The Relapser - 10 Years of WoW #9

I'm a total relapser. I called it quits after WotLK, came back for Cata, quit and swore off pandas.... still played and now I'm having a blast in WoD :)

I also had to switch realms after Lich King so that wasn't fun.

The cycle is real.

Never touched this game.

I've been there. I used to stay up until 4 in the morning. Sometimes later, 5, 6, 7. One time I stayed up 24 hours straight and though it was an epic session I didn't feel too good afterward. I used to spend a minimum of 12 hours playing. Burning through the content so fast that I got bored easily and so I made my own fun within the game, ganking, messing with bots so it screwed up their farming, etc lol.

Great series, but totally should have done an episode on "The Roleplayer", me and my mates had really good times just getting into character, getting drunk and playing cards at booty bay, guild meets and ceremonies on the Shrine of the Dormant Flame, . I miss wow, so many stories :)

Never really got into WoW, but all these amazing stories are really making me consider it

@eureca323 I agree:). All of these WoW videos are great and well done. Every one of them forms a different story and why all of them hold WoW as a high poing in gaming:). Rather it is the couple that found love, or the guy that played during his time in the service, or even the businessman that played the auction house market, all of them form a bond of gaming and they all make the memories of WoW :).

A game is just a game..it is the stories and the people you meet that makes mmo's so great:).

Thanks for watching folks.

All 10 episode are available here: gamespot.com/wow10

i never did a raid. it's always been more about exploring the world, getting to be a part of the stories and seeing what happens to my favorite characters from warcraft 3

Just a guess...Danny is the last guy

I remember playing Everquest and wiping on a raid -- that wasn't the end of the night, that was the beginning of a new, scary adventure: corpse recovery.

I remember my guild leader losing four levels learning a raid. No voice chat and no youtube videos to watch. Good leaders made great sacrifice.

I remember raids that took multiple, several hour sessions to complete.

I remember there being no instances, and all raids and dungeons were part of the open world.

I remember when you could trade almost any gear, even after you had used it.

I remember when there was no such thing as gold selling companies, because accomplishing anything of value in the world meant actually playing the game and being good at it.

I remember server politics and guild politics defining the foundational potential for success of raids and end-game content. People were liked, and people were burned.

In the end, I remember selling my Everquest account for $1500, and another $500 for all the gear I sold separately.

And all of that ignores the one thing I loved most about MMOs of old: PvP.

That was hardcore.

I played WoW off and on from beta through part of the first expansion. Even the most hardcore content was a walk in the shadows of what MMOs once were.

I loathe all content being instanced, death being nothing more than an annoyance, server transfers, name changes, cross-server play, and anything else that fragments the community.

WoW may have been inspired heavily by the MMORPG, but it isn't one -- not to me. An MMO is not a giant virtual lobby for which you use only while you prepare to be transported to your own bubble of content. At that point the game is really a 5 or 20 player game. That makes it an MORPG, there's nothing Massive about sharing a game world with 4 to 19 other people.

@Erick @behardy24 you should of raided EQ.... no team speak or vent.... having to raid lead by typing to 72 people. Ha. That would of been the hardcore you needed back then!

He explained it perfectly, i quit just after cata released cause it was too casual and easy, not what it used to be.

Then Erick leaves all of those games when Overwatch comes out.

Erick! :D

I only came back once. Between TBC and the Lich King, I left a few weeks before cataclysm and I never came back.

man i need to get back in wow better start saving for a decent computer

the core hound mount for the 10th anniversary event is really tempting to get back into it

but at this point im two expansions behind and id have to catchup both level wise and gear wise..

oh and having to pay a monthly sub again..

#TayFacts vs #TyFacts FIGHT CLUB!!

http://youtu.be/CWXoOEsHguk

Is it normal that this was released on YouTube way earlier than the actual Gspot website?