Me too. Can’t believe I did.
Yes. My friends played since alpha and were in the realm’s top guild so the day I started in Deathknell, one rode over and handed me 50g. I was like oh, 50 cents…thanks. But that was more than enough to buy spells and whatever the vendors sold. All decked out in matching white gear. Looked good!
Had no idea that was a veritable fortune back then…I just spent it stupid-frivolously. Mobs dropped pennies but I wasn’t paying attention to any of that.
Then one day I was on the zepp buffing everyone with low level Fortitude and got a trade window with 10g, then the guy jumped off midway and died. Gold farmer or something.
Later some level 60 on a horse came to Brill and was magnanimously handing out 50 silver to us n00bs - “Today is your lucky day!” and I said, “no thank you. I have lots.”, while thinking, what a cheapskate! The suicidal guy gave me 10g for a buff!
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…COSMOS was the go-to UI add-in.
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You had green chest piece, blue pants, red boots, purple gloves, yellow belt. Yup everything is there to make you look like a rainbow.
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I never found his wife!!!
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Wanding for mana and healing rotations.
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Crazy times indeed.
That’s why I feel the people who are going to go through all that in Classic, willingly, are a bit on the crazy side. Why would you ever want to do that? The gaming scene and games in general are not the way they were a decade and a half ago.
Oh yeah, AV. Was in the first one on Argent Dawn, lasted over 24 hours. I slept a whole night and got back into it for the end. That, I admit, is epic on a level that will never be equaled again.
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AV was epic indeed. One realm BG, same people in there as on our forum. “Hey, I saw you in here yesterday! Still at it, huh?”
There was only one game running at a time or something so yeah, next day same game. We did everything in there - did the ritual to call the giant tree man to stomp through the Alliance starting area. The Alliance would get their giant eagles to kill us trying to get up the road. Mayhem, while we had dance parties in there.
Classic is iffy…we’re not going thru that mess again willingly. New people may make it…until they see today’s game. I don’t know if it will succeed. I’m not doing it. (Lasted like 15 minutes in the classic demo and got tired of running and having to eat after every mob.)
I won’t even try. I’m going to keep my memories intact and look at all the Vanilla stuff I have in my main’s bank. Can’t re-live the past. I’ll try a new game before I go to Classic.
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You actually saw and spoke to a live GM. Also I still want my “FOUR WHEELS OF FURY!!!”
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Leveling being so slow, that you actually had time to level professions as you leveled your character. You basically had to back in the day if you didn’t want to be flapping in the breeze.
I remember on my warrior, I went several levels without a weapon upgrade, so I picked up a mage staff I got from a dungeon because nobody else wanted it. People would then stop me to ask why I was using a mage staff as a warrior. I told them my story and how it did more damage and hads more stamina than my last weapon. Nobody questioned this.
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A GM in person came inside of BWL in front of the whole raid to deliver an item I had deleted by mistake.
And believe it or not, I’m fairly sure it happened often back then. They were doing the same thing that EQ gamemasters had been doing for years with great success, be an actual part of a ROLE-PLAYING game. Run events in-game, etc etc.
This would never happen today.
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I have screen shots of myself and a GM just shooting the %**. in chat for a while back when.
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Everything was a raid, or more appropriately, there was no cap to the number of people allowed in an instance.
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You can remember “raiding” Blackrock Depths to get to Molten Core.
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I remember a GM showing up in Northshire when I was new that was really cool and I also did speak to a few GM’s online back when we were running NAX because I had to transfer items over to other players sometimes I was the Guild enchanter a lot of loot got passed to me so I would have to trade it over to them through a GM
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Imagine this,
People are sitting bored in front of the Great Seal. A GM pops in suddenly, starts a surprise event on a randomly picked server. Grabs a bunch of people and drags them to do something cool in the world. Imagine how these people would feel, how they’d remember that story forever.
EQ gamemasters did this stuff all the time. Now THAT is engaging your player base!
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Well… it costs money. Also, tools have improved.
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It does cost money.
But then, they sell us a re-skinned mount on the store for $25, that took a team a few hours to make and cost a few thousand bucks, make millions from it, and…passing some of that dough back to us in the form of GMs being actual GAME masters would be too much to ask?
Profit > Players having fun
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Gnome or Goblin engineering?
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