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Seeing this at blizzcon, honestly the crowd was pretty emotional. It was very special to see this on release and with the people around you.
I used to do data containment for a couple of years. There is air conditioning that comes below the floor through the tile and its periphery to blow up onto the server racks, the floor tiles set 3 feet above the concrete ground so that vents can be blown underneath them and then containment walls are built above the servers to vent the hot air out
9 years later, most of the ppl in this video are no longer in Blizzard
of the people who were mainly interviewed, i actually think that literally zero are there (except metzen but his role is pretty diminished and feels "consultative")
i mean you say it like it's 9 days :p
Rather sad how Activision & that joke 'whats his name killed it for players and employees combine.
@@robbiejandro17 Yeah and the funny thing is Metzen did leave, but then he came back. which i think is good, but its also a fun fact.
Hmm, 9 years ago fandom was just starting? Maybe for WoW. I've played since 08 (TBC), so 16 years now. That Dad from South Park's reaction was mine at the Thanksgiving table when my adult kids and grandkids were talking and it was a foreign language. My son bought it for me. I got lost outside the start zone and level bunnies were killing me so I called my daughter to get on and help me. She was busy so my then-10 year old grandson logged onto the game on his character and walked me back to the starting zone.
But I've been in fandom longer than most of you have been alive, and I mean active fandom. Started with Dark Shadows (1966-1971) and the original Star Trek (66-68). I read SF/Fantasy when I could get my hands on it. Lord of the Rings was read in 1970, only a few friends even knew what that was. I read comics when I could borrow them from friends (parents didn't think they were good, just trash). Started writing fan fiction when I was in junior high, into college and beyond (66-pretty much this year). I was one of the nerd squad in high school (50th reunion is next year). . By 1978, I was hanging out in a comic shop with a guy that would be like a big brother to me, and another customer became our big sister. By 1979, I was doing SF/F conventions as staff or dealer. Met a ton of people, famous people. We opened a comic shop in 1981 and it was open until 1986 when most everyone moved away. Met my soulmate husband at a convention in 1993 (there's a story for you...) and we married within 6 months of that meeting. Starting in 2013, I became an author guest at conventions. I have a couple of panels at a convention coming up. Raised my kids in fandom, now the grandkids are into it. My younger son is into anime, his kids are into it. He and a daughter learned Japanese so they could watch originals and she's going to work in Japan as a teacher as soon as college is over.
One time only. Or hard to get. Took me YEARS to get Ashes of A'lar, every week on every character for years. I was so happy, I was turning donuts in the front room with the wheelchair, screaming. My husband thought I lost my mind and my Shelties just barked. Yesterday, someone got it out of a box in a raid. Congrats but damn it, working for it meant a lot and now.....
Server room is COLD. Hubby works for a financial institution with server farms and he's IT. We've seen this.
So yeah, Fandom, I'm there. And my fondest wish is to make a BlizzCon before I pass away. Me, the wheelchair, and the husband who looks like Santa, hopefully we'll be there. LOVED the documentary.
BlizzCon is canceled this year and rumors say it may never come back due to how Microsoft operates and controls, and last year’s BlizzCon was a total bust.
@@adamslosslessmusiccollection Then MS are foolish, denying literal millions. I hate corporations... especially the a** who owns it.
no one is reading this you yapper.
When I first started playing, Jan 08, we used to stand in line at GameStop for expansion release at midnight. in the town i was in.. these expac releases were a chance for release parties.. there were booths with all kinds of wow gear .. foods beer etc.. it was ALLLLLL hype! so much fun
I'm 23 years old now and started playing at 4 years old. Anytime my Dad wasn't in a raid with his guild back in 2005 ish, I'd hop on and roam around the starter areas aimlessly. WoW has made an impact for life.
Bro red shirt guy had the maddest NPC vibes
It's so weird to see these wow streamer who have their entire life built on world of the warcraft. They literally live out of it, yet don't know shit outside of meta knowledge. Crazy to me...
and they are happy :)
Yeah, literally doesn't even recognize the cinematic trailers....
He actually thought the movie is named "World of Warcraft" Cinematic reveal...
Yeah i was baffled that he didn’t know about the MC in 1 week thing, unless he wanted to make the big reaction to be more engaging
this right here is why there opinions are trash and invalid about wow
That's how big the world of warcraft is. You can spend your whole life in it and not see everything. I couldn't care any less about pvp. There's a whole world of stories about pvp: fights for rank 1, underdog and hero stories, famous griefers, famous world pvp battles, tournament drama, balance drama, pvp development trivia, and more than I just don't care about and don't care to know about.
Knowing any one bit of wow trivia doesn't make or break how much of a fan you are. The world of warcraft is just too big to know it all.
Oh man, I remember this documentary. One of my best friends said I should watch as I was just about to start playing WoW back then, but always loved Blizzard as a studio.
Based on the reactions of the Blizzard Employees you can tell that when they hit MOP in the timeline the passion is kinda gone...
and for WoD they had to scrape a story together... literally just took old nostalgic characters and old lore without creating anything new.
Pointless timetravel which ultimately had no impact for azeroth, it was like TBC except we got nothing new in return. No new races, no new classes and no new lore characters.
TBC atleast brought new races and their leaders into azeroth + it wasnt timetravel so it actually made an impact in the real timeline.
I agree that WoD was disappointing to say the least. No impact on Azeroth? Just keep in mind that’s how we got alternate Gul’dan to our timeline to kickoff the Legion expansion. That’s how I rationalize sins of WoD 😂
I liked WoD. Was never grounded in the lore, so maybe that' why.. but downing Blackhand was epic (tho nowhere near downing Arthas). Panda-land was the expac I hated... leveling in it pissed me off.
I turn this documentary on and listen to it probably every six months . It makes me so nostalgic every time.
The Rift War Saga by Raymond E Feist was for sure inspiration also. WoW uses a lot of things from all our favorites for decades.
So dope seeing them watch beta streams and discussing how the boss fights should be fixed
I was 14 at the time and WoW completely sold out on release. In the UK, I believe it took about 4 weeks until shops started to restock, and that's when I started playing. Even if you joined a few months late, you never felt like you was "too late". The world was always alive, new players joining every day. It was the golden age of gaming for me.
Xaryu, This is amazing! I subscribed right away!
Grateful for being on during the high times. Also going to Blizzcon for Legion. was epic!
Ahh, Warlords of Draenor.
Such potential....
To bad they had to scrap 99% of what was promised :(
Dont worry wod classic is gonna be best xpack replayed ever just as cata xD
I remember being a little kid and finding a warcraft art book that had that imagine of Illidan and trying to recreate it lol
So glad *World of Warcraft* released when i was already a working adult. Who knows how my school would have suffered if it happened earlier.
Im so grateful we were able to experience World of Warcraft
Xaryu, You're the best! I just had to subscribe!
That feeling when I don’t play WOW, but just like Xaryu’s personality and perspective. I’m safe from being smelly. Phew.
He picked up the server and I was like " PUT THEM DOWN" haha
data centers have raised floors, kind of the opposite of ceiling tiles, you use a suction cup to lift the heavy floor tiles to access underneath. there are also tiles with holes / vents and the cooling unit feeds the air under the server racks. data centers aren't cool or hot, just a lot of air movement.
awesome documentary!
I remember being at the opening of aq event back in the day, my pc was overheating so much and having 1 fps but its a memory i will never forget
To the LotR point, a lot of Tolkien lore was borrowed for Azeroth. It makes sense for us to be drawn to a game that is borrowing elements from a movie franchise we love. Ironforge is literally the misty mountains. Two different elven races, dwarves, orcs, etc all tolkien ideas. Blizzard pulled from LotR, DnD and Warhammer. Best elements of each to draw in geek culture.
And Tolkien borrowed lore from norse mythology, where there is two different elven races, dwarfes etc. norse mythology is the godfather of fantasy lore.
early on they also stole some assets from a warhammer project, I don't remember if it was AoR or some canceled project - wish I could find the posts providing proof still but this was ages ago it was revealed
You forgot Lovecraft. A lot of lovecraft inspirations
@@oliwwer Tolkien is the godfather of all modern fantasy.
18:16 lol i found myself walking in the line
wow!! since playing from around 2006 I have never seen this. Very cool.
I had big family roots in Everquest and came over to WoW during vanilla
When I first played the game, my son had me roll a hunter, a good starter class. 15yrs later, the hunter is my base fave class to play. It's been on A/H the one I raid with. I play all others, save DH/DK/shamans, but hunters are always there. The memorable was killing Arthas. The guild I was in kept trying and trying and finally, 1 night when I was in class, they downed him then realm transferred out. A friend of mine knew some epic players, got 5 or 6 together ... not even a 10m, we went in on heroic and mainly being carried, we got to Arthas. I started crying at that point when you know he' down, and when the others were whooping (again... they'd downed him by then countless times), I had to mute 'cuz it was like 5-7m of trying for that bastard. It was great!!!
I remember taking my son to a midnight expac release (2nd or 3rd one cuz I started just short of LK)... watching the line grow was pretty cool. It was winter .. in Santa Cruz California and cold as heck. We had hot chocolate, & he'd stand in line, then come get warm for a few mts in the car, then get back in line (his friends would hold his spot). He finally got me into it since I started hanging over his shoulder during Black Temple raids .. and now playing, I can understand the annoyance when someone is watching. I loved the look of the game, its graphics. lol And when Cata came out, I spent the night before release flying about the world, folders of screenshots and cried, knowing it would be different. Even met Deathwing in Ashenvale... how does something so big sneak up on you!? lol Moment #2.
There' more, intermingled with times I just stopped playing because I started getting bored with Wow. Now, in 5/24 the idea of 5 different WoW' may lead to another stop in playing... too many splits.
How have I never seen this documentary? This was a good one! The amount of passion the original blizzard team had truly is inspiring. Regardless of how the fame may have gotten to some of their heads, the amount of talent and drive is astounding. Game made by gamers, for gamers. Cheers
The part where you saying classes had way more class identity before, really resonated. Right at the part where the girl was saying how she rolled a druid but it really didnt fit her and then she rolled a pally, and was like, yes this is it! I had that same experience when I started the game. My first character was a troll rogue. Troll just seemed the coolest looking and rogue sounded cool. I basically leveled just high enough until I was able to create a Death Knight.....and I fell in LOVE!!! INSTANTLY hooked. Dropped my rogue immediately cuz I WAS a DK. Had so much fun with her. I no longer play her, as I switched to hunter for WoD. But I also had that feeling when I started playing hunter, it just felt right. But bottom line, when you find that class that just resonates with you, it feels so good.
kinda messed up how you dont even add the link to the OC in the description
Yeah, I went to look for the OC in the description as well. May be an oversight.
Google is a thing
legit statement sometimes people mess up good catch but you can probably find it with a quick search
The video is on official World of Warcraft channel, uploaded 9 years ago. I don't think they can count and content creators, who make the living from views of their videos.
@@chedisLoLwho cares. Its not that. The point they are making is that common ediquette is to include origlinal upload in description for easy viewing and also for givimg credit
It's definitely a cooled server room!
I just came across this video. Wonder why this never came across my youtube.. weird. I bought this game only because everyone I worked with in a tech support field bonbard me to play the game. Everyone one of us went to every single electronic boutique (like game stop) back in the day and bought every wow box lol. We all rolled horde. I rolled a warrior because I am native indian. I became a tank in those first patches of ten man scholo.. I played with my future significant other. talked with him since 2005 been with him since 2008 :). Thank you for the video!!!
52:50 - But everyone clears it, even though it's called LFR. And THAT undermines Mythic.
Make a raid only accessable with an attunement done in mythic! Could be amazing. "I've been there!" or "I've cleared it!" would be SO bad ass motivation.
no, its unrealistic. why will they put soo many hrs and then gatekeep it for their avg nroaml working parents ppl. why would these ppl pay if they cant "access" it in some way except attuenemtna dn other impossible things you suggest. it makes no sense. their approach si best. lfr for afk ppl and fun poggers play only 2 hrs every 2 days and mythic for guilds and for you adn me
@@mtr7076 Keep LFR. Sure, let them enjoy it. But that doesn't mean Blizzard couldn't create extra content for those who put effort and time into it. That whole mentality of "everyone must get everything" is nonsense and it breeds laied back lazy people that reaches out their hand and gets everything served on a silver platter.
That was the best thing about Naxx40 back then. It meant something, cause it wasn't just easily available to everyone. Beyond those portals only the strongest ventured. The heroes! They saw the dark corridors of the floating castle and found iconic items never seen before.
Today, everyone gets everything - or a version of it at least. It's just not the same. And today Blizzard pumps out more content than ever before with amazing tools making it very much possible to create extra content that caters to the true gamers out there.
its crazy to think a game like vanilla WoW only had a 5 year development cycle.
Nice one Xar
Reminder, Duncan Jones is David Bowie's son. The Warcraft movie was actually not terrible.
This was awesome to watch. In a way reminds me of the way ILM (the visual effects company) got started.
Dueling. For a culture fascinated with kungfu and wuxia - certainly the case for my growing-up years - I hardly find that surprising.
I really find it funny how my entire guild was of the "Friends don't let Friends try EverCrack" crowd and became hopelessly addicted to a game made by EverQuest lovers.
Love this
Retail plays more like a Habbo Hotel avatar sim game rather than an MMO
There is an older docu like this somewhere.
Seeing this makes me so sad, like how it all started and how these people really loved gaming and wanted to make a game that THEY wanted to play and seeing now where Blizzard is...
Agree with the layering, wish they'd fix or only enable it at expac launches.
i can understand the lady i was also in a accident so wow allows me to still do group activites even tho im now confind to my room
Well shade... time for the community to collect fragrance/cologne on that admission. I have been to conventions so I know how that goes.
Xaryu, did you see Preach's interview with Ion at Blizzcon? Ion explains why Garrisons didn't get developed further etc. Very important to understand their process. Watch it!
I love this doc :p
the good old days
Why do I embrace fantasy games so much? Well being born in the 90's....... DUDE try being born in the 70's When Star Wars came out, Aleins, OG Star Trek the movie, Close Encounters of the 3rd kind, LOTR movie was a cartoon that kicked ass! You 90 kids missed out on so much more!!! :P
Alright grandpa settle down.
@@effortlessGFX Pipe down whipper snapper
3:02 right side, Towliee cameo.
wheres the vid link?
You should go and make sure that you get some primo stage for signing and protection, your kindof a big deal
Funny how they had 15-20 dedicated to talking about vanilla and TBC but only mentioned cata then moved to MoP for 15mins
literally nobody said it was so cool everyone said i hope this is an april fools joke
I think Blizzard lost it's way when they sold out to Activision. Once the sale was made the original developers lost autonomy. They now had to answer to others who were focused on shareholder profits.
hm, i would have expected a link to the original video.
Ion Hazzikostas is the angel of death for wow
Somebody call a detective, Xaryu's hair got stolen!!! Police needs to be on top of that shit, so we're still would be able to reattach it!!!
Imagine if they convinced Jeff to come back to the wow team with Chris. I wonder how good the future of the game could be then.
16:00 LOTR was embraced 😅
Actually kinda shocked that Corpse Grinder never made an appearance in the video!
Amazing journey Blizzard got over the years. The only thing they haven't figured out yet is to listen to the community
Smelly smelly. Can confirm just smelt myself
Even people never played WoW knows who Arthas is. Arthas is the Darth Vader of gaming, everyone and their mom knows him.
I don’t know who he is. WoW is foreign garbage to me.
@@adamslosslessmusiccollection ok... Funny how you waste time watching a wow-player watching a documentary about wow... seems legit
@@acidcarbine because seeing how delusional people are to this game fascinates me when it offered an ‘ideal game’ to an utter ‘shit show’ that it is now. When I went to college, there was a group of people who played and talked about nothing other than WoW. They were so hardcore into it that they forsook taking care of their bodies (one guy smelt so bad it could probably make a Bigfoot run away while throwing up) and even skipping classes just to play the game. Other people in this group were talking about the game as if they were speaking gibberish. It was so fucking weird but interesting.
@@acidcarbine Emet-Selch > Arthas
Illidan, TBC: YOU ARE NOT PREPARED holding Gul'dan's f*cking skull in his hand.
Dragonflight: Let's talk about our feelings!
RIP WoW.
Disney will leave the building in 11.0
Truth is, player base wasn't as toxic back then, grouping up was a lot more casual than nowadays.
dude crossroad chat was where i was forged. ppl weren't fucking pussies back than like today
How as he never watched this??? wtf
this doc is W move to show ppl that dev are ppl with emotion and not just bunch of demon who wish to ruin players day ,
Pulls out Tich and crashes the server just for the video 😂 hell yeah
They don't make it like they used to.... RIP the original Blizzard Team!
@xaryu You should really read through the 'WoW Diary' book which is a much more in depth version of this initial start of WoW with OG screenshots etc. My wife and I are loving reading it together each night
Weird
2 raids later D:
44:30 i love dueling and i miss the duels in front of sw or og, why is no one there anymore :( i just wanna duel..
Hunter Pence playing wow. Great MLB player
I wish I could go back to 2007 WoW
Whom of them was into officefun and milkruns I wonder
On the topic of layers; ESO did that right.
Xar should make a react video to the whole WoW episode of South Park. That is of course if he can do so in a way that avoids copyright issues.
U need to credit the video bro
"Summoning demons"....red flag lol
Spoiler for the movie (Watches WoD cinematic).
I guess thats what happens when they don't put the cinematics in nagrand arena :D
The unicorn girls are all in the same house btw,so it is staged
they should taking LFG to the next lvl. Normal LFG, no determination
_Layering!_ 😠
What a trip, seeing all the legenedary devs in the same place again... /nostalgic-sigh
20 times rank 1 wow
Yea but if you dropped the old raids barely anyone beat today as is everyone would beat it easy. Gaming has changed alot
Came back to wow 2 weeks ago made a mage got to lvl 70 then realized after raid finder once a week we had nothing to do apart from find mythic raid groups that want dps curves and stuff and it seemed pointless to me so i logged out.
This is the thing that FFXIV got right, they made a game with tons to do outside of raiding.
if you, as a developer, go for something that YOU would like to play, chance is high its gonna be a lot better product than if you try to make something your "players" would like to play, because as a developer, you know what you would like to play, but the players? on the information on the internet? They dont know themselves what they wanna play, most of them dont have the knowledge about videogames to know, let alone articulate it in a way thats useful information to you to build a game of. Blizzard just doesnt have people in charge anymore that are interested in good videogames, only people that are interested in maximizing profit, thats the problem, and has been for the past 17 years.
@20:10 the female looks exactly like the female dwarf design
The whole sentiment of *build an environment for yourself and likeminded people will join you* really has died on an industry level.
I've been doing it with guilds in wow for years.. make a super toxic dark humor home for myself.. and guess what, people like myself join and enjoy it too.
Where is the link to the video providing credit
If you can’t figure it out you don’t deserve to know. Act your age please
The video is on official World of Warcraft channel, uploaded 9 years ago. I don't think they can count and content creators, who make the living from views of their videos.
Read the thumbnail and type it in yourself
But she's outraged! I'm saying she because she sounds like a little girl@@futuramaiscool92
@@futuramaiscool92s tfu, it should be linked
So many players pretend that Mop isn't a great expansion
it's top 3 expansions along with legion and wotlk.
Gotta enjoy how evwryone in chat shittalked cata when it was brought in the documentaty but now when catq clasaic launched everyone is playingso hyped doing chores, pvp better than retail,hell best pvp ever isnt it xar?
so they wasted time doing garrisons than actually developing the missing raid in WoD
They were doing multiple things, they have multiple people who work on different projects, don't be a simpleton.
31:50 wtf?