How did you get your start?

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That is such an awesome wow origin story! Lunch vs wow game time. Game time all the way. Totally worth it!! lol

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My first mmo was Runescape. I was super into Blacksmithing at the time because I adored the aesthetic of hammering steel and making my own armor. Meanwhile, my brother was just getting into wow and kept trying to convince me to play. I was pretty adamant that I didn’t want to leave Runescape but finally relented with an untimatum
“i will only try it if I can be a blacksmith!!”

To my surprise, he said I could be a BS and then I was left trapped. I had no choice but to play. I made a human, did a few quests, and when I got to stormwind, I found myself exploring every nook and cranny. The deeprun tram was amazing I thought. But that was nothing compared to my reaction when I walked I to the great forge in ironforge for the first time. It was everything I ever dreamed of as a blacksmith and from then on the rest is history.

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Im loving all the stories. Great stuff. Keep them coming.

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Phantasy Star Online Ep. 1 & 2 on the Gamecube

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I remember during high school I got a job at a small mom and pop computer shop and during my break they would let me upstairs and I noticed all 3 of them (boss, wife, son) where playing a certain game


I watched them and the first thing I saw was someone flying on a gryphon over this huge open world jungle and I never saw anything like it before, I was used to smaller liner games at the time.

I asked if I could borrow it and they said no, you had to get your own key to play and unfortunately they didn’t sell the game so I got it from another computer shop (ironic I know) and it was on sale for 20 bucks and came with a free month of game time.

I finally started playing around patch 1.5 I remember that because of how much of a nightmare it was to install on dialup back then, I had to use third party software like GetRight to be able to resume my download back before the launcher was able to do that, thankfully Blizzard used to offer patches in exe’s back then if you guys remember that.

And I finally started my first character a Night Elf Warrior and the game was just so huge, I thought Teldrassil was the whole game for Night Elves but then I got to Darkshore and looked at my world map and realized, holy crap, there really is a whole world in this game!

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Can’t remember.
It’s been too long.

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I had kicked the Everquest addiction for 6 months and was sitting on the crapper, reading my PC Gamer, and read an article about this “World of Warcraft” thing.

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I started with number munchers and Oregon trail in elementary :grimacing:

Then a super old Pirates of the Caribbean type game on floppy in 1993 or so. Then a game called “Spaceward Ho!” Which was super awesome for a long time For me.

Then came Warcraft 1, and all hope of an outside life was lost for me :slight_smile: then Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Warcraft 2, then WoW.

Then came children, the only thing that proved strong enough to remove games from being my focus.

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Excellent thread OP, these stories are so charming to read. :slight_smile:
In my case, when I was 15 years old with my first job; I finally was able to buy my own laptop that was powerful enough to run Warcraft III at full graphics with no lag (AMD Athlon 64 bit days baby!).

When WoW came out within a year later, I was still super into playing RTS games. I remember seeing the ads for WoW and thought “huh, that’s cool” but continue playing because the $15 a month seemed silly to me.

Eventually I wanted to play an RPG game, and besides WoW, everyone was talking about Guild Wars. I picked it up. It was so cool! I was sitting in the huge main starting city area chatting with players, grouping and so on. The biggest thing that turned me off is how the whole world outside of the city is instanced. Only your group members can join you.

Eventually a buddy of mine kept on pestering me to get WoW, I kept refusing. Eventually I went to a local mall to the game store and bought WoW on a whim even though I was still hesitant (felt buyer’s remorse as I walked home). Installed it, and the rest is history.

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No sadly he does not like playing Wow he likes Minecraft

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I was already an avid Xbox/ps2 player. I played through Champions of Norrath and was pretty high on RPG from that. I heard about WoW and decided to try it out.

I actually didn’t jump in until the next spring when I got a crappy compaq laptop, and later, a gen 3?/4? XPS (the one with the silver front and the RGB front panel) to play it on.

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Flatmates tried to convince me to play Everquest, got to level 15. Two years later, they told me to play WoW, and I got hooked immediately.

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Pretty sure my start was with Warcraft II that my cousin had on the Sega Saturn in 1997 (or maybe the Playstation? He had so many consoles over the years I don’t remember). I remember he and his girlfriend and I playing it and loving it. Then I bought it for myself for PC and then the following year I got Starcraft when it came out. Loved both games and played them obsessively. I was really into city and world building games like Caesar 3 and Populous and RPG’s like Baldur’s Gate 2 as well.

Warcraft 3 came out when I was in school so I don’t think I had as much time to play so I am pretty sure I got it in 2004 when I was finished and I picked up a combo pack with Frozen Throne included. By then I think there was already news about WoW on the horizon and it sounded exciting. I knew about MMO’s but when I was in school I never had a good enough computer and still had dial up so I never played them.

Got a new Mac in 2005 and was staying with my father who had high speed internet so I bought WoW the same day. Timing was awful as I was about to start a new job and it ended up really interfering with my career and mental health. But that was how it all began. I was hooked.

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Oh do I remember the box art. That’s what really stuck in my head as fun. A dwarf hunter and gnome mage fighting a yeti!!! I couldn’t take my eyes off it and was dead set on getting it for my 12th birthday.

San Andrea’s came out around the same time and I only got to choose one gift for my birthday. I didn’t get to start WoW til Christmas but nonetheless it took complete control of my gaming time. That box art man.

So there I was, 12 years old, playing WoW with no prior MMO experience other then Runescape and no friends that could/would play it either. I had to ticket a GM because I couldn’t understand quest and how some mobs may look the same but have different names.

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Someone in my Call of Duty gamebattles team played lmao.

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Only played xbox online, mainly halo 2. A friend at school one day said he was playing this pc game that had really fun pvp and i should come over and try it(was 16 at the time now 31). Played his tauren elemental shaman in an AB and was pressing random crap that lite up. Instantly addicted. Begged my mom that night to get me a pc and my bday was in 5 months, so early present.

She ordered me a dell xps 720. Got it a week later and i have been playing wow since then with only a few breaks in between multiple accounts.

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I started an orc shaman in 04 beta. Quit at level 5.

A few weeks after launch I started up again, a friend was prodding me to do it. Rolled Human Warlock and got hooked

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City of Heroes was my first mmo. A friend had told me that you could get Flying as a power and fly around the world. The rest is History


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Combat upgrade came to SW galaxies and later my favorite class was just up and deleted from the game. Friend introduced me to WoW and been playing on and off since then. Mostly off now but Classic I think will keep me around for awhile, dunno.

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I was big into warcraft 3 (particularly custom map making) and all this news about world of warcraft and its beta got me super excited. Got the collector’s edition on launch day, played for a few weeks
 got kinda bored. But I stuck around because I liked the guild I had joined. Been playing off and on since.

The game was content-poor compared to other multiplayer games I was into at the time, so I was disappointed when I went down a random canyon or whatever and nothing was there. I wanted a dense world full of things to discover. I’ll have more fun with classic this time around since I know what I’m getting into, though.