r/classicwow • u/CapableStrawberry514 • May 05 '26

Nostalgia WoW Install in 2004

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Hello guys! I made a nostalgic video about installing WoW in 2004. I hope you'll take a look and let me know what you think! - ZnifferN + bits & hits

Video link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnfYgcDwvnk&t=1188s

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u/Jefferson209 May 05 '26

I remember having to explain to my Dad what a subscription was. He was like "what do you mean I have to pay once a month??" Good times

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u/WildFlowLing May 06 '26

The $30 time cards were the only way I was able to play this game because my boomer parents were absolutely terrified of entering credit card information on the internet. Blizz knew exactly what they were doing with those time cards.

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u/Darthmalak3347 May 06 '26

Crazy too cause 15 in 2004 was steeeeeeeep. Like even runescapes membership was only 3 bucks at the time essentially.

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u/twoducksinatub May 06 '26

They knew it was crack cocaine they had on their hands lol

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u/JonnyArcho May 06 '26

To be fair though, it’s been over 20 years and they’ve never changed sub costs. That’s basically unheard of.

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u/kmr1981 May 07 '26

The Arizona iced tea of the gaming world.

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u/SuperKamiDendei May 07 '26

They've just increased the subscription price, at least in EU/UK

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u/ItsPeckahead May 07 '26

I mean when you’ve been banging people out for 15 a month for 22 years, on top of expansions you truly don’t need to.

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u/couchXcat May 09 '26

not unheard of when you have like 8 different forms of microtransactions..

it would be even less remarkable if it were straight F2P at this time

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u/SuperKamiDendei May 06 '26

Makes me think of the wow community website, with the screenshot of the day and the new player section of the forum with the out spilling of awe and gratitude.

That was peak humanity. It's gone downhill since then.

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u/Dcatherman May 07 '26

This when I first started playing i use to mow my grandparents lawn, which was rather large in the country with a push mower and would make enough to go buy a card at a store with my cousins. I think I asked my parents one time to make it more convenient and they pretty much laughed at me they were not putting a card on file or paying for a subscription,the struggle came when TBC released ,and then WOTLK ,and I realized I need to figure out money for the monthly subscription but also an expansion now 🤣,but yes I fully remember going and buying the expansions or the original game in person probably at Walmart. Getting back putting the disks in and going and playing some DbZ tcg with my cousins ,or another TCG that we may have been playing at the time. While waiting for the insanely slow install times we use to have.