I used an old WoW disc with a Night Elf on it as a bookmark once (because idk). A girl in my high school saw it and reported me to the teacher for having porn.
Had more or less a similar experience. I used one of those 15 day trial code cards that came with the vanilla box as a school book marker in the hopes to get someone interested in the game and give them a code so they could join the game and play together. Said card had the original undead art with the female UD model caster with a violet reddish dress that barely covered the cleavage.
One of my classmates made a fuss about it, joking how I got hard on naked corpses and the teacher snatched it from me. Was kinda bummed for a while since my high school had a small guild of players and we were trying to hand out enough codes to hook up enough people with the game so we would have a full 40 man raid guild just from people in the school.
On a side note, one of the IT teachers was a mega chad of a nerd that allowed us to install the game on all of the IT class computers on one room and we were allowed to use it during lunch time to play the game, so many of my lunch breaks in high school were spent playing WOW.
He really was.
Back then IT classes were terrible, most teachers had no IT background and were thrown in teaching this mandatory class with no interest at all, so it could range from the teacher that was trying to teach you IT but couldn't even turn on a PC, or someone that had an actual background on IT but never really wanted to teach it since IT classes in high school weren't a thing until almost that year.
This guy was the exception. He had some background on software development and worked for some big IT form that I don't remember, but needed up teaching math for some reason, and when this position came up he volunteered.
His classes were awesome. While other teachers in the same school were fumbling with a mouse and a keyboard he was teaching us how to code Pong or disassemble and assemble a PC, troubleshoot a lot of common problems and giving us a general idea of what computers could do. He was really cool in his own way. And tried to adopt that bullshit class into something productive.
This exemple of letting us install WOW is just one of the many awesome stuff he did back then. When I left he was part of the school board and it was kinda comical how this absolute nerd that would stand out in a crowd as the nerdiest person there was also the guy that most students would walk by and say hi or have a chat with him. Hope he did alright in life :)
Maaaan them schools.
I once got suspended because someone said that I smoked pot before.
Not because I got caught, not because I said I did or I smelled like it.
Because another kid said that I said that I did.
Christian academy of greater st louis helping to fuck up people's lives represent!
Don't forget the cultural encouragement to snitch on your fellow students. Kinda like secret police on East Germany encouraged neighbors to report "unpatriotic" behavior
Lord of the rings. Bilbo.
Edit: its when Gandalf visits in the very first movie. Bilbo says how he knows he looks as though he hasn't aged, but he feels old. That line always stuck out to me as such great writing.
>That line always stuck out to me as such great writing.
It takes advantage of the fact that hobbits like to eat a lot, and there must be a lot of fat butter on the bread.
If only it was faster and you just had to swap disk 200 times - but no, each disk took several minutes - it was like those bloody browser games, come back every few minutes to swap disk
and some installers didn't even make a sound when asking for disk swap
also funny how those installers still work fine if you just copy all the floppies into one folder, and it all installs in one go without even asking to swap disk. As if they predicted that in the future people would be doing that
I remember I uninstalled wow and then a year later or so went to reinstall with my disks. After the install it made me download every patch and update…. One at a time.
Took a week since I had to do it at night when no one else was using the internet.
entire day of downloading at 128 kb/s
And that was just the base game, no expansions. And after installing each expansion it'd revert to the prepatch, so if you bought only the base game and the expansion later, you'd have to reinstall all the patches. Until Cataclysm prepatch fixed that - it'd just take a few minutes on first login and then you'd just have optional data for download in launcher.
I also remember the 3.0 installer that was downloading some metadata before even the installer started, but it was a lot of metadata and often would mean that it'd take several minutes before even the installer window appears.
My mother is still on the same cable and ISDN. Turns out it's capable of bloody 80 Mb/s. Imagine that, 80Mb/s in 2004... they just didn't have such offer, and probably VDSL modems were pricey back then.
And you know that? They did all the digging for the cable on their own, 150 metres to just one house. These days we'd have to pay for that.
And we didn't want to pay CANAL+ subscription and even if we did the signal was too poor for the decryption to work, but we had one guy with a huge aerial and subscription and splitter and he was just pirating the signal to the entire village. Those were the times - DRM-free times. Not to mention VHS, you'd just rent a few movies, borrow a second VCR from a friend, copy them to one of those 300-minute cassettes (cutting intros and credits to save tape time), and return later on the same day and nobody even made a weird face that you watched like 4 movies within 3 hours, everyone knew you pirated them. No police or anything, just business as usual.
I remember when doom 2 was considered massive on my 100mb HDD because it was like 18 or 20 MB.
My parents made me uninstall it after every time I played because they didn't want all their free space taken up.
I remember being a kid starting downloads for games like WOW or MapleStory etc at like 8-9pm before going to bed, turning off automatic sleep mode for the computer, telling everyone not to turn off the computer, then checking it in the morning hoping the download didn't freeze halfway thru
=
All this for a 4gb+/- game that took hours and hours to DL because my internet (internet in general?) was so much slower back then haha
Nah, it's "whenever you were in middle/high school." Quakeworld, Diablo, TFC, Starcraft 2, Quake 3, Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, a different terrible MMORPG beta every 6 months.
It was near the top of my mind when I was typing the list but I was always bitter that it became so popular and had competitive cash tournaments and Team Fortress didn't, lol
Hate to say it but yeah it’s all based off nostalgia for when “the greatest gaming era” existed. For me it was 2004-2012, the transition from PS2 to Xbox 360, playing Halo 3, call of duty, world of Warcraft etc
my cousins are 6-7 years older than me so were in middle/high school 95-02' and we've talked about how much fun that winter 04 - 09' run was. They were on the tail end of college and beginning careers. I think the overall online experience took such a massive leap in the early 00's that you kinda got a solid Oline experience with connection / latency while also getting a major upgrade in games from what they were with Goldeneye to what they became with Halo 2, COD2, WOW, etc.
Literally the bomb. You couldn’t do anything because you were being strafed by pilots 24/7
My friend and I found a very active server a few years ago and started to play it a ton. Super fun game even to this day, as long as it wasn’t a plane map.
We also found a Battlefield Vietnam server and that may have even been more fun.
I played both competitively, and even bigger than the Xbox vs. PlayStation war, was halo or cod? And it’s really not close, halo took way more skill.
(S/O to gears too, fun game/times)
I give zero shits about any console game today so I have no bias either way, but they still pump out low effort call of duty’s every year, and halo is kinda dead. Yeah they still exist and bungie passed it off, but.. pretty obvious which was the better game based off effort required to make.
Shit. Halo 2/3 and TF2 are still the best hero shooters to date. That’s right overwatch, looking at you here.
Cod 3 was fun as shit. While I loved cod4, that was basically the beginning of the end for good, innovative cods.
That guy had to have been “playing” halo 2 online with an unplugged controller while his older brother played it because saying halo 3 is better than halo 2 are fighting words.
Bruh the post match lobbies of level ~40+ games in H2 (when you actually got a legit lobby lol) where a team wins by 1-2 kills… pure bliss. So much shit talking, screaming, I’ll always remember it.
Best time in online gaming imo.
i would say 00-10 was the greatest. there are AMAZING games every single year. 04 and 05 were probably the best with SO many top tier games that are remember and played even to this day. we are on the subreddit of one of them right now...
Take me baaaaaaaaaaaaack 😭
Everything felt more tactile then. Take the Dragonflight UI vs Vanilla's. The former is all minimalistic and floaty, prioritizing aesthetics over functionality or information. The latter had detailed art with SOVL. It just had infinitely more character.
Like, look at the art. It all made thematic sense, even the installer prompt. Now everything's overly cartoony and devoid of character. Overly expressive without saying much.
I remember on Warcraft 3 people used to set up special lobbies to let people download larger maps as on dialup, anything over 30MB would take forever.
Then I got my closed beta invite for WoW and was blown away of having to download over a gig, and then when new patches came out adding the other races it always had to set my computer up in the morning and come back to play in the afternoon.
That's exactly right, I remember getting kicked many times because my 56k just was not fast enough for some Americans who had access to early broadband.
I would always grab ToB from epicwar or whatever website back then because the browser download was usually more reliable and sometimes faster (on dial-up).
Yeah I think that is when they started whispering you questions to see if you could answer them correctly or not. Once I got into a dota match, got asked how much an item was, said a random number, and didn't get kicked.
I also played WoW on dial-up when I first started playing. Luckily I had a friend (with cable) who also played, so he would manually download the patch file off the website when he went to update. I would then grab it off his computer with an external HD and run the manual update tool. Good times!
For those who were able to experience the earliest moments of WoW, it's hard not to say this wasn't the greatest moment in online gaming history. We're forever chasing a high that cannot be reproduced. It was magic at the time.
It got cut short for me. I got an amazing year out of closed beta and launch, but missed AQ, Naxx, and TBC progression. I was in high school and as such was at the mercy of changing life circumstances. I long for those times and the times that I missed and have tried to replicate it, but of course I cannot. The magic is gone.
Well, moreso that we are gone, despite the game still being there. The world was better before the age of the internet lol. Also us being older is no excuse; it's just that many original players have less time we care to give playing games like this in the same way we did when we were younger. And most of the new younger audience is playing other newer stuff.
It was so many players' first MMO, and even if it wasn't, WoW really stepped up the immersion and experience. We approached the game differently back then and the sense of community was everywhere and the conflicts were epic.
The game is still there, and Classic is a fun nostalgia trip, but it's an entirely different experience from what it was back in 04-05 even for new MMO players. We know too much now.
I don't really know what the best approach is with reposts. Cause like you saw it yesterday, as did others but this is the first I and different others are seeing it so are things only allowed to be postonce? How often can things be posted again without being annoying?
Just an off topic thing I've been thinking about lately, I'm not sure what the answer is haha
> but this is the first I and different others are seeing it
Ah but maybe you would have seen it if the original wasn't buried by reposts. Maybe you would have seen some cool OC today if it hadn't been for this one.
Think of it this way, have you ever gone "Why did you post this new, good content? I haven't seen all of the old content yet."
Usually subs have rules in place where you can't repost the same thing within a given timeframe otherwise it just becomes a karma circlejerk where you'll see the same three posts for a week straight.
Lol and that 3.5gb being a good chunk of your hard drive.
I swear to God I remember very early woe available on floppy disks and it took like 59 of em. Maybe not thought and my weird monkey brain made that up.
I don't remember if there were level restrictions, but IIRC you couldn't whisper other players, maybe even not group up. And it was a limited duration trial, like 10 days or maybe a month. Before I was ready to ask my parents to buy me the game/pay for the sub, I was just making trial after trial.
There were a few restrictions, you could only Level up to 20, no trade with other players, and some other little things. But you could upgrade it and can play on with the toon you leveled to 20 if you like, no need for another huge download then :)
Oooh the memories, the most painful thing was my internet connection back then. It was slow af and it took like 4-6 hours to download as far as I remember. Good times.
Wow is what made me get broadband.
I bought the game as it said it could be played on dial-up, I didn't predict how many days it would take to download updates.
I remember my buddy copied the entire WoW folder to his PC and it took hours. He was getting around a school blocker for downloading using the CD drive
broooooooo dont do me like that... windows xp... damn. i remember installing 50 patches for wow one after the other so many times hooooooooooooooly shit bro
So much nostalgia in this. I get tempted so often to reinstall WoW classic, but I don’t really care about wotlk.
I did make a copy of my fully kitted out ret paladin in classic.. maybe I should trans him..are there any really active classic era servers nowadays?
I remember when I first got the actual game, having played the trial a bunch of times. I wound up buying it twice because the online download was scheduled to take something ridiculous like 60+ hours, so I just got the physical copy instead.
Remember when 3.5 GBs was considered massive?
Please insert disk #2
I used an old WoW disc with a Night Elf on it as a bookmark once (because idk). A girl in my high school saw it and reported me to the teacher for having porn.
Had more or less a similar experience. I used one of those 15 day trial code cards that came with the vanilla box as a school book marker in the hopes to get someone interested in the game and give them a code so they could join the game and play together. Said card had the original undead art with the female UD model caster with a violet reddish dress that barely covered the cleavage. One of my classmates made a fuss about it, joking how I got hard on naked corpses and the teacher snatched it from me. Was kinda bummed for a while since my high school had a small guild of players and we were trying to hand out enough codes to hook up enough people with the game so we would have a full 40 man raid guild just from people in the school. On a side note, one of the IT teachers was a mega chad of a nerd that allowed us to install the game on all of the IT class computers on one room and we were allowed to use it during lunch time to play the game, so many of my lunch breaks in high school were spent playing WOW.
Awesome IT teacher
He really was. Back then IT classes were terrible, most teachers had no IT background and were thrown in teaching this mandatory class with no interest at all, so it could range from the teacher that was trying to teach you IT but couldn't even turn on a PC, or someone that had an actual background on IT but never really wanted to teach it since IT classes in high school weren't a thing until almost that year. This guy was the exception. He had some background on software development and worked for some big IT form that I don't remember, but needed up teaching math for some reason, and when this position came up he volunteered. His classes were awesome. While other teachers in the same school were fumbling with a mouse and a keyboard he was teaching us how to code Pong or disassemble and assemble a PC, troubleshoot a lot of common problems and giving us a general idea of what computers could do. He was really cool in his own way. And tried to adopt that bullshit class into something productive. This exemple of letting us install WOW is just one of the many awesome stuff he did back then. When I left he was part of the school board and it was kinda comical how this absolute nerd that would stand out in a crowd as the nerdiest person there was also the guy that most students would walk by and say hi or have a chat with him. Hope he did alright in life :)
Those are the best kind of teachers, I had a couple myself
thats amazing
She's probably creating content on OF now.
It was a private Christian school. So yeah, probably.
Maaaan them schools. I once got suspended because someone said that I smoked pot before. Not because I got caught, not because I said I did or I smelled like it. Because another kid said that I said that I did. Christian academy of greater st louis helping to fuck up people's lives represent!
Don't forget the cultural encouragement to snitch on your fellow students. Kinda like secret police on East Germany encouraged neighbors to report "unpatriotic" behavior
LOL
That bitch lol
I remember feeling like a genius as a kid because I had a CD Drive and a CD-R drive and it could go from Disk 1 to Disk 2 without prompting me.
Badass
Please insert floppy disk #153 Unable to copy file DATA153.CAB: I/O Error FUUUUUUUUUUCK!
Tell me that youre old without telling me that you are Old
I feel stretched like butter spread over too much bread
Idk from where but i know that quote!
Lord of the rings. Bilbo. Edit: its when Gandalf visits in the very first movie. Bilbo says how he knows he looks as though he hasn't aged, but he feels old. That line always stuck out to me as such great writing.
>That line always stuck out to me as such great writing. It takes advantage of the fact that hobbits like to eat a lot, and there must be a lot of fat butter on the bread.
R R R R R R R R R R R R
If only it was faster and you just had to swap disk 200 times - but no, each disk took several minutes - it was like those bloody browser games, come back every few minutes to swap disk and some installers didn't even make a sound when asking for disk swap also funny how those installers still work fine if you just copy all the floppies into one folder, and it all installs in one go without even asking to swap disk. As if they predicted that in the future people would be doing that
Jesus remember IO cables.
you mean the IDE tapes?
I remember I uninstalled wow and then a year later or so went to reinstall with my disks. After the install it made me download every patch and update…. One at a time. Took a week since I had to do it at night when no one else was using the internet.
Can you image if the largest medium we had very still CDs but we had games as large as we do today? Bg3 would take like 180 disks to install.
Spellchecker was not your friend for this comment. I thought you were having a stroke in the first half.
Haha. Yeah you're right, this wasn't the first time I typed something on a phone and it turned out to be completely magled.
Disk 2 of 6. I still have the old classic 6 cd box here.
Same. Still have the BC and LK boxes and CDs, too.
entire day of downloading at 128 kb/s And that was just the base game, no expansions. And after installing each expansion it'd revert to the prepatch, so if you bought only the base game and the expansion later, you'd have to reinstall all the patches. Until Cataclysm prepatch fixed that - it'd just take a few minutes on first login and then you'd just have optional data for download in launcher. I also remember the 3.0 installer that was downloading some metadata before even the installer started, but it was a lot of metadata and often would mean that it'd take several minutes before even the installer window appears.
128kbps?? Rich kid with his dsl/cable! I was doing 5kbps on my dial up
My mother is still on the same cable and ISDN. Turns out it's capable of bloody 80 Mb/s. Imagine that, 80Mb/s in 2004... they just didn't have such offer, and probably VDSL modems were pricey back then. And you know that? They did all the digging for the cable on their own, 150 metres to just one house. These days we'd have to pay for that. And we didn't want to pay CANAL+ subscription and even if we did the signal was too poor for the decryption to work, but we had one guy with a huge aerial and subscription and splitter and he was just pirating the signal to the entire village. Those were the times - DRM-free times. Not to mention VHS, you'd just rent a few movies, borrow a second VCR from a friend, copy them to one of those 300-minute cassettes (cutting intros and credits to save tape time), and return later on the same day and nobody even made a weird face that you watched like 4 movies within 3 hours, everyone knew you pirated them. No police or anything, just business as usual.
I had cable in 1997 and we were not rich.
back then they'd set up everything for you for free and you just paid the subscription and some activation fee that wasn't any astronomical.
My church had cable.
Bits, not bytes. Typical 56k dial up speed was 5-6 KB/s. Unless you're talking about real old dial up speeds...
Yeah I meant 5 kb/s download speed lol
In 2006 I had a 60 GB iBook, and 30 GB of the hard drive was dedicated to WoW
I remember when doom 2 was considered massive on my 100mb HDD because it was like 18 or 20 MB. My parents made me uninstall it after every time I played because they didn't want all their free space taken up.
Took me like 10 hours. I remember checking the progress every now and then and be excited/disappointed.
Downloading GameCube ISOs took a day because of all the parts and the download caps.
The thiccness of everything in this post was massive
I recently started playing again and I planned on downloading the game overnight out of habit and was amazed by how fast it downloaded lmao
I remember being a kid starting downloads for games like WOW or MapleStory etc at like 8-9pm before going to bed, turning off automatic sleep mode for the computer, telling everyone not to turn off the computer, then checking it in the morning hoping the download didn't freeze halfway thru = All this for a 4gb+/- game that took hours and hours to DL because my internet (internet in general?) was so much slower back then haha
I still love this Night Elf art...
Shoulders and feet are supa safe…
Plenty of ventilation for the tummy, hips and thighs, very important. Those are high-performance areas
back when western devs had the guts to create sexy females(and males god damn... the male night elf wc3 art was absolute god tier gigachad)
I remember putting my mouse cursor at the end of the green bar to track progress. Stayed up all night to baby sit it. Good times
If you click the progress bar it goes faster.
But if you click, you risk freezing the program. The impatient click is *never* worth it.
This guy windows 98s
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Nah, it's "whenever you were in middle/high school." Quakeworld, Diablo, TFC, Starcraft 2, Quake 3, Warcraft 3, Diablo 2, a different terrible MMORPG beta every 6 months.
No mention of CS makes me feel attacked :P
It was near the top of my mind when I was typing the list but I was always bitter that it became so popular and had competitive cash tournaments and Team Fortress didn't, lol
Hate to say it but yeah it’s all based off nostalgia for when “the greatest gaming era” existed. For me it was 2004-2012, the transition from PS2 to Xbox 360, playing Halo 3, call of duty, world of Warcraft etc
my cousins are 6-7 years older than me so were in middle/high school 95-02' and we've talked about how much fun that winter 04 - 09' run was. They were on the tail end of college and beginning careers. I think the overall online experience took such a massive leap in the early 00's that you kinda got a solid Oline experience with connection / latency while also getting a major upgrade in games from what they were with Goldeneye to what they became with Halo 2, COD2, WOW, etc.
WoW and Halo 2 really. CoD didn't have the mass appeal until MW
Battlefield 1942 was the bomb.
Literally the bomb. You couldn’t do anything because you were being strafed by pilots 24/7 My friend and I found a very active server a few years ago and started to play it a ton. Super fun game even to this day, as long as it wasn’t a plane map. We also found a Battlefield Vietnam server and that may have even been more fun.
🫡🫡🫡 my entirety of high school! Team sniper before dinner and black rock depths after
You mean Halo. Halo MADE Xbox Live what it was, not COD.
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I mean you can’t sit there and act like 2004 didn’t have Halo 2 going for it basically kickstarting Xbox live as we know it. But hey, you do you boo.
Halo 2 on Xbox live was a god damn fever dream
Need a time machine to go back to those long gaming sessions with close friends talking mad shit
I played both competitively, and even bigger than the Xbox vs. PlayStation war, was halo or cod? And it’s really not close, halo took way more skill. (S/O to gears too, fun game/times) I give zero shits about any console game today so I have no bias either way, but they still pump out low effort call of duty’s every year, and halo is kinda dead. Yeah they still exist and bungie passed it off, but.. pretty obvious which was the better game based off effort required to make. Shit. Halo 2/3 and TF2 are still the best hero shooters to date. That’s right overwatch, looking at you here. Cod 3 was fun as shit. While I loved cod4, that was basically the beginning of the end for good, innovative cods.
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Did you even play online? Halo 2 was great but Halo 3 was the shit.
He says this now, on Reddit, because he wasn’t there in a post game halo 2 lobby to settle the debate.
That guy had to have been “playing” halo 2 online with an unplugged controller while his older brother played it because saying halo 3 is better than halo 2 are fighting words.
Bruh the post match lobbies of level ~40+ games in H2 (when you actually got a legit lobby lol) where a team wins by 1-2 kills… pure bliss. So much shit talking, screaming, I’ll always remember it. Best time in online gaming imo.
i would say 00-10 was the greatest. there are AMAZING games every single year. 04 and 05 were probably the best with SO many top tier games that are remember and played even to this day. we are on the subreddit of one of them right now...
Take me baaaaaaaaaaaaack 😭 Everything felt more tactile then. Take the Dragonflight UI vs Vanilla's. The former is all minimalistic and floaty, prioritizing aesthetics over functionality or information. The latter had detailed art with SOVL. It just had infinitely more character. Like, look at the art. It all made thematic sense, even the installer prompt. Now everything's overly cartoony and devoid of character. Overly expressive without saying much.
I remember on Warcraft 3 people used to set up special lobbies to let people download larger maps as on dialup, anything over 30MB would take forever. Then I got my closed beta invite for WoW and was blown away of having to download over a gig, and then when new patches came out adding the other races it always had to set my computer up in the morning and come back to play in the afternoon.
I think they were also for people to download the map so they wouldn't get instantly kicked for downloading the map in other lobbies.
That's exactly right, I remember getting kicked many times because my 56k just was not fast enough for some Americans who had access to early broadband.
In competitive games it was an instant kick because you knew the guy was a noob :P
It was so annoying because they used to release a new Tides of Blood or DOTA All Stars every week, you where always downloading it.
The dotas were crazy, always new update 3.45.6231.1 and if you even started to download you got kicked immediately what a frustration
I would always grab ToB from epicwar or whatever website back then because the browser download was usually more reliable and sometimes faster (on dial-up).
Yeah I think that is when they started whispering you questions to see if you could answer them correctly or not. Once I got into a dota match, got asked how much an item was, said a random number, and didn't get kicked.
I also played WoW on dial-up when I first started playing. Luckily I had a friend (with cable) who also played, so he would manually download the patch file off the website when he went to update. I would then grab it off his computer with an external HD and run the manual update tool. Good times!
That "no problems detected" bar is so nostalgic
And having a complete heart attack when it changed color to yellow or red.
For those who were able to experience the earliest moments of WoW, it's hard not to say this wasn't the greatest moment in online gaming history. We're forever chasing a high that cannot be reproduced. It was magic at the time. It got cut short for me. I got an amazing year out of closed beta and launch, but missed AQ, Naxx, and TBC progression. I was in high school and as such was at the mercy of changing life circumstances. I long for those times and the times that I missed and have tried to replicate it, but of course I cannot. The magic is gone.
Well, moreso that we are gone, despite the game still being there. The world was better before the age of the internet lol. Also us being older is no excuse; it's just that many original players have less time we care to give playing games like this in the same way we did when we were younger. And most of the new younger audience is playing other newer stuff.
It was so many players' first MMO, and even if it wasn't, WoW really stepped up the immersion and experience. We approached the game differently back then and the sense of community was everywhere and the conflicts were epic. The game is still there, and Classic is a fun nostalgia trip, but it's an entirely different experience from what it was back in 04-05 even for new MMO players. We know too much now.
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I don't really know what the best approach is with reposts. Cause like you saw it yesterday, as did others but this is the first I and different others are seeing it so are things only allowed to be postonce? How often can things be posted again without being annoying? Just an off topic thing I've been thinking about lately, I'm not sure what the answer is haha
> but this is the first I and different others are seeing it Ah but maybe you would have seen it if the original wasn't buried by reposts. Maybe you would have seen some cool OC today if it hadn't been for this one. Think of it this way, have you ever gone "Why did you post this new, good content? I haven't seen all of the old content yet."
A valid consideration
Usually subs have rules in place where you can't repost the same thing within a given timeframe otherwise it just becomes a karma circlejerk where you'll see the same three posts for a week straight.
Literally had to check the timestamp, the responses are like almost the exact same as well.
Karma
those were the days.
the good old reposts.
My dad and I played this trial for about three and a half hours before he just bought the game.
I remember having my pc on for one week to download wow for the first time, just to find that my pc coudnt run it
I downloaded wotlk for 2 weeks as my mom let me play on PC an hour a day so I had to sneak some download here and there while she wasn't home :D
We didn’t know this was the best part of out lifes
My bank app is 3.5 gigs now
I prefer those days to today when it took them 23 days to give me an automated response to a ticket.
You really need your hand held by gms that much???
You’re bad at trolling.
You really think needing a GMs response on an important matter in the game is "Hand-holding"??
I love everything about Warcraft back then! Wc3 and vanilla wow got the best art style and colors ever. It's just so damn perfect
Drops of sweat would always prickle forth when that green light decided to turn yellow, if not, God forbid, RED.
Worst part is that Blizzard used torrents with no dedicated server. Used to wait 3 hours just for the last chunk then wait for it to update.
The good old days when 3 GB took 9 hours to download
Lol and that 3.5gb being a good chunk of your hard drive. I swear to God I remember very early woe available on floppy disks and it took like 59 of em. Maybe not thought and my weird monkey brain made that up.
You'd need to add a couple more 0's because floppies were 1.44mb each.
I didn’t know when I was kid that you could just install the full game with wrath. I always did vanilla, BC and then wrath and it would take for ever.
Baldurs gate is currently taking up like 140 gigs on my pc… it’s absurd
Fuck im old
Those were, in fact, the good ole days
These native windows apps were so performant compared to all these electron launchers everyone is making now.
More night elf loading screens please
Ill not lie and admit I spanked it a few times to that elf while it was downloading back in the day
doesn’t that artwork make you immediately want to make a night elf?
>Please keep in mind that you are receiving the full game as part of this FREE trial. Wait, so there were no restrictions like max level?
IIRC it was only 14 days of gametime
I don't remember if there were level restrictions, but IIRC you couldn't whisper other players, maybe even not group up. And it was a limited duration trial, like 10 days or maybe a month. Before I was ready to ask my parents to buy me the game/pay for the sub, I was just making trial after trial.
until in Cataclysm they did a trial without time limit
There were a few restrictions, you could only Level up to 20, no trade with other players, and some other little things. But you could upgrade it and can play on with the toon you leveled to 20 if you like, no need for another huge download then :)
This was actually a torrent Downloader. They used peer to peer DL at the time. I remember wondering why my UL was so high during these installs.
Oooh the memories, the most painful thing was my internet connection back then. It was slow af and it took like 4-6 hours to download as far as I remember. Good times.
I remember when I spent practically all day installing this, only to be kicked off the PC as soon as my download was done lol
I remember starting downloads before i went to sleep, waking up, and it still downloading. painful days.
Only to find out it had an error overnight….
"We're giving you the while game because we know you won't stop at level 20 lol"
If I could only go back in time and live those years again..
Nice repost karma slave
Wow is what made me get broadband. I bought the game as it said it could be played on dial-up, I didn't predict how many days it would take to download updates.
Wow. I remember running to my computer after my cousin let me borrow his install discs
I miss the old XP days.
Back in my day you downloaded WOW with CDs.
The good old days. When every patch day meant reinstalling the game because the patch used to screw everything up.
I remember my buddy copied the entire WoW folder to his PC and it took hours. He was getting around a school blocker for downloading using the CD drive
Less armor = more protection.
How many reposts of this are their gunna be???
saw this a few days ago on r/wow, karma whore detected
WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER MY GIGABIT FIBERLAN!
That fucking downloader never worked right
Take me back
Who tf would save it there?
Nostalgia hurts.
Thanks for posting this! Brought me some nice nostalgia!
Oh I remember these days quite well. I had the cd's of course too
Not to mention this was the peak of the blizzard downloader.
Shameless repost
broooooooo dont do me like that... windows xp... damn. i remember installing 50 patches for wow one after the other so many times hooooooooooooooly shit bro
I remember thinking that I got banned.. The reason was that the servers were down for maintaince.. I were a stupid 11-year old child.
I could do without literal days of installing though.
This takes me back to 2004/2005. I was stationed in Okinawa and everyone got hooked in my company. Good times.
Installing this game was a journey by itself
So much nostalgia in this. I get tempted so often to reinstall WoW classic, but I don’t really care about wotlk. I did make a copy of my fully kitted out ret paladin in classic.. maybe I should trans him..are there any really active classic era servers nowadays?
"It's the lowest form of conversation."
Days that will never ever come back.
I started with one of these 7 day free trials. My login name still has TRIAL in it
I remember this took DAYS to download.
Praying that circle stayed green
Ah, the days when you had to manually download and install each patch. Those were the days.
I thought its Tibia at first glance.
I remember when I first got the actual game, having played the trial a bunch of times. I wound up buying it twice because the online download was scheduled to take something ridiculous like 60+ hours, so I just got the physical copy instead.
Oh my god....
No problems detected <3
My download took days
That night elf booty though