I was 14 when the game was released. Skipping the last hour of school to go and buy this game with all my friends was a day i will always remember. Now im sitting here all these years later. My wife and kids asleep, sipping wine and looking through all these memories. Simply amazing. The best video on TH-cam without doubt. Sir, you have earned my and my friends subscriptions. Cheers.
I was 14 as well. My friend bought the game, and we all went to his house that friday after school and were blown away. He created his first character (a tauren druid), and we had so much fun watching him play, and rolling our own characters. we had no idea what we were doing, and there were no guides online; it truly felt like a world of wonder and mystery as NO ONE knew what they were doing. I went and bought the game the following weekend (struggling to convince my mom, as to why a game needs a subscription), and played until the launch of Cata. So many amazing memories of playing this game. Nothing will ever beat the sensation of playing vanilla on a rainy day, cozy in my room with some hot chocolate and listening to ambient music of WoW. Every now and then when my wife is asleep, i'll hop on to a blizzlike private server and just take in all the memories. :')
to me that is the difference between a good game and a great game, a good game is engaging and entertaining for a few hours, a great game is a medium that life long memories are structured in.
this was lovely dude. i was too young to play in vanilla but i wish i started in bc. it must be so special to say you were with this game from day 1. it has such a special place in all of our hearts
Only 7 minutes in. I want to communicate that I appreciate this video immensely, being a vanilla player and starting my relationship with this incredible mmo in 2004. Looking forward to the rest of this video and the ones to come. Thanks man.
I personally only started playing WoW after the Summer of 2007, I really loved this. I must add that, at least for me, Cataclysm ruined a lot of my fond memories back when I was levelling my very first char..
I started december 2005.. While i do agree that Legion is very different from the old WoW.. its still Warcraft for me and i just love the entire Universe. I really hope that the Warcraft Movies have great success so that they can continue the Story for movies :)
It is crazy how many years ago this was... I remember that my 3 best friends and I bought this game and we played together via teamspeak for hours. We had no idea what was going on because everything was new and so huge. We just ran around exploring the beautiful starting area and had no idea how to play our characters correctly, we didn't even buy any new skills from a trainer until level 16 or so. We all stopped playing WoW at some point, some earlier, some later - the last one cancelled his subscription in Cataclysm. Now I am sitting here going through those great videos because these memories came back. We all have families now and some even kids but I will always remember this time when we played for hours together, sometimes via teamspeak sometimes in someones basement, ate food in front of our computer and ignored real life for a few hours per day :)
I seriously can't believe how well you integrated the music into this series. And your voice is extremely relaxing, yet easy to follow. Can't wait for the next one!
So much fun! I did the same: vanilla in highschool, tBC into college and then WotLK into grad school where I quit pre-Cata. Good times, but glad I quit once "real life" was getting more real (if you know what I mean)!
Hahaha pretty close. Listening to his videos while driving around at work. When this video started playing I assumed he had caffeine injected straight into his forehead.
most likely wont see this comment, but i can tell you that kids are starting this game with the same awe and magic that we had all those years ago. I still very much play the game and will always love it but in the guild im in now we have this guy who got his 15 year old kid into the game and everything he sees has him saying how awesome the game is and seeing and raiding old and new content has him obsessed. The magic is still there my friend just you already got to taste that New world of warcraft taste.
i watched this twice and i didnt even get bored the 2nd time...i could easily watch it a 3rd time.. You did such an amazing job.. both story-telling and editing.. Well done
I was 12 when I started playing WoW. The amount of emotions this game evokes in me is unparalleled. BC is a close second. I remember it was winter/fall, I placed a preorder, and at lunch time during high school, I sprinted from school, passed my house, across a frozen farm, all the way to EB Games. I ran back home, put the first disk in and got it loading... by the time I got home, popped in the second disk, and saw the loading screen going through the portal, I was vibrating and literally squealing with excitement. I cannot wait for Vanilla release ❤️
Back in grade 9 when my friends were out going to parties and getting girlfriends, I was clearing AQ40 on my undead rogue and got 2 bosses down in naxx before the raid scene fell apart before BC hit. NO RAGRATS LOL
Same here. Best time of my life. I mean I could catch up on all the parties later, what I actually did. But experiencing WoW at it's primetime (Vanilla/TBC/LK) - it's something that is gone forever and there is no chance anymore to catch up on it. So I'm very glad that I could be part of it.
I was in university and damn this game ruined my grades. But it also saved me a lot of money for not attending all kinds of partying etc. :) Pretty much the same happened to me with Naxx. First of all our guild migrated to other server and I didn't want to follow since many many friends were in the realm and that is where the game started. Before the migrate we got up to Gothic, Thaddius and Loatheb. IIRC we didn't yet get all those down (Maexxna was killed). I had to take a break when we moved to a new apartment and after I came back from the break they guild decided to migrate. So I had to start finding new guild and it was some kind of left overs from other good guilds that alread had stopped raiding. Left overs wanted to continue. But we never got so far with the progress. Then the BC pre patch came and literally almost everyone quit raiding :( I wish Vanilla had continued like 6 months more at least. There still was the content except for the very small % of top guilds. Good video!
I spent the past 7 years on private servers ;-) feenix, nostalrius, elysium and much more... I played them all ;-) But it's not the same. The feeling is not the same. Like MadSeasonShow told in his video, WoW was the first MMO for most of the people. It was fun to be a noob and play with noobs. The whole generation was different back then. For many it was even the first time to communicate to someone else trough the internet. I remember before WoW I didn't even have an internet connection at home. People were so polite and friendly, completely different behavior compared to nowaday's bunch of assholes. There was so much hype around WoW, it had it's own culture, nearly everyone in my class played it, you heard people talking about it while sitting in a bus, walking down the street or waiting in a queue in a store. There were also so many community web pages, audio books, animations, magazines and so on... I remember coming home from school, throwing my schoolbag into the corner, turning on my pc and first checking out guild website, the wow news, scrolling trough people's comments, discussing and laughing. It was full entertainment around the game itself. Then I would log into the game, proudly look at my character and log in... I would recieve a friendly "hello" from my guildies and my friends. People would ask me to to help them or doing stuff with them. I felt important and useful. I would come on Teamspeak and ingame friends would tell me what they experienced ingame today and we would play together. I would immerge with the game, forget the time, it would pass by fast, only after like 10 hours, which would feel like 2, I would notice that it's time again for me to go to bed. But i wouldn't be sad, cuz I knew on the next day I will continue my adventure... Man, I miss that times soooo much :(
Nearly the same here, played MMORPGs at their primetime (mainly WoW (Classic, BC, LK), but also EQ2) for 5 years, instead of going to university. Was fun, Good time, no regrets. miss the time, and the players. the players and communitys were A LOT BETTER and far far less toxic.
Vanilla wow is probably the only thing that makes me wish I was born 10 years earlier. I was 5 at the time and lacked an internet connection so there was no way I was able to play until wrath which I barely caught at the last week before Cataclysm. Im always intrigued by vanilla wow and its a shame that its something that will never return.
Anduin's theme is such an amazing piece of music, super epic, and incredibly ambiguous. so much can be done in the chord progression while retaining the feel of the song.
Being honest, just this video makes the truest wow player cry the music and the nostalgia. Just so many good times. I miss the old days. It’s just not the same man. Thank you for the video, was fantastic.
@@anenemystand5582 Both actually times are different the community is different and how the game is played has changed over the years. I would also agree that my perspective has changed over the years when looking back on all experiences . But that is how we all grow as people. We all have a different take on how it affects us.
Ah yeah... Talent Trees. Almost forgot about them. But what I miss even more are class trainers. It was always exciting to get a level up, beeing all curious about what new stuff you might learn from them and then WHAT? This skill is expensive! Fantastic content, dude. Every WoW fan can enjoy and appreciate this.
I noticed a revelation in legion in comparison to these old talents.... if we look closely at the artifact traits and put them with the normal talents, it basically looks like what an oldschool talent tree would (pointless dmg boosts for abilities and other fillers).... the only difference is that you get them all, only talents require you to choose but the "pointless" traits are all gained through grind, no decisions to make there. But it resembles the old style talents which some only gave a flat damage boost. This time instead of paying gold for them you pay with real life time... have to grind dem dailies. :p
Well done. I was never a wow fan until the past couple of years. I had tried Beta but it just seemed more of the same (I was well into another mmo at the time), so I skipped out on it. I started playing a Wrath freeshard three years ago and found that the game suited my mindset better, and less than a month ago, I picked up Legion & began playing (just hit 110 on my first character this week). So this historical perspective is fascinating to me. Keep it up!
Your videos are always great, but man this one was just on another level. (the nostalgia was real while watching this..i miss those days). Great content and detailed information. thanks for sharing Mad! Personally i think people miss the "feeling of doing something for the first time" and their lives a that moment in time. (i know i do). Unfortunately you can't recreate those things no matter how hard you try. We enjoyed vanilla that much because it was so new and different, we were so different. WoW is not only a game to most of us, its a companion/friend that has been with us over all these years.
Really what I miss most is the challenge. You NEEDED people to help you complete a hard quest, or a tough dungeon. It required effort, and communication, and not ragequitting. That isn't to say those things were nonexistent in Vanilla, but your reputation actually meant something.
I'm one of the few that exclusively played Vanilla WoW until life pulled me away from the game just before the release of TBC expansion. To this day, I still have a sealed, uninstalled copy of TBC that I never got around to playing. I was a teenage Junior/Senior in high school at the time when WoW first released. Even today, I still consider it the single most incredible experience I have ever had in a video game. So much so, that whenever I think back on it, there's a bittersweet feeling of wishing I could feel that away again... But watching this video really brought me back. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this. I may not play it anymore, but I still like to go online from time to time and see how its doing these days.
Beautifully put together. Informative and entertaining. Your opinions on on all things are reasonable and well though out. The whole video was also fluid and felt well constructed. Watched to the last second with many moment of nostalgia, and love. Thank you sir.
Ha ha, with trepidation maybe. Looking back with nostalgia is one thing. But in reality I never saw most of the content MadSeason refers to in this video, even though I was around in vanilla. I leveled a warrior and was too intimidated at the time to tank, so u know what that means. Kill one mod, stop and eat, kill another, stop and eat. Finally find a raid willing to take me, "Can u tank?", "Tank?".....you have been removed from the group. Ha ha. So i guess my answer is yes, if they balance it properly.
Hey this was an awesome video! I just found you recently and have seen a few of your videos now. Your commentary is perfect, and I really enjoyed this video because I started playing World of Warcraft back in vanilla. I can't wait to see more of these videos! Subscribed!
I come back to this video every so often and I gotta say @MadSeasonShow , you really did a great job capturing the feeling WoW gives me. It’s like visiting an old friend, remembering a simpler time, feeling nostalgic. Your WoW videos are something I’ll always cherish. Thank you MadSeasonShow.
This is the best wow video I've seen in a while. I've played since late 2006 so I knew about 95% of everything you said but it was still very entertaining to watch. Regarding vanilla vs legion is that both of them have their ups and downs just like you said. There's still some things I truly miss about vanilla like leveling a character not being a complete joke, that you had to group up with other people to do certain quests while other things like warrior tier set were only good for protection warrior and classes like paladin, druid and shaman pretty much had little choice but to go healer if you wanted to raid. I've played retribution since the beginning but it was not a fun spec of what I remember, at least. Maybe I need to take off my rose-tinted googles, I don't know... It's a completely different game just like you said Can't wait for Episode 2 :D.
This video, especially in the beginning got me a bit emotional. I still remember this to be the best gaming I've ever experienced. Grinding to 60, the community, all the help, glorious battle grinding to GM and the rivalry against the horde. Unreal.
every time i watch one of these old WoW videos i get a bit misty eyed remembering high adventure and meeting new people to group with, that i would continue seeing for years on the old realms. now its CRZ, homogenized classes, anonymity creating apathy and rudeness, and the death of realm community.
Oh I was a vanilla WoW player as well and I remember the thrill of it...the expansive world and the challenge of a new zone when you were high enough to investigate it (oh my first wrong turn into Strangelthorn and getting killed by a tiger...lol). I had my first PvP in Westfall when it was being overrun...and I was even able to do some damage at the time (soloing a Mage was tough). I'm getting the itch to give it another try. Perhaps sometime in the future once I have another gaming type PC. A couple of my FB friends were due to a guild I was in as well. It was a great game and I haven't followed it since Cataclysm (I left the game shortly afterwards). Still a good time and still to this day my favourite MMO.
john killingsworth I think if the game came out today and then changed to what it used to be over time people would just be saying the same things but opposite.
beautifully done. Entertaining too. The music realllllly took me back. One small thing I remember was running everywhere and couldn't wait to get to 40 to ride, and it was so expensive.
Thank you for making this series. A great idea, and I really enjoyed watching this video. I'm sure the following ones will bring a lot of good memories too and be otherwise just as awesome to watch. One of the things I miss from Vanilla - and continuing, if I remember correctly, through a few of the post-Vanilla expansions - is the world PvP that we used to have at The Crossroads. It would usually start around noon and continue on and off through early dinner time. Sometimes it would evolve into regular faction wars where one or the other faction would travel to the gates of the other faction's city entrance, a fierce battle would ensue and then the server would crash. lol ............. PS. I "lived" at Magtheridon-Eu as well. Back then it was a PvP server with a population of approx. 98% Horde and 2% Alliance. Kind of like it was with the Silvermoon Alliance population and has been ever since.
I’ve watched this video multiple times as I sit around waiting for Classic to release ( and before that as well). Just noticed how much faster you speak in this video. Assuming it was due to the quantity of material you wanted to cover. Impressive that even at that speed your voice is crystal clear. Awesome job!
Literally one of the best wow content creators out there right here. Been watching your videos for a couple months, this video is what got me to subscribe. Keep up the good work man!
"Comparing Vanilla to current is like comparing Apple to a calculator" Hit the nail on the head on that one! It's changed so much, both good and bad, but still a great adventure!
Watching these videos remind me about the time when my brother and I had shared account at Sylvanas (PvP) server. We started playing back when Burning Crusade was just announced (maybe? Expansion was released in december if my memory serves right and we started playing in January next year). Most memorable moment and one of the last things I remember was when some time after Lich King raid was released my brother decided to host a raid. I was still underage so no beer for me - a good brother. It was weekend, so naturally he was stocked up with large quantity of beer for the raid and the raid started pretty early, I'd say it was around 11 in the morning. I checked him when he started it and there he was, enjoying his beer and speaking english pretty fine for a fin. The raid was still going in 9pm so I figured I check him out and he was talking complete gibberish - having almost the whole computer table covered in bottles except for the enough space to move mouse and keyboard - before raid going against one of the bosses in plague wing( the one were the mad professor is, dont remember the name tho). Somehow, they managed to beat the boss and he concluded the raid to end. Next day while bro was suffering hangover (That's seen as miracle in eastern europe by the way) I asked some of the guys who had been in the raid with him and one them (also a fellow guild member) had recorded the whole damn raid and you could really, really mark the spots were certain parts he has chugged x amount of beer and shit was really hilarious when people answered to his request ( as in usually being "okay" in various tones, mostly highly confused) Neither of us play the game any longer due to the game changing too much. Tried checking wowhead what gear our characters had when we stopped, but I didn't find them - guess it's been so long that they have been deleted or they wont show up since last time the account was under subscription was when Kung-fu panda expansion came. Good luck to those who want to find at least 2 characters - Colaolli and Pyhapappi
I started the month of release . I had been playing EQ since before its first expansion referred to as pre kunark , 5 years invested into EQ . I logged in on my Night Elf Hunter looked around for just a few minutes killed a few mobs logged out and canceled both of my EQ accounts . 14 years later I'm still playing and amazed that it has dominated for so long. ohh but you left out that hunters needed melee and ranged weapons in vanilla. they couldn't shoot targets at point blank like now.
I hate you dude... you just make me want to find a time-machine so much to be able to go back to 2005.... shitty voice chat quality and dial up connections, epic long leveling journey and a big world to explore.... aaaaaaaaaaaaaw..... :D It was something else to play WoW at 20 fps..... 10 in cities.
Dude I remember showing my parents the game and telling them " no, really these are other people! Look I'll wave at this guy and he'll wave back at me." When the gnome waved back and we started dancing together my parents were like " oh look hes dancing too"
Just wanted to say ty for these videos , ive already gone through about 4 or 5 of them. 8hr maintenance today for prepatch 8.0 so your channel is perfect!
Nothing was quite as amazing as your first gryphon ride, or the first time you step into Ironforge with your music loud, or your first raid...really takes me back.
Its over 9K (views)!! In all seriousness though, thanks for taking the time to make this video. It brought back a lot of nostalgia and one can really tell you love the game for what it is; which you brought across wonderfully. :) I wouldn't have minded if this was 2 hours long, just maybe turned into parts?
vanilla is great, despite the fact most bosses were just thrash mobs with insane stats, and the pvp balance was totally off i love vanilla in all it's quirkyness, i loved how solo grinding was pretty damn hard, i loved how it forced you to play together to get some decent greens on the heaps of elite quests the game had, i loved how people wounldn't leave after 1 wipe and were really invested in trying to finish that BRD run, whether it took 1.5 hour or 4 hours, i loved 24 hour AV games, i loved how it was gear based and you still needed to farm that resistance gear and such. TBC still took a lot of that hardcore vanilla style with it, but added some nice more fun tactical approaches to boss fights, but these days it heavily comes at the cost of 5-man content, they've been skimping out on 5-man content ever since LFR became a thing (that never ever ever should have been) i think TBC may be the best of both worlds for me, it retains a lot of the vanilla hardcore stuff (attunements, mandatory rep farming, resistance gear farming), whilst having more raid content, without cheaping out on 5-man content at all it also added heroics 5-mans, and with a pretty steep grind to unlock them at that, loved it vanilla 5 mans were and still are great and yes, i don't mind a slow leveling curve, i may actaully prefer it :D i've played up to and including legion, and while i believe cataclysm was a pretty nice expansion, rather because of the raids than for the very lacking 5-man content, hell i may even like the old vanilla dungeon rehashes they did there (hated how they recycled zul'aman though), but still am of the opinion they should never have raped the old world and the talent system like that, it was wrong lovely video man, i'm looking forward to the rest of them!
Awesome video. I started WoW 4 months before BC dropped, I never got to do vanilla raids but the game was super exciting to me. 3 days into my hunter and I made a great friend, I would be on the loading screen and hear the group invite sound. We got lost trying to find BFD, getting killed repeatedly running to IF through the wetlands. Great times, lol.
I also prefer the monotone manner of your voice. Leave's me open to feel the emotions your video brings out in me, rather than you. If you know what I mean.
The Slaughtered Lamb, still have my first character lvl 110 human warlock, he’s ten years old now! Great video mate, best WoW channel on YT...thanks for this post!
Watching all of these for the first time. I must say, you are one of the nicest and most entertaining TH-camrs. I enjoy all your videos and your mature, intelligent presentation style.
Poison then it is even more incomprehensible to me that you find the new wow far better .... wow today is fun, of course. but i m looking forward to all the rpg elements back these days. and i'm confusing how people like you not caring about the old experience. because wow has changed immensely and not "only" better ...
@Poison LOL, I loved how hard it was :-) The journey to 60 was the game. and I'm fucking hyped to play that again. but it's understandable that not everybody likes that. I am happy that you have found a wow version you love to play. # for the horde!
I always end up leaving wow long after the expansion releases and I always find myself listening to these videos for nostalgia and it is always you guys meaning TH-camrs that end up bringing. I'm hoping with the release of classic it brings me back more permanently. You are meant to be doing this and I find your videos incredibly enjoyable. Thank you.
Awesome video man, i miss these day. I was even part of the beta and the game Just required more commitment to level back then, which lead to you understand your character differently then today.
ProIT is it exactly like vanilla? Or are their some details and quarks about vanilla that they couldn't get right. Also how active is it? I'm thinking about giving it a try.
Yes. It's exactly like vanilla in 100%. Rate is 1x like original Wow and it's very easy to set up, all information you can find here: elysium-project.org/play Have fun! :)
Papa Sheev I think there are a total of three changes in the entire game from vanilla: talent reset cost has a cap (25g), BG premades cap, and using dynamic respawn timers instead of set ones (meaning things that get looted/killed more often spawns a little more often). It's vanilla with very small slight changes that you wouldn't notice
Figured its a good idea to mention that most of the playerbasw migrated to lights hope, which will shut down when blizzard launch classic. Elysium is still going, but the remaining mods are really crooked and desperate
I watch the intro every day and I cannot get enough. On the one side it makes me sad on the other side happy. I'd like to cry, but I can't. What a wonderful time it was... Thank you
Just revisited this episode as an attunement for the second part that is coming soon (TM). Man, what an amazing video. Personally, I started playing WoW in BC, but I've always been enthusiastic on learning about the original experience. Great job as always, MadSeason. I'm looking foward to get a nostalgia punch with your second part!
That was amazing. WOW. I think i enjoyed that more than most of the wow videos i see. I really hope I get to see every single one of your videos on this. That was just beautifully done and entertaining. Loved it! :)
This is so neat to learn about, thanks for making this video and the series, brings a lot of new perspectives and gives me a whole new appreciation for the game and it's growing evolution! :)
You make such good content and idk something about your voice sounds so genuine. Love your channel man don't play much anymore but still watch your vids here and there.
i joined wow somewhere in the late parts of BC and kept playing about half way throu Lich King. stopped playing due to money issues and was always wondering what it was like before. and now that ive watched this and knowing that wow has expanded even more i'd love to see how it's chanced over time. please, whenever you get the chance keep making these. was very well done. :)
I love your content, stumbled upon you randomly one day I love all your videos, I haven’t played WoW in about 10 yrs since Lich king and this made me play again, one month on I have no regrets getting back into this amazing game, even though the game has changed a lot since then, I can still remember all the good times I had with friends and making new friends on this game, thank you for the videos and thank you for getting back in this game ❤️❤️
I remember being a young lad fresh to the game and delivering some cloth to an NPC in Orgrimmar for that Ahn Qiraj event, no idea what it was about back then. I participated!
This has got to be my favourite Wow channel. Your effort on cinematics is worth watching. So much better than just watching someone talk while he plays the game. Good job
This is great! I popped in near the end of BC so I didn't get to experience vanilla WoW. I did at least get to experience a somewhat challenging leveling grind because I was completely new to MMO's and it was still a long grind when I came in, and I remember wanting to do the onyxia raid while it was still challenging so I leveled my character to 60 as fast as I possibly could. Resulted in me ruining my relationship at the time xD I spent every last minute of free time in there. Looking forward to the next several vids in this series!
wow i feel old now. i didn't start playing WoW until a couple months before BC came out but i still to this day look back on my experiences in WoW vanilla as some of the most fun most memorable moments in my 20+ years of gaming. thanks for the video it really brings back the feels
U got a sub in me. This brought back so many memories. I will never forget those first few steps in Elwyn Forest w/ my human pally. The music, the feel, the realization that people around me were real. Although I stopped playing wow after cata, those first moments in wow are by far my fav and def the most impactful moments in my gaming history. That was when I realized what games could truly become.
I made a thing. Thanks for watching!
Update: Part 2 here: th-cam.com/video/JjV1E4Tj27U/w-d-xo.html
You are such a barbar, heh :)
Most Excellent work. Well done.
Fucking fantastic
Beautiful video man, thank you :)
Awesome! Keep up the good work...
I was 14 when the game was released. Skipping the last hour of school to go and buy this game with all my friends was a day i will always remember.
Now im sitting here all these years later. My wife and kids asleep, sipping wine and looking through all these memories. Simply amazing. The best video on TH-cam without doubt. Sir, you have earned my and my friends subscriptions. Cheers.
Mreow it's incredible to look back upon all the memories that we've created and how far we've come.
I was 14 as well. My friend bought the game, and we all went to his house that friday after school and were blown away. He created his first character (a tauren druid), and we had so much fun watching him play, and rolling our own characters. we had no idea what we were doing, and there were no guides online; it truly felt like a world of wonder and mystery as NO ONE knew what they were doing. I went and bought the game the following weekend (struggling to convince my mom, as to why a game needs a subscription), and played until the launch of Cata.
So many amazing memories of playing this game. Nothing will ever beat the sensation of playing vanilla on a rainy day, cozy in my room with some hot chocolate and listening to ambient music of WoW. Every now and then when my wife is asleep, i'll hop on to a blizzlike private server and just take in all the memories.
:')
to me that is the difference between a good game and a great game, a good game is engaging and entertaining for a few hours, a great game is a medium that life long memories are structured in.
this was lovely dude. i was too young to play in vanilla but i wish i started in bc. it must be so special to say you were with this game from day 1. it has such a special place in all of our hearts
what did you eventually do? What do you work?
I coukd have easily kept watching for those two hours very entertaining
Same
Firebourn94 definetly
Agreed.
same here
True!
you are like the Bob Ross of wow
A happy little raidboss. =)
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Only 7 minutes in. I want to communicate that I appreciate this video immensely, being a vanilla player and starting my relationship with this incredible mmo in 2004.
Looking forward to the rest of this video and the ones to come. Thanks man.
haha same here such nostalgic feeels
I personally only started playing WoW after the Summer of 2007, I really loved this. I must add that, at least for me, Cataclysm ruined a lot of my fond memories back when I was levelling my very first char..
I started december 2005.. While i do agree that Legion is very different from the old WoW.. its still Warcraft for me and i just love the entire Universe. I really hope that the Warcraft Movies have great success so that they can continue the Story for movies :)
October 2006 for me. I wish I had started sooner. I used to look at the old snap shots and wish I had been part of that.
Garrett, we get to relive the glory days! Classic WoW!
It is crazy how many years ago this was... I remember that my 3 best friends and I bought this game and we played together via teamspeak for hours. We had no idea what was going on because everything was new and so huge. We just ran around exploring the beautiful starting area and had no idea how to play our characters correctly, we didn't even buy any new skills from a trainer until level 16 or so. We all stopped playing WoW at some point, some earlier, some later - the last one cancelled his subscription in Cataclysm. Now I am sitting here going through those great videos because these memories came back. We all have families now and some even kids but I will always remember this time when we played for hours together, sometimes via teamspeak sometimes in someones basement, ate food in front of our computer and ignored real life for a few hours per day :)
I seriously can't believe how well you integrated the music into this series. And your voice is extremely relaxing, yet easy to follow. Can't wait for the next one!
@@wyatt5542 yeah cause wow is always about relaxation while leveling and playing dangeons
>Doesn't want to take up too much of my time
>Implying I haven't been listening to all his videos for the last 8 hours at work
I loved your Arnold impression haha.
from what movie is the arnold scene? have to watch the original.
@@chouleo It's from Conan
Really came out of nowhere mid sentence just changed. Hilarious.
M1K3Mc533 - when in the video?
@Bonechip what what?
Man, this is art. I love your channel dude!
Hätte dich nicht hier erwartet. Aber ja, großartiges Video
Honestly MadSeason, i'd watch the 2 hour version of this. It almost feels like a Documentary and your narration was great.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for letting me know...it means a lot!
2 minutes into the video and I could already cry. Good old times, played WoW from 2005 to 2010 but then never touched it again. God the feels
So much fun! I did the same: vanilla in highschool, tBC into college and then WotLK into grad school where I quit pre-Cata. Good times, but glad I quit once "real life" was getting more real (if you know what I mean)!
play at .75 speed for the 2019 mad season experience
Hahaha pretty close. Listening to his videos while driving around at work. When this video started playing I assumed he had caffeine injected straight into his forehead.
Amazing.
Because this is from 2017
@@tliltocatlalbopilosa1513 They don't. I helped them understand
@@McconneIIRet anyone know why he started talking much slower?
i wish i wasnt like 5 years old back then so i had a chance to experience this, from the stories i've heard it sounds amazing and immersive.
It fucked my life up for a good while! It's cool to hear about but the wowcrack was real!
I wish I could reverse the time and experience WoW again for the first time. It was truly magical and one of a kind game.
Yes man, the community and internet in general was so different.... Damn, felt truly like another world back then.
most likely wont see this comment, but i can tell you that kids are starting this game with the same awe and magic that we had all those years ago. I still very much play the game and will always love it but in the guild im in now we have this guy who got his 15 year old kid into the game and everything he sees has him saying how awesome the game is and seeing and raiding old and new content has him obsessed. The magic is still there my friend just you already got to taste that New world of warcraft taste.
I was in the 8th grade when it came out. I remember it taking forever to get to 60. Like 6 months lol. Didnt even know what endgame content was.
i watched this twice and i didnt even get bored the 2nd time...i could easily watch it a 3rd time..
You did such an amazing job.. both story-telling and editing.. Well done
I was 12 when I started playing WoW. The amount of emotions this game evokes in me is unparalleled. BC is a close second. I remember it was winter/fall, I placed a preorder, and at lunch time during high school, I sprinted from school, passed my house, across a frozen farm, all the way to EB Games. I ran back home, put the first disk in and got it loading... by the time I got home, popped in the second disk, and saw the loading screen going through the portal, I was vibrating and literally squealing with excitement. I cannot wait for Vanilla release ❤️
Back in grade 9 when my friends were out going to parties and getting girlfriends, I was clearing AQ40 on my undead rogue and got 2 bosses down in naxx before the raid scene fell apart before BC hit. NO RAGRATS LOL
Same here. Best time of my life. I mean I could catch up on all the parties later, what I actually did. But experiencing WoW at it's primetime (Vanilla/TBC/LK) - it's something that is gone forever and there is no chance anymore to catch up on it. So I'm very glad that I could be part of it.
I was in university and damn this game ruined my grades. But it also saved me a lot of money for not attending all kinds of partying etc. :)
Pretty much the same happened to me with Naxx. First of all our guild migrated to other server and I didn't want to follow since many many friends were in the realm and that is where the game started. Before the migrate we got up to Gothic, Thaddius and Loatheb.
IIRC we didn't yet get all those down (Maexxna was killed). I had to take a break when we moved to a new apartment and after I came back from the break they guild decided to migrate.
So I had to start finding new guild and it was some kind of left overs from other good guilds that alread had stopped raiding. Left overs wanted to continue. But we never got so far with the progress.
Then the BC pre patch came and literally almost everyone quit raiding :(
I wish Vanilla had continued like 6 months more at least. There still was the content except for the very small % of top guilds.
Good video!
I spent the past 7 years on private servers ;-) feenix, nostalrius, elysium and much more... I played them all ;-)
But it's not the same. The feeling is not the same. Like MadSeasonShow told in his video, WoW was the first MMO for most of the people. It was fun to be a noob and play with noobs. The whole generation was different back then. For many it was even the first time to communicate to someone else trough the internet. I remember before WoW I didn't even have an internet connection at home. People were so polite and friendly, completely different behavior compared to nowaday's bunch of assholes. There was so much hype around WoW, it had it's own culture, nearly everyone in my class played it, you heard people talking about it while sitting in a bus, walking down the street or waiting in a queue in a store. There were also so many community web pages, audio books, animations, magazines and so on... I remember coming home from school, throwing my schoolbag into the corner, turning on my pc and first checking out guild website, the wow news, scrolling trough people's comments, discussing and laughing. It was full entertainment around the game itself. Then I would log into the game, proudly look at my character and log in... I would recieve a friendly "hello" from my guildies and my friends. People would ask me to to help them or doing stuff with them. I felt important and useful. I would come on Teamspeak and ingame friends would tell me what they experienced ingame today and we would play together. I would immerge with the game, forget the time, it would pass by fast, only after like 10 hours, which would feel like 2, I would notice that it's time again for me to go to bed. But i wouldn't be sad, cuz I knew on the next day I will continue my adventure...
Man, I miss that times soooo much :(
Nearly the same here, played MMORPGs at their primetime (mainly WoW (Classic, BC, LK), but also EQ2) for 5 years, instead of going to university. Was fun, Good time, no regrets. miss the time, and the players. the players and communitys were A LOT BETTER and far far less toxic.
Vanilla wow is probably the only thing that makes me wish I was born 10 years earlier. I was 5 at the time and lacked an internet connection so there was no way I was able to play until wrath which I barely caught at the last week before Cataclysm. Im always intrigued by vanilla wow and its a shame that its something that will never return.
Dude this is THE BEST video I've ever seen about WoW. I can't wait till you release the next. Seriously.
Anduin's theme is such an amazing piece of music, super epic, and incredibly ambiguous. so much can be done in the chord progression while retaining the feel of the song.
Fantastic video with real insight. Just brought me back unforgettable memories of my gaming days.
Laz, hope to see you in Classic WoW once it is released :)
Being honest, just this video makes the truest wow player cry the music and the nostalgia. Just so many good times. I miss the old days. It’s just not the same man. Thank you for the video, was fantastic.
What's not the same, you or the game?
@@anenemystand5582 Both actually times are different the community is different and how the game is played has changed over the years. I would also agree that my perspective has changed over the years when looking back on all experiences . But that is how we all grow as people. We all have a different take on how it affects us.
Ah yeah... Talent Trees. Almost forgot about them. But what I miss even more are class trainers. It was always exciting to get a level up, beeing all curious about what new stuff you might learn from them and then WHAT? This skill is expensive!
Fantastic content, dude. Every WoW fan can enjoy and appreciate this.
OMG I REMEMBER!! There were so many times where I didn't have the gold to buy the skill xD
I noticed a revelation in legion in comparison to these old talents.... if we look closely at the artifact traits and put them with the normal talents, it basically looks like what an oldschool talent tree would (pointless dmg boosts for abilities and other fillers).... the only difference is that you get them all, only talents require you to choose but the "pointless" traits are all gained through grind, no decisions to make there.
But it resembles the old style talents which some only gave a flat damage boost.
This time instead of paying gold for them you pay with real life time... have to grind dem dailies. :p
member mounts? ye i member mounts, expensive stuff.
/y
Need gold for trainer plz
Well done. I was never a wow fan until the past couple of years. I had tried Beta but it just seemed more of the same (I was well into another mmo at the time), so I skipped out on it. I started playing a Wrath freeshard three years ago and found that the game suited my mindset better, and less than a month ago, I picked up Legion & began playing (just hit 110 on my first character this week). So this historical perspective is fascinating to me. Keep it up!
Your videos are always great, but man this one was just on another level. (the nostalgia was real while watching this..i miss those days). Great content and detailed information. thanks for sharing Mad!
Personally i think people miss the "feeling of doing something for the first time" and their lives a that moment in time. (i know i do). Unfortunately you can't recreate those things no matter how hard you try. We enjoyed vanilla that much because it was so new and different, we were so different. WoW is not only a game to most of us, its a companion/friend that has been with us over all these years.
Really what I miss most is the challenge. You NEEDED people to help you complete a hard quest, or a tough dungeon. It required effort, and communication, and not ragequitting. That isn't to say those things were nonexistent in Vanilla, but your reputation actually meant something.
Velkhan I havent even played vanilla, but when i watch thus videos and see so many people want to experience it again, i just wanna be a part of it.
I'm one of the few that exclusively played Vanilla WoW until life pulled me away from the game just before the release of TBC expansion. To this day, I still have a sealed, uninstalled copy of TBC that I never got around to playing. I was a teenage Junior/Senior in high school at the time when WoW first released. Even today, I still consider it the single most incredible experience I have ever had in a video game. So much so, that whenever I think back on it, there's a bittersweet feeling of wishing I could feel that away again... But watching this video really brought me back. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this. I may not play it anymore, but I still like to go online from time to time and see how its doing these days.
Beautifully put together. Informative and entertaining. Your opinions on on all things are reasonable and well though out. The whole video was also fluid and felt well constructed. Watched to the last second with many moment of nostalgia, and love. Thank you sir.
Craig, will we see you in Classic WoW? :)
Ha ha, with trepidation maybe. Looking back with nostalgia is one thing. But in reality I never saw most of the content MadSeason refers to in this video, even though I was around in vanilla. I leveled a warrior and was too intimidated at the time to tank, so u know what that means. Kill one mod, stop and eat, kill another, stop and eat. Finally find a raid willing to take me, "Can u tank?", "Tank?".....you have been removed from the group. Ha ha. So i guess my answer is yes, if they balance it properly.
Been playing since 2006 and yet I still learn new stuff everytime I watch one of your videos. Keep it up! :)
Great video man. Cant wait for the next one. Got me in the feels at some parts.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks Max
Masterpiece sir!! Love all your videos but especially the longer ones. Btw i never played wow
Hey this was an awesome video! I just found you recently and have seen a few of your videos now. Your commentary is perfect, and I really enjoyed this video because I started playing World of Warcraft back in vanilla. I can't wait to see more of these videos! Subscribed!
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I just love the art style of WoW... Its amazing...
Awesome video man! Definitely something nice to have in the background while playing. Thanks!
I come back to this video every so often and I gotta say @MadSeasonShow , you really did a great job capturing the feeling WoW gives me. It’s like visiting an old friend, remembering a simpler time, feeling nostalgic. Your WoW videos are something I’ll always cherish. Thank you MadSeasonShow.
This is the best wow video I've seen in a while. I've played since late 2006 so I knew about 95% of everything you said but it was still very entertaining to watch.
Regarding vanilla vs legion is that both of them have their ups and downs just like you said. There's still some things I truly miss about vanilla like leveling a character not being a complete joke, that you had to group up with other people to do certain quests while other things like warrior tier set were only good for protection warrior and classes like paladin, druid and shaman pretty much had little choice but to go healer if you wanted to raid. I've played retribution since the beginning but it was not a fun spec of what I remember, at least. Maybe I need to take off my rose-tinted googles, I don't know... It's a completely different game just like you said
Can't wait for Episode 2 :D.
Kristoffer Andersson the profile picture reminds me of dan
This video, especially in the beginning got me a bit emotional. I still remember this to be the best gaming I've ever experienced. Grinding to 60, the community, all the help, glorious battle grinding to GM and the rivalry against the horde. Unreal.
every time i watch one of these old WoW videos i get a bit misty eyed remembering high adventure and meeting new people to group with, that i would continue seeing for years on the old realms. now its CRZ, homogenized classes, anonymity creating apathy and rudeness, and the death of realm community.
john killingsworth With the declining population, cross realms is the only way to keep the MMO in MMORPG.
or you know free migration, the population is around the same as it was in vanilla 5-6 mill
10m is not decling
Oh I was a vanilla WoW player as well and I remember the thrill of it...the expansive world and the challenge of a new zone when you were high enough to investigate it (oh my first wrong turn into Strangelthorn and getting killed by a tiger...lol). I had my first PvP in Westfall when it was being overrun...and I was even able to do some damage at the time (soloing a Mage was tough). I'm getting the itch to give it another try. Perhaps sometime in the future once I have another gaming type PC. A couple of my FB friends were due to a guild I was in as well. It was a great game and I haven't followed it since Cataclysm (I left the game shortly afterwards). Still a good time and still to this day my favourite MMO.
john killingsworth I think if the game came out today and then changed to what it used to be over time people would just be saying the same things but opposite.
Holy Shit... best video ive ever seen regarding WoW.
I bow down to you my good sir
11 more days till we get to go home^^ can't wait
I can't fucking wait!
You're still playing?
beautifully done. Entertaining too. The music realllllly took me back. One small thing I remember was running everywhere and couldn't wait to get to 40 to ride, and it was so expensive.
Great video.. that Conan quote was gold.. like to see a spin off with profs class quests and other gems from Vanilla.. good work..
YES!!! so many hard quests that gave you literally NO info on haha
Thank you for making this series. A great idea, and I really enjoyed watching this video. I'm sure the following ones will bring a lot of good memories too and be otherwise just as awesome to watch.
One of the things I miss from Vanilla - and continuing, if I remember correctly, through a few of the post-Vanilla expansions - is the world PvP that we used to have at The Crossroads. It would usually start around noon and continue on and off through early dinner time. Sometimes it would evolve into regular faction wars where one or the other faction would travel to the gates of the other faction's city entrance, a fierce battle would ensue and then the server would crash. lol
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PS. I "lived" at Magtheridon-Eu as well. Back then it was a PvP server with a population of approx. 98% Horde and 2% Alliance. Kind of like it was with the Silvermoon Alliance population and has been ever since.
Awesome video... the intro gave me chills.
I’ve watched this video multiple times as I sit around waiting for Classic to release ( and before that as well). Just noticed how much faster you speak in this video. Assuming it was due to the quantity of material you wanted to cover. Impressive that even at that speed your voice is crystal clear. Awesome job!
Honestly, that music is making me tear up.
Literally one of the best wow content creators out there right here. Been watching your videos for a couple months, this video is what got me to subscribe. Keep up the good work man!
"Comparing Vanilla to current is like comparing Apple to a calculator"
Hit the nail on the head on that one! It's changed so much, both good and bad, but still a great adventure!
This is the fastest I've ever heard Mads talk.
Watching these videos remind me about the time when my brother and I had shared account at Sylvanas (PvP) server. We started playing back when Burning Crusade was just announced (maybe? Expansion was released in december if my memory serves right and we started playing in January next year). Most memorable moment and one of the last things I remember was when some time after Lich King raid was released my brother decided to host a raid. I was still underage so no beer for me - a good brother.
It was weekend, so naturally he was stocked up with large quantity of beer for the raid and the raid started pretty early, I'd say it was around 11 in the morning. I checked him when he started it and there he was, enjoying his beer and speaking english pretty fine for a fin. The raid was still going in 9pm so I figured I check him out and he was talking complete gibberish - having almost the whole computer table covered in bottles except for the enough space to move mouse and keyboard - before raid going against one of the bosses in plague wing( the one were the mad professor is, dont remember the name tho). Somehow, they managed to beat the boss and he concluded the raid to end.
Next day while bro was suffering hangover (That's seen as miracle in eastern europe by the way) I asked some of the guys who had been in the raid with him and one them (also a fellow guild member) had recorded the whole damn raid and you could really, really mark the spots were certain parts he has chugged x amount of beer and shit was really hilarious when people answered to his request ( as in usually being "okay" in various tones, mostly highly confused)
Neither of us play the game any longer due to the game changing too much. Tried checking wowhead what gear our characters had when we stopped, but I didn't find them - guess it's been so long that they have been deleted or they wont show up since last time the account was under subscription was when Kung-fu panda expansion came. Good luck to those who want to find at least 2 characters - Colaolli and Pyhapappi
I almost tear up and get goosebumps everytime you run that raw footage with that music...a damn good video,thanks!
I miss that Druid I met in duskwood, we were only friends for a day... but I will always remember you. Rip vanilla
You did a magnificent job with this video and the music and cinematography, espeically at 16:54
I started the month of release . I had been playing EQ since before its first expansion referred to as pre kunark , 5 years invested into EQ . I logged in on my Night Elf Hunter looked around for just a few minutes killed a few mobs logged out and canceled both of my EQ accounts . 14 years later I'm still playing and amazed that it has dominated for so long. ohh but you left out that hunters needed melee and ranged weapons in vanilla. they couldn't shoot targets at point blank like now.
Your music choices always hit me right in the nostalgic feels
I hate you dude... you just make me want to find a time-machine so much to be able to go back to 2005.... shitty voice chat quality and dial up connections, epic long leveling journey and a big world to explore.... aaaaaaaaaaaaaw..... :D
It was something else to play WoW at 20 fps..... 10 in cities.
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Blizz official legacy servers are a thing now:D you can!
Watching this video again since it first released, and it still gives those same feels. Brings a tear to my eye. You did such good work on this video!
Still waiting for that TBC episode.
we all do
Yep
same and i've watched this like 4 times... I should get out more
+BregVids You cannot ignore Azeroth's call!
Soon (tm)
rewatching all these
Good stuff man! Gonna watch this alongside researching gold farms hehe
Right on. Enjoy it and thanks brotha
This makes me so hyped for the classic servers. Also that imitation at 20:20 was spot on.
Dude I remember showing my parents the game and telling them " no, really these are other people! Look I'll wave at this guy and he'll wave back at me." When the gnome waved back and we started dancing together my parents were like " oh look hes dancing too"
lol same here same thing, so funny
Just wanted to say ty for these videos , ive already gone through about 4 or 5 of them. 8hr maintenance today for prepatch 8.0 so your channel is perfect!
Who back rewatching for 2024 classic classic😅
God, i miss vanilla
Nothing was quite as amazing as your first gryphon ride, or the first time you step into Ironforge with your music loud, or your first raid...really takes me back.
yes do more I love this. great fucking idea
Its over 9K (views)!!
In all seriousness though, thanks for taking the time to make this video. It brought back a lot of nostalgia and one can really tell you love the game for what it is; which you brought across wonderfully. :) I wouldn't have minded if this was 2 hours long, just maybe turned into parts?
vanilla is great, despite the fact most bosses were just thrash mobs with insane stats, and the pvp balance was totally off
i love vanilla in all it's quirkyness,
i loved how solo grinding was pretty damn hard,
i loved how it forced you to play together to get some decent greens on the heaps of elite quests the game had,
i loved how people wounldn't leave after 1 wipe and were really invested in trying to finish that BRD run, whether it took 1.5 hour or 4 hours,
i loved 24 hour AV games,
i loved how it was gear based and you still needed to farm that resistance gear and such.
TBC still took a lot of that hardcore vanilla style with it, but added some nice more fun tactical approaches to boss fights, but these days it heavily comes at the cost of 5-man content,
they've been skimping out on 5-man content ever since LFR became a thing (that never ever ever should have been)
i think TBC may be the best of both worlds for me,
it retains a lot of the vanilla hardcore stuff (attunements, mandatory rep farming, resistance gear farming),
whilst having more raid content, without cheaping out on 5-man content at all
it also added heroics 5-mans, and with a pretty steep grind to unlock them at that, loved it
vanilla 5 mans were and still are great
and yes, i don't mind a slow leveling curve, i may actaully prefer it :D
i've played up to and including legion, and while i believe cataclysm was a pretty nice expansion, rather because of the raids than for the very lacking 5-man content, hell i may even like the old vanilla dungeon rehashes they did there (hated how they recycled zul'aman though),
but still am of the opinion they should never have raped the old world and the talent system like that, it was wrong
lovely video man, i'm looking forward to the rest of them!
I agree man; I really enjoyed BC. I hope Classic is popular enough that they release BC servers as well.
@@kev1734 same, BC was awesome.
Awesome video. I started WoW 4 months before BC dropped, I never got to do vanilla raids but the game was super exciting to me. 3 days into my hunter and I made a great friend, I would be on the loading screen and hear the group invite sound. We got lost trying to find BFD, getting killed repeatedly running to IF through the wetlands. Great times, lol.
I also prefer the monotone manner of your voice. Leave's me open to feel the emotions your video brings out in me, rather than you. If you know what I mean.
Craig Bone monotone FTW
Great point man. We are all in the zone here. I appreciate your comment my friend
Really like your videos, they're a lot different to most others covering WoW and Classic. Good job, keep it on.
did you used to speed your voice up
The Slaughtered Lamb, still have my first character lvl 110 human warlock, he’s ten years old now!
Great video mate, best WoW channel on YT...thanks for this post!
Rejoice! World of Warcraft: Classic is coming and you might be able to experience all of this again!
Very soon now
They made us wait a lot god damn it
It wasn't the same.
As soon as the music starts I get instant chills and nostalgia. Classic can't come quick enough! Awesome video
20:20 made me literally laugh out loud XD
Watching all of these for the first time. I must say, you are one of the nicest and most entertaining TH-camrs. I enjoy all your videos and your mature, intelligent presentation style.
ORIGINAL CLASSIC SERVER IS COMING! JUSTICE WILL BE DONE
VERY SOON NOW THEY ALREADY HAVE DONE A DEMO FOR CLASSIC
CANT FUCKING WAIT
@@Poison Did you ever play Vanilla WoW??
Poison
then it is even more incomprehensible to me that you find the new wow far better .... wow today is fun, of course. but i m looking forward to all the rpg elements back these days. and i'm confusing how people like you not caring about the old experience. because wow has changed immensely and not "only" better ...
@Poison LOL, I loved how hard it was :-) The journey to 60 was the game. and I'm fucking hyped to play that again. but it's understandable that not everybody likes that. I am happy that you have found a wow version you love to play. # for the horde!
Every once in a while I rewatch these videos to go down the nostalgia train.
Thank you, Madseason, for all the years of videos.
20:21 LOL
I hope you do more in this series, I thoroughly enjoyed this look back at how the game used to be. Brought back some nice memories.
Comparing Vanilla to current retail is like comparing a real MMORPG to a Facebook game.
Tjallex And vanilla is the second one ?
Another Scout Apprentice
Hehe xd how quirky
I always end up leaving wow long after the expansion releases and I always find myself listening to these videos for nostalgia and it is always you guys meaning TH-camrs that end up bringing. I'm hoping with the release of classic it brings me back more permanently. You are meant to be doing this and I find your videos incredibly enjoyable. Thank you.
ahhhhhh you don't get it Madseason! Don't speed up your talk in post. Most of us like the slow-paced monotone voice. This is unbearable.
i prefer this tbh
@@edvinaleksandrov1417 weirdo
Awesome video man, i miss these day. I was even part of the beta and the game
Just required more commitment to level back then, which lead to you understand your character differently then today.
Google it "Elysium wow" and join to thousands of players playing Vanilla right now
ProIT is it exactly like vanilla? Or are their some details and quarks about vanilla that they couldn't get right. Also how active is it? I'm thinking about giving it a try.
Yes. It's exactly like vanilla in 100%. Rate is 1x like original Wow and it's very easy to set up, all information you can find here: elysium-project.org/play
Have fun! :)
Papa Sheev I think there are a total of three changes in the entire game from vanilla: talent reset cost has a cap (25g), BG premades cap, and using dynamic respawn timers instead of set ones (meaning things that get looted/killed more often spawns a little more often).
It's vanilla with very small slight changes that you wouldn't notice
Figured its a good idea to mention that most of the playerbasw migrated to lights hope, which will shut down when blizzard launch classic. Elysium is still going, but the remaining mods are really crooked and desperate
Go Kronos, we are better
I watch the intro every day and I cannot get enough. On the one side it makes me sad on the other side happy. I'd like to cry, but I can't. What a wonderful time it was... Thank you
"It was harder than the modern game" well thanks to classic we know that's total bullshit. Still love this video though!
Leveling was undeniably harder. Endgame not so much.
Just revisited this episode as an attunement for the second part that is coming soon (TM). Man, what an amazing video. Personally, I started playing WoW in BC, but I've always been enthusiastic on learning about the original experience. Great job as always, MadSeason. I'm looking foward to get a nostalgia punch with your second part!
That was amazing. WOW. I think i enjoyed that more than most of the wow videos i see. I really hope I get to see every single one of your videos on this. That was just beautifully done and entertaining. Loved it! :)
This is so neat to learn about, thanks for making this video and the series, brings a lot of new perspectives and gives me a whole new appreciation for the game and it's growing evolution! :)
You make such good content and idk something about your voice sounds so genuine. Love your channel man don't play much anymore but still watch your vids here and there.
i joined wow somewhere in the late parts of BC and kept playing about half way throu Lich King. stopped playing due to money issues and was always wondering what it was like before. and now that ive watched this and knowing that wow has expanded even more i'd love to see how it's chanced over time. please, whenever you get the chance keep making these. was very well done. :)
I love your content, stumbled upon you randomly one day I love all your videos, I haven’t played WoW in about 10 yrs since Lich king and this made me play again, one month on I have no regrets getting back into this amazing game, even though the game has changed a lot since then, I can still remember all the good times I had with friends and making new friends on this game, thank you for the videos and thank you for getting back in this game ❤️❤️
I remember being a young lad fresh to the game and delivering some cloth to an NPC in Orgrimmar for that Ahn Qiraj event, no idea what it was about back then. I participated!
I'm currently playing classic.. and still watching these videos
This has got to be my favourite Wow channel. Your effort on cinematics is worth watching. So much better than just watching someone talk while he plays the game. Good job
This is great! I popped in near the end of BC so I didn't get to experience vanilla WoW. I did at least get to experience a somewhat challenging leveling grind because I was completely new to MMO's and it was still a long grind when I came in, and I remember wanting to do the onyxia raid while it was still challenging so I leveled my character to 60 as fast as I possibly could. Resulted in me ruining my relationship at the time xD I spent every last minute of free time in there.
Looking forward to the next several vids in this series!
wow i feel old now. i didn't start playing WoW until a couple months before BC came out but i still to this day look back on my experiences in WoW vanilla as some of the most fun most memorable moments in my 20+ years of gaming. thanks for the video it really brings back the feels
U got a sub in me. This brought back so many memories. I will never forget those first few steps in Elwyn Forest w/ my human pally. The music, the feel, the realization that people around me were real. Although I stopped playing wow after cata, those first moments in wow are by far my fav and def the most impactful moments in my gaming history. That was when I realized what games could truly become.