This game became popular only because The Lord of the Rings trilogy came out just before it’s release, everyone was into fantasy and WoW delivered just that.
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This game became popular only because The Lord of the Rings trilogy came out just before its release, everyone was into fantasy and WoW delivered j...
Makes sense. Alliance (being full of typical fantasy races) was certainly more popular among normalgays.
I played it because I was already a fan of Warcraft and Blizzard at the time could do no wrong.
No everyone already loved or had heard about Warcraft 3, StarCraft, and Diablo and formerly known as Blizzard released a user friendly mmo with a good setting that was a quasi social way to spend hundreds of hours playing a game
No, Warcraft 3 made it popular. One of the most pirated games back in early 2000s.
Imagine thinking pirating saves you any money in the long run.
Wut?
You heard me homosexual. Anyone that pirates is A fricking loser who doesn’t work anyways so you’d never have money to buy shit anyways. You’re a fricking 40 year old who lives with his parents and thinks he’s a hacker because he found out how to torrent at age 10. You’re a waste of oxygen.
imagine championing for game companies that don't give a frick about you past how much they can milk you for
This guy spent $200 on cities skylines and has 200 hours in starfield
This homie definitely meant costs instead of saves and you bozos can’t figure that out from context clues.
nope, turns out you're the braindead homosexual
>ummm actually you're not saving any money by getting these hundreds of $70 games for free because uuuuuh.... reasons...
I honestly think one of the smartest move made by blizzard was making D2 and wc3 so fricking cheap, I remember you could buy D2 with some fricking magazine and literally everyone at my school bought it
Shit like that built an army of fanboys
Yeah the reason Blizzard was so popular was because the games were cheap and you could run their games on potato PC's. So basically everyone could play them.
And WC3 got insanely popular because of the custom games, most people didn't care about or even played the campaign and regular game.
you know there is was lotr mmo that released only a few years after wow? if that was the case, then wow wouldn't have gone on to remain so popular past lotr inspired vanilla. Wow peaked like 4 or 5 years after it's release, btw.
His point is WoW capitalized on both the fantasy craze at the time and by streamlining the MMO experience. They were the first, so of course they outlasted all competition. Most MMOs that have released and failed since have been diet copies.
WoW was just big, back then the selling point was it was big, it was a tech demo
Personally growing up early 2000s I always saw it as LOTR and Star Wars movie lovers as casuals, while WoW, Final Fantasy and FPS players as actual hardcores
No.
It became popular because even the shittiest computer could run it, it had cartoony and childish graphics and the game was casualized to the extreme and pandered to kids.
It was the equivalent of Fortnite back in the days.
most people playing wow were not kids back in the day. fortnite is essentially free, wow still has a sub requirement. there were a lot of kids that played, but majority of the populace was early to mid 20s.
>most people playing wow were not kids back in the day
You are right, it was not most. It was nearly everyone.
Don't trust me? Just look at Ganker now and all the nostalgia WoW threads they have, nearly everyone there played this game as a kid.
>majority of the populace was early to mid 20s
people who actually have nostalgia for vanilla wow are in their mid 30s. I know because i play Wow classic and that's what the player base is. Classic was released 15 year after the original. 35 -15 = 20. Nice try champ. Not to mention, people have nostalgia for various different expansions of the game. So saying every wow thread on Ganker is about vanilla is just wrong and moronic.
>heh I was not a kid I was actually a 13 year old teenager so in fact it was not mostly played by kids
>checkmate
ok
yes, your single anecdotal bit of evidence about the video game is the vast norm. fricking moron lmao
Define kid I think when vanilla thru worlk were at their height most people playing were probably 10-20 years old. I know there were many older people playing but I also remember many people having to quit for school or work
there were very few 10 year olds playing vanilla and wrath was released 4 years after the initial game. kids started playing once the game was hyped the frick up. as they do.
I remember for a while I had a pc that could run starcraft and frozen throne but when I got a WoW trial disk and dawn of war I could never get them to run and only got to play at other people houses
Parents wouldn't pay for a subscription game for a child in the early 2000s.
Internet also wasn't so spread out and there was limited bandwith.
Comparing it to f2p Fortnite for children is pretty moronic.
never watched LotR or played Warcraft yet WoW was the best gaming experience i've ever had, shit was magical and you just had to be there.
Frick this troony homosexual advertisement. I want to bash his head in
So true the amount of Legolas named hunters and human aragorns was fuxking annoying
No it was popular because warcraft 3 was amazing
Bullshit. It got popular because it was Warcraft, which was very popular back then (with Blizzard still having very good reputation) but mostly because they designed it as "casual" MMO - one that could be played and enjoyed in small, friendly guilds or solo instead of "200% srs bussines" like Everquest. It was easy to get into and set in popular franchise. That's fricking all it needed.
WoW blew up because its popular competitors were mostly MMOs developed by the third world intended for people which the developers didn't respect. Customer's time in wasn't important or valued in SEA so things like Lineage needed to draw things out just for the sake of making people pay more money every month.
Also they weren't as competent or innovative, it was mostly point and click high risk time sinks.
DWARF CHAD WITH RIFLE
>all the interesting shit for humans happens before WoW
>they haven't gotten shit since
Could be worse, imagine being a Night Elf.
>lore specifically states that NE can't be a mage
>lol they now can because frick lore
Huh wrong?
After the Well Exploded, the Night Elf leadership banned the use of the Arcane magic.
Those who disagreed traveled across the great sea to Eastern Kingdoms and founded the Sunwell, and magical source of Arcane Energy. The power of the Sunwell transformed the Night Elves who lived near it into the Human-looking High Elves.
Like I think azshara was literally a mage
Sorry wrong quote
Yes, that's what I said - NE couldn't be a mage because arcane magic was banned after Azshara frickery. So modern NE being allowed to practise it is big frick you to the lore. Just like allowing Taurens to become paladins (lol holy cow).
Oh gotcha
no one plays WoW but everyone is obsessed with it for some reason