Memories of WoW, and upcoming "Legion" - what happened to it?

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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I've long quit, but am curious what has happened to the game? It had a decade-long run, is still the most subscribed online RPG, and now Blizz says it will no longer report subscriber numbers. Also, starting with Warlords (Nov 2014), Blizz said it would release xpacs on a yearly basis. 2015 rolls to a close and no cigar, and Wiki says that Blizz are looking at a summer 2016 launch now.

What are your favourite memories of WoW as ex-addicts?

Vanilla: Was in a social guild (some being IRL friends) but we had everything up to and including BWL on farm. The DKP system was great as it was an incentive to join a couple of raids a week and everyone was equipped in T2 by late 2006. We got halfway through AQ40 then we ran out of time. I also liked that most gamers were in their 20s and 30s, as it was the audience who played Warcraft 1 and 2 back in the 1990s as teenagers.

Burning Crusade: This had some great content too, but our guild suffered from politics and in-fighting. The officers scrapped DKP, and they instead formed a "loot council" that issued out drops to their "favourites" which made the guild elitist and 2-tier. The final nail was our first Gruul's raid (took 3 attempts) and then deciding who would get the caster sword drop. It ended up with a warlock/mage who had an epic sword already. I logged in the following week to find that the guild has reformed as 2 guilds. I joined the one that had my IRL friends and we just did KZ/Gruul's/Maggy's in the end.

Lich King: We just did the Naxx re-make, which we didn't see first time round. I was very casual by this point and quit mid-xpac. I noticed that the playerbase was younger too.
 
Logged in and played a month in December after quitting in vanilla.

It's a shadow of it's former self sadly :(

PvP is non existent outside the BG. All quest areas are lifeless.

It certainly isn't the game I left 9-10 years ago.

It is now effectively an instanced mmo.
 
I still play, but only on the vanilla private server, Nostalrius. It reminds me of why I first liked WoW. Exceptionally active server (about 12,000 online every day), vanilla game rules and xp, huge huuuuuuge amount of activity in the zones and masses of open world pvp.
 
One of my favourite memories would be vanilla and those guard infested open world PvP battles between Tarren Mill and Southshore. Also really loved the old Scholomance, the team I leveled up with were one of the first to reach 60 and that dungeon was ridiculous. Monsters respawned every few minutes, you'd be clearing the next pack whilst the one before it was starting to respawn. Brutal difficulty, but so much fun.

I've not played it for a while now. I've went back for a month or two now and again purely to catch up on content I've missed, but drift off when I reach the cap again as it just doesn't feel the same any more.
 
Sadly greed got in the way and it has become way too complicated.

I remember when local battlegrounds existed and outdoor PvP created a real sense of community and drama. Pretty much just bots and ragers so I tend to avoid MMO's on a general point.

I would play again with a Vanilla style game, not privately though.

(I quit quite soon after The Burning Crusade as the content didn't interest me at all)
 
People finally realised that it's basically the same **** ad infinitum and a waste of their life. Every expansion is just a push of the reset button and all of the previous hard work means nothing.
 
mmj_uk said:
People finally realised that it's basically the same **** ad infinitum and a waste of their life. Every expansion is just a push of the reset button and all of the previous hard work means nothing.
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Especially when you worked all the way to Warlord rank for the armour and TBC releases, only to find anyone can get it within the space of a few weeks if they pushed hard enough.
 
Had a fantastic run for such a long time to be fair and still frankly still dwarfs most MMOs today in subscriptions numbers. Actually had a few weeks play on a vanilla server recently which was great but wasn't impressed at all when did a week trial of the current game back in the summer.
 
I only started playing at the latest expansion, still enjoy our raid nights, just downed mythic gorefiend which is quite an achievement for a very casual guild who doesn't rage or replace people who fail, we get there eventually.
 
I played wow primarily in vanilla, some tbc, some wotlk and called it a day there. I did have a month back on it for warlords but it got old quick.

Best memories were definitely vanilla, my priest had about 130 days played before any expansions hit, it times quite well with finishing uni and only working part time for a while. Played in one of the best raiding guilds on the server, having bwl and aq40 on farm along with half of naxx before tbc being on the horizon finished us. Was great fun having world pvp as well as ab and wsg in tier 2 and 3 with a guild premade and going full nights without losing a single bg.

TBC was a nice change in pace, enjoyed the likes of kara but life and work ultimately got in the way. Best memories as a gamer those were, can't see them ever being repeated.
 
In terms of memories vanilla was definitely the best for myself too, in terms of usability and the game itself WoTLK was probably the one I'd pick.
 
Started early TBC so obviously have good memories from there. Although was pretty fresh and casual until near the end of it. Wotlk was the best for me. Great instances, raids and pvp. Talent trees were still deep and gave you a lot of choice, and things like ArP were very fun by the time ICC dropped. Have played casually in later expansions, mainly on level 70 twinks.

It's all done for me now. Good memories though
 
I still play but I don't get anywhere near as much enjoyment out of it as I did back in vanilla.

Back then everything was an achievement and took actual work. Now it's so casual and kiddy friendly. High level loot is handed out by the shovel load to any old pleb.

I'll keep playing but only for the social side, the content isn't doing it for me at all. I have to admit, I think it's another game Activision have ruined, they really are absolute cancer to the industry.
 
My best memories? Open world PVP - running to Southshore or Crossroads where upwards of 50 characters were all fighting just for the fun of it :eek:. No PVP gear, no flying mounts, just pure unadulterated fun.

Or the first time I expereinced the stairs event in Zul Farrak. Epic in every way.

Or the first time I unlocked Molten Core and stepped inside. Epic.

Sadly the fun isn't the same but I still play like a sad crack addict :(
 
Taking like 8 months to hit level 60 back in Vanilla. Looking at any person that had a mount like they where some kind of mythical object.
 
I remember vividly my first ever Shanker run in BRD. Every Rogue had to do that in Vanilla, it was like a rite of passage.

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Looking at any person that had a mount like they where some kind of mythical object.
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Hah, yeah. I had to borrow the gold from a friend in game to get mine then gradually pay him back over the course of a month as they cost a fortune! Used to run Dark Iron mining nodes on my Rogue in BRD for guilds starting up in MC. Made a tidy sum in the end!
 
Played from US open beta (August before US release) until just before SoO in pandaria (got tired, it IS just more of the same and it started getting more fractured with people leaving etc so got kinda pointless).

Best memory though -

Level 77 in wotlk, was leveling a mage. I'd given the flying book to this alt so it had a nice 280% flying mount.
Wandering around questing/etc when another mage jumped me. I had the ice elemental pet and the glyph to keep it out. So I hit the invis ability and started running (pet following, enemy mage following the pet). Invis ended, mounted up and took off, he did the same - iron drake (310% flying speed). So he's slowly catching me up and I had the barest sliver of health left. Ice lance (an instant cast spell) comes into range and I ice-blocked (making me invulnerable) while sure enough a couple of ice-lances hit me in the iceblock.
So we're both falling from a fair height. He hit slow fall first (does what it says on the tin) I spell-stole it (giving me his slowfall) and blinked (a small teleport) away out of range.
He hit the floor and cratered, I survived :D

Had a lot of good years in WoW, leading guilds/raids/rated battleground teams but a simple bit of one-up-man-ship on a dude trying to punk me still stands as my fondest memory :)
 
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