When did you start playing wow?

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  1. When did you start playing wow?
  2. What got you hooked?

For me.

  1. I think I started at the very end of 2005. Right before the AQ patch.

  2. It was my first MMO, I loved exploring, the fact that you could (almost) run to any visible mountain top or location. Almost nothing seemed blocked off.

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  1. Vanilla
  2. SWG was getting stale with no (real) improvements, and my friends all moved to WoW.
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A few months after release. All of my friends were playing, so it was easy to stay hooked. Also the exploration and lack of load times blew me away.

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Sometime after Ulduar was common but the Tournament raid wasn’t live yet.

I wasn’t in that great a living situation so I got hooked just because it gave me a distraction

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29 Nov 2004.

All my friends jumped off the EverQuest ship and came here.

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TBC. I got hooked at the log in screen choosing my character. I had the WoW guide book and took forever choosing what to play. Took me ages to choose between night elves and blood elves, but the Horde backstory just sold it for me. I am proud to be loyal to the Horde to this day :slight_smile:

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  1. Just over a month after release.

  2. Alts and being able to go back and solo old content has kept me playing all these years.

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right after i installed it. hehe
back then online rpg gaming was a still a new kind of thing so totally addicted.

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  1. Um around 2010, it was the end of Cata.
  2. My friends, who no longer play so I don’t even know if I want to continue playing anymore either lol. :upside_down_face:
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Around August of 2005. My brother created a dwarf Paladin named Magal and I created a gnome Warlock named Magaltwo. At some point we found a schematic for a Mechanical Squirrel and it became our sole mission to craft the beast.

We didn’t know about the auction house, but we knew gems could drop from wild animals so we collected the materials over time while leveling through Dun Morough and Loch Modan. When we finally had the mats and proficiency to craft it, we found out the squirrel was actually a higher level than we were (it was level 15 but it couldn’t do anything).

Even though those characters never progressed past level 26, it feels like we had more stories from those two than most of my other characters to date.

This was one of the first games I’ve ever played where you can just come up with whatever goal you want and just completely immerse yourself in the experience. Nowadays its a bit more linear with Blizz trying to guide players towards endgame, but there’s still a ton of activities to navigate towards.

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I like that story. It reminds me of my first mage. My Friend played a warlock, and one day he had a tiger pet that could fight for him. (one time use). We then went on a long long unmounted journey to darkshore so I could get it too.

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Summer of 2004. I made a hunter, and didn’t like it. But the game world was entrancing. There was simply no way I wouldn’t fall hopelessly in love with a game like WoW and I knew this the second I first logged in.

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Got the last copy at Sam Goodie store on launch. I grew tired of the endless grind of FFXI.

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March of this year.

It was something I guess never gave it enough time. I did the trail when worgen was released but was stuck on gw2 combat. After many mmos I just told myself it’s time to actually give wow a try. First did classic when it came how, hated it but fell in love with retail.

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  • little over three years ago.
  • the expansiveness of the game…the open world freedom to play like I want to play…which, of course, was ruined when I hit WoD content and found out about PF which demands I play inside the box to get flight. Thankfully that has been somewhat remedied with the changes to WoD and Legion flight requirements.
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Towards the end of 05, I was real young and terrible at the game. My Dad got me and my brother playing so it was something the 3 of us could do while he was deployed.

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  1. I started exactly one year from launch. I went shopping on Black Friday and was talked into buying it. I was more addicted back then, but I’d never played an MMO before so it blew me away :slight_smile:
  2. I like collecting things, so I try to collect appearances, pets, mounts, whatever in my free time. I also like leveling a lot…
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In the 1940’s

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Started in Beta. I ran a decently popular warcraft III RPG replay site so started playing wow with a friend.

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Same week it launched. I been playing Blizzard games for a long time, Warcraft 2 on PS1 lol. Starcraft and Diablo 2 on PC in the mid 90s in high school and later Warcraft 3. I don’t have the wolf statue only because I skipped 14 months in MoP, I hated that expansion so much and ESO came out to fill the void.