The first one instantly pulled a tear from my eye, in the first 8 seconds, all the memories from years ago, when I last played WOW as a kid, the happiest time of my life, came pouring in. I've never felt this level of nostalgia. I want to go back, just for a few minutes, to appreciate it, to not take it for granted.
This increases intellect by +200 while studying.
I truly believe the music in original WoW has the ability to heal one's soul.
''I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.''
I am not gonna lie, world of warcraft feels like comming home since 2005. I still play it as my main game to this day. 20 years.
Does anyone else just lose their breath when relistneing to this music. Feels like I've lost something that I'll never find again.
I remember when my brother and I played together for the first time, we were like 11 and 13. We took a quest in Stormwind and the goal was to deliver a pendant of some sort to Ironforge. The quest was to introduce the tramway between the two cities but we didn't know it existed so we got there by foot... We got lost many times on the way, getting killed by monsters way too high level and ended up taking like 3 or 4 hours just to do the damn quest... Good times.
I'll never forget the late nights at 3AM watching my big brother play this after I snuck down to the family office. Now he's gone and this music brings those nights back. Thank you for posting this.
I am glad I was a part of the peak of gaming, forever grateful.
Playing this game as a kid was unlike anything else. It felt like another world, unfortunately I grew up and lost my imagination along the way. Now its just work, college and bills. Good thing the music will always be here to recapture the magic a little bit :)
Man, this game will always hold a place in my heart. Remember them late night gaming seshs on ventrillo with guildies until the sun come up had not a worry in the world . still remember going to the midnight launch for The Burning Crusade at my local game store. Now I’m 33 yo. Married with a daughter and so many responsibilities. Don’t play anymore, but I miss them carefree days, I will be telling my kids and grandkids about this game one day
I'm a retired paladin come here to find some good memories.
This music makes me way more emotional than it should. This game is a fucking masterpiece
Literally cannot handle the emotions this makes me feel. I was 14 when it all started and now I'm 31, that's like 17 years ago, time f*** flies people. The memories of this game I can't even really begin to articulate how sick that time was, nothing and I mean nothing can make me feel like that anymore, I don't get it. I think stuff like Thottbot and the mystery behind a lot of things in early internet days made it far more magical. I miss those days so much!!! shit !!!
Wanted to share my experience as it seems very different from a lot of old school players. Back in the day I’d remember seeing adverts for WoW and never really being interested, especially around the time of Mists of Pandaria, I think I tried the first 2 levels then uninstalled. I was never that big into MMOs and my dad would’ve never let me play a subscription-based game as he believed in only paying for games once (I completely understand his point now). So it wasn’t until I was in my second year of university in 2019 where I was living in halls that I met this guy and still friend now, almost 3 years later. He mentioned he’d been playing WoW and how much fun he was having and screenshared a battleground for me to watch. I had no clue what was going on but it looked alright. Then in early 2020, coronavirus started and everyone was starting to panic and we went into the first lockdown at least in the UK (end of March 2020). So to convince me to start playing, that friend gifted me a month and just played it off as he had an ‘old 1 month code still laying around’ so I thought nothing of it and downloaded it, genuinely excited to play. I let it download overnight on my PC and couldn’t sleep that well from being distracted. That day we played and my first proper character, Velocitus the Night Elf Rogue was created on Argent Dawn. We levelled and he showed me around a bit in the rocket 2-seater mount and it had such a cool nostalgic vibe that I could really feel, despite never growing up playing the game. It was only a matter of days before I got lost in the game, night and day slaving away, following storylines, questing, unlocking allied races, flying and of course, alts! The fun was getting out of hand, my girlfriend at the time was living with me and we’d wake up, get food and then I’d just get lost in WoW for most of that time. Checking the covid statistics was playing on my mind and I was getting more and more fearful and paranoid and I had to relax my mind, playing WoW really helped with that. The uncertainty of the world was soothed by this game and everything I was doing and achieving felt great. I continued to play alts, level, quest, gear, raid and pvp and couldn’t stop having fun. As someone that doesn’t really RP, I thought it was strange and sometimes it is, just go to Goldshire. But the life of the realm is awesome, seeing towns and cities really populated and running into players all across the world in sometimes the strangest locations makes for great world building and immersion. I can’t forget about all the incredibly generous people you meet along the way. From randoms in dungeons that gave me 30k gold to spend on the right heirlooms for me and my girlfriend at the time, to people randomly buffing you as you quest or help you with rares etc, the community can be great. Of course some players aren’t so nice and give you a hard time, like being kicked in a classic dungeon as my first day playing properly (Sub Rogue in BFA), and similar things to my gf who was also inexperienced at the time. You just gotta remember though you’re dealing with people with no life and it’s gotta be pretty shit for them so who’s really missing out? Me and my girlfriend both loved all the adventures and great memories we had. Taking screenshots across the world, levelling together and even pvp’ing. Eventually I got burnt out by the end of June when my 3 months ended but it was all worth it, I had managed to achieve my goal of getting the Uncorrupted Voidwing for completing Heroic Ny’alotha. All of this within 3 months! In that September I went back to uni and subbed again, where me and the gf were playing classic a bit then back to retail for pre patch and Shadowlands. I hated many parts of Shadowlands but it made me realise my one true love, pvp. Spamming battlegrounds was such a blast and gearing all my alts, and I mean a fuck ton of them, was so enjoyable. We raided a bit more as well and cleared some before the guild slowly dissipated and that’s just the way things go. Me and that girl aren’t together anymore after just over 4 years together, and all respect to her, it was my choice after all and we’ve got different lives now. But I’ll always have my boy that got me into the game and a trusted friend to pvp and enjoy the game with. As of now I’m trying to get back into the game as a 22 year old full time uni graduate and hoping I can reignite those golden days, but I know it’ll never quite be the same as that veil of mystery has been uncovered. It’s so comforting reading eveyone else’s experience and seeing a world full of like minded people all connected over such a cracking game where we’ve made great memories. Lads, it’s been a pleasure sharing my story and I hope I’ve been able to capture the magic that is World of Warcraft. Thank you 🙏🏻
Even if WoW gets dethroned and disappears one day, no one, not even it's biggest haters, can deny the huge impact it had on generations of players. Whole families played this game together, friendships, even marriages were forged in this game. It was social media before social media became a thing. The latest expansions weren't up to par. Sure . But how can you be up to par with iconic moments like going through the Portal in the Blasted Lands, traveling to Northrend for the first time or raiding the Black Temple or Ice crown citadel for the first time with all your friends? This game has given wonderful memories to so many people and I think that's it's true legacy. I will play this game until either the servers go down for the last time or until it goes Free to play, remembering the friends I met along the way and enjoy my memories in peace.
Man, I sure cried hearing this. For some of us the last 20 years haven't been the best, and being transported back to a better, purer, simpler time that was full of wonder and possibility is such a bittersweet feeling. It's strange how this music does this more than anything else from my past, and this game more than any other game. I stopped playing 10 years ago, but it seems strange to remember my time in Azeroth as one of the best in my life.
World of Warcraft soundtrack, acts like a key that unlocks those memories — not just what happened, but how it felt to live them ❤
How much lost souls have found freedom and peace in this greatful endless world of Warcraft… For me after all the years the music in the game is a masterpiece of its own.
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