Posted by Spooner | 5 Comments
Happy 5th Birthday WoW…
Thumbs up chums let's do this...
5 years. Shit let’s recap for the lulz.
November 2004: I’m still playing FFXI: Online because I’m a masochist and I’m living with this Russian chick who is quite possibly the biggest cuntbag to have ever been shat out of a womb. My buddy Sanchez brings over WoW to install on my machine because his is broken. I start a Dwarf Hunter and get him to level 10, then he takes the game away.
December 2004: I buy WoW, dump the Bolshevik, get a good job, and start playing a Human Paladin which I eventually drop for a Warrior because I’m tired of being everybody’s heal bitch.
SOMEWHERE IN NORTH DAKOTA!
Summer 2005: Still playing WoW like a fiend and I meet my soon to be wife. Move from Miami, FL to Minot, ND. I proceed to start makin’ babies between trash pulls in Molten Core on Sunday mornings.
All 2006: Move back down to Miami, working a solid job – playing WoW – life’s good.
All 2007: Same shit. Also, my daughter is born – she is awesome. OH! And I start Spooncraft that February.
All 2008: Get into hardcore progression guild, fuck up my back, realize that I’m spending too much time on the game and that hardcore raiding has pretty much made the game fucking boring and negative.
Summer 2009: I quit WoW for a few months and pickup Aion only to then realize that Aion is like FFXI and I actually have a working cock so I shouldn’t be playing a grinder that will eventually destroy my penis.
November 2009: I start playing WoW again (playing a Rogue because I never have and it’s pretty solid – like the challenge of being a good warrior without all the bullshit loot drama), feeling great, using extreme moderation. Wife picks up her original character as well. Nostalgia and good times are all around. Life is once again pretty awesome.
Thank you Blizzard. I can honestly say that if not for this game I wouldn’t have met such incredible people that I consider close friends. I wouldn’t have made this site that apparently a few people find interesting and entertaining. I wouldn’t have met my wife whom is hands down the most amazing woman ever to walk the Earth. And my daughter simple wouldn’t be.
How have the past 5 years been for you my kind readers? You got anything you’d like to share with the rest of the class?
All I know is that I still read your blog from time to time. Now who’s the masochist? Actually it’s mostly for the Fapp. 8 )
your site is actually one of the few feeds that are interesting enough to read and keep my attention. I appreciate having a wow site and fapp site all in one… just keep that shit up on a netbook while facerolling ulduar and you is happy tankadin!
actually i hate your site, just thought i’d share
/troll
/greif
kidding
in all seriousness…
2004: warcraft III exp pack was what I played when I was nursing a hangover on the weekends during college years. WoW came out rather quickly after III release and I was caught up in the hype from day 1. First toon, Warrior, back when they were the shit. Also a priest. Raided some.
2006: still playing, marriage ended… BADLY… NOT because of WoW fyi. Played pretty casually actually, maybe once a week, weekends. BC comes out and the grind starts. Got my collectors edition at a midnight release party because I was nerd-raging at the time and needed a fix. Long story short, lost my warrior, started a rogue, LOVED my rogue all the way to 70, started a Pally because I wanted to do the Draenei quest lines.
2008: Girlfriend moves in, starts a character (cha-ching). Wrath released, once again did the midnight release party thingee. Leveled Pally, tanked that shit up, dabbled with DK but decided it was more of a novelty pet than an actual class, wack-a-mole isn’t fun.
Now ‘09: Pally was already at 80… Priest was already at 80…Brought Rogue to 80… Brought DK to 80… somehow became a hardxcore raid bitch and maintankadin for top guild on server… something you’d never see in vanilla, prot pally lol. Girlfriend no longer plays, but is okay if I postpone lovin’ time for a late raid. She’s fuckin fantastic!
Hey I know this is old and you’ll probably never read it, but I loved this post. It summed up experience pretty well too, especially the last bit. I met my partner via wow, ended up moving together and bought a house and all that. I don’t play much any more, but I still have a fond place in my heart for WoW.
I read just about every comment posted on the site
I’m glad you liked the article, every single word was true.