World of Warcraft Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 7 апр 2006
- I made this video 4 months after WoW was released because I saw how some of my friends were affected by it. Of course its a bit biased, it's a documentary :).
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2006: I play 4 hours per day, I'm addicted
2021: I play 4 hours per day, I'm just a casual
bruh truth
filthy casual*
Believe me, 4 hours per day back in Vanilla / TBC was not considered addicted for many, many people!
I really hope those are TBCC hours and not Retail hours. If it is retail you should be ashamed of yourself for playing that garbage
I think about this a lot lol
4 to 6 hours a day on vacation?
Those are rookie numbers
Every single one of them is lying
14-16 hours? Now you're talking
Casual...
I used to put in 16 a day
@@DV-zv4ox hhaaaa
This got recommended to me 18 years after it was made
Same here
@@gladiadorpolo same here , it's such a vibe honestly I love it, makes me emotional
Same
When he said ( 2:09 ) "i don't think my social life has really dried up much either because i never had much of one to begin with" I felt that
Me too. But then he said "me and my girlfriend". I did not feel that.
@@alexandrosavraamides7872 😂 shit that was good
Lmfao this thread
@@alexandrosavraamides7872 Pretty sure he was lying lol
@@SSJGengar girlfriend and relationship are for the weak
You can tell all of these kids were drastically under-reporting the amount of hours they played the game.
100%, when they ask "does it affect your IRL friendships" they all get the same "OH shit" moment xD
It sure sounds like they are all trying to justify it. Been there myself.
No, you can tell people actually had shame back then. Whereas this new generation has none.
These kids are probably older than you now
@@Lars-ce4rd You don't need to justify anything if you are Happy, making bill payments and not hurting anybody else.
No-one in a history of the human kind ever did play wow for an hour a day.
It might feel like an hour, before you know it, you are 40 years old....
When I was a kid my rents had the 1 hour a day set up. Obviously when I play classic now I can play for hours...
@@siccz1 41 😭
I play for one hour ....... when i check my mailbox
This is the most true statement
“No, I have not made any online friends. Unfortunately.”
*Silence Intensifies*
this was heart-wrecking
pvp specialist i hope.. haha evrn then tho..
Haha I looked for a comment about that part. It was really sad haha. That silence seemed like an eternity
as the camera still stares at him and he just has a straight face.
I felt for this kid so so much…
Being a 44 year old adult when i started playing in 2008 it was a great thing financially. Recently married for the first time I was still doing things for entertainment that I did when I was single. Pool and dart leagues in bars and gone 3-5 nights a week and costing around $4-500 a month. WOW was $15 a month and i was home in the evenings after work so married life got alot better. I still play to this day in 2022
Hey this is an interesting view! But was it the same (or better?)? You didn't miss seeing your mates in the bars or going outside?
It's amazing how the time goes I'm 30 looking at 31..started in 05 begged mom for game, and still every year every xpac I get online make it to max level and leave again lol
@Mike Sibert
still playin this shtty game?? LMFAO
get move on homie,
@joey lucas That is so true and even those 3-5 change to the point at anytime.
its all perspective
The algorithm brings us together yet again
yup
Yes
Same thought i had lol
Srsly😅
Hello brothers
We desperately need a "Where are they now?" documentary on this documentary
On FFXIV ! XD
🤔
still rocking the same life style, I hope. True to themselves
Got in early to crypto and and gaming crypto projects and is now a multi millionare.
@@nassimlougrada2986 aahhahahaha
I remember buying my son’s gaming laptop and the salesperson said he played WoW for 26 hours straight before. He really looked like he did.
I'm 30 now and never played but I remember nearly everyone in my class being addicted back then. This gave me second hand nostalgia if that makes sense
"second hand nostalgia" :D good one
Same
Same here, I never experienced wow myself cause I never had a good enough PC that could run it. But If I could... I probably would have been addicted. I love the stories that come from this game with it's players though.
Well at least you didn't have to experience the best game you ever played become whatever the fuck it is today.
First 2 minutes of this documentary: Everyone's a liar.
Except the true gamer that admitted to 48 hours a week
"...when I'm really busy" dude you're like 15
@@ScepticGinger89 I was busier at 15 so not really strange to hear that.
Lmfaoo
Well back then you had to say that, cause it was looked down upon to play more.
I'm gonna say most of these people were lying about their hours
Idk man that dude said like 48 hours I’m inclined to believe him lmao
Tanner Henry he was probably the only legitimate one lol
Hahahaha hell yeah
Back in the day i broke up school for WoW they are fucking lying.
@@falconer7447 haha same 😅
"I don't think my social life has dried up in real life either because I never really had one to begin with."
so true king, so true
There will never be a game as good as the original WoW again.
Totally agree. It was amazing. I left the game after litch king. Before that it was like a second life. My Elf Hunter life lol.
Translated: Your first experience with a powerful drug is always the best. Everything after that is down-hill.
@@rabbitcreative 😂🤣😂🤣👏🏼. Yes it was definitely like a drug. Same properties. Class A. Cos it was a hook from the first hit!
It was a powerfull drug. Maybe a bad 1 lol.
100%
1 hour a day?! You couldn't even finish a vanilla dungeon in 1 hour..
Anyone that play wow knows that u gotta play at list 3. In one hour u couldnt do anything
me and my brothers as teens took 1 hour turn rotations (we were all addicted) and we had the rule if you were in a dungeon you had to finish it and get off if the timer went off during. and we couldent just join one when the timer was about to go off but yeah you couldent
M K you can now 😄
1 hour means 5 to 6h.
@@kushkong1339 it kepupt the peace lol. I did this with modern warfare. 3 games and pass it
15years old, this is the oldest recomendation of RUclips that we ever had.
Actually RUclips reccomended me the first video ever, the guy at the zoo
Actually RUclips reccomended me the first video ever, the guy at the zoo
RUclips is 1,000 of years old bro
@@bonechip01 1,000? Dude youtube was around since before recorded history, which is odd cause you'd think youtube would record history
Haha, yea. This video is beyond ancient and one of the first ever You Tube videos. But to me, early 2006 doesn't seem that long ago.
The end of the video was so dramatic, as if they had gone to war or something and some of them didn't make it back.
Yep, it was hilariously creepy
lol :D
ashahahahah for real. i was so shocked when the "?" appeared on the girl. Af if its like: MIA Missing in action! Fatally wounded body on the battlefield lmao
They did tho, they went to a whole world of it. :P
loooool, this is too much
18 Years...
2:06 "My social life hasn't been affected because I didn't have one to begin with" that's so me
RIGHT!! lol
From 2004 to 2006 it was the best part of my life.
All my friends and I were playing this game. At every parties we were talking about the game with words that nobody could understand.
We were doing LANs to play together. We spent so much nights, saying "okay one more dungeon" at already 02:30 am.
That was the real spirit of internet and online massive multi player game.
This game is an anthology and in every heart of true lovers of what Blizzard was before.
It used to be so different. The games were actually fun and unique, not copy pastas of each other. Now mmos are so boring! Pets, mounts, and cosmetics are o nly unlockable through the store so there are no incentives. Maps are too big and empty and they all look the same.
Same here, 2009-2012. It also corrosponded with the happiest time of my life. I had a great job, was young, was getting women, and making money. I didn't look like the steriotypical player they try to portray on these things. I could bench 280 and looked like it. I was traveling, going out to bars and parties, and enjoyed my WoW each night when relaxing for hours. We are told to brag about how many hours of our life we give up to work, but shamed for the hours we enjoy in our one and only life. What a strange state of affairs. But Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm were the golden ages for me. Just thinking of those years makes me sit in nastalgia...remembering a happier time. We'd be out partying..drinking like fish, talking to beautiful women, and texting back and forth how the raid was going.
@Nano Surge Damn sorry man. I hope things improve and you get some good experiences some day with ladies.
And now Microsoft owns Blizz
at this time I celebrated MILF gang bangs Kappa
2:57 this is heartbreaking, he's genuinely saddened and really just wants a friend to play with online. Wish could give him a hug poor guy looks so defeated =(
imagine not having online friends during peak classic wow; 100% skill issue
@@shoopsplaylist i remember a graph that showed wow peaked in wotlk anyways, this is just 4 months after vanilla released
"my social life has not dried up, because I did not have one to start with" Man hit it right on the spot.
14 years later and I somehow ended up here without even searching for it.
Same
Lol me too
Same. :P
yup
Me too 😂
First guy: “ah it depends on my schedule.” I guarantee he had no schedule in his life.
XD
His raiding schedule maybe...
I guarantee you look like a guy with schedual.
He might have classes. So he probably plays around his school classes.
"JJ did not return spring term due to academic probation." Dude was definitely one of the first to finish Naxx back in the day
Man im dying😭😂💀
True tho
Popped up on my recommended page. Threw me in a crazy nostalgia loop. I remember making a ton of online friends I used to go to dungeons and quest together. I wonder how their doing now... Shout out to all my Magtheridon Horde fam. There probably will never be another game that brings out that kind of experience for me. Original WoW was the greatest.
They all fused together and become Asmongold.
They aren't that egotistical. Not by half.
to much hair
@@thegamingchannelofawesome8384 Not bald yet
@@brisbanetim That is a character. Asmongold is actually a nice guy in person. he just acts like an asshole on stream because that is is the persona or character that his viewers want to see.
No no these people actually play wow, not just turn the game on and have people do the stuff for them and give them things.
They are all casuals. They should’ve interviewed a rank 14 pumper.
Cant he couldnt afford to lose time for some small talks, rank 14 is no joke nor a position to delay🤣
How many hours a days you sleep? -'Probably 3-4. If I'm lucky. and the caps are low. '
13 here and Abudullah is right. There is no way we could set aside "chit chat" time. Gotta grind AV.
@@alexunlv hahahaha that run and the time I wish all of you people luck trying to get that damned rank🤣
R14 war ere shit was the most fucked up but enjoying thing I've ever done these lads are rookies
Monsieur Algorithm delivered, I watched it.
I never dared to try this game because I was terrified of the consequences on my life.
Good thinking. I spent years of time on this game.
Only smart if you dont play any games. Wow classic is worth checking out.
But i wouldnt play retail trash junk .
But the truth is wow is for people who have no real life friends or loved ones. If you have these things stay away from all gaming.
That said theres no point in playing wow if u have less then say 5 hours a day to kill. Bored and desprete for somthing to do.
Because it will steal your life . Peace opon you......
@@johngross688 that’s too deep it’s video games
@@cianlogan9988 Video games are fun, but also addictive and its easier to get around to video games than always say get drugs. So he has a point. Self Control is key.
Good thinking. I threw off school over this god damn game. The amount of time I played back in 2005 - 2009 is just insane.
"No i have not made any online friends." Adam, Paladin.
Zooming in on his fucking face after he said that would be so fucking funny :'D
“Unfortunately”……
AITOO who felt a little low-key sorry for the dude in those silent seconds after he said that? 😂
🤣
this made me laugh
Yet the people that judge gamers the most for the amount of time they spend playing games are usually the people who watch 4-5 hours of Television a day.
You are stereotyping the people who make stereotypes. Also gaming 12 hours a day or watching tv 12 hours a day aren't exactly healthy things.
well its pretty much a fact that most people watch 3-4 hours a day tv at night
If you played piano for 4 hours a day, you could probably go pro within a year...
@@shamicentertainment1262 tv is passive entertainment, you arent engaging your brain in the same way you play games. But this depends on the game of course.
@@andrewtucker94
Go pro and? Use it as a bragging right? Or....?
The RUclips algorithm is actually a renegade archeologist: randomly unearthing amazing gems to place in the museum of our minds.
I once played 19 straight hours of WoW. Back in 2004-2006. My friends and I played 8-10 hours a day. These kids are lightweights.lol
50 cents being a third of a starbucks coffee is the most controversial thing in this video
Yea. Now a cup is 7 bucks 15 years later!
I pay like $5 for their nitro cold brew..
Imagine how costly the 15 dollas were 15 years ago.. None appreciated Blizzard for not increasing their monthly charge for 16 fcking years!
conclusion: they dont play enough
casuals xD
Especially in 2005 when it was very difficult to level up even with 10 hours per day.
Rookie numbers, gotta pump them up!
They do, you would not reaveal your true game time on some documentary especialy when your fammily could see it, they probabbly all play 10-15 hours a day but obviously they not gonna say it on camera. It is doable to have a job and play hardcore at the same time atleat in europe you can even go to gym, Look at people who are top achievement points hunters now i know few of them atleast the eu ones and they have a job and still play hardcore.But you have to sacrifice social life that is the only price you pay.Also theese peopel are very efficient with time they play that is why they stay on top.
@@janodefenua4603 social life? There is no sacrifice in social life. Wow is a huge bar!
Back when gamers were heavily judged for just being gamers so they deliberately skewed their playtime numbers. I was one of them. Infact I would say I was away with work and then get up at 6am Saturday morning and game all day until about 1am the next morning. Had the time of my fucking life, playing alts, raiding, pvp-ing, trance blaring, eating crap food and drinking soda. Epic.
@Insignificant Speck Of Dust Yeah, don't let other people determine your happiness. that just ruin your life.
im about to start doing that now. minus the junk food
"It doesn't interfere with my homework at all" famous last words
Dude....this video captures the soul of a veteran wow player back in 2004-2006. The cinderblock monitors that was 13inches. clothes that could tell you give little care what you are wearing and the denial of just how addicting the game really was. Watching it, it felt like i was watching a home video of my life, cause i know just how relatable all their situations were.
tik tok, clout chasing, upvote hunting, etc, is worse lol "just how addicting the game really was"
i loved those CRT monitors, you can punch them and your fist will broke more often than the screen lol.
@@wayfa13 I played it a lot and I’ll admit, it’s addicting because of how awesome it is lol. Just like most fun activities. They make us feel good and we want to do more. It’s up to us to moderate ourselves but we can be honest about the nature of certain video games
Back in 2004-2006 I used to play like 15h a day during school holidays. The game was addictive as hell.
Yes! "was" addictive
I wish wow would be still the same as it was before. I like the speed of retail, but there is a lot of unnecessary parts that was always skippable in data disks before. Now you can't skip cuz it somehow boosts your char that much that you can't skip it and that's what made me quit wow tbh
i had a 34 hour gaming streak cause of the game
me too
I wasn't even alive in 2004-2006 lmao
No game will catch that feeling in 2004-2009 playing this for the first time, like WoW. What a Game, what a time to be alive 😮❤
"I pay 50 cents a day and thats 1/3 the price people pay for a starbucks coffee everyday"
Oh how times have changed
@@detnemt9571 no shit Sherlock, thats my point
@@detnemt9571 this escalated quickly XD
@@detnemt9571lol assuming people don't know something and then trying to educate them is being an asshole, thats some advice for you
Ah, men of culture. I see we have all gathered here today to watch this documentary of a historic masterpiece of a game.
The feeling of nostalgia is ...
nostalgic
there?
I'm with ya man!
Yes. Yes. Gentlemen of Culture! We are here! Here! But, there there is no sign of TandF TandA!?! I am a aghast! 🧐
what have they become now?
a new video 15 years later would be amazing.
Have a good day
1500 mmr pvp players
Playing FFXIV
i remember i got into wow about 3 months before burning crusade came out. honestly from that point to the beginning of wrath was the best time ive ever had with wow. i remember going to school and i brought my burning crusade guide book. i never read the guide but loved looking at the pictures and the maps. couldnt wait to get home to skip my homework and hop back on. that lasted about 3 or 4 years then i played until mop and i quit for about a year. then i came back for each xpac and it never had that same effect on me. it was a once in a life time experience and i feel fucking ancient... this felt like a couple years ago when in reality it was about 17 years ago. time flies man and i wish i could go back to being in school and being addicted to wow.
game went to shit after Wrath, we who quit then came out ahead.
Me too, in some ways! Miss the old days lol. I started around a couple months before BC too.
I started playing with my husband during Pandaria. He then got a job out of state & playing WOW together with video was something we were able to continue. We play intermittently, sometimes together & sometimes alone. I'm glad they finally got flying unicorn mounts. :-) Hubby is back home thanks to Covid remote work. Yeah! -- But we have a nephew who played (before we did) during college & it was seriously affecting his academics. He finally went cold turkey & hasn't played again. He got his computer science degree & is doing fine. We can talk about the game lore. Though he doesn't play anymore, he knows more of the lore & characters than us from his playing so many years ago.
I'm 47, so nearing 30 when WoW came out--I was pretty into it, but I was REALLY into Everquest. I remember my Dad (RIP) would always tease me about wasting my time playing video games. Then when I'd go visit him he'd spend literally 10-14 hours a day in front of the TV with his laptop on in front of him playing Scrabble or Bridge :) Anyway, thank you algorithm for taking me back to those carefree days!
EQ > WoW and it's not even close!
Legend
@@penigan85 apples and oranges
Heheh
Those parents logics.. Best wishes
2004: Played 12 hrs a day
2010: Filed unemployment and broke
2020: Graduated from UC Berkley
2021: Built PC battle station to play WoW classic
That's an elaborate relapse!
18 YEARS AGO...
This brought back all the good feels. Although I didn't get into WoW beyond the trial at it's release, I get the nostalgia having played EverQuest for a few years.
2:57 "No I've not.. I've not made any online friends... Unfortunately." *realize and proceed to show deep despair on his face*
I am 15 years too late. Hope he’s got online pals to play by his side :(
Sadge
He was ahead of his time. He was a meme and a "watch people die inside" altogether long before they existed. A real lone pioneer that one...
this got me sad for a sec HAHA, poor lad, i hope he smash dungeons with friends now
I played 12-18 hours/day. I used to set an alarm so that I wouldn't sleep more than 6 hours to maximize the playtime. All meals were consumed when playing also. To be so committed is something I definitely miss these days
I was looking for this comment! 12-14h sessions good old days!
So glad I was done with any schooling, college ect... 32 when this came out. Bought it on my birthday. Worked during the day. Got home around 5pm or 6pm. On until around 12am. Still went out on Friday and Saturday nights. Weekends? Pfft.... from the time I got up until I went to be at whatever time it was. Was easy for me. Had a Diablo guild I ran since 96'. So met up with all of them and the guild they all joined. Illidan born ;)
Now BC (Moved onto Emerald Dream).... some of the best memories playing videos games I will EVER have. Every time I went through Outlands years later... I get this overwhelming feeling of joy, but yet sadness. Joyful memories, yet sad those days are gone.
I'm so glad you got to experience some amazing stuff!!
Look at the PC's , look at the Monitor's, look at the Interfaces, imagine the internet-connection ... That's why even classic was indeed hard back in the days.
"Technically, it's 14 bucks a month. I paid for 2 months" What a legend
When he said that I knew he was hard-core 🤣🤣
ти къци ли си.
Matt DGAF! He’s probably still going to this day.
It’s funny how just 15 years ago if you were playing WoW people viewed you as having no life. Fast forward to 2019 and this is basically everyone, especially with fortnite and mobile games, tables really have turned...
As always, the "nerds" were ahead of their time.
Shits weak as fuck, I miss the thrill of hiding my nerddom from everyone in school lol
So true lol
No gain tho. We nerd were aloner 15 year ago and normies got it right, whereas we nerdies still alone and normies play with their gf with shared account because now its acceptable.
So what i mean tables didnt turn and nerds didnt become popular with girls. Atleast i didnt.
Bro 2021 we back to playing wow
These guys are lightweights. I used to work a full time, a part time job, was GM of a 40 man raiding guild, and raided 5 nights a week during vanilla.
WHOASKED
@@VANTARTS NOONEDIDIJUSTTOLD
The fact 2006 was 16 years ago just hit me different.
Same here...It doesn't feel like it was 16 years ago. I really miss those times. We are getting old, man...Makes me sad.
Playing till the sun came up with no responsibilities as a high schooler, I remember my friends having to come over to my house and convince me to go out with them because I kept making excuses to stay inside and play wow, simpler times I miss it
Funny i forgot about this but it happened to me way too often haha, good old times even if it has been 2010 for me
Little did all these dads and moms realize how addicted they'd be to Bubble Witch Saga and Candy Crush Saga.
Back then it was only acceptable to be addicted to television networks. I remember my family complaining about how me and my brother played too many games after school even though they spent an equal amount of time watching TV..
Their your parents dude of course they are going to say that. I tell my little cousins to stay off their phones and focus on school yet I am addicted to my phone just as bad if not worse 😂
Even if you bring up this point in a discussion with older generations, they just disregard it as a stupid argument. Because watching brain-dead tv isn't equivalent to strategic planning in a game.
Damn this is really well put together and professional for 2006 youtube. I remember back in the day it was just people screaming into the camera and doing them most random stuff haha.
Always come back to this CLASSIC. Kamahpanda youre still playing 5+ hours daily at nearly 30
That guy THINKS he's playing 1.5hrs per day.. But in reality he plays 25.5hrs. He just didn't realize it's the next day :D
Holy shit. This video is golden! A treasure discovered! Look at how old it is. If i could turn back time I would in a heart beat. Not just because of WoW but because life was a lot more chill back then.
It truly was more chill :(
hearing the music in the beggining of the vid really moved something in my heart
take me back 15 years ago! I need this again
For the love of god can please get a "Where are they now?" video?
Playing Shadowlands and in debt.
maybe they work at blizzard
@@onalson4610 haha
@@onalson4610 as janitors u mean?
They moved on to Raid Shadow Legends KEKW
I won't lie when I started WoW in LK I almost flunked out of college. At first I was rationalizing that I'd have time to do homework later which slowly unraveled into how stupid the assignments were anyways and that if I pulled all-nighters I could drink energy drinks, play WoW and still kind of do homework and write papers a couple hours before my classes started. I was obsessed with that game, but it also helped save me because I was going through a lot of drama in and outside of college so emotionally it allowed me to escape and take my mind off things. I was a pretty hard partier before WoW, but my junior year I got sick of all the fake people that I knew weren't really my friends in school and didn't even seem to really like me. In WoW I had a great guild with people that were fun to play with and talk to and I loved that we could be silly and laugh for hours...we talked about everything. I was the kind of nerd that eventually would drink with my guild on raid nights on weekends instead of going to parties and joke around in Ventrilo all night. They weren't bitchy girls using me for my car to drive them to the liquor store and/or illegally buy them alcohol and then ditching me after, or guys inviting me to parties hoping I'd get too drunk to care I wasn't into them. Eventually though my GPA got shitty when my grades got worse from losing focus but I DID NOT flunk out of college I got my shit together when I realized how bad it was and started doing my homework before WoW. It's a shame none of those people even play anymore. They all quit when Cata came out and haven't been on since. Raid Finder ruined my social experiences in WoW...it's never been the same for me :(
cool story sis
Word, I had to quit a few times in college but resubbed between semesters or when my classes weren’t as demanding as other times. Glad you made it through!!
LFR 4.3 killed wow for me.
During highschool and my early college years, 2004-2008, WoW was everything to me. All of my friends had started drinking and smoking pot and I wanted no part of it. My parents were both addicts, and they got divorced because my dad started using drugs again. WoW was my escape. I played at least 8 hours a day, and my guild was #1 on the server in pve and pvp. We had the opportunity to alpha test Naxx before it came out, with the devs of the game watching us, respawning us at every attempt and providing us with vendors with infinite mats. We had the horde first Faerlina kill world-wide. And I loved world pvp. I was a troll rogue, (worst racials), but I was a menace because I had the best gear possible and could annihilate people. WoW gave me an identity, and I literally had YEARS of /played time. Wotlk is where things started going sideways with the game and it became less important to me, but I'll never forget those early days.
What was the guild bro?
@@davidste ropetown, I joined on burning legion and we migrated to executus
When my grandchild will ask me how i spent my childhood. Ill be honored to shared my WoW story with him. 16 hours per day playing. Rest was power naps and some kind of food i guess. Would never change that for anything in the world.
'Adam has quit playing WoW due to the monthly fee.'
Damn, bro.
Relatable
Casual
McDonald's doesn't pay a lot, I'm afraid. I hope he got a real job and could afford that monthly fee, since then.
This came up on my recommendations... thanks so much for the nostalgia trip.
I was at university when this came out... safe to say I didn' t make it to any lectures, and failed one of my years... didn't regret it one bit!
Spinebreaker forever :D
Joined WOW Feb 2005. Three months after launch. It was new and fresh and absorbed everyone's life.
I do miss losing a day or two to WoW. And the sweet CRTs.
When wow released, I was one of those kids that the day was his when he woke up until he slept while on summer vacation. To this day i cherish those days of waking up with excitment and having it hard to sleep with excitment and doing nothing but playing wow. I was fascinated with it and i had all the time i needed. I dont know if people remember this but WoW was a GREAT leap in quality compared to other games at that time. I mean wow classic is still relevant now. No other game did that
Was it really? It was the game that was marketted the most and also appealled to non gamers/casuals. It was by no means a leap in quality in my opinion.
@@timm8998 What do those things have to do with the quality of the game? I'd love to know what you were playing before 2004
I agrea, waking up to launch WoW was something appart. Defenetly a Master piece. Great memories.
@@cdave2006 u sound like u were born when wow came out.
@@JuicedGiraffe your age doesn't mater, i am 28 and i would have played wow vanilla even if I was 80 or 8, who cares but toxic players
I spent a year of my life in Azeroth. No regrets whatsoever, I use the lessons learned as a raiding guild officer as an IT director at work, every day =)
What is WoW if not a microcosm of real world encounters. The same teams you have to deal with in a work environment. Dungeon bosses are soul-crushing performance goals, and trolls that you keep seeing in trade chat is the dude you have to listen to in the break room.
You yell more dots at your coworkers?
christ, i noticed your dps is down, and your over healing, aka doing to much over time, where going to have cut your hours / raid days.
@@lstealth minus dkp son
i have 7,1 months pure gametime says my addon only in wow classic since release. im playing since classic back in the days 12 hours a day. mainly wow, had only a 3 year break from wow played then different games. hold my milk
2006: "I ain't payin' no game that makes me pay each month"
2021: "yeah not only I pay each month for games but also movies, photos, tv-shows, music.. oh and even to edit photos."
Played for 16 years. 4-6 hours was most of the Heroic raids i've done. This is so cool seeing 2006 on my feed again.
They had no clue they were training for 2020 to play 60+ hrs a week!
If anyone's wondering, "4 to 6 hours" roughly translates to about 12 hours straight
I had a friend back then who went from extremely social to always playing WOW. It was really hard to get him away from the game once in a while and university he also didn't manage to finish. Quite sad.
yeahhh its sad that he didnt quit uni earlier an commit to wow, so many hours lost that couldve been spent in dungeons grindin for loot or pvp'n
Your friend had something greater in mind
U cant play WoW one hour. Impossible. 2h is minimum and you still feel you did not get anything done.
2...MINIMUM? AHAHAHA
It’s 10 hours minimum, a whole 24 hours max. ;)
Especially since back in the day you spent time in queue waiting to get logged in...
2 hours is like warm-up to me. After that I go raiding and smash the clock count!
2 hours Warmup
Then full raiding for at least 4 hours
Then I do some dailies
And finally, I chill in Oribos. Looking at the auction house
And before I go sleep, I go back to raiding xD
The good old times where we had to lie about the hours we played. :^)
I usually play 3 to 4 hours of online and casual JRPG. Playing 12 hours straight is too much for me. There are Some teenagers who died while playing online without resting for 7 days a week.
@@chronolynx360 no one can go more than 2 days without sleep lol also a lot of teenagers die from eating junk food. It's up to you to control how much.
Seriously the best game I have ever played. God bless WoW. I am happily retired
pfff loser
I was 12 when this game came out after RuneScape I knew I couldn't touch this game for I feared I'd have been way to addicted. Gotta love how the game was a once in a life time experience though everyone I knew at the time was playing it.
Same here haha but I left RuneScape to play wow then years later returned to RuneScape lol
pssshhh I use to play 6 hours a day if I had a full day of work and other stuff to do. 12 -18 hour sessions on the weekends back then... worth it, I did get Thunder Furry early on (weird flex).
Suuuuuuuure you did
@@mads1479 mad cause you dont have it on any character not even the new classic
Did somebody say Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?
I remember I wouldn’t even log in unless I knew I had the next 6 hours free, of course I was young with zero responsibilities now I do not have such a luxury and jump on classic sometimes if I have only 30 minutes.
@@seizethetaco7027 Did somebody say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?
RUclips algorithm got it right again :D
All the nostalgia this brings back, how different people view was on gaming back then.
World of Warcraft sucked me into the gaming live when it came out, the entire school was sharing their copies with friends to get them to join and we all just played it nonstop.
They felt ashamed for playing long hours, they had to lie " only 16 hours a week"
My favourite game came out on closed beta and I get to play it for 3 days and made 35 hours and then listening to this video :D
Good old days
"Outwardly Curved Monitor" days
I used to play 5+ hours a day back in 2005-2006. Even longer hours when there was a raid event. And we were only a small-sized guild.
It's really changed a lot. I played from 2007 to 2010 and only a few people in my class were gamers at all. Back then many had the typical image of us as nerds who were losers in real life. Gaming in general feels a lot more mainstream now, and I feel it's no big deal anymore if you tell people you're a gamer who plays all day. I guess I kinda liked when it was a more niche thing though.
Well sure RUclips algorithm, I'll watch this in 2022. Thanks for making me feel ancient
was just thinking that lmao. I was right around the same age as these people when WOW came out. lot has changed since then, wonder what these people are up to. Now I couldn't imagine having the time to play an MMO as much as I'd love to
The trailer to vanilla wow still blows me away to this day. That game was a masterpiece and it was my favourite of all time! I miss it to be honest.
Imagine them interviewing people that like to read books as a hobby and asking these exact same questions. "What do your friends think about this? hmmm? hmmm?" Wow is a hobby. Some people take it overboard just like any hobby,
This was from 2006 and back then most people were serious about gaming addictions and the famous "games cause people to be violent" era.
So how much time do you spend on facebook every day? Hmmm? What do you friends think?
Reading books is a good hobby, playing wow isn't. It's a bad argument, same as with saying "but if you had fun it's fine" (same can be said for drugs). On the other hand if you actually treat it as a hobby (which is often not the case) and play like 10-15 hours per week that's fine. And by the way this is coming from the ex wow addict.
@@Stillow WoW is a fine hobby, just cause you get addicted by being weak willed is your own fault. Doesn't make it a bad hobby. Simply put someone can play 20+ hours a week of WoW even push 30 and still be a functioning healthy adult that has a life. You're just enjoying your time at home playing WoW. Depression, weak will, and laziness is what creates a gaming addict typically. That doesn't reduce WoW to some danger vs books they're still comparable.
@@Stillow Whats a “good” hobby? It seems to me that so long as a hobby doesn’t interfere with the regular structures in your life (work,social,academic) there is no problem. Not having the discipline to manage time and control how much you let yourself play is a failure on the players part so why blame the game, or any hobby for that matter? I could find myself procrastinating by reading books just as much as i could by playing games.
3:05 spoken so casually yet the meaning behind it is so deep and beautiful and means so much to people who experienced just that; whom are still friends to this day due to it. The true impact that game had on our lives and why it was the best
This game really takes a hold of you and it won't let go. I think I spent about 4 months during my teenage life on this game. I failed classes and exams due to this. Did I regret it? Yes and No
I was scared of this game, as I was already addicted to video games. So I only played it for 2 weeks or such, for the duration of the free trial. I must say, this game was enchanting. Gameplay aside, just walking around fantasy terrains with such an extensive soundtrack felt incredible.
LOL, nice comments guys. At the time of this video I was trying to show that this game can be addicting.
Now, I am playing WoW and like it alot. I've had the game for about 8 months but only started it 2 months ago during summer. Along with productofskwat, I to think that it's all about self control.
Goodluck with WoW and RL guys. Look for Stigs on Blackwing Lair :).
@R M im saying the same thing
Do the 15 years later interview bro!
Yo you still play? Lmaoooo
You still playing broh??
Send it To asmongold for a stream ! He does that alot about WoW with average 300 000 people
"it's clear that blizzrd hasn't fixed all the bugs..." hahaha i'm dead
I bet he knows them by heart
These guys are in there 40's or late 30's now. That's crazy when you think about how fast time really goes.
Just turned 40. I remember the times. Still play games, but wow i did quit after the third expansion
God, the things I would do to feel this addiction again on ANY game...