I was a console snob and the only game I played on my PC was solitaire.
I would burn through a new console game in a week or two. And they are not cheap. One day I was at Walmart looking at their games, and realized that i had spent over $100 in two weeks because I finished one game and had bought another. They had no new games that I wanted.
I went to PC games to look for Everquest, I didn’t know anyone that played it. All I knew is that i read an article about it being a game that you could play for months. I wanted a game that I did not burn through in a week or two.
Course, Everquest wasn’t there, but Wow was. I never even heard of it, but i bought it for three reasons. It looked like the type of games I enjoyed playing: RPG, it was pretty cheap at about $20 compared to a $50 Xbox game, and it was a long game that i could play for a long time without having to buy a new one in a few days. I may be off on my prices, this was in almost 15 years ago.
I brought it home, took forever to install, and i figured I would play for an hour or two before I went to bed.
I played for 24 hours straight. I feel in love with wow from the very beginning.
What’s your wow story? How did you come to discover this beautiful world?
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Mom was buying me a game for doing good in middle school. Friend told me to get anything but “DO NOT GET World of Warcraft ITS SUPER ADDICTING AND ALL YOU WILL WANNA DO IS PLAY IT” so I bought World of Warcraft of course
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Picked up Warcraft 3: TFT in the summer of 2003. Fell in love with the game and the series in general. WoW was the logical next step.
I was always a PC gamer. At the time, Everquest and WOW were my choices. I chose WOW. I chose wisely.
Before wow the concept of online multiplayer game was a misterious magical thing to me. Only other multiplayer game I played before wow was halo
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I’ve been playing Warcraft RTS games since I was a kid with Warcraft 2. I’m not even sure how we got them, my dad just brought it home.
At some point about the only thing my parents knew about my gaming that I didn’t specifically write down for them is that I liked Blizzard games, and so when there was a new Warcraft game they got it for me for Christmas in 2004.
It being a subscription game I wasn’t that interested because I didn’t figure I’d be able to pay for it anyway, I didn’t have a job yet at the time.
I was actually more excited for Half-Life 2 at the time.
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For WoW, I had hired some people in IT to build me a new top of the line PC. They played the game and told me I should try it out on the new machine. Been playing ever since.
I played Earth and Beyond in high school, so I was familiar with the MMO genre. I was also an avid Diablo and Starcraft player, so I was familiar with Blizzard. I used to sit in my best friend’s dorm room in college and watch him play EQ. Then we heard that WoW was in beta, got in, and ohhhh boy was it fun.
When it came out, we went down the mall and all bought collector’s editions. Fifteen years later, I get to relive the experience.
Yeeeeeeeee
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I was playing Rainbox Six 3 on xbox live with a friend of mine that worked at Gamestop at the time. Told me about a really cool MMO that just came out called WoW that he was playing. Figured I’d give it a shot.
I had moved out west and the only real way to still spend time with my friends back home was Video games… We were hardcore into Diablo 2, then one day my friend back home tells me he got a new game… World of Warcraft. To be honest, I was kinda mad. We had invested so much into Diablo and now my buddy is telling me he’s not gonna play it anymore. So that day I begrudgingly go out and buy WOW. As it turned out tho I fell in love with It. 13 years latter I’m still here.
I randomly read the gamespot review in November 2004. It intrigued me. I had been playing age of empires for a long time, and was interested in pc games, just didn’t have any to play.
I got it for Christmas and never looked back.
Brother played it. First thing I saw was a raid on the crossroads.
That and I was sort of sick of SWG(
), for a number of reasons. Had a more or less on/off relationship with both MMOs before switching to WoW fulltime until Cata.
Enjoyed Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3. Owned a Fileplanet Founder’s account where I uploaded custom maps and mods my UT2003/4 clan produced. One of the benefits of having a Founder’s account was sometimes you’d get beta access to games. I happened to have 2 beta access keys and the rest was history.
Friend introduced me to Warcraft when we were kids. Got me into Warcraft 3. I had already been playing Starcraft and Diablo at the time, so I figured “why not?”. Got Warcraft 3 myself (yay allowance money) and was hooked. Ended up getting Warcraft 2 as well.
I found out about WoW through Warcraft 3 though, as it had an old trailer for WoW on one of the discs. I was hooked. I remember seeing some promotional art as well of a group of people walking across a rope bridge in a jungle (i know now that it was STV) and it made my imagination soar. I wanted WoW so bad after that.
As you can imagine I am also looking forward to Warcraft 3 Reforged. Gonna be like old times, playing Classic WoW and War 3 Reforged. <3
I was on everquest before warcraft released. After it released, there was a mass exodus. Everyone was leaving for warcraft. A few months after release, I followed suit. It came out in November 2004, I subbed in February 2005. An exodus like this would never happen again because no game ever compared to warcraft. Hell, newer versions of warcraft can’t compete with warcraft. Now you’re going to see an exodus from warcraft, back to warcraft. Blizzard will finally have to admit defeat when their precious retail which they wanted to force on everyone, is mostly abandoned in favor of older versions of the game, which they didn’t want to host, nor anyone be able to play.
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I read like the first paragraph or two of an article about selling gold. I figured how hard can it be? So I bought my wife and myself copies of the game and set up subscriptions.
It didn’t take me too long to figure out that my dumb self should have at least finished the article if not read up more on the subject. But by them we were both hooked and here we are 14 years later.
I was playing DAOC and managed to get into the original closed beta. I was hooked from then on.
I played PC games on and off throughout the 90’s. I was a very young adult at that time and so I was super into Spacecraft, Tomb Raider, Diablo, etc.
I met my husband in 1999, and shortly after we started dating, he was playing Diablo II. This had to be like '99 or 2000, when it was new. I picked it up and played with him, and we played that thing until we’d done everything there was to do, essentially. Anyway, by the time we put D2 down, we’d decided we were Blizzard fans, and I know we played WCIII and then Frozen Throne somewhere in there. I just don’t remember what year particularly.
One day, he came home from work and told me some guys at the office were playing “the new Blizzard game” and we needed to try it. We drove to Fry’s, bought the game, and that was that. It was during the Halloween holiday during 2005 because the very first time I rolled a toon, there were bobbing apples in all the inns and jack-o-lanterns everywhere.
We got taken up into his work buddies’ guild, and they were amazing. We were very fortunate to have been in that group from our very first day in WoW. Unbeknownst to us, they were a successful PvP and raiding guild who had played many other games together since 1995, so they had the organization and leadership down tight and had good relationships/friendships. It was really lucky for us, and it made our introduction to MMO gaming a positive one.
We will be playing Classic with a large group of the very same people.
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I was adamant that I would never pay monthly for a game and played Diablo etc. and other games where I paid and it was mine to own. Ignored Everquest as paying monthly seemed wrong.
Got engaged to second wife and she wanted to play wow so we did and I got addicted.