World of Warcraft: Pandora's Box | A͏s͏mongold Reacts to the Rise & Fall of WoW by MadSeasonShow

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  @austinhadley6086 · 1 year ago

  I started wow in 05 when I was 10 years old. My uncle was a hardcore raider, for Christmas he gave me the box set and 1 year of game time. On my first day, on my first character, roaming around in Durotar with almost no clue on what to do, I joined a group with another Orc who happened to be an 11 year old kid. I friended him, got his phone number eventually and we spent the next decade playing WoW together. He was my best friend in the entire world. One day he didn't log on, so I called him, no answer. Next day didn't log on, called him, no answer. Finally his sister called me and told me he had been killed in a car accident driving home from work. Drunk driver T-boned him, he died instantly. I didn't pick WoW back up until classic launched and even now just play intermittently. RIP Steve, you were a real one.

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  @driver_ex · 4 years ago

  Asmon is like that one guy that always reminisces about being the high school quarterback, but instead it's about when Blizzard made good games.

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  @MacroLensMan · 1 year ago

  No fucking way bro - a snow day the day after Burning Crusade release. That would be my chosen day to relive on loop...

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  @Jagged13 · 4 years ago

  In the army I went to an advanced IED course and the first thing the head instructor did was play the Leroy Jenkins video to show how even the best plans can go to shit.  I was absolutely blown away to see it.  Circa 2007

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  @W23-t6o · 4 years ago (edited)

  &quot;PWNED - Perfectly Owned&quot;<br>Holy fuck I&apos;m in my late 20s and I&apos;m just now learning that&apos;s what that meant.

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  @ironferrets · 3 months ago

  4 years later this intro still gives me goosebumps

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  @LockeRobsta · 4 years ago (edited)

  One of the best &quot;troll&quot; moments I remember was on a forum where a guy was giving a eulogy for his son or brother who had passed away and wanted to let all his friends on the forum know. The FIRST FUCKING REPLY was &quot;did he drop any good loot&quot;?

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  @Dungaipara · 4 years ago

  It was something about vanilla wow having these huge barren zones, everything felt like a mystery and a huge adventure, especially having to walk everywhere. I remember skipping school and just being immersed in ashenvales ambience with the wisp sounds, just such magical experience. The world felt mysterious and dangerous like running into bough shadow where the elite dragonkins were, like what are they guarding? it just felt so cool to explore. These days wow is just a themepark on rails experience.

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  @TheBigboss7121987 · 4 months ago

  My RPG mind blown moment was leaving the sewers in Oblivion. I played WOW when it was first released, and don’t get me wrong it was definitely light years ahead of the majority of the games out there, but leaving the sewers in Oblivion, and seeing Vilverin, the Imperial City, and White &nbsp;Gold Tower, and just the sheer scale of the open world, and graphics was mind blowing.

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  @starkdilemma4916 · 4 years ago

  Blizzard is the living embodiment of the phrase &quot;Great empires are not destroyed by outside armies, they are destroyed from within.&quot;

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  @Scruffytuba · 3 years ago

  WoW was a once in a life time experience that I truly feel we will never see again as gamers. <br><br>Vanilla - WotLK was absolute peak gaming because of the pure, raw fun and the relationships we made.<br><br>Blizzard is dead now, and tbf....what did we expect? You can only get so high before you gotta come back down.<br><br>What I wouldnt do to go back to 2008 for a little while to drink Mountain Dew WoW Game Fuel, have Ventrilo open all night, and just run dailies with my highschool friends with Adult Swim playing on the tv in the background.<br><br>RIP to an absolute era.

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  @koenvanderrijt5244 · 2 years ago

  reaching level60, getting my epic mount, my first raid experience, seeing epics for first time, forty man nerdscreams. Some of those moments still give me the chills..

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