When I was a kid I used to watch my dad play Warcraft 3 and then he started playing at the end of Classic WoW and Burning Crusade and I used to watch him do raids and I thought it was the coolest thing ever in TBC I thought it was fun so during TBC I made a ret pal and played and fell in love with it, wasn’t until years later until I officially started playing WoW.
My guild came over from DAOC. We were originally a pvp guild but the pvp in wow was a joke comparatively to pvp in every other MMO so it turned into a raid guild and hemorrhaged original members.
I do miss those guys. Still in contact with one guy.
All the other MMOs I was playing or considering playing were either switching to a F2P monetization model or looking in danger of shutting down, WoW was not my 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice of game, but it was the one that looked like it had the best chance of long-term survival.
South Park. I bought the dvd set and it included a free trial. I’ve been playing ever since.
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If you play just about any other MMO WoW sometimes just ends up as the talk of the town.
That was the case for me. I’d given it a go before never getting past 10-20 thinking it was boring.
Then something just clicked for me and started liking it late 2021.
Warcraft II and III. I was fond of playing a character in the world I only saw from up top.
I had some friends who played in High School in 2007. One of them made a character for me on their account at their house that I played for a little while. I was hooked and never looked back.
I will say it was a warrior I leveled to like 12 and haven’t played a warrior since.
My co workers told me about this game called World of Warcraft - he explained the classes and said they were going to be Horde . Upon first hearing of undead i immediately thought Dforestkilly would be my character- the undead prot warrior I would play hundreds of hours on and not realize I had talent points until I was level 30 something in the Barrens .
Back then ( 20 years ago in vanilla ) the people were everything . I made friends all over the world and went on crazy adventures learning the game and this new world . The community back then was awesome and was the main reason I logged in .
One friend brought me to wow and dozens and dozens of friends I met in game kept me in .
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Friends made me play the game
I still curse them to this day
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My wife got me to start in the middle of wrath. We have played ever since.
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Started working for this big medical company back in 06, these guys where always talking about some game, and they wanted me to play so i started playing with them
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It’s a mixture of 3 factors.
- I grew up playing the Warcraft RRS games (1 through 3). My dad played them too. So we were already fans of the franchise.
- A free trial CD came in mail to one of my high school teachers. He didn’t want it, so he took it to school, intending to give it away to the first student who asked about the CD. I was that student.
- A few days later, after my dad, my sister, and I fooled around on the free trial, my dad’s brother came to visit and saw the free trial CD. My uncle told my dad that he had been playing WoW for a few months at this point (he was in the mid 40s. This was in Vanilla).
And that’s how my dad, my sister, and I all got into WoW. Prior to this, Dad wasn’t willing to shell out all that money for WoW but his brother was that final push Dad needed to get an account… and the rest is history. 
We started exactly halfway through Vanilla, in November 2005. Like, during Thanksgiving.
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One nice and sunny day I returned home from work to find a dsic in my mail that wasn’t AOL back in 08… I have no idea how they found me, considering I played no games and hadn’t signed up for anything but they got me.
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My dad forced me to be his personal healer back in cata because he kept dying. … little to say we dont talk anymore but i still heal people in wow -_-
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I was playing, and starting to get bored with, Diablo II and heard about WoW from …other players, or maybe Newsgroups (don’t remember now). Tried it, liked it, and have been playing ever since.
Highschool buddies casually played WoW after quitting Everquest. Meanwhile I was bouncing from FFXI, City of Heroes, and even Dark Age of Camelot. It took a work buddy while working as a Game Tester at Atari to convince me to play. I started as Horde (Orc) but went Human Warrior then Paladin (Isendar has been my main since Vanilla).
Most fond memory would be waiting in line at Fry’s Electronics (RIP) in Sunnyvale, CA. midnight release of The Burning Crusade. Picked up my Collector’s Edition copy for the devs to sign that were present there. Still have that copy. I’ll never forget jumping through the Dark Portal and healing my first raid in Karazhan. Second would be my first time tanking a raid in Ice Crown Citadel on this character as the guild OT. The glory days!
the RTS games.
they were far better then wow tbh.
the didnt make you do dailies, grind junk for X amount of time to pay extra sub fees per month.
that was when you bought a game, got a good game, story and experience.
now its all about keeping you on the treadmill to show investors how many monthly active users they have each quarterly review cycle.
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EQ2 was too hard for me, so I started playing this
I tried out Everquest and played Sierra’s “The Realm” when they came out, and then I played FFXI for a while when that came out and got some real traction with it.
Then the beta stress test came out for WoW, I rolled an Undead and I was hooked. The full launch came on the same day as the new FFXI expansion and I ended up picking up both, by a month in I was only playing WoW going forward.
WC2 and WC3
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