What happens when you install a Vanilla WoW disc now? 

consider subbing if you enjoyed! gonna make a part 2 trying to get onto a private server!

Kinda crazy that we’ve come to a point where owning a physical copy of a game (at least for PC) is regarded as archaic and obsolete.

Read the manual, its a hoot how much stuff from the alpha/beta made it into the manual that never actually saw live play, like Tauren's plainsrunning.

Ill never forget putting WoW into my CD drive for the first time and watching the installing process. Felt like it took forever. Ot was the most exciting boring moment of my life. I played for 8+ and went to sleep. Woke up and did it again. God I was blown away seeing people out in the open world. Someone flew over me on a griffen and I just was in love.

I remember when I got WoW for my birthday, it was a 5 disc install. I still have them. They are proudly displayed with my other WoW collectibles.

wow from 2004 should be called "vanilla wow" respectfully, and the rerelease of vanilla wow back in 2019 should be addressed as "classic wow"

Old stuff was soo cool and creative with design, I miss it. All games where cool back then.

there was no battle net back at the time, we had an account name and a password... they later create the battle net platform and made us all migrate our accounts there. When I saw the launcher I was shocked, I forgot it had that, so much nostalgia

God damn this gave me a rush of nostalgia for something i didnt experience, I never played WoW but I do remember nights like this, finally getting my hands on a game i wanted. Putting that disk in and reading over everything that came with the case over and over again.

I miss the old blizzard :(

oh man i remember begging my mom to buy me this at walmart and she actually did. now convincing her to pay $15 a month was a different story lol

Seeing the old loading screen, the download screen with the ally vs. horde….gave me BIG chills. THIS is nostalgia.

All original versions up till Wrath of the Lich King don't run because of two reasons:

Been playing the game for close to 19 years now, and man did this take me back!!! Those were the days! Thanks for sharing! :)

I remember when my dad got me the CD back in 2009, installing it and watching the process while I download like 15GB or something with my brother on a 100KB/S internet and it took us an entire 2 days or something for it to complete, time flies!

Flying to Stormwind from Westfall through Elwynn Forest for the first time was something special.

Still have my original vanilla WoW box and all the individual discs and the sleeves they came in that had the different artwork on them, some night elves, some dwarves, etc. This is a huge nostalgia hit, I remember the installer screen, I remember the way the cd-keys were printed in those stickers on each disc sleeve, I uninstalled/reinstalled the game a lot, I remember the process pretty vividly lol.

The battlechest actually came out during wotlk I believe, it was a cheaper way to include both vanilla and TBC. Then all you had to buy was the wotlk expac, thats why the wrath booklet is in there.

Just seeing this box again takes me back to the past. How I loved this game. I have never found this feeling on a game since. Probably because it was the first open world game I played.

If you go to the folder where you installed the game and change the Realmlist to an adres from some private server of your own server if you can run it dedicated then you can use this client to play.