World of Warcraft Documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- I made this video 4 months after WoW was released because I saw how some of my friends were affected by it. Of course its a bit biased, it's a documentary :).
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2006: I play 4 hours per day, I'm addicted
2025: I play 4 hours per day, I'm just a casual
bruh truth
Believe me, 4 hours per day back in Vanilla / TBC was not considered addicted for many, many people!
I really hope those are TBCC hours and not Retail hours. If it is retail you should be ashamed of yourself for playing that garbage
I think about this a lot lol
i played 10 hours a day sins 2004
4 to 6 hours a day on vacation?
Those are rookie numbers
Every single one of them is lying
14-16 hours? Now you're talking
Casual...
I used to put in 16 a day
@@DV-zv4ox hhaaaa
You can tell all of these kids were drastically under-reporting the amount of hours they played the game.
100%, when they ask "does it affect your IRL friendships" they all get the same "OH shit" moment xD
It sure sounds like they are all trying to justify it. Been there myself.
No, you can tell people actually had shame back then. Whereas this new generation has none.
These kids are probably older than you now
@@Lars-ce4rd You don't need to justify anything if you are Happy, making bill payments and not hurting anybody else.
No game will catch that feeling in 2004-2009 playing this for the first time, like WoW. What a Game, what a time to be alive 😮❤
I pity the youngsters now. We caught that golden era of gaming... I remember wasting nights at internet cafe with 5-8 buddies... WoW, Dota, CS1.6 were the main shit, but also some SC.
Final Fantasy XI
@@jxggxr_dxv hell yeah dude I used to walk to the internet cafe with my buds when I was like 16 to play vanilla I miss those days, we used to spend all saturday exploring azeroth just having a blast
Yea. I remember fondly how utterly amazed I was first days. It was breathtaking. I failed classes in school because of it haha
I've played on a vanilla private server for nearly two years now and it's still just as fun honestly.
No-one in a history of the human kind ever did play wow for an hour a day.
It might feel like an hour, before you know it, you are 40 years old....
When I was a kid my rents had the 1 hour a day set up. Obviously when I play classic now I can play for hours...
@@siccz1 41 😭
I play for one hour ....... when i check my mailbox
This is the most true statement
The algorithm brings us together yet again
yup
Yes
Same thought i had lol
Srsly😅
Hello brothers
We desperately need a "Where are they now?" documentary on this documentary
On FFXIV ! XD
🤔
still rocking the same life style, I hope. True to themselves
Got in early to crypto and and gaming crypto projects and is now a multi millionare.
@@nassimlougrada2986 aahhahahaha
The TH-cam algorithm is actually a renegade archeologist: randomly unearthing amazing gems to place in the museum of our minds.
What gem? this documentary feels dumb.
15years old, this is the oldest recomendation of TH-cam that we ever had.
Actually TH-cam reccomended me the first video ever, the guy at the zoo
Actually TH-cam reccomended me the first video ever, the guy at the zoo
@Bonechip 1,000? Dude youtube was around since before recorded history, which is odd cause you'd think youtube would record history
Haha, yea. This video is beyond ancient and one of the first ever You Tube videos. But to me, early 2006 doesn't seem that long ago.
😋i like nikki😉
When he said ( 2:09 ) "i don't think my social life has really dried up much either because i never had much of one to begin with" I felt that
Me too. But then he said "me and my girlfriend". I did not feel that.
@@alexandrosavraamides7872 😂 shit that was good
Lmfao this thread
@@alexandrosavraamides7872 Pretty sure he was lying lol
@@SSJGengar girlfriend and relationship are for the weak
1 hour a day?! You couldn't even finish a vanilla dungeon in 1 hour..
Anyone that play wow knows that u gotta play at list 3. In one hour u couldnt do anything
me and my brothers as teens took 1 hour turn rotations (we were all addicted) and we had the rule if you were in a dungeon you had to finish it and get off if the timer went off during. and we couldent just join one when the timer was about to go off but yeah you couldent
M K you can now 😄
1 hour means 5 to 6h.
@@kushkong1339 it kepupt the peace lol. I did this with modern warfare. 3 games and pass it
18 years old? All hail this legendary video, it can vote now.
This video gets its own appartment :F
First 2 minutes of this documentary: Everyone's a liar.
Except the true gamer that admitted to 48 hours a week
"...when I'm really busy" dude you're like 15
@@ScepticGinger89 I was busier at 15 so not really strange to hear that.
Lmfaoo
Well back then you had to say that, cause it was looked down upon to play more.
14 years later and I somehow ended up here without even searching for it.
Same
Lol me too
Same. :P
yup
Me too 😂
I'm gonna say most of these people were lying about their hours
Idk man that dude said like 48 hours I’m inclined to believe him lmao
Tanner Henry he was probably the only legitimate one lol
Hahahaha hell yeah
Back in the day i broke up school for WoW they are fucking lying.
@@falconer7447 haha same 😅
Popped up on my recommended page. Threw me in a crazy nostalgia loop. I remember making a ton of online friends I used to go to dungeons and quest together. I wonder how their doing now... Shout out to all my Magtheridon Horde fam. There probably will never be another game that brings out that kind of experience for me. Original WoW was the greatest.
From 2004 to 2006 it was the best part of my life.
All my friends and I were playing this game. At every parties we were talking about the game with words that nobody could understand.
We were doing LANs to play together. We spent so much nights, saying "okay one more dungeon" at already 02:30 am.
That was the real spirit of internet and online massive multi player game.
This game is an anthology and in every heart of true lovers of what Blizzard was before.
It used to be so different. The games were actually fun and unique, not copy pastas of each other. Now mmos are so boring! Pets, mounts, and cosmetics are o nly unlockable through the store so there are no incentives. Maps are too big and empty and they all look the same.
Same here, 2009-2012. It also corrosponded with the happiest time of my life. I had a great job, was young, was getting women, and making money. I didn't look like the steriotypical player they try to portray on these things. I could bench 280 and looked like it. I was traveling, going out to bars and parties, and enjoyed my WoW each night when relaxing for hours. We are told to brag about how many hours of our life we give up to work, but shamed for the hours we enjoy in our one and only life. What a strange state of affairs. But Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm were the golden ages for me. Just thinking of those years makes me sit in nastalgia...remembering a happier time. We'd be out partying..drinking like fish, talking to beautiful women, and texting back and forth how the raid was going.
@Nano Surge Damn sorry man. I hope things improve and you get some good experiences some day with ladies.
And now Microsoft owns Blizz
at this time I celebrated MILF gang bangs Kappa
Dude....this video captures the soul of a veteran wow player back in 2004-2006. The cinderblock monitors that was 13inches. clothes that could tell you give little care what you are wearing and the denial of just how addicting the game really was. Watching it, it felt like i was watching a home video of my life, cause i know just how relatable all their situations were.
tik tok, clout chasing, upvote hunting, etc, is worse lol "just how addicting the game really was"
i loved those CRT monitors, you can punch them and your fist will broke more often than the screen lol.
@@wayfa13 I played it a lot and I’ll admit, it’s addicting because of how awesome it is lol. Just like most fun activities. They make us feel good and we want to do more. It’s up to us to moderate ourselves but we can be honest about the nature of certain video games
"I don't think my social life has dried up in real life either because I never really had one to begin with."
so true king, so true
Friends are so overrated as a teenager/young adult, people come and go a lot during that time period in ones life. It's honestly not worth the time and effort to maintain a friendship until your in your late twenties or thirties when you have your life situated.
@@Travybear1989 wait I am supposed to have my life "situated" at this point....?! oh shit.... im in trouble
@@Travybear1989 Not true but it is true to not worry about it
why is this getting recommended now?
because you suck man
2:06 "My social life hasn't been affected because I didn't have one to begin with" that's so me
RIGHT!! lol
The absence of any smile or laughter after saying that line lmao
First guy: “ah it depends on my schedule.” I guarantee he had no schedule in his life.
XD
His raiding schedule maybe...
I guarantee you look like a guy with schedual.
He might have classes. So he probably plays around his school classes.
I remember being 21 when WoW was super popular (2005) and being so addicted to the game that I lost my job, my girlfriend left me, my diet went to shit, and it took being nearly evicted from my apartment to get my life back on track. I remember when I was at my worst and I was spending 15 hours a day playing, barely showering, and living off of pizza rolls and hot pockets and not even caring because my level 40 Undead Rogue HAD to hit level 60 because I HAD to raid because some online "friends" were more important to me than my real friends and family.
Literally nothing else mattered to me outside of the game and I wasted an entire summer inside like a prisoner in my own place and ended up finding basic social interactions stressful because I was always in a hurry to get back to the game.
It was some wild shit lol!
50 cents being a third of a starbucks coffee is the most controversial thing in this video
Yea. Now a cup is 7 bucks 15 years later!
I pay like $5 for their nitro cold brew..
Imagine how costly the 15 dollas were 15 years ago.. None appreciated Blizzard for not increasing their monthly charge for 16 fcking years!
I remember buying my son’s gaming laptop and the salesperson said he played WoW for 26 hours straight before. He really looked like he did.
Being a 44 year old adult when i started playing in 2008 it was a great thing financially. Recently married for the first time I was still doing things for entertainment that I did when I was single. Pool and dart leagues in bars and gone 3-5 nights a week and costing around $4-500 a month. WOW was $15 a month and i was home in the evenings after work so married life got alot better. I still play to this day in 2022
Hey this is an interesting view! But was it the same (or better?)? You didn't miss seeing your mates in the bars or going outside?
It's amazing how the time goes I'm 30 looking at 31..started in 05 begged mom for game, and still every year every xpac I get online make it to max level and leave again lol
@Mike Sibert
still playin this shtty game?? LMFAO
get move on homie,
@joey lucas That is so true and even those 3-5 change to the point at anytime.
its all perspective
They all fused together and become Asmongold.
They aren't that egotistical. Not by half.
to much hair
@@thegamingchannelofawesome8384 Not bald yet
@@brisbanetim That is a character. Asmongold is actually a nice guy in person. he just acts like an asshole on stream because that is is the persona or character that his viewers want to see.
No no these people actually play wow, not just turn the game on and have people do the stuff for them and give them things.
I played 12-18 hours/day. I used to set an alarm so that I wouldn't sleep more than 6 hours to maximize the playtime. All meals were consumed when playing also. To be so committed is something I definitely miss these days
I was looking for this comment! 12-14h sessions good old days!
Got this in my recommended videos, Sun Dec 15th, 2024.
This video is 18 years old from my POV.
“No, I have not made any online friends. Unfortunately.”
*Silence Intensifies*
this was heart-wrecking
pvp specialist i hope.. haha evrn then tho..
Haha I looked for a comment about that part. It was really sad haha. That silence seemed like an eternity
as the camera still stares at him and he just has a straight face.
I felt for this kid so so much…
Back in 2004-2006 I used to play like 15h a day during school holidays. The game was addictive as hell.
Yes! "was" addictive
I wish wow would be still the same as it was before. I like the speed of retail, but there is a lot of unnecessary parts that was always skippable in data disks before. Now you can't skip cuz it somehow boosts your char that much that you can't skip it and that's what made me quit wow tbh
i had a 34 hour gaming streak cause of the game
me too
I wasn't even alive in 2004-2006 lmao
"No i have not made any online friends." Adam, Paladin.
Zooming in on his fucking face after he said that would be so fucking funny :'D
“Unfortunately”……
AITOO who felt a little low-key sorry for the dude in those silent seconds after he said that? 😂
🤣
this made me laugh
THIS is the WoW we all miss. Those little monitors, the desktop speakers, and nothing but free time to play and enjoy
Yet the people that judge gamers the most for the amount of time they spend playing games are usually the people who watch 4-5 hours of Television a day.
You are stereotyping the people who make stereotypes. Also gaming 12 hours a day or watching tv 12 hours a day aren't exactly healthy things.
well its pretty much a fact that most people watch 3-4 hours a day tv at night
If you played piano for 4 hours a day, you could probably go pro within a year...
@@shamicentertainment1262 tv is passive entertainment, you arent engaging your brain in the same way you play games. But this depends on the game of course.
@@andrewtucker94
Go pro and? Use it as a bragging right? Or....?
I'm 30 now and never played but I remember nearly everyone in my class being addicted back then. This gave me second hand nostalgia if that makes sense
"second hand nostalgia" :D good one
Same
Same here, I never experienced wow myself cause I never had a good enough PC that could run it. But If I could... I probably would have been addicted. I love the stories that come from this game with it's players though.
Well at least you didn't have to experience the best game you ever played become whatever the fuck it is today.
Same here incl.age, kind of made me sad that I didn't hop on the hype train it had back then.
But tbh I remember playing GTA San Andreas straight for 32 hours on my poor man's PS2 in 2005 and absolutely loving it, unlike my parents 😂
The era of 2000s till 2008 was really something magic, up until the first microtransaction nightmare showed up in TES Oblivion signaling the way of online gaming to change 😂
Years later I discovered games of 90s and some of them are awesome too, the very first Fallout, second BG, Daggerfall,... people in 90s had very much treats same like us, kinds of make me feel sorry for current young generations seeing what new releases they're getting.
The end of the video was so dramatic, as if they had gone to war or something and some of them didn't make it back.
Yep, it was hilariously creepy
lol :D
ashahahahah for real. i was so shocked when the "?" appeared on the girl. Af if its like: MIA Missing in action! Fatally wounded body on the battlefield lmao
They did tho, they went to a whole world of it. :P
loooool, this is too much
WoW in 2005-2006 was a magical time. I was a freshman at the University of Washington, which was reported to be the school with the most dedicated players (according to some report at the time). I would see other people playing in lectures, a majority of people on my floor played, and I'm pretty sure I would average 50-60 hours per week. Yes, I was addicted, yes, I rerolled from a male Night elf to a female Night elf. Sue me
You look exactly how I imagined someone who plays Alliance would look....nah just kidding!
Or am I?
I was in my final year of high school when this came out and wow was in full swing. Everyone was playing it. We had a grade 12 guild that we held meetings for weekly. This was all amidst the new wave of consoles, half life 2 and the the diverse array of new and exciting experiences to be had back then. I remember waking up Sunday mornings, maybe sneak in a little toke and run instances. Probably when I first really started appreciating time on my own.
conclusion: they dont play enough
casuals xD
Especially in 2005 when it was very difficult to level up even with 10 hours per day.
Rookie numbers, gotta pump them up!
They do, you would not reaveal your true game time on some documentary especialy when your fammily could see it, they probabbly all play 10-15 hours a day but obviously they not gonna say it on camera. It is doable to have a job and play hardcore at the same time atleat in europe you can even go to gym, Look at people who are top achievement points hunters now i know few of them atleast the eu ones and they have a job and still play hardcore.But you have to sacrifice social life that is the only price you pay.Also theese peopel are very efficient with time they play that is why they stay on top.
@@janodefenua4603 social life? There is no sacrifice in social life. Wow is a huge bar!
This came up on my recommendations... thanks so much for the nostalgia trip.
I was at university when this came out... safe to say I didn' t make it to any lectures, and failed one of my years... didn't regret it one bit!
Spinebreaker forever :D
They are all casuals. They should’ve interviewed a rank 14 pumper.
Cant he couldnt afford to lose time for some small talks, rank 14 is no joke nor a position to delay🤣
How many hours a days you sleep? -'Probably 3-4. If I'm lucky. and the caps are low. '
13 here and Abudullah is right. There is no way we could set aside "chit chat" time. Gotta grind AV.
@@alexunlv hahahaha that run and the time I wish all of you people luck trying to get that damned rank🤣
R14 war ere shit was the most fucked up but enjoying thing I've ever done these lads are rookies
I started playing WoW last month and now YT recommends this to me. Best video I've seen all year!
Playing till the sun came up with no responsibilities as a high schooler, I remember my friends having to come over to my house and convince me to go out with them because I kept making excuses to stay inside and play wow, simpler times I miss it
Funny i forgot about this but it happened to me way too often haha, good old times even if it has been 2010 for me
what have they become now?
a new video 15 years later would be amazing.
Have a good day
1500 mmr pvp players
Playing FFXIV
Ah, men of culture. I see we have all gathered here today to watch this documentary of a historic masterpiece of a game.
The feeling of nostalgia is ...
nostalgic
there?
I'm with ya man!
Yes. Yes. Gentlemen of Culture! We are here! Here! But, there there is no sign of TandF TandA!?! I am a aghast! 🧐
2:57 this is heartbreaking, he's genuinely saddened and really just wants a friend to play with online. Wish could give him a hug poor guy looks so defeated =(
imagine not having online friends during peak classic wow; 100% skill issue
@@shoopsplaylist i remember a graph that showed wow peaked in wotlk anyways, this is just 4 months after vanilla released
@@shoopsplaylist100% I Just quested and barely knew what a tank etc does but even I got to sexting with a fem guild member via ICQ. WoW Community was wild back then
It's impossible, with the variety of people and interests that you could find in the game at the time, someone has to talk to you. If I could, anyone can.
Yeah poor dude.. Hope he eventually found some good homies in game.
That guy THINKS he's playing 1.5hrs per day.. But in reality he plays 25.5hrs. He just didn't realize it's the next day :D
Little did all these dads and moms realize how addicted they'd be to Bubble Witch Saga and Candy Crush Saga.
Back then it was only acceptable to be addicted to television networks. I remember my family complaining about how me and my brother played too many games after school even though they spent an equal amount of time watching TV..
Their your parents dude of course they are going to say that. I tell my little cousins to stay off their phones and focus on school yet I am addicted to my phone just as bad if not worse 😂
Even if you bring up this point in a discussion with older generations, they just disregard it as a stupid argument. Because watching brain-dead tv isn't equivalent to strategic planning in a game.
I'm 47, so nearing 30 when WoW came out--I was pretty into it, but I was REALLY into Everquest. I remember my Dad (RIP) would always tease me about wasting my time playing video games. Then when I'd go visit him he'd spend literally 10-14 hours a day in front of the TV with his laptop on in front of him playing Scrabble or Bridge :) Anyway, thank you algorithm for taking me back to those carefree days!
EQ > WoW and it's not even close!
Legend
Heheh
Those parents logics.. Best wishes
@@penigan85 wow is untouchable, noob
my old best friend got sucked into playing wow everyday back then for years. then he died in a car wreck going to the store in a storm. it's been 12 years. well, this made me cry today.
Holy shit. This video is golden! A treasure discovered! Look at how old it is. If i could turn back time I would in a heart beat. Not just because of WoW but because life was a lot more chill back then.
It truly was more chill :(
"my social life has not dried up, because I did not have one to start with" Man hit it right on the spot.
I won't lie when I started WoW in LK I almost flunked out of college. At first I was rationalizing that I'd have time to do homework later which slowly unraveled into how stupid the assignments were anyways and that if I pulled all-nighters I could drink energy drinks, play WoW and still kind of do homework and write papers a couple hours before my classes started. I was obsessed with that game, but it also helped save me because I was going through a lot of drama in and outside of college so emotionally it allowed me to escape and take my mind off things. I was a pretty hard partier before WoW, but my junior year I got sick of all the fake people that I knew weren't really my friends in school and didn't even seem to really like me. In WoW I had a great guild with people that were fun to play with and talk to and I loved that we could be silly and laugh for hours...we talked about everything. I was the kind of nerd that eventually would drink with my guild on raid nights on weekends instead of going to parties and joke around in Ventrilo all night. They weren't bitchy girls using me for my car to drive them to the liquor store and/or illegally buy them alcohol and then ditching me after, or guys inviting me to parties hoping I'd get too drunk to care I wasn't into them. Eventually though my GPA got shitty when my grades got worse from losing focus but I DID NOT flunk out of college I got my shit together when I realized how bad it was and started doing my homework before WoW. It's a shame none of those people even play anymore. They all quit when Cata came out and haven't been on since. Raid Finder ruined my social experiences in WoW...it's never been the same for me :(
cool story sis
Word, I had to quit a few times in college but resubbed between semesters or when my classes weren’t as demanding as other times. Glad you made it through!!
LFR 4.3 killed wow for me.
My friend's dad in 2001/2002 quit his job and divorced his wife so he could play EverQuest. He would flip out and go into a rage whenever he was interrupted for things like feeding his kids and helping with homework etc.
That’s hilarious
When wow released, I was one of those kids that the day was his when he woke up until he slept while on summer vacation. To this day i cherish those days of waking up with excitment and having it hard to sleep with excitment and doing nothing but playing wow. I was fascinated with it and i had all the time i needed. I dont know if people remember this but WoW was a GREAT leap in quality compared to other games at that time. I mean wow classic is still relevant now. No other game did that
Was it really? It was the game that was marketted the most and also appealled to non gamers/casuals. It was by no means a leap in quality in my opinion.
@@timm8998 What do those things have to do with the quality of the game? I'd love to know what you were playing before 2004
I agrea, waking up to launch WoW was something appart. Defenetly a Master piece. Great memories.
@@cdave2006 u sound like u were born when wow came out.
@@JuicedGiraffe your age doesn't mater, i am 28 and i would have played wow vanilla even if I was 80 or 8, who cares but toxic players
TH-cam algorithm got it right again :D
All the nostalgia this brings back, how different people view was on gaming back then.
World of Warcraft sucked me into the gaming live when it came out, the entire school was sharing their copies with friends to get them to join and we all just played it nonstop.
They felt ashamed for playing long hours, they had to lie " only 16 hours a week"
My favourite game came out on closed beta and I get to play it for 3 days and made 35 hours and then listening to this video :D
Good old days
"Outwardly Curved Monitor" days
I used to play 5+ hours a day back in 2005-2006. Even longer hours when there was a raid event. And we were only a small-sized guild.
It's really changed a lot. I played from 2007 to 2010 and only a few people in my class were gamers at all. Back then many had the typical image of us as nerds who were losers in real life. Gaming in general feels a lot more mainstream now, and I feel it's no big deal anymore if you tell people you're a gamer who plays all day. I guess I kinda liked when it was a more niche thing though.
"Technically, it's 14 bucks a month. I paid for 2 months" What a legend
When he said that I knew he was hard-core 🤣🤣
ти къци ли си.
Matt DGAF! He’s probably still going to this day.
Those monitors brings me back. I miss the days of the early internet. WoW was so captivating back then, nothing today can compare.
"JJ did not return spring term due to academic probation." Dude was definitely one of the first to finish Naxx back in the day
Man im dying😭😂💀
True tho
It’s funny how just 15 years ago if you were playing WoW people viewed you as having no life. Fast forward to 2019 and this is basically everyone, especially with fortnite and mobile games, tables really have turned...
As always, the "nerds" were ahead of their time.
Shits weak as fuck, I miss the thrill of hiding my nerddom from everyone in school lol
So true lol
No gain tho. We nerd were aloner 15 year ago and normies got it right, whereas we nerdies still alone and normies play with their gf with shared account because now its acceptable.
So what i mean tables didnt turn and nerds didnt become popular with girls. Atleast i didnt.
Bro 2021 we back to playing wow
I spent a year of my life in Azeroth. No regrets whatsoever, I use the lessons learned as a raiding guild officer as an IT director at work, every day =)
What is WoW if not a microcosm of real world encounters. The same teams you have to deal with in a work environment. Dungeon bosses are soul-crushing performance goals, and trolls that you keep seeing in trade chat is the dude you have to listen to in the break room.
You yell more dots at your coworkers?
christ, i noticed your dps is down, and your over healing, aka doing to much over time, where going to have cut your hours / raid days.
@@lstealth minus dkp son
i have 7,1 months pure gametime says my addon only in wow classic since release. im playing since classic back in the days 12 hours a day. mainly wow, had only a 3 year break from wow played then different games. hold my milk
20 years later its just as addicting classic WoW is truly a remarkable game. Still played to death by the same players playing 20 years ago. Classic WoW never gets boring.
I just started playing classic WOW a week ago, first time to ever play WOW. Graphics arnt the best but I’ve been playing a lot having a good time with few friends, got a level 13 hunter 😂
@@lows6427 nice hunter can be a pain for group play tho great for hardcore solo leveling
"It doesn't interfere with my homework at all" famous last words
FACTS
U cant play WoW one hour. Impossible. 2h is minimum and you still feel you did not get anything done.
2...MINIMUM? AHAHAHA
It’s 10 hours minimum, a whole 24 hours max. ;)
Especially since back in the day you spent time in queue waiting to get logged in...
2 hours is like warm-up to me. After that I go raiding and smash the clock count!
2 hours Warmup
Then full raiding for at least 4 hours
Then I do some dailies
And finally, I chill in Oribos. Looking at the auction house
And before I go sleep, I go back to raiding xD
To be honest the reason why i hate classic WoW today is it is soo time consuming. If you look at Legion or Draenor for example, ye sure there are some world quests in Legion but 3-4 hours per day + 1 raid per week seems fine. If you wanna compare to Classic/TBC you needed 4 hours for just farming mats for raid. You did at least 3-4 raids per week and dungeons were super slow to clear and to get there. That is most dogsh1t thing about classic, you need 30-40 Minutes for full party to get to BRD only man, nowadays you just queue with dungeon finder clear it in 5-10 minutes and thats it. So WoW became much better game in my opinion because it is not as time consuming as it was before. (Also want to note that WoW has died for me after Legion expansion)
3:05 spoken so casually yet the meaning behind it is so deep and beautiful and means so much to people who experienced just that; whom are still friends to this day due to it. The true impact that game had on our lives and why it was the best
Absolutely blows my mind this video is 18 years old. Glad it got to my recommends.
+1
The more time goes by the more magical this documentary becomes.
I was shocked it's 16 years old!
They had no clue they were training for 2020 to play 60+ hrs a week!
Monsieur Algorithm delivered, I watched it.
18yrs later and this pops up on my recommended. TH-cam keeping WoW alive. Should do a follow up documentary on these people and see how they turned out.
Who cares about how they turned out?
There will never be a game as good as the original WoW again.
Totally agree. It was amazing. I left the game after litch king. Before that it was like a second life. My Elf Hunter life lol.
Translated: Your first experience with a powerful drug is always the best. Everything after that is down-hill.
@@rabbitcreative 😂🤣😂🤣👏🏼. Yes it was definitely like a drug. Same properties. Class A. Cos it was a hook from the first hit!
It was a powerfull drug. Maybe a bad 1 lol.
100%
"no i have not made any online friends, unfortunately" -soul proceeds to leave his body
2:57 "No I've not.. I've not made any online friends... Unfortunately." *realize and proceed to show deep despair on his face*
I am 15 years too late. Hope he’s got online pals to play by his side :(
Sadge
He was ahead of his time. He was a meme and a "watch people die inside" altogether long before they existed. A real lone pioneer that one...
this got me sad for a sec HAHA, poor lad, i hope he smash dungeons with friends now
Always come back to this CLASSIC. Kamahpanda youre still playing 5+ hours daily at nearly 30
I once played 19 straight hours of WoW. Back in 2004-2006. My friends and I played 8-10 hours a day. These kids are lightweights.lol
pssshhh I use to play 6 hours a day if I had a full day of work and other stuff to do. 12 -18 hour sessions on the weekends back then... worth it, I did get Thunder Furry early on (weird flex).
Suuuuuuuure you did
@@mads1479 mad cause you dont have it on any character not even the new classic
Did somebody say Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?
I remember I wouldn’t even log in unless I knew I had the next 6 hours free, of course I was young with zero responsibilities now I do not have such a luxury and jump on classic sometimes if I have only 30 minutes.
@@seizethetaco7027 Did somebody say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?
Imagine them interviewing people that like to read books as a hobby and asking these exact same questions. "What do your friends think about this? hmmm? hmmm?" Wow is a hobby. Some people take it overboard just like any hobby,
This was from 2006 and back then most people were serious about gaming addictions and the famous "games cause people to be violent" era.
So how much time do you spend on facebook every day? Hmmm? What do you friends think?
Reading books is a good hobby, playing wow isn't. It's a bad argument, same as with saying "but if you had fun it's fine" (same can be said for drugs). On the other hand if you actually treat it as a hobby (which is often not the case) and play like 10-15 hours per week that's fine. And by the way this is coming from the ex wow addict.
@@Stillow WoW is a fine hobby, just cause you get addicted by being weak willed is your own fault. Doesn't make it a bad hobby. Simply put someone can play 20+ hours a week of WoW even push 30 and still be a functioning healthy adult that has a life. You're just enjoying your time at home playing WoW. Depression, weak will, and laziness is what creates a gaming addict typically. That doesn't reduce WoW to some danger vs books they're still comparable.
@@Stillow Whats a “good” hobby? It seems to me that so long as a hobby doesn’t interfere with the regular structures in your life (work,social,academic) there is no problem. Not having the discipline to manage time and control how much you let yourself play is a failure on the players part so why blame the game, or any hobby for that matter? I could find myself procrastinating by reading books just as much as i could by playing games.
I started playing in 2007 right after BC came out. Experiencing SW for the first time will always be a special moment and the grind to lvl 70 with the help of Jame´s Leveling Guide. Looking back I miss the tormented time to grind up to max lvl. It is not the same feeling anymore.
My special time was BC and LK.
LOL, nice comments guys. At the time of this video I was trying to show that this game can be addicting.
Now, I am playing WoW and like it alot. I've had the game for about 8 months but only started it 2 months ago during summer. Along with productofskwat, I to think that it's all about self control.
Goodluck with WoW and RL guys. Look for Stigs on Blackwing Lair :).
@R M im saying the same thing
Do the 15 years later interview bro!
Yo you still play? Lmaoooo
You still playing broh??
Send it To asmongold for a stream ! He does that alot about WoW with average 300 000 people
I never dared to try this game because I was terrified of the consequences on my life.
Good thinking. I spent years of time on this game.
Only smart if you dont play any games. Wow classic is worth checking out.
But i wouldnt play retail trash junk .
But the truth is wow is for people who have no real life friends or loved ones. If you have these things stay away from all gaming.
That said theres no point in playing wow if u have less then say 5 hours a day to kill. Bored and desprete for somthing to do.
Because it will steal your life . Peace opon you......
@@johngross688 that’s too deep it’s video games
@@cianlogan9988 Video games are fun, but also addictive and its easier to get around to video games than always say get drugs. So he has a point. Self Control is key.
Good thinking. I threw off school over this god damn game. The amount of time I played back in 2005 - 2009 is just insane.
"it's clear that blizzrd hasn't fixed all the bugs..." hahaha i'm dead
I bet he knows them by heart
I remember watching this. It was interesting to see regular teens a little older than me talk about their experience
The good old times where we had to lie about the hours we played. :^)
I usually play 3 to 4 hours of online and casual JRPG. Playing 12 hours straight is too much for me. There are Some teenagers who died while playing online without resting for 7 days a week.
@@chronolynx360 no one can go more than 2 days without sleep lol also a lot of teenagers die from eating junk food. It's up to you to control how much.
For the love of god can please get a "Where are they now?" video?
Playing Shadowlands and in debt.
maybe they work at blizzard
@@onalson4610 haha
@@onalson4610 as janitors u mean?
They moved on to Raid Shadow Legends KEKW
played it on Christmas 2005. Was the best holiday i ever had , wasted my sleep rhythm till today . worth it. xD I loved to play it and its stuck in my head till the day i die .
same man. its just memorable times , when i didnt care about job, future, family.... just playing nonstop WoW. :D having fun crafting, exploring, leveling, ....
wow that element BAM shirt is iconic and nostalgic. i have the same one from when I was a kid somewhere. It is definitely to small for me now
Amazing documentary and important for history. It's really interesting because it's made at the very beginning when the game was only some months old.
this is profoundly high level content for 2006 youtube. there are people scraping insane amounts of dollars in 2021 youtube and they're just using a bad webcams as they mouse through games for donations
Back when gamers were heavily judged for just being gamers so they deliberately skewed their playtime numbers. I was one of them. Infact I would say I was away with work and then get up at 6am Saturday morning and game all day until about 1am the next morning. Had the time of my fucking life, playing alts, raiding, pvp-ing, trance blaring, eating crap food and drinking soda. Epic.
@Insignificant Speck Of Dust Yeah, don't let other people determine your happiness. that just ruin your life.
im about to start doing that now. minus the junk food
Best time in life. No worries.. just play eat junk and repeat
@@Radoseizov im doing it
Amazing. Takes me right back to my first moments in WoW. Can’t describe how I felt.
🥺 Ностальгия убивает. Хочется вернуться туда и пережить это заново. Но это невозможно, как и испытывать такого удовольствия от игры, как раньше.
x2 mi primera esposa me dejo por eso xddd valió cada maldito segundo
See this passion, never happened again post lich king. The game from vanilla to lichking is now a legend. Glad I was part of it. Because the remasters are nothing like back then. I tried WoW classic, people are rushing dungeons to get to lvl 60 imediatly and then rush the content. It will never be like before. Nostalgia guys. Best game ever.
Agreed ^
Woltk is where it started to become shit, people just didn't realize it back then because a lot of players of today started there, but for the players who came in vanilla and TBC we saw the tools that would be used to ruin the game like the game shop, gearscore, overly minmaxing garbage raids and the death of server communities.
But back in Woltk is wasn't as advanced so people didn't realize it. I personally was there for vanilla, TBC Woltk and further, and I do not miss Woltk, because outside of the questing zones it wasn't as good of an expansion as people claim it to be, at least for an MMORPG. Vanilla and TBC are better if you care about the social aspect of this game.
Also a lot of wasted potential for WOLTK, especially when you see what they tried to experiment with in the beta, study the warcraft universe and lore of what it was back then, and what it could have been. Insanely disappointing and unbalanced PvP, more unbalanced than TBC even. Dumbasses who asked you to have more gear than what the raid had to offer and the achievement to do the fucking normal 10 raid of LK. It was just a bad expansion if you didn't have a good guild or good friends, and people will see once we get WOLTK classic.
There's redeeming qualities to it, like some raids and the beautiful and gorgerous questing zones and dungeons (at least in the beginning of it where it wasn't a rush fiesta for heroics), but overall I'd pick classic or TBC over WOLTK anyday.
@@Carpatouille yes, but for the story woltk was still very nice to play. And even if the garbage started (pretty much all of it, including group finder, alt gear that rank up with levels, etc.) That garbage was new so it was fine for at least one single expension. The game just went full "let's milk those players and continue to make the same ridiculous system over and over again with every expension from now on...."
I stayed since wotlk, played here and there leaving for months many times. Now it is the first expension I didn't buy. And I am not even looking at it. For me it is really the end of wow.
Still the very best game I ever played. And for some reason I kind of miss mist of pandaria eventho I actually didn't really liked it when I was playing it, there is something to it that I can't find in the other expensions. The gameplay was better and I felt deffenetly "home" in those maps. So for real for me it is: classic and TBC equally best time for the game and then mop for the atmosphere but definitely not for the system which was just ruined already.
@@cdave2006 Same, I bought every expansion but Shadowlands. I really tried to believe until the end, but it's hopeless. I just play TBC and even there they managed to ruin it with cosmetic garbage and lvl 58 boosts...
Damn I miss those days, being able to sink countless hours with my boys playing vanilla. We tried to get it going again with classic, but we're now all adults with actual responsibilities so it didn't work out. I wonder what all the people in the video are up to now, 15 years later.
I was thinking the same thing, we should get an update!
Probably serving burgers at mcdonalds... Would you like fries with that sir.
@@techguy9062 Nah im a Senior QA still playing wow, enjoy playing it with friends.
@@techguy9062 There are chicks serving burgers 10 times hotter than your ugly gf :D
I started playing with my husband during Pandaria. He then got a job out of state & playing WOW together with video was something we were able to continue. We play intermittently, sometimes together & sometimes alone. I'm glad they finally got flying unicorn mounts. :-) Hubby is back home thanks to Covid remote work. Yeah! -- But we have a nephew who played (before we did) during college & it was seriously affecting his academics. He finally went cold turkey & hasn't played again. He got his computer science degree & is doing fine. We can talk about the game lore. Though he doesn't play anymore, he knows more of the lore & characters than us from his playing so many years ago.
We need an update if these people are still playing today lol...
I was thinking the same. This video is a time capsule, but would be interesting to see what they're up to now ;)
Fucking legendary. I was there, 9000 thousand years ago, Gandalf. I was there, in 2006, creating my own videos on TH-cam. Damn time flies.
OG
TH-cam algorithm brought us all together again, fellas! I miss old WoW, maaan
Joined WOW Feb 2005. Three months after launch. It was new and fresh and absorbed everyone's life.
When I was 14 we had a class discussion how much time we spend at the computer. Being the nerd I was I said 5h. The teacher instantly asked ”on the weekend right??” I realised my mistake because I meant daily. I changed my answer and agreed lol
pretty g00d
Rofl
We had this too and i said about 10 11 hours it depends when i wake up cus at 10 pm i gotta close the pc so anyway
I said about 10 or 11 and the teacher said including school?....before no....now yes
@@doott.t6706 That is so perfect. Wish those days were still current life. Exploring the games while having no obligations :)
Wow, when I was 14 there was no internet for another 4 years haha.
2004: Played 12 hrs a day
2010: Filed unemployment and broke
2020: Graduated from UC Berkley
2021: Built PC battle station to play WoW classic
That's an elaborate relapse!
2023: Filed unemployment and broke
@@Lastninjaxoxoxoxox not really 20204: Snr.Associate in Silicon Valley Company
Nah, for retail 2024.
'Adam has quit playing WoW due to the monthly fee.'
Damn, bro.
Relatable
Casual
McDonald's doesn't pay a lot, I'm afraid. I hope he got a real job and could afford that monthly fee, since then.