I started this game a bit over 15 years ago while in grammar school. It saved me during rough periods in high school where I’d game it out and prog Mythic Mannoroth with my old guild.
When things were really rough and I couldn’t afford a subscription in high school, I played the PTR religiously in MoP. Fun times.
Now, I’m successful, have all the shiny WoW toys and my memories. Where has WoW followed you?
HA
You know that achievement
Time is a Flat Circle?
Wow and I… we always go together. I don’t want to explain it, because then I feel like I’m jinxing our relationship.
I believe in luck. That’s all anybody ever needs to know.
I do. It felt about as cheap as the friendship moose AOTC.
I’m trying to remember why Archimonde went from being a complete menace to a joke that you burst down while you move him from the huge green fires. Was it the ring? I recall Arcane Mages being disgusting in HFC.
… damn man. Felt that.
Basically everywhere. My first boyfriend introduced me to WoW when I was still a minor. Two years later I met my future husband in my very first serious raiding guild. Finished school and missed out on some classes because of WoW, lol.
Started my first job… interruped my career because I got ill for a while and WoW basically saved me and helped me keep my sanity. Got married and moved around the country several times. WoW always accompanied us.
While I’ve been pretty dissatisfied with the game at times, I’ll never forget all the memories and I’m very grateful for the incredible people I’ve met and even met in real life. Some of them loyal friends I’ve had for over a decade now.
My twin brother and friends I played WoW with still make memes and jokes about it.
Even though I am the only one that still plays, they know I am very fond of boss quotes and that sort of stuff.
Pretty much everywhere. I had a break mid cata to start of legion during post graduate studies. Then when I went to work abroad it was definitely a life saver.
I also find that being an “old” gamer now (in teenagers’ minds at least) makes it a bit easier for me to connect with them as an educator. Even though wow is older than them, a lot of the same gamer language is still there: DPS, tanking, min/max, and it helps build rapport in several cases.
It’s also a reminder that yes, you can still be a successful adult with a family and assets and have pass times you enjoy without sacrificing everything.
It has followed me from age 29 to age 49, with 2 of my 3 children being born in that span. It’s been a staple of my friendships and an awesome journey. My 2 sons now run M+ with me and some friends and it’s some of our most fun times.
I’ve found wow to be unhealthy for the most part. It has allowed some good things like the ability to socialize with different people throughout my time.
At my most depressed is when I played wow constantly, I have a healthier relationship with gaming nowadays though. I play when I want, and I take long breaks when I want without worrying about it. I’m okay with being a casual gamer because that tends to be the healthiest way forward. Wow used to be an escape and now it’s just entertainment.
Also, I can be on the wow forums even while at work which is its own fun I suppose.
I just like how WoW has “grown with us”, in that you don’t have to play it every day and still won’t fall behind.
Stuff like World Quests and weekly rotation, you can just play a few days a week and still be kept current.
It is much easier to balance life and WoW more than ever before.
Back in MoP, you had to do your dailies every day, or you’d be missing seals that allow for extra rolls on loot.
I started a few months after I turned 19. I will turn 40 in January. It is quite staggering. It’s sometime easy to forget how much of a relic this game truly is. It predates youtube!
Yeah exactly! And this is the part I think a lot of naysayers don’t quite realize.
There was a time where grinding skeletons in sorrow Hill from 58 to 60 was the thing to do ---- when I was 14 lol. Now if it took that long to level up I would just leave wow. Behind completely. Not every change has been amazing but yeah, it’s definitely more accessible now and reasonable to stay “competitive” even with minimal play time.
As much as people here seem to hate mythic plus for example, it’s easily my favorite addition. If I have even 1 free hour, I can group with buddies and have some fun and remain pretty powerful too.
Started WoW as a kid and now I have 2 kids.
Can’t wait to build them a virtual home in Midnight, finally some assets to hand down.
im here speaking on behalf of my dad, because he is the reason im playing wow 17 years later. im 18 now, basically my dad got the game and started playing alliance, he did whatever you did in the first years of wow, met my mom, they played together meeting friends. some are still with us some passed away sadly, fast forward a few years i was born, around the age of 2 i had gotten my mom the travelers tundra mammoth, my dad the phosphorescent stone drake, me and my mom got my dad the time lost proto drake, they divorced when i was around 14, my dad got with a new woman and my mom got with a new man, that she met on wow origionally, after a few years my dad got remarried, his best man was one of the people he met on wow. we drive up to 14 hours just to see one of my dads friend that we got dogs from, If it werent for wow id never be the person i am today