+Mega Raichu true because gamers today are mostly normies. Gaming have become as mainstream as regular sport so no suprise peoples of all groups play these days. But back in the old days it was more of an underground thing your regular Joe dident do.
@@saph100 they didn't exist, unless you mean pcs are literally giant smartphones.. but ye, 90% of gamers in the early 2000s were and obviously most are still alive and grown up now, more intelligent than the tiktok crap today
@@simulki7108 True. 2004-2006 WoW were some of the greatest times in gaming history. I played on Archimonde and then most transferred to Mug'thol due to lag. I quit the day before the first expansion came out with one of the best geared rogues in the world on the best PvP server. Sometimes I occasionally still have WoW dreams despite having not logged in in 17 years.
My favourite bit is when they get the kid to pull up his microphone on Ventrilo to say mild profanities or some threat of violence. Never hear anyone respond to him, so chances are he's just in the channel alone and essentially doing a skit to feed into the news program's narrative.
exactly, and when he smashes the keyboard, and i look at his screen he is just facing a random easy mob in elwynn forest , its very likely that the news gave him a script and told him to act in that way to suit their narrative and for exchange they paid them, they look like a poor family just from the looks of their walls, also they dont have doors .
I will say this though, World of Warcraft was WAY too advanced for the time it made every other game barely even worth playing. Basically said it was just way too good for the time period
@@jeepsblackpowderandlights4305 i played runescape classic, osrs, priston tale and ff11 before going into WoW. WoW definitely was a few tiers above every other game at the time.
"addcition to technology is becoming the fastest growing illness in the 21 century" Boi was hthey right now everybody have a godamn iPhone and checking it 24/7
Meanwhile, dude's living in a home with crumbling walls. I can of course not assume much of anything just from the few clips here alone, so I wont comment on his mother, but I know for me playing this game for hours on end as a kid (and getting endless shit for it) was a form of escapism from a family that was extremely argumentative and toxic. I just wanted to be left tf alone, and I loved fantasy and here was a world to make friends who were kinda the same (often going through similar at home situations) and we could be whatever we could imagine and just explore, chill and kill shit. I remember this era so clearly, and hearing how adults at the time so desperately wanted to believe that these cartoony games were somehow making us "violent" and I laugh at it to this day. The only violence I ever saw was between my parents and grandparents, but yeah, go ahead and blame a GAME. Ooh, the 2000s, what a time.
Exactly. This game got me through so many things, I still play it to this day. Met my fiancé on it, even. We're both relatively successful, well-adjusted adults. The only abuse or violence in my life is the house I left behind once I turned 18.
What a gem. I still remember having HUGE friction with my mother in law about how much WoW I played (about 4 hours/day). She used to constantly nag at me about my game time until one day I casually asked her how many hours a week she watched tv...turns out she was spending twice as many hours every day watching tv. She was super pissed about it, but at least she quit hassling me about WoW.
@@joanthanbrodd6374 Very true statement, i unfortunately was 4/5 years old when classic came out, so ive only experienced it through 2019 re-release and now ive been going hard in a guild raiding 2 times a week in SoD and in wrath/cata. ICC and wrath have been fun, but it doesnt compare to the memories, friends, and journeys i made along my way to 50 in sod, which is where the level cap currently sits at. SoD is the most fun ive ever had in WoW, as much as phase 3 has been stale, the first 4 months, it was gold. Ive played since MoP on and off, but ive never LIVED in WoW until I got into classic/SoD.
WoW in 05-06 was honestly the best time of my life, and I’ve had a great life. I’ve traveled to 30 countries, lived abroad for several years, went to a big party university and enjoyed my time there ;). Did a lot of camping and expeditions. But playing WoW back then when EVERYONE played it was almost like jumping into the matrix. It was before social media, so WoW was the social media. And I never felt I was wasting my life away because everyone, even the high school jocks on our top 10 nationally ranked football team, were playing it. I had such good memories of spending 12 hour days during our hot Arizona summers playing wow all day 😂
Hehe. I think the analogy of jumping in the matrix is true. Was a different kind of experience back then. I don't think vr has or ever will replicate that feeling
17 years later im watching this whilst waiting for Sha of Anger to spawn.. My wife and I have been playing for 20 years but are otherwise normal parents with full time jobs and family life.. Wow is far far better than just watching mind numbing TV and flicking through garbage on social media. No regrets.
I play WoW for a month every summer. Just a month. Enjoying every second of it. I still have a summer job and I study medicine the rest of the year. I sometimes get this strong need to play during the school year and I listen to the soundtracks while reading. I'm sure I would have no problems playing this game 16 hours a day. Maybe I will when I retire 50 years from now!
I'm still addicted to the game and spend most of the day/night playing it, though that is mainly because I have nothing else to do since I'm extremely introverted lol.
Nemenon Well. There are better alternatives than wow. Like playing other games or doing something else. I'm also very introverted like you but I've lost so must interest in the game these last expansions.
This kid's addiction is the fault of his borderline personality and his crap parents, not the game. You can't get addicted to WoW without already having serious problems of your own.
Alastair Growley Yeah, how many parents would still be paying the internet bill if their kid quit school to play a game? He doesn't have a job, so it's no as if he could play if his parents weren't funding his habit.
I remember playing this game for an hour everyday after supper, took me over a year to get to lvl 70...Then I just quit playing because the raids just took way toooo long...There are a lot of other great games out there that don't require a monthly fee or take forever!
I remember this lol, what made it addictive is actually the social interactions. Hahahaha, an illness 😂, probably seen as hate speech today. Man playing games with great people all day everyday is one of the best feelings ever
vvvortic vanilla was fulled with casuals and it was fun, most of the people didnt even get past level 30. Dont try to fight against casuals because they are inherent to any game, instead, fight against casualization.
The addiction to World of Warcraft has something to do with respect from fellow gamers and fans. World of Warcraft rewards the effort you made inside the game.
@@cstober2 then your mom is weak and a bad parent. if my son droped out of school to play games i would sell his computer and let him starve until he got a job and got the fuck out of my house.
Interesting how most people can leave their houses for 10-12 hours a day and go to work, but if you spend the same amount of time playing a game, now you've got a psychological problem. I would argue that the people that spend their days at a job they don't like, making someone else richer have the psychological problem. Spending a lot of time playing a game? You're sick Spending a lot of time working? You're healthy
Yea kind of true but most of the people that are busting their asses off 12 hours a day are parents and it is necessary for them to do it otherwise they are fucked ?
x1plus1x Gaming gets you no where. True, working 16 hours at a job isn't healthy either, but at least you are earning money to feed yourself and move forward.
This was back when Blizzard weren't money hungry sellouts during the Vanilla WoW era. I was 13 and the game was my life for a long while...but now they release pointless new expansions every fucking 10 hours to satisfy their wallets and ruin the game. So I'm addicted to drugs now...ehh same thing I guess.
