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I was in closed beta about 6 months prior to release and played at launch. I've quit several times because I have about a 6 to 8 month MMO attention span before I have to move to another one for a few months.
Just finished patching and about time to go to Northrend!
open/closed beta... hard for the first year or so.. then slacked off till Burning then strong till Wrath..
Multiboxing has kept me playing way more then when i just played 1 char.
Been playing since open beta, with a couple periods of burnout thrown in there.
I started the same day the servers opened. Im almost 100% sure it was a thursday, if im correct. Then i played quiet hardcore and joined a very good guild. Farmed MC and BWL. After that i remember that AQ20 and AQ40 came, that was cool to... Then Naxx, my favorite instance. Then i quitted for some time, a few months. I think TBC came not to long after i quitted, so i started again, took 70 in 6 days or something, was the first rogue on Drak'Thul... Started to raid some, then i quitted again. I just lost most of the interest when TBC came out.
I still remember when there was no PVP system at all, and the first day it came everyone was crying about getting ganked all the time "Omfgs what are blizzard thinking about, this is just retarded... I cant play anymore!" hahah...
Do you guys remember that imba enchant the people on rank 14 could get, just very short in the begining, then they removed it... It was a +1 lvl on shield, or was it +2 lvls? I dont remember, i just know they took it away quiet fast.
March 06
i regret not playing earlier, and join a great guild from the start.
i remember buying it just to "test", cause i played a lot of America's Army (FPS game), and within a few hours i was hooked. For me it was a breath of fresh air since lvl1, since diablo II and baldur's gate that i didnt touched an rpg... but being online was just insane. And to know the game was around for 2 years already and i never gave it a try... lol
more people came from my old AA clan, we started playing togheter, but all had different level, so we usually didnt hang out in party's.
I never thought i could be controlling 5 chars at the same time now :P
All i know is that theres nothing like the first char. everything was new i really enjoyed the game during the leveling stage.
"alpha trials" / Closed Beta's
Played since the late beta's, but I took a break somewhere along the line for a few months.
I started July of '05. A friend at work and my dad (who dinged 60 IRL this year) both tried to get me to play starting in beta and I refused. I knew I would get hooked and have a hard time stopping. I held them off until my dad came to visit for the 4th of July weekend. He got up early with one of my kids and got installed on my computer and they started playing together. I get up, see what they are doing and want to get in on the action. I kicked my daughter to her computer and start playing on mine and that was all she wrote.
Last night my wife, two teenage daughters and I all went to our midnight release.
Since launch, quit maybe 6 times over the years. T'is my 4th MMO and for all I dislike about it there's just nothing better I've found.
I started on the release of TBC.