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Same-ish story. Son begged me to get it in 2006. Then talked me into making a toon. Then we fought over the computer. Then we had two computers, and in a few years from that went to Blizzcon together. So many awesome memories, and an expansion release was as much of a holiday as Christmas! Snacks made, days off taken. It's been a big part of our family fun. He's 31 now and we still play.
Started playing at 12 years old, now 29. At the time being in a broken family, living in a post-communist hellhole. World of Warcraft was my world, my escape. I forced myself to improve my English so that I could understand quest texts and delve deep into the lore. I am 100% convinced that my life situation would have broken me if I didn't have this world to seek refuge in, when at my lowest. It's more than a game, and that's why it's unstoppable.
@@clarksmith494 The world can certainly be quite ugly indeed. Recovering WoW addict here, and I still think about the game every day. IRL RNG is and likely always will feel too dynamic and at certain times, outright unfair. It is what it is, I guess.
Well would be funny to compare, how much money people have spend on booze, coke, snacks etc. in same time period, but I don't think anyone have really been keeping track of that, heh.
This game, when i am subscribed, i notice i spend way less money because i spend much more on plenty of other titles each month when im not subscribed to WoW.
@@jeffreysandoval8367 now’s the perfect time to get into it, I highly recommend watching a quick catch up full lore video just so you know what’s going on till the war within
I am a 74 yr old Granny in a couple of weeks. Built my pc when my teenage son brought it home and I was hooked. Made a Tauren Enhancement Shaman and never changed this main. Played since Warcraft and never missed an expansion. My fav was Wrath. I’ve made many RL friends but no it’s not like it use to be. I stay with WOW yet stopped raiding a few expansions back. I mainly PVP now and collect mounts. I love Alterac Valley because it’s a throwback to what I now refer to as the good ole daze! 😜
I'm a metalhead and this year I went to Wacken festival. I have my vest full of band patches... and also my Horde symbol patch. Many people stoped me at the festival just to talk about WoW, and it is because our love to his place all along this year. I feel more connected to it than the share love to the band we were seeing on the stage!
Yeah but don’t forget. It’s $5,000 spent on just 1 game lol. Asking for money for the expansions was kind of ridiculous. You’re already paying $15 a month and every 2-3 years they want you to also drop $60…
1 game that's lasted for 20 years, with 20 years of content, updates, patches, features, upgrades.. That's a lot of work. IMO it's a very very cheap hobby. Try owning a motorcycle or a racing sim or horses or game collector or almost any other hobby for 20 years and see how that goes.
@@Lensfort Agree - hard agree. It's too pricey to go the movies more than once or twice a year (have family) but playing the game is really good value as a hobby. Plus you can pick it up, leave it, do other stuff, (chores, work, read a book, have a meal, play a different game) come back and it's always there for you. Been playing since 06 and still enjoy it.
I started playing WoW at the ripe age of 4 years old in 2006, my whole family is on this game. I had made a male human warrior as my first character and named it after our cat Grendal. I played that game for hours on end, still going till this day, and I could never replace the endless memories I have with this game. All the people, all the sweet moments you make, it’s unreal and I can never fully describe it.
Same I started TBC in 2008 when I was 7 years old on my uncles computer lol. Was hooked since. I did not have a max level character until cataclysm w my 85 shaman
Why not do the same in real life and go out and explore and make friends where it actually matters? When this game eventually dies because NOTHING is forever. What will you do? Find another game and call that a miracle for yourself? Stop hyping up things that have no effect on you in reality. If you went out and made friends and relationships and connections you would be better off in life than wasting away playing a game from a company who was doing cubical raids and harassing employees.
@@rowan1275 Sorry you couldn’t experience it the way I did, but that doesn’t mean you can just label my experiences as a waste of time lol. I think you have the wrong perspective on gaming based on your reply.
December 5th, 2004. I made my main, a warlock. I was 23 years old at the time. If you want an example of why this game isn't dead, go watch the Story of Ibelin. That's ONE story amongst millions. This game has saved people's lives, it gave people that couldn't have friends the ability to do so. It isn't just a game anymore. Its something else.
Only the lastest batch of people whom they really pissed off when they deleted the guild banks items, are not coming back. Which is why you are seeing the huge push for subs. There are still players in the game who do not read the forum and do not even know that guild bank items were deleted. So blizzard is now pushing hard for people to sub for 12 before they find out. I quit this POS. You do not get to delete my items and not give them back. If you want money for doing that you are smoking something worse than weed. I left that abusive relationship and am playing FF14 where i am treated with respect.
@@MatthewTheWanderer Ask me if i give a toss about the game. Ask me if i am still playing the game after they deleted all in the guild bank. Ask yourself if the financial data they have on you is safe and ask yourself how safe your characers are. The only people still playing wow at this point are people who cant walk away from abusive relationships. You probably. People who are so fricken addicted they have no life and people who are so invested they simply cant walk despite being in an abusive relationship with blizzard. Its only losers liek you who still play this game now.
@@suminshizzles6951 YOU are the loser here! STFU! NO ONE gives a fuck about anything you lost in the game! Only worthless morons think that is something worth complaining about! Only losers care about the Guild Bank AT ALL! YOU are sad and pathetic and everyone is laughing at you and your "misfortune"! Also, even though I don't need to defend myself from an idiot like you, I am not addicted to this game at all and barely even play it.
@@suminshizzles6951 actuyu dont have a life I bearly have time to log on wow who the hell has time to start a whole new MMO especially a cat simulator lol wow has always been good just because u lost some items on the guild bank doesn't make it bad guy cry some more and enjoy ur dead game ff14 .everyone quit that game lol ur obviously a FF 14 player no true wow player crys and then mentions ff14 gtfo
Zenkai Goose is quickly becoming one of my favorite RUclipsrs.. Love the long format videos, history, comedy, information, etc. Just everything about these videos is perfect. Keep it up, man!
I play for 20 years while keeping pace irl in business and family. It has been pretty challenging at some points, had to take brakes like we all pretty much did. I met, know/knew so many people in-game that lived, laughed and loved trough the game, some now happily married to a person they met in Azeroth, some actually living off the game nowadays and other actually living for the game designed their life and careers so they never have to quit WoW. Some are not with us anymore, some were helped to overcome mental breakdowns and suicidal thoughts by their guildies. Millions of players, millions of destinies and one world that somehow unite and not divide them. A world i remember meeting my first online friend in when i was 11 y.o. helping me understand the quests and sending me health pots through the mail bought from an "auction house?" in a land far far away. A world that hold so many stories my now almost 6 y.o. son is excited to learn and i'm more than happy to share =) Happy anniversary, my friends and fellow adventurers!
Provided it’s an actual fun and not just sunk cost fallacy. I know from experience that I’ve played wow for a long time after I stopped actually having fun with it, because I felt all that money and time invested couldn’t just be for nothing if I abandoned my character.
@@borek92 Indeed sunk cost fallacy for me it was. DoTA 2. After 10 thousand hours and "some" money spent, leaving was so hard. But once I did, never came back. 4 years clean.
The absolute enjoyment I got from playing wow from TBC to MOP was just insane. I remember sitting back at one point and thinking, I felt sorry for the people that didn’t play the game and got to feel the same enjoyment I had playing wow.
That was the best explanation of the significance of Arthas to the WoW storyline and why the game simply couldn’t be the same after his defeat. Brilliant
@@alyssumn3884I guess you get excited by anything huh? Even when a car crosses by you on the road you're jumping up and down for joy slapping your chest like a r**ard lol
I remember running 2km from school at lunch time to the EB Games/Game Stop just to grab my copy of Burning Crusade. I grabbed it, ran back and stopped at my house on the way, popped the disc in to start downloading. I think it was winter time in Canada, because I remember running through a frozen cornfield to get there. I remember vibrating and shaking with excitment when I started downloading it and first booted it up.
I have been playing WoW for 20 years now. It's had it's highs and lows and you captured that. Mists of Pandaria was my favorite expansion. Loved the video and man did the nostalgia kick in.
been playing since I was 11, I'm turning 30 in a month. Ive taken breaks, didnt like some patches and loved others. People seem to get mad when they arent having fun the entire time. It's a 20 year old game guys it's gonna have ups and downs
The intro made me chuckle but after sitting through the whole video, that ending made me teared up a bit, the contrast with the intro is just beautiful. 20 years and i always come back to this game, Wow is home.
playing since 2008. not playing as much and competetiv as in the first years but still love it. when i have nothing to play i start WoW and have a good time.
As a LONGTIME wow player, this was an amazing video and perfect encapsulates my time and experience on this game. It's a love hate relationship sometimes but in the end it has been probably one of the most amazing experiences I could call mine in this crazy world we live in
Well, we if talk about WoW which was its own kingdom in the digital world. Then yes, it's already died. The number of people playing it back then, the culture it produced, it's just not even close man.
@@iz5808 I think that massive popularity was kind of a once in a generation thing. It wasn’t just the game, it was the right thing at the right place at the right time.
@@iz5808 classic and it's 3 expansions where absolutely incredible. But it's also one of the few games out there. So yeah ofc it will have great numbers. If classic came out today and no one heard of it before it wouldn't do as good becouse the amount of games out now is like 100x higher.
Thank you for another, wonderful deep dive into the game's history, Zenkai Goose. It felt like, i got through a time travel from the beginning till the end. Feels Goosebumpstic.
You’re doing so well bro. You clearly understand how to edit, keep us engaged and most of all bring up facts like the most goosetastic way. So thank you please never stop making videos 🙏
It sucked me in when I was 12. Got me through my parents divorce. And it was just the ultimate comfort food for so long. No matter how shitty my life was I could hop on wow and have a great time with my friends. Wotlk-cataclysm were the most fun imo. Dungeon finder just brought random people together like never before. And players like me who played solo more often got the chance to run dungeons without sitting around capital cities wasting time. If another game like wow ever comes out with modern tech, graphics, and gameplay I don't think I'll ever log off 😂
Auto dungeon finder and teleport ruined the game in my opinion. It’s nice to have a LFG tab to find and que with people. But it’s a lot more special when you and your group have to make the journey to the dungeon.
I started playing on the 10th anniversary, I was 9 years old and my brothers just introduced me to the game, I just finished making my fifth female Blood Elf Hunter because I liked to make pretty characters, I had the Molten Corgi summoned 24/7, life was good. Rest in Peace Mats "Ibelin" Steen.
@@josejuanandrade4439 There are no best expansions worth debating on. Vanilla and TBC was long time ago, and many people couldn't afford to play the game at that time, including me. I started in mid-late Wrath, so I have no feelings for TBC. People that say TBC is the best expansion in my opinion are massively affected by nostalgia factor. It's not fun to play, I tried it.
@@laurynassimonaitis80 Well is not about fun since fun is subjective. We are talking about core values of a mmorpg, core values that vanilla has, TBC has and then it starts to deluded in Wotlk that is how you measure how good a mmorpg is in general. In the end there is no "x is better then y" for ex Wotlk has way better combat than Vanilla and TBC but dungeons are linear and boring just like TBC, raids are a joke except Ulduar, class homogenization started in Wotlk, heroics went from a challenge in TBC to a aoe joke in Wotlk, TBC had better progression in terms of PVE with better raids overall, sure dungeons are linear like Wotlk here is where Vanilla wins in dungeons design by far having the best dungeons since a dungeon is a place where you get lost, a place to discover a massive place. Vanilla is a better mmorpg than TBC and Wotlk because the main protagonist is the world itself, the vastness of Azeroth, the exploring, the need of interaction between players that creates community that in the end is one of the core values of a mmorpg, WoW had such massive success in Vanilla until Wotlk because of the community and the connections created between players way more then the quality of the game itself. In the end I can play and enjoy Vanilla, TBC, Wotlk and even a bit of Cata, after years of playing different expansions I don't have a favorite I just play various expansions and it all depends with who I play that is a major fact in having or not fun for me.
@@josejuanandrade4439 If I am wrong then why Wotlk private servers are so much more populated compared to TBC private servers. TBC private servers are basically a server for your close friends. Nobody plays it, because it's not fun to play.
I've only been playing wow for 3 years and greatly enjoy the game as a casual collector, and I run through all the old xpacks Im so glad the game hadn't died like so many OG players wished it would've
Great video. I started playing in ‘04 but left after Wrath; just started playing again about 3 weeks ago. Feel a bit more up to speed after your round-up. Definitely agree with you, friendship and memories is what makes WoW stand the test of time.
2:30 Ahhh… that nostalgia, even I started game in 2016 in Legion in the age of 16 I can still feel the soul of game. Game helped me to recover from bullyshipment, it forged me with Saurfang, Grommash and Tryanda
Day one player... still playing (not up to newest expansion just yet) - but made lots of friends and it helped me stay in contact with those that moved away .
In 2007 I used so many sick days to play WoW (and watch price is right and Bob Ross reruns) that my high school sent a letter home saying I couldn’t be sick anymore without a doctors note 🤣😂🫠. My dad was PISSED. If you weren’t there in the 2000s you’ll never understand how revolutionary this game was.
I remember a snowstorm hit on a patch Tuesday in like early 2006 and school cancelled. My brother and I were so fricken mad it didn't hit on any other weekday. Not only were the servers down all day long, It took hours and hours to download the dang patch.
@@iz5808exactly. Corporate people run everything into the ground. Wow as a culture isn’t dead though and people still play. Just log into TurtleWow and see Stormwind so crowded you can’t even make out who’s who, it’s just a MASSIVE blob of characters all moving around on top of each other.
Never played it, but as usual, the ending of your content is highly moving, and speaks to the very best of our collective pass time. I'll say it again, this's the finest content of its kind on RUclips. Thank you mate.
TLDW: It survived as long as it did because it was a masterpiece at launch and got millions of people extremely enfranchised. So even if it sucks NOW, it doesn‘t matter, because their customers literaply grew up on this universe and will never abandon it, no matter how bad it gets.
I have and/or will never play WoW and I do not understand most of the concepts that you talk about in this video, but I enjoyed watching it. And now I am watching it again to see if I can understand it better. Cheers Canadian...sorry, Zenkai Goose!
Hi @ZenkaiGoose, great and entertaining video. Just one feedback, the recurring electronic track (eg. 5:40) is pretty distracting, with some volume spikes as well.
The only thing dead about the game are the idiots claiming it is. I have heard well over 100 games that were supposed to be WOW killers and the majority of them are already dead.
Great video! I played WoW since 2004 and still actively playing. I sub annually and take breaks here and there for real life stuff but it's just fun getting back into it with mates from highschool. Now our kids play with us and its just a 2 days play a week for us just for that social and fun interaction with old friends.
I quit WOW just before Cataclysm. I am, to this day, still searching for a game that gives the same incredible experiences as WOTLK did. I think I'll never find it.
WoW! I am completely new to the game here in 2024 and am currently trying to understand the story from The Burning Crusade from 20 years back to The War Within. I have 20 years of gameplay to go through but am amazed at the evolution of this game. Great video! Got me through a rollercoaster of emotions!
that 5k total of game time paid for.. is like as much as i paid for my PC. That aint shit when you look at how much hours of gameplay and enjoyment the game has given me.. id pay double that. no questions asked.
The amount of work and love you put into these videos is astounding. I found your channel about 2 weeks ago and binged 6 videos that night and shared them with a few friends. Keep up the great work.
love the content goose, as a fellow canadian gamer i love to see more creators getting big! would love to see you do a video on the entire splinter cell series, ghost recon series, assassins creed series, metal gear series!
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I LOVED MoP. I especially love it now knowing the expansions that came next. It was the last time for me that my progress through the game made sense, actual combat play for my class worked and was fun, the world was open and beautiful and not a nightmare to navigate, the auction house was still viable, professions were straightforward, and people still talked to each other in guild chat. It was also drop dead gorgeous with a great story. My order: Wrath, MoP, BC, Legion, DF, Bfa, WoD, SL. I rate WoD above SL because it at least engaged me enough to play it through. I played Shadowlands for about two weeks and then didn't touch WoW again until Dragonflight. A lot of words for all this, but I WoW is something I love, has been a part of my life in ways that could make this post 5 times the length. I care about that virtual world.
my favorite xpac really. I love pet battles and 1st version of brawlers guild is still my favorite thing ever. I spent hours watching people die to hexos :)
Nothing wrong with that expansion, except for all the bugged questlines, that is. So many daily quests that were still broken even years after that expansion was new.
I personally like SL more than WoD, BFA and Dragonflight. For me Dragonflight is worst of them, i play it for 1 month maybe and got so bored with all that dragon's bs (i came back in season 2 for 2 weeks just for the mythic+ mount, cause he is very cool). I like SL because, i love games that are more into dark stuff, occultism and death in general. And i am one of the few people who actually enjoy Torghast runs.
That infromation is not accurate. The og team started working in WoW with 40 ppl but the team quickly went to 100 for its releaze in 2004. That said, 100 people to get the game out in 2004 with all the content it had and polish, is still way too impressive.
Your passion for the craft makes this an unbelievable and unforgettable video. Thank you for your time and hard work for bringing this video to us. Things can only go up from here.
I think I spend around $500 for the last 15 years. 13 years ago my account got hacked and the hacker transferred all the top items to my account and use on AH. By the time I got my account back i have tone of stuffs and golds, so all the gold for real money. Since the tokens introduced I used gold to paid my monthly subscription
They used psychology to keep people addicted. Just like mice (Player) in a maze (Map) but instead of putting the cheese (Content) at the end you place it in different areas of the maze to keep them moving nonstop. Younger players are easily manipulated than older ones, teens+ have no sense of moderation. Next is never having a true ending to a story. For example, Legion was supposed to be the ending of Burning Crusade but we still don't know what Illidan is doing besides being the jailer to Sargeras. Shadowlands is the end of Wrath of the Lich King. Blizzard took too long to complete a story which pisses people off. The list of mistakes Blizzard made everyone sees however they're still addicted. I quit midway through Shadowlands just to come back for War Within. There will always be a carrot on the stick getting people to play, just to find out it's the same one trick pony. FOMO drives people to play. Fear of missing out on content because of dailies and weeklies. Tie those into raiding. Needing a specific item level to even do LFR. It's the biggest gaming addiction that will go on forever. Instead of giving players a full dose, you give them little doses throughout 20+ years.
1.Year 0 in the warcraft timeline (aka Warcraft 1's story) is an extremely strange choice? How exactly? 2. The higher accessibility of the game already happened way before MoP, it happened at Wrath (Dungeon finder, quest design and difficulty etc., raid finder in Cataclysm..). 3. Anduin is more badass than Varian actually.
Was looking for this. People complain about the accessibility changes that were made and blame cata, but it was actually the best xpac ever in wrath. Wrath was the first time ever the game stopped GAINING subs. It retained them, but never increased above that 12M number. Also when wrath classic came out, with a few changes of course, the game was kind of dead. Wrath was good because of the time frame it was released in, and the story.
First time watching you, what a fantastic and well made video, must have taken alot of time and effort. Captured the spirit of the WoW fanbase, I hope it survives for another 20 years!
You gotta realize. People have been sayin this game is dead for years because it used to have 12 mil to now maybe 1 or 2 mil players. But thats still a crap ton of people playing the game 😂 lets say "only" 1 mil player are paying a sub to play the game. Thats $15 a month, from 1 million people.... $15,000,000 a month is quite enough money to keep the game going 😅
Wow was such a big part of my life. I met some of my best friends on that game. It was the best bonding tool ever, and while many of us don't play it or enjoy it as much as we used to it will always remain a part of my life and I will always support this game.
Keep in mind a lot of the devs for WoW actually had played Everquest. Alex Afrasiabi infamously wrote a very scathing post about a raid encounter they'd added... and then Ion Hazzikostas did the exact same with the C'thun fight in vanilla WoW lol.
That is a great video! Thank you! I love how Blizzard now seems to be just breathing (heartbeat scene with logo). They are cooking. Whatever they are doing now at least it feels like they are working harder.
Happy 20 years of World of Warcraft, that's an insane achievement!
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Your videos are so entertaining. Please do the entire elder scroll games.
@@Luv-s1z thats a fantastic idea!
Goose glad youre back, youre better than act man
but i think and i hope in the back round ion blizzard old dusty basewment group of nerds shoud be mekain world of warcraft 2 slwoly
Also the average player in wow is toxic so good luck "making friends"
My sons started playing day of launch in 2004. They bought the game for me as a Mother’s Day gift in 2005. Now I play with them and my grandkids. ❤❤❤
That's what WoW is all about.
Same-ish story. Son begged me to get it in 2006. Then talked me into making a toon. Then we fought over the computer. Then we had two computers, and in a few years from that went to Blizzcon together. So many awesome memories, and an expansion release was as much of a holiday as Christmas! Snacks made, days off taken. It's been a big part of our family fun. He's 31 now and we still play.
@@DenaInWyo Very Awesome.
such a wonderful life
Love this
Started playing at 12 years old, now 29.
At the time being in a broken family, living in a post-communist hellhole. World of Warcraft was my world, my escape. I forced myself to improve my English so that I could understand quest texts and delve deep into the lore.
I am 100% convinced that my life situation would have broken me if I didn't have this world to seek refuge in, when at my lowest.
It's more than a game, and that's why it's unstoppable.
@@clarksmith494 The world can certainly be quite ugly indeed. Recovering WoW addict here, and I still think about the game every day. IRL RNG is and likely always will feel too dynamic and at certain times, outright unfair. It is what it is, I guess.
Romania? :D
So true friend. Hope things have improved irl for you!
@BPthrowaway273 within some years WoW will be gone, aswell as everything else but made anew. Everything will change but will games die? I THINK NOT!
@@dannyboygoldfish926 you have no clue wth you’re talking about. But keep thinking that. 😂
I love that Mila Kunis’s agent had to login to talk to her 😂
makes me love her even more, her and Cavill
I love that she was smart, and played ALLIANCE.
@@luridhue You just divided by zero. The only smart choice is playing the Horde.
@@CaMypau FOR THE HORDE!
@@CaMypau nah been wrecking horde in pvp nonstop lately.
5k is nothing over 20 years. I've know people who spend thousands on booze every 6 months.
Well would be funny to compare, how much money people have spend on booze, coke, snacks etc. in same time period, but I don't think anyone have really been keeping track of that, heh.
Yup and holidays! couple of grand for 1 or 2 weeks!
This game, when i am subscribed, i notice i spend way less money because i spend much more on plenty of other titles each month when im not subscribed to WoW.
Try thousands every week.
For $14.99 you have unlimited entertainment a Month it's very cheap fun hobby.
I have never played WoW but you’re damn right I’m going to watch this whole video.
Dude sameeeee we all love the goose man
you guys are the best 😭😭😭
I also have not played WoW but have always wanted to get into it.
@@jeffreysandoval8367 now’s the perfect time to get into it, I highly recommend watching a quick catch up full lore video just so you know what’s going on till the war within
@@jeffreysandoval8367also you have like 20 years of content you can do anytime you like
I am a 74 yr old Granny in a couple of weeks. Built my pc when my teenage son brought it home and I was hooked. Made a Tauren Enhancement Shaman and never changed this main. Played since Warcraft and never missed an expansion. My fav was Wrath. I’ve made many RL friends but no it’s not like it use to be. I stay with WOW yet stopped raiding a few expansions back. I mainly PVP now and collect mounts. I love Alterac Valley because it’s a throwback to what I now refer to as the good ole daze! 😜
That’s incredible, I love how varied WoW players are. It’s really really cool
I'm a metalhead and this year I went to Wacken festival. I have my vest full of band patches... and also my Horde symbol patch. Many people stoped me at the festival just to talk about WoW, and it is because our love to his place all along this year. I feel more connected to it than the share love to the band we were seeing on the stage!
$4968.38 for a life long hobby... That's fricken cheap.
Yeah but you will probably add money to spend on other shit too
Yeah but don’t forget. It’s $5,000 spent on just 1 game lol. Asking for money for the expansions was kind of ridiculous. You’re already paying $15 a month and every 2-3 years they want you to also drop $60…
1 game that's lasted for 20 years, with 20 years of content, updates, patches, features, upgrades..
That's a lot of work.
IMO it's a very very cheap hobby.
Try owning a motorcycle or a racing sim or horses or game collector or almost any other hobby for 20 years and see how that goes.
@@Lensfort Agree - hard agree. It's too pricey to go the movies more than once or twice a year (have family) but playing the game is really good value as a hobby. Plus you can pick it up, leave it, do other stuff, (chores, work, read a book, have a meal, play a different game) come back and it's always there for you. Been playing since 06 and still enjoy it.
@@808Joshhlmao its not one game, thats like saying lord of the rings is about a ring
Bobby K has soulless eyes. Only greed inside those dark black holes
you do realize the man was on Epstein's flight-list right?
He is a goblin IRL, he more than likely.
I started playing WoW at the ripe age of 4 years old in 2006, my whole family is on this game. I had made a male human warrior as my first character and named it after our cat Grendal. I played that game for hours on end, still going till this day, and I could never replace the endless memories I have with this game. All the people, all the sweet moments you make, it’s unreal and I can never fully describe it.
Same except in 2010 at age 4
Same I started TBC in 2008 when I was 7 years old on my uncles computer lol. Was hooked since. I did not have a max level character until cataclysm w my 85 shaman
Why not do the same in real life and go out and explore and make friends where it actually matters? When this game eventually dies because NOTHING is forever. What will you do? Find another game and call that a miracle for yourself? Stop hyping up things that have no effect on you in reality. If you went out and made friends and relationships and connections you would be better off in life than wasting away playing a game from a company who was doing cubical raids and harassing employees.
@@rowan1275 Sorry you couldn’t experience it the way I did, but that doesn’t mean you can just label my experiences as a waste of time lol. I think you have the wrong perspective on gaming based on your reply.
December 5th, 2004. I made my main, a warlock. I was 23 years old at the time. If you want an example of why this game isn't dead, go watch the Story of Ibelin. That's ONE story amongst millions. This game has saved people's lives, it gave people that couldn't have friends the ability to do so. It isn't just a game anymore. Its something else.
WoW is an experience, people come and go and come back constantly. There's so much time and history invested for it to simply die
Only the lastest batch of people whom they really pissed off when they deleted the guild banks items, are not coming back. Which is why you are seeing the huge push for subs. There are still players in the game who do not read the forum and do not even know that guild bank items were deleted. So blizzard is now pushing hard for people to sub for 12 before they find out. I quit this POS. You do not get to delete my items and not give them back. If you want money for doing that you are smoking something worse than weed. I left that abusive relationship and am playing FF14 where i am treated with respect.
@@suminshizzles6951 You won't be missed!
@@MatthewTheWanderer Ask me if i give a toss about the game. Ask me if i am still playing the game after they deleted all in the guild bank.
Ask yourself if the financial data they have on you is safe and ask yourself how safe your characers are.
The only people still playing wow at this point are people who cant walk away from abusive relationships. You probably. People who are so fricken addicted they have no life and people who are so invested they simply cant walk despite being in an abusive relationship with blizzard.
Its only losers liek you who still play this game now.
@@suminshizzles6951 YOU are the loser here! STFU! NO ONE gives a fuck about anything you lost in the game! Only worthless morons think that is something worth complaining about! Only losers care about the Guild Bank AT ALL! YOU are sad and pathetic and everyone is laughing at you and your "misfortune"!
Also, even though I don't need to defend myself from an idiot like you, I am not addicted to this game at all and barely even play it.
@@suminshizzles6951 actuyu dont have a life I bearly have time to log on wow who the hell has time to start a whole new MMO especially a cat simulator lol wow has always been good just because u lost some items on the guild bank doesn't make it bad guy cry some more and enjoy ur dead game ff14 .everyone quit that game lol ur obviously a FF 14 player no true wow player crys and then mentions ff14 gtfo
Zenkai Goose is quickly becoming one of my favorite RUclipsrs.. Love the long format videos, history, comedy, information, etc. Just everything about these videos is perfect. Keep it up, man!
I play for 20 years while keeping pace irl in business and family. It has been pretty challenging at some points, had to take brakes like we all pretty much did. I met, know/knew so many people in-game that lived, laughed and loved trough the game, some now happily married to a person they met in Azeroth, some actually living off the game nowadays and other actually living for the game designed their life and careers so they never have to quit WoW. Some are not with us anymore, some were helped to overcome mental breakdowns and suicidal thoughts by their guildies. Millions of players, millions of destinies and one world that somehow unite and not divide them. A world i remember meeting my first online friend in when i was 11 y.o. helping me understand the quests and sending me health pots through the mail bought from an "auction house?" in a land far far away. A world that hold so many stories my now almost 6 y.o. son is excited to learn and i'm more than happy to share =) Happy anniversary, my friends and fellow adventurers!
5 grand for 20 years of fun. It was worth it. Go play golf for 20 years...
Provided it’s an actual fun and not just sunk cost fallacy. I know from experience that I’ve played wow for a long time after I stopped actually having fun with it, because I felt all that money and time invested couldn’t just be for nothing if I abandoned my character.
@@borek92 Indeed sunk cost fallacy for me it was. DoTA 2. After 10 thousand hours and "some" money spent, leaving was so hard. But once I did, never came back. 4 years clean.
The absolute enjoyment I got from playing wow from TBC to MOP was just insane. I remember sitting back at one point and thinking, I felt sorry for the people that didn’t play the game and got to feel the same enjoyment I had playing wow.
That was the best explanation of the significance of Arthas to the WoW storyline and why the game simply couldn’t be the same after his defeat. Brilliant
@@NateBrotzman agree, explains a lot why wotlk and it's classic varian is one of the most played version of the game
20 years down, and here's to another 20. If you're ready for the 20th anniversary Blackrock Depths Raid give me a hell yea!
I'm so actually super excited for brd raid lol.. Probably unreasonably so
Hell ya
hell ya
Hell yeahhh... the dungeon back in the day is a nightmare but also one of the most memorable experiences I had in a dungeon
@@alyssumn3884I guess you get excited by anything huh? Even when a car crosses by you on the road you're jumping up and down for joy slapping your chest like a r**ard lol
I remember running 2km from school at lunch time to the EB Games/Game Stop just to grab my copy of Burning Crusade. I grabbed it, ran back and stopped at my house on the way, popped the disc in to start downloading. I think it was winter time in Canada, because I remember running through a frozen cornfield to get there. I remember vibrating and shaking with excitment when I started downloading it and first booted it up.
I have been playing WoW for 20 years now. It's had it's highs and lows and you captured that. Mists of Pandaria was my favorite expansion. Loved the video and man did the nostalgia kick in.
MOP was the last expansion i truly enjoyed. quit during legion and have spent the last few years on p-servers chasing that first high.
been playing since I was 11, I'm turning 30 in a month. Ive taken breaks, didnt like some patches and loved others. People seem to get mad when they arent having fun the entire time. It's a 20 year old game guys it's gonna have ups and downs
The intro made me chuckle but after sitting through the whole video, that ending made me teared up a bit, the contrast with the intro is just beautiful. 20 years and i always come back to this game, Wow is home.
playing since 2008. not playing as much and competetiv as in the first years but still love it.
when i have nothing to play i start WoW and have a good time.
As a LONGTIME wow player, this was an amazing video and perfect encapsulates my time and experience on this game. It's a love hate relationship sometimes but in the end it has been probably one of the most amazing experiences I could call mine in this crazy world we live in
Indeed. Everyone needs their own time and world. For me it's the Azeroth. It's a cheap way to escape the real world for a while.
Been accused of "it's dying" since Cataclysm. Yet here we are - and War Within is tonnes of fun, and the EU Servers look plenty busy to me.
Well, we if talk about WoW which was its own kingdom in the digital world. Then yes, it's already died. The number of people playing it back then, the culture it produced, it's just not even close man.
@@iz5808 I think that massive popularity was kind of a once in a generation thing. It wasn’t just the game, it was the right thing at the right place at the right time.
@@iz5808 classic and it's 3 expansions where absolutely incredible. But it's also one of the few games out there. So yeah ofc it will have great numbers. If classic came out today and no one heard of it before it wouldn't do as good becouse the amount of games out now is like 100x higher.
Yep, my server is mad busy too. This is the most active I’ve seen it since Legion. It’ll be interesting to see how this 3-xpac story plays out.
@@tronam heres how it plays out: less and less people are gonna play
Thank you for another, wonderful deep dive into the game's history, Zenkai Goose. It felt like, i got through a time travel from the beginning till the end. Feels Goosebumpstic.
Bobby always gives me the creeps.
The Cinematic Trailers are probably the best thing that Blizzard has going for it.
I've been playing for about 18 years so it is indeed a part of my life.. even if I get too busy for it one day. I'll always love it.
You’re doing so well bro. You clearly understand how to edit, keep us engaged and most of all bring up facts like the most goosetastic way. So thank you please never stop making videos 🙏
It sucked me in when I was 12. Got me through my parents divorce. And it was just the ultimate comfort food for so long. No matter how shitty my life was I could hop on wow and have a great time with my friends. Wotlk-cataclysm were the most fun imo. Dungeon finder just brought random people together like never before. And players like me who played solo more often got the chance to run dungeons without sitting around capital cities wasting time. If another game like wow ever comes out with modern tech, graphics, and gameplay I don't think I'll ever log off 😂
No other game will hit the same as wow because of the nostalgia... Overwatch 1 was pretty damn good too though.
Auto dungeon finder and teleport ruined the game in my opinion. It’s nice to have a LFG tab to find and que with people. But it’s a lot more special when you and your group have to make the journey to the dungeon.
@@808Joshh You know whats good mate. Cheers
I started playing on the 10th anniversary, I was 9 years old and my brothers just introduced me to the game, I just finished making my fifth female Blood Elf Hunter because I liked to make pretty characters, I had the Molten Corgi summoned 24/7, life was good.
Rest in Peace Mats "Ibelin" Steen.
17:21 Except that MoP was AMAZING, it took a little bit for some people to realize that.
Wrath, MoP and Legion should've been the trilogy of WoW.
@@laurynassimonaitis80 What about TBC. the best expansion ever. Literaly was what people nowadays calls "classic+".
@@josejuanandrade4439 There are no best expansions worth debating on.
Vanilla and TBC was long time ago, and many people couldn't afford to play the game at that time, including me.
I started in mid-late Wrath, so I have no feelings for TBC. People that say TBC is the best expansion in my opinion are massively affected by nostalgia factor.
It's not fun to play, I tried it.
@@laurynassimonaitis80 Well is not about fun since fun is subjective.
We are talking about core values of a mmorpg, core values that vanilla has, TBC has and then it starts to deluded in Wotlk that is how you measure how good a mmorpg is in general.
In the end there is no "x is better then y" for ex Wotlk has way better combat than Vanilla and TBC but dungeons are linear and boring just like TBC, raids are a joke except Ulduar, class homogenization started in Wotlk, heroics went from a challenge in TBC to a aoe joke in Wotlk, TBC had better progression in terms of PVE with better raids overall, sure dungeons are linear like Wotlk here is where Vanilla wins in dungeons design by far having the best dungeons since a dungeon is a place where you get lost, a place to discover a massive place.
Vanilla is a better mmorpg than TBC and Wotlk because the main protagonist is the world itself, the vastness of Azeroth, the exploring, the need of interaction between players that creates community that in the end is one of the core values of a mmorpg, WoW had such massive success in Vanilla until Wotlk because of the community and the connections created between players way more then the quality of the game itself.
In the end I can play and enjoy Vanilla, TBC, Wotlk and even a bit of Cata, after years of playing different expansions I don't have a favorite I just play various expansions and it all depends with who I play that is a major fact in having or not fun for me.
@@josejuanandrade4439 If I am wrong then why Wotlk private servers are so much more populated compared to TBC private servers.
TBC private servers are basically a server for your close friends. Nobody plays it, because it's not fun to play.
I've only been playing wow for 3 years and greatly enjoy the game as a casual collector, and I run through all the old xpacks
Im so glad the game hadn't died like so many OG players wished it would've
this is hands down one of my favorite videos on WOW. thank you
Great video.
I started playing in ‘04 but left after Wrath; just started playing again about 3 weeks ago. Feel a bit more up to speed after your round-up. Definitely agree with you, friendship and memories is what makes WoW stand the test of time.
RuneScape did old school / classic first
2:30 Ahhh… that nostalgia, even I started game in 2016 in Legion in the age of 16 I can still feel the soul of game. Game helped me to recover from bullyshipment, it forged me with Saurfang, Grommash and Tryanda
Here’s the Goose! 😎 Happy Halloween 🦇🎃
almost exactly most of my reactions to the releases.... nail on the head. great vid!
Great video! Thanks for creating it!
Thanks so much! I’m glad you liked it
Day one player... still playing (not up to newest expansion just yet) - but made lots of friends and it helped me stay in contact with those that moved away .
Did someone say Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?
@@DynamicAttraction crashed!
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@@DynamicAttraction too soon, bro.
Not enchanted?? Wow.
In 2007 I used so many sick days to play WoW (and watch price is right and Bob Ross reruns) that my high school sent a letter home saying I couldn’t be sick anymore without a doctors note 🤣😂🫠. My dad was PISSED. If you weren’t there in the 2000s you’ll never understand how revolutionary this game was.
It was THE game. Up until like 2012 it was a separate culture, people lived it. And then the poor corporate management killed it and made lame.
Bro that’s me still but with work!, still pretty good tbh some things ain’t the same and some things are better !! 😂
I remember a snowstorm hit on a patch Tuesday in like early 2006 and school cancelled. My brother and I were so fricken mad it didn't hit on any other weekday. Not only were the servers down all day long, It took hours and hours to download the dang patch.
@@iz5808exactly. Corporate people run everything into the ground. Wow as a culture isn’t dead though and people still play. Just log into TurtleWow and see Stormwind so crowded you can’t even make out who’s who, it’s just a MASSIVE blob of characters all moving around on top of each other.
Never played it, but as usual, the ending of your content is highly moving, and speaks to the very best of our collective pass time. I'll say it again, this's the finest content of its kind on RUclips. Thank you mate.
TLDW: It survived as long as it did because it was a masterpiece at launch and got millions of people extremely enfranchised.
So even if it sucks NOW, it doesn‘t matter, because their customers literaply grew up on this universe and will never abandon it, no matter how bad it gets.
I have and/or will never play WoW and I do not understand most of the concepts that you talk about in this video, but I enjoyed watching it. And now I am watching it again to see if I can understand it better. Cheers Canadian...sorry, Zenkai Goose!
The 2019 Classic hype was beyond beyond beyond 🤩🤩🤩
I played tf outta Classic. 😎
I will never forget it.
Hi @ZenkaiGoose, great and entertaining video. Just one feedback, the recurring electronic track (eg. 5:40) is pretty distracting, with some volume spikes as well.
The only thing dead about the game are the idiots claiming it is. I have heard well over 100 games that were supposed to be WOW killers and the majority of them are already dead.
Copium
@@onlyRuted well those fans of these already dead games were high on copium for sure lmao
@@PraiseTheBoi lmao
Only Blizzard can kill WoW demonstrated by SL.
Cope, game gets worse every year and number of players steadily drops.
Man MoP was a good expansion.
Amazing areas, good dungeons/raids and people tend to forget about Garosh. He was a pretty good villain.
video starts at 35:25
@@arandomguy546 lol
Great video! I played WoW since 2004 and still actively playing. I sub annually and take breaks here and there for real life stuff but it's just fun getting back into it with mates from highschool. Now our kids play with us and its just a 2 days play a week for us just for that social and fun interaction with old friends.
I quit WOW just before Cataclysm. I am, to this day, still searching for a game that gives the same incredible experiences as WOTLK did. I think I'll never find it.
@driifuz you and me both.
Some of the best times of my life playing wow. The sense of adventure, fantasy, music and what not was just magic.
WoW! I am completely new to the game here in 2024 and am currently trying to understand the story from The Burning Crusade from 20 years back to The War Within. I have 20 years of gameplay to go through but am amazed at the evolution of this game. Great video! Got me through a rollercoaster of emotions!
that 5k total of game time paid for.. is like as much as i paid for my PC. That aint shit when you look at how much hours of gameplay and enjoyment the game has given me.. id pay double that. no questions asked.
People crazy lol.
The amount of work and love you put into these videos is astounding. I found your channel about 2 weeks ago and binged 6 videos that night and shared them with a few friends. Keep up the great work.
I love your videos. Can't wait for the next.
Thank you so much! Should be much faster now (i think) 😅
love the content goose, as a fellow canadian gamer i love to see more creators getting big! would love to see you do a video on the entire splinter cell series, ghost recon series, assassins creed series, metal gear series!
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I LOVED MoP. I especially love it now knowing the expansions that came next. It was the last time for me that my progress through the game made sense, actual combat play for my class worked and was fun, the world was open and beautiful and not a nightmare to navigate, the auction house was still viable, professions were straightforward, and people still talked to each other in guild chat. It was also drop dead gorgeous with a great story. My order: Wrath, MoP, BC, Legion, DF, Bfa, WoD, SL. I rate WoD above SL because it at least engaged me enough to play it through. I played Shadowlands for about two weeks and then didn't touch WoW again until Dragonflight. A lot of words for all this, but I WoW is something I love, has been a part of my life in ways that could make this post 5 times the length. I care about that virtual world.
MoP was great for two reasons: Pandas + Monk. I was really missing a martial arts class in WoW.
my favorite xpac really. I love pet battles and 1st version of brawlers guild is still my favorite thing ever. I spent hours watching people die to hexos :)
Nothing wrong with that expansion, except for all the bugged questlines, that is. So many daily quests that were still broken even years after that expansion was new.
Same for me, loved the game back then. Throne of Thunder is still hailed as one of the best raids ever made in WoW.
I personally like SL more than WoD, BFA and Dragonflight. For me Dragonflight is worst of them, i play it for 1 month maybe and got so bored with all that dragon's bs (i came back in season 2 for 2 weeks just for the mythic+ mount, cause he is very cool). I like SL because, i love games that are more into dark stuff, occultism and death in general. And i am one of the few people who actually enjoy Torghast runs.
I laugh every single time you toss in Mr. Krabs and "MONEY!" into your videos. Keep that up, its truly Goosetastic.
"WoW is dead"
I don't think they know what it means
lmao you pulled the "no Oddjob allowed." Bruh. Great video that had me laughing. That hitbox was friend-ending.
40 mf make wow back then... and now we have just shitty or mid games maked by 1000 mf
That infromation is not accurate. The og team started working in WoW with 40 ppl but the team quickly went to 100 for its releaze in 2004.
That said, 100 people to get the game out in 2004 with all the content it had and polish, is still way too impressive.
@@josejuanandrade4439 it was not polished at all though.
Outstanding content! Love the memes and on point. Thank you and keep your amazing creations!
Can't wait for your boost in subs when Asmon reacts to this. You deserve it! Waiting for your next "I Played Every" video.
I so want that for him but also not because usually asmon reacts dip the originals views D:
Asmon got canceled :/
Amazing video. I have no words to praise you enough thank you for all the effort.
You think you do, but you don't.
Sometimes it is true though. :)
Your passion for the craft makes this an unbelievable and unforgettable video. Thank you for your time and hard work for bringing this video to us. Things can only go up from here.
Selene! This is too nice thank you so much for the kind words. I love it when folks from the twitch stream leave comments, it's always amazing!
Love the video. Can’t wait for Simpsons hit and run
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first ban of the day
Zenkai, from a fellow canadian, I wanted to send you my best wishes. Your level of effort is amazing and it shows!
This feels like it was made by someone who never played the game and gets all their information from wikipedia and other youtube videos.
I loved the videos man, congrats on the production and content
I came back to WoW after a 4-year break, and I'm really enjoying it. We might leave for an expansion or two, but Azeroth is always our home
Great video! Been a player for twenty years and I really enjoyed this video.
Best spent $5k
And they say money can’t buy happiness. Sometimes it is not that expensive :)
I think I spend around $500 for the last 15 years. 13 years ago my account got hacked and the hacker transferred all the top items to my account and use on AH. By the time I got my account back i have tone of stuffs and golds, so all the gold for real money. Since the tokens introduced I used gold to paid my monthly subscription
So World of Warcraft is the friends we made along the way
They used psychology to keep people addicted. Just like mice (Player) in a maze (Map) but instead of putting the cheese (Content) at the end you place it in different areas of the maze to keep them moving nonstop. Younger players are easily manipulated than older ones, teens+ have no sense of moderation. Next is never having a true ending to a story. For example, Legion was supposed to be the ending of Burning Crusade but we still don't know what Illidan is doing besides being the jailer to Sargeras. Shadowlands is the end of Wrath of the Lich King. Blizzard took too long to complete a story which pisses people off. The list of mistakes Blizzard made everyone sees however they're still addicted. I quit midway through Shadowlands just to come back for War Within. There will always be a carrot on the stick getting people to play, just to find out it's the same one trick pony. FOMO drives people to play. Fear of missing out on content because of dailies and weeklies. Tie those into raiding. Needing a specific item level to even do LFR. It's the biggest gaming addiction that will go on forever. Instead of giving players a full dose, you give them little doses throughout 20+ years.
A lot of people had addiction problems in early wow.
1.Year 0 in the warcraft timeline (aka Warcraft 1's story) is an extremely strange choice? How exactly?
2. The higher accessibility of the game already happened way before MoP, it happened at Wrath (Dungeon finder, quest design and difficulty etc., raid finder in Cataclysm..).
3. Anduin is more badass than Varian actually.
Was looking for this. People complain about the accessibility changes that were made and blame cata, but it was actually the best xpac ever in wrath. Wrath was the first time ever the game stopped GAINING subs. It retained them, but never increased above that 12M number. Also when wrath classic came out, with a few changes of course, the game was kind of dead. Wrath was good because of the time frame it was released in, and the story.
Hey, the pet battle is my favorite part of the game. Activision managed to make a Pokemon MMO before Pokemon.
Yeah, I love pet battling and collecting those little bastards.
Its bots and people that played it since launch that cant let go.
Its their sunk cost, so many memories, so much nostalgia.
All the people they met.
Wrath of the lich king was the best expansion and era and time in WoW. Miss you
Nice vid brother. Well done narrated and put together. Enjoyed watching it
Yea with Vanilla, they wanted vanilla and got vanilla. Then complain lack of content, when that is Vanilla.
Teared up in the end :) its always kind of emotional to watch these videos
As long as it's holding 6-8 million active paying players the game won't ever really die. WoW is unbeatable it will only die by their own hand.
Just you wait! Ashes of Creation will kill WoW like Age of Cona... I mean, like Elder Scro... eeeerm, like Wildsta... ah dangit!
Still Nr 1 when it comes to active players in the MMO ranking. So I dunno why people keep saying it's dead or dying.
First time watching you, what a fantastic and well made video, must have taken alot of time and effort. Captured the spirit of the WoW fanbase, I hope it survives for another 20 years!
‘Wow is dead” - washed up classic Andy streamer who gets everything handed to him and then complains there’s nothing to do
Truuuuuuuuuuuuue😂
You gotta realize. People have been sayin this game is dead for years because it used to have 12 mil to now maybe 1 or 2 mil players. But thats still a crap ton of people playing the game 😂 lets say "only" 1 mil player are paying a sub to play the game. Thats $15 a month, from 1 million people.... $15,000,000 a month is quite enough money to keep the game going 😅
Wow was such a big part of my life. I met some of my best friends on that game. It was the best bonding tool ever, and while many of us don't play it or enjoy it as much as we used to it will always remain a part of my life and I will always support this game.
You're such a well spoken lad with a lot of charisma, love your videos man. Keep it up!
The humouristic element in this one is peak performance! Thanks for the laugh man! Brilliant editing and analyzis.
A community like no other. This is what the internet was intended for. lok tar ogar
Goose, love these videos. Can you do a What happened to NBA JAM/NFL BLITZ franchises?
the survivability of a game is mostly depending on the size of the community
this man just made me enjoy 38 minutes Video about a game that I really don't like. what else can I say? keep up the Good work ZenkaiGoose
ah man, the Pandaria intro music made me giggle. Such a cool video, thumbs up!
Keep in mind a lot of the devs for WoW actually had played Everquest. Alex Afrasiabi infamously wrote a very scathing post about a raid encounter they'd added... and then Ion Hazzikostas did the exact same with the C'thun fight in vanilla WoW lol.
I think you can sum Why? Up in one simple song "World of Warcraft is a Feeling"
That is a great video! Thank you! I love how Blizzard now seems to be just breathing (heartbeat scene with logo). They are cooking. Whatever they are doing now at least it feels like they are working harder.