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The burning region for Gilnaeus, but has not done for the Lich
King, for the Sindora, for the Alliance for the Horn, for
Azeroth. Hello and welcome to a bonus
episode of For Azeroth. This is Lex Rance.
This weekend I was at the Boston Warcraft 30th Anniversary event,
which was really, really wonderful, and it made me think
about how lucky we are as World of Warcraft players that we get
so many opportunities to be around other World of Warcraft
players. We have things like LFG,
BlizzCon now, these 30th anniversary events, and it's
always such a wonderful and beautiful and exciting time
because you're just surrounded by people who love the same
thing that you love and just want to be there and tell their
stories and get excited and talk about the thing they love.
So I wanted to see if I could bring a little bit of that
energy and excitement into the podcast.
So while we were there waiting for two hours outside because we
heard a rumor that they oversold the event and not everyone was
getting in, I went up and down and I asked people what their
first memory of Warcraft or the World of Warcraft was.
This was the most fun I had during the event.
It was an incredible party, but getting that time to talk and
chat with just strangers who loved this game like I did was
so fun. And people had these hilarious
and beautiful and exciting stories and I'm so excited to
share them with you all. So without further ado, let's
get into it. I am Jet JETTE.
One of my earliest memories of World of Warcraft is actually
not actually playing the game, but being told about the game
from profit. And that same night, he was
really excited to show me what the World of Warcraft is all
about because I had heard of it before, but I never really had
any experience with it. So he stared his screen for me
and he's like, all right, here I am on Moon Guard.
And so this is the RP server. And, you know, this is what they
do on the RP server. And, you know, they go to
Goldshire. And he showed me there was a
party in there. And I was like, wow, this is a
really cool party. So my name is Prophet.
I'm the CEO and owner of Valor Gaming, Warcraft in general.
I started playing Warcraft 3 because all my uncles had
computers and that's all that they played.
And so when they upgraded their computer, they gave me their
like Windows XP or whatever it was.
I played so much Warcraft 3:00 every single side quest, like
every single side mission, like everything.
That would probably be my earliest memory.
Hi, my name's bitters. I started playing like back in
vanilla. I I think probably my earliest
remember make memory was being at like a card gaming shop for
like magically gathering and they had like a land area and a
whole bunch of people were it's all like gathered around and
like they were like, oh, this new game just came out and like
some of my friends started playing and I was like, what is
this? And I see like it's like orange
big city and all these spikes and stuff.
And later on come to see that it's Orgrimmar and go in and I
they got me to start playing. And that's just, yeah, just been
playing since then. Name is Amrath.
My first memory is loading into vanilla back like the first two
months after I came out. I was really young and making a
night off warrior and just walking around and inevitably
getting assassinated by a horde rogue.
Let's go Jason. So I grew up in a very like game
focused household. My dad had like an old Windows
95. He had Warcraft 2 installed on
it. And so that was one of the
earliest games that I ever played.
But once I started like realizing what games were, we
pick up Warcraft three that I played for years and years and
years. And then one day we were out.
I was out with my mother shopping for a Father's Day gift
in like 2008 and we saw World of Warcraft down there.
I remember very much my mother was like, do you think he'll
like it? And now, you know, all these
years later, my parents still play over the winter as like a
way to like, you know, be inside, play cheap.
My sister plays every now and then and so do I.
So like the whole family got into it very early on.
So yeah, I've it's my whole life really.
Like truly and honestly, like I've known Warcraft my entire
life. Aloysius a Grove layer.
The end of Burning Crusade is when I started.
I got my first piece of raid gear and that was it 2008.
I run as Jasmine. I currently play to Warlock.
Oh gosh, levelling is a mage. It was.
I'm a Wrath baby. So back then of course I started
with a mage, which back then, you know, you hit something and
then you sit and eat and drink for 5 minutes and then, you
know, Mike gets play again. But yeah, that's my earliest
memory. But I loved it.
Nemo or Nemo Damus depending on what server you find me on.
I am from WTF Nation Radio, which is part of U.S.
Army WTF Moments, all active duty veterans.
My earliest memory of World of Warcraft.
I've played Warcraft like many people, but when I was deployed
to Iraq in 2004, I carried the original box of World of
Warcraft in my pouch. No way to play the game, nothing
like that. But every night or every few
nights, I would read the player's guide and it would say
all these things that I was really looking forward to
experiencing when I got back home.
Yeah. And in the back I remember it
said legendary heroes coming soon and all I could think was
they're going to let us be demon hunters like Illidan.
So I played at Night Elf. Rogue was my first character I
made when I got back home and I've been playing ever since.
It's Alexia. When I was first starting out in
vanilla, the first time a mage made a portal I tried to jump
through it instead of clicking. Hi I'm Alexis, gamertag is blue
lava. I played with my mom.
I was like 5 or 6 years old and she would like put me on her lap
with her laptop and I would just be playing my little gnome
rogue. And then I was probably like 8
or 9 when I finally got my own computer.
I was like this old school like desktop computer.
I got it in the living room like nothing crazy.
And I just made my gnome and that's where the name Blue Lava
came in. I was a death knight.
Now I'm a Demon Hunter. Man, I've been playing forever.
Hello, I'm the vibe and Gorilla taking over my brother's account
when I was younger because I enjoyed the game so much.
My name is Lucas, my character name is Dialica.
I'm Montreal. So my brother was playing and I
saw him in this is in Cataclysm and I saw him in 1000 thousand
needles on that boat. I thought the boat was really
cool and he would let me like jump on like drive around the
boat and I started playing after that.
My name is Brittany, but my gamertag is Dana Scully.
I started in late BC, so the plague going through the Horde
capital. Well I guess Alliance capital.
So just like logging in and dying.
Yeah, I'm Colin. I'm also known as Millicorn.
Warmest Accord or strong guard enjoyer on Blue Sky.
Total disclosure, it's the South Park episode.
I saw that episode when I was a kid and I just watched it.
I was like, that seems awesome and I like Lord of the Rings.
This seems similar. So I so I bought the game,
downloaded it and it's been downhill ever since for me.
I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
I love, I love Warcraft. I love Azeroth.
It's it's really grown. I and I love it now It's sick.
I'm known as Elena, I'm a moon guard and I'm a balance druid
and have been since Burning Crusade.
And my first. Memory the spider cave in the
night elf starting area and I died in there.
Hugo Stiglitz I play a warrior on Illidan if you want to ask.
The first experience of Wow. I remember high warlord pig
sticker that saved me in Hinterlands and I also.
Another good memory from Warcraft is I met my wife
playing a video game in 2008 and we've been together since and
playing together for about 17 years now.
Josh Hill Protoplate. My first memory of Warcraft is
making a troll shaman in in the valley of trials and killing the
the gremlins that are there. Yeah the Imps.
My name is Kong and my gamertag is my fest.
My first memory of Warcraft is when my wife introduced me to
the game a few years ago and I've been hooked ever since.
I started playing with Shadow Lands and that was that was it.
I was set. But before the World of
Warcraft, I'll start playing with Warcraft 3.
So that was my introduction to the war and the World of
Warcraft. So she got me into it and I'm
here. My name is Arzak.
And I think one of my most for like first prominent memories
was just creating a night elf and going through and doing all
this starting quest. And there was one where you have
to go and cure this dude to the left of The Cave and and
afterwards you have to go back into The Cave and kill the big
spider. And I remember getting the
brushwood blade and it's like the very first green weapon I
think you can get as a night elf.
And I just remember walking out of shadow Glen with a green
sword and a white shield thinking this is it.
This is how I take over the world.
So I first started playing. My name is Al Qaedas from shadow
remains. What was or the ring?
And my friend was a warlock and my other friend was a mage and I
got confused of how portals and summons worked so I kept telling
my friend to send me a portal and I did not understand that he
couldn't send me a portal to take me to the city.
And I'm like but you're a mage this is how it's supposed to
work. If anybody played classic and
benediction I was Sabata the protection warrior.
So my very first memory, I created a Night Elf rogue who
was my original main and I played for days and days and
days and I ended up I was in Searing Gorge.
I was doing the quest to try to get like the the Lookout
Spyglass and the entire time I played up to that level, which
was like level 40, I didn't know what a combo point was.
And so I actually thought it was just the enemy charging up an
attack and I had to beat them before it got to five.
And I would just mash buttons until eventually it, you know, I
killed the thing and I couldn't understand why it was capping at
5 and never doing anything. But that's the thing I think of
the most when I think back to like the original wack fiend
using World of Warcraft to convince my mom to upgrade from
dial up Internet. It was Alyssa.
I go buy grumpy pants battle tag.
I first started playing Wow in 2020, right around COVID.
I'd actually just gotten laid off.
I was not in a great space mentally.
I couldn't get a job because nowhere was hiring.
So my wonderful boyfriend actually pretty much picked a
computer out of the trash for me, improved it, put a gaming
card in it, and just set me up and went here.
Try this game, I think you'll like it.
I'm Tyler, I play on Nordresil. My battle tag is just tomato
meat, but in game I'm known as Jartan.
And yeah, I've been playing since I was about 7 years old,
something like that. I literally just told this guy
my first introduction to the game was my brother was playing
and he was grinding mobs in Duskwood and he sat me down at
the computer because he had to go to the bathroom and he used
me as an auto clicker. He literally said press this
button whenever the bar fills and that's all I did for like 5
minutes and then I was like this is the most amazing thing I've
ever experienced in my life. I'm Billy and I play Warlock.
I was a shadow lands noob, so I remember doing Castle Naughty
for the first time and going to Huntsman Alabour and people
telling me, hey, get in the little traps, there's a haste
buff there, but there's no haste buff.
Sure. My name is Josh.
My you can look me up on YouTube.
It's Jayvon 95. I started playing this game when
I was nine years old. I'm 29 right now.
I don't have a ticket to this event, so I'm hoping that they
let me in. I'm crazy, I know, but I love
this game, the community that brings every aspect of it, just
all together. That's what I love about the
most. Kelly, blood elf priest on
Ilidon. Not being.
Able to find Undercity because I didn't realize it was under the
ground, and then when I finally found it I promptly died to the
elevator because of lag. My name is Jason, I go by Kratos
in game play Death Knight. One of my earliest memories was
when Wow first came out, my friend who was big Guild Wars or
not Guild Wars, I'm sorry, EverQuest player.
He joined Wow like right away and he told me about it and then
he gave me his login information and so I could try it out and
ever since then I was hooked way back from vanilla and I've been
playing ever since pretty steadily.
My name is Stephanie and my gamertag is Ed Phil's stuff.
Ace. Oh my goodness.
My first memory of Warcraft was actually when I played back with
my dad in 2004. He first introduced me to the
game. We actually played on the
Alliance server together and I played as a.
Hunter. As a night elf hunter.
And then we were just killing some boars together and that was
my first memory. My name's Rob Sovereign, playing
in the Barons, listening to Crazy Train and laughing at the
constant Chuck Norris jokes, Wigs of Zuljan, being told by
all my friends to log in and download the game.
Erlyn and my first memory was making a night off druid and
leveling to about maybe 5 or 6 and then my aunt deleting the
character after I would leave the family gathering.
And then I would have to remake my night off druid at every
family gathering and do the same quests over and over again.
I probably did that about a dozen times.
So, And there you go. Those are the stories I heard,
but I know there were so many other beautiful stories out
there that I didn't. By the way, if you're curious,
my first memory of Warcraft was actually watching my dad play.
I watched him play for all of the original Warcrafts, but the
one that I remember the most was actually the moment that Arthus
killed his dad. I remember watching and just
being so shocked as a little kid about what was going on and so
desperately wanting to play those games too.
If you're one of the people that I interviewed, I'd love to get a
chance to say hi to you. You can always come to the four
Azeroth Discord at bit dot LY slash FAZ discord.
I'd also love to hear from all of our listeners what their
first memories of Warcraft or the World of Warcraft were as
well. And again, you can go to our
discord. You can message us on Twitter.
However you get in contact with us.
We'd love to get to know you and get to know your first stories.
Thank you so much for listening and until next time they all
your hits be critics.