That little newbie Gnome is an absolute Hero to the playerbase. He even was happy for 10g. Dang what I would give to relive what he feels, WoW is totally new for him.
@@CDTJosh I quit after awhile. Nobody to play with. Ask for help for a quest, the community says go read the wiki you beggar, or just call me a beggar. Or. Something in between. Like one guh said I was "indirectly" begging, by asking for help on a quest. I mean. Yea sure. I could wiki it. But interacting with others, asking questions and whatnot. Should be a cool part, is a cool part. Of mmos. Mfers act like babies in OSRS I noticed. Quit. I was like. Combat seventy or something? Membered up even. Was jist discouraging. That being said. Alot of people showed love when I was new. Still a decent play.
Since this is Asmon's channel, I'm sure most people won't agree with me but... PLAY GUILD WARS RIGHT NOW. One or two. Doesn't matter. Both are great for their own reasons. GW2 definitely has more players though and has a more mainstream MMO feel to it.
@@Shwonkz i thought of the FPS titanfall and we all now parkor and have mechs, then i realse parkor is unlocked by apex power and the mechs are a store mount
Honestly I kinda feel bad for these people. They were so happy that they could play the original WoW again, but now that dream come true is almost gone again, only empty servers remaining.
That was the whole purpose of classic Re live the vanilla wow. Releasing tbc what's gonna come next ? Wtlk ? And after that what ? Is it going to reach retail expansion ?
@@verbddd I think the Plan was up to WotLK. Makes sense, tho I would not put it beyond them to continue exactly as you said. Tho personally, Cataclysm was the first major B/S change to the game mechanics that messed pacing and any semblance of item level progression/balance (tho WotLK was getting a bit absurd near the end), and Warlords of Draenor was the second B/S game direction change that they are still on today... no wonder the game is bleeding players. Point is, it depends which one of the 3 game style you prefer... squished level 60 with mobs that follow your level everywhere with lightning quick xp? Live. Still absurdly fast but with more content? Cata-Mop... Or classic with huge skill trees? Classic-TBC-Wrath. So that's why I see them making the big three classic-era. Current and Cataclysm era destroyed that. Such a shame too, it didnt help that they keep making content irrelevant either, this is where I think they fail the most if compared to FFXI and FFXIV for example.
As a player that also came back for 3 months or so to play shadowlands and having a blast, i think this just looks like a huge rip off or middle finger to that player base indeed. It make no sense to me why they just relaunch the next expansion... The good thing about the classic was that you had seemingly no time pressure before the next expansion and could just enjoy the same game
People may laugh at me, but I've been playing since late vanilla, up until wotlk, and now I'm casually playing on a Wotlk private server. I have NEVER raided. End game, has never been my goal and I've never strived to rush to max level. I simply enjoy leveling, doing dungeons, making alt characters and just chatting with people. I'm the definition of a casual WoW player, and I'm absolutely never touching retail, because the things I enjoy are simply not present
@Soulreaver _ Using level 1 gear and locking my level defeats the purpose of playing an RPG tho. It's not about the lore, I don't even bother reading quest text. The speed and flow of leveling just feels better to me.
I think you could find a chill relaxed community in retail that does transmog, mount farms, casual stuff. There is definitely an audience for it on retail
Thats just not what happened though. Imagine playing a game an expansion dropping for free - and you opting out of that expansion while the rest of the playerbase follows the game as it evolves. Thats what happened
I don't think anything will come close to what Wow made me feel back in the day. It was just epic. Just traveling through Wetlands trying not to die to reach Stormwind, the first horde guys I saw in Loch Modan, all the epic fights and duels I had, all the dungeons, scenery, atmosphere, the crafting, entering Stormwind for the first time, visiting Ironforge full of life and full of people, the graphics... wish I could go back to 2004 release day, even if my pc sucked.
i remember being a kid and seeing the south park episode, and then immediately downloading WoW cataclysm onto my windows XP computer, and then made friends with dwarves and every time u saw someone with a high level and a mount , you'd look up to them as if they were gods or something, and then i kept making new email accounts so that i could keep playing the trial since it wasnt just a level 20 cap back then, it was actually timed lol.
@@swaggypanda1808 I remember those 16 day trial cards lol, I leveled up a hunter to 20 something using one and when I bought the game I forgot the login details so I made a new account and started druid instead - played that from vanilla to WoD before I went casual. Good times..
I never played WoW, and I remember seeing it talked about on G4 back in the mid-2000’s. Even though I never played it, I always wanted to. Really sad to see classic servers be so empty. Seeing this gameplay fills me with the tiniest bit of nostalgia from even seeing it on G4.
@@Outlawstar0198 hardcore wow and season of discovery have made it reach pretty high peaks, classic itself I cant speak too but season of discovery is just classic with new shit so I highly recommend
@@gazza7693 Only true for your first hand-leveled char as Asmon says. I definitely agree with him here. Levels 1-max level are basically a glorified tutorial for pretty much every single damn MMO.
A large amount of people don't want to play mmo's like they used to anymore. Too much of a hassle. They want to play a battlefield or something that they can play 1-2 games in and then log out without worrying about the progression. And I kinda get it. I do think it's sad tho that gaming is only about fast moving action and never about experiencing a game world and its community anymore, as well as long-term oriented gaming, at least for the most part in mmo's. But that's why a level boost is important for the game, and it will help people to have a chance to keep up. Still, they should absolutely not have that on their first character.
@@glanni destiny was the first game that had “mmo” elements that i played and i played the shit out of the raids with my friends and had a blast every second even wiping... which led me to bordorlands 2 and 3 with the big grind (for me) for insane amounts of guns and than recently my friend got me into wow classic... which i got to say i like the grind i like the gameplay but the grind and the gameplay was just to time consuming for me.. i want to get back into it cause i stopped at level 31 and havent gone further so i dident really even fully experience wow classic fully before tbc
Im one of those noobs who just goes at my own pace :) I dont even have a lvl capped character. I have a lvl 32 Shaman and a lvl 12 Warlock. I enjoy the questing and want to do all dungeons. I got kids and a job etc
Your are like me. I raided but I really enjoyed leveling and dungeons. I really missed hard heroic 5 mans after Cata. And I preferred 10 man raids. Warlock was Aesome in raids. Overpowered. Curse of Doom dealing 100k damage to some bosses lol.
Classic era is wow retirement. I enjoy it a lot personally. No more pressure, no rush to gear for the next patch or whatever. I can enjoy my well geared characters, and finally I can pick black lotus!
It's gonna be interesting to see how players distribute once they have all three classic expansions out simultaneously for years. Until then it's pretty clear to me that most people will play the newest expansion in overwhelming numbers.
@@Renwoxing13 I assume that they will not release Cataclysm classic, yeah. It will be interesting to see what happens after the last phase of WotLK classic, but I don't think it will be Cataclysm.
@@Dominian1 I hope it will be, I would play, I would even play MoP classic and MoP is widely regarded as one of the best expansions when it comes to class design, I'm sure people would play pretty much all expansions, bar Warlords, and maybe BFA.
@@gordonlove5121 yeah, i first played wow in last patch of cataclysm, but didnt actually get to max or started raiding before siege of orgrimmar, so i only experienced some of the later raids theough raid finder, but it was really fun.
Damn, I too started playing wow 6 months ago and just enjoy the leveling process, yet i thought there were a lot of us. Didn’t know we are considered an endangered species.
Man started watching more of this guy after the FF14 business and I'm honestly shocked WoW actually got this bad lmao I started back in Cataclysm, played Mists, bought Draenor on launch and eventually quit a few months after Legion. I had quite a lot of fun with WoW for what it was, hope it has some sort of comeback but man hearing Blizzard actually added boosts to classic doesn't give me any hope.
Leveling is genuinely an experience, that newbie is genuinely enjoying the experience. Most people are in such a rush to level, they lose the perspective of the joy and wonder of something that is polished and nice and shiny and new, that we don't actually stop and appreciate the amount of work that went into it all. From story to design to animations, and we just brush it off like it's nothing. That's why I really enjoyed leveling when I played MMOs back in the day.
So true. Like we have so many references from movies that it's about the journey, not the destination. Yet still nobody cares about anything but raid gear..
Really glad I came across this video of yours! I was so confused when I tried THE Wow Classic and it felt so empty. I figured maybe once I headed to a city or levelled more I'd find friends to play with. Didn't know about who lists either haha. Very informative
they copied their characters for nothing and that's also caused by the monetization. you kno what i mean? if copy would just be free they wouldn't had to have paid for it AND servers wouldn't be that dead.
@@Buttersaemmel Technically it is good that there was a charge.... because people obviously don't want to keep playing vanilla classic. If it had been free, you'd have thousands of characters being housed on a physical server somewhere that nobody wants to play.... Hopefully they consolidate and get rid of classic servers down to the minimum.
We didnt leave we just got forced due to blizz changing things without caring about the community. There is nostalgia but the game is genuinely better blizz should have went with classic plus instead of TBC.
kinda true but not really for alot of players. theres nothing else new coming to classic. all the people that were playing classic basically have the best gear now because how easy the raids were. everyone knows the mechanics, its the same shit every week ppl just get bored since classics been out for almost 2 years now
@@ImQuirkless thats how WoW worked back then too. I was in a guild that got server firsts and once we cleared the raids and got geared up there was only pvp left to keep the game interesting.
very sad, i stopped playing retail years ago because microtransactions came into the game. now i had finally got classic and now it's over again... but this time probably forever for me.. 😢
@@蓮90 Yeah idk what Gamesux is on about. I raided progression in classic when BWL and AQ40 were current last year. I logged easily a thousand hours of playtime during quarantine. Maybe it was a bit short of a thousand but if you told me it was over a thousand I wouldn't be at all surprised. My relatively low-pop server was dense as fuck from launch to October 2020 when I quit after a falling out with my guild. We had to organize Black Lotus farming squads to lock down zones, back before they kicked up the spawn rates.
@@laertesindeed I did. I would have kept playing both classic and TBC if blizzard had not fucked up so massively once again. I would had loved to get my hunter full tier3, and get the t3 ring for my rogue which never dropped and is basically the only piece missing for full classic BIS. Unfortunately blizzard destroyed any hope I had left in the company and I am done giving them my money. I had a blast with classic and loved my 2 years with it, but its time to move on to other games and support better companies like From Software(just bought Sekiro).
I never understand why people say. I play classic to enjoy the leveling experience, yet tbc is basically the same, except theres an extra realm added to the leveling experience
In all seriousness, good guy Asmongold for trying to steer what he believed to be a newbie in the right direction with the whole 'don't give anyone your password' bit.
Answering question in the thumbnail. TBC stands for Thermal Barrier Coating. Typical example is so called YSZ coating (Yttria-stabilized zirconia). Basically it is a coating with low thermal conductivity (a little bit simplified but anyway). The thing is we don't really have good construction materials that work in very high temperatures, therefore such coating make it possible to use materials that have melting point below working temperature. Happy to help =)
My first impression with TBC was like "transfer and boost service?" And i play for a week, with people spamming boosting service on chat. Only meet 2 people while questing.
Or leveling 1-58 on an active TBC server right after the dark portal opened, can confirm that all of Azeroth is empty as everyone's in Outland. Even Orgrimmar is empty.
@@iwonderifdrugzarebad it will. tbc is the first expansion that made going back to the other world inherently pointless. there's literally zero reason to.
Bro we need players like you with a big following to just do things like follow new players n help them quest make things fun again populate servers, have a group of players dedicated to making wow better, like minded people who refuse to pay for boosts and do thinga the way they used to be. Would b amazing.
We do exist yes, i just want to take my time and enjoy leveling and exploring Northrend in Classic WotlK. i started "a Dwarfs Journey to Northrend" video series... well. It's just one episode so far since i've been too damn lazy to edit together the HOURS of random footage going from 20-40 lol. Want something to cover Asmon? There ya go lol. Some of us love the journey still.
I did this same experiment when Guild wars 2 launched, and found a lot of players preferring the first game to the new one. They just don't make em like they used to.
As someone who’s 26 years old and never played wow, I would probably want to experience the game as it initially released, maybe boost any alts, but I’d want at least one legit playthrough where I lvl normally through the game and experience it as it was intended all those years ago. (This is coming from someone who still plays Age of Conan)
I actually love/loved levelling too. I had 3 60s by the time TBC launched, and 7 70s by the time Wrath launched lol. Now I'm finding it hard to have the will to sit and play for so many hours a day, I lack the attention span for more than a few hours haha. I'd still never buy a boost though, fuck that.
I started Classic when it first released, I never played WoW back in the day but a lot of my friends did. It was extremely populated and it was so fun. But it looks like the populations are all low now, how come people stopped playing classic?
I honestly hope WoW gets back on track again.. I don't even play it or ever played it actively, but it hurts to see such a great game go down like this.
Of course classic is dead. That's why blizzard is charging for clones. They know most will jump to TBC. It's 3 or 4 years from now when they run out of classic wow content to re-release that the pop counts will rise on classic servers. But who wouldn't go to TBC? It's a great progression of the vanilla formula. It's the game at its peak.
@@Seneric Cata was great, last raid not so much. I think people were just burnt out. MoP was also a great expansion, pandas were just not well received even though they've been part of lore for a long time.
The experience of playing on a server with just your friends, you and four other people, being the only heroes that can defend and save Azeroth, is 100% a reality. I'm not sure if that's not the most RP thing WoW has accidentally given to players or the saddest existence of what should've been a better experience. They should've done refresh near the start. Hell, they should've sat down and said "What if we develop content, but just for classic WoW?" and expand it beyond where the original game lead. The vanilla experience has such a unique feel of what a classy game was, encouraging playing with people, in organic at best and encouraged at worst, ways. I want to go back, but I know I won't be happy with that decision.
problem is that there needs a community to be forged again. as the big player is gone many others will try to get into it's place when the demand for vanilla p-servers starts rising. so players are split onto different small p-servers AND the Blizz-Vanilla servers and it's hard to get back to a stage where nostralius was. with that i think it will take a long time for a comeback of something REALLY nostralius like :/
@@Buttersaemmel honestly they should of just released all the old expansions ages ago because servers die and people leave the game completely. everyone could play each and every expansion on the same account or just the one they love.
They need to make classic servers a one time buy and no monthly subscription. There’s no reason for a monthly subscription on a past version of the game
I mean who wants to do the same shit thats been out for 6 months, anyone who wanted to kill KT killed KT, pvp is pretty much better in TBC that leaves leveling and dungeons and it honestly makes more sense to level on a tbc server and I think almost anyone would prefer being able to progress into TBC dungeons. I never understood why people wanted to clone their characters as there just isn't much left to do in classic especially when most of player base leave. In a few months I'd imagine fresh classic servers(assuming they happen) would hold a decent number of players.
This is why I didn't agree when people said WoW: Classic will be the nest Old School Runescape. Each expansion in WoW kills the old game, makes it dead useless content. OSRS doesn't have an end game focus on current expansion content like WoW does. As soon as they announced TBC Classic this was always going to happen.
@@s0lid_sno0ks but now blizz got you by the balls. if the situation get's worse to a point where you can't enjoy the game anymore (because of lack of players) you can only either restart on tbc servers or pay them money or just stop playing.
I did. I had no idea it would be THIS dead. Maybe I'll ask for a refund. It was only 15 bucks, and maybe after prepatch SOME community will come back, but honestly..It's awful. They might as well merge every single realm onto one, why did they even bother with Classic Era if it would be this dead? Do they think I paid 15 bucks to clone my mage to have 3 people on my realm? Imagine that their first instinct was to charge -35- dollars for this instead of 15. This company, I swear..
@@Buttersaemmel people will just stop playing yeah. and blizz can only thank themselves for that one. idk why you would spend money on a game you already bought in 2007
"Quietly folks, to your right is an honest to Elune newb player." *shocking gasps echo* ..Hey lets be clear.. TBC is still classic..the big change happens with cataclysm and that's when the game lost me.. Maybe it's just my opinion, but all the starting story lines are there..and the original lore is still there.
This was particularly irritating to me, as I like to PvP in Battlegrounds, and I wanted specifically to explore the battleground progression in Classic, as originally, I started WoW during TBC. I only started seriously playing classic a few months ago and most of my characters are in the teens or very low twenties, but now I'm never going to get to do battlegrounds or dungeons. Pagle FYi, which appears to be the first one you explored. Very irritated about TBC.
I actually started playing TBC Classic recently. New to WoW in general. Originally, I picked up the game when TBC initially released (like a week or two into launch) but couldn't get into it for some reason. Thought this would be a good opportunity to give not only WoW a shot but to pick up where I stopped all those years ago.
Just logged in and there were a total of two players in Orgrimmar, and none in Thunder Bluff. They've combined servers in my region and wow it's just... empty. And some of those WoW Classic quests you really need a group of people.
Laugh at it now but some people might actually have a much more enjoyable time playing classic when it's dead. It will feel like your the only brave champion in the whole world. If they make one huge fresh classic server I would probably join it and and level toons for the fun of it.
Yea except you can't enjoy a lot of the content. You can't do dungeons, raids, or even group quests or make money from your professions/AH. It's an incomplete experience
I think we all forget how much of a grind vanilla WoW was, that’s why it was incredible. The XP, mounts, travel time. Retail/Vanilla/Classic are so much different than starting out years ago.
Seeing "Grobbulus is even worse" makes me sad. That's my server man made a lot of good friends. To see Blizz fuck TBC makes me even sadder. I'm just glad to finally be able to get into FFXIV. RIP GROBBULUS and CLASSIC.
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Finally, a single player mmorpg.
Just play Nexus TK
Or try SWTOR
Go play Ironman in osrs
I know it’s 2 months old but if you want a single player mmo you’re gonna be waiting a long long time for warlords of draenor classic.
HAAHAHAHAHAH
That little newbie Gnome is an absolute Hero to the playerbase. He even was happy for 10g. Dang what I would give to relive what he feels, WoW is totally new for him.
Yeah, I'd love to have that feeling for an MMORPG again!
@@ChuckstaGaming tried oldschool runescape? XD
@@CDTJosh I quit after awhile. Nobody to play with. Ask for help for a quest, the community says go read the wiki you beggar, or just call me a beggar. Or. Something in between. Like one guh said I was "indirectly" begging, by asking for help on a quest.
I mean. Yea sure. I could wiki it. But interacting with others, asking questions and whatnot. Should be a cool part, is a cool part. Of mmos. Mfers act like babies in OSRS I noticed. Quit. I was like. Combat seventy or something? Membered up even. Was jist discouraging.
That being said. Alot of people showed love when I was new.
Still a decent play.
@@yoosherbthekid464 rs is a very toxic society, but youll always find great homies.
Since this is Asmon's channel, I'm sure most people won't agree with me but...
PLAY GUILD WARS RIGHT NOW. One or two. Doesn't matter. Both are great for their own reasons. GW2 definitely has more players though and has a more mainstream MMO feel to it.
see you all in 10 years when Classic-classic comes out along with WoDClassic and retail expansion 22-Titanfall
sounds epic
wod classic haha if theres any they definitely wont do its wod, i know you jus jokin but wrath they will stop doing classics and find a new way.
Wow retail will be warhammer 40k - Defense of Terra
@@Shwonkz i thought of the FPS titanfall and we all now parkor and have mechs, then i realse parkor is unlocked by apex power and the mechs are a store mount
@@biscuitsntea421 WoD classic would be great. If they release WoD again, I resub again, even buy the deluxe.
Honestly I kinda feel bad for these people. They were so happy that they could play the original WoW again, but now that dream come true is almost gone again, only empty servers remaining.
They could just merge them all... if there are 15 realm between 50-200 ppl, you end up with a nice population
Many people will come back after tbc:)
That was the whole purpose of classic Re live the vanilla wow. Releasing tbc what's gonna come next ? Wtlk ? And after that what ? Is it going to reach retail expansion ?
@@verbddd I think the Plan was up to WotLK. Makes sense, tho I would not put it beyond them to continue exactly as you said. Tho personally, Cataclysm was the first major B/S change to the game mechanics that messed pacing and any semblance of item level progression/balance (tho WotLK was getting a bit absurd near the end), and Warlords of Draenor was the second B/S game direction change that they are still on today... no wonder the game is bleeding players.
Point is, it depends which one of the 3 game style you prefer... squished level 60 with mobs that follow your level everywhere with lightning quick xp? Live. Still absurdly fast but with more content? Cata-Mop... Or classic with huge skill trees? Classic-TBC-Wrath.
So that's why I see them making the big three classic-era. Current and Cataclysm era destroyed that. Such a shame too, it didnt help that they keep making content irrelevant either, this is where I think they fail the most if compared to FFXI and FFXIV for example.
As a player that also came back for 3 months or so to play shadowlands and having a blast, i think this just looks like a huge rip off or middle finger to that player base indeed. It make no sense to me why they just relaunch the next expansion... The good thing about the classic was that you had seemingly no time pressure before the next expansion and could just enjoy the same game
The people still in the classic servers are holding out hoping they get issekaied overlord style
Begone, weeb.
Honestly this makes sense lol
People may laugh at me, but I've been playing since late vanilla, up until wotlk, and now I'm casually playing on a Wotlk private server. I have NEVER raided. End game, has never been my goal and I've never strived to rush to max level. I simply enjoy leveling, doing dungeons, making alt characters and just chatting with people. I'm the definition of a casual WoW player, and I'm absolutely never touching retail, because the things I enjoy are simply not present
Tbf wrath was the best I'm digging shadowlands storyline though
@Soulreaver _ Using level 1 gear and locking my level defeats the purpose of playing an RPG tho. It's not about the lore, I don't even bother reading quest text. The speed and flow of leveling just feels better to me.
@@HiImRawr
still playing wotlk and i understand what you mean
I think you could find a chill relaxed community in retail that does transmog, mount farms, casual stuff. There is definitely an audience for it on retail
When the guy mentioned Naxx, I felt so sad. Just imagine playing a game and in one day, suddenly everyone is just gone. That would be so depressing.
oh you mean like most mmos
Thats just not what happened though. Imagine playing a game an expansion dropping for free - and you opting out of that expansion while the rest of the playerbase follows the game as it evolves. Thats what happened
Its literally what happened to my server during WotLK when faction changes were implemented. Rip Rivendare alliance.
@@jp3rd516 I played rivendare alliance in wotlk also
@@michaelkennielsen1422 Dude. Do I need to remind you we are playing classic which is like 10 expansion packs behind live?
I don't think anything will come close to what Wow made me feel back in the day. It was just epic. Just traveling through Wetlands trying not to die to reach Stormwind, the first horde guys I saw in Loch Modan, all the epic fights and duels I had, all the dungeons, scenery, atmosphere, the crafting, entering Stormwind for the first time, visiting Ironforge full of life and full of people, the graphics... wish I could go back to 2004 release day, even if my pc sucked.
i remember being a kid and seeing the south park episode, and then immediately downloading WoW cataclysm onto my windows XP computer, and then made friends with dwarves and every time u saw someone with a high level and a mount , you'd look up to them as if they were gods or something, and then i kept making new email accounts so that i could keep playing the trial since it wasnt just a level 20 cap back then, it was actually timed lol.
Pain of running as a NE to westland not knowing english :)
@@swaggypanda1808 Cataclysm was awful lol
@@swaggypanda1808 I remember those 16 day trial cards lol, I leveled up a hunter to 20 something using one and when I bought the game I forgot the login details so I made a new account and started druid instead - played that from vanilla to WoD before I went casual. Good times..
@@ziudra91 its way better than some of the newer expansions, so no its not really.
Strangely enough, there is a particular level of enjoyment in leveling when nobody is in the server. It's like single player WoW.
Yeah, it's fun for a few weeks...then you need to pay for a transfer.
You can just run your own server locally if you are looking for single player experience.
@@_Just_John Except it would have all kinds of bugs unless I knew how to fix them, which I wouldn't.
Yeah I did that right before the precpatch hit. Slow leveled my warlock all the way to 60.only to quit at pre patch haha. I just re subbed.
Questing solo is alright. But you soon realize playing alone is awful whenever you want to run a dungeon or buy something from the AH....
I’m so jealous of everyone who played wow in its hay day. Sounded so fun
It truly was magnificent. I don't think there will be social gaming on that scale ever again.
It was something else
I got to play vanilla for like... two weeks.
Ended up being invited to Nostalrius by a friend. It was amazing.
crazy stuff happened all the time, on my server (daggerspine) all the NPC's disapeared so everyone went to orgrimmar and it was just pvp constantly!
@Wizzykin *company at this point lol
OMG, he's looking for dead servers and checking the AH?! Vaulty is going to lose his shit.
ASMON STEALS MY CONTENT... AGAIN!!
Vaulty the top beta male of wow
Who gives a fuck about this dude
Lmao
who tf is vaulty?
15:00 what an absolute slaying lol
So funny! 🤣
Rekt. Completely.
My hero of the day :))))
yea that was savage
That was a beautiful troll.
Asmon isn't scared for the return of Vaulty's wrath? Brave man indeed.
Wurld of worcraft
noob!
Rip your wife
xD, that was my first thought
As Vaulty's fake attorney, I shall take immediate action. See you in court, nerd!
They should make classic free then it could revive the servers
But then they'd gain nothing from it
@@Thoregor well yes maybe like to do some ad to get people subscribing, look how osrs and rs3 works
I unsubbed after the microtransactions were announced. Fuck J Allen Brack
@@JustinTime978 cool story.
@@gregpenismith1248 a better story than paying Blizzard to rip you off and laugh in your face.
I never played WoW, and I remember seeing it talked about on G4 back in the mid-2000’s. Even though I never played it, I always wanted to. Really sad to see classic servers be so empty. Seeing this gameplay fills me with the tiniest bit of nostalgia from even seeing it on G4.
I know its been a year but the classic servers seem to have made a comeback recently, give it a try
@@jebeb6663 How are they now??
@@Outlawstar0198 hardcore wow and season of discovery have made it reach pretty high peaks, classic itself I cant speak too but season of discovery is just classic with new shit so I highly recommend
The guy who was like "my password is asmonisbald" actually caught me off guard lol I genuinely believed he was a new player lmfao
I genuinely thought it was a skeptic who thought Asmon was some scammer or phisher. Almost fell out of my seat when I saw the password lmao
His troll power are no joke
Same. I got scared I'd see his password
@@amiao5284 I thought so too
_" Is it over, malding-streamer? "_
_" No hype lasts forever my doooood. "_
king
what's the bad ending of "jesus isekai ?"
@@shanesliver4603
He was tortured and crucified.
I call this a bad ending. :P
I can relate to the sadness and grief in seeing a beloved game die a slow horrible death. things change :(
@nathan smith watch the video man
"There are people out here that actually enjoy the game" I know dude, people get so shocked when I propose doing something just for fun.
*Lol. Get a load of this guy, he thinks games are supposed to be fun*
@@chileanguyfleegman **smh i bet he doesnt farm 10 hours for illidan's blades weekly**
"THERE'S ONLY 19 PLAYERS" - me looks up expecting to see shadow lands.
there is one player -me
Please protect that innocent Gnome. Oh I remember feeling like that
I agree with him, why pay someone money to play the game for you? It's so pathetic
@@gazza7693 facts. People want the accomplishment without the effort
@@gazza7693 Only true for your first hand-leveled char as Asmon says. I definitely agree with him here. Levels 1-max level are basically a glorified tutorial for pretty much every single damn MMO.
A large amount of people don't want to play mmo's like they used to anymore. Too much of a hassle. They want to play a battlefield or something that they can play 1-2 games in and then log out without worrying about the progression. And I kinda get it.
I do think it's sad tho that gaming is only about fast moving action and never about experiencing a game world and its community anymore, as well as long-term oriented gaming, at least for the most part in mmo's.
But that's why a level boost is important for the game, and it will help people to have a chance to keep up.
Still, they should absolutely not have that on their first character.
@@glanni destiny was the first game that had “mmo” elements that i played and i played the shit out of the raids with my friends and had a blast every second even wiping... which led me to bordorlands 2 and 3 with the big grind (for me) for insane amounts of guns and than recently my friend got me into wow classic... which i got to say i like the grind i like the gameplay but the grind and the gameplay was just to time consuming for me.. i want to get back into it cause i stopped at level 31 and havent gone further so i dident really even fully experience wow classic fully before tbc
I'm guessing within a month the classic servers will be merged. Makes no sense to keep them all up if there's just a few toons on each.
I made up a bunch of blood elves and haven't converted my classic alliance toons yet.
@Daniel Stark no no, he meant that the Vanilla servers might be merged. No TBC
Oh no , Vaulty will come and claim that you stole his Idea again lol
Im one of those noobs who just goes at my own pace :)
I dont even have a lvl capped character. I have a lvl 32 Shaman and a lvl 12 Warlock. I enjoy the questing and want to do all dungeons.
I got kids and a job etc
Really? You do?
@@HbVki Im on TBC Classic... But yep idc how slow I go.
Now its a 66 Mage and 63 Shaman. (Didnt like Warlock)
Very wholesome
Your are like me. I raided but I really enjoyed leveling and dungeons. I really missed hard heroic 5 mans after Cata. And I preferred 10 man raids.
Warlock was Aesome in raids. Overpowered. Curse of Doom dealing 100k damage to some bosses lol.
Classic era is wow retirement. I enjoy it a lot personally. No more pressure, no rush to gear for the next patch or whatever. I can enjoy my well geared characters, and finally I can pick black lotus!
As gandalf would say to classic wow;
Death is a path we all must take.
The Goal of All Life is Death" ~Ainz Ooal Gown
True.
It's gonna be interesting to see how players distribute once they have all three classic expansions out simultaneously for years. Until then it's pretty clear to me that most people will play the newest expansion in overwhelming numbers.
So your saying any expansion after WotLK is ineligible to the term classic?
@@Renwoxing13 I assume that they will not release Cataclysm classic, yeah. It will be interesting to see what happens after the last phase of WotLK classic, but I don't think it will be Cataclysm.
@@Dominian1 I hope it will be, I would play, I would even play MoP classic and MoP is widely regarded as one of the best expansions when it comes to class design, I'm sure people would play pretty much all expansions, bar Warlords, and maybe BFA.
@@gordonlove5121 yeah, i first played wow in last patch of cataclysm, but didnt actually get to max or started raiding before siege of orgrimmar, so i only experienced some of the later raids theough raid finder, but it was really fun.
Damn, I too started playing wow 6 months ago and just enjoy the leveling process, yet i thought there were a lot of us.
Didn’t know we are considered an endangered species.
Oh, the lcassic servers have nostly recovered by now
What? Really?
Man started watching more of this guy after the FF14 business and I'm honestly shocked WoW actually got this bad lmao
I started back in Cataclysm, played Mists, bought Draenor on launch and eventually quit a few months after Legion. I had quite a lot of fun with WoW for what it was, hope it has some sort of comeback but man hearing Blizzard actually added boosts to classic doesn't give me any hope.
Leveling is genuinely an experience, that newbie is genuinely enjoying the experience. Most people are in such a rush to level, they lose the perspective of the joy and wonder of something that is polished and nice and shiny and new, that we don't actually stop and appreciate the amount of work that went into it all. From story to design to animations, and we just brush it off like it's nothing. That's why I really enjoyed leveling when I played MMOs back in the day.
So true. Like we have so many references from movies that it's about the journey, not the destination. Yet still nobody cares about anything but raid gear..
Plot twist: his password really was Asmonisbald
Really glad I came across this video of yours! I was so confused when I tried THE Wow Classic and it felt so empty. I figured maybe once I headed to a city or levelled more I'd find friends to play with. Didn't know about who lists either haha. Very informative
It's almost like they paid to copy their characters for nothing.
they copied their characters for nothing and that's also caused by the monetization.
you kno what i mean?
if copy would just be free they wouldn't had to have paid for it AND servers wouldn't be that dead.
Everyone is TBC leveling remember the 2 week prepatch?
@@Buttersaemmel Technically it is good that there was a charge.... because people obviously don't want to keep playing vanilla classic. If it had been free, you'd have thousands of characters being housed on a physical server somewhere that nobody wants to play....
Hopefully they consolidate and get rid of classic servers down to the minimum.
I know a ton of guilds that copied over to classic era but non of them are playing classic right now because they are on tbc servers.
@@tsdrum2016 Q.E.D.
Why is anyone surprised by this? The game ran it's course and nostalgia lasts until you realise why you left in the first place.
We didnt leave we just got forced due to blizz changing things without caring about the community. There is nostalgia but the game is genuinely better blizz should have went with classic plus instead of TBC.
kinda true but not really for alot of players. theres nothing else new coming to classic. all the people that were playing classic basically have the best gear now because how easy the raids were. everyone knows the mechanics, its the same shit every week ppl just get bored since classics been out for almost 2 years now
@@ImQuirkless thats how WoW worked back then too. I was in a guild that got server firsts and once we cleared the raids and got geared up there was only pvp left to keep the game interesting.
Man, I picked this game up in Lich King and loved it, so sad to see how far it’s fallen
Everybody gangster until the last guys password really is "Asmonisbald"
Is Vaulty gonna make a video about him again?
They should’ve done classic plus and changed the timeline. Lol
very sad, i stopped playing retail years ago because microtransactions came into the game.
now i had finally got classic and now it's over again... but this time probably forever for me.. 😢
Classic servers are the answer, sadly
"people are gonna all play tbc and then finish and get bored", you mean exactly like what happened with classic? great observation
People were still playing the shit out of classic until BC launched.
@@蓮90 Yeah idk what Gamesux is on about. I raided progression in classic when BWL and AQ40 were current last year. I logged easily a thousand hours of playtime during quarantine. Maybe it was a bit short of a thousand but if you told me it was over a thousand I wouldn't be at all surprised. My relatively low-pop server was dense as fuck from launch to October 2020 when I quit after a falling out with my guild. We had to organize Black Lotus farming squads to lock down zones, back before they kicked up the spawn rates.
@@蓮90 People were playing the shit out of Classic BECAUSE tbc was launching
To be fair, Incendius' Horde was already dead before TBC
Did he get this idea from Vaulty too?
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RIP Vanilla Classic.
Just gonna start digging this grave for TBC Classic when WOTLK Classic releases.
As someone who genuinely enjoys playing WoW from time to time, but hates the playerbase, this seems like heaven.
Rest in Peace Classic.
*pays the new guy 10 gold* "now he is a payed actor"
me*dies of laughter*
How can anyone even play Classic now that there is basically nobody playing it ?
Cant raid, cant do dungeons or do certain quests now.
Is blizzard fault with all this copy/clone crap. They should have made a few new servers for classic and just moved everyone who wanted classic there.
You don't solo group missions? Can you even call yourself a player?
@@omarct Nobody still wants classic....this proves it.
@@laertesindeed I did. I would have kept playing both classic and TBC if blizzard had not fucked up so massively once again. I would had loved to get my hunter full tier3, and get the t3 ring for my rogue which never dropped and is basically the only piece missing for full classic BIS.
Unfortunately blizzard destroyed any hope I had left in the company and I am done giving them my money. I had a blast with classic and loved my 2 years with it, but its time to move on to other games and support better companies like From Software(just bought Sekiro).
@@omarct Nothing in your comment changes anything in my comment.....
I never understand why people say. I play classic to enjoy the leveling experience, yet tbc is basically the same, except theres an extra realm added to the leveling experience
Its how some.people prefer their class to play (warriors/mages) as well as not liking the asthetic of tbc.
In all seriousness, good guy Asmongold for trying to steer what he believed to be a newbie in the right direction with the whole 'don't give anyone your password' bit.
That Rogue on his stream with the full t3 and TF was me! Was an honor to get my cts memed on by chat
You down with TBC ?
In time, probably in the near future, all retail servers will look like this as well.
i have a feeling they might do this whole classic thing once a decade
Answering question in the thumbnail. TBC stands for Thermal Barrier Coating. Typical example is so called YSZ coating (Yttria-stabilized zirconia). Basically it is a coating with low thermal conductivity (a little bit simplified but anyway). The thing is we don't really have good construction materials that work in very high temperatures, therefore such coating make it possible to use materials that have melting point below working temperature.
Happy to help =)
My first impression with TBC was like "transfer and boost service?" And i play for a week, with people spamming boosting service on chat. Only meet 2 people while questing.
I did appreciate the guild I joined in Classic/TBC they were so helpful and guided me nicely ! I feel bad for those saying you’re a noob....
2 years later no one cares about tbc and everyone is playing classic lol
Blizz had a perfect chance to draw in more players by creating a fresh start server.
14:25 - This was the funniest Bald Asmon joke in a long time.
It’s depressing seeing people lvling on a dead server. I actually get sad.
Right, good luck dungeoning.
Or leveling 1-58 on an active TBC server right after the dark portal opened, can confirm that all of Azeroth is empty as everyone's in Outland. Even Orgrimmar is empty.
@@mattias1486 that won’t last forever though.
@@iwonderifdrugzarebad it will. tbc is the first expansion that made going back to the other world inherently pointless. there's literally zero reason to.
@@bobsag1164 It was right after TBC released and everyone jumped on lvl 60's to head off to Hellfire Peninsula. Now it's back to normal.
Waiting for fresh start servers/big server merges before I come back to classic
Bro we need players like you with a big following to just do things like follow new players n help them quest make things fun again populate servers, have a group of players dedicated to making wow better, like minded people who refuse to pay for boosts and do thinga the way they used to be. Would b amazing.
Just release TBC, then WOTLK, then reset and start again from vanilla. Stay in this loop. Still miles better than retail wow
@@levithirsk5447 uh not really, biggest changes were made in Cata and some of it's formula is in modern wow
We do exist yes, i just want to take my time and enjoy leveling and exploring Northrend in Classic WotlK. i started "a Dwarfs Journey to Northrend" video series... well. It's just one episode so far since i've been too damn lazy to edit together the HOURS of random footage going from 20-40 lol. Want something to cover Asmon? There ya go lol. Some of us love the journey still.
I did this same experiment when Guild wars 2 launched, and found a lot of players preferring the first game to the new one. They just don't make em like they used to.
As someone who’s 26 years old and never played wow, I would probably want to experience the game as it initially released, maybe boost any alts, but I’d want at least one legit playthrough where I lvl normally through the game and experience it as it was intended all those years ago. (This is coming from someone who still plays Age of Conan)
"well that's some shit" is what Asmon often says, should've been a troll giveaway
I actually love/loved levelling too. I had 3 60s by the time TBC launched, and 7 70s by the time Wrath launched lol. Now I'm finding it hard to have the will to sit and play for so many hours a day, I lack the attention span for more than a few hours haha. I'd still never buy a boost though, fuck that.
I started Classic when it first released, I never played WoW back in the day but a lot of my friends did. It was extremely populated and it was so fun. But it looks like the populations are all low now, how come people stopped playing classic?
I honestly hope WoW gets back on track again.. I don't even play it or ever played it actively, but it hurts to see such a great game go down like this.
Of course classic is dead. That's why blizzard is charging for clones. They know most will jump to TBC. It's 3 or 4 years from now when they run out of classic wow content to re-release that the pop counts will rise on classic servers. But who wouldn't go to TBC? It's a great progression of the vanilla formula. It's the game at its peak.
Wrath of the Lich King was the peak.
After that ..... well ..... we dont speak of those things xD
@@Seneric Cata was great, last raid not so much. I think people were just burnt out. MoP was also a great expansion, pandas were just not well received even though they've been part of lore for a long time.
Wrath is where it started flatlining
representing! (H) Raiding Guild on Netherwind, WE STILL RAIDING Classic Content! Good people coming together to continue the fun journey! Hit us up!
This make me want to play WoW less and less :(
"No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"
The experience of playing on a server with just your friends, you and four other people, being the only heroes that can defend and save Azeroth, is 100% a reality.
I'm not sure if that's not the most RP thing WoW has accidentally given to players or the saddest existence of what should've been a better experience. They should've done refresh near the start. Hell, they should've sat down and said "What if we develop content, but just for classic WoW?" and expand it beyond where the original game lead. The vanilla experience has such a unique feel of what a classy game was, encouraging playing with people, in organic at best and encouraged at worst, ways.
I want to go back, but I know I won't be happy with that decision.
amen brother
I am amazed that ANY paladin would stay in classic...
Nostralius will rise again!
Seriously though, I wonder how long it takes the people who will only play Classic to stop paying a monthly fee.
problem is that there needs a community to be forged again.
as the big player is gone many others will try to get into it's place when the demand for vanilla p-servers starts rising.
so players are split onto different small p-servers AND the Blizz-Vanilla servers and it's hard to get back to a stage where nostralius was.
with that i think it will take a long time for a comeback of something REALLY nostralius like :/
@@Buttersaemmel honestly they should of just released all the old expansions ages ago because servers die and people leave the game completely. everyone could play each and every expansion on the same account or just the one they love.
Everyone's on TBC because it's new. Once the ol' classic andy comes out in all of them and the drama begins, that'll probably change.
They need to make classic servers a one time buy and no monthly subscription. There’s no reason for a monthly subscription on a past version of the game
I mean who wants to do the same shit thats been out for 6 months, anyone who wanted to kill KT killed KT, pvp is pretty much better in TBC that leaves leveling and dungeons and it honestly makes more sense to level on a tbc server and I think almost anyone would prefer being able to progress into TBC dungeons. I never understood why people wanted to clone their characters as there just isn't much left to do in classic especially when most of player base leave. In a few months I'd imagine fresh classic servers(assuming they happen) would hold a decent number of players.
"I told you these people were real!" The one person in stormwind HAHAHHAHAHAHHA
No wonder classic dies when you force people to pay to copy a character
That little trolling at the end was actually adorable but good on you Asmon for getting ready to be helpful :)
This is why I didn't agree when people said WoW: Classic will be the nest Old School Runescape. Each expansion in WoW kills the old game, makes it dead useless content. OSRS doesn't have an end game focus on current expansion content like WoW does. As soon as they announced TBC Classic this was always going to happen.
There isn’t anything posted on my classic server. I cant find a single person in Stormwind.
Imagine paying money to copy your character onto a dead server.
@@s0lid_sno0ks but now blizz got you by the balls.
if the situation get's worse to a point where you can't enjoy the game anymore (because of lack of players) you can only either restart on tbc servers or pay them money or just stop playing.
I did. I had no idea it would be THIS dead. Maybe I'll ask for a refund. It was only 15 bucks, and maybe after prepatch SOME community will come back, but honestly..It's awful. They might as well merge every single realm onto one, why did they even bother with Classic Era if it would be this dead? Do they think I paid 15 bucks to clone my mage to have 3 people on my realm?
Imagine that their first instinct was to charge -35- dollars for this instead of 15. This company, I swear..
@@mikedewan7011 they didn’t know it would be this dead probably.
@@Buttersaemmel people will just stop playing yeah. and blizz can only thank themselves for that one. idk why you would spend money on a game you already bought in 2007
"Quietly folks, to your right is an honest to Elune newb player." *shocking gasps echo* ..Hey lets be clear.. TBC is still classic..the big change happens with cataclysm and that's when the game lost me.. Maybe it's just my opinion, but all the starting story lines are there..and the original lore is still there.
Asmon saying "true, TBC leveling is already over" after he swiped the credit card to skip leveling has a certain irony to it.
wow dude you're so perceptive
welcome to the point
This was particularly irritating to me, as I like to PvP in Battlegrounds, and I wanted specifically to explore the battleground progression in Classic, as originally, I started WoW during TBC. I only started seriously playing classic a few months ago and most of my characters are in the teens or very low twenties, but now I'm never going to get to do battlegrounds or dungeons. Pagle FYi, which appears to be the first one you explored.
Very irritated about TBC.
I actually started playing TBC Classic recently. New to WoW in general. Originally, I picked up the game when TBC initially released (like a week or two into launch) but couldn't get into it for some reason. Thought this would be a good opportunity to give not only WoW a shot but to pick up where I stopped all those years ago.
I have always enjoyed leveling. I'm one of those people too.
Agreed, as long as the Pacing is reasonable. Modern games are all broken in that regards
@@Francois424 Right, I can never have as much fun leveling as I do in this game in all of the more modern MMOs.
Imagine mocking people for playing Classic when you yourself played retail for years and been begging Blizzard to recreate Classic. 🤡🤦🏼♂️
I konw a way how Classic could be full of ppl, the answer is "Free To Play".
thats not gonna happen ever
How could they afford to provide a 15 year old game for free? Come on man...
Not even for free would i waste my time for that
I feel like boosts should be like it was for death knights where you had to get a character to lvl 55 to get a death knight that starts at lvl 55
Just logged in and there were a total of two players in Orgrimmar, and none in Thunder Bluff. They've combined servers in my region and wow it's just... empty. And some of those WoW Classic quests you really need a group of people.
They better add wrath of the lich King servers and stop at that forever
Laugh at it now but some people might actually have a much more enjoyable time playing classic when it's dead. It will feel like your the only brave champion in the whole world. If they make one huge fresh classic server I would probably join it and and level toons for the fun of it.
Yea except you can't enjoy a lot of the content. You can't do dungeons, raids, or even group quests or make money from your professions/AH. It's an incomplete experience
Is there any vanilla server that is pretty active? They need to merge all the realms.
I love leveling and questing idk why everyone wants to skip it or just dungeon spam the whole way
we're a dying breed
I think we all forget how much of a grind vanilla WoW was, that’s why it was incredible. The XP, mounts, travel time. Retail/Vanilla/Classic are so much different than starting out years ago.
Seeing "Grobbulus is even worse" makes me sad. That's my server man made a lot of good friends. To see Blizz fuck TBC makes me even sadder. I'm just glad to finally be able to get into FFXIV. RIP GROBBULUS and CLASSIC.