Wow was fantastic when it came out. I never had the money to pay for a subscription so I played on pirate servers. I never got the endless grind stages, but I adored exploring the early zones with all the original classes. The world looked great, the magic felt real and the fantasy was engrossing. I don’t think I ever made it passed lvl 35 on any characters, but thoroughly enjoyed getting there, sometimes with friends and sometimes alone.
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PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 10 minutes ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 15 minutes ago
So only every 25. boar has a liver there?
Quadrexium@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
why do real chores when virtual chores
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 hours ago
“Honey, can you go out and powerwash the side of the house this weekend?”
“Awww, c’mon… I was planning on playing Powerwash Simulator this weekend! 😩”
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Real chores give us no sense of pride and accomplishment
figjam@midwest.social 24 minutes ago
If powerwashing the house got me new socks that gave me +.25 an hour pay I’d be doing all kinds of side quests
Rolder@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
It was more because it was a virtual chatroom and community in an age where such things were not widespread
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Also, I think this undersells how good the game looked.
Yes, you were hunting boar livers but you were doing it in this beautiful tropical jungle beside a giant waterfall. And then you’d peak behind the waterfall, discover a mermaid who was at the gate of a giant dungeon themed like a water park. And you completely forgot about the quest to go play in the water park for a couple of hours.
I’d say the bigger problem with WoW was the gradient of zones. You’d be hunting zebra-taurs on the high planes. And then you’d walk through a mountain pass, see a dinosaur, get all excited, and aggro a creature +30 your level.
greenskye@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
You’re forgetting the part where there are 6 boar spawns that respawn every 2 minutes and there are 15 people waiting on the next spawn.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
I honestly miss playing WoW. It was a fun game, especially if you had a group to raid with. If only I didn’t have to give Blizzard money to play it.
figjam@midwest.social 23 minutes ago
there are private servers that don’t require blizzard money
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
In 2004 (the launch year) the original WoW was an amazing time I lost and entire year of professional growth and productivity to. When the first expansion (Burning Crusade) came out, I was equally excited as as the original launch, but after seeing Green gear fall of simple mobs that was better than the epic Purple gear I spent weeks getting in 40 person raids, I could instantly forecast how the entire rest of the game would be forever: and endless grind with your hard won efforts simply trivialized in the first month of the next expansion. I stopped playing WoW about a month after, went back to school instead, and finished the college degree I had started 8 years earlier. Quitting WoW lead to my actions which launched my career to new heights.
I credit WoW with teaching me an incredible life lesson in my 20s to never get drawn into something like that again.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
My reaction exactly to BC!
And flying? Walking around was a core part of the game, seeing stuff, getting whacked by +10 monsters so you had to sneak around, now you just spend 50% of the game in the skybox.
OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Davel23@fedia.io 6 hours ago
I played for a while on the Warmane private server. High population, very active, and completely free.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Nice! Is there an invite process for private servers?
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
I am literally in WoW classic killing boars for their snouts while reading this on the other monitor.
porkloin@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Death to Hogger
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
I have four max level characters and recently started a fifth. It’s funny doing all the different starting area stuff, but including hogger. I just killed Bellygrub and Yowler an hour or so ago, twenty years after the first time for me.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Is Barons chat still and endless spam of people asking for the location of Mankrik’s wife?
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
I play alliance, so I’m spared that.
But back in the day, the horde side had an over-representation of edgie teenagers. Now almost everyone is adult, most with kids and many old and retired like me. So you on’t see as much of that stuff as before.
houndeyes@toast.ooo 3 hours ago
Where is Mankrik’s wife?!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 hours ago
As a long time player of EQ before WoW ever came out: the drops in WoW were never that bad.
I remember doing the starter weapon quest for the dark knight? One of the dark elf tank classes. Needed a special type of bone for the weapon and killed so many fucking skeletons, by the time I got the materials for the weapon, I was like level 25 or something and had enough money to just buy an even better weapon from the bazaar.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
EQ was fucking brutal, most of the game was just grinding, killing the same mobs over and over. While quests did exist, it wasn’t the main thing people did. I didn’t play much wow, but it did strike me that the game had more questing than EverQuest.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Wow had loads of quests, and a really big universe, that was what hooked me back in the day, haven’t ever seen anything like it (except maybe Dwarf Fortress) since.
imadethis@fedinsfw.app 5 hours ago
I think the one thing that EQ had over Wow was the emphasis on group content to level. Holy hell was it a slog to level if you weren’t grouping and running the actual dungeons. Wow, meanwhile, was a slog if you did anything but the single player quests. The times when my friends came to help on EQ, I would see my xp bar jump. The times when we did the same in Wow, there were fights over what to do because we were so frustrated with leveling.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
A recent video the origins of the term grinding placed abundant blame on Evercrack.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
It kinda boils down to chucking rocks in the river alone vs chucking rocks in the river with friends.
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That game was all about the end-game. Questing up to max level was like the intro and could be done very fast with a good guide. The only good thing about leveling was getting used to new skills at a slow rate, otherwise it was kind of pointless and just something you’d quickly get out of the way.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
wpb@lemmy.world 8 minutes ago
I picked it up recently with a group of friends on turtle wow (RIP, fuck blizzard), and while I really enjoyed the social aspect, the actual gameplay felt like a chore the whole way through. Plus, it felt like an obligation to keep up with my friends who somehow had much more time to throw at the game.