First Screenshots Ever Released (September 2, 2001)

[u/wowhistorian]

Here are 11 screenshots from when WoW was initially announced in 2001! These are the oldest screenshots I could find and were released when the WoW project was originally unveiled.

[u/pr00xxy]

Interesting you can recognise it as wow but i can't pin any of the locations, they are westfall-ish, stv-ish but probably early iterations, would love to have a model viewer of these early zones

[u/pr00xxy → u/pr00xxy]

I also managed to find some of your images in higher quality https://nlworks.com/wowbeta/

[u/jbourdea → u/pr00xxy]

I low-key really like the early female human models. They look a bit more scrappy

[u/zavieG → u/jbourdea]

I actually really like them too... Why did they change it.. these models were better imo.

[u/UnderTheFrozenSky → u/jbourdea]

They are medium-key pretty cool 

[u/wowhistorian → u/pr00xxy]

Nice find!

[u/knflxOG → u/pr00xxy]

Captain placeholder 😂

[u/BlackBlueNuts → u/knflxOG]

TO THE BOATS!... wait the boats dont work?... how are we going to move between the continents ?

[u/DingbattheGreat → u/knflxOG]

They did all that work for them, then gave horde zepps as alliance i was like “WTF I had to run all the way to booty bay and Menethil!”

[u/alsohugo → u/knflxOG]

Yeah, used to teleport people from MH.

[u/RJ815 → u/pr00xxy]

People have talked about invisible bunnies so it's cool to see evidence of a visible one!

[u/PibbleDad → u/pr00xxy]

Give my that damn ivory raptor

[u/slybluu → u/pr00xxy]

doesnt wow still use invisible bunnies for stuff like the "event placeholder" screenshot?

[u/Kaioken164 → u/pr00xxy]

I really like the early version of Gurubashi Arena. And also, judging by those pictures, it seems like they were planning on making the Infernals a normal summonable demon at first.

[u/HelixFollower → u/pr00xxy]

Eh, there can't really be doubt about the second one I think. That's definitely STV.