r/classicwow • u/doobylive • Oct 15 '25
Nostalgia What I Would Do To Go Back….
The winter of 2008 sure was a special one.
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u/CaptainNefkin Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 16 '25
I remember when I was in school and had some kind of "free hour" between subjects, I jumped on my bike and went full speed home just to level for 30 min and then full speed back to school. Good times
Edit: my first award thanks ! :)
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u/Moist-Raccoon-8133 Oct 15 '25
damn thanks you unlocked a memory. used to do this between high school classes and completely forgot. good times were had back then for all!
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u/Levomethamphetamine Oct 15 '25
Holy shit lmao, the things we would do back then for a bit of gaming…
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u/_Lodjuret Oct 15 '25
we had a bro in our class that lived like 1 minute away so that fucker went and played on the lunch break. everyone was so jealous
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u/Freeman10 Oct 15 '25
TBC/WotLK - prime Blizzard.
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u/Manistadt Oct 15 '25
Prime Blizzard was from their inception to 2008 when they sold out to Activi$ion.
Every Blizzard game made by Blizzard and not Actiblizz is a classic. People still play WC3, Broodwar is still played competitively 25 years later, Vanilla WoW is the baseline for MMOs.
Blizzard and Bioware made some of my all time favorite games ever until they both were bought out and ruined by garbage publishers like EA and Activision.
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u/Oyxopolis Oct 15 '25
Tbc was the cutoff. The end of tBC was the first time you could feel the Activision hand in the pie, with the raid nerfs, making several of them available to lesser geared people.
Wotlk was mostly still good because it had been in development by Blizzard. After that, it started falling apart.
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u/pokemango7 Oct 15 '25
For me wotlk was good because of the arenas and raiding. The levelling and the entire "mmo vibe" definitely started falling off in mid wrath
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u/PilsnerDk Oct 16 '25
with the raid nerfs, making several of them available to lesser geared people.
So you'd prefer that raids remained tough forever and that Wrath only had a heroic mode? That's just gatekeeping.
TBC raiding with its attunement chain and way too hard raids was just bad design back in the day. It's no wonder people loved Wrath's raiding model.
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u/SeerUD Oct 16 '25
I don't feel like changes to raids were a big issue. One of the most noticeable things for me is the social side of the game going way down hill. But that's also partially because of how gaming as a hobby has changed too.
When I played Wrath, I could walk around in Dalaran and I'd recognise other players that I wasn't friends with, or hadn't actually done any content with. Sometimes we'd just hang out and chat and then get on with our thing.
I used to make pug groups for raids, and the experience of doing that through global, while less convenient, and definitely more spammy for global chat, involved more chatting to people too. It did take a lot of time, and I don't have that kind of time now, so it's all more convenient for me to jump on, play, and move on like many others do these days, I guess I also just miss that other side of the game.
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u/Beacon2001 Oct 15 '25
As a Dragon Age fan, that comparison between Blizzard and BioWare cut deep. I loved Dragon Age Origins and Wrath of the Lich King, they shaped a lot of my childhood.
But, cheer up, look on the bright side. Metzen's back and the expansion after Midnight we're going back to Northrend. Maybe they can recapture some of that Wrath magic.
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u/Any-Transition95 Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
Metzen's back
I think some people are in for a rude awakening. No hate on Metzen, but man gets overglorified in this fanbase so much that people forgot he was also responsible for the TBC's "if it has a name, it's a raid boss" story, as well as Cata - WoD era storytelling. Green Jesus anyone? SC2 and D3 fans can remind you what their franchise lore has become. Like any other human, Metzen is still just a man who delivers products with varying quality, and he is also working in a team with writers of varying quality, people who expect him to have some sort of Midas touch have some unrealistic expectations. Unless people's standard really is just "better than Afrasiabi or Danuser", then I guess.
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u/Manistadt Oct 15 '25
Star Wars KOTOR, Jade Empire, Mass Effect 1, Dragon Age... Bioware made the absolute best games and its corny how thankful I am to have been around to play those lol
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u/mushious Oct 15 '25
They didn't sell out to Activision though. Vivendi, the company that owned both Blizzard and Activision merged them into one company and then a few years later Activision bought their post-merger selves back from Vivendi.
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u/Extension-Ad-4098 Oct 15 '25
I hate how they don’t just have 2-3 forever realms for each expansion
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u/Particular-Resist337 Oct 16 '25
I promise you, they will do this for TBC and WOTLK.
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u/Calyps0651 Oct 15 '25
I was stationed in Germany when this released. Last good expansion before the game changed too much…for me at least.
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u/ZeuxisOfHerakleia Oct 15 '25
where were you? There might be a small chance im playing wotlk hundreds of meters max from where you were if it was Heidelberg (popular for American soldiers back in the day)
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u/Calyps0651 Oct 15 '25
I was at Spangdahlem. Had a few people to play with while stationed there.
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u/ZeuxisOfHerakleia Oct 15 '25
I have absolutely never heard of that town, thanks for sharing :D How was the experienc?
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u/Pajer0king Oct 15 '25
In 1 year you can start again on anniversary
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u/schneizel101 Oct 15 '25
I'm looking forward to it myself. Still, if aniversary vanilla is any indication the community itself will find ways to ruin the experience somehow. Everything from elitism and meta chasing to GDKPs and bots.
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u/Pajer0king Oct 15 '25
I simply ignore them. I found a nice casual guild and enjoy the game.
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u/Manistadt Oct 15 '25
I was running GDKPs on Feenix WoW back in 2010. It has existed longer than you've played the game and pretended it harms your experience in some magical way lmao
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u/Iulico Oct 15 '25
Would the progress from current Anniversary realm be carried over to continue in the expansion?
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u/MidnightFireHuntress Oct 15 '25
All this sub did was complain about how boring Classic WOTLK Was when it was available lol
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u/Torvik88 Oct 15 '25
Well the community here always has something to bitch about, i had a wonderful time for example
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u/jady1971 Oct 15 '25
In 2009 I caught my wife cheating on me. I moved out.
A few guys at work played so I installed it on my laptop. It was in the middle of Wrath. WoW kept me out of bars and trouble.
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u/ezekielgraves Oct 15 '25
Buying the box from a retail store, shaking out of excitement in the public bus on my way home and waiting for the installer to complete. Damn I remember that day like it was yesterday.
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u/iiNexius Oct 16 '25
Growing up in the 2000s was so good. If heaven exists, I would like to replay that part of my life again.
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u/Groincobbler Oct 15 '25
I have good memories of wrath, but imagining going through all the sons of hodir and trial of champions dailies again makes me want to kill myself.
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u/rustyshakelford Oct 15 '25
Got it at a midnight Gamestop release, stayed up for almost 48 hours to hit lvl 80 powered by nothing but Code Red Mt Dew. Our guild got the first Naxx, Obsidian and Eye on Shadowsong server.