to actually play.
 
I remember seeing my roommate play WoW when it first came out…thinking this looks awesome

So I got it too…don't remember how many DVDs or CDs the install was, maybe 4 or 5?….but having to swap out multiple discs for an install sure took me back to the before times

Then I felt so bad about myself for how much time I'd been spending slaughtering spiders or whatever to play the good stuff I just never went past vanilla
 
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Never played it, and I'm glad I never did. I've got these two married friends who got addicted to that game when it hit the bigtime and they did nothing else but play Warcraft in their free time for god knows how many years. It was all they could talk about. If they visited for a birthday, they always had to leave early because there was a raid scheduled later that evening. She's still playing Warcraft.
 
Launch WoW was such a magical experience, I don't think there will ever be anything like that. So many awesome memories discovering the world. The best part was all the cut content could still be explored via various methods so the world felt full of secrets.

Crazy how much free time we had back in the days.
 
I played it for years, then they allowed faction swaps and the people I played with went Horde and I stopped caring, then about an Expansion later I stopped playing.
 
No, not once.

I've always thought of it as sub-Warcraft, which is historically an RTS. I clearly missed the wave and the discussions between friends who talked about nothing else (it amused me to hear them being clever when they'd never played a Warcraft before). Besides, I don't particularly like MMORPGs. Glad to see it's finally on the wane for a few years now.
 
Was there for the first 3yrs with the ex, best gaming experience of my life, we lived and breathed it every night and weekend lol sitting at our dining room table drinking beer and gaming into the early hours, still talk to this day with an English dude we played with. It was all new (to us) playing with so many other people running around questing, helping each other out, going off on big adventures with a real sense of exploration and danger and then having to traverse half the game world to meet up at a dungeon and just chat away as we waited for the other party members to make their way from wherever they where playing and then spending hours with total strangers in a dungeon and coming out mates, tried to replicate that experience with every new mmo that came out and nothing came anywhere close
 
Played the beta but never played the retail release. Just not into Warcraft as a franchise (was a C&C guy in the RTS realm), but as a former Ultima Online player, I appreciated what they were trying to do.

That said, I do play FFXIV, which took heavy inspiration from WoW. And in 2024, we're at the point where FFXIV's structure is very rote and monotonous, to the point where I've finally been considering giving WoW retail a try. Maybe next year.
 
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Played it a lot. I stopped playing the game one day when I did a /played and noticed I had over 8700 hours in it.
Then I nope'd out of it. Cold Turkey.

Screenshot from the server first of Kel'Thuzad (pre-nerf), it amuses me to no end because the /tell I get is because I made a point out of never telling where I was from and my accent is hard to place. Everyone had their own theory where I was from. When some of the people switched server in Burning Crusade I gave them closure by telling them, for some it had been mystery for half a decade.

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Played it a lot. I stopped playing the game one day when I did a /played and noticed I had over 8700 hours in it.
Then I nope'd out of it. Cold Turkey.

Screenshot from the server first of Kel'Thuzad (pre-nerf), it amuses me to no end because the /tell I get is because I made a point out of never telling where I was from and my accent is hard to place. Everyone had their own theory where I was from. When some of the people switched server in Burning Crusade I gave them closure by telling them, for some it had been mystery for half a decade.

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Addon PTSD as a healer man
 
The ex and I rolled Druids back when they where really bad but we didn't know it, we though it was cool that I could tank and she heal/go rogue etc or we could both stealth out way through areas, they buffed the Druids much much later but we had stopped playing by then
 
Tried it out briefly during the release of WotLK just because all my friends were playing.

Not my kind of game. Dropped off after the first month. I prefer games that actually end so that I can move on to something new.
 
Started at the end of BC, played up to and including Legion.
Good times.

Sometimes I get the urge to roam around Stormwind or Dalaran and just listen to the music. But I think it's more of a nostalgia for good old times of being an Uni student and not having to care about anything.
I doubt I'll ever get back.
 
BC was the best expansion, and time in WoW, by far. Shattrath was magical, both Arena PvP and BG PvP were at their peak (I'm biased since I played Mage and WL, doesn't mean I'm wrong) and it was just the best thing ever. I'm dead serious.

Also loved the PvP Videos that were popular back then. There was one lvl60 vanilla mage and one BC warlock in particular who were amazing. Open World PvP in general was actually a thing back then still.

Classic was great too, but there was too little to do in regards to end level gaming, allthough 40v40 AVs were amazing.

WotLK screwed it all up. Death Knights were and are an abomination in terms of class design. This is precisely the moment WoW turned to shit, and it naturally went downhill from there. You don't improve chess by adding new pieces, or removing abilities of pieces and changing them every year. You also don't improve chess by making the board larger, or Counter-Strike by adding Classes. But alas that is precisely what they did with every expansion.

It just got bigger, more convoluted and at the same time more dilluted. It's more menus than people, more instant gratuity than enjoyable journey.

I understand why they went this way, of course. You don't sell expansions by improving existing systems, but by adding shiny new shit and making it more accessible. I just think it has been of a detrimental effect towards the world itself. Basically what always happens with corporations in the long run, by design.
 
I tried it briefly when i first got my proper gaming PC back in 2008, didnt really like it.

Not really into MMO's, only MMO i liked was Star Wars Galaxies.
 
I wouldn't say it's a game I play a lot these days, I do have an active subscription so that my wife and I can play on the off chance a day or two a month we have the time. But I do love it. It has a ton of faults, and it's so bloated at this point, that it's pretty difficult to go back and play some of the previous story lines without a lot of effort, but it's still a very fun world to explore and it does constantly evolve(even if it's in ways I don't like or would prefer go in a different direction).

I don't play it for the high-level dungeons or raids or the PVP. I play it to relax and explore and have a good time with my wife and buddies when the moons align and we can all schedule that to happen.

I'd LOVE a reboot, the game really needs a refresh in a lot of ways, it's sooooooo damn bloated.

There's a really bad ass mod for the classic servers that essentially adds voice acting to the the game and it works surprisingly well, I wish Blizzard would take the tech and apply it to the rest of the game. There's some great writing and storytelling in the first 5 expansions but it's so easy to dismiss because of how it's fed to you.
 
I played a little bit but it never took hold. MMO's never clicked with me.
Remember some kid in my dorm freshmen year of college got addicted to it. First semester he flunked all his courses and got kicked out because of it.
 
The idea of paying for the game, expansions and then a monthly fee just to be able to access that content has always been so off putting to me that I never tried it.

A friend of mine is still really into it, but the game just looks ugly and convoluted to me. There's always drama in his guild and he has to play classes he doesn't like because no one else will swap. The social aspect doesn't exactly draw me in either.

Frankly I'm happy I never played it.
 
I played it for a few months around the Cataclysm expansion, mostly because I was forced by some friends, but it just didn't click with me. I'm generally not a big fan of MMOs, which is why I haven't even tried FF14, even though I've heard only good things about it. However, I do enjoy PvE GaaS titles like Destiny 2, Division 2, Diablo 4, some gacha games, etc.
 
Yes. But it has one of the worst online communities EVER.

With Asmonshite at the head, I won't be rejoining anytime soon.
 
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I was part of the EverQuest generation who was desperately looking for a replacement. My friends and I played virtually every MMORPG as they released.

Played the hell out of WoW from release day for only a few months before burning out. I personally didn't enjoy raids, and the game was too easy to reach max level. I preferred the EverQuest and Final Fantasy XI style where you had to work with a good party to do anything and progress was slow. In WoW, my friend and I duo'd everything (except the dungeons that required a party) all the way to max level of 60.

Later, my girlfriend wanted to play, so I bought Burning Crusade or whatever and we played for a month. The game just wasn't the same by then.
 
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Also loved the PvP Videos that were popular back then. There was one lvl60 vanilla mage and one BC warlock in particular who were amazing. Open World PvP in general was actually a thing back then still.
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There was also World of Roguecraft for Rogues and I think Crandor or someone with similar name for WF Shaman.
 
Yep. I still play from time to time, but I've been playing since 2003 betas and have mained the same character since launch night 2004. I found out about GAF because of WoW, since people in my guild were active here at the time (it took me years to finally make an account here). I've become RL friends with two people who I met in game. My first intro to any type of scripting was WoW macros. Is it my favorite game? No, but it's definitely the game that has most impacted my life outside of gaming.
 
Gafs PC membership isn't that big. Wow was a game that blew me away when it first came out and continues to be the only game of its scale that exists. You can get lost in its depth and breadth.

A graphical remaster would be incredible but probably would never happen unless AI can do it.
 
Played it from release day religiously until WoD then slowed right down. Legion was the last I played and I never got to max level for that expansion.
 
It wreaked havoc on my educational, professional and social life but I will forever look back on it as the best times I've ever had playing a game. I was so into that I scheduled my life around it and no other game has done that ever again. I debated subbing again when they started vanilla but it just won't be the same since the game is solved at this point. That magic of bumbling around in something completely new is gone along with the old internet. I miss it so much. Yes, even Barrens chat. Especially Barren's chat.
 
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It wreaked havoc on my educational, professional and social life but I will forever look back on it as the best times I've ever had playing a game. I was so into that I scheduled my life around it and no other game has done that ever again. I debated subbing again when they started vanilla but it just won't be the same since the game is solved at this point. That magic of bumbling around in something completely new is gone along with the old internet. I miss it so much. Yes, even Barrens chat. Especially Barren's chat.
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Good for you. I resisted Vanilla, but couldn't resist Season of Discovery with new content and abilities. Luckily they completely messed up pvp so quitting wasn't hard.
 
No, I do not purchase any games with storefronts. If they get rid of that i might look at it.


I don't do subscriptions either, I don't have the Netflix, Hulu, or anything I have to pay for a month, or past the initial purchase. I won't even let my wife pay a monthly subscription for heated seats on her new car.
 
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