I was 21, going through my first big heartbreak, and WoW came out like a month later.
I got completely lost, met a lot of good people who helped me through that crappy part of my life.
With Classic coming out, some of us are getting back together and looking forward to playing again.
Now, I’m 36, 2 kids and a gf who understands I love gaming.
I’m very fortunate, and told her I’m excited for Classic release. She’s still a bit confused about the “rerelease” of an old game, but she’s excited for me nonetheless.
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I was 19 years old.
13 when I started in 2005, 27 now. And boy am I ready.
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I was also 29, just turned 44 last week.
My kids were babies back then. Well, I had one during BC and the other near the end of WotLK.
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20, with barely any idea of what Warcraft actually was. As far as MMO’s were concerned, the only thing I played was private server Ragnarok Online. Sader life. 
I was just got my first job out of high school years old.
It was about November 2006 when I started, so 33 then and 46 now. Woof. I’m glad to see I’m not the oldest one here by a stretch. Game 'til they plant you!
How have things changed? In '06, I was about to enter one of the worst decisions of my life: my first marriage. In '19, My second anniversary in my real marriage will proc on September 2. I reckon we’ll both stop playing long enough to go out someplace nice. 
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I was 12 in November 2004, when I started playing, very much still a kid. But because I became a teenager and hit puberty halfway through vanilla’s lifecycle, I almost have two different experiences of vanilla: 2004 - 2005, and then 2006. They feel so different because of how much my brain changed during those years. In a way, the '04-05 version of vanilla will always feel closed off from me, because I was experiencing it with a kid brain. I expect Classic to feel more like my perception of '06 WoW, which is totally still a great thing, just different.
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16 now 31 uggh lol
hmm original vanilla…damn i was like 12-13, middle school when it hit
I was 31 and in the army. My wife and I played together a lot, along with friends from back home. We also had a little girl on the floor, a few months old. We are still together, but working at a university together and that little girl is in HS and planning to play with us in Classic. I’ve been “Getting the band back together” with my guild. Wishblades are going to ride once more. Can’t wait.
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I created my first character in 2005, which made me 10 years old. I would go to a friend’s house after school every day, and one day realized that everyone in his family - mom, dad, older brother - was playing the same game, wow, on separate computers throughout the house, and they were playing together. That absolutely entranced me. My friend had an account with a level 22 human mage. I made a gnome rogue on his account which he deleted days later. I ended up making my own account and playing with that same group of friends, including occasionally his parents and brother, for years, poaching and recruiting other school friends along the way. Now we are all spread across the world - British Columbia, Utah, California, New York City, Amsterdam - and all at various levels of remove from WoW, but nearly all of us will be returning in (less than!) two weeks. Can’t wait.
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I was 45 at the time
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Was 14 and a sophomore in highschool. Pretty much consisted of go to school. Do like an hour of homework then play till 9 or 10 that night in a very ineffecient way. Now i realize ill have alot less time but i know exactly how to do everything i want efficiently. I have planned out what rep grinds ill need on what characters. Ive planned what levels i can start those rep grinds and what not to make it easier. Thorium brotherhood needs like 340 iron bars, guess ill grind 35-37 purely mining iron ore. It also required 540 incendisour scales? Well i guess i might as well do that while leveling. I wont be farming at a meesly 20g per hour but ill be letting my professions do it for me because i know my limited time.
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I was 24 and in grad school. Had a lot more time to play back then and it was glorious. i’m excited to get a chance to play classic again but gonna be challenging with job, family, and kid. We’ll see how it goes!
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I was 21. My husband and brother-in-law sat me down and made me learn how to play. I had never played a video game like that in my life. He was more focused on me playing at launch than himself. I soon learned why. Once you get your wife addicted then you have more time to play yourself.
We were newlyweds then, now we have 3 young girls and careers. Definitely not as much time to play but we are excited to relive that time. I’m relieved to learn that we aren’t the only ones pushing 40 that are excited. We seem to be in the norm.
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I was 45 and health was not good, still working at the time though, was married (my husband played ALL the time, so it was a join em or leave em kind of thing), and we had a young daughter. I’ve been disabled since june 2005, left the marriage in 2009, young daughter grew up, and I just turned 60 last month.
Needless to say, my beads and clay are being packed up for the time being (wondering why I just ordered another big batch of beads…duh) and I’ll have all the time I want to play Classic.
I honestly never thought I’d live to see this day.
(ps my ex father in law played back then too)
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37 here, 19 years into my Military Career.
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I was 37 (didn’t start playing WOW until June 2006). I am 50 now.
My kids who were early teens are adults with their own lives, one with a child of their own. I’m fighting cancer - four weeks post-op, just did first chemo yesterday - and still have a full week before disability is up and I start working again. My employer is cool and is letting me work from home, and even on a reduced schedule if that helps.
I’ve always, throughout my life, prioritized my free / enjoyable time, so I don’t really have more or less. However, how I physically feel is going to be critical to how much I play.
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Let me do the math… oh god.
I guess about 25, if this year is the 15th anniversary. I’d been following WoW’s development for years ahead of that, though. I’d always enjoyed Blizzard’s games and was really, REALLY looking forward to this whole playable world they were working on. Despite that I didn’t actually know what to expect.
After the closed beta but before launch, there was an open beta you could get in through GameSpy. A friend of mine and I got in and rolled up undead warrior and priest, respectively. We INSTANTLY got sucked into the game and knew for a fact we’d be devoting as much time as possible to it. Sure enough, after WoW went live I gladly maintained a continuous subscription until late-Cata. After that I’d buy timecards (and expansion packs) and play for a few months every now and then.
If you told me 15 years ago I’d be unable to work up the interest to log into (current) WoW, I’d have laughed in your face.
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