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Started playing at 12 years old, now 29. At the time being in a broken family, living in a post-communist hellhole. World of Warcraft was my world, my escape. I forced myself to improve my English so that I could understand quest texts and delve deep into the lore. I am 100% convinced that my life situation would have broken me if I didn't have this world to seek refuge in, when at my lowest. It's more than a game, and that's why it's unstoppable.
@@clarksmith494 The world can certainly be quite ugly indeed. Recovering WoW addict here, and I still think about the game every day. IRL RNG is and likely always will feel too dynamic and at certain times, outright unfair. It is what it is, I guess.
Same-ish story. Son begged me to get it in 2006. Then talked me into making a toon. Then we fought over the computer. Then we had two computers, and in a few years from that went to Blizzcon together. So many awesome memories, and an expansion release was as much of a holiday as Christmas! Snacks made, days off taken. It's been a big part of our family fun. He's 31 now and we still play.
I am a 74 yr old Granny in a couple of weeks. Built my pc when my teenage son brought it home and I was hooked. Made a Tauren Enhancement Shaman and never changed this main. Played since Warcraft and never missed an expansion. My fav was Wrath. I’ve made many RL friends but no it’s not like it use to be. I stay with WOW yet stopped raiding a few expansions back. I mainly PVP now and collect mounts. I love Alterac Valley because it’s a throwback to what I now refer to as the good ole daze! 😜
@@jeffreysandoval8367 now’s the perfect time to get into it, I highly recommend watching a quick catch up full lore video just so you know what’s going on till the war within
'Our responsibility is to bring joy and fun to people around the world' (the gulp-struggle - did they buy that?) Seeing that face as he says that, reminds me of that quote from Jaws "The thing about a shark, it's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When it comes at you it doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites you, and those black eyes roll over white" aka Bobby-boy, the shark, when he gets your money
Well would be funny to compare, how much money people have spend on booze, coke, snacks etc. in same time period, but I don't think anyone have really been keeping track of that, heh.
This game, when i am subscribed, i notice i spend way less money because i spend much more on plenty of other titles each month when im not subscribed to WoW.
December 5th, 2004. I made my main, a warlock. I was 23 years old at the time. If you want an example of why this game isn't dead, go watch the Story of Ibelin. That's ONE story amongst millions. This game has saved people's lives, it gave people that couldn't have friends the ability to do so. It isn't just a game anymore. Its something else.
Zenkai Goose is quickly becoming one of my favorite TH-camrs.. Love the long format videos, history, comedy, information, etc. Just everything about these videos is perfect. Keep it up, man!
Yeah but don’t forget. It’s $5,000 spent on just 1 game lol. Asking for money for the expansions was kind of ridiculous. You’re already paying $15 a month and every 2-3 years they want you to also drop $60…
1 game that's lasted for 20 years, with 20 years of content, updates, patches, features, upgrades.. That's a lot of work. IMO it's a very very cheap hobby. Try owning a motorcycle or a racing sim or horses or game collector or almost any other hobby for 20 years and see how that goes.
@@Lensfort Agree - hard agree. It's too pricey to go the movies more than once or twice a year (have family) but playing the game is really good value as a hobby. Plus you can pick it up, leave it, do other stuff, (chores, work, read a book, have a meal, play a different game) come back and it's always there for you. Been playing since 06 and still enjoy it.
I started playing WoW at the ripe age of 4 years old in 2006, my whole family is on this game. I had made a male human warrior as my first character and named it after our cat Grendal. I played that game for hours on end, still going till this day, and I could never replace the endless memories I have with this game. All the people, all the sweet moments you make, it’s unreal and I can never fully describe it.
Same I started TBC in 2008 when I was 7 years old on my uncles computer lol. Was hooked since. I did not have a max level character until cataclysm w my 85 shaman
Why not do the same in real life and go out and explore and make friends where it actually matters? When this game eventually dies because NOTHING is forever. What will you do? Find another game and call that a miracle for yourself? Stop hyping up things that have no effect on you in reality. If you went out and made friends and relationships and connections you would be better off in life than wasting away playing a game from a company who was doing cubical raids and harassing employees.
@@rowan1275 Sorry you couldn’t experience it the way I did, but that doesn’t mean you can just label my experiences as a waste of time lol. I think you have the wrong perspective on gaming based on your reply.
Only the lastest batch of people whom they really pissed off when they deleted the guild banks items, are not coming back. Which is why you are seeing the huge push for subs. There are still players in the game who do not read the forum and do not even know that guild bank items were deleted. So blizzard is now pushing hard for people to sub for 12 before they find out. I quit this POS. You do not get to delete my items and not give them back. If you want money for doing that you are smoking something worse than weed. I left that abusive relationship and am playing FF14 where i am treated with respect.
@@MatthewTheWanderer Ask me if i give a toss about the game. Ask me if i am still playing the game after they deleted all in the guild bank. Ask yourself if the financial data they have on you is safe and ask yourself how safe your characers are. The only people still playing wow at this point are people who cant walk away from abusive relationships. You probably. People who are so fricken addicted they have no life and people who are so invested they simply cant walk despite being in an abusive relationship with blizzard. Its only losers liek you who still play this game now.
@@suminshizzles6951 YOU are the loser here! STFU! NO ONE gives a fuck about anything you lost in the game! Only worthless morons think that is something worth complaining about! Only losers care about the Guild Bank AT ALL! YOU are sad and pathetic and everyone is laughing at you and your "misfortune"! Also, even though I don't need to defend myself from an idiot like you, I am not addicted to this game at all and barely even play it.
@@suminshizzles6951 actuyu dont have a life I bearly have time to log on wow who the hell has time to start a whole new MMO especially a cat simulator lol wow has always been good just because u lost some items on the guild bank doesn't make it bad guy cry some more and enjoy ur dead game ff14 .everyone quit that game lol ur obviously a FF 14 player no true wow player crys and then mentions ff14 gtfo
Provided it’s an actual fun and not just sunk cost fallacy. I know from experience that I’ve played wow for a long time after I stopped actually having fun with it, because I felt all that money and time invested couldn’t just be for nothing if I abandoned my character.
@@borek92 Indeed sunk cost fallacy for me it was. DoTA 2. After 10 thousand hours and "some" money spent, leaving was so hard. But once I did, never came back. 4 years clean.
I'm a metalhead and this year I went to Wacken festival. I have my vest full of band patches... and also my Horde symbol patch. Many people stoped me at the festival just to talk about WoW, and it is because our love to his place all along this year. I feel more connected to it than the share love to the band we were seeing on the stage!
I play for 20 years while keeping pace irl in business and family. It has been pretty challenging at some points, had to take brakes like we all pretty much did. I met, know/knew so many people in-game that lived, laughed and loved trough the game, some now happily married to a person they met in Azeroth, some actually living off the game nowadays and other actually living for the game designed their life and careers so they never have to quit WoW. Some are not with us anymore, some were helped to overcome mental breakdowns and suicidal thoughts by their guildies. Millions of players, millions of destinies and one world that somehow unite and not divide them. A world i remember meeting my first online friend in when i was 11 y.o. helping me understand the quests and sending me health pots through the mail bought from an "auction house?" in a land far far away. A world that hold so many stories my now almost 6 y.o. son is excited to learn and i'm more than happy to share =) Happy anniversary, my friends and fellow adventurers!
I remember running 2km from school at lunch time to the EB Games/Game Stop just to grab my copy of Burning Crusade. I grabbed it, ran back and stopped at my house on the way, popped the disc in to start downloading. I think it was winter time in Canada, because I remember running through a frozen cornfield to get there. I remember vibrating and shaking with excitment when I started downloading it and first booted it up.
The absolute enjoyment I got from playing wow from TBC to MOP was just insane. I remember sitting back at one point and thinking, I felt sorry for the people that didn’t play the game and got to feel the same enjoyment I had playing wow.
The intro made me chuckle but after sitting through the whole video, that ending made me teared up a bit, the contrast with the intro is just beautiful. 20 years and i always come back to this game, Wow is home.
As a LONGTIME wow player, this was an amazing video and perfect encapsulates my time and experience on this game. It's a love hate relationship sometimes but in the end it has been probably one of the most amazing experiences I could call mine in this crazy world we live in
Great video. I started playing in ‘04 but left after Wrath; just started playing again about 3 weeks ago. Feel a bit more up to speed after your round-up. Definitely agree with you, friendship and memories is what makes WoW stand the test of time.
That was the best explanation of the significance of Arthas to the WoW storyline and why the game simply couldn’t be the same after his defeat. Brilliant
I have been playing WoW for 20 years now. It's had it's highs and lows and you captured that. Mists of Pandaria was my favorite expansion. Loved the video and man did the nostalgia kick in.
been playing since I was 11, I'm turning 30 in a month. Ive taken breaks, didnt like some patches and loved others. People seem to get mad when they arent having fun the entire time. It's a 20 year old game guys it's gonna have ups and downs
@@alyssumn3884I guess you get excited by anything huh? Even when a car crosses by you on the road you're jumping up and down for joy slapping your chest like a r**ard lol
playing since 2008. not playing as much and competetiv as in the first years but still love it. when i have nothing to play i start WoW and have a good time.
child services took a couple of my sims children away from me after they got stuck on the sidewalk. Buns of steal also got me killed after I realized I forgot to add pool stairs. this was funny because my ashes had no problem finding their way out of the pool. Diablo2 was pretty cool too. diablo3 was awful. specially the secret cow level. looked like my little pony
@@Taerynthea I play wow with my husband, and I'm generally the driver. I'm also the one who thinks the fastest way to get anywhere is always a straight line instead of following the road. this means many deaths due to falling, followed by hubby doing all ooh ah death noises and me laughing my butt off
If you don't want a 4 episode long flashback, and just skip to the actual video, go to 35:00 and watch from there. Everything before is just a filler to make the video longer.
Well, we if talk about WoW which was its own kingdom in the digital world. Then yes, it's already died. The number of people playing it back then, the culture it produced, it's just not even close man.
@@iz5808 I think that massive popularity was kind of a once in a generation thing. It wasn’t just the game, it was the right thing at the right place at the right time.
@@iz5808 classic and it's 3 expansions where absolutely incredible. But it's also one of the few games out there. So yeah ofc it will have great numbers. If classic came out today and no one heard of it before it wouldn't do as good becouse the amount of games out now is like 100x higher.
I started playing on the 10th anniversary, I was 9 years old and my brothers just introduced me to the game, I just finished making my fifth female Blood Elf Hunter because I liked to make pretty characters, I had the Molten Corgi summoned 24/7, life was good. Rest in Peace Mats "Ibelin" Steen.
@@josejuanandrade4439 There are no best expansions worth debating on. Vanilla and TBC was long time ago, and many people couldn't afford to play the game at that time, including me. I started in mid-late Wrath, so I have no feelings for TBC. People that say TBC is the best expansion in my opinion are massively affected by nostalgia factor. It's not fun to play, I tried it.
@@laurynassimonaitis80 Well is not about fun since fun is subjective. We are talking about core values of a mmorpg, core values that vanilla has, TBC has and then it starts to deluded in Wotlk that is how you measure how good a mmorpg is in general. In the end there is no "x is better then y" for ex Wotlk has way better combat than Vanilla and TBC but dungeons are linear and boring just like TBC, raids are a joke except Ulduar, class homogenization started in Wotlk, heroics went from a challenge in TBC to a aoe joke in Wotlk, TBC had better progression in terms of PVE with better raids overall, sure dungeons are linear like Wotlk here is where Vanilla wins in dungeons design by far having the best dungeons since a dungeon is a place where you get lost, a place to discover a massive place. Vanilla is a better mmorpg than TBC and Wotlk because the main protagonist is the world itself, the vastness of Azeroth, the exploring, the need of interaction between players that creates community that in the end is one of the core values of a mmorpg, WoW had such massive success in Vanilla until Wotlk because of the community and the connections created between players way more then the quality of the game itself. In the end I can play and enjoy Vanilla, TBC, Wotlk and even a bit of Cata, after years of playing different expansions I don't have a favorite I just play various expansions and it all depends with who I play that is a major fact in having or not fun for me.
@@josejuanandrade4439 If I am wrong then why Wotlk private servers are so much more populated compared to TBC private servers. TBC private servers are basically a server for your close friends. Nobody plays it, because it's not fun to play.
You’re doing so well bro. You clearly understand how to edit, keep us engaged and most of all bring up facts like the most goosetastic way. So thank you please never stop making videos 🙏
57 years old here. Only took a break during retail. Classic being released was awesome. (Had to pay off me house and send the little tackers to Uni). Night Elf Hunter through and through. Thanks for the video mate. 👍🤠
It sucked me in when I was 12. Got me through my parents divorce. And it was just the ultimate comfort food for so long. No matter how shitty my life was I could hop on wow and have a great time with my friends. Wotlk-cataclysm were the most fun imo. Dungeon finder just brought random people together like never before. And players like me who played solo more often got the chance to run dungeons without sitting around capital cities wasting time. If another game like wow ever comes out with modern tech, graphics, and gameplay I don't think I'll ever log off 😂
Auto dungeon finder and teleport ruined the game in my opinion. It’s nice to have a LFG tab to find and que with people. But it’s a lot more special when you and your group have to make the journey to the dungeon.
Day one player... still playing (not up to newest expansion just yet) - but made lots of friends and it helped me stay in contact with those that moved away .
Never played it, but as usual, the ending of your content is highly moving, and speaks to the very best of our collective pass time. I'll say it again, this's the finest content of its kind on TH-cam. Thank you mate.
2:30 Ahhh… that nostalgia, even I started game in 2016 in Legion in the age of 16 I can still feel the soul of game. Game helped me to recover from bullyshipment, it forged me with Saurfang, Grommash and Tryanda
The only thing dead about the game are the idiots claiming it is. I have heard well over 100 games that were supposed to be WOW killers and the majority of them are already dead.
First time watching you, what a fantastic and well made video, must have taken alot of time and effort. Captured the spirit of the WoW fanbase, I hope it survives for another 20 years!
I quit WOW just before Cataclysm. I am, to this day, still searching for a game that gives the same incredible experiences as WOTLK did. I think I'll never find it.
TLDW: It survived as long as it did because it was a masterpiece at launch and got millions of people extremely enfranchised. So even if it sucks NOW, it doesn‘t matter, because their customers literaply grew up on this universe and will never abandon it, no matter how bad it gets.
that 5k total of game time paid for.. is like as much as i paid for my PC. That aint shit when you look at how much hours of gameplay and enjoyment the game has given me.. id pay double that. no questions asked.
I was absolutely floored by the answer to the question about opening up servers limited to previous expansions: “No! We don’t want that and you don’t want that.” EverQuest has been having a ton of success lately with “progression servers” which is exactly that concept and people LOVE it! While I’ve never played them, a lot of people get really excited to play the two that get released every year and the announcement about which rule set each progression server will use is always an annual highlight.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I LOVED MoP. I especially love it now knowing the expansions that came next. It was the last time for me that my progress through the game made sense, actual combat play for my class worked and was fun, the world was open and beautiful and not a nightmare to navigate, the auction house was still viable, professions were straightforward, and people still talked to each other in guild chat. It was also drop dead gorgeous with a great story. My order: Wrath, MoP, BC, Legion, DF, Bfa, WoD, SL. I rate WoD above SL because it at least engaged me enough to play it through. I played Shadowlands for about two weeks and then didn't touch WoW again until Dragonflight. A lot of words for all this, but I WoW is something I love, has been a part of my life in ways that could make this post 5 times the length. I care about that virtual world.
my favorite xpac really. I love pet battles and 1st version of brawlers guild is still my favorite thing ever. I spent hours watching people die to hexos :)
Nothing wrong with that expansion, except for all the bugged questlines, that is. So many daily quests that were still broken even years after that expansion was new.
I personally like SL more than WoD, BFA and Dragonflight. For me Dragonflight is worst of them, i play it for 1 month maybe and got so bored with all that dragon's bs (i came back in season 2 for 2 weeks just for the mythic+ mount, cause he is very cool). I like SL because, i love games that are more into dark stuff, occultism and death in general. And i am one of the few people who actually enjoy Torghast runs.
That infromation is not accurate. The og team started working in WoW with 40 ppl but the team quickly went to 100 for its releaze in 2004. That said, 100 people to get the game out in 2004 with all the content it had and polish, is still way too impressive.
WoW! I am completely new to the game here in 2024 and am currently trying to understand the story from The Burning Crusade from 20 years back to The War Within. I have 20 years of gameplay to go through but am amazed at the evolution of this game. Great video! Got me through a rollercoaster of emotions!
I think I spend around $500 for the last 15 years. 13 years ago my account got hacked and the hacker transferred all the top items to my account and use on AH. By the time I got my account back i have tone of stuffs and golds, so all the gold for real money. Since the tokens introduced I used gold to paid my monthly subscription
In 2007 I used so many sick days to play WoW (and watch price is right and Bob Ross reruns) that my high school sent a letter home saying I couldn’t be sick anymore without a doctors note 🤣😂🫠. My dad was PISSED. If you weren’t there in the 2000s you’ll never understand how revolutionary this game was.
I remember a snowstorm hit on a patch Tuesday in like early 2006 and school cancelled. My brother and I were so fricken mad it didn't hit on any other weekday. Not only were the servers down all day long, It took hours and hours to download the dang patch.
@@iz5808exactly. Corporate people run everything into the ground. Wow as a culture isn’t dead though and people still play. Just log into TurtleWow and see Stormwind so crowded you can’t even make out who’s who, it’s just a MASSIVE blob of characters all moving around on top of each other.
I've only been playing wow for 3 years and greatly enjoy the game as a casual collector, and I run through all the old xpacks Im so glad the game hadn't died like so many OG players wished it would've
idk why but this kind of brought tears to my eyes. i've been playing wow for 20 years, and while it was true that some of the expansions were lack luster, i stuck them out and still played.
This video was so freaking good and satisfying. The pacing, the content, the script, the B-roll, the jokes and references, the greater picture moral of the story at the end. Just *chef's kiss*
I started playing in 2005 towards the end of vanilla with my cousin. Got to experience the midnight launches of BC and WOTLK played all the way up to WOD and started falling of after that. I’m now almost 40 and I would love to see a proper wow revival. All these years later my cousin and I still talk about our wow days and how we’d come back in a heart beat.
as someone that played from vanilla release all the way through Dragonflight (sure I took long breaks between). more towards the end a statement was made.." I got a lot of memories attached to it" couldnt ring more true. I am STILL part of the same guild I helped create back in BC with some members from a previous guild in Vanilla (though it is mostly a ghost town of dead characters now) and a few of those members I still talk to, to this day. I have a metric TON of memories from my years in Wow (Same with Star Wars Galaxies) that will remain dear to me. Every year once the snow starts to fall, I find myself buying the newest xpac or resubbing again, to go back to some of those memories and I choose this specific time to resub because it takes me back to the first times I was looking outside my windows and watching the snow fall, while my character/s were standing in Ironforge.
Happy 20 years of World of Warcraft, that's an insane achievement!
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Your videos are so entertaining. Please do the entire elder scroll games.
@@Luv-s1z thats a fantastic idea!
Goose glad youre back, youre better than act man
but i think and i hope in the back round ion blizzard old dusty basewment group of nerds shoud be mekain world of warcraft 2 slwoly
Also the average player in wow is toxic so good luck "making friends"
I love that Mila Kunis’s agent had to login to talk to her 😂
makes me love her even more, her and Cavill
I love that she was smart, and played ALLIANCE.
@@luridhue You just divided by zero. The only smart choice is playing the Horde.
@@CaMypau FOR THE HORDE!
@@CaMypau nah been wrecking horde in pvp nonstop lately.
Started playing at 12 years old, now 29.
At the time being in a broken family, living in a post-communist hellhole. World of Warcraft was my world, my escape. I forced myself to improve my English so that I could understand quest texts and delve deep into the lore.
I am 100% convinced that my life situation would have broken me if I didn't have this world to seek refuge in, when at my lowest.
It's more than a game, and that's why it's unstoppable.
@@clarksmith494 The world can certainly be quite ugly indeed. Recovering WoW addict here, and I still think about the game every day. IRL RNG is and likely always will feel too dynamic and at certain times, outright unfair. It is what it is, I guess.
Romania? :D
So true friend. Hope things have improved irl for you!
@BPthrowaway273 within some years WoW will be gone, aswell as everything else but made anew. Everything will change but will games die? I THINK NOT!
@@dannyboygoldfish926 you have no clue wth you’re talking about. But keep thinking that. 😂
My sons started playing day of launch in 2004. They bought the game for me as a Mother’s Day gift in 2005. Now I play with them and my grandkids. ❤❤❤
That's what WoW is all about.
Same-ish story. Son begged me to get it in 2006. Then talked me into making a toon. Then we fought over the computer. Then we had two computers, and in a few years from that went to Blizzcon together. So many awesome memories, and an expansion release was as much of a holiday as Christmas! Snacks made, days off taken. It's been a big part of our family fun. He's 31 now and we still play.
@@DenaInWyo Very Awesome.
such a wonderful life
Love this
I am a 74 yr old Granny in a couple of weeks. Built my pc when my teenage son brought it home and I was hooked. Made a Tauren Enhancement Shaman and never changed this main. Played since Warcraft and never missed an expansion. My fav was Wrath. I’ve made many RL friends but no it’s not like it use to be. I stay with WOW yet stopped raiding a few expansions back. I mainly PVP now and collect mounts. I love Alterac Valley because it’s a throwback to what I now refer to as the good ole daze! 😜
That’s incredible, I love how varied WoW players are. It’s really really cool
😂❤🎉😮😅😊
You should play classic Sod or classic fresh that just came out since thatll be progressing thru TBC and Wotlk🫡
@@kathrynsclark4588 granny buy me a pc I want to play with u
Insane. You love to see it 🙌
I have never played WoW but you’re damn right I’m going to watch this whole video.
Dude sameeeee we all love the goose man
you guys are the best 😭😭😭
I also have not played WoW but have always wanted to get into it.
@@jeffreysandoval8367 now’s the perfect time to get into it, I highly recommend watching a quick catch up full lore video just so you know what’s going on till the war within
@@jeffreysandoval8367also you have like 20 years of content you can do anytime you like
Bobby K has soulless eyes. Only greed inside those dark black holes
you do realize the man was on Epstein's flight-list right?
He is a goblin IRL, he more than likely.
'Our responsibility is to bring joy and fun to people around the world' (the gulp-struggle - did they buy that?)
Seeing that face as he says that, reminds me of that quote from Jaws "The thing about a shark, it's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When it comes at you it doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites you, and those black eyes roll over white" aka Bobby-boy, the shark, when he gets your money
5k is nothing over 20 years. I've know people who spend thousands on booze every 6 months.
Well would be funny to compare, how much money people have spend on booze, coke, snacks etc. in same time period, but I don't think anyone have really been keeping track of that, heh.
Yup and holidays! couple of grand for 1 or 2 weeks!
This game, when i am subscribed, i notice i spend way less money because i spend much more on plenty of other titles each month when im not subscribed to WoW.
Try thousands every week.
For $14.99 you have unlimited entertainment a Month it's very cheap fun hobby.
December 5th, 2004. I made my main, a warlock. I was 23 years old at the time. If you want an example of why this game isn't dead, go watch the Story of Ibelin. That's ONE story amongst millions. This game has saved people's lives, it gave people that couldn't have friends the ability to do so. It isn't just a game anymore. Its something else.
Zenkai Goose is quickly becoming one of my favorite TH-camrs.. Love the long format videos, history, comedy, information, etc. Just everything about these videos is perfect. Keep it up, man!
$4968.38 for a life long hobby... That's fricken cheap.
Yeah but you will probably add money to spend on other shit too
Yeah but don’t forget. It’s $5,000 spent on just 1 game lol. Asking for money for the expansions was kind of ridiculous. You’re already paying $15 a month and every 2-3 years they want you to also drop $60…
1 game that's lasted for 20 years, with 20 years of content, updates, patches, features, upgrades..
That's a lot of work.
IMO it's a very very cheap hobby.
Try owning a motorcycle or a racing sim or horses or game collector or almost any other hobby for 20 years and see how that goes.
@@Lensfort Agree - hard agree. It's too pricey to go the movies more than once or twice a year (have family) but playing the game is really good value as a hobby. Plus you can pick it up, leave it, do other stuff, (chores, work, read a book, have a meal, play a different game) come back and it's always there for you. Been playing since 06 and still enjoy it.
@@808Joshhlmao its not one game, thats like saying lord of the rings is about a ring
I started playing WoW at the ripe age of 4 years old in 2006, my whole family is on this game. I had made a male human warrior as my first character and named it after our cat Grendal. I played that game for hours on end, still going till this day, and I could never replace the endless memories I have with this game. All the people, all the sweet moments you make, it’s unreal and I can never fully describe it.
Same except in 2010 at age 4
Same I started TBC in 2008 when I was 7 years old on my uncles computer lol. Was hooked since. I did not have a max level character until cataclysm w my 85 shaman
Why not do the same in real life and go out and explore and make friends where it actually matters? When this game eventually dies because NOTHING is forever. What will you do? Find another game and call that a miracle for yourself? Stop hyping up things that have no effect on you in reality. If you went out and made friends and relationships and connections you would be better off in life than wasting away playing a game from a company who was doing cubical raids and harassing employees.
@@rowan1275 Sorry you couldn’t experience it the way I did, but that doesn’t mean you can just label my experiences as a waste of time lol. I think you have the wrong perspective on gaming based on your reply.
@@rowan1275why are watching this video if u feel so strongly about not "wasting ur time" is this not a "waste" right now?
WoW is an experience, people come and go and come back constantly. There's so much time and history invested for it to simply die
Only the lastest batch of people whom they really pissed off when they deleted the guild banks items, are not coming back. Which is why you are seeing the huge push for subs. There are still players in the game who do not read the forum and do not even know that guild bank items were deleted. So blizzard is now pushing hard for people to sub for 12 before they find out. I quit this POS. You do not get to delete my items and not give them back. If you want money for doing that you are smoking something worse than weed. I left that abusive relationship and am playing FF14 where i am treated with respect.
@@suminshizzles6951 You won't be missed!
@@MatthewTheWanderer Ask me if i give a toss about the game. Ask me if i am still playing the game after they deleted all in the guild bank.
Ask yourself if the financial data they have on you is safe and ask yourself how safe your characers are.
The only people still playing wow at this point are people who cant walk away from abusive relationships. You probably. People who are so fricken addicted they have no life and people who are so invested they simply cant walk despite being in an abusive relationship with blizzard.
Its only losers liek you who still play this game now.
@@suminshizzles6951 YOU are the loser here! STFU! NO ONE gives a fuck about anything you lost in the game! Only worthless morons think that is something worth complaining about! Only losers care about the Guild Bank AT ALL! YOU are sad and pathetic and everyone is laughing at you and your "misfortune"!
Also, even though I don't need to defend myself from an idiot like you, I am not addicted to this game at all and barely even play it.
@@suminshizzles6951 actuyu dont have a life I bearly have time to log on wow who the hell has time to start a whole new MMO especially a cat simulator lol wow has always been good just because u lost some items on the guild bank doesn't make it bad guy cry some more and enjoy ur dead game ff14 .everyone quit that game lol ur obviously a FF 14 player no true wow player crys and then mentions ff14 gtfo
5 grand for 20 years of fun. It was worth it. Go play golf for 20 years...
Provided it’s an actual fun and not just sunk cost fallacy. I know from experience that I’ve played wow for a long time after I stopped actually having fun with it, because I felt all that money and time invested couldn’t just be for nothing if I abandoned my character.
@@borek92 Indeed sunk cost fallacy for me it was. DoTA 2. After 10 thousand hours and "some" money spent, leaving was so hard. But once I did, never came back. 4 years clean.
I'm a metalhead and this year I went to Wacken festival. I have my vest full of band patches... and also my Horde symbol patch. Many people stoped me at the festival just to talk about WoW, and it is because our love to his place all along this year. I feel more connected to it than the share love to the band we were seeing on the stage!
I play for 20 years while keeping pace irl in business and family. It has been pretty challenging at some points, had to take brakes like we all pretty much did. I met, know/knew so many people in-game that lived, laughed and loved trough the game, some now happily married to a person they met in Azeroth, some actually living off the game nowadays and other actually living for the game designed their life and careers so they never have to quit WoW. Some are not with us anymore, some were helped to overcome mental breakdowns and suicidal thoughts by their guildies. Millions of players, millions of destinies and one world that somehow unite and not divide them. A world i remember meeting my first online friend in when i was 11 y.o. helping me understand the quests and sending me health pots through the mail bought from an "auction house?" in a land far far away. A world that hold so many stories my now almost 6 y.o. son is excited to learn and i'm more than happy to share =) Happy anniversary, my friends and fellow adventurers!
I remember running 2km from school at lunch time to the EB Games/Game Stop just to grab my copy of Burning Crusade. I grabbed it, ran back and stopped at my house on the way, popped the disc in to start downloading. I think it was winter time in Canada, because I remember running through a frozen cornfield to get there. I remember vibrating and shaking with excitment when I started downloading it and first booted it up.
The absolute enjoyment I got from playing wow from TBC to MOP was just insane. I remember sitting back at one point and thinking, I felt sorry for the people that didn’t play the game and got to feel the same enjoyment I had playing wow.
The intro made me chuckle but after sitting through the whole video, that ending made me teared up a bit, the contrast with the intro is just beautiful. 20 years and i always come back to this game, Wow is home.
As a LONGTIME wow player, this was an amazing video and perfect encapsulates my time and experience on this game. It's a love hate relationship sometimes but in the end it has been probably one of the most amazing experiences I could call mine in this crazy world we live in
Indeed. Everyone needs their own time and world. For me it's the Azeroth. It's a cheap way to escape the real world for a while.
Great video.
I started playing in ‘04 but left after Wrath; just started playing again about 3 weeks ago. Feel a bit more up to speed after your round-up. Definitely agree with you, friendship and memories is what makes WoW stand the test of time.
That was the best explanation of the significance of Arthas to the WoW storyline and why the game simply couldn’t be the same after his defeat. Brilliant
@@NateBrotzman agree, explains a lot why wotlk and it's classic varian is one of the most played version of the game
it's just too bad the game mechanics and systems sucked in the early days. classes with 3 button rotations in clasic/bc etc
Great video! Thanks for creating it!
Thanks so much! I’m glad you liked it
I have been playing WoW for 20 years now. It's had it's highs and lows and you captured that. Mists of Pandaria was my favorite expansion. Loved the video and man did the nostalgia kick in.
MOP was the last expansion i truly enjoyed. quit during legion and have spent the last few years on p-servers chasing that first high.
been playing since I was 11, I'm turning 30 in a month. Ive taken breaks, didnt like some patches and loved others. People seem to get mad when they arent having fun the entire time. It's a 20 year old game guys it's gonna have ups and downs
Bobby always gives me the creeps.
I laugh every single time you toss in Mr. Krabs and "MONEY!" into your videos. Keep that up, its truly Goosetastic.
20 years down, and here's to another 20. If you're ready for the 20th anniversary Blackrock Depths Raid give me a hell yea!
I'm so actually super excited for brd raid lol.. Probably unreasonably so
Hell ya
hell ya
Hell yeahhh... the dungeon back in the day is a nightmare but also one of the most memorable experiences I had in a dungeon
@@alyssumn3884I guess you get excited by anything huh? Even when a car crosses by you on the road you're jumping up and down for joy slapping your chest like a r**ard lol
lmao you pulled the "no Oddjob allowed." Bruh. Great video that had me laughing. That hitbox was friend-ending.
playing since 2008. not playing as much and competetiv as in the first years but still love it.
when i have nothing to play i start WoW and have a good time.
this is hands down one of my favorite videos on WOW. thank you
My two absolute favorite games in the whole world are: World of Warcraft and The sims, so when you listed both of those games, I personally felt that
child services took a couple of my sims children away from me after they got stuck on the sidewalk. Buns of steal also got me killed after I realized I forgot to add pool stairs. this was funny because my ashes had no problem finding their way out of the pool.
Diablo2 was pretty cool too. diablo3 was awful. specially the secret cow level. looked like my little pony
I currently play Cata Classic with my older daughter and Sims4 with my younger one. Family game nights are way cooler now than when I was a kid. :)
@@Taerynthea I play wow with my husband, and I'm generally the driver. I'm also the one who thinks the fastest way to get anywhere is always a straight line instead of following the road. this means many deaths due to falling, followed by hubby doing all ooh ah death noises and me laughing my butt off
If you don't want a 4 episode long flashback, and just skip to the actual video, go to 35:00 and watch from there. Everything before is just a filler to make the video longer.
Been accused of "it's dying" since Cataclysm. Yet here we are - and War Within is tonnes of fun, and the EU Servers look plenty busy to me.
Well, we if talk about WoW which was its own kingdom in the digital world. Then yes, it's already died. The number of people playing it back then, the culture it produced, it's just not even close man.
@@iz5808 I think that massive popularity was kind of a once in a generation thing. It wasn’t just the game, it was the right thing at the right place at the right time.
@@iz5808 classic and it's 3 expansions where absolutely incredible. But it's also one of the few games out there. So yeah ofc it will have great numbers. If classic came out today and no one heard of it before it wouldn't do as good becouse the amount of games out now is like 100x higher.
Yep, my server is mad busy too. This is the most active I’ve seen it since Legion. It’ll be interesting to see how this 3-xpac story plays out.
@@tronam heres how it plays out: less and less people are gonna play
almost exactly most of my reactions to the releases.... nail on the head. great vid!
I've been playing for about 18 years so it is indeed a part of my life.. even if I get too busy for it one day. I'll always love it.
ah man, the Pandaria intro music made me giggle. Such a cool video, thumbs up!
The Cinematic Trailers are probably the best thing that Blizzard has going for it.
Can you link your wallpaper?? I love it!
Hey thanks for the super thanks Chris! I have Wallpaper Engine on Steam and then it should pop up if you search World of Warcraft. Hope that helps!
Gotcha!
@@TaylorSwifty69 I paid $4 for WE but can't find the wallpaper! Were you able to locate it on the app and might you have the filename/title?
I started playing on the 10th anniversary, I was 9 years old and my brothers just introduced me to the game, I just finished making my fifth female Blood Elf Hunter because I liked to make pretty characters, I had the Molten Corgi summoned 24/7, life was good.
Rest in Peace Mats "Ibelin" Steen.
17:21 Except that MoP was AMAZING, it took a little bit for some people to realize that.
Wrath, MoP and Legion should've been the trilogy of WoW.
@@laurynassimonaitis80 What about TBC. the best expansion ever. Literaly was what people nowadays calls "classic+".
@@josejuanandrade4439 There are no best expansions worth debating on.
Vanilla and TBC was long time ago, and many people couldn't afford to play the game at that time, including me.
I started in mid-late Wrath, so I have no feelings for TBC. People that say TBC is the best expansion in my opinion are massively affected by nostalgia factor.
It's not fun to play, I tried it.
@@laurynassimonaitis80 Well is not about fun since fun is subjective.
We are talking about core values of a mmorpg, core values that vanilla has, TBC has and then it starts to deluded in Wotlk that is how you measure how good a mmorpg is in general.
In the end there is no "x is better then y" for ex Wotlk has way better combat than Vanilla and TBC but dungeons are linear and boring just like TBC, raids are a joke except Ulduar, class homogenization started in Wotlk, heroics went from a challenge in TBC to a aoe joke in Wotlk, TBC had better progression in terms of PVE with better raids overall, sure dungeons are linear like Wotlk here is where Vanilla wins in dungeons design by far having the best dungeons since a dungeon is a place where you get lost, a place to discover a massive place.
Vanilla is a better mmorpg than TBC and Wotlk because the main protagonist is the world itself, the vastness of Azeroth, the exploring, the need of interaction between players that creates community that in the end is one of the core values of a mmorpg, WoW had such massive success in Vanilla until Wotlk because of the community and the connections created between players way more then the quality of the game itself.
In the end I can play and enjoy Vanilla, TBC, Wotlk and even a bit of Cata, after years of playing different expansions I don't have a favorite I just play various expansions and it all depends with who I play that is a major fact in having or not fun for me.
@@josejuanandrade4439 If I am wrong then why Wotlk private servers are so much more populated compared to TBC private servers.
TBC private servers are basically a server for your close friends. Nobody plays it, because it's not fun to play.
Great video! Been a player for twenty years and I really enjoyed this video.
Did someone say Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?
@@DynamicAttraction crashed!
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@@DynamicAttraction too soon, bro.
Not enchanted?? Wow.
You’re doing so well bro. You clearly understand how to edit, keep us engaged and most of all bring up facts like the most goosetastic way. So thank you please never stop making videos 🙏
Here’s the Goose! 😎 Happy Halloween 🦇🎃
57 years old here. Only took a break during retail. Classic being released was awesome. (Had to pay off me house and send the little tackers to Uni).
Night Elf Hunter through and through. Thanks for the video mate. 👍🤠
It sucked me in when I was 12. Got me through my parents divorce. And it was just the ultimate comfort food for so long. No matter how shitty my life was I could hop on wow and have a great time with my friends. Wotlk-cataclysm were the most fun imo. Dungeon finder just brought random people together like never before. And players like me who played solo more often got the chance to run dungeons without sitting around capital cities wasting time. If another game like wow ever comes out with modern tech, graphics, and gameplay I don't think I'll ever log off 😂
No other game will hit the same as wow because of the nostalgia... Overwatch 1 was pretty damn good too though.
Auto dungeon finder and teleport ruined the game in my opinion. It’s nice to have a LFG tab to find and que with people. But it’s a lot more special when you and your group have to make the journey to the dungeon.
@@808Joshh You know whats good mate. Cheers
Thanks!
Huge thank you for the super thanks I really appreciate that man!
@@ZenkaiGoose ever since I found your page I felt in love with gaming again no lie 💪🏻
Can't wait for your boost in subs when Asmon reacts to this. You deserve it! Waiting for your next "I Played Every" video.
I so want that for him but also not because usually asmon reacts dip the originals views D:
Asmon got canceled :/
Day one player... still playing (not up to newest expansion just yet) - but made lots of friends and it helped me stay in contact with those that moved away .
The 2019 Classic hype was beyond beyond beyond 🤩🤩🤩
I played tf outta Classic. 😎
I will never forget it.
I haven't chuckled this much at some dry humor. Take my subscription good sir!
RuneScape did old school / classic first
Never played it, but as usual, the ending of your content is highly moving, and speaks to the very best of our collective pass time. I'll say it again, this's the finest content of its kind on TH-cam. Thank you mate.
Love the video. Can’t wait for Simpsons hit and run
🤣🤣🤣
first ban of the day
2:30 Ahhh… that nostalgia, even I started game in 2016 in Legion in the age of 16 I can still feel the soul of game. Game helped me to recover from bullyshipment, it forged me with Saurfang, Grommash and Tryanda
video starts at 35:25
@@arandomguy546 lol
@@arandomguy546 yup im happy that i randomly skipped to that part lol
Amazing video. I have no words to praise you enough thank you for all the effort.
I love your videos. Can't wait for the next.
Thank you so much! Should be much faster now (i think) 😅
this channel is criminally underrated, only 25,000 views? you got superb quality
The only thing dead about the game are the idiots claiming it is. I have heard well over 100 games that were supposed to be WOW killers and the majority of them are already dead.
Copium
@@onlyRuted well those fans of these already dead games were high on copium for sure lmao
@@PraiseTheBoi lmao
Only Blizzard can kill WoW demonstrated by SL.
Cope, game gets worse every year and number of players steadily drops.
Man MoP was a good expansion.
Amazing areas, good dungeons/raids and people tend to forget about Garosh. He was a pretty good villain.
You think you do, but you don't.
Sometimes it is true though. :)
First time watching you, what a fantastic and well made video, must have taken alot of time and effort. Captured the spirit of the WoW fanbase, I hope it survives for another 20 years!
I quit WOW just before Cataclysm. I am, to this day, still searching for a game that gives the same incredible experiences as WOTLK did. I think I'll never find it.
@driifuz you and me both.
Some of the best times of my life playing wow. The sense of adventure, fantasy, music and what not was just magic.
😢 I'm trying to buy a PC again and go play hardcore. I started playing in Burning Crusade and played until MoP came out. I'm excited to play again.
cata slaps pretty hard. can play cata classic now with a wow sub for no additional cost
that ending was powerful goose, you got a sub
TLDW: It survived as long as it did because it was a masterpiece at launch and got millions of people extremely enfranchised.
So even if it sucks NOW, it doesn‘t matter, because their customers literaply grew up on this universe and will never abandon it, no matter how bad it gets.
Goose, love these videos. Can you do a What happened to NBA JAM/NFL BLITZ franchises?
that 5k total of game time paid for.. is like as much as i paid for my PC. That aint shit when you look at how much hours of gameplay and enjoyment the game has given me.. id pay double that. no questions asked.
People crazy lol.
I was absolutely floored by the answer to the question about opening up servers limited to previous expansions: “No! We don’t want that and you don’t want that.” EverQuest has been having a ton of success lately with “progression servers” which is exactly that concept and people LOVE it! While I’ve never played them, a lot of people get really excited to play the two that get released every year and the announcement about which rule set each progression server will use is always an annual highlight.
"WoW is dead"
I don't think they know what it means
Outstanding content! Love the memes and on point. Thank you and keep your amazing creations!
This feels like it was made by someone who never played the game and gets all their information from wikipedia and other youtube videos.
made me tear up at the end there ngl. deffs earned a sub. great vid
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I LOVED MoP. I especially love it now knowing the expansions that came next. It was the last time for me that my progress through the game made sense, actual combat play for my class worked and was fun, the world was open and beautiful and not a nightmare to navigate, the auction house was still viable, professions were straightforward, and people still talked to each other in guild chat. It was also drop dead gorgeous with a great story. My order: Wrath, MoP, BC, Legion, DF, Bfa, WoD, SL. I rate WoD above SL because it at least engaged me enough to play it through. I played Shadowlands for about two weeks and then didn't touch WoW again until Dragonflight. A lot of words for all this, but I WoW is something I love, has been a part of my life in ways that could make this post 5 times the length. I care about that virtual world.
MoP was great for two reasons: Pandas + Monk. I was really missing a martial arts class in WoW.
my favorite xpac really. I love pet battles and 1st version of brawlers guild is still my favorite thing ever. I spent hours watching people die to hexos :)
Nothing wrong with that expansion, except for all the bugged questlines, that is. So many daily quests that were still broken even years after that expansion was new.
Same for me, loved the game back then. Throne of Thunder is still hailed as one of the best raids ever made in WoW.
I personally like SL more than WoD, BFA and Dragonflight. For me Dragonflight is worst of them, i play it for 1 month maybe and got so bored with all that dragon's bs (i came back in season 2 for 2 weeks just for the mythic+ mount, cause he is very cool). I like SL because, i love games that are more into dark stuff, occultism and death in general. And i am one of the few people who actually enjoy Torghast runs.
Thanks for make the shout out for the real classic EverQuest ❤❤❤
40 mf make wow back then... and now we have just shitty or mid games maked by 1000 mf
That infromation is not accurate. The og team started working in WoW with 40 ppl but the team quickly went to 100 for its releaze in 2004.
That said, 100 people to get the game out in 2004 with all the content it had and polish, is still way too impressive.
@@josejuanandrade4439 it was not polished at all though.
WoW! I am completely new to the game here in 2024 and am currently trying to understand the story from The Burning Crusade from 20 years back to The War Within. I have 20 years of gameplay to go through but am amazed at the evolution of this game. Great video! Got me through a rollercoaster of emotions!
Hey, the pet battle is my favorite part of the game. Activision managed to make a Pokemon MMO before Pokemon.
Yeah, I love pet battling and collecting those little bastards.
"Whatever the heck Green Jesus is apparently capable of" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Best spent $5k
And they say money can’t buy happiness. Sometimes it is not that expensive :)
I think I spend around $500 for the last 15 years. 13 years ago my account got hacked and the hacker transferred all the top items to my account and use on AH. By the time I got my account back i have tone of stuffs and golds, so all the gold for real money. Since the tokens introduced I used gold to paid my monthly subscription
Dude your video is so enduring and fun to watch. Best work brake I’ve had all week , finding this . Subbed, gg
Wrath of the lich king was the best expansion and era and time in WoW. Miss you
How did I miss an upload? I’ll be watching this as soon as possible
Yea with Vanilla, they wanted vanilla and got vanilla. Then complain lack of content, when that is Vanilla.
Awesome video, maybe make one on Age of Empires next?
As long as it's holding 6-8 million active paying players the game won't ever really die. WoW is unbeatable it will only die by their own hand.
Just you wait! Ashes of Creation will kill WoW like Age of Cona... I mean, like Elder Scro... eeeerm, like Wildsta... ah dangit!
Still Nr 1 when it comes to active players in the MMO ranking. So I dunno why people keep saying it's dead or dying.
Teared up in the end :) its always kind of emotional to watch these videos
Thanks for another great video :)
In 2007 I used so many sick days to play WoW (and watch price is right and Bob Ross reruns) that my high school sent a letter home saying I couldn’t be sick anymore without a doctors note 🤣😂🫠. My dad was PISSED. If you weren’t there in the 2000s you’ll never understand how revolutionary this game was.
It was THE game. Up until like 2012 it was a separate culture, people lived it. And then the poor corporate management killed it and made lame.
Bro that’s me still but with work!, still pretty good tbh some things ain’t the same and some things are better !! 😂
I remember a snowstorm hit on a patch Tuesday in like early 2006 and school cancelled. My brother and I were so fricken mad it didn't hit on any other weekday. Not only were the servers down all day long, It took hours and hours to download the dang patch.
@@iz5808exactly. Corporate people run everything into the ground. Wow as a culture isn’t dead though and people still play. Just log into TurtleWow and see Stormwind so crowded you can’t even make out who’s who, it’s just a MASSIVE blob of characters all moving around on top of each other.
Nice vid brother. Well done narrated and put together. Enjoyed watching it
I've only been playing wow for 3 years and greatly enjoy the game as a casual collector, and I run through all the old xpacks
Im so glad the game hadn't died like so many OG players wished it would've
the survivability of a game is mostly depending on the size of the community
idk why but this kind of brought tears to my eyes. i've been playing wow for 20 years, and while it was true that some of the expansions were lack luster, i stuck them out and still played.
Describing the undead as people who comment “skill issue” is so true it’s hilarious.
I loved the videos man, congrats on the production and content
This video was so freaking good and satisfying. The pacing, the content, the script, the B-roll, the jokes and references, the greater picture moral of the story at the end. Just *chef's kiss*
Huge thanks @Zuljyn! I'm really glad you liked it! This video was a beast to put together lol
Man that last part hit me right in the feels
I started playing in 2005 towards the end of vanilla with my cousin. Got to experience the midnight launches of BC and WOTLK played all the way up to WOD and started falling of after that. I’m now almost 40 and I would love to see a proper wow revival. All these years later my cousin and I still talk about our wow days and how we’d come back in a heart beat.
This video must have been a lot of work to make... pls more WoW content. just a great video.
as someone that played from vanilla release all the way through Dragonflight (sure I took long breaks between). more towards the end a statement was made.." I got a lot of memories attached to it" couldnt ring more true. I am STILL part of the same guild I helped create back in BC with some members from a previous guild in Vanilla (though it is mostly a ghost town of dead characters now) and a few of those members I still talk to, to this day. I have a metric TON of memories from my years in Wow (Same with Star Wars Galaxies) that will remain dear to me. Every year once the snow starts to fall, I find myself buying the newest xpac or resubbing again, to go back to some of those memories and I choose this specific time to resub because it takes me back to the first times I was looking outside my windows and watching the snow fall, while my character/s were standing in Ironforge.