texasvet5485: I started playing again like 3 months ago after a 15ish year break, and it feels like I never left. Timeless indeed.

_Travey: just started playing again after a long break. Just so relaxing... Was actually my fiance who wanted to play again! I randomly asked her what her top 3 games of all time were and WoW was her number 1 which was shocking to me. "umm why arent we playing right now then?!"

stephenduarte2179: One thing worth mentioning about the rise of WoW. The lord of the rings movies were released during the same time. Fantasy was mainstream cool. People understood orc, spell, wizard, etc.

jacquim2267: Back in 2004 my teenage son said "Mum, can you preorder me the beta key for the new Blizzard mmo that's coming out?"... best £10 i ever spent! He let me make a character on his beta account and i was blown away. Been playing ever since. Played in casual guilds and raiding guilds, met guildies irl and the whole family plays or has played together at various times. These days it's just chill, casual, mostly solo play. The fomo has long gone, so i dont feel the need to grind for gear or rep (or parses!).. I just bounce around my alts chillin and helping people out where i can and enjoying the gameplay. Lovely video, really enjoying your content

SubCruisin: To this day when it comes who drops everyone knows green = uncommon, blue = rare, purple = epic

DaTrixie: Somethings, few mind you. Somethings are like, watching a baseball game. Some things are like eating a PB&J sandwich. Somethings are like hearing the song Hotel California across the street at a restaurant/bar you wish you had stopped at.

WoW is one of those things. If you have EVER touched WoW for more then at you friends and killed a boat in Valley of trials then walked away, WoW touches you. If your belief allows the term, your very soul.

It's magic. Hate it, love it, spit on it, hug it, what no one can ever claim is it's, special. And it's not going anywhere.

Thank you Z, don't stop speaking adult, and mature tones. <3

pathfinder.george: Warcraft is just such a believable universe. It's hard not to want to explore every piece of it. I've been playing since vanilla. Currently playing Classic.

byteme0000: I started playing Vanilla in 2005, then stayed around through TBC and then WotLK. (I did not like that Blizzard released “expansions” rather than separate games, so I was already salty.) Sadly, Cata made me vomit, so I quit. I played Vanilla for many years on private servers until Blizzard finally released Classic (Era) in September 2019. I’m still playing it in 2025 and I love it! To me it never gets old.

KamoChameleon: That was so so so good! Loved it!

kingboss1279: I found your channel about 2 days ago and I just gotta say you deserve SO much more recognition then you have so far! Great content keep it up! Dropped a sub for ya.

arokh72: I played back in the day, up till Cata. I've just popped back into Anniversary, and for me it's a comfort game. It's like that comfort dish, or a favourite blanket, or those just right comfy PJs. It's familiar and feels safe, plus playing the Classic style of WoW, and it's grind just provides a catharsis, where you can switch your mind off and play.

monsutaman1: WoW may not "Die," so long as the cost to keep it running does not outweigh its' revenue, aka Final Fantasy XI. XI is more "MMO Die Proof" than WoW, because SE actually tried to kill the game per reports...... multiple times.......lol....

.....With reports of trying to sunset the MMO as recent as 2024.......

Of course they refute these claims, due to bad press and how XI outlived XIV......which had to be relaunched.

WoW makes vastly more than its' cost to keep running most likely, thus no reason to shutdown. WoW killer may not happen, due to the dedicated playerbase.

dochedgehog: wow has been in decline since wotlk

its player numbers shrink with each expansion. every single mmo has to face this sooner or later

the truth

86Corvus: Its already dead. Your premise is idiotic.

spaceowl9246: World of Warcraft Vanilla just is the best video game ever made in my opinion. There is nothing media related in my life that had SUCH an impact on me.

crochettycowlloyd5948: I played all the disc games and it was natural for me to just go with the move, now at nearly 69 I am still playing.

dustinseth1: I played EQ way back, and just recently started playing WoW for the first time. Exactly what you said, it’s essentially EQ with all the clunky bits smoothed out. Seemingly small changes that make it many times better.

leonardceres9061: I remember playing EverQuest and getting addicted to it like it was crack. I was in my early 20s and my my Dungeons & Dragons group broke up. People were just getting older and moving on with their lives. We had been gaming together for several years. So there was a vacuum. I heard about this Online role-playing game that you played with actual people in a persistent world with no real end to the adventure.

I remember the reviews for ever quest and one guy said that it took literal hours to walk from one end of the continent to the other. So immediately it caught my attention.

However, after four years of grinding ad nauseam, I was ready for something else. I remember when Warcraft three came out and I had a lot of fun with that game because me and a buddy who had introduced me to PC gaming showed me star craft and Diablo so when a new game came out by blizzard, I couldn’t wait to dive in.

WC3 served to peak my interest and whet my appetite for more adventures in this world they had created.

So much so that when EverQuest came out with mod support I immediately started looking up ways to make my interface and spell icons, match those of Warcraft three.

I had no idea wow was even going to be a thing. So when I read in the gaming magazines that they were releasing an MMO or PG based off of Warcraft it was like a dream come true.

As soon as I started playing the game, I was in heaven. I was so burnt out on grinding, and this was a game where I could actually level up just by doing quests.

This may seem like an old idea now, but at the time it was very novel.

I tried other MMORPG’s, and they basically did the same thing that ever quest did .

t5kcannon1: Excellent upload.

WoW is the greatest video game ever made, an extraordinary achievement.

The_Toxic_Avenger: Not sure where I saw it, but there was a Blizzard big wig, I think Frank Pierce, who said that they expected World of Warcraft to peak at maybe a few hundred thousand players for a few years to tide them over while they worked on other projects.

Cherokeelion: I married a guildie. Before that was also in relationships with others from WoW. So yes, my life is quite a bit different than it would have been had I not picked up the game in 2004.

Prismaticlysm: Why World of Warcraft Will Never Die - Video starts with Elwynn Forest Music

Me: Yep, thats why.

I started playing wow about a year after it came out. I have played so many random MMO's including GW2 and Aion and F2P ones, and nothing nabbed my attention like WoW did. Nothing felt like home like WoW did. If I hear the game music that alone brings me back. There have been times where I took a break (not actually due to WoW, I've always enjoyed the game) and I just keep coming back. The only regrets I have are not being able to play more lol

I truly hope it never dies. However I do hope Microsoft recognizes (and honest, every big corp needs to learn this lesson) that they need people passionate about the game to make decisions and work on them, because I do understand a lot of people are angry about different things and execs don't know shit lol

drunkenprayer8390: I remember when a lot of early things like rested XP, no XP loss on death and other things that made things less punishing were announced how many people thought it would be terrible and too casual. Actually a trend that has continued every expansion or near enough at least since WotLK ended.

I'm not saying WoW is perfect by any means or that more hardcore MMOs are worse just because they are harder, but WoW has clearly demonstrated that the market just isn't there by the amount of them that have tried and failed to maintain a player base. EVE and Albion end game are the only two I can think of off hand that are still going and even then they both have PvE content as well.

I loved my time in UO, EQ, DaoC and other older MMOs but even if they made a game with similar old school mechanics but modern graphics, controls and UI I doubt I would be able to get into it and miss the QoL and convenience that made early WoW supposedly casual.

TeamSleep: Love this game but it’s so bloated and when leveling up I hardly see anyone. It sucks. I hope they make wow 2 and make it good cause this is so dated. At least get rid of the bloat and make it an mmo again.

willxowo: I like how the direction of this video is about the facts of life/modern culture rather than what's going on in retail/classic rn lol. absolutely true, well teh depth of WoW goes far beyond that if you include private servers and really the communities of all servers.. the legacy is so much that FF14 openly admits they're inspired to WoW. With their own twist, and not calling it a "WoW Kxxr".. I highly prefer WoW for a lot of reasons, but that's still a good game.

WoW is so big that even my mom knows it, and yalls probably too lol, whether not you played it, probably do if you watched this.

But the thing with my mom is she's lived a completely different life from even casual gamers. She claims I've been gaming since I was 2 but I can't say for sure lol. I try to get her to play boardgames on a mobile, since she scrolls on facebook like most boomers. but she prefers to play it by herself than to play a game of it on a screen. It's like she's allergic to games on screens, my dad was a gamer, anyway the point of saying that is, even she knows what WoW is. and not from me lol, she said she heard of it from Big Bang Theory. So.. yeah.. couch potatoes with or without a family probably all know what WoW is due to what they show on TV. for generations..

"Never die" though.. I mean... may remain in survivors memories of an apocalypse lol, but that's all I can think of.

martinbennett9908: The word is 'versus'.

Jun 02 2025

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