This is what World of Warcraft looked like in 1999 

Before ? U mean after right ? 😅 Before was only Warcraft..

@@Deyy2 Classic = 2019 re-release with modified client. Vanilla = 2004 version.

@@TheKiskoller Hm.. why i didnt know that ? I play all datad. Of wow.. sorry then 😅

Enjoy it while you can....

​​​@@MadsMagnusne now lol..Didn't last long really dunno why bliz are keen to rush through the expansions so they back to dead game. Didn't like how they used the latest patches in classic basically everything in easy mode. Rather than letting people go through raids in there original harder designs.

Yeah, I was playing Classic and was just purely dumfounded just how much CONTENT was in the base game. How the fuck did they do all of that in 5 years!?

@@JeremyRuihley they were at his max momentum

@@JeremyRuihley Back when gamers made games.

me too brother, me too the classic music is really good so much nostalgia feels in it.

@@JeremyRuihley Some modern gamers will tell you that there's nothing to do in classic. While they paid a mage to AFK to 60 :)

Classic WAW

Vokwaft free

Scrolling down reading I paused on this comment and tried to sound it out and he said it as I sounded it out and literly died hahaha tyvm!

Hahaha

this dude talks like elmer fudd

Me too. Still today, playing top grafics mmos..... still remains the best experience ever. For the lore and comunity. This summer will get back to wow Classic.

@Alex M RIP Jan. True hero

Started in 09 and i was playing Wotlk untill 2018 great time 😃 but i have to move on

@Alex M Thanks for the lovely story, your grandma sounds awesome.

My favorite moment was when i entered into black temple to end illidans reign

Pretty sure I was playing in 800x600 resolution just to keep my frame rate decent! And 16-bit color mode :)

I remember freezing in Stormwind and having to go to other cities like Ironforge just to do things lmao. 😂

Damn what kind of computer did you have? I played on my mom's PC from 2000 and still got framerates at least in the 20s.

dude.. that's just how we played it back then

@@nakfoor1846 was gonna say the same thing. windows 98 lol gateway PC. str8 trash. the monitor was a god damn block itself lmao. zero lag whats so ever.

Yeah, I remember the times. A friend of mine showed me the announcment and explanation of the upcoming WoW in one of this magazines. He played it from the beginning. I had no PC back then, but I joined in late classic, before bc came out. Good times.

The towns did have more buildings, they had clusters of trainers and vendors in each building. They cut the buildings to save room since they wanted to make the game as accessible as possible on computers since it was all so limited hardware wise. As for the armor, yeah. They created a ton of the early human NPCs with built-in armor to fill out the game before they nailed down their armor system. IIRC your player model would stay a specific preset look until you got so many armor pieces, then it would swap to another 'tier' of a model, which was just another built-in armor skin. I get what they were going for but I'm glad they phased that out early on because it would be a nightmare for pre-built models for every armor type for every race.

No an mmo. An rpg has much more of a narrative, much better story presentation. The old map was basically a WC3 custom map that you did menial quests for with only a bit of story. So like an mmo.

@@maybeitsyou1317 You realize that mmo is short for mmoRPG, right? You can't have a single player mmo, since mmo literally stands for massivley MULTIPLAYER online (roleplaying game). The level of story presentation and narrative is irrelevant. Both mmos and RPGS have varying levels of this across the board. Some MMOs have better narrative than some RPGS. RPG stands for ROLEPLAYING GAME. A game which involves taking a role and progressing through a story.

@@aphidbowler7027 Actually it isn't. MMO is an acronym for Massively Multiplayer Online. RPG is Role Playing Game. Not all MMOs are RPGs. Put simply, RPG is the genre, MMO is the format. There have been MMOFPS's & MMORTS's that had no RPG elements in them. Saying MMO is short for MMORPG is the same as saying "Linear" is short for Linear Shooter. The vast majority of MMOs are also RPGs, but the format is not exclusive to them.

@@Haurath Going back to my original comment, "more like an mmo that was single player" is an oxymoron. Also, mmo is the format, but for what? MMORPG, MMOFPS, MMORTS? MMO by itself means nothing. Massively multiplayer online. So the internet is an MMO? Also WoW is an MMORPG. It involves narrative and mini-stories, lore, and hey look, roleplaying servers. It also involves stats, dicerolls, and leveling up, another element of RPGs, though not the main one.

Aphid Bowler stop being one of those people. You knew what he meant. Enjoy the video and stfu.

But he says vold of valclaft

@@petrkulhavy6246 that's the point

Its a fucking video about wow tf do you expect

Well weren't you correct!

They could have had a ranged warrior as well who throws axes and stuff.

Even when you taking into account the retail release of november 2004.

I don't play Fortnite but what is your point?

@@MarkBlackMigo His point is that 99% of the fortnite players are 12 years old of younger.

I'm 32 and play fortnite. You can't be here on a World of Warcraft video commenting about fortnite. When clearly fortnite is the better game. Unless we're talking about classic. Getting good in fortnite literally makes you better at every other game you play. It actually takes skill to be good at. World of Warcraft makes you a horrible gamer, asmongold is a perfect example.

@@2020100james I disagree.

I play with antique radios (with tubes... real radios glow in the dark), and listen to radio shows from before I was born, believe me, I know what you mean!

It was a magical time to play this game, it's an experience that will never be replicated unless something truly groundbreaking comes out. The mindset was totally different (let's experience an adventure) vs "I want to be the best or do the most dps or healing" now. That made it special, and it's not nostalgia, it's reality.

me

I remember that :) the old good days

@@scottkrause96 cata is what patched it so maybe it won't be

@@scottkrause96 guess we won't really find out till classic out I can't wait ... Maybe some of the add-ons I haven't used since vanilla work again

I doubt they'll be leaving exloits in or everyone would set up DM farm

That actually sounds like it would've been an awesome idea. Sure you're character dies in the "mortal world" (or 'overworld'?) but they would be able to still play the game and maybe receive rewards only available by completing challenges while in the 'afterlife' or Emerald Dream in this case. Probably be best to put a timer between deaths to prevent players from purposefully suiciding themselves to blow through all the challenges too quickly. In the meantime even if their avatars dies while the reward lock timer is active they could still have a plethora of things to do while waiting for a rez or even running back to their corpse like fighting spectacle enemies, exploring the spiritual planes, learning some lore, interacting with various friendly or not so friendly spirits, visiting dead NPC characters that can't leave or won't and avoiding the wrath of the tougher eatheric beings that don't like mortal spirits trying to leave the afterlife realms. (think the Fel Reaver from Outlands, but more than one and are great spirits of the Emerald Dream or afterlife planes)

It was Tauren. That's actually what the random Tauren patrolling the road in Stranglethorn Vale was for (Samantha Swifthoof). There was going to be a questline sort of like the class quests to learn it. I kind of wish they went with it, thought I guess a Tauren sprinting at 200% speed would be pretty silly. Worgen got not one but TWO racials that temporarily increase running speed, so I don't see why they couldn't have given the original furry race something similar to one of those.

@I Am Who I Am SUPER NERD :D

grind grind grind........new shiny pants! 20 more dungeons till lvl capped and master at PvP. Compared to here's everything you need giftwrapped in a chest, here's a boost and dungeon auto-party tool now begin your next xpansion story arc! I'll take the latter.

Just two days ago I turned clutter to the minimum for the Nagrand poop quest and I've left it down since. It appeals to me for some reason.

WoW Machimana Tool (or something like that) is something I started using a few years ago that I wish I knew about whenever it first came out. It's meant for making machimana videos, so you can set free cam, unlimited cam zoom, change the skybox, stuff like that; but the best part is you can use it to set the view distance, clipping distance, and fog distance to whatever you want. So in other words, normally for max FPS on a crappy system you set the view and whatnot all down to minimum. With WMT, you can set the fog distance to nothing, jack up the view/clip distance 3x higher than WoW even allows, and still get better FPS than simply setting your ingame slidders to minimum. Fog is the biggest hit to FPS after shadows, but I've never played ANY game, let alone MMO, that lets you change the fog. Another example: one of Morrowind's biggest problems is non adjustable fog. You can use a tool with a similar view function as WMT to disable fog, and you triple your framerate on a shitty PC, or get the same FPS but with a massively increased view distance. All that said though, yeah there is something special about WoW with a minimal foggy view distance. It doesn't feel right seeing more than like 50 feet in front of my guy in vanilla areas. Nowadays however I still won't play without WMT to disable fog and have clear view across 3 zones, not anymore. I got spoiled by it.

Swashbuckler was the idea. A rogue with a buckler and short sword

Bohrium when was it taken?

@@nickkwatussi7080 Sometime this February. The magazine was from 2013 though. There's a whole bunch of em up on imgur somewhere.

Walcraf :D

Brand new game which is Massively Multiplayer Online Singe Player

Haha i imagined about being a hunter waiting in the bush and ambushing someone from a pre-release wallpaper.

@@SnipshotMedia yea lol we also talked about ambushes, like we would wait in the bushes near a campfire at night, tell us stories and eat until a scout told us a big caravan (with other players of course) is coming, so we can strike!

bad script writing lol

No it isn't. WoW runs on the same engine as Warcraft 3, that's why they look alike. Obviously none of the character models are the same. WoW was originally meant to share a similar camera angle as WCIII.

@@ZechsMerquise73 That screenshot is from a 1999 build of WCIII...

@@toxy3580 According to Eurogamer, Kotaku, and Gameskinny, this is the first picture of World of Warcraft; basically, when it ran on Warcraft III. They cite creator Dave Wilson's twitter feed.

The idea behind backstab is that it needs to inflict thrusting damage, and while irl there are even long swords that are primarily used for thrusting, WoW thinks of all swords as slashing weapons.

never mind it, backstab isn't a thing irl at all. If you catch someome off guard they will probably not have a weapon to defend themselves. You can't do anything from behind that you can't from front. If they have a weapon they can just turn and counter you. Backstab isn't realistic in any way.

... release of what? 🤔

@@irrelevant_noob That game!

@@lordme88 you mean the one that got released in 2004-2005, then again in 2019, and most recently in 2022?

"wult ov wurcwaft"

indeed, diablo 1 and 2 will forever be in my heart

This man predicted the entire expansion so maybe we will get player housing😢😢

WoW classic is coming back in a couple of years from Blizzard. In the mean time go to Nostralius ;)

@@sweet0mistral Haha I won't play on private servers nope :P

​@@sweet0mistral in a couple of years? You mean in a couple of month.

Try leveling solo in old EQ1 and other games of that time. WoW was a cakewalk compared tot those.

@Torskad It took a long time to get to where I am today. Don't get discouraged.

Project 1999 if you haven't heard of it is a pretty cool server to relive classic EQ.

You got to be a real no-life to play EverQuest in any meaningful way. I mean that in the best way of course. Classic wow is a breeze compared to that hellhole

I never got to experience EQ, but people spoke highly of that game at the time. I remember playing the EQ2 beta and I liked it, but didn't stay because of WoW. I probably would have liked the harder difficulty. Was that hard to get gear?

Many levels of the campaign could be played that way. Many heroes like Thrall, Arthas on its Paladin with Frostmourne version, Jaina, Tyrande, Illidan and Maihev could solo the enemy armies.

@@noctusowl true, but I meant something along the lines of hero focused, micro-controll oriented, small squads of mercs, several quest on a single map, Azeroth exploration. Not base building and meat grinding. And yes, a lot of missions are like this, Arthas burning the ships and Thrall escorting kodoes are first that come to mind. Also, darkspear islands.

what 1999 racist game is lie propaganda to force players to kill nations. What is nation? Humans born without nationality, born without fascism, nationalization in childhood make them. False value, false enemy, false nation definition make false enemy, destroy value of life. Nationalist kleptocracy created fa, refuse value of life and human rights. Reward for worsening is kleptocracy support, steal reward system. Support nationalist kleptocracy, participate in war crime. Wikipedia false nations definition changed always. They kill for nation, they not know what nation is. Not can distinguish between race and nation. Golden toilet marauder hilterugend science academy economy, kill and loot. Many program errors. Big cost in money and time. Booze narcologist barmen alcohol chemical addiction for children. Killing for religion of peace, priest ten commandments. Sacred satan religion war godless church. False race definition, false nation definition, make players to kill nations, made fa. Overpopulation family values.

Who isn't? I grew up with World of Warcraft. I fondly remember my first ever character I ever created, a Night Elf Hunter. Classic closely mirrors my nostalgic memories for RuneScape which I have played religiously since early 2007. These games are gems to me and hold a very unique place in my heart. RuneScape helped me through dark times in life and gave me true peace, escape and enjoyment.

That would be correct, that is not from WoW...they made some very early tests only trying to use Warcraft III engine for WoW, but those tests never lasted long into development and the earliest trailers (aside from the very first CGI teaser trailer) that you actually saw about WoW, it was already using what would be its proper game engine.

There's always ONE. It legit irritates me when people pick apart videos for flaws. So he said mmo instead of rpg. The one issue with his ENTIRE VIDEO.

It's sad that you felt the need to point this out. Very childish. We've all made that mistake, a slip of the tongue is all it is. This goes for new gamers and veterans of MMORPGS alike, like me.

And he shouln't point that out because...? I find it funny how someone finds a problem and everyone else tries to shit on them. If the uploader has a sense of humor this shouldn't affect them.

@@NathanielPostma there's more than ONE issue with the video, how about him claiming a pre alpha WC3 pic was of WOW?

@@NathanielPostma Your post's Grammar is atrocious and looks like a 3rd grade student posted it.