The Moltdown was one of the best things that happened to me. It was the end of my gaming addiction. Few months later I started lifting and eating well, then found a good job etc. I learned the hard lesson of NEVER investing my time and energy in something someone can just take away.
You only received a single like and thats me , reason of this is very very few understand how important change was that in your life and ev1s life.. people getting obsessed in the virtual world , spending countless hours while they could actually master anything they like irl. I agree with you.
@@johnnyboi1318 Many people dont like irl and can you blame them? Most people are shit, just like this Hermes guy. One more thing, no one can take away the memories and experiences you have had. Well, except altzheimer I guess.
@@balistikcious ofc and its true , no i wont blame em but thats not an excuse to actually avoid the real world, you can pass on the bad guys/attitudes and turn your focus to those that actually can benefit you a thing or 2 , always, take what it helps you grow and gtfo. And trust me on this , im speaking of experience , had 1 brother and a father with terrible violent attitudes cause of deugs/alcohol and had to take their shit everyday for a long time in my life, wow was once my neighbourhood 2 , but in the end i realized that i shouldnt "hide" somewhere to rest that much instead i could have take actions sooner, time cannot be taken back, games can. Be strong whoever reads that and suffers the way i did, and remember to just act instead of "healing" in a virtual world. Ive been there.
@@johnnyboi1318 Im sorry for your past and I am glad that you have found your ‘calling’, I really am although I somehow still find the best hobby to be gaming and many of my friends as well, I mean irl friends who are mechanics, DJs, dentists etc. Ofc we do other stuff as well but we mostly play when there isnt anything better or the weather is shit :)
Had 6 VIP accounts, 58 characters, 50+ of which had 2.2+ in 3v3, 2.5+ in 2v2 and 40+ of which had 2v2/3v3 Glad titles. Played with marcus, john, zage, marm, despo, vijay, chris, drainer, etc... All my chars were in 4 biggest guilds on AT. Not even a WEEK after the molten merge, 90% of people across all 4 of these guilds, stopped playing and out of my friend list that was COMPLETELY FULL with everyone being online everyday, suddenly dropped to only 1-2 friends being online every day, to eventually 0 friends being online. Ended up selling all my accounts for only 1,000 EUR because I knew the server will die...
Arena Tournament 2009 was the far best private server ever, at that time it had almost every gladiator from retail competing there, before merges were done with other servers, AT was best, ever. Change my mind
I'm one of the guys who lost a good well geared character there. I've been with Molten since 2010 and when that stuff hit us it was hard. Luckily current Warmane guys managed to hold their own and returned back.
I was 15 years old, had no internet at that time, went to an internet caffe and made an account on Molten wow WOTLK expansion, everything was new and interesting, community was friendly and places were very populated, im 26 now and i play wow on Firestorm, Shadowlands will be launched in a month now but nothing will ever compare to that first wow experience on Molten.
@@motyfokol5392 Yes it is okay, most of the things work, it's boring that is why you don't see many people, it's endgame and we are all waiting for Shadowlands.
Hm I don't get why you'd play retail wow on a private server. Sure, some people might not be willing to pay $15 a month, but with Blizzard at least your account and characters are secure, and you can pay for the sub with in game gold.
I remember discovering this server back in 2010 and I was 13 back then, spent almost all of my free time playing there. I have 2 good geared characters with great achievements, both went from WotLK to Cata, had sick transmog gears, and they were on Neltharion, made a lot of good in-game friends as well. And little did we know stuff like that could happen... couldn't believe it has been like a decade ago. I'm 24 now, could afford playing on retail but too bad I don't have that much time to spend on games anymore due to work. Those Molten days were the good old times. I miss my characters and my in-game friends.
I played for a while after the incident ocurred and it was a huuuuuge deal in the pserver community, Molten shutting down indirectly brought down other smaller servers that were not ready for the massive number of players looking for a new server to play on and everyone was trying to get a piece of the massive community that was left homeless. I recall starting a character on a Cataclysm server and there were dozen of Molten refugees on the guild I joined and talking about the "Moltdown" on public channels was extremely common. The wipeout caused Arena Tournament and Molten to merge which in my honest opinion was a net plus, Warmane now has the solo queue system for arenas and the mercenary mode for battlegrounds which I'm certain wouldnt have happened without the merge, as well as being better coded than Molten was and I find it very unlikely a second incident could happen.
I worked for Molten when the incident happened, it was genuinely one of the lifetime experience, I still have the memes of Hermes we made in the staff chat. But yeah, it was stressful for everyone involved. Afterwards there was a lawsuit against the shithead but I have no idea where it went since I left mid 2017. I miss the place, good times despite all that happened. Kaer is Azerbaijani btw
my dude you dont even know half of it. what part of the team were you in? im an AT players and i still have screenshots from convos with malaco arguing and trashing on molten devs and molten staff from like 2009 back when AT was called abyssal-wow, all the way to like 2013-2014 just prior to the merge... anyway, yeah, they literally faked that whole ''hijacking'' bull**** just to refresh/reset the servers and populations. it was never real in the first place, it was all planned and you can't find pictures of forum posts, dms, twitter messages, discord, skype dms or anything else, anywhere on the internet, even the waybackmachine can't recover the deleted forum posts... luckily some of us from AT still have the old screenshots of convos. molten staff is like a miniature corrupt government man, you dont even know the half of it... trust me
@@nogerboher5266 soo share some pics then... many people claim that the hijack was real, hermes and kaer got into a fight and the staff got split in two, (one group for hermes and other for kaer) and if you think its fake, why so many got kicked out especially those that sided with hermes...
@@cautarepvp2079 bro that whole scandal was as fake as flat earth. I don’t “think” it’s fake, I know Like everyone who was on at and molten staff know this shit and some of us have screenshots
Im currently 16 playing warmane on icecrown, and i can’t help but remember why i’m here in the first place. As a little kid at around 6-8 years old, i watched my oldest brother play a really nice looking game that looked really intricate to me as a young child. Little did i know he was playing on molten WoW. My brother eventually told me about how he was playing during the death of molten and that was what got me into WoW now. I can still remember sitting behind him watching him fly his night elf hunter in Icecrown.
Dude... I started on Molten.. so much memories... I never forget that moment when I somehow managed to run wow on my ex gf's old ass Toshiba pc... and after many hours of fails and anger the starting music finally played and i logged in the first time as a human mage.. Bro ...
I remember I was flying around Icecrown farming Saronite ores when it happened.Surprisingly,I never got DCd and just kept flying around for a while,thinking it's just another server lag (which was extremely common)since I couldn't loot anything anymore.I waited for about an hour tabbed/flying around and even went to Dalaran to check whats up and if anyone was online there.Finally I gave up and logged out waiting for them to fix the lag and went to bed.That was the last time is saw my Toon.
Ah, Molten… The very best memories I have connected to WoW. Brings up such nostalgia. I remember getting hacked once, but I fought on and got my main to almost BiS lvl only to get Moltdown… I miss those days and mostly I miss my guild :')
the moment molten merged with arena tournament was when molten or warmane became good, previous scripting was awful on moltens side. AT's core saved kaer
but that was also when the pvp community started to die off, all previous achievements and everything just wiped off the planet from AT's side. all r1 titles lost and 2.2k weps etc
@@Snusblues AT player here. literally all AT players stopped playing in LITERAL MONTH after the merge. after ONLY A MONTH or month and a half, AT aka ''blackrock'' population was 90% molten players. nobody who played on AT was playing there anymore. LIterally 90% of us sold our accounts that same month after merge lol
Played since 2009 to 2021. I recently lost my main character on Warmane to hacker or something. Due to poor communication with staff, I got all other chars back , but not him since after disaster, I sold what was left of him and then they decided to help me, but it was too late... After that, I tried Shadowlands, but quit after 3 months or less. That ended my WoW adventure sadly. RIP Crazy, my beloved Orc Arms Warrior , I'll always remember ya!
As a new player to wow entirely i for some reason chose wotlk as the expansion i wanted to play and warmane as the server i wanted to play on but i had no clue about all this history behind it.
Ahh MoltenWoW... this video brought too many memories to even share in a comment section... i will forever miss you Night Elf Hunter and all of my pets....
While some players did quit I would say most of them stayed and it was in a way a fresh start. Shout out to my boys from Solace, great memories from that times!
the way that you were telling this story is like a child is getting a book read by his father so he could help him fall asleep, AMAZING and INCREDBILE video man ,also nice name (Zadnjitrzaj lmaooo) anyways dude keep up with the good work, you're doing awesome man
I played on that server since 2011. Played there for years. Was a DK tank. Played so.much i literally got to the point where i deleted my DK. I had everything the game had to offer, and i got bored. I have lots of memories from that server. Thats where i learned how stupid i can get from love, i literally farmed and sold so much shit, i made 20k in one day just to have that mammoth to carry a girl i dated around for leveling. It was a good place.
I was playing on Molten, Frostwolf was realm if I remember it, somewhere in 2010. started. Before that I played not so long on retail but some hard time came in to my life, lost my long time girlfriend, lost my job and got in to big debt and on top of all, most strongest pillar in my life, my mother have died, all in few months. I was crushed, depression hit hard on me, I became caveman, my thought were dark and think it was matter of days before I would take my life. Than I found Molten. Only thing that could keep my mind off of dark thoughts, met many good people there, had so much fun and even started laughing again. I dont care about lost chars, when u have good friends in that game it is most fun no matter are u gearing or just smashing trough pvp or pve. Thing is it became very toxic server, idk why and exactly when it happened but people started insulting each other on every step in game, total opposite of what it use to be. My friends started leaving server, they stopped playing game. I tried on some other servers but eventually I would always come back to Warmane, new name yeah, Became solo player, got my chars all close to 6k so i can have some fun in pvp and thats it all I would do was log in and go in to battleground with class that I fell like playing atm. Then when Blizz finally said they will make classic servers I left, linger on some private classic until Blizz opened theirs and that was end of me and Molten. Toxicity is killing that server, I know many people left bcs of that. Anyways I feel much better now although depression is still around me i can feel it, especially around holidays, but Molten did have big impact and even maybe saved someone life is all I wanted to say and thanks to Kaer for all the fun he gave to us
I remember that day. Tbh it was heartbreaking. But I really liked how warmane solved the problem. Respect to wmane. Tho, they should now pay more attention on wmanes community, since there is a lot of things that must be fixed.
Here is a really funny story. I played on Ragnaros realm and had 6 BiS pvp characters, horde was so strong that i even remember when Discoinverno ( I awaken I gm) left ally to join us at Tears guild and that was a hard hit for ally in wpvp and premade bgs. Then Moltdown, lost everything, most people didnt want to even play again so Horde pvp died and i moved to Mop realm 1 month after Moltdown, for the next 3 years that realm had an avg of 2k-3k players and it was so fun, I loved MoP so much that even it was buggy af I didnt think of wotlk anymore, pvp, mounts, titles, toys... I ended up with another 5 BiS PvP chars which took a lot of hard work too and then the realm population died :). So yeah. Life.
I stared playing Molten's Cata server casualy some time before the shutdown. When it reopened as Warmane I swiched to wolk... Best decision I ever made! I never knew what happened to Molten, I thought it was a marketing strategy or some copyright issue. Thanks for the info man!
ye, I was there when Moltdown happened. It didn't affect donors however, cuz with the coins they got from the staff, they made their toons bis again and killing LoD again was a walk in the park. The non donors were the ones who took a heavy blow and I knew many people who quit the server after that. I myself took a year break after that and played LoL, but came back to WoW and Warmane and still playing to this day. I remember the good old days, when DBS was dps test and ICC and RS had 4 difficulties, like on retail. Gonna sub to you mate and maybe I'll see you on horde side too.Peace!
Been through this event made me feel like a cameraman in history. I remember keeping up all day on Facebook for information from both sides and decide which one was the genuine one. Surprisingly yes, most people decided to stay even though all datas were lost except some purchased history. If I’m not wrong, only existing Shadowmourne purchase was regiven. Gifts like coins and hundred points were given by accounts. I never spent money but I was still given coins and hundreds of points to exchange for item.
Murphy's law did me dirty again , i almost continued my warmane journey , but i switched quickly to Tauri's MoP because of a friend group that had an intrest to WoW together. Now i stumbled upon a Balkan guild and a "neckbeard" (as you described yourself, no offense) who we happen to share a country with - when it's too late to change our minds lol. Rock on man , best of luck on YT. Enjoy our favorite game. Budi pozdravljen , mnogo :D
I was still a newbie when the moltdown happened. Lost my first ever 80 lvl character who had full Furious set I believe. Reading the comments with all the memories is so sad :(
Troncho (Horde Male Troll character), From Molten Wow Mop. If by any chance you happen to see my comment then please do reply. We've really missed you. I was one of the new player back then and you helped us and guided us through everything! Do respond Troncho!! ✌😢
Gnev, just wanted to tell you how much I love your videos and your voice. "Hi Gnev here" xD. You're actually a very good story teller as well, sometimes I even fall asleep to your clips. Please make more WOTLK videos!! :D
I was there when it happen lol "the great crash" that's prolly the reason i stopped playing wotlk for one of the longest periods of time, the crash wasn't the reason most ppl like me left (actually many were really hiped there will be fresh server filled with people). The problem was that as soon as it opened and we logged on there were tons of people who already payed for full bis and farming us... And yup me and all my friends saw this as a big red flag
I ran my own pserver for my friends and I way back. We did the first 3 expansions when we were able to rip off decent cores. I screwed around and retuned the dungeons and raids to have non-elite stats so a group of 3-5 could complete them. It was pretty casual but it was fun to do with friends. Never really liked these big pservers because of the p2w.
Cata - Frostwolf From the stormwind channel being spammed with funny achivement names, to the broken Darkmoon faire quests, this server has kept my then-16 year old brain addicted and entertained. Man, I still remember spamming end time heroics (using the unreliable group finder no less!) just to get my ret pally the two handed axe, which I ended up xmogging into zinrokh destroyer of worlds (which also took a great deal of time to farm) after finding out about the xmog glitch. Good times. Shame the Molt-down happened. I EDIT: To the person who I met during the christmas staircase event, I hope you got the costume flask at the end of it! And hopefully, life's been good to you these days dude!
after the whole molten ordeal i was thinking about giving up for good and i never recoverd anything no coins nothing 1 year later i came back after playing cata during that time on another server and my old accounts were still there untouched so i decided to make a fresh start after some time playing even now 2021 i still have them ocasionaly play not rading hardcore but just comeing from time to time doing auctions and the friends i made along the way are still there so it was quite of a trip but im still happy knowing that the server is there and i can enjoy Wotlk :D thanks for makeing this video
It's really ironic how it all turned out. Before Molten, Kaer was a security admin at Neverendless-WoW and attempted a similar coup with the staff there. He met with staff of NE to start Molten and when they finally launched it, they tried ruining the economy by sending out massive amounts of gold, items, etc. to random people on NE while spamming Molten's website link. Although what Kaer did with Molten/Warmane was an amazing feat even to this day, it started out by screwing over another server that had entrusted him. I guess Hermes was Kaers karma.
I have quite a few screenshots of the forums from that time - all the empty promises that were broken etc. I screenshotted them in real-time to share on raidcall and Skype with friends and they’re in my google drive still as a painful reminder of the thousands of wasted hours
I was one of those players and I had no idea of what happened, ty so much for this video;) But also warmane staff had a pretty weird behavior when they shut down cataclysm server and gave us green gear to restart in icecrown and 0 coins refund -.- that's when I quitted
I was there from december 2009, and i’m still there but after i lost my old characters didn’t really cared anymore about achivments. I m still there for bgs.
Thank you for this. It was so emotional for me. I had 5+ years with molten since age 11. You can see from my channel my guild actually basically became the only major guild in the pure pvp realm of Warsong in molten wow’s cataclysm. I had insiders, I had so much drama, we had 3k+ active members, the only active guild, so many events, we held the server alive since it was pure pvp and we were limited to what we can do. The population started strong and died overtime, but we ultimately died with the moltdown. I always said the guild would never die because we were active. As a guild leader at age 16, it devastated me. If you ever want to do an interview with me, I’d be glad to share anything. I love this game and miss much. RIP guild “BATTLEGROUND”
RavageRose here, player #13 of Molten wow. I remember this day, was so tragic an caused a mass panic. An it also lead to a huge change in people in power and a mass abuse of their powers. I tried to stay during the progression to warmane, but many of the staff got so power hungry an especially on forums where a lot of us liked to have fun. I am now n Ascension an mainly a solo player but having a blast. I stop back in from time to time to Warmane but it just doesnt have that same feeling anymore.. to many of my old friends left an my guild fo 7 yrs faded away.
Cixelsyd, Aixelsyd, Karenfurr, DianeNguyen, Michiruwaifu here. I miss the Cataclysm, even if it was bugged. Never knew why they took it out. Anyways, I recently had quit playing WoW again and even if donor 5 multiboxing ruined wintergrasp a lot of the time, I'm still glad I was able to enjoy the game a bit more. I always told people that they're going to forget they're on a private server when they log on and get into a city because, at least Org/Stormwind, they were always packed. Sometimes they'd even hit the 15k player cap. It's a real shame that this happened. I remember hearing about this and it was awful. I quit cuz of it for a while. It's unfortunate tbh it was really the best WoW server imo (and I had tried over 30 probably)
Shout out to my old guild "New Dawn"! Lost contact with most of the people there aswell as 7 BiS characters.. I am one of those people who's screams you can still hear in ICC. 😃
LOL I was in New Dawn during my PvE break from AT 🤣🤣🤣 What was your ign? I talked to didko back in like 2014/15 when I stopped playing wow after the merge
Used to play alot in 2010-11. And again in from 2014 to the hermes take over and the cata realm. I wish they brought back the cata realm, It was fun and gold was easy to farm.
i had a 5.9k unholy pvp dk and all i did was duel and occasionally some pvp content. i was nowhere near bis before moltdown but i just had too many good memories and good times spent with that character. it was never the same after the moltdown. same name, same character model, but a very different feeling.
To true. After Molten was wiped, I made an 2 years brake. They deleted my beloved bis paladin. Currently, I'm still trying to remake it on Warmane, but is just at 70% of old toon.
I havent played on molten but ive been olaying on Warmane for a few years now. Its always a blast to listen of the old "glory" days from players even older than me.
I lost my DK named Ousbourne the Insane with lots of achievements, +30 titles and ~150 mounts. Played it from wotlk to cataclysm. Server wipe is when the chain was broken.
I was there back then. He also tried to get us to pay him to get our characters back. Even with everything settled, they ended up shutting down all cata servers without warning. No reimbursement for my coins, gear, or mounts. I had about $450 worth of coins and gear. Will never touch their server again.
I remember this when it happened. You could also say this lead to the creation of the progressive Lordaeron, viewed by many as one of the best pure blizzlike wotlk servers ever. Nice video Gnev.
Molten isn't the first place I played WoW at, but I and my real life buddies have had some good friends locally and internationally from there. Frostwolf's (back when it was still a WotLK server) Mutual Hatred gave me my first shot at a big guild. They needed a Disc Priest, and there aren't that many because it's not really a PUG friendly spec as everybody loves their Recount (which doesn't record absorbs). While I have been looking for a guild that raids in the American time zone (EU guilds don't really fit my playing times). Sadly the core members left before ICC25 HC was released. Then when Frostwolf was converted to Cataclysm I transferred to Lordaeron server, wherein I was adopted by a casual guild named Serenity, as I just wanted to chill down and stuff. Stayed there until I had to leave the game for real life purposes. It's a shame hearing about what happened with Molten. It's basically where I have started maturing lol (I was a hot-blooded competitor before getting into MH). At the very least Warmane is doing well for itself. I'm not really sure how this got into my recommendations (as I'm mostly following Dota and SC2 on RUclips), but thanks for the story.
I remember one day I logged in with the thought, I`ll just do a raid and some bgs and shitpost infront of OG. When I logged in all I did was look stupidly at the screen for 2 minutes like "the fuck". Later read what had happened.
Oh, man, the nostalgia is real. It's been so long but I still miss my characters, especially my 6.4K warlock and 6.3K shadow priest. I played on warmane for a little bit after moltdown but it just wasn't the same. Pozdro dla gildii Diffuse z Deathwinga: Linku, Orzech, Pijawka, Szorstki, Igraszka, Honercy, Burza, Vezzat
I still remember the day when they shut down the Frostwolf cataclysm server, i was doing Firelands 10HC with ma boys and after few wipes on Lord Ryolith while we were respawning we just could not enter instance, then we Immediately got disconnected... Then we tried few times but nothing worked.. Tomorrow morning was so sad... ☹
been playing on warmane for years ! knew a thing a two about molten and melt down but never in detail ! thank you, still one of the best private servers
Daaamn this brings back so many memories.Didnt know all this happened, i stopped around 2012 i think. I was on the first horde kill on lk heroic!its probably the best feel i got from a game ever! Alliance beat us by abusing a bug though!Damn fun times! Sad to hear all this happend
I can still remember I was at work working night shift, I had my laptop and I tried to log in but couldn't so I thought it was probably server maintenance although nothing was announced. then after a a day or two that I couldn't log in I thought my account got hacked. I got worried so I checked online and read that the servers shutdown but that was about it, never knew the reason until a few days after the problem occurred.
Man, this video hit the feels! It was on molten I started having the real glimpse of end game wotlk, even though it was really bad scripted it felt so good getting bis items on my warrior... I did a lot of achievment hunting (even though most of the achievs werent working for example, ulduar and old content raids were completly broken so no achievs there, and loremaster would have to be cheated by faction changing...) Still, most of the friends i made in molten are still the ONLY friends i keep on talking to this day. I remember when the moltdown happened, even typing hermes in /s was censured back ar the begining of warmane, which made me think there was some massive conapiracy going on. I admit i kinda thought Hermes was right cus he was getting straight out censured... Right now i look back at it, we have a server that is 1000% better scripted and Over all better so... Fuck it. I still have fun
Anyone else remember that realm they tested out where u could summon totems as any class in battlegrounds and they had special abilities?? I looked for some videos of that but couldnt find any.. that mode was one of the funnest thing I ever played.. I wish they had kept it ;c
The reality was server was dying rapidly and was not generating revenue, to atleast cover hosting. Because the server was old full with bugs and bis characters they had to reset it somehow because they finally had decent core with decent scripts, but the majority of people that was donating had already lots of bis toons. To fix that they create drama and wipe the server so the people can play and stay strong together. What they give back was nothing compare to what people lost, but on the other hand if they was able to return everything to everyone the server will be at same state.
Trinity core revision at that time was up. And Molten revision was atleast 5 years old. Molten team was unable to fix most bugs or had no clue how to fix them. Most bugs was not fixed at all. What new revision had fixed. All the drama with Hermes was FAKE ... As person he never existed. Only forum account name was up.
Got this video on my recommended. I've been playing on official servers ever since cataclysm, but I still remember molten wow the name. I think I played there during wrath. Either way, I have a good association with that in my head. Good memories
Seems i was lucky, joined in October 2014 I've lost only a bit, feels bad for players who lose more, even now are old molten players. That's insane. /Wave from Kenzz.🏹
I am one of those players lost so Many bis char. And got only 350c to do What? Not even 1 Char. I lost the achiv mounts titles all. I still belive was a trick of molten leader cause at this time before this happen molten was slowly die. Like 1k max online players at death wing and ragnaros. After the merge with the fake ques and numbers they make alot of money
God damn i remember this like yesterday.. this was the moment i went to Freakz Wow i started at 2010 on Deathwing server,if any1 is from that server Salute to you it was great while it lasted
Freakz was fun. Their legion core was crazy broken. I really enjoyed how broken it was. You could do some crazy stuff with some classes and others didn’t work at all when I played. Lol
lmao man, i would go full arrogance mode on forums just to troll the shit out of people (RavageRose here btw) was such a good way to just sit back an have fun, shooting the shit on forums. Now of days they are far to strict an don't let fun really happen. Ruined the community
It's actually quite promising that it's ex molten guys running warmane now cause at least they won't make the same mistake again. I mean probably the inner circle is very limited and trusted. I hope at least lol
I was one of those fallen souls,i had a mage on Netharion x12 server,when all that mess happend i played on Cataclysm servers and i spend days,weeks to somehow bring my characters back after that we all got all those free coins but its was pointless and i stoped playing there for good but that period was the best wow times for me. P.s: Omega Dynasty guild ❤️
Ah yes, losing my characters wasn't a big deal for me as I had already basically quit moltenwow at that point and was playing retail full time since I had income and could afford it now. When I was first playing molten I was a baby, a mere child with no money, but when the opportunity to start playing retail full time arose, I took it. But... Here we are in 2021 and I have not touched the dumpster fire known as retail since BFA and I am back on warmane loving it just like the old days.
I think Molten was much BETTER than warmane, with all the stuff available from the marketplace and even the old voting system. Given the fact that it always was pay to win, now warmane became very greedy and the whole community is quite toxic. Btw nice video, now the new donors will understand a little about the history of the server.
Old voting system was broken. You could buy everything from the marketplace for VP even items that were quest rewards and had no lvl restriction. It was stupid. You could be lvl 1 and have a weapon that was for lvl 80. Voting was always a bad system for private servers and even now on Warmane there are people that have 5k GS just from buying gear for points and they play like shit because they never had a chance to get these items legitimately.
molten, now warmane, is still a business primarily now. The main point is having that server queue in which you must wait 5-10 minutes to log in. This can be fixed by upgrading the servers, and it shouldnt be that expensive taking into account the income the server gets, but the whole business model of one realm for new players that they get to play for one year then they get migrated into the server that has a queue and the only way to overcome this is paying money kinda gives away the fact that they are desperate for people to pay to play.
this should be in history books in 8th grade
HA HA !
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAh
a bit exagerated, made me laugh a lot
XD
At least Nostalrius will be, in Blizzard's history book.
Rave lord yeee
Remember when you could buy mounts and cool stuff by vote points?yea good old days
pepperidge farm remembers
Dude you could even buy the insane title via point shop with the darkmoon cards and pristine black diamonds you could aquire.
I was still in highschool during that time 😭
Lastwow
God, I remember voting religiously just to save up enough points to buy corrupted ashbringer for my ret pally xmog.
The Moltdown was one of the best things that happened to me. It was the end of my gaming addiction. Few months later I started lifting and eating well, then found a good job etc.
I learned the hard lesson of NEVER investing my time and energy in something someone can just take away.
You only received a single like and thats me , reason of this is very very few understand how important change was that in your life and ev1s life.. people getting obsessed in the virtual world , spending countless hours while they could actually master anything they like irl.
I agree with you.
@@johnnyboi1318 Many people dont like irl and can you blame them? Most people are shit, just like this Hermes guy. One more thing, no one can take away the memories and experiences you have had. Well, except altzheimer I guess.
@@balistikcious ofc and its true , no i wont blame em but thats not an excuse to actually avoid the real world, you can pass on the bad guys/attitudes and turn your focus to those that actually can benefit you a thing or 2 , always, take what it helps you grow and gtfo.
And trust me on this , im speaking of experience , had 1 brother and a father with terrible violent attitudes cause of deugs/alcohol and had to take their shit everyday for a long time in my life, wow was once my neighbourhood 2 , but in the end i realized that i shouldnt "hide" somewhere to rest that much instead i could have take actions sooner, time cannot be taken back, games can.
Be strong whoever reads that and suffers the way i did, and remember to just act instead of "healing" in a virtual world. Ive been there.
@@johnnyboi1318 Im sorry for your past and I am glad that you have found your ‘calling’, I really am although I somehow still find the best hobby to be gaming and many of my friends as well, I mean irl friends who are mechanics, DJs, dentists etc. Ofc we do other stuff as well but we mostly play when there isnt anything better or the weather is shit :)
Like....Life?
Arena tournament was godlike tier server. When it became part of warmane as blackrock its nothing but a shadow of its former self.
True.
Someone tag Malaco to read this!
Had 6 VIP accounts, 58 characters, 50+ of which had 2.2+ in 3v3, 2.5+ in 2v2 and 40+ of which had 2v2/3v3 Glad titles. Played with marcus, john, zage, marm, despo, vijay, chris, drainer, etc... All my chars were in 4 biggest guilds on AT. Not even a WEEK after the molten merge, 90% of people across all 4 of these guilds, stopped playing and out of my friend list that was COMPLETELY FULL with everyone being online everyday, suddenly dropped to only 1-2 friends being online every day, to eventually 0 friends being online. Ended up selling all my accounts for only 1,000 EUR because I knew the server will die...
still eighty billion trillion million times better than retail ever will be
Arena Tournament 2009 was the far best private server ever, at that time it had almost every gladiator from retail competing there, before merges were done with other servers, AT was best, ever. Change my mind
I'm one of the guys who lost a good well geared character there. I've been with Molten since 2010 and when that stuff hit us it was hard. Luckily current Warmane guys managed to hold their own and returned back.
deathwing - Pokemonz guild :D that community times geez :D never gonna experince this again D:
Im from December 2009, i lost many geared characters. Today i play on blizzard server, but this was good times for me in wow at all, five years...
I remember when there was a bug in BG where you could get 3 times the stats in hp dps, we used that to do icc hc
@@rustyshackelford4613 yeah, and bug in raids, when some1 out of the raid instance can reset raid, and u can farm raids all day :D
I was 15 years old, had no internet at that time, went to an internet caffe and made an account on Molten wow WOTLK expansion, everything was new and interesting, community was friendly and places were very populated, im 26 now and i play wow on Firestorm, Shadowlands will be launched in a month now but nothing will ever compare to that first wow experience on Molten.
Is firestorm good? Doesn't seem that populated....
@@motyfokol5392 Yes it is okay, most of the things work, it's boring that is why you don't see many people, it's endgame and we are all waiting for Shadowlands.
@@nikolajcosta5420 it sucks that shadowlands sucks. but hey it's better than nothing.
@@motyfokol5392 Total true
Hm I don't get why you'd play retail wow on a private server. Sure, some people might not be willing to pay $15 a month, but with Blizzard at least your account and characters are secure, and you can pay for the sub with in game gold.
I remember discovering this server back in 2010 and I was 13 back then, spent almost all of my free time playing there. I have 2 good geared characters with great achievements, both went from WotLK to Cata, had sick transmog gears, and they were on Neltharion, made a lot of good in-game friends as well. And little did we know stuff like that could happen... couldn't believe it has been like a decade ago. I'm 24 now, could afford playing on retail but too bad I don't have that much time to spend on games anymore due to work. Those Molten days were the good old times. I miss my characters and my in-game friends.
I felt that bro. Something die inside of me with all my chars when surver go down and everything was deleted
I heard about Molten, even played a bit on the server back then. But i had no clue what the whole story was. Ty for the good lore! Keep 'em coming.
MoltenWoW Cata PVP realm was a beast and had so much fun on it...
It was a fking amazing server and so active
I played for a while after the incident ocurred and it was a huuuuuge deal in the pserver community, Molten shutting down indirectly brought down other smaller servers that were not ready for the massive number of players looking for a new server to play on and everyone was trying to get a piece of the massive community that was left homeless. I recall starting a character on a Cataclysm server and there were dozen of Molten refugees on the guild I joined and talking about the "Moltdown" on public channels was extremely common. The wipeout caused Arena Tournament and Molten to merge which in my honest opinion was a net plus, Warmane now has the solo queue system for arenas and the mercenary mode for battlegrounds which I'm certain wouldnt have happened without the merge, as well as being better coded than Molten was and I find it very unlikely a second incident could happen.
I worked for Molten when the incident happened, it was genuinely one of the lifetime experience, I still have the memes of Hermes we made in the staff chat. But yeah, it was stressful for everyone involved. Afterwards there was a lawsuit against the shithead but I have no idea where it went since I left mid 2017. I miss the place, good times despite all that happened.
Kaer is Azerbaijani btw
AZERBABOONIE XD
LEMME GUESS HERMES WAS A SUIDICE BOMBER FROM SAUDI ARABIA ? HAHA½!!
my dude you dont even know half of it. what part of the team were you in? im an AT players and i still have screenshots from convos with malaco arguing and trashing on molten devs and molten staff from like 2009 back when AT was called abyssal-wow, all the way to like 2013-2014 just prior to the merge... anyway, yeah, they literally faked that whole ''hijacking'' bull**** just to refresh/reset the servers and populations. it was never real in the first place, it was all planned and you can't find pictures of forum posts, dms, twitter messages, discord, skype dms or anything else, anywhere on the internet, even the waybackmachine can't recover the deleted forum posts... luckily some of us from AT still have the old screenshots of convos. molten staff is like a miniature corrupt government man, you dont even know the half of it... trust me
@@nogerboher5266 soo share some pics then... many people claim that the hijack was real, hermes and kaer got into a fight and the staff got split in two, (one group for hermes and other for kaer)
and if you think its fake, why so many got kicked out especially those that sided with hermes...
@@cautarepvp2079 bro that whole scandal was as fake as flat earth. I don’t “think” it’s fake, I know
Like everyone who was on at and molten staff know this shit and some of us have screenshots
I miss cataclysm on molten, it was bugged as hell but I loved every moment of it
rogue Invisibilis from sargeras server
Same bro
yea same cata on molten was fun
united balkan?
@@jocikam738 i was in guild back then called balkan dragons
I had best memories of wow from molten wow cata, after I played retail, It wasn't nearly as fun.
I miss Molten's Cataclysm PvP days.....
It was during the best time of my childhood
same
:(
Molten Wotlk and Cata nostalgia hits hard
Im currently 16 playing warmane on icecrown, and i can’t help but remember why i’m here in the first place. As a little kid at around 6-8 years old, i watched my oldest brother play a really nice looking game that looked really intricate to me as a young child. Little did i know he was playing on molten WoW. My brother eventually told me about how he was playing during the death of molten and that was what got me into WoW now. I can still remember sitting behind him watching him fly his night elf hunter in Icecrown.
Dude... I started on Molten.. so much memories... I never forget that moment when I somehow managed to run wow on my ex gf's old ass Toshiba pc... and after many hours of fails and anger the starting music finally played and i logged in the first time as a human mage.. Bro ...
I remember I was flying around Icecrown farming Saronite ores when it happened.Surprisingly,I never got DCd and just kept flying around for a while,thinking it's just another server lag (which was extremely common)since I couldn't loot anything anymore.I waited for about an hour tabbed/flying around and even went to Dalaran to check whats up and if anyone was online there.Finally I gave up and logged out waiting for them to fix the lag and went to bed.That was the last time is saw my Toon.
Idk why but I find this sad.
What realm and expansion you in?
I was in Deathwing
@@quchi7232 Lordaeron,WOTLK.
Ah, Molten… The very best memories I have connected to WoW. Brings up such nostalgia. I remember getting hacked once, but I fought on and got my main to almost BiS lvl only to get Moltdown… I miss those days and mostly I miss my guild :')
So much memories with the boys of my old class of Molten Cata... Man i am not crying... There's nothing in my eye...
the moment molten merged with arena tournament was when molten or warmane became good, previous scripting was awful on moltens side. AT's core saved kaer
but that was also when the pvp community started to die off, all previous achievements and everything just wiped off the planet from AT's side. all r1 titles lost and 2.2k weps etc
@@Snusblues AT player here. literally all AT players stopped playing in LITERAL MONTH after the merge. after ONLY A MONTH or month and a half, AT aka ''blackrock'' population was 90% molten players. nobody who played on AT was playing there anymore. LIterally 90% of us sold our accounts that same month after merge lol
@@nogerboher5266 but why did AT players stop playing?
@@GIRUUUR ye want to know too
Played since 2009 to 2021. I recently lost my main character on Warmane to hacker or something. Due to poor communication with staff, I got all other chars back , but not him since after disaster, I sold what was left of him and then they decided to help me, but it was too late... After that, I tried Shadowlands, but quit after 3 months or less. That ended my WoW adventure sadly. RIP Crazy, my beloved Orc Arms Warrior , I'll always remember ya!
As a new player to wow entirely i for some reason chose wotlk as the expansion i wanted to play and warmane as the server i wanted to play on but i had no clue about all this history behind it.
If you do start its gonna be a blast just sayin :D
Good choice
\I as player back then on moltenm this was a huge drama, the sad thing is that there were people invested thousends of hours to build guilds etc
Ahh MoltenWoW... this video brought too many memories to even share in a comment section... i will forever miss you Night Elf Hunter and all of my pets....
While some players did quit I would say most of them stayed and it was in a way a fresh start. Shout out to my boys from Solace, great memories from that times!
the way that you were telling this story is like a child is getting a book read by his father so he could help him fall asleep, AMAZING and INCREDBILE video man ,also nice name (Zadnjitrzaj lmaooo) anyways dude keep up with the good work, you're doing awesome man
I played on that server since 2011. Played there for years. Was a DK tank. Played so.much i literally got to the point where i deleted my DK. I had everything the game had to offer, and i got bored. I have lots of memories from that server. Thats where i learned how stupid i can get from love, i literally farmed and sold so much shit, i made 20k in one day just to have that mammoth to carry a girl i dated around for leveling. It was a good place.
I was playing on Molten, Frostwolf was realm if I remember it, somewhere in 2010. started. Before that I played not so long on retail but some hard time came in to my life, lost my long time girlfriend, lost my job and got in to big debt and on top of all, most strongest pillar in my life, my mother have died, all in few months. I was crushed, depression hit hard on me, I became caveman, my thought were dark and think it was matter of days before I would take my life.
Than I found Molten. Only thing that could keep my mind off of dark thoughts, met many good people there, had so much fun and even started laughing again. I dont care about lost chars, when u have good friends in that game it is most fun no matter are u gearing or just smashing trough pvp or pve.
Thing is it became very toxic server, idk why and exactly when it happened but people started insulting each other on every step in game, total opposite of what it use to be. My friends started leaving server, they stopped playing game. I tried on some other servers but eventually I would always come back to Warmane, new name yeah, Became solo player, got my chars all close to 6k so i can have some fun in pvp and thats it all I would do was log in and go in to battleground with class that I fell like playing atm. Then when Blizz finally said they will make classic servers I left, linger on some private classic until Blizz opened theirs and that was end of me and Molten. Toxicity is killing that server, I know many people left bcs of that.
Anyways I feel much better now although depression is still around me i can feel it, especially around holidays, but Molten did have big impact and even maybe saved someone life is all I wanted to say and thanks to Kaer for all the fun he gave to us
Wow is a safe haven for many of us, good luck man!
I remember that day. Tbh it was heartbreaking. But I really liked how warmane solved the problem. Respect to wmane. Tho, they should now pay more attention on wmanes community, since there is a lot of things that must be fixed.
Here is a really funny story. I played on Ragnaros realm and had 6 BiS pvp characters, horde was so strong that i even remember when Discoinverno ( I awaken I gm) left ally to join us at Tears guild and that was a hard hit for ally in wpvp and premade bgs. Then Moltdown, lost everything, most people didnt want to even play again so Horde pvp died and i moved to Mop realm 1 month after Moltdown, for the next 3 years that realm had an avg of 2k-3k players and it was so fun, I loved MoP so much that even it was buggy af I didnt think of wotlk anymore, pvp, mounts, titles, toys... I ended up with another 5 BiS PvP chars which took a lot of hard work too and then the realm population died :). So yeah. Life.
Nah man horde sucks, Ramsus was the king of alliance at the time and he mauled y'all😂
@@Hajunsolos26 nah man cows are green :)
I remember my paladin Aphelleon Holy 6.1gs, Harakirii rouge, SsFront - Warrior tank... they never been restored!
I stared playing Molten's Cata server casualy some time before the shutdown. When it reopened as Warmane I swiched to wolk... Best decision I ever made!
I never knew what happened to Molten, I thought it was a marketing strategy or some copyright issue.
Thanks for the info man!
ye, I was there when Moltdown happened. It didn't affect donors however, cuz with the coins they got from the staff, they made their toons bis again and killing LoD again was a walk in the park. The non donors were the ones who took a heavy blow and I knew many people who quit the server after that. I myself took a year break after that and played LoL, but came back to WoW and Warmane and still playing to this day. I remember the good old days, when DBS was dps test and ICC and RS had 4 difficulties, like on retail. Gonna sub to you mate and maybe I'll see you on horde side too.Peace!
Been through this event made me feel like a cameraman in history. I remember keeping up all day on Facebook for information from both sides and decide which one was the genuine one. Surprisingly yes, most people decided to stay even though all datas were lost except some purchased history. If I’m not wrong, only existing Shadowmourne purchase was regiven. Gifts like coins and hundred points were given by accounts. I never spent money but I was still given coins and hundreds of points to exchange for item.
Murphy's law did me dirty again , i almost continued my warmane journey , but i switched quickly to Tauri's MoP because of a friend group that had an intrest to WoW together.
Now i stumbled upon a Balkan guild and a "neckbeard" (as you described yourself, no offense) who we happen to share a country with - when it's too late to change our minds lol.
Rock on man , best of luck on YT. Enjoy our favorite game.
Budi pozdravljen , mnogo :D
I was still a newbie when the moltdown happened. Lost my first ever 80 lvl character who had full Furious set I believe.
Reading the comments with all the memories is so sad :(
Whoa, bummer! I also lost my first ever 80 Dk in that event. Man, I stil remember those summer/autumn nights full of grinding :(
R.I.P. to my characters the only thing left from that time are only some screen shots...
Troncho (Horde Male Troll character), From Molten Wow Mop. If by any chance you happen to see my comment then please do reply. We've really missed you. I was one of the new player back then and you helped us and guided us through everything! Do respond Troncho!! ✌😢
Gnev, just wanted to tell you how much I love your videos and your voice. "Hi Gnev here" xD. You're actually a very good story teller as well, sometimes I even fall asleep to your clips. Please make more WOTLK videos!! :D
I was there when it happen lol "the great crash" that's prolly the reason i stopped playing wotlk for one of the longest periods of time, the crash wasn't the reason most ppl like me left (actually many were really hiped there will be fresh server filled with people). The problem was that as soon as it opened and we logged on there were tons of people who already payed for full bis and farming us... And yup me and all my friends saw this as a big red flag
I ran my own pserver for my friends and I way back. We did the first 3 expansions when we were able to rip off decent cores. I screwed around and retuned the dungeons and raids to have non-elite stats so a group of 3-5 could complete them. It was pretty casual but it was fun to do with friends. Never really liked these big pservers because of the p2w.
I played a lot in molten server, had a lot of fun, it was probably the deepest contact i ever had with wow..
Cata - Frostwolf
From the stormwind channel being spammed with funny achivement names, to the broken Darkmoon faire quests, this server has kept my then-16 year old brain addicted and entertained.
Man, I still remember spamming end time heroics (using the unreliable group finder no less!) just to get my ret pally the two handed axe, which I ended up xmogging into zinrokh destroyer of worlds (which also took a great deal of time to farm) after finding out about the xmog glitch. Good times. Shame the Molt-down happened. I
EDIT: To the person who I met during the christmas staircase event, I hope you got the costume flask at the end of it! And hopefully, life's been good to you these days dude!
Man i miss my full bis dk in both cata and mop. Thanks for making this video it was such a big deal
after the whole molten ordeal i was thinking about giving up for good and i never recoverd anything no coins nothing 1 year later i came back after playing cata during that time on another server and my old accounts were still there untouched so i decided to make a fresh start after some time playing even now 2021 i still have them ocasionaly play not rading hardcore but just comeing from time to time doing auctions and the friends i made along the way are still there so it was quite of a trip but im still happy knowing that the server is there and i can enjoy Wotlk :D thanks for makeing this video
Lost my favorite character there, a well geared shadow priest. Man I loved that class when it could heal itself by attacking.
I was there Gandalf , 3000 years ago
Oh the times.. hello everyone, thank you for existing
It's really ironic how it all turned out. Before Molten, Kaer was a security admin at Neverendless-WoW and attempted a similar coup with the staff there. He met with staff of NE to start Molten and when they finally launched it, they tried ruining the economy by sending out massive amounts of gold, items, etc. to random people on NE while spamming Molten's website link. Although what Kaer did with Molten/Warmane was an amazing feat even to this day, it started out by screwing over another server that had entrusted him. I guess Hermes was Kaers karma.
i lost like 10 very well geared toons in the moltdown. still to this day have never recovered them all
I have quite a few screenshots of the forums from that time - all the empty promises that were broken etc. I screenshotted them in real-time to share on raidcall and Skype with friends and they’re in my google drive still as a painful reminder of the thousands of wasted hours
I was one of those players and I had no idea of what happened, ty so much for this video;)
But also warmane staff had a pretty weird behavior when they shut down cataclysm server and gave us green gear to restart in icecrown and 0 coins refund -.- that's when I quitted
I was there from december 2009, and i’m still there but after i lost my old characters didn’t really cared anymore about achivments. I m still there for bgs.
Thank you for this. It was so emotional for me. I had 5+ years with molten since age 11. You can see from my channel my guild actually basically became the only major guild in the pure pvp realm of Warsong in molten wow’s cataclysm. I had insiders, I had so much drama, we had 3k+ active members, the only active guild, so many events, we held the server alive since it was pure pvp and we were limited to what we can do. The population started strong and died overtime, but we ultimately died with the moltdown. I always said the guild would never die because we were active. As a guild leader at age 16, it devastated me. If you ever want to do an interview with me, I’d be glad to share anything. I love this game and miss much. RIP guild “BATTLEGROUND”
This is why I play pservers anymore I must have 10+ characters I've invested days of playtime into on various dead or shutdown servers.
RavageRose here, player #13 of Molten wow. I remember this day, was so tragic an caused a mass panic. An it also lead to a huge change in people in power and a mass abuse of their powers. I tried to stay during the progression to warmane, but many of the staff got so power hungry an especially on forums where a lot of us liked to have fun. I am now n Ascension an mainly a solo player but having a blast. I stop back in from time to time to Warmane but it just doesnt have that same feeling anymore.. to many of my old friends left an my guild fo 7 yrs faded away.
Awesome video mate keep it up you've got my sub & like!
Cixelsyd, Aixelsyd, Karenfurr, DianeNguyen, Michiruwaifu here. I miss the Cataclysm, even if it was bugged. Never knew why they took it out. Anyways, I recently had quit playing WoW again and even if donor 5 multiboxing ruined wintergrasp a lot of the time, I'm still glad I was able to enjoy the game a bit more. I always told people that they're going to forget they're on a private server when they log on and get into a city because, at least Org/Stormwind, they were always packed. Sometimes they'd even hit the 15k player cap. It's a real shame that this happened. I remember hearing about this and it was awful. I quit cuz of it for a while. It's unfortunate tbh it was really the best WoW server imo (and I had tried over 30 probably)
I had 6.8k gs Pala and 6.2k DK when that happened. I wasn’t a donor. It hit me hard because I farmed all of my items. Damnnn its been years…
How did you get sm ?
Shout out to my old guild "New Dawn"! Lost contact with most of the people there aswell as 7 BiS characters.. I am one of those people who's screams you can still hear in ICC. 😃
LOL I was in New Dawn during my PvE break from AT 🤣🤣🤣 What was your ign? I talked to didko back in like 2014/15 when I stopped playing wow after the merge
@@nogerboher5266 Unfortunately Didkoo passed away a few years ago..
My main was Shadowmaw (Feral Druid).
@@shadowmaw1909 I think I remember you and also what?! passed away?! how!?
@@nogerboher5266 I am not really sure what happened to him.. May he RIP. 🙏
Greetings mortals ...this is Lightbringer Mihaal ...remember me ? 💪💪💪💣💥
I`m not crying, something fell into my eye.
Used to play alot in 2010-11. And again in from 2014 to the hermes take over and the cata realm. I wish they brought back the cata realm, It was fun and gold was easy to farm.
Cool story!
I was on molten last days, but didnt know the background... cool stuff
Scumbag Hermes though
Too sad I lost my molten wow character too.
Thanks for making this video!
Molten was really good place and if we compare it to "modern" wow, Molten was awesome
Last words. SVI PATIMO
i had a 5.9k unholy pvp dk and all i did was duel and occasionally some pvp content. i was nowhere near bis before moltdown but i just had too many good memories and good times spent with that character. it was never the same after the moltdown. same name, same character model, but a very different feeling.
To true. After Molten was wiped, I made an 2 years brake. They deleted my beloved bis paladin. Currently, I'm still trying to remake it on Warmane, but is just at 70% of old toon.
I havent played on molten but ive been olaying on Warmane for a few years now. Its always a blast to listen of the old "glory" days from players even older than me.
Wait MoltenWoW shitshow was in 2015??? Wtf thought it was earlier than that, like 2010 or something. Feels like ages ago
I lost my DK named Ousbourne the Insane with lots of achievements, +30 titles and ~150 mounts. Played it from wotlk to cataclysm. Server wipe is when the chain was broken.
I was there back then. He also tried to get us to pay him to get our characters back. Even with everything settled, they ended up shutting down all cata servers without warning. No reimbursement for my coins, gear, or mounts. I had about $450 worth of coins and gear. Will never touch their server again.
I remember this when it happened. You could also say this lead to the creation of the progressive Lordaeron, viewed by many as one of the best pure blizzlike wotlk servers ever. Nice video Gnev.
Dalaran wow's Algalon realm success (first progressive wotlk realm ever created) lead to the "new" Lordaeron project, not much the moltdown
@@TiaguinhoMu yeah, but still... YAY LORDAERON!
Molten isn't the first place I played WoW at, but I and my real life buddies have had some good friends locally and internationally from there. Frostwolf's (back when it was still a WotLK server) Mutual Hatred gave me my first shot at a big guild. They needed a Disc Priest, and there aren't that many because it's not really a PUG friendly spec as everybody loves their Recount (which doesn't record absorbs). While I have been looking for a guild that raids in the American time zone (EU guilds don't really fit my playing times). Sadly the core members left before ICC25 HC was released.
Then when Frostwolf was converted to Cataclysm I transferred to Lordaeron server, wherein I was adopted by a casual guild named Serenity, as I just wanted to chill down and stuff. Stayed there until I had to leave the game for real life purposes.
It's a shame hearing about what happened with Molten. It's basically where I have started maturing lol (I was a hot-blooded competitor before getting into MH). At the very least Warmane is doing well for itself.
I'm not really sure how this got into my recommendations (as I'm mostly following Dota and SC2 on RUclips), but thanks for the story.
I remember one day I logged in with the thought, I`ll just do a raid and some bgs and shitpost infront of OG. When I logged in all I did was look stupidly at the screen for 2 minutes like "the fuck". Later read what had happened.
Oh, man, the nostalgia is real. It's been so long but I still miss my characters, especially my 6.4K warlock and 6.3K shadow priest. I played on warmane for a little bit after moltdown but it just wasn't the same.
Pozdro dla gildii Diffuse z Deathwinga: Linku, Orzech, Pijawka, Szorstki, Igraszka, Honercy, Burza, Vezzat
That moment in 2015 made me quit wow...lets be honest all the coins they gaveaway wont give me back all the gears i farmed :D
And not to forget about the titles, achievements, and in-game friends... man I had a "the Insane" title.
I still remember the day when they shut down the Frostwolf cataclysm server, i was doing Firelands 10HC with ma boys and after few wipes on Lord Ryolith while we were respawning we just could not enter instance, then we Immediately got disconnected... Then we tried few times but nothing worked.. Tomorrow morning was so sad... ☹
been playing on warmane for years ! knew a thing a two about molten and melt down but never in detail ! thank you, still one of the best private servers
I was actually kinda happy with it, because I got to make a new fully geared character with the bonus coins they gave us.
lose 4 chars get 23 coin tnx Kaer
Daaamn this brings back so many memories.Didnt know all this happened, i stopped around 2012 i think.
I was on the first horde kill on lk heroic!its probably the best feel i got from a game ever! Alliance beat us by abusing a bug though!Damn fun times! Sad to hear all this happend
I can still remember I was at work working night shift, I had my laptop and I tried to log in but couldn't so I thought it was probably server maintenance although nothing was announced. then after a a day or two that I couldn't log in I thought my account got hacked. I got worried so I checked online and read that the servers shutdown but that was about it, never knew the reason until a few days after the problem occurred.
Man, this video hit the feels! It was on molten I started having the real glimpse of end game wotlk, even though it was really bad scripted it felt so good getting bis items on my warrior... I did a lot of achievment hunting (even though most of the achievs werent working for example, ulduar and old content raids were completly broken so no achievs there, and loremaster would have to be cheated by faction changing...) Still, most of the friends i made in molten are still the ONLY friends i keep on talking to this day. I remember when the moltdown happened, even typing hermes in /s was censured back ar the begining of warmane, which made me think there was some massive conapiracy going on. I admit i kinda thought Hermes was right cus he was getting straight out censured... Right now i look back at it, we have a server that is 1000% better scripted and Over all better so... Fuck it. I still have fun
I wonder if I can get my old characters back! I had a few on Molten :(
Anyone else remember that realm they tested out where u could summon totems as any class in battlegrounds and they had special abilities?? I looked for some videos of that but couldnt find any.. that mode was one of the funnest thing I ever played.. I wish they had kept it ;c
Well there is always Ascension wow
The reality was server was dying rapidly and was not generating revenue, to atleast cover hosting. Because the server was old full with bugs and bis characters they had to reset it somehow because they finally had decent core with decent scripts, but the majority of people that was donating had already lots of bis toons. To fix that they create drama and wipe the server so the people can play and stay strong together. What they give back was nothing compare to what people lost, but on the other hand if they was able to return everything to everyone the server will be at same state.
Trinity core revision at that time was up. And Molten revision was atleast 5 years old. Molten team was unable to fix most bugs or had no clue how to fix them. Most bugs was not fixed at all. What new revision had fixed. All the drama with Hermes was FAKE ... As person he never existed. Only forum account name was up.
Got this video on my recommended. I've been playing on official servers ever since cataclysm, but I still remember molten wow the name. I think I played there during wrath. Either way, I have a good association with that in my head. Good memories
Seems i was lucky, joined in October 2014 I've lost only a bit, feels bad for players who lose more, even now are old molten players. That's insane.
/Wave from Kenzz.🏹
I am one of those players lost so Many bis char. And got only 350c to do What? Not even 1 Char. I lost the achiv mounts titles all. I still belive was a trick of molten leader cause at this time before this happen molten was slowly die. Like 1k max online players at death wing and ragnaros. After the merge with the fake ques and numbers they make alot of money
I lost 8 Chars, 2 of them with Kingslayer achvm...
At that time i felt they stole years of my life, sad memories...
God damn i remember this like yesterday.. this was the moment i went to Freakz Wow i started at 2010 on Deathwing server,if any1 is from that server Salute to you it was great while it lasted
Freakz was fun. Their legion core was crazy broken. I really enjoyed how broken it was. You could do some crazy stuff with some classes and others didn’t work at all when I played. Lol
I miss the forums back in the day, so much banter and shits and giggles
lmao man, i would go full arrogance mode on forums just to troll the shit out of people (RavageRose here btw) was such a good way to just sit back an have fun, shooting the shit on forums. Now of days they are far to strict an don't let fun really happen. Ruined the community
Yeah I was there. Had a lot of characters that got deleted. From time to time I still return to warmane to do a couple of dungeons.
It's actually quite promising that it's ex molten guys running warmane now cause at least they won't make the same mistake again. I mean probably the inner circle is very limited and trusted. I hope at least lol
Never get comfortable with someone you hire. That was owners mistake
Where do I find the Hermes server? Is it still up?
I was one of those fallen souls,i had a mage on Netharion x12 server,when all that mess happend i played on Cataclysm servers and i spend days,weeks to somehow bring my characters back after that we all got all those free coins but its was pointless and i stoped playing there for good but that period was the best wow times for me.
P.s: Omega Dynasty guild ❤️
Ah yes, losing my characters wasn't a big deal for me as I had already basically quit moltenwow at that point and was playing retail full time since I had income and could afford it now. When I was first playing molten I was a baby, a mere child with no money, but when the opportunity to start playing retail full time arose, I took it. But... Here we are in 2021 and I have not touched the dumpster fire known as retail since BFA and I am back on warmane loving it just like the old days.
I think Molten was much BETTER than warmane, with all the stuff available from the marketplace and even the old voting system. Given the fact that it always was pay to win, now warmane became very greedy and the whole community is quite toxic. Btw nice video, now the new donors will understand a little about the history of the server.
Old voting system was broken. You could buy everything from the marketplace for VP even items that were quest rewards and had no lvl restriction. It was stupid. You could be lvl 1 and have a weapon that was for lvl 80. Voting was always a bad system for private servers and even now on Warmane there are people that have 5k GS just from buying gear for points and they play like shit because they never had a chance to get these items legitimately.
molten, now warmane, is still a business primarily now. The main point is having that server queue in which you must wait 5-10 minutes to log in. This can be fixed by upgrading the servers, and it shouldnt be that expensive taking into account the income the server gets, but the whole business model of one realm for new players that they get to play for one year then they get migrated into the server that has a queue and the only way to overcome this is paying money kinda gives away the fact that they are desperate for people to pay to play.