Hundo_Mo: WoW was so special to me. Me and my brothers were a full Dungeon team. I tanked, my next oldest brother healed, and the others were dps.

That magic cannot be recaptured but it is one of my fondest gaming memories
undertheflatsun: The world has changed, games have changed and most importantly, we as gamers have changed. You can never replace that first time when everything was new and we didn't know what meta even meant.
blackbeing7864: "Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game."
And when developers mostly listen to the most optimizing players... well, you get a game that feels like a chore.
MSDGAMEZ: I've learned to appreciate and cherish the times I had years ago instead of hoping to live through them again.
No-Me3: You went to a store and got a game.
Now you buy a game and get a store.
dragonsfury8: For me, even in classic releases, the biggest issue i've had is the change in the community. Community only exists in guilds and even then it's nothing like it was. I helped a person the other day do a rune ... i saw them addy in game for 2 irl days trying to get help with it. Being the person i am i stopped what i was doing and thought ya know what im going to help this person get this rune. Once i was done that person thanked me of course and we went on our way. EVERY SINGLE DAY i've logged in since he says hello and asks me if i have an alt that needs help with anything. That's the community i miss. That's my nostalgia. People are so self centered these days it's what turns me off from gaming sadly.
codycurtin2295: I think our very specific demographic of millienials (born 88-94) it wasnt that we grew up before the internet but that we grew up WITH the internet. We were communiticating with protosocial media back when it was going to usher a new form of human communication. We could connect with more people more efficiently than ever before. We had new vistas to explore and people to meet (online communities, virtual worlds) but as capitalism seeks greater profits faster this way of communicating became just another vehicle for profit. We are so fortunate to see the golden age of the internet when cyberspace was going to evolve humanity rather than damn it.
vitoramaral422: The Final Fantasy VII soundtrack, your voice and the meaning behind it, me also being someone born on 1990, this hit all the marks.
Thank you MadSeason, its is well past the point that I tell how much I love your content and what a wonderfull person and fellow player you are
akamadmaxx8432: My first toon in 2004 was a Dwarf Paladin. I didn't know anything about the game (same as everyone else back then) Most of the guys i meet in game stayed on the continent they started on. I had a class quest to go to the other continent. While i was over there trying to figure out what to do I decided it was a good time to try and get every flight path I could so if I ever had to go there it would be quicker. I stumbled across Desolace. I didn't think much of it but I got the flight path. A could weeks later I was struggling to kill things in a fast manner (paladin with the "oh that looks cool" spec choices) I was slaughtering every Magram around the lake and stumbled across a valley filled with undead that gave me exp I could use exorcism on. It's one of my earliest memories from WoW where I thought I had cracked the code.
xsyzz: "call your mom and dad" if you just lost your dad hits hard.. so guys...call your parents,if you live with em' hug em', give em a kiss.
natecw4164: WoW came out right after I graduated film school. My roommate and I got way into it, had so much PvP fun, before BGs and when AV could last for 24 hours.

He has three daughters and a wife and a tour of duty record that dwarfs most soldiers. I have a very full-time job doing (sorta kinda mostly sometimes) what I love and otherwise a lot of my time is spent with the Mrs.

She and I actually met on Nost, we tried Shadowlands and Dragonflight... We just don't love it anymore and it doesn't fit in our lives. When I'm done working my ass off, feeling 40 and mentally drained, I want something chill I can play on the couch and pause. Yelling "Sorry baby, I'm tanking!" was fine for us 10 years ago... Now it's just a fond memory. We'd rather have those hours back for movies, walks and even other games.

I will say, the community sucks now. BUT... so do movies, top hit songs, fashion, language, damn kids won't get off my lawn etc etc etc
op4000exe: I'd like to remind people that prior to home games consoles, the way to game was the Arcade. A place wherein arcade machines did absolutely everything they could to make you put in more and more money. A system wherein gaming was perhaps not so much about having fun, but moreso about making people pay for a few minutes of gametime (sometimes even a few seconds at a time), or for a few lives.
So the idea that games were just games in the past, is something that while true, is only true for the more recent past. Further back in time, games were in many ways similar to how they are now, which would also suggest that we can once again go from bad to better.
UnitedWeStand1985: This is why I play Private Servers for world of warcraft now. I got tired of always trying to keep up with current patch content. Now I just play whatever expansions I want to… how I want to… when I want to and there is no rush at all. I actually have gotten more addicted to WoW now than I was when I was playing on retail.
fredrikstaffansson4473: I felt alienated the first time I saw a player with a "time per level" addon - and he was really happy to see that he sped through a level faster than ever...
jaengojones5300: Back in the Days it sometimes took me 10 hours to level up a single time in Burning Crusade, i was just running around, discovering the map, chatting with people or doing funny stuff. God i miss these days.
CrixGuides: It's sad that we'll never get that feeling back of just sitting in our room with not a care in the world, just games..
Wallcraft_Official: WoW is still fun, especially vanilla. But not when blizzard is holding the reins. Private servers are the last bastion of true WoW.
GMoDiLLa: I remember when in original WoW I got my 8/8 transcendence. I was so stoked. I’d join random 5 mans to heal for them, because it was fun. It didn’t hurt that I’d often get my e-peen slobbered on when they saw they scored a geared healer. Gear meant something, the community meant something, accomplishments lasted more than two weeks and you could proudly don that gear or mount and actually get noticed for doing something hard. Good times, I’m glad we got to experience them at least once.
the_sandman__: When the dude is talking about just hanging around in IF chatting, like literally just chilling, it reminded me of some my buddy and i used to do.

Back in vanilla and into tbc, every sunday night at 10:00pm my best friend and i would go to booty bay and get a table at the salty sailor tavern, buy a bunch of booze in game, and just sit there, drink, emote, and so on, while on ventrillo talking about high school, sports, WoW, and whatever else. The best part was is that we were hardly ever the only people there, other players would be there doing the same thing, sometimes bar fights would even erupt. Man i miss those days.
breezer7987: I miss back when i could walk around town, and people were talking on the street, and sitting on their porch. Nowadays there are no people. Everyone spending all their freetime indoors. Makes me cry sometimes
Krawurxus: That anecdote about being 9, just playing games at a friends house, in anticipation of pizza being the best life was ever gonna get hit hard.
AKS-74U: The flight paths have always fascinated me. I used to take the longest flight paths possible just to sit and watch everything below as a kid. The best memories
TheLettuceGuy: I have a fond memory of standing in the hallway with three other dudes looking at units in a StarCraft manual in 98’, we were so stoked about every unit.
ninjasamwallin: I just think that games have existed for long enough now that the magic has been lost a little, and that's a point of no return.
I remember me and my dad freaking out about griffons and the Ironforge/Stormwind train. Me and my friends and even family would talk about what we would do with a hearthstone if we had one irl. But nowadays that's just fast travel.
Graphics get better and games get bigger, but the feeling of "oh shit you can do that in this game?" is something I haven't felt in over 10 years. Even when something cool happens in games now it's just good programming, the magic is gone, we know what games are capable of.
dreioo8759: I despise 3rd party chat clients and Discord in particular. Sure it's great for forming communities and getting to know new people but it truly ruined in-game interaction
androidken: And wasn't full of parsers. We just played to get loot and have fun. Now it's full of kids that grew up playing FPS games that want to gank and grief you and/or ruin the game for others.
Valyn: Not just "punished for not playing". "Punished for not playing correctly".

There is to much feeling of playing inefficiently, as of your doing something wrong by going outside the expect part predefined by the devs and playerbase.

Even gear choice is chosen for you. Which is why I've always hated set items. It over simplifies all gear choice. For a game and genre so based on gear, it makes gear extremely boring.
Palisis: Are these videos self-therapy? I honestly don't get this sentiment. I'm almost 45 and have been playing since I was 5 years old on the original NES... I honestly don't feel this way about games in general. I played through my 20s with my younger cousins, then my nieces in my 30s, and now with my pre-teens. The games have gotten better if anything. I still play D&D as well and man do I wish we had the tools we have now to play tabletops now! Do note, I'm not on active on social media, seldomly comment on videos, and don't "follow" many online.
psygreg: I think it's impossible to have that experience nowadays simply because you can be sure people will optimize the fun out of pretty much any game nowadays. I wish things were different.

Jun 07 2024

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