I’m curious to see how many newbies and old-timers we have. I’ve played since BC. Anyone else still around? Any new folks?
Old folks: What changes have you seen during your time here?
New folks: What do you wish was different?
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Since I came back to WoW; pretty much the start of siege of orgrimmar > now
started playing about a month and a half before bc or right as BC was launching.
RIP cathedral RP since then to now. xd
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I’ve played on this server since late BC (switched accounts because I quit for awhile during mop for those acheivement searching and seeing how young this account is) The biggest changes I’ve seen are honestly that there used to be more ERPERS in my experience. Back in the old days you walk into that inn and get a whisper almost immediately but now you don’t. Which is honestly a good thing. I haven’t noticed many other changes besides that to be honest though, not as much Cath RP tbf as well
Been here since late WOTLK. I went from playing mostly Alliance, to mostly Horde.
I did not pay much attention to the server itself until this expansion.
The only commentary I can give is that I wish people still did actual RP in Silvermoon; every time I check (which isn’t often nowadays), it’s just people in Wayfarers.
Late 2009.
The obvious changes have been how Stormwind had tons and tons of people around with Cath square always popping and guilds recruiting everywhere. It’s just not what it used to be. Discord revolutionized things, in my opinion.
Came over here as a joke in 2015, one of my friends had TRP (never heard of it at the time) and ended up going into the infamous Goldshire Inn. He read off some TRPs and we laughed for hours. Got curious and decided to download TRP and explore RPs like Gilly and Stormwind RP. Long story short tho, im currently engaged to someone i met on here.
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I’ve come and gone over the past 7 or 8 years or so.
off and on since jan 2007
same drama different day
transfers to the server ruined everything tho
wanders away to yell at cloud
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My entire three years on this game so far have been on MG. A friend got me on it and I couldn’t imagine ever abandoning it.
Since launch (2007). I was a new WoW player, and MG was the recommended server when you rolled. Been here since.
The biggest chance is as Darvile said, when they opened up server transfers. Goldshire used to be a really nice place, no ERP, nice RP. When my friends on original servers referenced P0rnshire, I was confused - what a sweet, summer child I was. Then server transfers happened, and we wound up with the infamous “Demon gateway crotch” and other infamy there.
The biggest changes I’ve noticed is the gradual disintegration of the community - which is a result of WoW changes overall. Back in the day, the major guild leaders all knew each other and we’d talk regularly. Horde and Alliance would sponsor joint events. People knew each other and helped each other. It was cool. But as they’ve done more and more to make the game increasingly solo-friendly and alt-friendly, and as more MMOs have hit the market, and of course the LGF/LFR thing, the sense of community has really decayed. People don’t know each other or talk to each other much, half the players I see in Boralus aren’t even guilded at all, and there aren’t anywhere near as many world events as there used to be. Some, yes, but they used to be regular and frequent.
There was an annual Winterspring Ball, we partnered with -Shroud- to run the annual Booty Bay Bash costume party, there were races, scavenger hunts, all kinds of things. I miss those days. Been thinking about trying to maybe host a scavenger hunt or some other server-wide RP event recently, maybe I should…try to bring folks together again a little more.
Now, anyone know where I left my copy of Reminisce magazine?
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Since the content gap after Siege of Orgrimmar and I stopped being a hardcore raider.
i started on Proudmoore as horde back in the day, then Bloodscalp through all of BC, then Scilla in Wrath when my guild moved again. Then after my guild retired in cataclysm, I was recruited by an alliance guild on Cenarius and they paid my server change and faction change.
Then after SoO and my guild fell off, I went to moon guard to hang out with my bruva, rest is history.
Since just before Mists. When was that? 2012-ish? I still feel like a Moon Guard newbie sometimes, though, compared to people who have been on the server since the day it came up.
Coming from a tiny, dead but very tight-knit server, it was pretty wild. I dabbled in Cathedral RP just before the Great Kablooie happened. I did Crime RP back in what everyone now thinks of as the heyday, when maniacs and their nonstop antics made the city unliveable. Over time, I’ve seen the most infamous and influential of the hardcore RP purists, already mostly just legends and stories by the time I got here, fade away to other locales and the people left generally seem to have adopted a much more live-and-let-live attitude about other people’s RP. I’ve seen the rise and fall of Moonguardsecrets and the effect that it had on both exposing and driving off longterm creepers but also intensifying a weird kind of anonymous callout social-cred more-right-than-you culture that made people paranoid and standoffish over time, eventually taking down most of the existing established Horde RP community who didn’t want to risk exposure to people who might turn out to be ‘problematic’ and retreated into insular guild groups. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
Unlike some, though, I don’t really see a server on the decline. I still see server projects, I see cross-guild cooperation, I see easily obtained walkup RP, I see largescale events. I do see the forums used less and less for announcing such things, though, probably a holdover from the days when a few big personalities made this forum in particular…uh…difficult to engage with. I imagine people are mostly going to Discord for stuff like that these days, but I tend to find Discords bigger than a guild group difficult to keep up with and distracting, and most smaller special-interest ones to be largely dead.
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@Shinnorah
You and Veritas are a part of my early memories of the server. Some very kind and generous people were counted among your number. I salute your perseverance.
My comment about transfers was sort of supposed to be funny as this forum exploded back then with wailing about the coming demise of the server. It was overwrought and silly. Then as now people come and go. They make their mark or they quietly enjoy the game as one of many adventurers. There was drama then as there is now. It is different players but eventually the bad apples are culled.
People posting here have come and gone as well. Faces change but conflict remains. That too is part of our server drama and existed in the early days back in 2007. I believe that some of it has lessened for the same reasons you gave for in game decline of cooperation among players/guilds. I don’t think that it is a sign that the server is dying but rather new people replacing the old and deciding to have different events or give things a fresh look.
@Jalanilí
I wish you had arrived sooner. Your commentary is usually one of my favorites in this forum. Like you I see the interactions on the server in game not in a decline but the forum is … quieter for the most part.
Maybe that’s just me and becoming somewhat maudlin as I age.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
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I’m recently returned, within the past month. I used to play here though, a long time ago, several mains ago. Pretty much for the duration of both Wrath and Cata, and Shadow Council before that. Between a cross country move and some major life events, I ended up taking very long breaks from the game, and when I did play I had gone to WrA for personal reasons. I’m glad to be back now, though.
As far as what’s different, honestly the main thing I’m noticing is just that the forums are a lot more quiet than I remember.
To be fair, a lot of that “noise” was made by some very dramatic people who either got some permanent forum vacations, or finally left the game for greener pastures.
Some nice folks have vanished too, but that tends to happen during sub-par expansions. 
What really got tiring were the overly dramatic people that flopped back and forth between MG and WrA wearing out their welcome on both servers.
Kinda sad that people carry chips on their shoulders like that.
Also an interesting forum moment in time - 2009 when WrA opened and the forums were filled with vitriol from those fleeing to more “pure” pastures. Those were some pretty dramatic people that carry their hate on to this day. I can’t log into WrA without hearing some angry sputtering about MG. I get that there are some creepy, abusive thugs that run back and forth when things get too hot to handle. That problem is not the fault of one single server.
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As far as myself, I only started in recent times towards the end of Legion last year in May. I’ve seen some interesting things on the server and it being also my first rp server, it was a bit of a shift compared to a normal server. I love that the community seems pretty interconnected, though from previous post it seems that it has watered down a bit. I definitely wish that I would of came sooner and maybe experienced some of the past moments of MG’s history. Even though I obviously can’t go to the past, I can experience the future in which MG has to offer and it’s exciting to know what the future might hold for it.
WoTLK.
Light save the Queen.
I have been on Moon Guard for 11 years. I hardly ever see the people i used to play with.
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Since the server opened.
Generally don’t play WoW much anymore, but I still lurk about here and there. Glad to see some of you still around. 
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