UPDATE: I'm super excited for the classic servers that Blizard announced at blizzcon. I WILL be playing the fuck out of it when it comes out, making a guild, PvPing, raiding, you name it, I'm going to do it AND STREAM IT! Follow me at twitch.tv/glinklive when its time, and come hang out, even join the guild that I make!
Glink lol sound like my son. He ended up hijacking the game and now he is the gaming master lol. Still love the game and it is how I judge other mmorpgs
i was playing on elysium and i was at the level 30 warrior quest place for the whirlwind axe, and there was a human warrior there (im tauren) and he was doing a bunch of gestures to talk and i found out he didnt know where to get the charms so i told him to follow and we bagan to run to arathi highlands, telling horde not to kill him. of course they didnt listen lol we waited at each others corpses when 1 of us got ganked. i ended up taking him to 1 of the elementals and doing /point at it, he thanked me and typed in common in a way i could understand on my char "mi luv u" lol man good times.
This video almost made me shed a tear. WoW has been such a huge thing in my life since i started playing back in vanilla when i was only 8 years old. I don't remeber much from my childhood but I remember almost every instance me and my brother did, all the long escort quests and watching the fantastic Tbc trailer on TV, which made me and my brother jump with excitement. Me and my brother can thanks to Elysium experience the game that was such a huge impact on our lifes, and in my opinion, the best version of WoW ever
same brother :( I remember being 11 years old kid, full of excitment when cousin was showing me what kind of characters you can play... Was so nostlagic, full of excitment.. Wish we had a time travel
Same stuff here started at 10 with the big bro and some of my class mate til I got 15 and stopped the game in the first year of wotlk I was thinking playing again on vanilla but hell nah
@@spicypineapple2778 Truly I just want the people who I played with all back in one group. The login makes me think of those guys. Sorry, I guess, to the people baffled I might have different emotional memories than they do.
That intro was golden. Just want to let you know that. EDIT: That outro almost brought tears to my eyes. That's pretty pathetic of me imo, but just WONDERFUL job there too.
I recently went back to play Burning Crusade on a private server to really test if it was just me looking on the past in rose tinted glasses or not. The last time I properly played WoW was maybe 2 or 3 years ago and I can say for sure that I enjoyed Burning Crusade after going back to it a lot more than the more modern WoW experience. For me, it's mostly just that leveling is slow and more difficult. I feel like I need to be careful when I plant out who I will attack, how I will draw them out, and what I'll do if more enemies than I expect get caught in the fight. I really enjoy that and I don't feel like I had to be nearly as careful when I played the more up to date WoW.
That's the main reason I don't bother with private servers. I was starting to get addicted to Nost shortly before it got taken down, so I didn't make it far. But learning the fickle nature of private servers really hurt my interest in the 60 scene. If Blizzard did release Legacy servers then I would probably no life both of them pretty hard.
Great video! I remember first time booting up the game, back when I was 10 or 11, and seeing that amazing cinematic intro, that the game had. It still gives me goosebumps. Tried getting back to the game last summer, but it just didn't feel the same. Like you said, the community was gone. It makes me a bit sad, that we won't be able to experience the things that made vanilla WoW special, again. Oh well, I guess we'll always have the memories.
I really wanted some WoW nostalgia, and when you said you were 10 or 11 in 2006, it really made me feel included in this. I was born in 96' and im glad i came across a video of someone with a similar gaming history.
Vanilla WoW was an enriching experience, WotLK was the peak. I'm ever grateful for having experienced the old times, yet forever sad that those times could not last forever.
I used to have a lvl 29 dwarf paladin i used for pvp only. I was one of the only people who i knew at that time to max out multiple skills like alchemy, mining, crafting etc. because it gave you traits and every little bit helped. So one day i found myself looking for silver veins in this cave to increase my mining skill and came across this player "??" troll shaman inside the cave just as i was entering the cave. I tried to turn around and run away but he fired a shot at my back but it barely hurt me. From playing many levels of pvp with that character I knew I could heal my character full health at least 3 times plus I had potions, charms, plus top end gear for that level. I turned around, emoted a wave at him, drank a strength potion and then started running at him with my giant two handed hammer as he started backing up. I stunned him with one of my many stunlocks and proceeded to kill his character. I wish i could have known what he was saying at that point because it was one of the best times i ever had on that game. No doubt he could see my level and assumed i would be an easy fight but oh man was he surprised when i hit him first swing and took half his health.
Your story about how you got into WoW is pretty much identical to mine - My brother got WoW from our parents when Wrath came out (So around 2010) and I watched him play it a lot. Eventually my brother stopped playing shortly after and I took over and played it a lot for the next 5 years. I quit when Warlords came out, as I was pretty drained at that point. Was quite young when I started playing WoW to, I was only 11 back in 2010. I remember so many fond memories from back in Wrath, I remember boarding a boat as a level 15 human warrior for Northrend after I got the expansion because I was so excited to see the new area, only to be killed very quickly. I remember crossing the Dark Portal as a low level, yet again to excited to wait after I got the BC expansion pack, traveling the desolate areas of Hellfire Pennisula avoiding the giant Fel Reaver. (This was all still when Wrath was current). That feeling of exploration resonated with me and helped me form very fond memories in WoW and reinforce my love for gaming. WoW was essentially my gateway drug to the gaming world. I even gave Elysium a try since I never got to experience true Vanilla WoW content. I can safely say that my experience in Elysium, while it was hard grinding, was very fun and enjoyable. I got to actually socialize with people that I otherwise would have ignored. I cherished moments when I formed a party to take down elite quests in various zones and doing dungeons. You are right - Vanilla was all about the journey to 60 and not the destination.
Old vid but new comment. 1: Classic is a thing now, yay! And I remember fondly my first time experiencing WoW. I came from using my parents laptop to play Runescape in 2007. My parents just divorced and my Dad felt really bad so he took me & my brother to get a new video game. He was expecting I'd pick a console game but runescape peaked my interest in computer titles and I heard a lot of older kids in the store talking about WoW. It was down to its last copy. My Dad got it for me & I got home, installed it (took HOURS back then plus multiple CDs) then finally tried to play, only to learn I needed to purchase a subscription. Which i didn't get till a week later.... Me and my brother were kids so we didn't work. Had to share an account to reduce expenses so we could only take turns playing. My first character was a night elf warrior that was inspired by Link from Zelda as well! I had no concept of tank dps or healer so I just used a sword and shield and dumped talents into arms hahahaha. As someone that age & in classic back then, the farthest I got was ashenvale & doing blackfathom deeps with likeminded players. I met a nelf warrior who was lvl 60, helped me do heaps of content and gave me lots of green items including boots with a speed enchant. Which made my entire week. WoW used to be something seriously special.
The video might be unavailable on some devices due to the music copyright claims. Hopefully this isn't preventing TOOO many people from being able to watch. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Very good video! I hope someone from the Blizzard team sees it and UNDERSTANDS what their players actually want! The journey, that's where it's about! My first character was a Night elf Hunter. Doing quests and enjoying my time walking around the map just to realize one day, THATS ONE BIG TREE. Then continue playing in Darkshore and EXPLORE. The bottom line is, our lives develop, we get more responsibilities and things change. But going back to WoW in those starting zones and relive your younger self? That got no price :) Enjoy the journey folks!
lol are you me? Been cruising through a bunch of your videos but this one actually made me comment. I started playing WoW again on a private server last year (Feenix). I've definitely stopped forever now but completely agree that playing Vanilla WoW is like a straight up time machine to 2006. You seem like a chill, well spoken dude that reminds me of some of my friends. Keep it up ~
I was basically you. I watched my cousin play Wow when I was around 8 years old. Whenever I visited him I would watch him play Wow. I did try to play it a couple of times, but keyboard + mouse was too complicated for me back then.
Watched this now, couldn’t agree more with the fact about that “items are important yes, but the journey was much more satisfying.” I’d rather level all the way from 1-60 than grind to get an epic item. And that’s what I did honestly, had some MC epics back then, but after a while it’s just gear, I forgot I even had them at some point 😅 Good video my man!
really well articulated. Going back to this old game is so far removed from modern wow that the two games don't even feel the same anymore. I thought in the beginning that part of what I wanted out of classic wow as just nostalgia, but after giving it a go again I realized how much more I enjoy the world, lvling, and community. All things I took for granted long ago.
I started wow in 2010, was 4 years old when vanilla came out. Its funny that in 2016 i got heavily into vanilla, completed it multiple times and i can say its my favourite version.
Started playing 2005 when I was 13, I had just finished the War of The Ancients trilogy and had just learned about role play. First character I made was a female Night Elf Rogue called Keamoonring, because I didn't know you can only have 1 capital letter in the name lmao.
im watching thru this 6 years later and that exact night elf build, both cosmetically AND class, is what was my first and current played character! that was a cool thing that stood out to me. That trek to SW was no joke
bro no way that journey from the night elf starting place to stormind brought so many memories of taking that journey many times with friends.. a real adventure of epic proportions. this has to be the best game ever created and I haven't played since wrath of the Lich King!
After few year I re-watch this video, when I first saw I will never hope that blizzard bring back vanilla... And tomorrow is the big day.. I rally can't wait to re do the wetland run and the shadow fang keep run.. I really miss this experience (andventure, know new friends and mess up with the other faction)..
I remember coming off of EverQuest and my mom and her friend had World of Warcraft downloaded in 2004 or 2005 so they could try it out.. Incredibly early version of the game. When my mom went to bed, I hopped on her computer and played from 9pm til the sun came up 5am. My first character was a Tauren Druid. It was such an immersive experience that Mulgore is still a home away from home to me. My favorite zone to just be in.
This is like exactly how I got into WOW. Brother came home from the military and he showed me this and used to watch him play, I basically skipped that entire 7th grade summer playing this game. Awesome video man🤙🏻
4:25 one of my first memories of WoW is a group of level 40 sumn's running me from teldrassil to ironforge back when i knew absolutely nothing. They didn't even let me pay them, must've wasted hours helping my mountless ass out. I forgot their handles, but i'll never forget that trek with them. Stupid fkn crocs
half a year I played in WOW was pretty much TOP-10 things I experienced in life... I remember emotions from music, item, road... when I saw this GIANT maps and trees and new creatures... I was overwhelmed. So sad this can't be repeated. It was pretty much best gaming experience. First trial was vanilla, second serious was WOTLK - end game, 10 and 25 man raids... aw.. being tank - it was awesome.
STV PvP was so much fun. One of the main reasons my small PvP guild stayed together until we all quit in MoP. Those experiences created bonds I never thought could exist online. I still talk to a number of those people years later.
This game was my life and many others back in the day. The difficulty only made it more fun. With wow dying off and new games gunning for its glorious crown I think I can say this for most, WoW gave us memories to cherish and an experience of our lifetime. I will miss all the open world raids on the blood elves, all the raids, dungeons, farming and friends gained and lost along the way. I am proud to have plaid in the glory days and if I could go back I would do it in a heartbeat. I hope It lives on not just in our memories but through our stories and tales of each and every one of us. To all the players who understand, unite the banners and let's toast! For the horde~
A big part of it for me was that your realm was your community. I rolled a Tauren Warrior because I loved how I looked when I wore a full Hulking set (level 18 gear from what I remember) with a pink T-shirt and wore it well into my late level 30's, early 40's. I spent a good portion of my morning chatting /dancing with people in Orgrimmar and a lot of people, often people in different time zones who were about to turn in for the night, recognised me as they came into the city to sell their junk and hand in quests. They would often tell me about their day and ask why I was spending so much time talking instead of leveling! Needless to say I didn't have a great understanding of how stats effected my character or how to be better at the game haha! But I did run a really fun social guild. Good times. By the way, I love your videos! I was the older brother in your story. He thought it was a stupid game at first but I offered to share my account provided he paid half the subscription - he still plays oj and off to this day. 😂
Glink might be the most awesome and unique youtuber... In a site that's populated by unoriginal fakes, Glink is a breath of fresh air. What i wanted to say was, good job on finding a style of videos, that are interesting and ingaging. Keep up the good work! :)
Such an amazing video. All you said was completely true and the video also really showed how hard but rewarding this game was. People really had to work to achieve things, but this made it so much more fun. I have really made some friends on this server because of the social interaction. Keep up the good work!
When I first played WoW, all those many years ago, I never did find a good website for quests, or a guide, or any of the tools that gamers now take for granted. When I started my Night Elf Druid, I had absolutely no preconceived notions about the world. It was basically like playing Riven for me, where every new discovery felt like unlocking the secrets of the universe. I never moved past that mode. All the way through Wrath, I chose to always rawdog it. No guides, no videos, no Wikis, just my characters facing the world totally blind. It didn't make me a great leveler or raider, and I died a lot bashing my head against things I mechanically couldn't defeat. My build was never optimized, my raids and dungeons were played blind, and I never had any idea what loot any mob or boss was going to drop. And yet, my hand to God, there was no other gaming experience like it. It was glorious awestruck adventure at every turn. I would literally give a finger to live that experience again.
Glink! Nice video man, you nailed every aspect including your original play routine. I also sat next to my brother and watched him play, and could only play when he was out or asleep.
What a nice video!!! And i agree those things make Vanilla a lot more fun to play. But also the fact that you even get to know your opponents on PvP servers i find really fun. Some of them you have lvled and battled with for the mobs, since early lvls :) Good job m8 :)
8:12 exactly what im saying for years and people won't understand. It blows my mind that how people want to interact with Ai more than human players.... people always ask for skins etc never question server meshing or player capacity per server or interacting with them. In fact they want less real players around so they can farm and get some stuff.
this video had me in tears. i have been clean for about 7 years now... but if they do come out with i would love to join you and your guild in its adventures.
I don't enjoy the game that much anymore but I remember the first time discovering the zeppelin outside Undercity and I couldn't believe it, and the fact that it wasn't just for show but you could actually use it to travel. This game was amazing if you already played the previous games
I've played on pirate servers there were 3k-4k people and even 10k player in the queues these days was nostalgic and beautiful so many fun so many friends
Those really were magical times. I feel bad for all of those people who never got to experience the first three years of WOW. I got the game Christmas 2004 after being the biggest Warcraft and fantasy fan. The moment after waiting like 2 hours for the game to install with all those darn disks lol, and seeing that legendary launch screen, wow. I had never played a multiplayer game like that before so I intended to play the game alone as much as I could and if I was going to talk to someone, I would do it in character on the RP server of Feathermoon. I made a human character (who was the progenitor of my long term main character) and an Orc character who I specifically made as a "peace-loving" orc where I would go around helping Alliance characters struggling with two or more enemies lol. I met my very first friend with that Orc. That person's character was also an Orc named Multifire. I don't even remember how we became friends lol. I just remember taking the air ship from Orgrimmar to the Undercity (both of us were in character). I remember how we both explored Undercity and were horrified what the Forsaken were doing and hated them from that point on haha. I decided to start playing my human character and remember the first time I got to Stormwind and was just amazed by how huge it was. I'll never forget wandering the streets and seeing another human character walking by named Multifire and being like HEY! And telling him who I was haha. He deleted his orc and made a human after I took a break from my orc character because he wanted to be Alliance instead. Man, those early days were just incredible. I have so many memories, from my first guild, to meeting my character's first girlfriend (Her name was Rinnala) to meeting my very own first girlfriend on that game, to making friends with someone there who became a friend long after I stopped playing, to that very first Warsong Gulch experience when it first came out. Oh the memories...
Your story is quite similar to mine, I was 12. My father recently became divorced from his wife. His buddies at work convinced him to pick WoW up. (just released). I would make fun of him calling him a nerd. He said, how about you try it out first. Good times, 56k modem, playing on an Emachine with one gigabyte of ram. Eventually upgraded to two gigs.
This video sums it up perfectly. Wow was a world, not a single player game. Compare the questhelper to old school "where is manriks wife". Stuff was actualy closed. Not everything had a function. Loved everyone second of it.
Love me some nostalgia. Play period: (2005-2014). 2005-2008 was the best time for me. NE druid vanilla & BE mage/Tauren druid TBC... I met people from all over the World. We shared so many moments, out in that beautiful open space! We shared our dreams, our music, and stories late into that gentle night. Wow was buissy 24/7. Always someone to meet, and something to do. Everything after TBC didnt sit right with me. The LFG tool and flying (in many ways) , made the old World less important. I will miss and cherish the time i had, cause it will not come again. Old Music playlists always take me back, to those beautiful moments & People. 😉 Vanilla/TBC: 💙 IN MEMORY STILL BRIGHT💙
Played it when it came out, was 18 back then. I actually didn't have a good time the first year(s) or so. Still I've kept coming back for short bursts at a time.
My favorite time in wow running around stupidly with no clue was BC, favorite time bonding with friends which I still talk to this day was WOTLK, favorite time PVPing was CATA because I was ranked in the top 1% in the world. But my friends got married and we all had to work constantly to support living and I slowly drifted away from wow. The community fell apart when people so many people started to troll, do not get me wrong there were always trolls but it got out of hand. You no longer have to go up to random people and say hey want to do this dungeon. I made so many friends that way but now I just click a button wait a few minutes and boom in the instance and everyone does not speak... we used each other as tools to get something, never as people reaching their hand out to help.
I've played so many different MMOs, they all came and went but the one MMO i always came back to and the only one that survived longer than all the others, was world of warcraft. I've played that bloody game for 6 years and i have 0 regrets
Just watched your video That’s crazy but the beginning of your video was exactly what I went through I could litteraly watch my cousins play the game for hours and it was like I was playing the game
WoW was one of the first games I’ve played. It really kicked of my addiction. I was like 7 or something I don’t remember much. But it was amazing. The ending really the definition of “feels good man” I just want to say thanks.
UPDATE: I'm super excited for the classic servers that Blizard announced at blizzcon. I WILL be playing the fuck out of it when it comes out, making a guild, PvPing, raiding, you name it, I'm going to do it AND STREAM IT! Follow me at twitch.tv/glinklive when its time, and come hang out, even join the guild that I make!
I will be, Josh from NY.
See you in STV
Can I join? Can it be called Glinkers?
Wish I could join, but me and my dad are gonna run up the old guild #VanillaHellscream
Glink lol sound like my son. He ended up hijacking the game and now he is the gaming master lol. Still love the game and it is how I judge other mmorpgs
i was playing on elysium and i was at the level 30 warrior quest place for the whirlwind axe, and there was a human warrior there (im tauren) and he was doing a bunch of gestures to talk and i found out he didnt know where to get the charms so i told him to follow and we bagan to run to arathi highlands, telling horde not to kill him. of course they didnt listen lol we waited at each others corpses when 1 of us got ganked. i ended up taking him to 1 of the elementals and doing /point at it, he thanked me and typed in common in a way i could understand on my char "mi luv u" lol man good times.
this is the stuff I love about vanilla wow.
lol
Better love story than twillight!
Grïsu goddamn just reading that gave me a warm happy feeling. That's awesome.
Nice - A bit gay. But still nice.
"vanilla isn't about the destination, its about the journey" the exact reason why I play vanilla. Amazing video
This video almost made me shed a tear. WoW has been such a huge thing in my life since i started playing back in vanilla when i was only 8 years old. I don't remeber much from my childhood but I remember almost every instance me and my brother did, all the long escort quests and watching the fantastic Tbc trailer on TV, which made me and my brother jump with excitement. Me and my brother can thanks to Elysium experience the game that was such a huge impact on our lifes, and in my opinion, the best version of WoW ever
same brother :( I remember being 11 years old kid, full of excitment when cousin was showing me what kind of characters you can play... Was so nostlagic, full of excitment.. Wish we had a time travel
Same stuff here started at 10 with the big bro and some of my class mate til I got 15 and stopped the game in the first year of wotlk I was thinking playing again on vanilla but hell nah
Its strange when a 10 year old login screen makes me feel more emotion than the last 5 years of my life.
Truly strange
While I understand your sentiment, this is definitely a “get tf out and touch grass” comment. Like dude…come on.
@@spicypineapple2778 Truly I just want the people who I played with all back in one group. The login makes me think of those guys. Sorry, I guess, to the people baffled I might have different emotional memories than they do.
That intro was golden. Just want to let you know that.
EDIT: That outro almost brought tears to my eyes. That's pretty pathetic of me imo, but just WONDERFUL job there too.
Would you be interested in videos like this on other popular games? (Zelda, mario, kirby, etc)
You should do a nostalgia piece on the Pokemon craze that happened in the 90s! I remember even Televangelists would talk about it was satanicXD
if you played ragnarok online, please do a review thanks
i would love that, man this video brought alot of memories back, good warm fuzzy memories, did you ever play jack 3 on ps2?
I recently went back to play Burning Crusade on a private server to really test if it was just me looking on the past in rose tinted glasses or not. The last time I properly played WoW was maybe 2 or 3 years ago and I can say for sure that I enjoyed Burning Crusade after going back to it a lot more than the more modern WoW experience.
For me, it's mostly just that leveling is slow and more difficult. I feel like I need to be careful when I plant out who I will attack, how I will draw them out, and what I'll do if more enemies than I expect get caught in the fight. I really enjoy that and I don't feel like I had to be nearly as careful when I played the more up to date WoW.
This video brought a huge smile to my face. So many memories. Can't believe WoW is going to be 19 years old in November!
That's the main reason I don't bother with private servers. I was starting to get addicted to Nost shortly before it got taken down, so I didn't make it far. But learning the fickle nature of private servers really hurt my interest in the 60 scene. If Blizzard did release Legacy servers then I would probably no life both of them pretty hard.
Warmane (Molten) had all their data lost once lol gg
Great video! Love your stuff!
hey orcbit!
Great video! I remember first time booting up the game, back when I was 10 or 11, and seeing that amazing cinematic intro, that the game had. It still gives me goosebumps. Tried getting back to the game last summer, but it just didn't feel the same. Like you said, the community was gone. It makes me a bit sad, that we won't be able to experience the things that made vanilla WoW special, again. Oh well, I guess we'll always have the memories.
I really wanted some WoW nostalgia, and when you said you were 10 or 11 in 2006, it really made me feel included in this. I was born in 96' and im glad i came across a video of someone with a similar gaming history.
Same bro.
Vanilla WoW was an enriching experience, WotLK was the peak. I'm ever grateful for having experienced the old times, yet forever sad that those times could not last forever.
This aged beautifully. Classic was just simply magical for all the reasons you listed.
great video man, i hope it gets more exposure as it would help newer players understand what is so good about vanilla
I'm starting WoW for the first time today. Looks great, wish me luck
LOL a time machine, You predicted the blizzard classic server. Well done!
I used to have a lvl 29 dwarf paladin i used for pvp only. I was one of the only people who i knew at that time to max out multiple skills like alchemy, mining, crafting etc. because it gave you traits and every little bit helped. So one day i found myself looking for silver veins in this cave to increase my mining skill and came across this player "??" troll shaman inside the cave just as i was entering the cave. I tried to turn around and run away but he fired a shot at my back but it barely hurt me. From playing many levels of pvp with that character I knew I could heal my character full health at least 3 times plus I had potions, charms, plus top end gear for that level. I turned around, emoted a wave at him, drank a strength potion and then started running at him with my giant two handed hammer as he started backing up. I stunned him with one of my many stunlocks and proceeded to kill his character. I wish i could have known what he was saying at that point because it was one of the best times i ever had on that game. No doubt he could see my level and assumed i would be an easy fight but oh man was he surprised when i hit him first swing and took half his health.
Your story about how you got into WoW is pretty much identical to mine - My brother got WoW from our parents when Wrath came out (So around 2010) and I watched him play it a lot. Eventually my brother stopped playing shortly after and I took over and played it a lot for the next 5 years. I quit when Warlords came out, as I was pretty drained at that point. Was quite young when I started playing WoW to, I was only 11 back in 2010.
I remember so many fond memories from back in Wrath, I remember boarding a boat as a level 15 human warrior for Northrend after I got the expansion because I was so excited to see the new area, only to be killed very quickly. I remember crossing the Dark Portal as a low level, yet again to excited to wait after I got the BC expansion pack, traveling the desolate areas of Hellfire Pennisula avoiding the giant Fel Reaver. (This was all still when Wrath was current). That feeling of exploration resonated with me and helped me form very fond memories in WoW and reinforce my love for gaming. WoW was essentially my gateway drug to the gaming world.
I even gave Elysium a try since I never got to experience true Vanilla WoW content. I can safely say that my experience in Elysium, while it was hard grinding, was very fun and enjoyable. I got to actually socialize with people that I otherwise would have ignored. I cherished moments when I formed a party to take down elite quests in various zones and doing dungeons. You are right - Vanilla was all about the journey to 60 and not the destination.
Old vid but new comment.
1: Classic is a thing now, yay!
And I remember fondly my first time experiencing WoW. I came from using my parents laptop to play Runescape in 2007. My parents just divorced and my Dad felt really bad so he took me & my brother to get a new video game. He was expecting I'd pick a console game but runescape peaked my interest in computer titles and I heard a lot of older kids in the store talking about WoW. It was down to its last copy. My Dad got it for me & I got home, installed it (took HOURS back then plus multiple CDs) then finally tried to play, only to learn I needed to purchase a subscription. Which i didn't get till a week later....
Me and my brother were kids so we didn't work. Had to share an account to reduce expenses so we could only take turns playing. My first character was a night elf warrior that was inspired by Link from Zelda as well!
I had no concept of tank dps or healer so I just used a sword and shield and dumped talents into arms hahahaha.
As someone that age & in classic back then, the farthest I got was ashenvale & doing blackfathom deeps with likeminded players.
I met a nelf warrior who was lvl 60, helped me do heaps of content and gave me lots of green items including boots with a speed enchant. Which made my entire week.
WoW used to be something seriously special.
The video might be unavailable on some devices due to the music copyright claims. Hopefully this isn't preventing TOOO many people from being able to watch. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Very good video! I hope someone from the Blizzard team sees it and UNDERSTANDS what their players actually want! The journey, that's where it's about! My first character was a Night elf Hunter. Doing quests and enjoying my time walking around the map just to realize one day, THATS ONE BIG TREE. Then continue playing in Darkshore and EXPLORE. The bottom line is, our lives develop, we get more responsibilities and things change. But going back to WoW in those starting zones and relive your younger self? That got no price :) Enjoy the journey folks!
lol are you me? Been cruising through a bunch of your videos but this one actually made me comment. I started playing WoW again on a private server last year (Feenix). I've definitely stopped forever now but completely agree that playing Vanilla WoW is like a straight up time machine to 2006. You seem like a chill, well spoken dude that reminds me of some of my friends. Keep it up ~
Very sad to see retail WoW end and slowly disintegrate into nothingness :( rip the glory days of WoW
2:06 The Un'goro cave and Ironforge during Christmas warm my heart.
I made more friends in wow than i did in real life :/
Thanks for the video, brought back many memories from my teens!
Hope we see legacy servers soon, would be fun to play casually this time around!
Great video man.. Noone is like this guy
watched this twice in a row! FANTASTIC VIDEO! I CRIED! BRING IT BACK! PLEASE GOD!
I was basically you. I watched my cousin play Wow when I was around 8 years old. Whenever I visited him I would watch him play Wow. I did try to play it a couple of times, but keyboard + mouse was too complicated for me back then.
Im glad to hear someone with the same feeling/passion as me, Nice video keep it up!
That emotional ending...
capped off by the zoom out reveal of a shrek meme
Killing boars in Elwynn Forest is more fun than doing Mythic Nighthold
Watched this now, couldn’t agree more with the fact about that “items are important yes, but the journey was much more satisfying.” I’d rather level all the way from 1-60 than grind to get an epic item. And that’s what I did honestly, had some MC epics back then, but after a while it’s just gear, I forgot I even had them at some point 😅
Good video my man!
really well articulated. Going back to this old game is so far removed from modern wow that the two games don't even feel the same anymore. I thought in the beginning that part of what I wanted out of classic wow as just nostalgia, but after giving it a go again I realized how much more I enjoy the world, lvling, and community. All things I took for granted long ago.
I started wow in 2010, was 4 years old when vanilla came out. Its funny that in 2016 i got heavily into vanilla, completed it multiple times and i can say its my favourite version.
Started playing 2005 when I was 13, I had just finished the War of The Ancients trilogy and had just learned about role play. First character I made was a female Night Elf Rogue called Keamoonring, because I didn't know you can only have 1 capital letter in the name lmao.
im watching thru this 6 years later and that exact night elf build, both cosmetically AND class, is what was my first and current played character! that was a cool thing that stood out to me. That trek to SW was no joke
Great video man, sums it up really well. WoW is truly one of those things you can't fully understand unless you actually experienced it.
bro no way that journey from the night elf starting place to stormind brought so many memories of taking that journey many times with friends.. a real adventure of epic proportions. this has to be the best game ever created and I haven't played since wrath of the Lich King!
love it :D
After few year I re-watch this video, when I first saw I will never hope that blizzard bring back vanilla... And tomorrow is the big day.. I rally can't wait to re do the wetland run and the shadow fang keep run.. I really miss this experience (andventure, know new friends and mess up with the other faction)..
I want my childhood back
This video is so well done! Makes me even more excited for vanilla servers to finally come out!
I remember coming off of EverQuest and my mom and her friend had World of Warcraft downloaded in 2004 or 2005 so they could try it out.. Incredibly early version of the game.
When my mom went to bed, I hopped on her computer and played from 9pm til the sun came up 5am. My first character was a Tauren Druid. It was such an immersive experience that Mulgore is still a home away from home to me. My favorite zone to just be in.
This is like exactly how I got into WOW. Brother came home from the military and he showed me this and used to watch him play, I basically skipped that entire 7th grade summer playing this game. Awesome video man🤙🏻
4:25 one of my first memories of WoW is a group of level 40 sumn's running me from teldrassil to ironforge back when i knew absolutely nothing. They didn't even let me pay them, must've wasted hours helping my mountless ass out.
I forgot their handles, but i'll never forget that trek with them.
Stupid fkn crocs
half a year I played in WOW was pretty much TOP-10 things I experienced in life... I remember emotions from music, item, road... when I saw this GIANT maps and trees and new creatures... I was overwhelmed. So sad this can't be repeated. It was pretty much best gaming experience. First trial was vanilla, second serious was WOTLK - end game, 10 and 25 man raids... aw.. being tank - it was awesome.
STV PvP was so much fun. One of the main reasons my small PvP guild stayed together until we all quit in MoP. Those experiences created bonds I never thought could exist online. I still talk to a number of those people years later.
2021 and I just came across this video. Hearing the WoW music alone brought back so many memories. Vanilla was definitely something special.
This game was my life and many others back in the day. The difficulty only made it more fun. With wow dying off and new games gunning for its glorious crown I think I can say this for most, WoW gave us memories to cherish and an experience of our lifetime. I will miss all the open world raids on the blood elves, all the raids, dungeons, farming and friends gained and lost along the way. I am proud to have plaid in the glory days and if I could go back I would do it in a heartbeat. I hope It lives on not just in our memories but through our stories and tales of each and every one of us. To all the players who understand, unite the banners and let's toast! For the horde~
❤❤❤. Wow was my life. Absent friends and adventures in memory still bright.
Glink knows what's up Alliance for life
A big part of it for me was that your realm was your community.
I rolled a Tauren Warrior because I loved how I looked when I wore a full Hulking set (level 18 gear from what I remember) with a pink T-shirt and wore it well into my late level 30's, early 40's. I spent a good portion of my morning chatting /dancing with people in Orgrimmar and a lot of people, often people in different time zones who were about to turn in for the night, recognised me as they came into the city to sell their junk and hand in quests. They would often tell me about their day and ask why I was spending so much time talking instead of leveling! Needless to say I didn't have a great understanding of how stats effected my character or how to be better at the game haha! But I did run a really fun social guild.
Good times. By the way, I love your videos! I was the older brother in your story. He thought it was a stupid game at first but I offered to share my account provided he paid half the subscription - he still plays oj and off to this day. 😂
Glink might be the most awesome and unique youtuber... In a site that's populated by unoriginal fakes, Glink is a breath of fresh air. What i wanted to say was, good job on finding a style of videos, that are interesting and ingaging. Keep up the good work! :)
Such an amazing video. All you said was completely true and the video also really showed how hard but rewarding this game was. People really had to work to achieve things, but this made it so much more fun. I have really made some friends on this server because of the social interaction. Keep up the good work!
When I first played WoW, all those many years ago, I never did find a good website for quests, or a guide, or any of the tools that gamers now take for granted. When I started my Night Elf Druid, I had absolutely no preconceived notions about the world. It was basically like playing Riven for me, where every new discovery felt like unlocking the secrets of the universe. I never moved past that mode. All the way through Wrath, I chose to always rawdog it. No guides, no videos, no Wikis, just my characters facing the world totally blind.
It didn't make me a great leveler or raider, and I died a lot bashing my head against things I mechanically couldn't defeat. My build was never optimized, my raids and dungeons were played blind, and I never had any idea what loot any mob or boss was going to drop. And yet, my hand to God, there was no other gaming experience like it. It was glorious awestruck adventure at every turn. I would literally give a finger to live that experience again.
The memories, the feeling, Teldrassil lives forever in my heart and soul, I've never gotten that feeling again
10/10 would watch again and again
Glink is such an underrated TH-camr man this content is solid
this really is one of the most underrated channel on yt.
The Nostalgia physically hurts..
this video made me tear up bro. almost exact memories. gained a sub. thanks
you were literally me at that time; arrow keys, thottbot, incompetence. great video
I started playing as soon as it came out. It was unbelievably good back in the day. Haven’t played in years
Glink! Nice video man, you nailed every aspect including your original play routine. I also sat next to my brother and watched him play, and could only play when he was out or asleep.
What a nice video!!!
And i agree those things make Vanilla a lot more fun to play.
But also the fact that you even get to know your opponents on PvP servers i find really fun. Some of them you have lvled and battled with for the mobs, since early lvls :)
Good job m8 :)
"I guess we are a bunch of chicken chasers now, aren't we?"
great video man! speaking for the silent majority
Thanks dude, nostalgia is hitting really hard.
It was the pulling up of the chair... The asking of the questions... So familiar
12:00 That shit made me cry, One day I'll come back and log back into my Hunter
Thank you for this Nostalgia Trip
That journey to Stormwind was so true. Ah those were the days of having several night elf toons....
'Dis gon be good!
So much nostalgia for this game, I miss those times..and the music!!
8:12 exactly what im saying for years and people won't understand. It blows my mind that how people want to interact with Ai more than human players.... people always ask for skins etc never question server meshing or player capacity per server or interacting with them. In fact they want less real players around so they can farm and get some stuff.
this video had me in tears. i have been clean for about 7 years now... but if they do come out with i would love to join you and your guild in its adventures.
WERE FINALLY GETTING LEGACY SERVERS HOMIE
I don't enjoy the game that much anymore but I remember the first time discovering the zeppelin outside Undercity and I couldn't believe it, and the fact that it wasn't just for show but you could actually use it to travel. This game was amazing if you already played the previous games
I never got into the game - but I felt like I lived through the era with this.
I like the way how you take time to make these videos,loved this one,especially the end LUL,
I've played on pirate servers there were 3k-4k people and even 10k player in the queues these days was nostalgic and beautiful so many fun so many friends
Those really were magical times. I feel bad for all of those people who never got to experience the first three years of WOW. I got the game Christmas 2004 after being the biggest Warcraft and fantasy fan. The moment after waiting like 2 hours for the game to install with all those darn disks lol, and seeing that legendary launch screen, wow. I had never played a multiplayer game like that before so I intended to play the game alone as much as I could and if I was going to talk to someone, I would do it in character on the RP server of Feathermoon.
I made a human character (who was the progenitor of my long term main character) and an Orc character who I specifically made as a "peace-loving" orc where I would go around helping Alliance characters struggling with two or more enemies lol. I met my very first friend with that Orc. That person's character was also an Orc named Multifire. I don't even remember how we became friends lol. I just remember taking the air ship from Orgrimmar to the Undercity (both of us were in character). I remember how we both explored Undercity and were horrified what the Forsaken were doing and hated them from that point on haha.
I decided to start playing my human character and remember the first time I got to Stormwind and was just amazed by how huge it was. I'll never forget wandering the streets and seeing another human character walking by named Multifire and being like HEY! And telling him who I was haha. He deleted his orc and made a human after I took a break from my orc character because he wanted to be Alliance instead. Man, those early days were just incredible. I have so many memories, from my first guild, to meeting my character's first girlfriend (Her name was Rinnala) to meeting my very own first girlfriend on that game, to making friends with someone there who became a friend long after I stopped playing, to that very first Warsong Gulch experience when it first came out. Oh the memories...
Cross realm ruins soo much. youre never gonna gonna meet the people you see again. cause they'll randomly be on another server the next time
Your story is quite similar to mine, I was 12. My father recently became divorced from his wife. His buddies at work convinced him to pick WoW up. (just released). I would make fun of him calling him a nerd. He said, how about you try it out first. Good times, 56k modem, playing on an Emachine with one gigabyte of ram. Eventually upgraded to two gigs.
The video almost made me cry, might give it a shot in a vanilla private server
Wow! You're really building a solid subscriber-base Glink! Keep up the good work and keep producing quality TH-cam content!
This video sums it up perfectly. Wow was a world, not a single player game. Compare the questhelper to old school "where is manriks wife".
Stuff was actualy closed. Not everything had a function. Loved everyone second of it.
Love me some nostalgia. Play period: (2005-2014). 2005-2008 was the best time for me. NE druid vanilla & BE mage/Tauren druid TBC... I met people from all over the World. We shared so many moments, out in that beautiful open space! We shared our dreams, our music, and stories late into that gentle night. Wow was buissy 24/7. Always someone to meet, and something to do. Everything after TBC didnt sit right with me. The LFG tool and flying (in many ways) , made the old World less important. I will miss and cherish the time i had, cause it will not come again. Old Music playlists always take me back, to those beautiful moments & People. 😉
Vanilla/TBC:
💙 IN MEMORY STILL BRIGHT💙
beautiful video buddy!
I remember accidentally starting a multi-guild war over half of the isle of quel'danas in BC. Nothing has ever matched that since.
Played it when it came out, was 18 back then. I actually didn't have a good time the first year(s) or so. Still I've kept coming back for short bursts at a time.
My favorite time in wow running around stupidly with no clue was BC, favorite time bonding with friends which I still talk to this day was WOTLK, favorite time PVPing was CATA because I was ranked in the top 1% in the world. But my friends got married and we all had to work constantly to support living and I slowly drifted away from wow. The community fell apart when people so many people started to troll, do not get me wrong there were always trolls but it got out of hand. You no longer have to go up to random people and say hey want to do this dungeon. I made so many friends that way but now I just click a button wait a few minutes and boom in the instance and everyone does not speak... we used each other as tools to get something, never as people reaching their hand out to help.
Beautiful WoW nostalgic vid mate, gj.
Great video man! I got chills throughout some of this thinking back on the good old days
hey glink, idk man but this is one of my favorite video of yours 😂
anyways, have a good day
this video almost made me cry
I've played so many different MMOs, they all came and went but the one MMO i always came back to and the only one that survived longer than all the others, was world of warcraft. I've played that bloody game for 6 years and i have 0 regrets
Just watched your video
That’s crazy but the beginning of your video was exactly what I went through
I could litteraly watch my cousins play the game for hours and it was like I was playing the game
WoW was one of the first games I’ve played. It really kicked of my addiction. I was like 7 or something I don’t remember much. But it was amazing. The ending really the definition of “feels good man” I just want to say thanks.