Oh god I miss them. They had such character.
I remember going to the forums on the old school computers and checking them during Burning Crusade, and oh my. What a time.
Maybe it’s the nostalgia talking, but I’d kill to have current forums look like that again. The generic avatars, the themes (WotLK was super cool too, pun intended).
What do you all think of the old vs new forums?
And don’t even get me started on the old launcher. Now that thing was BUSSIN’! (that’s what the kids say, right?)
I miss the One Eyed Willy pet thread.
Hell yeah I missed the old forums. It’s had the greatest section ever: Off Topic
I didn’t move to the GD until it was shut down.
i miss off topic and all the pg 13 esqe /b/ type threads. and all the random bans that followed.
the one from 2009 where we had these stock avatar pics based on character level?
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Gallery_of_player_avatars
and around that time we could have our armory profile set up to some provocative poses
Getting called out on my pvp servers forum by name for ganking people was always a hoot.
Good times.
I remember when different classes would sometimes take over a different class forum. Like all the rogues would start posting in the warlock class forum, so the locks would go take over the warrior forum etc.
Even if we had the old style back, it wouldn’t be the same. Back then we didn’t have Discord or Class Guide websites. If you wanted to learn about the game or your spec you had to come here.
No thank you, transmog is what we live for, it is the true end game after all
Pour one out for OT, the forum that raised me into the troll I am now. That’s where I found out about 4chan.
They still have them on the internet archive - way back machine. That site recently got hacked twice so I’d proceed at your own risk, but I have gone back and poked around on them for fun here and there.
The brown one?
I don’t know if I miss them or not. I liked that server forums were kind of a local community. Opposed to all of us, hanging out in some void in our respective meta universe.
The old forums were a bit more unruly if I remember.
I remember staying away from the forums because it was nothing but people whining about this or that aspect of the game. I am not sure why I am still posting here, since you get downvoted and temp banned if you say anything that upsets a certain group of people, no matter how benign.
thats actually looks pretty cool.
i only remember when the forums had a brown bg.
i miss it. i like the warmer color than this blue one
I remember them. We had a couple of satirical posters on my realm at the time that made these funny scripts for a typical raid night in one or two of our most toxic guilds/raid groups. They were accurate too, these people really were like this, so I was always sure it was someone who regularly raided with them, or at least had at one point. I lived for these posts.
There was also another thread I remember, something from a male blood elf priest who detailed the traumas and tribulations of drunk healing. Loved his stuff too.
remembers old post count fondly
One day I’ll catch up to it
Who here remebers the Dragon Flight forums?
The good times were better, but the bad stuff was way worse. The amount of flaming, backstabbing, and cliquish nonsense that went on there was annoying. The social structure and maturity level was similar to a high school full of students who were babysat by a television.
I miss them every day.
wasnt that only for like about a couple months before they axed it?