The sad part is you can't have it anymore.
if you missed 2006-2011, you can't have any more. The people are different and have zombie mentality nowdays.
fun in this realm of existence don't exist anymore. those years playing WoW like a madman.
I have had, money, driven nice cars, cushy jobs as well as long period of NEETing with money, and had blond prime sloot suck my balls dry and creampied her and NOTHING Comes close
sex with hot women is the closest but it's different type of fun. It's intense SPIKE fun that lasts few minutes, then your nerves are burnt from so much fun and u feel meh for few days
WoW was different, it was CONSISTENT.
CONSISTENT fun from wake up to going to sleep and it never got worse, no spikes, CONSISTENT fun it was so good, it didn't become bad for years too, it was perfect
honestly 1 year of playing WoW at 2006-2011 is worth a thousand years of wage slaving in current state of the world
Check out sanctuary private server
It wont be the same Nost was the closest to be the same now everybody is a minmaxer know-it-all or toxic af and it's simply can never be the same
don't even try to relive it. it's people man, everybody rn is minmax toxic loser and every part of the game is known it's can never be the same this way, all the mystic part of it is gone
It's green lit again?
I played WoW a lot in TBC and WotLK. It wasn't THAT fun in hindsight. However it was my social outlet at the time since I was a loner loser. I made a lot of friends and learned a lot from playing. Hell, I first learned about LULZ from the WoW forums back in like 2007 or so. I think you just have nostalgia of when life was simpler. Raiding in WoW has always been shit, PvP has always been shit, but the social aspect made it special at the time.
Setting up a 40-man raid was a logistic challenge in itself too. It was magnificent when everything was up and running.
This. I used to raid hardcore (serverfirst BWL and AQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mzFpLABLlo). I have now been a finacial professional manager for a decade and made millions, but organizing 40 people in a raid was much more difficult than managing work and people at work.
Also, ironically, despite being in the investment banking world for so long the best leader I ever had was my guild leader. The way he managed to discipline and motivate 39 other people was just amazing, I have never seen anyone come close to his people skills.
Cool story
But yeah WoW was a lot of fun. A solid MMORPG that has mystery and a friendly community is amazing to play. It is tough when you have work and other things though (imo).
>the best leader I ever had was my guild leader
My current boss was a guild leader from vanilla to wotlk for a larger well organized guild and he's the best boss I've ever had.
PvP was great in BC and early wotlk. it was a time before overtested and overshared strats. I loved downloading arena compils from warcraft movies or machinima or whatever it was
No it wasn't. Even back in TBC everyone just copied whatever reckfuk, neilyo, venruki, whoever. No one made their own strats. It was just RMP, warrior/pally, warrior/druid, whatever. In WotLK it was even worse with the insanely OP classes like DK and BM hunters. You're a clueless scrub it was always shit and unbalanced and everyone always copied the top players.
Shit I remember in WotLK when they decided to make fan of knives interrupt spells. Lmao. Easiest gladiator in 5v5 in my life.
yeah I'm a 2 times rank1 scrub, what do I know...
Crazy how only 100 or so people could get rank 1 each season yet you meet them everywhere online
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100? 2v2, 3v3, 5v5 that's up to 20 people per few servers. that's why over 100 people times 8 seasons to end of wotlk there's over 1000 people rank1from "classic" era easy. and yeah it's crazy that rank1 is this something you get struck by so you remember it better, and ofc those rank1 people tend to be on forums more than average players
so yeah it's kinda not surprising to see rank1s
Yea so what comp did you play? You should know then that in TBC pvp was completely dominated by a small handful of meta comps. In WotLK it expanded a little bit more but was still mostly meta comps and flavor of the month builds. Idk what point you're even trying to make except LARPing on an anonymous imageboard. This shouldn't even be a point of debate if you actually played back then.
xd yeah I'm larping for internet likes. keep coping. PvP was fun and you could play troll comps up to top 10 teams easily if you were rank1 skill level. it's only sour noobs that cry about PvP balance because they need the Devs to give them easier games
So fun you quit after 3 seasons. You're the only one who's sour here kek
>didn't play actual WoW
>still opinionated and calling others scrubs
kek mate you missed the party. Vanilla was WoW and you played some gay knockoff. Extreme zoomer mentalitity too by namedropping some literally who streamers like I give a fuck.
I was heal shaman and finished Gladiator for 2 or 3 seasons, never knew what playing a meta class was like kek.
Resto shaman was absolutely meta you mong. What the fuck are you smoking?
In PvE but it wasn't in PvP, it had the lowest mana pool/regen of all the healing clases and had to play very agressively while keeping trying to kite melee dps compared to all other healers because you would be OOM way before. This wasn't that much of a problem when facing a dual or triple DPS but against a comp with another healer you would systematically lose the mana game.
It even became worse when they removed mana scaling during Wotlk, because you couldn't even spam cheap level 1 earth shock to interrupt or flame shock to disable invis on a rogue.
Heal paladins arguably had it worse depending of the patch (but maybe it was because shaman was the strongest against them), Druids however were straight up broken in 2v2 and always remained that way until the very end because they could just kite and outmana any compo with another healer. Meanwhile they had better CCs than all other healers.
Priest was arguably consistently fair overall.
Resto shaman was one of the most op classes in the game you silly fat nagger
I was an elemental shaman and I wasn't too good. I had fun tho
Resto sham was the only playable spec for shammies in pvp for TBC and pretty much WOTLK too, they were totally vulnerable to interrupts and had no way to heal when locked down. They also had no real way to get out of say rogues crippling poison because it would re-apply faster than the global cooldown for remove and spam removing it didnt heal you either. Most babysat healer class, cant exist without people pulling and saving it.
That didn't matter when WotLK came around and Zerg comps became the new meta. All resto shamans had to do was pop bloodlust and drop totems and get carried. In TBC the sustainability they provided for double healer comps made that less of an issue as well.
Everyone's childhood was better than being an adult you fucking retard
RuneScape was always better than WoW
Wow classic (VANILLA RELEASE ONLY) was peak kino and completely mogged original era as you had the weird mash of mega zoomers to literal man of 4 kids 50 year old reliving his younger years
shame blizzard was too retarded to just milk vanilla and instead killed it with tbc
oh yeah bro click a rock for 400 hours solo, kill yourself
WoW was also always bland for the lowest common denominator like yourself. It's why redditors like yourself love it so much. No substance but mass appeal for basic people
>Wow classic (VANILLA RELEASE ONLY) was peak kino and completely mogged original era as you had the weird mash of mega zoomers to literal man of 4 kids 50 year old reliving his younger years
Not true because when I was a teenager there was a kid in the same guild as me and so was his dad.
the original era was in different time, it was the golden age of the internet, no social media, no smartphones, WoW was the peak technology of the entire planet with millions playing online
in a way it was the biggest online community in the world at the time
the more you think about it, the more you realize you can never relive it.
At those time information was scarce, you had thotbott and wowhead but they weren't as good and there were no videos, people were still finding new things all the time, it was different era to todays gaming where everything is known before it's released and there is no mystery
Gaming is gay in 2023 and has been sonce 2012. I havent been a “gamer” for about 8 years now. Only play old stuff on occasion.
I saw people getting hyped for this new game called starfield. Apparently its in development for 8 fucking years yet it looks bland as fuck.
Some post of somebody getting excited that they saw a meteorite crater on a planet and the location was unmarked and they “discovered” it. This is how starved zoomers are of that kind of experience we had with every fucking game growing up…
this
Elden Ring was also hailed because of the no quest markers you're just dropped in an open world. We had that a decade ago bitch but it was all ruined when they had to dumb down everything so hard even the lowest of lifeforms could get into gayming
delusional.
I've been in 20hour+ AV battlegrounds. With the shredder. You don't even know what I'm talking about. Lower your tone.
Those were pretty fun back in the day. Back when you actually had to go to alterac mountains to queue up too.
boy oh boy how right you are. how fun it was to be playing every minute of my free time after school. staying until 4am on weekends as a young teenager. watching new years Eve fireworks with your rank1 neet buddies. oh I member...
Yes being a kid in 2011 was more fun than being an adult in 2023 you cracked the code OP.
dude what u gonna be doing as kid now? shit is brutal kids be competing about social media.followers at 12-18, they are all gymcels and their games are all P2W souless shit. everyone is minmaxer from day 1 and it's x1000 more pw2 in every way possible. you can't even compare anything next to it. growing up as poor kid wont even give u a chance a t gaming as it used to
the mystery of online games just coming about is nonexistence they grew into it, it's all about rare game skins to brag in your social media
it has nothing to do with being adult or kid. it's more about the stars lining up in thousand years to give you the best 4-5 period and then it's GONE
>I have had, money, driven nice cars, cushy jobs as well as long period of NEETing with money, and had blond prime sloot suck my balls dry and creampied her and NOTHING Comes close
sex with hot women is the closest but it's different type of fun. It's intense SPIKE fun that lasts few minutes, then your nerves are burnt from so much fun and u feel meh for few days
have you tried being in a relationship with someone you love? thats pretty fun,maybe try that
you have to be lucky fuck to get something like that today, what do we have? 70% divorce rate or something crazy like that? most married couples are misreable though you will get some fun later on from rising ur kids
just be better than the majority of men and you'll get an above average girl. you can start by getting in shape. only 1 in 10,000 men have 6-pack abs.
there is huge difference between getting good looking girl than getting average or good looking girl that is also a keeper and will love you/not divorce you when first bump in the road happens
it's fun until you get kids
I have and she broke my heart.
>WoW was different, it was CONSISTENT.
CONSISTENT fun from wake up to going to sleep and it never got worse, no spikes, CONSISTENT fun it was so good, it didn't become bad for years too, it was perfect
you're just not a child anymore, your metabolism is slower and your brain isn't as plastic as it used to be. that's all that has changed.
>MMOs get brought up
>brainrotted manchildren, identified by their inability to use capitalization and punctuation, come out in droves
>they proceed to passionately monologue about their shitty life waster video game as if they're spreading some kind of valuable knowledge
Every time.
People who missed out on old school WoW are worse then people who missed out on teenage love
sad you missed it, or didn't feel the magic. a once in a lifetime experience, a true sense of wonder...
I played Wow from Vanilla launch to end of Wotlk and I agree.
Wow was fun for like 6-8 months with a genuine sense of wonder for such a big persistent world. But once you reached max level it was just mind numbing farming punctuated by few guild dramas for like 10% of fun times.
I was so obsessed with it, it was like crack. I even dumped my first gf because for it despite the fact she was such a sweetheart.
I wish I could get those years back even though I turned alright.
All he guys who were selling tems for money are now into crypto
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turtle wow both regular and hardcore pretty fun tbh
I refuse to download and run an exe from some unknown developer with 0 accountability. Enjoy the botnet
chinese jumping in to be sure, but game is fun and making some real connections in my guild, just like old times! there are even new dungeons and questlines and new areas on the map.
I just watched a video of a girl squirting in her own mouth. She then gargled it and spit it into another girls mouth. But yea WoW is pretty fun
you should really try to get mental help or try ro better yourself. things like really skew your lifes perspective. good luck anon.
I remember first weeks in wow, went to a festival that was really good but still thought about playing wow instead. It was a hell of a drug
I feel the same way about RuneScape and Halo 3. I could invite random "friends" to Halo 3 and put together a team of 4 or even 8 every day for years. I played all of the co-op stuff in RuneScape so much that I was playing with maxed stat autist and even staff some days. Shit I was a player mod for a time although that was when I was already losing interest and they started making everything lamer. Now I have like 2 friends and I just watch my coins dump or crab every day and games are so gay. I've played StarField for like 6 hours so far and it's shocking that they gave me a 35 year old roastie to romance that has blonde hair and green eyes without having a mulatto son(that I know of). It's so gay now. Everything is so gay and cringe.
Agreed, the golden age of gaming for me was RS, Halo 3, and MW2 with friends. I miss it all so much and now all I do is work full time and try to start businesses.
WoW was actually very good up to WotLK. For me that's where it peaked. WotLK actually felt like an expansion and even TBC felt like expansions that added to the game. Since then, everything afterward felt like instances that just made the game feel small and single-player.
I started playing WoW a few months before TBC released and it had this chill vibe and steady pacing. Gearing wasn't the focus, but it was a reward. You could get good items from doing random quests or certain world bosses. Like, if you played hunter you could tame that bangalash tiger to gain his unique attack ability, and beating him was actually hard if you did it around his level.
Now it is completely corporate subscription treadmill bullshit where the only thing to do is gear up, so that you can "experience the content", after which new content is released invalidating your current gear and resetting the "time to gear up" treadmill.
When I played I actually met cool people and was able to enjoy the MMO in the sense that you could meet random people and play the game like that. Questing was fun because you had to be invested in it, like it wasn't practical to have an alt of every class because it was time-consuming to level up...so there was actually more variety because people stuck with their class.
You need racial filters to bring it back. The internet is tainted now. Needs a filter to bring back the 90s users instead of normies .
Yeah, just like if you missed 2009-2015 you missed out all early crypto. Too bad.
I don't think anything will ever beat the happiness of playing wow vanilla as a kid. The amount of dopamine and feel good hormones you'd get was just unreal. I also never experienced anything close to it, because it was just so consistently fun. Fucking sad that no matter how much you "make it" as an adult in today's world nothing will come close to that
LF1M UBRS, need HEALER. Can summon.
;_;
Making me not feel so bad about my 40,000 hours in vanilla-WOTLK.
Ultima Online era was better
This hits close to home.
I say this all the time. There was nothing better than WoW during those times. Not sure what it was, but it was one of the greatest long term experiences of my life.
I remember the feeling of waking up early right as the sun rises and logging on and the world inside azeroth literally has the same lighting and time. Was a beautiful thing. Like you said it never got to a point where the immersion was lost. It was constant fun. Always something to do or somewhere to go. Sometimes just sitting in a capital city was fun it it's own right.
It's all gone. Those times are over.
Real life sucks and I have a full time job wife and baby. Nothing compares to what wow was.
what a bunch of bull I wish I had a gf and went to parties as a teenager instead of playing WoW
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stfu with this pajeet scam nobody buying crypto, ex-wow players aint falling for your dumb homosexual ass scam and buying ur shitty made-up bags
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Why not have both?
>partying
Highly overrated, especially for someone who doesn’t fit that lifestyle
>girlfriend
Lots of girls were playing WoW. The fact that you didn’t capitalize on it only means that you wouldn’t have gotten a GF anyways, wow or not
If the enthusiasm for WoW could be captured and used for a cause we could get to the stars. The magic was that while our actions and behavior weren’t physically real to us it did influence the world we all took part in. When mech-suits we control remotely allow us to explore other worlds the same feeling will return.
i think what you said is huge
it's not the lack of physical action that makes video games easy. consider guys who do all 3 souls games not getting hit. there is nothing easy or relaxing about it.
the difference is that in real life there is no clear goal. you have to create your own goal and decide it's worthwhile enough to put on your energy. most people cannot do this and need a "teacher" to give them little rewards and tell them what to do.
Imagine all the anons who clutch pearls over whether or not we live in a simulation and the meaning of life while simultaneously admitting nothing in this life ever made them happier than a crudely simulated carrot-stick hamster wheel game on a screen. Retail vanilla was fun and novel, sure - would I use a time machine to go back for that experience before being a kid again playing outside? Hell no, and I feel bad for any of you that unironically have a fucking game designed to be addictive as your peak life experience. Get a real hobby retards(unless ur disabled, then god bless you)
This is so true.
I am a self taught software engineer with no degree and you wont believe how many people screech and doom post in various communities about how trying to do that is futile, almost impossible, a waste of time, “survivorship bias” and all kinda of junk excuses complaining about “tutorial hell”.
I never understood these homosexuals. I did The Odin Project and then just started building whatever I wanted and learning from that and documentation and freelancing.
I realised lately that most people(not to sniff my own farts here but the “survivorship bias” shit triggers me) are as you said. They want to have their hands held and try learn from fucking youtube of all things, or some gay sandbox multiple choice or code along with generic boilerplate copy paste projects, then whine they cant build anything.
Or they try The Odin Project and give up and whine it is too dry and boring and doesn’t give enough guidance, end uo doing boot camps and then whining how they still cant find a job.
Honestly. I think something like The Odin Project has a 1% completion rate, so told them to just make sure you stick it out and you already dramatically improve chances… to which some homosexual told me “over 90% fail then, dont you understand that means its very unlikely you succeed”. faggits i swear. Rant over
stop advertising your shitty web course. that in itself is a goal someone sets up for you to complete
I have completed the fullstack open of the university of helsinki mooc, some say it's step up from odin/freecodecamp, after that I went on to learn other languages like C#, GO and C, grinded NEETCODE and solved medium leets and I have built many projects, however despite that, I can't seem to get an entry position, do you have any tips? it's 1 year since I started learning and I got maybe 1 interview
>I realised lately that most people(not to sniff my own farts here but the “survivorship bias” shit triggers me) are as you said. They want to have their hands held and try learn from fucking youtube of all things, or some gay sandbox multiple choice or code along with generic boilerplate copy paste projects, then whine they cant build anything.
Congrats for beating the trenchbrain demoralization that we get blasted with on a daily basis under the guise of being rational discourse. It's literally just the same losers patting each other on the back every day.
>stop advertising your shitty web course. that in itself is a goal someone sets up for you to complete
Odin Project has been around for like a decade lol it is a rough outline known for not holding your hand. You're literally the loser he was referring to. What is the point of your reply, retard? I'd tell you to go fuck yourself but you've already got that well under control.
How many jobs have you applied for? That just sounds hard to believe. I feel like it should be relatively easy to get a webshitter job without ever touching LEETcode. You may be underestimating the power of networking/social skills.
in real life there is gatekeeping through nepotism, family connections, and connections in general.
it's much more about getting opprtunities than doing the deed
many can't do shit but get tons of opprtunity and end up doing nothing and taking big 150k checks while some grind like mofos and ruin their health in some dirty warehouse becoming haunchbacks for $8 hour
it's just that WoW is fairer version of real life
you also don't get sick and disases
yeah so better keep all your efforts in wow where they are rewarded fairly goy.
So if you made it irl you can now enjoy
If you just played wow it's all gone
You sur you that that right?
I agree 100% with everything you said, although the golden age of MMORPGs started before WoW, WoW was just the end of it.
The golden age of what you talk about was 1998 to 2008
WoW in 2004-2007 were the prime years for me. I didn’t like the direction it was going after BC so I called it quits. But in general, Late 90s, early 2000s gaming was something newfags unfortunately will never get to experience. The overall atmosphere of things was just different as well. It was more lively and a lot of innovative things were coming out. Even for FPS games like CS and TF, the mod community extended the life of those games by many years. I think “zombie mentality” is a good way to describe people today. Another thing to note is that a lot of what we see today has already been done, so people quickly play through games and move on. Hardly a memorable experience.
It was a special time. But you can't go home (to Ogrimmar) again.
it was more fun, man, but it's over now
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Fuck man, I didn't need this feel
>Skipped school to play WoW
>Kind of feel bad
>Know in the back of my mind that one way or another this won't last forever. So enjoy them
>They're now precious memories I wouldn't trade for the world
Peter Schiff was right back then too. Millennials really did turn out to be a generation of underemployed debtors. Glad I didn't bother with college either.
Stop trying to reanimate the old magic, try to find new magic in life instead.
Yes it's hard today when everyone is full doom and gloom mode, but just try.
It's over anon. How are you finding magic now? I can't even enjoy another Trump presidency which was my magic in 2016-2020.
>try to find new magic in life instead
IRL is such a fucking meme if you're not rich
There is no new magic to discover. It’s just the same shit being rehashed. Having better graphics doesn’t always make it a better experience. Same goes with the film industry.
Thats because youre a consumer. Playing video games and watching tv to cope isnt magic when youre a big boy. Go buy a metal detector and get rights to detect on peoples lands, join a club with people you actually like, start a project and sell things youve made to other people who will appreciate it. Its time to level up from coping to being a creative, youre an adult now
I agree mostly. Gaming stopped being interesting to me when i know i have important shit to do, and even if i can enjoy it occasionally i cannot play for longer than 1.5hrs at a time without feeling weird or just fatigued(when i was a teen could do all day).
However its also mostly just because gaming is so bad these days. Modern shit sucks. Its all minmaxing/datamining/tryharding and no exploration left. Not to mention dull needless depth and expansiveness with shitty movie wana be stories.
When i occasionally play games it is usually something pre 2010 and I actually enjoy it and feel that great exploration and enjoyment i used to as a kid.
I played Tales of Symphonia on Gamecube for the first time a few months ago(last game i played) and i loved it.
The sad reality for games like RuneScape or Wow Classic is they are subscription based, and the players now days wanna do that minmax shit, and half the people playing them are actual neckbeard losers with actually diagnosed autism. A lot of them are replacing real life with these old familiar games and get their only source of dopamine from it. Being subscriber based means it inevitably caters to them over time(biggest customers) and power creep or whatever is ensured
>quit your job and go climb mountains in south America bro
This thread is about gaming. Keep up with the conversation or gtfo with that tedtalks bullshit
wow is great but its too homogenized. blizz fun detected all the fun out of it
>WoW was different, it was CONSISTENT.
Thats the whole point of games. You can settle into them knowing what to expect and theres no set variables. Its like being a child living life with training wheels on. If you werent an idiot you could treat running a business like playing WoW
Been there. Was one of the first in Europe with an Atiesh. Naxx 40 was absolute peak for me.
>being a kid was more fun then being an adult
wow nice revelation you got there lil guy!!!
kys fucking animal
Baldur's Gate 3 gave me the same feeling of being completely lost in a fantasy world, every day I'd wake up and run back to the pc to play some more. Too bad it was only 120 hours long and there's nothing else that even comes close.
For me it was CS:S. I never liked Go and all the gabenhat bullshit.
The hats were cool cuz the game paid you to play. But source has better community