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Wait! Don't post your contest entry here, that goes in another thread.

Now that that is out of the way, take a moment and introduce yourself. You play WOW and may have done so for years, but your stories were told somewhere else. What's something about the game that stands out in your memory?

For that matter, some of you old timers have been posting here long enough that your stories have gotten cobwebbed and hoary. How about putting rants and OT aside for a moment and dredging up a memory to share with newer posters?

I also started with XI. I have always loved the WC games (played them all), so was quite intrigued when WoW was announced. Started not long after launch--maybe 2 or 3 weeks I'd wager. Played both WoW and XI off and on since then.

My first experience with an MMO was an F2P one called Knight Online. My roommates got into it and I decided to check it out. Created a mage on the human looking character side(can't remember the faction name, it has been a good long while), and the best stats for that were on the female character, so Poldaran was born. We quickly discovered how brokenly awesome the mage could be when at a fairly early level, my roommate and I duoed a mob that was something like level 30-35 when we were in our low teens. The version of KO we had discovered was the Malaysian servers, and they had some major connection issues, so when we found out that there were US servers, we jumped at the opportunity and switched over to them.

Despite two majorly rampant problems, duping and the prevalent use of a hack program by some players, we enjoyed our time, continuing to play with our broken class, soloing things that other people had to group to kill(while people our level were grouping to kill golems, we were soloing troll kings for the fun of it). The times were mostly good, and we didn't mind the grinding nature of the game.

I mentioned that there were two problems with the game. The first was the hack program, specifically the "Arrow Shower Hack" portion of the program, which allowed someone to not only hit their enemy with multiple attacks at once with a ranged weapon, it massively increased said range. This meant that the PvP zones were more or less a bad place to be if you were playing legit. My roommate wanted to do some PvP, but didn't want to cheat, so he decided to check out WoW. That was the first part of what ended up making me play as it looked like fun.

Let me interject something here. I've always been a fan of Blizzard games, at least, since I started playing WC2 back in middle school. When WoW first came out, I considered playing it, but decided against it since it had a fee(and I didn't have a job).

Well, my roommate playing WoW had me interested, but I really wasn't ready to commit to a game that had a monthly fee. I mean, I did have a job now, and the fee was reasonable, it's just that I really had trouble with the idea. And it's not like the arrow shower thing bothered me all that much. After all, I wasn't much into PvP anyway. But then the other problem with the game came into play. You see, I was grinding my *** off over a weekend(a couple days after my roommate got WoW, not necessarily an actual weekend, but I had two days off). I gained a couple levels with some rather epic grinding. But that problem, the duping, that I mentioned earlier? Well, to call the people running the game incompetent would be rude, but well, they were more or less incompetent. They seemed to have no idea how to deal with the duping, so they would periodically delete a lot of items from the game, sometimes getting more legit stuff in the process. But they'd also sometimes roll back the server completely, wiping out any dupes done in the last day or two.

I lost those hard earned levels due to one such roll back, bought WoW and here I am.

I have very little experience of video games, a little Playstation here and there, but had never played a PC game before. I approached WoW as an RPG fan rather than as a gamer, and that approach went like this:

Paper D&D ---> MUD ---> WoW

So you can imagine my delight when I first saw the graphics. Teldrassil was Nerdvana.

Although I do recall asking, "Do I have to use the mouse to move? Can't I just type NNNWWSSNNEES?"




That recently? And you have 4k posts? What the heck are you druids talking about over there?



Edit: I notice none of the new people are posting in this thread yet. But it was a good idea and I'm still having fun reading it.

Edited, Jul 28th 2010 8:10am by teacake

My first video game was a pong console. I played a few others, but really didn't become dedicated to gameplay until Halo on the pc. My son and I played that, as well as many hours of Battlefield. When I logged onto wow, that was it. I'd found something that has kept my interest for years.

I started wow with a "clan" I played BF1942 with. It was my 2nd MMO after COH, and I couldn't understand why people knew so much about how it worked when it was new, because I didn't know it was so similar to older mmorpgs.

Thread titled "New Member Bait" and the first six replies are from regulars.

What stands out in my memory is when I started the game. I'd been a long-time Star Wars Galaxies player when my cousin told me about this new MMO game that was supposed to be a spin-off on Warcraft III. Being an MMO addict already, I grunted at his suggestion to try out the beta and kept playing Star Wars for some time. Eventually I went to visit my cousin and he showed me the beta, and from then on I was sold. I went home, got the beta key, managed to get into the European beta and created two characters: Mazra, a Night Elf Druid, and Servatus, a Human Paladin.

Mazra was not my internet alias at that time, and it was actually the last name of one of my characters in Star Wars Galaxies. I had no idea Mazra was also the name of several towns around the world, not to mention one of the Troll temples in Eastern Plaguelands:



Anyway, I played through the beta - the original beta, for Vanilla WoW, not The Burning Crusade or Wrath of the Lich King - and found the game to be so much fun that I signed up for the Collector's Edition when it came out. I remember skipping classes to go pick up the game when the store opened.

I could go on and tell you about how my various characters came to life, and what happened with them since then, but my memory about these things is exceptionally good, and I've played the game for some six years now, so it would be one hell of a wall of text.

I've been hooked on video games my whole life pretty much and I started MMO's 9-10 years ago when I started Runescape. After playing that for years I finally decided to download the WoW trial and see what all the fuss was about. I bought my retail copy just a few months before BC and it's history from there.

Same here. I'd played a few PC games like Baldur's Gate, etc, but mostly I was introduced to online gaming via MUD's, two in particular I played for a good 10+ years. Discovered the WoW trial while my wife was checking out EQ. The server she had chosen had zero people on it, or so it seemed, and when I rolled an undead warlock, I saw four or five others. The graphics, even on my old dinosaur at the time, were amazing. We bought the game after both of us tried the trial for a few days, and we've been hooked since.

I played D&D back in the day as well. And the old original Nintendo game Dragon Warrior. I never had a computer until I moved in with my husband around 1997, right about the time Diablo came out. A friend introduced us to it and we were hooked. We played Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft, mostly just alone or on LAN lines when the friend would come over.

And then near the end of 2005, the friend showed us WoW. I had no idea what a MMO was, but the graphics looked awesome. I rolled a NElf hunter(who is still only level 50) and set out to play. It took quite awhile before I really realized that there were actually other players running around in the game. And it was even longer before I even knew what a dungeon or battleground was-and even after I found out, I just wasn't interested in them.

I eventually got dragged over the Horde side, where I made a Druid(thinking it would be like the Diablo Druid). I tried out these dungeons and battlegrounds, but people were always yelling at me and I didn't like that much. So I figured I would forever just play the game like it was Diablo but with better graphics, an awesome story, and extremely fun gameplay. And I do just like I did with Diablo-when you get to the highest level, you just make a new character and start over.

Soloers get harassed a lot over playing an MMO, but I don't really care. There is absolutely NO single player game that I have found-and I've tried tons of them-that is as much FUN as WoW. Questing and exploring is where it's at for me, and no other game gives what WoW gives on those fronts. I love it. :D

Hello.
My first experience with an MMO was Guild Wars. It was getting rave reviews and since it had no monthly fee I gave it a shot. I liked the experience so I got a free trial of WOW since people said it was even better than Guild Wars. Got the trial, downloaded it and fell in love with the diversity of quests, skills, and races offered by the Horde and Alliance factions. After placing the monthly fee under the entertainment column of my budget I got the game and never looked back.

I had been mostly a console gamer, and hadn't tried any other MMOs before. I started watching X-Play on G4, and saw them talking one day about World of Warcraft, in addition to the commercials that were playing at the time, and finally decided to try it out using the free trial account. This was in the fall of 2007, so TBC was already in full swing. WoW was a great combination of things I liked and wanted in a game, and so I was hooked. It was also a nice, new experience to interact with other live people rather than just playing solo on a console.

I've been lurking in the background reading posts but otherwise contributing nothing for many years now. Thought I would take this opportunity to say a big hello and thanks to you all.

I too began with paper D&D. My first PC game of this type was Baldor's Gate, and after that it was inevitable that I'd progress to WOW, and now I'm addicted...