Playing World of Warcraft at a young age permanently alters your brain chemistry. No matter how much time passes or how many bottles of breast milk go missing from the Blizzard company fridge, I will always come back to play, eventually.
This made me cry, this is crazy. I love especially how the music goes from being super up-beat vaporwave to the orchestral WoW music to a piano sonata. Every detail is so cool. The transition of your hunter going from modern textures to the older textures at 14:24 was a standout, and the ending scene recorded with a flip phone was what punched me in the gut. This is magic.
Bleeding players till the server goes offline made me tear up. All the people I have meet because of this game, All the people who have passed on, All the memory's at lan cafes back in the 2000s
We get some players back on new expansions and they seem to be able to retain them from DF on, but this hurts to hear still. I just want this game to stay there forever, like a little life I had somewhere else before so many years, that I can just jump into sometimes.
I am a 97 kid from Eastern Europe. I was introduced to it at age 14. I didn’t have the money to buy it so I just played in private servers. By the time I started the game was already going passed its prime. I played only wolk. It did something to me. I still go back to it and I recall going in areas and just explore. I couldn’t do it as much outside. In wow I mattered. I remember all the friendships I made and all which went down. The relationship inside and out of the game. When I think about it, nostalgia always creeps in. It is a game which shaped a big part of my childhood and early adulthood for better or worse.
I’ve been playing since 2008. My whole family plays, have played together since the start. In the same way that a good guild can get you through the worst WoW patches, I think the game had the converse effect of holding my family together as my sibling and I grew up and moved far away from home. I love this game, I love the person that I am when I talk about this game and play this game with people I love
the clip of T1 leaping into the water is 100% that "wow magic". For those of us who have played that magic may have dimmed, but now we get to pass it onto others. The magic becomes less about our enjoyment and more about how we can share the wonder that this game has provided us, with those who have never experienced it. Great video! ggs
Absolutely nailed the vibes I feel towards this too! Encompassed it flawlessly - I imagine heaps of us would give a lot just to feel that initial surge of wonder again that we had when we first began playing
I woke up at 6:30 this morning and was going to snooze for another hour and this video was in my feed so it was time to get up and turn on the PC. Fronk videos aren't to be watched on a phone.
Wow, you made me feel nostalgia and warmth for a game I never even played as a kid. I think a lot of what you said transfers to other mmos and just games in general. I feel like I'm constantly searching for that feeling of discovery in a world where it's now so much harder to get lost. Incredible video, thanks.
I have played since my son said, "Dad, you played D&D in the 70s; you would love this." It was during late WOTLK. I joined at the launch of the first Cata, and I still play that same hunter (and others along the way) as my main, though I am not on retail as my computer can not run the game. So, I am back in CATA with a new main hunter since Classic BC. I have never stopped, though I do log off. My first big cheevo was Ahead of the Curve, or what it would have been called then, for Drag Soul before the April nerf.
This.. This is the video I myself have wanted to make for a long time now. A look back, a retelling of ones own story. Being also just a small kid, in our little country of Denmark, when I first got the game for christmas, it was nothing like i had ever played before. Many years have passed since then, and I feel the same as you. The rush to max level and max gear every patch. This isn't the same game anymore. But somehow, someway, I always find myself coming back. Because damn I love this game. No matter what happens. Thank you for the amazing video Fronk. Good to see you back.
I’m playing it more nowadays than I have in the past decade. It comes and goes in waves, but the game is forevergreen and my server is consistently packed with people. And if I ever have a hankering to revisit classic, there’s tons of variety there too.
There’s literally no other video game that has impacted its player’s quite like wow. It’s like a childhood vacation home that we all remember fondly in our collective psyche.
i barely if ever write a comment on youtube,twitch or whatever...but this very heartfelt and speaks out of my soul :) i come back like 3 times a year to rewatch the fronk videos and to see a new one with a different kind of vibe makes me very happy! keep making videos once in a while, bc you have the amazing talent of mirroring what most of us feel and putting it into this crazy good videos. Big love, dont ever stop making videos like at least one every few years haha!
Gonna be a honest. World of warcraft is ALWAYS gonna be a love hate relationship no matter what expansion is released or how the balance and game state is.
It's really cool to hear these things from someone who's been playing the game forever.. I started the game when I was 19, but that was in Shadowlands so yeah like you said, most people I meet in game are older than me and yet I found this guild to raid with where I spend every possible day in voice chat with these guys cuz we're just having fun and if we're not playing WoW we're playing other games, but WoW just brought us together and stays the glue which I value so much. Never in my life have I had so many fun hours during a week and raiding is an absolute blast with these boys. So even if the game changed almost every part of it, like the ship you described, the heart of it remains the same🥺❤️
Exactly this man, the only difference is back in the day we didn't have things like discord - so everyone was always online and on some voip program like teamspeak or ventrilo
I'm playing Turtle WoW right now, in Stormwind while waiting for a world buff, and after finishing the video I just slowly moved my camera around, seeing all the people running around, afk'ing in the city with their Corrupted Ashbringers, Spectral Tigers, Legendary titles, low level gear, druid forms, amazing and starting mounts... I really get what you're saying here, man. I'm thankful you finally decided to make this video.
I remember watching my brother and cousin play tbc and begging my parents to get my own pc with internet to play. My first character was a blood elf warlock and I ran through both plaguelands to get to Undercity cause I didn't know there was a teleporter in Silvermoon. I never even reached 70 before wotlk came out because I didn't even know what level cap was. I did play wotlk classic quite a lot, and I'm happy I got to relive that experience, although it wasn't totally the same as back then. There's just something so special about this game, the zones, music and experiences (from the classic trio) fills me with such fondness and nostalgia no other game could emulate. I've taken breaks, but I still have fun with multiple versions of the game, so it's hard to imagine ever truly quitting, but when the day comes, the memories of this game will stay with me forever.
Amazing video. I followed a very similar path, loved watching Swifty back in the day. I will never forget the all nighters with friends in middle school during the cata days queueing 3s all night playing at the same house. Man we were awful, and I still never even broke 2k rating, but all those old pvpers made it such a special time. Recently I’ve been enjoying playing on classic era over the last few years, and although it isn’t the same, the sense pf community is very much alive and well. I’d encourage anyone searching for that old feeling of enjoyment of the game to give it a shot. Min max culture is still strong, but it honestly does still feel like something special with players at all levels interacting.
Started late bc, didn’t speak English so I had my dad translate. Got ahead of the curve in bfa 8.3.5 - ended up writing guides for wowhead later, developing strats for WFR in classic. I will probably always return again and again, but damn do I wish I could experience the first time again. I still watch your old videos again and again because it encapsulates a time in my life where wow just was a big part of it. Reminiscing about having fun with my friend during the soccer boss. Skipping university to jump on discord Wednesday for our chest opening streams.
Great video. Sums up a lot of what I feel too. Especially the time capsule vibes with old characters. I started in Vanilla as a 16 year old. I'm 36 next week. I still dip in and play now and again for a month or two and then have to go back to RL stuff. The friends and the memories from old times keep me coming back.
I started playing wow for real in Dragonflight just berfore Aberus Patch launched. After being in multiple guilds, seeing the good side of the community. I can see why so many people still play the game. Even though it's not as it was in the hay day. There's still small glimpses where at least to me show the old hay day spark is something else. I regret now not picking it up earlier when I knew I could have. The hay days were really something special and I missed out on it. Great video fronk, stay big buddy.
I am started playing WoW back at launch. I was in my early 20s and while I had always been a gamer I had never experienced anything like WoW. The story, the lore, the locations, the social engagement. It was like nothing else. I've taken small breaks throughout the years but have always come back to Azeroth and I think I always will. The game has changed a lot over that time, I still miss the tight connections I had with people, just sitting in Vent until all hours of the morning talking about WoW and life. I still love the game, it will always be 'my' game. I am loving the Classic Anniversary servers and I eagerly await S2 of TWW. I hope I am playing this game for the rest of my life in some capacity. I have made so many good memories and friends in Azeroth. I will never forget creating my Night Elf Priest and loading into the starting zone, walking to Dolanaar and on to Darnassus and thinking 'I'll never remember where anything is, this world is so huge!' and then having my mind blown when I had to go to Darkshore and then again when my guildies came out to Auberdine to help me traverse the Wetlands on the way to Ironforge, catching the Deeprun Tram to Stormwind and walking to Westfall to do Deadmines for the first time. Magic. It's always been magic.
I have so many good memories from this game. I started to playing with the Cataclysm expansion and to this day I remember my first Wanted quest. It was Wanted: Knucklerot and Luzran. I got smashed so hard by them!! My blood elf mage didn't stand a chance. My reaction was so funny. I loved it.
4:49 in and i feel like you perfectly explained my experience with WoW early on. I was huge into Swifty and had my parents buy me all the gear he used. I miss those days
i just turned 20 and I just started playing wow like three months ago. About a month ago I got into a mythic raiding guild- retail ya- I gotta admit the hours I've spent playing this game, especially in a raid environment- have been the most enjoyable hours in video gaming for me pretty much ever. It's such a unique experience being able to team up with a ton of people and defeat these iconic bosses. meeting people and what not, it's just so unique. i love this game c:
I really miss the old times in wow, but we'll never get them back. I'm just happy I got to experience it. Current wow, though, still has it's huge moments for me. Legion was probably my all time favourite time in the game, and that came way later, and I think there's been other times where retail has really shone and shown me why I still want to keep playing! The game isn't dead at all to me.
This video had me overwhelmed with nostalgia and damn near brought me to tears. I’ve been playing WoW since the end of TBC but played one of the RTS as a kid and actually bought classic WoW but didn’t know how to set it up lol. Anyways I will always remember my first couple characters, hunter warrior and rogue, and how bad I was at the game then but also how fun it was like he said in the video. I will always remember my first time getting serious about raiding in Wotlk, the epicness that was Deathknights when they were first introduced, and the grand finale of killing Arthas which is still one of the best raids ever with the best ending. I will always remember going to Gamestop at midnight for Cataclysm and MOP. I will always remember coming back so fast to the game when I found out about Legion, I quit after MOP then came back at the very end of WOD when Legion was announced at Blizzcon that year. Oh yea and I will always remember Blizzcon 23 when they announced the world soul saga and showed off one of their best cinematics ever. Yes the game has changed to something entirely different from 2004 but it still has its moments and I definitely don’t play it nearly as much as I did before. Ultimately I'm just here to enjoy the ride and finally see Azeroth come to life while dealing with other looming lore plots like the void, the light, the titans and most likely Sargeras and illidan as well. Maybe it will all be worth it, maybe it will all be more wasted time and money, but either way I’ll be glad to have some sort of closure with WoW and finally be able to hang up my daggers.
Also I will always remember when people used to gather outside of Org/SW or Dalaran Sewers to duel or look for arena partners. WoW PvP used to be the GOAT but every expansion starting with Legion made classes more and more unbalanced, yes there were always balance issues but it didn’t get out of hand until Legion imo. Tack onto that the fact that Blizzard basically treats pvp like a step-child and clearly plays favorites with pve/world content, also adds little to no new BGs, and haven’t added any dedicated world PvP zones or objectives since Cataclysm, its no wonder the pvp community gets smaller and smaller every year and then Blizzard uses that as an excuse to not focus on pvp content as much. Its almost as if when Ghostcrawler left Blizzard they just threw their hands up and put pvp in a corner.
I was 14 and gaming wow when it released with some friends I had on runescape and highschool, my buddies dad was like 35 at the time (my age now) and he would also crush beers and play wow while we LAN partied and played super smash + mario kart. memories.
Keep in mind that over time "exploring the game" became faster and faster through information online but not just that: It also became more streamlined through these created/manufactured expectations of standards. Another factor that played into this is probably flying increasing travel speeds which then forced the increase in combat speed which then forced the increase in dungeon/raid access. The game has accelerated since TBC. And you can't revert that or people drop out and those that demand it won't all return and aren't what made the hype in the first place. Most people have just moved on. And the rest has issues accepting it.
i just started playing about two weeks ago, the sense of wonder and the scale gripped me. the world is living and breathing whether im there to witness it or not, and i sure would like to witness it. i cant imagine how awesome it was back it the day to have an adventure and then go and tell your buds about it at recess. i had a bit of that with skyrim, but i can see how much different it wouldve been on wow. sad i missed out on the hay days, but happy i can experience it for the first time. guides and optimizations ruin a lot of games, im trying to stay away from those as much as possible
Great video man! Sadly too many companies trying to make money of the fact that we miss being kids.. "Remastered" games and every old movie franchises getting a spinoff. Usually it's never going to be as it has been. Still we can try and enjoy the memories while we make new ones :)
Ive been playing the game for over 14 years, about first 9 years ive played on private servers full of bugs and non functional mechanics, because i was raised by single mother who couldnt afford to waste money on some videogame, quite the opposite, she always tried to push me away from the computer and do some "real stuff" and i cant really blame her for that. What i want to get to is that last 5 years ive been able to get my hands on the official game, played the TBC classic and WOTLK classic expansions because these were the versions that i played on the private servers as a kid and it was a blast to finally see it at its full potential and quality. However, when the Cataclysm classic came out, i felt like i dont know if i want to continue playing, because ive spent over 6 years on three different private servers playing that content and ive progressed everything from full heroic clears to high arena ratings and i basically didnt want to continue, especially because of the catch up mechanics that made the character progression basically irrelevant. I did not play the game for about half year, but recently, when they announced the 20th anniversary realms, i thought to myself "man, i kinda miss that game, from time to time i even randomly hear the soundtrack of different zones in my head and i miss that", so i gave it a shot and started new character on the new vanilla classic 20th anniversary realm. However, first few levels i felt like its whatever, the usual grind im used to and i wouldnt be excited about that much. Then i found about the AI Voiceover Addon and OH BOI, this thing changed everything. I was never paying attention to the quest givers, never got into reading quests etc., i just did the job and that was it, when it came to the lore of the game, i would read some of the Christie Golden books... but with this addon, everytime i take a quest, the addon makes the game much more alive, because all the quest givers are actually talking to you and telling you what to do while you are already heading to the quest location and i got so much insight into the lore of the zones i never knew about, that i feel like im playing the game for the very first time again. Its a very weird but very exciting feeling. I would definitely recommend getting that addon and trying it for yourselves, of course i mean if its the same case for you, that you never actually read any of the quests and just went killing or collecting whatever without any context.
As someone who got into wow on shadowlands s1,quit and came back for dragonflight season 3. Im glad im alive and got into the game at the time I did. The "Magic" is always there, is just that you have to be a kid like you said, the way you remember wow I remember Adventure Quest Worlds, a shitty browser MMO. However, now I feel like the fun I have is more "earned", not a lot of game can hook me, and this game has clicked for me so much. I love pushing high keys on M+, mythic raiding, parsing and reclears. I did play FFXIV and other MMOs but none grabbed me like wow did, I interact with most types of content, I do all the quests, try to get achievements I see are nearby, collect the treasures to unlock the cosmetics/junk items to sell for gold, max my renown tracks and just overall enjoy the game for what it is.
No Ptr wouldn't matter as much as people think it would. FF14 doesn't have a ptr and everyone goes into a new patch/expansion blind, yet things get discovered so fast and strategies optimized and shared so quickly that you pretty much only have a couple days to find/figure out something cool yourself before it becomes "widely known information". Don't get me wrong I still love this part of FF14 and usually try to get a couple days off on release because this "discovering together with the community" is still really cool for the first few days, but it's just the information age we live in that it'll never be like in the 2000 and early 2010s where you could do this for months.
I’m 20 I’ve been playing since I was 10 and the game feels so dead now but I keep playing mostly for nostalgia like anyone else.. but aside from me I don’t know if any 20yo who actively play the game. Especially in Australia. Love these retrospectives even if they’re not for my target demographic. Even the friend I had that introduced me to the game has long since lost interest.
My first time trying WoW, a friend convinced me to play on 150 ping for a chance to meet Swifty and Reckful. However, you know you're getting old when you years later make the change to 20 ping for a chance to play with Fronk.
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"I think I just miss being a kid" is pretty spot on. Nostalgia is a hell of drug
Why did my comment get deleted? I didn't even say anything wrongthink-y xD
Early 00's nostalgia probably hits harder because things actually were consistent.
You know this game is a huge part of your life when you're tearing up to this.
Playing World of Warcraft at a young age permanently alters your brain chemistry. No matter how much time passes or how many bottles of breast milk go missing from the Blizzard company fridge, I will always come back to play, eventually.
4got ab the breast milk thing lol thanks
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Cant believe this video actually made me tear up a bit. Beautiful ending to a beautiful video.
Oh my god, he's actually going to do it. He's actually going to upload videos this year! Let's goooooo!!!
This made me cry, this is crazy. I love especially how the music goes from being super up-beat vaporwave to the orchestral WoW music to a piano sonata. Every detail is so cool. The transition of your hunter going from modern textures to the older textures at 14:24 was a standout, and the ending scene recorded with a flip phone was what punched me in the gut. This is magic.
holy shit i haven't seen fronk video since 8.3
this year is starting crazy
isnt he editing for liquid maximum? or am i tripping and those are 2 different "fronks" lol
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Bleeding players till the server goes offline made me tear up.
All the people I have meet because of this game, All the people who have passed on, All the memory's at lan cafes back in the 2000s
We get some players back on new expansions and they seem to be able to retain them from DF on, but this hurts to hear still. I just want this game to stay there forever, like a little life I had somewhere else before so many years, that I can just jump into sometimes.
I am a 97 kid from Eastern Europe. I was introduced to it at age 14. I didn’t have the money to buy it so I just played in private servers. By the time I started the game was already going passed its prime. I played only wolk. It did something to me. I still go back to it and I recall going in areas and just explore. I couldn’t do it as much outside. In wow I mattered. I remember all the friendships I made and all which went down. The relationship inside and out of the game. When I think about it, nostalgia always creeps in. It is a game which shaped a big part of my childhood and early adulthood for better or worse.
I’ve been playing since 2008. My whole family plays, have played together since the start. In the same way that a good guild can get you through the worst WoW patches, I think the game had the converse effect of holding my family together as my sibling and I grew up and moved far away from home. I love this game, I love the person that I am when I talk about this game and play this game with people I love
the clip of T1 leaping into the water is 100% that "wow magic". For those of us who have played that magic may have dimmed, but now we get to pass it onto others. The magic becomes less about our enjoyment and more about how we can share the wonder that this game has provided us, with those who have never experienced it. Great video! ggs
Absolutely nailed the vibes I feel towards this too! Encompassed it flawlessly - I imagine heaps of us would give a lot just to feel that initial surge of wonder again that we had when we first began playing
WAKE UP NEW FRONK VIDEO
I woke up at 6:30 this morning and was going to snooze for another hour and this video was in my feed so it was time to get up and turn on the PC. Fronk videos aren't to be watched on a phone.
I'm not crying, you're crying. :) Thank you Fronk for making this and taking me back to my first time logging in. ;)
Thank you for the video, brought back a lot of nostalgic vibes being a kid again. Much love
Wow, you made me feel nostalgia and warmth for a game I never even played as a kid. I think a lot of what you said transfers to other mmos and just games in general. I feel like I'm constantly searching for that feeling of discovery in a world where it's now so much harder to get lost. Incredible video, thanks.
described my experience exactly. thanks for this great video.
I have played since my son said, "Dad, you played D&D in the 70s; you would love this." It was during late WOTLK. I joined at the launch of the first Cata, and I still play that same hunter (and others along the way) as my main, though I am not on retail as my computer can not run the game. So, I am back in CATA with a new main hunter since Classic BC. I have never stopped, though I do log off. My first big cheevo was Ahead of the Curve, or what it would have been called then, for Drag Soul before the April nerf.
This hit me right in the feels. Thanks fronk.
This.. This is the video I myself have wanted to make for a long time now. A look back, a retelling of ones own story.
Being also just a small kid, in our little country of Denmark, when I first got the game for christmas, it was nothing like i had ever played before.
Many years have passed since then, and I feel the same as you. The rush to max level and max gear every patch. This isn't the same game anymore.
But somehow, someway, I always find myself coming back. Because damn I love this game. No matter what happens.
Thank you for the amazing video Fronk. Good to see you back.
I’m playing it more nowadays than I have in the past decade. It comes and goes in waves, but the game is forevergreen and my server is consistently packed with people. And if I ever have a hankering to revisit classic, there’s tons of variety there too.
There’s literally no other video game that has impacted its player’s quite like wow. It’s like a childhood vacation home that we all remember fondly in our collective psyche.
i barely if ever write a comment on youtube,twitch or whatever...but this very heartfelt and speaks out of my soul :) i come back like 3 times a year to rewatch the fronk videos and to see a new one with a different kind of vibe makes me very happy! keep making videos once in a while, bc you have the amazing talent of mirroring what most of us feel and putting it into this crazy good videos. Big love, dont ever stop making videos like at least one every few years haha!
Wonderful video! HC classic has allowed me to re-live some sweet moments from the early days.
Gonna be a honest. World of warcraft is ALWAYS gonna be a love hate relationship no matter what expansion is released or how the balance and game state is.
It's really cool to hear these things from someone who's been playing the game forever.. I started the game when I was 19, but that was in Shadowlands so yeah like you said, most people I meet in game are older than me and yet I found this guild to raid with where I spend every possible day in voice chat with these guys cuz we're just having fun and if we're not playing WoW we're playing other games, but WoW just brought us together and stays the glue which I value so much. Never in my life have I had so many fun hours during a week and raiding is an absolute blast with these boys.
So even if the game changed almost every part of it, like the ship you described, the heart of it remains the same🥺❤️
Exactly this man, the only difference is back in the day we didn't have things like discord - so everyone was always online and on some voip program like teamspeak or ventrilo
I'm playing Turtle WoW right now, in Stormwind while waiting for a world buff, and after finishing the video I just slowly moved my camera around, seeing all the people running around, afk'ing in the city with their Corrupted Ashbringers, Spectral Tigers, Legendary titles, low level gear, druid forms, amazing and starting mounts... I really get what you're saying here, man. I'm thankful you finally decided to make this video.
I remember watching my brother and cousin play tbc and begging my parents to get my own pc with internet to play. My first character was a blood elf warlock and I ran through both plaguelands to get to Undercity cause I didn't know there was a teleporter in Silvermoon. I never even reached 70 before wotlk came out because I didn't even know what level cap was. I did play wotlk classic quite a lot, and I'm happy I got to relive that experience, although it wasn't totally the same as back then. There's just something so special about this game, the zones, music and experiences (from the classic trio) fills me with such fondness and nostalgia no other game could emulate. I've taken breaks, but I still have fun with multiple versions of the game, so it's hard to imagine ever truly quitting, but when the day comes, the memories of this game will stay with me forever.
What a great video. Thank you! Haven’t played WoW in so many years, however it will always have a special place in my heart.
Completely different video than I expected but this one hits so damn well. Great work as always, Fronk.
Amazing video. I followed a very similar path, loved watching Swifty back in the day. I will never forget the all nighters with friends in middle school during the cata days queueing 3s all night playing at the same house. Man we were awful, and I still never even broke 2k rating, but all those old pvpers made it such a special time. Recently I’ve been enjoying playing on classic era over the last few years, and although it isn’t the same, the sense pf community is very much alive and well. I’d encourage anyone searching for that old feeling of enjoyment of the game to give it a shot. Min max culture is still strong, but it honestly does still feel like something special with players at all levels interacting.
Started late bc, didn’t speak English so I had my dad translate. Got ahead of the curve in bfa 8.3.5 - ended up writing guides for wowhead later, developing strats for WFR in classic. I will probably always return again and again, but damn do I wish I could experience the first time again.
I still watch your old videos again and again because it encapsulates a time in my life where wow just was a big part of it. Reminiscing about having fun with my friend during the soccer boss. Skipping university to jump on discord Wednesday for our chest opening streams.
Thanks brother for that video. i can't believe this video make me cry around 13:13. Time is flying that's crazy. Miss ALOT this time.
Beautiful video. You're not alone. There are countless others that feel the same way. ❤
New fronk content holy shit blessed day
Oh fuck i'm crying. Thanks for this video.
Captures how I felt playing WoW back in the day vs today. It's still a game I've continued to love through the years. Banger video.
Great video. Sums up a lot of what I feel too. Especially the time capsule vibes with old characters. I started in Vanilla as a 16 year old. I'm 36 next week. I still dip in and play now and again for a month or two and then have to go back to RL stuff. The friends and the memories from old times keep me coming back.
Damnit Fronk, I came here for memes and funny bits. Not a gut-shot straight to the feels. 11/10 I'm not crying, you are
This was beautiful, made me cry!
this video gave me anxiety and comfort at the same time.
I hope it never dies. I would be heartbroken and life-lost.
I'm not crying, you're crying...
I started playing wow for real in Dragonflight just berfore Aberus Patch launched. After being in multiple guilds, seeing the good side of the community. I can see why so many people still play the game. Even though it's not as it was in the hay day. There's still small glimpses where at least to me show the old hay day spark is something else. I regret now not picking it up earlier when I knew I could have. The hay days were really something special and I missed out on it. Great video fronk, stay big buddy.
Good to see you back fronk ♥
i feel ya on the take of getting into classic. good vid brother xo
I am started playing WoW back at launch. I was in my early 20s and while I had always been a gamer I had never experienced anything like WoW. The story, the lore, the locations, the social engagement. It was like nothing else. I've taken small breaks throughout the years but have always come back to Azeroth and I think I always will. The game has changed a lot over that time, I still miss the tight connections I had with people, just sitting in Vent until all hours of the morning talking about WoW and life. I still love the game, it will always be 'my' game. I am loving the Classic Anniversary servers and I eagerly await S2 of TWW. I hope I am playing this game for the rest of my life in some capacity.
I have made so many good memories and friends in Azeroth. I will never forget creating my Night Elf Priest and loading into the starting zone, walking to Dolanaar and on to Darnassus and thinking 'I'll never remember where anything is, this world is so huge!' and then having my mind blown when I had to go to Darkshore and then again when my guildies came out to Auberdine to help me traverse the Wetlands on the way to Ironforge, catching the Deeprun Tram to Stormwind and walking to Westfall to do Deadmines for the first time.
Magic. It's always been magic.
That you chose a clip of Xaryu to demonstrate the use of that autopilot addon is a low blow! He resisted for so long ahahaha 🤣
Certified Fronk banger
I have so many good memories from this game. I started to playing with the Cataclysm expansion and to this day I remember my first Wanted quest. It was Wanted: Knucklerot and Luzran. I got smashed so hard by them!! My blood elf mage didn't stand a chance. My reaction was so funny. I loved it.
4:49 in and i feel like you perfectly explained my experience with WoW early on. I was huge into Swifty and had my parents buy me all the gear he used. I miss those days
i just turned 20 and I just started playing wow like three months ago. About a month ago I got into a mythic raiding guild- retail ya- I gotta admit the hours I've spent playing this game, especially in a raid environment- have been the most enjoyable hours in video gaming for me pretty much ever. It's such a unique experience being able to team up with a ton of people and defeat these iconic bosses. meeting people and what not, it's just so unique. i love this game c:
crying because of a fronk video was not on my 2025 bingo card..
I really miss the old times in wow, but we'll never get them back. I'm just happy I got to experience it. Current wow, though, still has it's huge moments for me. Legion was probably my all time favourite time in the game, and that came way later, and I think there's been other times where retail has really shone and shown me why I still want to keep playing! The game isn't dead at all to me.
as usual banger video from fronk. I hope you are doing good and the community never loses you
Don't settle for a slow decline into death, strive for greatness.
new fronk video and such a banger, fuck yeah
Man, I'll always love WoW and watching new players like Tyler1 experience WoW for the first time has been such a joy.
Dragonflight recaptured a lot of the magic i felt when i initially began playing WoW. Felt like that Xpac was made with love, just for me.
This video had me overwhelmed with nostalgia and damn near brought me to tears. I’ve been playing WoW since the end of TBC but played one of the RTS as a kid and actually bought classic WoW but didn’t know how to set it up lol. Anyways I will always remember my first couple characters, hunter warrior and rogue, and how bad I was at the game then but also how fun it was like he said in the video. I will always remember my first time getting serious about raiding in Wotlk, the epicness that was Deathknights when they were first introduced, and the grand finale of killing Arthas which is still one of the best raids ever with the best ending. I will always remember going to Gamestop at midnight for Cataclysm and MOP. I will always remember coming back so fast to the game when I found out about Legion, I quit after MOP then came back at the very end of WOD when Legion was announced at Blizzcon that year. Oh yea and I will always remember Blizzcon 23 when they announced the world soul saga and showed off one of their best cinematics ever. Yes the game has changed to something entirely different from 2004 but it still has its moments and I definitely don’t play it nearly as much as I did before. Ultimately I'm just here to enjoy the ride and finally see Azeroth come to life while dealing with other looming lore plots like the void, the light, the titans and most likely Sargeras and illidan as well. Maybe it will all be worth it, maybe it will all be more wasted time and money, but either way I’ll be glad to have some sort of closure with WoW and finally be able to hang up my daggers.
Also I will always remember when people used to gather outside of Org/SW or Dalaran Sewers to duel or look for arena partners. WoW PvP used to be the GOAT but every expansion starting with Legion made classes more and more unbalanced, yes there were always balance issues but it didn’t get out of hand until Legion imo. Tack onto that the fact that Blizzard basically treats pvp like a step-child and clearly plays favorites with pve/world content, also adds little to no new BGs, and haven’t added any dedicated world PvP zones or objectives since Cataclysm, its no wonder the pvp community gets smaller and smaller every year and then Blizzard uses that as an excuse to not focus on pvp content as much. Its almost as if when Ghostcrawler left Blizzard they just threw their hands up and put pvp in a corner.
You're not alone in there or in this feeling.
Welp that hit the feels, great video!
I was 14 and gaming wow when it released with some friends I had on runescape and highschool, my buddies dad was like 35 at the time (my age now) and he would also crush beers and play wow while we LAN partied and played super smash + mario kart. memories.
Being here... since 2007... what a journey
Man we lived the same childhood lol. This video bangs hard good stuff!
He's back and we've been waiting
Keep in mind that over time "exploring the game" became faster and faster through information online but not just that: It also became more streamlined through these created/manufactured expectations of standards. Another factor that played into this is probably flying increasing travel speeds which then forced the increase in combat speed which then forced the increase in dungeon/raid access. The game has accelerated since TBC. And you can't revert that or people drop out and those that demand it won't all return and aren't what made the hype in the first place.
Most people have just moved on. And the rest has issues accepting it.
That Stormwind music is still the best.
Incredible video brother! Thank you
i just started playing about two weeks ago, the sense of wonder and the scale gripped me. the world is living and breathing whether im there to witness it or not, and i sure would like to witness it.
i cant imagine how awesome it was back it the day to have an adventure and then go and tell your buds about it at recess. i had a bit of that with skyrim, but i can see how much different it wouldve been on wow. sad i missed out on the hay days, but happy i can experience it for the first time.
guides and optimizations ruin a lot of games, im trying to stay away from those as much as possible
true to swifty always promoting a healthy lifestyle....going on 20+ years now
I've missed you Fronk!!!
Much love my man ❤️ made me nostalgic
Lyder som om du og jeg har haft præcis den samme oplevelse med Wow. Vanvittig video!
Nostalgia lately has been hitting different and I think that needs to be studied...
RIP Byron
The last 2 minutes hit like a freight train. Damn
New fronk video dropped
This is beautiful, Fronk
Great video man! Sadly too many companies trying to make money of the fact that we miss being kids.. "Remastered" games and every old movie franchises getting a spinoff. Usually it's never going to be as it has been. Still we can try and enjoy the memories while we make new ones :)
Ive been playing the game for over 14 years, about first 9 years ive played on private servers full of bugs and non functional mechanics, because i was raised by single mother who couldnt afford to waste money on some videogame, quite the opposite, she always tried to push me away from the computer and do some "real stuff" and i cant really blame her for that. What i want to get to is that last 5 years ive been able to get my hands on the official game, played the TBC classic and WOTLK classic expansions because these were the versions that i played on the private servers as a kid and it was a blast to finally see it at its full potential and quality. However, when the Cataclysm classic came out, i felt like i dont know if i want to continue playing, because ive spent over 6 years on three different private servers playing that content and ive progressed everything from full heroic clears to high arena ratings and i basically didnt want to continue, especially because of the catch up mechanics that made the character progression basically irrelevant. I did not play the game for about half year, but recently, when they announced the 20th anniversary realms, i thought to myself "man, i kinda miss that game, from time to time i even randomly hear the soundtrack of different zones in my head and i miss that", so i gave it a shot and started new character on the new vanilla classic 20th anniversary realm. However, first few levels i felt like its whatever, the usual grind im used to and i wouldnt be excited about that much. Then i found about the AI Voiceover Addon and OH BOI, this thing changed everything. I was never paying attention to the quest givers, never got into reading quests etc., i just did the job and that was it, when it came to the lore of the game, i would read some of the Christie Golden books... but with this addon, everytime i take a quest, the addon makes the game much more alive, because all the quest givers are actually talking to you and telling you what to do while you are already heading to the quest location and i got so much insight into the lore of the zones i never knew about, that i feel like im playing the game for the very first time again. Its a very weird but very exciting feeling. I would definitely recommend getting that addon and trying it for yourselves, of course i mean if its the same case for you, that you never actually read any of the quests and just went killing or collecting whatever without any context.
Agree , Love WoW been playing since i was 14 , i started back in 2006
Damn..this vid hits hard.. soooo many memories 😖
As someone who got into wow on shadowlands s1,quit and came back for dragonflight season 3. Im glad im alive and got into the game at the time I did. The "Magic" is always there, is just that you have to be a kid like you said, the way you remember wow I remember Adventure Quest Worlds, a shitty browser MMO. However, now I feel like the fun I have is more "earned", not a lot of game can hook me, and this game has clicked for me so much. I love pushing high keys on M+, mythic raiding, parsing and reclears. I did play FFXIV and other MMOs but none grabbed me like wow did, I interact with most types of content, I do all the quests, try to get achievements I see are nearby, collect the treasures to unlock the cosmetics/junk items to sell for gold, max my renown tracks and just overall enjoy the game for what it is.
Its the greatest game if all time and its not down from its prime. More are playing its different versions together then before
Another certified fronk banger. Keep it comin
Max gonna have a field day with this one.
Was a pleasure getting to know you over the last tier bud
Everytime Dratnos makes fun of Fronk, I’m going to imagine Fronk as his small, Jedi-child self. Shame on Dratnos for mocking a child 😂
Man I miss Byron days, seems to have been on a steady burning crash since his passing.
luv u fronk
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Fronk absolulely rizzin here
You video is like your accent: unbelievably good !
I will say that PTR has ruined the unkown far more than knowledge has. You know everything before the content has even been released.
No Ptr wouldn't matter as much as people think it would.
FF14 doesn't have a ptr and everyone goes into a new patch/expansion blind, yet things get discovered so fast and strategies optimized and shared so quickly that you pretty much only have a couple days to find/figure out something cool yourself before it becomes "widely known information".
Don't get me wrong I still love this part of FF14 and usually try to get a couple days off on release because this "discovering together with the community" is still really cool for the first few days, but it's just the information age we live in that it'll never be like in the 2000 and early 2010s where you could do this for months.
Facts, people optimizing the crap out of games has destroyed so mana genres
I didn't want to cry man..
I’m 20 I’ve been playing since I was 10 and the game feels so dead now but I keep playing mostly for nostalgia like anyone else.. but aside from me I don’t know if any 20yo who actively play the game. Especially in Australia. Love these retrospectives even if they’re not for my target demographic. Even the friend I had that introduced me to the game has long since lost interest.
My first time trying WoW, a friend convinced me to play on 150 ping for a chance to meet Swifty and Reckful. However, you know you're getting old when you years later make the change to 20 ping for a chance to play with Fronk.
Great video and i think you nailed it at 8:40 imo