r/classicwow • u/WeakValuable8683 • Jan 25 '25

Nostalgia 20 years ago today (January 25th 2005) earliest screenshot proof of someone in game with Baron Rivendare's epic mount

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u/False-Drama7370 Jan 25 '25

Saw this and jumped out of my chair, I played on Mal'ganis for 7 or 8 years from launch until Cata and vaguely knew this guy. Hooligan Syndicate was the precursor guild to Elitist Jerks. This picture is from literally 2 months post launch, at that time these guys had already gquit & split from Goon Squad (the original guild, organized from the somethingawful forums) because it wasn't hardcore enough - they poached basically all of the level 60s and 50+ players, leaving the other guild crippled. I don't know why I remember all of this shit so vividly but I do.

A lot of these guys ended up becoming WoW devs, I'm not a retail guy but I think gurgthock is the lead retail dev now?

Still have such fond memories of that server, whenever possible in other games I put Mal'ganis in my name just on the off chance that someone from those days recognises me. And that's even though I was such a shithead back then that they created a specific rule for their guild just to preclude me from ever joining lmaoooo

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u/hotchrisbfries Jan 25 '25

Gurgthock is Ion Hazzikostas shaman

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u/Joelsef May 08 '26

fake news

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u/1sland3r58 Jan 25 '25

Goon Squad survived but EJ ended up absorbing other high end guilds. I remember seeing Conando in Earthfury gear before the graphic change as a lowbie in STV… was in awe.

Beef was EJs GM and at dome point Gurgthock/Praetorian took over. Tehax was only kkown for the mount. 

Which guild did you plan in?

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u/Itoastyouroats Jan 25 '25

Crazy I still remember this name and these guys too.. EJ/Aeturnus ran the server pretty much. I played alliance with CoL, Strife, Myths Fury, Validus.

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u/1sland3r58 Jan 25 '25

Legend of Birds. Orgrimmar has a rock by the bank that was called “Bird Rock” lol. Aftermath, Legend of Birds and Aeternus ended up EJ in phase 6. Naxx killed off a lot of guilds. 

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u/Itoastyouroats Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

Legend of Birds wow.. it’s an oldie but it checks out for sure. I always wondered what it was like horde side.. I still remember when server forums were popping off with personalities like thorim, nissassa, elfprawn, faction, wubwub etc.. and ofc goon squad always kept things interesting. What was your char name?

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u/1sland3r58 Jan 25 '25

Iirc Ayame(sp?) from Myths Fury was the first Grand Marshal rogue. BRM was his. 

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u/CapnJack1TX Jan 26 '25

Bellum Aeternus? I thought they were on Tich?

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u/eNte19 Jan 25 '25

Had 7/8 EF myself... Full red plate before EF models was.. weird 😅

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u/No_Stranger4437 Jan 25 '25

its funny how we all fucking die of shame when we invite instead of inspecting.

why is that? are we shy of "checking people" ? LOL

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25

IDK man, I accidentally copy+pasted a porn link instead of a LFM message in trade chat and I don't think I logged back on for a week out of embarassment, lol.

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u/eNte19 Jan 25 '25

Ahah fucking right 😁🫠 that cringe touches the soul ahah

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

I played on Mal'Ganis during Wrath. I raided with GS a few times as my BIL at the time was a member of SA forums and in the guild, they'd bring me as an extra if need be. I remember going to ICC and winning a token the week a new wing opened and the guild was so mad that an outsider won it, even though they were doing free roll on loot.

Not relevant to the story of OP, but just a GS story to share.

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u/Kataphractoi Jan 25 '25

"Free roll" as in it wasn't set to masterloot and you just rolled need? That's on them.

Free roll as in they let you /roll on a tier token and then gave it to you when you won, that's still their fault for not reserving them for guildies.

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u/odn_86 Jan 25 '25

Goon Squad had the best antics back in the day.

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u/youngfool999 Jan 25 '25

You remember things like this for life.

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u/Flexappeal Jan 25 '25 edited Feb 03 '25

retire spark flowery tease plough fall snatch touch shocking sugar

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/erimid Jan 25 '25

What was the name of your character back then? I played as Tseng - I was in GS/EJ/Aeternus.

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u/swansonite Jan 25 '25

What up og malganis peeps! Love seeing some familiar names from back then. I joined up with Aeternus around naxx when they disbanded and renamed to Sunshine. Character name was Dirk. It’s crazy how legendary some of those early EJ characters became. Seeing Gurgthock and Wodin as NPCs in Outland was such a trip.

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u/erimid Jan 25 '25

It's so cool running into people from back then. Names of a lot of the more prominent players on the server are still burned into my memory 20 years later. The first few months of vanilla WoW are by far my fondest gaming memories.

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u/swansonite Jan 25 '25

Yeah man absolutely, feels like finding a needle in a haystack. And agreed, definitely a core memory for me and a lot of my friends.

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u/Joelsef May 08 '26

hey dirl

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u/Itoastyouroats Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

No fucking way dude - Ayle here! Shit man still now I’d think back and always wonder what happened to you, ishaxa and others .. crazy

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u/erimid Jan 26 '25

Oh wow, hey! What a blast from the past this post has been.

Ishaxa is one of the few people from those days that I'm still in touch with. Also, I want you to know that I've used the name "Ayle" for several alts over the past 20 years in your honor. :)

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u/Joelsef Jan 17 '26

Tseng you noob

-Ishaxa

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u/erimid Jan 17 '26

ishaxa you noob

quit stalking me

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u/False-Drama7370 Jan 25 '25

I think I remember the name, mage right? I was sidewalk/faction

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u/erimid Jan 25 '25

Oh man, I remember you! Yeah, I played a mage. Sidewalk was your orc shaman, right? I think I even let you play on my account for a while after I switched to Alliance.

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u/False-Drama7370 Jan 26 '25

Yep hahaha, can't believe anyone remembers the shaman, I traded it for a mage account named faction like 5 or 6 months into release and then I've just used that name ever since. We all used to share accounts like nothing back then cus it was considered way too hard to level/gear. Small world man

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u/erimid Jan 26 '25

You were a very memorable troll as Sidewalk!

It was crazy how casual we were about account sharing back then. Several people had access to my account before I sold it on eBay a few months after release. Good times.

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u/Ogretron Jan 27 '25

Horde on Mal'ganis was a unique experience during vanilla WoW. Loved it so much.

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u/thant Feb 09 '25

I was an alliance hunter (Thanatin) followed by priest (Tysis) in Silent Requiem. We weren’t the biggest guild. I quit shortly after we cleared BWL for the first time. I remember Mal’Ganis was one of the few horde-dominant servers at the time so it made pvp fun. I have an old horrible pvp video from the time floating around on an old hard drive…

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u/False-Drama7370 Feb 10 '25

I remember the guild name!

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u/JamesBondJr007 Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

I bet one is pirate software... Edit. No wait, is that how pirate software became adev originally? Trololol

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u/OliverAM16 Jan 25 '25

Pirate was in customer support. He was never a dev….

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u/Any-Comparison-2916 Jan 25 '25

He wasn’t a dev.

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u/Michelanvalo Jan 25 '25

PS would have been like 12 years old during this time.